Welcome to the twelfth iteration of the NU Open, hosted by Kris! Almost a year has passed since Luthier emerged victorious over Star to close out a thrilling tournament. Who will win this year? Let's find out!
Tournament Rules:
- General tournament rules and regulations can be found here.
- Grand Slam rules can be found here.
- Standard SV NU.
- Best-of-three, single elimination.
- Battles should take place on Pokemon Showdown!
- SV cartridge win conditions are in place; there are no ties.
- Tiers are locked at the beginning of each round.
Identity
About playing on alts: It is entirely allowed to play on an alt other than your own main forum name, though if your opponent wishes to confirm your identity, you must log on to your main alt to show them you are who you claim to be. This is to prevent people from pretending to be who they're not.
About playing on different servers: Tournament matches must be played on the Smogtours server. The Main PS! server is also acceptable if both parties agree to that. Other servers are not sanctioned by the TD team and playing in them might result in your game not counting. Protect yourself from that by playing in Smogtours, where we also have the power to recreate games that end due to DC's.
Scouting
On scouting opponents: Going through your opponents replays of tournament and ladder games is entirely allowed, as long as a game is public there is nothing preventing you from watching it. An exception to this is abusing powers granted to you by being staff on Smogon or PS! to gain access to information a normal user wouldn't have access to, which is strictly forbidden.
On leaking teams: Divulging private information about someone's planned team to their opponent is never allowed, and will be heavily sanctioned. Requesting that such information be divulged is also grounds for punishment. Keep your scouting to publicly available information and you'll be fine.
Timer Clause / Disconnections
On the Timer: The timer must stay on throughout the whole battle, not to be turned off even in the case of a player disconnecting as we now have a separate disconnection timer (more details here). The timer may not be turned off in any circumstance.
On Timeout losses: A player that loses by having all his time run out loses the game. This is only not the case if the player that received the timeout loss can be verified to have suffered a True Disconnection. Rematches in such cases are not allowed.
On True Disconnection: The TD team has a secret threshold of seconds that your timer must be at or above, from the moment you disconnect, for a timeout loss to be considered a True disconnection. If your game is determined to be a true disconnection if you played on Smogtours and contacted a TD before the room expired your game will be recreated up to the point the disconnect happened. It is the responsibility of the player that disconnected to get a TD into the room before it expires.
About playing on alts: It is entirely allowed to play on an alt other than your own main forum name, though if your opponent wishes to confirm your identity, you must log on to your main alt to show them you are who you claim to be. This is to prevent people from pretending to be who they're not.
About playing on different servers: Tournament matches must be played on the Smogtours server. The Main PS! server is also acceptable if both parties agree to that. Other servers are not sanctioned by the TD team and playing in them might result in your game not counting. Protect yourself from that by playing in Smogtours, where we also have the power to recreate games that end due to DC's.
Scouting
On scouting opponents: Going through your opponents replays of tournament and ladder games is entirely allowed, as long as a game is public there is nothing preventing you from watching it. An exception to this is abusing powers granted to you by being staff on Smogon or PS! to gain access to information a normal user wouldn't have access to, which is strictly forbidden.
On leaking teams: Divulging private information about someone's planned team to their opponent is never allowed, and will be heavily sanctioned. Requesting that such information be divulged is also grounds for punishment. Keep your scouting to publicly available information and you'll be fine.
Timer Clause / Disconnections
On the Timer: The timer must stay on throughout the whole battle, not to be turned off even in the case of a player disconnecting as we now have a separate disconnection timer (more details here). The timer may not be turned off in any circumstance.
On Timeout losses: A player that loses by having all his time run out loses the game. This is only not the case if the player that received the timeout loss can be verified to have suffered a True Disconnection. Rematches in such cases are not allowed.
On True Disconnection: The TD team has a secret threshold of seconds that your timer must be at or above, from the moment you disconnect, for a timeout loss to be considered a True disconnection. If your game is determined to be a true disconnection if you played on Smogtours and contacted a TD before the room expired your game will be recreated up to the point the disconnect happened. It is the responsibility of the player that disconnected to get a TD into the room before it expires.
