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As of right now, it's legal to use the combination of Mean Look/Spider Web + Baton Pass in GSC OU. Unlike in generations 5 and up, the trapping effect gets passed to the recipient here. Three Pokemon have access to this strategy; Ariados, Smeargle and Umbreon. The latter two of which being the...

Kind of a stretch, but I managed to combine Dada, Europe and an Ubers tournament name with my love for movies this way. In any case, I'm stepping down as tier leader and Fc will be replacing me as of right now. With our tiering ambitions coming to a close for now and Ubers returning to official...

Extensions are extremely common and we don't have a consistent policy in place to handle them at the moment. I think it's good to have extensions available to us, especially in tournaments like Grand Slam and Classic, but we can do a lot better in terms of how they're enforced. My suggestion...

Tiebreaker deadlines are currently set on Friday, which have then gotten extended into the weekend in pretty much all of the recent team tournament tiebreakers. If the following round's deadline is going to be a full week after the tiebreaker's conclusion anyway, then why don't we just give a...

Alright, we're voting on Zacian-Hero. Here's the list of the 96 qualified voters: 64 Squares 7u9i2 Aberforth Aishia Alpha Rabbit Archiiiie17 Athkor Axelsior Bag of Trixx Ballfire beauts Blim Close crucify Darkki Dj Breloominati♬ DNNP Dragonicos DrReuniclus Eledyr Ellicrum entrocefalo...

:ss/Zacian: Only post in this thread if you meet the requirements to vote on Zacian-Hero. These requirements are the following: All games must be played on the Pokemon Showdown! Ubers ladder on a new alt with the following format: "UBZH (nickname)". For example, I might register the alt UBZH...

:ss/Zacian: The Ubers Council has decided to suspect Zacian-Hero! Reasoning Following Zacian-Crowned's ban in January, Zacian-Hero has seemlessly stepped into the vacancy left by its big brother and it hasn't looked back since. Like Zacian-Crowned, Zacian-Hero has Intrepid Sword as its...

Hey everyone, It's SPL retention season and I figured I'd bring up a few thoughts here before it's too late. Let me immediately get out of the way that this thread is not about removing retention or supercharging it; I want to focus on a few aspects of retention that were left behind as we...

Hey everyone, Similarly to how OU has been doing it, we're going to start checking in with the community about how they feel about the current metagame via regular surveys. We'll use this thread to announce the surveys and to keep track of the results throughout the upcoming year. Without...

Eo Ut Mortus has recently become the head tournament director after already being an exemplary member of our community for many years. We believe Eo will make a great addition to our upper staff team as well. Congratulations!

FINAL STANDINGS Congratulations to all 16 of you that made it to this year's Smogon Classic playoffs! Before moving on to the pairings, I'd like to thank everyone who made this tournament possible. Thank you Finchinator, SparksBlade, kjdaas, Perry and FriendOfMrGolem120 for being fantastic...

Namaste fellow Tournaments enthusiasts! Even though not every cup has yet reached their conclusion (whoever's fault that may be..), nothing that can happen in them will alter the fact that there is going to be a tiebreaker for seeds 15 and 16. As such we'll get started now and allow these games...

As many of you already know, we've been planning this transition for some time, but today we're officially resigning as Tournament Directors with Eo Ut Mortus taking our place in charge of Tournaments. Hogg and I have led this section for over two years and we feel it's time to pass the...

RE: I'm hate hats Situation: User I'm hate hats posted that they had won for round 1 of DPP Cup VI, when in reality they hadn't. Their opponent came forward and pointed out to the host their series was never even played. As explained during last year's Official Smogon Tournament, this is...

Thanks again to MiniArchitect for the logo! Welcome to what is already the sixth Smogon Classic! This tournament celebrates Smogon's and Pokemon's history throughout the years. Players will compete in separate tournaments for the RBY, GSC, ADV, DPP, and BW generations, culminating in a...

Hey, In light of yesterday's Sceptross sellback I think it's finally time to pull the trigger on this touchy subject. This is something we've discussed among the TDs before, but we couldn't come to a consensus and we were fearing that the player base wouldn't support removing an element of SPL...

- Smogon Premier League XI - January 6, 2020 - Official Smogon Tournament XVI - January 13, 2020 - Smogon Tour Season 29 - March 13, 2020 - Smogon Classic VI - March 23, 2020 - World Cup of Pokemon 2020 - June 22, 2020 - Grand Slam IX - June 15, 2020 - Official Ladder Tournament VII -...

FINAL STANDINGS Congratulations to all 16 of you that made it to this year's Grand Slam playoffs! Before moving on to the pairings, I'd like to thank everyone who made this tournament possible. Thank you SparksBlade, Nat, Finchinator, Megazard and Merritt for being fantastic hosts, as well as...

This thread will be used when we inevitably have to ban some people, but until that happens you'll have to make do with this gif of a cat figuring out how a vacuum cleaner works...

Hey! Welcome back to Smogon Grand Slam! This year's tournament follows the same format as usual, except the PU Open will be replacing the Ubers Open, which means that UU, RU, NU, PU and LC will all be included in the competition for the coveted turquoise Trophy. The format consists of five...