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The best generation, now with even less BP this time, we promise.
Tournament Rules:
- General tournament rules and regulations can be found here.
- Smogon Classic rules can be read here
- Standard ADV OU
- Best of three, single elimination.
- Battles should take place on Pokemon Showdown!
- Do not make baseless activity posts -- get in contact with your opponent and report missed times / scheduling issues only.
This is just a small snippet of the full rules, which one can find here!
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..
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 are only allowed if there was a True Disconnection.
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.
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..
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 are only allowed if there was a True Disconnection.
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
- Freeze Clause
- Timed Battle
- Baton Pass Clause: Teams are limited to 1 form of stat-boosting alongside Baton Pass across the whole team. Mean Look/Spider Web/Block + Baton Pass is also disallowed.
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London13 vs The Quasar
Pheo vs Shoka
bruno vs Mako
Inder vs kael
Mysterious M vs frisoeva
Doppelsoldner vs giraffefromholland
Teclis vs Welli0u
Myzozoa vs McMeghan
Stareal vs Quarante8
RichardMillePlain vs Triangles
Isza vs yovan33321
Pohjis vs Surfy
RampageWebber vs Kristyl
bydy vs Sliceofbread96
eden vs Skrublax
omicorio vs Star
Mana vs Zeno420
Hclat vs Sadlysius
Sharow vs nishikino kotori
Euglena vs TonyFlygon
Pak vs OreoSpeedruns
vani vs Slip
Heysup vs Harshal08
watermess vs Finchinator
yogo896 vs thelinearcurve
hellpowna vs Ashbala
Zxblade vs Void
abbehzt vs So Noisy
Ctown6 vs Samqian
mael vs twash
ACR1 vs yungmacedgod
BIG WILL vs Holy Ghost
CDW Enrique vs Divine10
ABR vs Deezcastforms
Kollin7 vs baddummy
Paulluxx vs Blox
Aurora vs Endill
BlessyZ vs 5imian
CZ. vs lax
Pais vs RaiZen1704
Luigi vs drifttrick
GaryTheGengar vs Yelodash
MTV BRATVA vs ArcticBreeze
Jimothy Cool vs M Dragon
TDK vs Mimikyu Stardust
Revenge Killer vs Hybuyn
Winterains vs swordstrike
dice vs Zacpz
taxi driver vs Kerts
Goblin vs BIHI
Reymedy vs TPP
Souw vs z0mOG
sensei axew vs Plas
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Expulso vs Lynch mi A2
DefinitelyDani vs Malekith
Celticryan94 vs urrgh
Jisoo vs Amaranth
Icequake vs Gt0
damien the genius vs BlazingDark
Conflict vs DeepBlueC
ninjadog vs Raptor
Nalorium vs Voyager
Deadline is Sunday August 7th, 2022 at 11:59 PM GMT-4! Deadline for extensions is Wednesday August 3rd, 2022 at 11:59 PM GMT-4. Contact your opponent ASAP.
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