Battle Clauses:
- Evasion Clause
- OHKO Clause
- Sleep Clause
- Species Clause
- Timed Battle
- Team Preview
- Contact your opponent as soon as possible upon the round going up. Activity cases are going to be handled in a very strict manner.
- When scheduling, offer a wide selection of times when you are available to play. 1 hour of activity on one or two weeknights is unlikely to be considered acceptable.
- Schedule specifically - do not schedule for "Friday afternoon" or "Sunday morning", pick a date, a time and note the timezone.
- If I catch news of ghosting or some other sort of atrocious behavior, I reserve the right to investigate to the full limits of my ability in conjunction with the TD team provided there is adequate evidence to warrant it.
Good luck to all competitors!
Round 2
Ashbala vs mncmt
Garay oak vs Cao Jie
Fluore vs TPP
Antares vs Irene-2002
phantomclaw8888 vs flogins
jackuzzler vs RichardMillePlain
MassiveDestruction vs PigWarrior19
w1n5ton lite vs Sylveon used calm mind
Chef_Santus vs BaddyGames
jcbc vs jeza.p
elodin vs King Billu
DAHLI vs yogo896
Eeveeto vs Alpha1013
avarice vs Pakawaka
Hacker vs Rasmuth
5Dots vs Astoria
Enzonana. vs Alexander IV
Inder vs Star
Lady Salamence vs Nezloe
Meru vs jus
ShinyAlolamola vs Lily
Luispeikou vs kjetilx
tlenit vs Micciu
BrunnoGreen vs Malekith
swordstrike vs Bogging
SpaceSpeakers vs hjj no
NastyCereal vs EnderSp
gorex vs GW
Felines vs Ara
Luck O' the Irish vs Drifting
lolebruh vs le LLiolae
Frixel vs Aurella
fade vs Arcanoaju8
Hybuyn vs NHelioX7
Danny vs Dabman1069
Medeia vs tko
Nyx vs RaJ.Shoot
luisin vs Mysterious M
TheFranklin vs OranBerryBlissey10
Surfy vs roxie
Guille vs RampageWebber
Fusien vs SoulWind
Scottie vs sensei axew
cicepece11 vs VigilanteVigoroth
Oathkeeper vs Finchinator
Indi01 vs etern
BigFatMantis vs theelkspeaks
kythr vs Yves Stone
Jamez vs shiloh
xSkelly34 vs velvet
Confide vs CertifiedAspenTree
Huargensy vs sparks bloom
Ninja vs kDCA
Corperate n vs Skarph
ProDigeZz vs Nael222
StepC vs Aikotoba
EternalSnowman vs John1240
Mashing vs touc
Lasen vs sasha
Jo3y49 vs JacintoElGrande
Phantomistix vs dunoks
Annihilape vs Nat
ninjadog vs Sirwings
Raichy vs Mr.Bossaru
Shiba vs Desty Westy
OffbrandE vs Feaniix
memedose46 vs yovan33321
jetou vs P4bl00
GXE vs damien the genius
Bouff vs bydy
LpZ vs Prawgen
Realblazing vs MTB
Clorodulce vs Chococroc
Razorgliscor vs Éric
Trogba Trogba vs Xiri
Punny vs false
NoahDeKnight vs QuinnXD
gum vs Tuthur
wesh papillon vs MrSoup
MichaelderBeste2 vs Beraldo
Elfuseon vs eifo
DugZa vs ibouv
Booty vs Mandibuladel5555
Slip vs Kaboom
Togkey vs SpaceCP
Rex Slayer vs Quartosa
Drookez vs So Noisy
Dj Breloominati♬ vs Azluc On Top
zben vs DeCurry
TLTK vs megasalappo
giove97 vs TL The Legend
Elias PSY vs coolio1223
Tal0 vs Groza
PolloAriosto vs Ac1D_13
Feliburn vs lavarina
pdt vs Banbadoro
Deadline: Sunday, May 28th at 11:59 PM EDT (GMT-4).
Extension Deadline: Wednesday, May 24th at 11:59 PM EDT (GMT-4).
REPLAYS ARE REQUIRED.
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