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The RarelyUsed room recently acquired a room bot which will help us set up a schedule for room tournaments alongside tons of other cool stuff and we decided to celebrate this new arrival with a tournament!
The tournament will be structured in two parts, the qualifying stage and the playoffs. The qualifying stage will last for the NEXT TWO WEEKS and happen in the RU room on PokemonShowdown!. The goal will be to earn as many points as possible through RU room tours to qualify, the further you go in the tournaments the more points you win. At the end of the two weeks, the top 6 of the leaderboard will go on to the playoffs which will be seeded SV RU Bo3 single elimination. The top 2 players of the leaderboard will also get byes for the first round of playoffs.
Schedule:
| TIMEZONES (GMT) | US West (-7) | US East (-4) | Europe (+2) | India (+5.5) | East Asia (+8) |
| 11pm +0 | 4pm | 7pm | 1am | 4.5am | 7am |
| 8pm +0 | 1pm | 4pm | 10pm | 1.5am | 4am |
| 4pm +0 | 9am | 12 noon | 6pm | 9.5pm | 12 midnight |
| 1pm +0 | 6am | 9am | 3pm | 6.5pm | 9pm |
During the week-end, more tournaments will be held at the discretion of the staff. They will all count for the leaderboard if they have at least 8 people in. Moreover, special tournaments will also be held at 4pm GMT+0 both Saturdays. The first will be RU 3v3 and the second RU Monotype, samples will be available but be sure to prepare your team if you want it to stay secret! The bigger the tournament is, the more points you get for going far in it so hopefully these tournaments should be worth a lot of points in the leaderboard. And if you need another reason to attend other than it’ll be a good crack, the winners of these two tournaments will also receive a one-week Room Prize Winner (^) promotion which thanks to the new bot actually means you get access to some fun stuff.
Qualifying Stage deadline: Sunday 28th of April 11:59pm GMT-4
Prizes:
The RarelyUsed Gaming League is starting soon, therefore this tournament is a great opportunity to show your skills in hopes of getting drafted for this team tour. Moreover, the winner will be granted a custom color on the RU Discord server as well as a Room Prize Winner (^) promotion for one month.
Other info:
You will need to have a Smogon account to take part in the playoffs phase. If you don’t have one, you can still create one before the end of the two weeks, as there will be no restriction in terms of date of creation of your account or number of messages.
Users banned from Smogon or blacklisted from the RU room on PS! are not eligible to participate.
Scouting will be allowed during these room tours. Note that in the case where a game exceeds 200 turns, staff members will be able to either dq a player if there’s a clear winner or to randpick the winner to avoid delaying the whole tour.
If there is a tie in the leaderboard, players with the same number of points will be ranked according to the numbers of first places in a tour they have. If there’s still a tie with an impact on who qualifies to the playoff, an additional BO3 (or several BO3 in case there’s more than two people) will be played at the beginning of the playoffs phase.
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