Tournament Rules:
- General tournament rules and regulations can be found here.
- Grand Slam rules can be found here.
- Standard SV PU.
- 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.
That aside, feel free to get back to me (or a tournament director) if you still have any questions regarding this tournament (or Grand Slam in general) after reading this post. In addition to being able to earn points through the PU Open towards qualifying for Grand Slam playoffs, it is part of the PU Tournament Circuit, so points for that will also be awarded accordingly depending on how well you do.
Round Two
ImDoneThrowing vs Mercupty
angelthesaucegod vs wesh papillon
Fluore vs robjr
third bonnie vs EternalSnowman
ManOfMany vs Brammi
Real FV13 vs Guille
Bouff vs Heaskedfurret
maroon vs BaddyGames
haxlolo vs Liz Angeles
AstilCodex vs Heracross2.0
AquaticCarlie vs bb skarm
Deathbang vs jcbc
Eledyr vs fade
Finchinator vs false
Shiba vs Lennart
KarpeSan vs Magician
le LLiolae vs Inder
Oathkeeper vs BossCampers
Star vs RaJ.Shoot
Lechen vs SoulWind
Mihowk vs Oscarx90
55Miniben vs MichaelderBeste2
Raichy vs Axelsior
So Noisy vs Finding_A_Username
EviGaro vs HCG Toothpaste
Elfuseon vs TMM
lolebruh vs Ash KetchumGamer
zS vs Luispeikou
Eeveeto vs Athena's Myth
Gene Sp vs memedose46
BigFatMantis vs Booty
el bozo vs Reuben_Thomas05
pdt vs Feaniix
VyoletRayn vs Drud
Tails72 vs Spacial
MTB vs TDR
FakeFan0 vs Digi_jay00
shiloh vs Javi
Shaneghoul vs Desty Westy
Chaitanya vs Zephyri
Crowlignt vs Gourgeist Enjoyer
Based Obito vs Z Strats
Micciu vs Froggy
Staxi vs mncmt
Yves Stone vs Irene-2002
Dabman1069 vs Corperate n
avarice vs Trashéboi
TyCarter vs Spellcaster
Trainer Z vs Felines
Slip vs Lily
Blue YM vs Malekith
swordstrike vs JustFranco
RampageWebber vs xSkelly34
zeeLitium vs yogo896
Meru vs etern
Togkey vs zben
Quartosa vs fish anemometer
Mr.Bossaru vs Natzzz
zoowi vs LpZ
TeamCharm vs Luthier
King Billu vs Melt Gibson
tko vs Platum
Theblobfishman9 vs Ashbala
wooper vs Enzonana.
BlackKnight_Gawain vs DugZa
TPP vs DaPokeFruit
lucariospeddog vs GXE
gum vs glowbrogang
TheFranklin vs Tenebricite
love chants vs Fusien
DAHLI vs Raahel
TTK vs StepC
Luck O' the Irish vs ProDigeZz
KneeStealer vs crying
NoahDeKnight vs Yippie
Ron vs kythr
sensei axew vs localdealerr
pannu vs tausifur
yovan33321 vs Hacker
LettuceLeaf07 vs Giannis Antetokommo-o
NHelioX7 vs Crispy Baguette
MYSWEEPERISSHUCKLE vs waterfals
egalvanc vs PolloAriosto
Chloe vs eifo
Fc vs kriegueur
dunoks vs Tal0
tlenit vs YasuKe
a fruitshop owner vs Beraldo
BrunnoGreen vs Vulpix03
ishtar vs Cielau
Bert C vs aptedepresence
Dragon246 vs Ktütverde
Devious flamigo vs PrincePucci
Floss vs 5Dots
Punny vs Theia
Huargensy vs luisin
Good luck to all competitors!
REPLAYS ARE REQUIRED!!!
Round deadline is at Sunday, June 4th at 11:59 PM EDT (GMT-4)!
Extension deadline: Wednesday, May 31st at 11:59PM EDT (GMT-4)!
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