Welcome to the ZU Summer Seasonal! This is the first tournament of our first season! Entering and winning in this seasonal earns you points for an overall ZU leaderboard. After four seasonals, the top 16 players on this leaderboard will enter a seeded playoffs, where the winner of the tournament will become the ZU champion!
SPECIFIC RULES
As a disclaimer: Since I plan to join this tournament, I will provide evidence of pairing randomization and/or have someone else do pairings for me each round.
Here is a link to our metagame thread where you can find an assortment of useful resources.
SPECIFIC RULES
- This is a standard Gen 7 ZU Tournament. All matches must be played in "[Gen 7] PU".
- This tournament will be Double Elimination.
- All rounds will be Best of Three. You may switch teams in between battles of the same set.
- Matches are to be played on Pokemon Showdown (or SmogTours server).
- To encourage the development of the metagame, and so that everyone is on an even playing field, all matches must have replays recorded. I will be somewhat lenient with this however.
- ZU is a usage based tier. Essentially you can use anything that is not in a higher tier; PU effectively serves as the ZU banlist. However, there are several Pokemon banned from ZU which are not in PU or a higher tier; aka ZUBL.
- Every round, I may choose several games as the Highlight Matches.
- Sleep Clause Mod: Limit one foe put to sleep
- Species Clause: Limit one of each Pokemon
- OHKO Clause: OHKO moves are banned
- Moody Clause: Moody is banned
- Evasion Moves Clause: Evasion moves are banned
- Endless Battle Clause: Forcing endless battles is banned
- HP Percentage Mod: HP is shown in percentages
- Identity: I expect many battles to be completed under alts. This can be bad for tournament security, and thus I will make this clear: If I hear any whispers of identity theft (battling as someone you are not) or proxy battling (helping someone else battle through pm) I will not be pleased and I will take severe actions.
- Scouting: Next, I do not want to hear anything about counterteaming, at all. Do not complain about it. I also don't want to hear about any blatant scouting. There is a difference between "[user] is known for using stall" and "let me follow [user] around all day to watch all his battles since I am his opponent". I expect a lot of the former and none of the latter. I give permission to all battlers to ask any person spectating their battle to leave if they do not want them watching. Everyone will have access to your replays from earlier rounds though.
- Timer Clause: As for taking long between moves, if your opponent asks you to hurry up, please oblige. If you are doing a damage calc for a key turn that is one thing, but prolonging every move is suspicious and annoying. Don't do it. Furthermore, Battle Timeout is a rule for a reason. If you run out of time, you lose, simple as that. It does not matter what your opponent says. Do not battle if you think you will have to leave mid battle, and instead reschedule for a better time.
- Disconnections: Finally, in the case of a disconnect, the decision is in the hands of the player who did not disconnect. The options are: redo the battle move for move, redo the battle with the same teams but different moves, or redo the battle with completely different teams. If the battle was without a doubt over, they may also take the win. Any suspicion that a disconnect was committed on purpose to redo a match may be appealed to me, and if I feel this happened there will be severe consequences, don't do it.
As a disclaimer: Since I plan to join this tournament, I will provide evidence of pairing randomization and/or have someone else do pairings for me each round.
Here is a link to our metagame thread where you can find an assortment of useful resources.
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- Haund
- blalib
- DatHeatmor
- 5gen
- Amphareixon
- Moosical
- Jeffis
- Aaronboyer
- Arifeen
- Sam I Yam
- pacato
- RawMelon
- Gweebis
- Quantum Tesseract
- LightPinkYoshi
- Tack :]
- DBW
- Alkione
- dibs
- BloodAce0107
- starry blanket
- allstarapology
- Megazard
- Hubriz
- Plans
- Fardin
- Taskr
- neomon
- Splashbrutha
- eifo
- Diagnostic
- tonithetourguide
- aki0s
- lockjaw
- Mythlore
- 0NI
- Skipkan
- Funbot28
- cb aaron judge
- jklioe
- LordST
- zikam
- Drogba In Shenhua
- Zesty43
- innovamania
- TheInnocentNerd
- go0d
- Hijasu
- Huston
- Calucha
- pilz0311
- Ganso
- Aleccat
- Robert Alfons
- Union Caboche
- bryon the bab bab
- pqs
- GustavoYAY
- OminousDraco
- InfernoMonferno
- Escoffier
- lolbro
- Lugia Proto
- Senpai D.M
- Plas
- Ktütverde
- Graceclaw
- Chloe
- TJ
- Acsel
- Darkfire47
- Angry_Marty
- Dark Wolfgang
- JdRDMS
- abonniertxxxlutzyt
- pazza
- Drowsy Drowzee
- Kongee
- CrazyStevy
- Sage
- Fille
- Chrisloud1
- TGC United
- Ann nonima
- Moron5
- Pohjis
- czim
- Vanillish Wafer
- motogp
- Starblim
- ZipZ AleF
- Blitzburgh
- youde
- Diddly Radishes
Signups will end on June 26th at 9pm CST
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