ADV Cup VIII - Round 5

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ADV Cup

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.

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.
Round 5

Heysup  vs  M Dragon
Myzozoa  vs  Conflict
Hclat  vs  thelinearcurve
sensei axew  vs  Revenge Killer
lax  vs  bruno
Pais  vs  Pohjis
Triangles  vs  frisoeva
TDK  vs  twash
Void  vs  CDW Enrique
Shoka  vs  Kerts
BIHI  vs  Luigi
London13  vs  Isza
Star  vs  Pak
GaryTheGengar  vs  kael
Kristyl  vs  fatty
hellpowna  vs  ArcticBreeze

Deadline is Sunday August 21st, 2022 at 11:59 PM GMT-4! Deadline for extensions is Wednesday August 17th, 2022 at 11:59 PM GMT-4. Contact your opponent ASAP.
 
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Yeah, nah, this site is garbage.

Mons can be a fun game. The gravity of tournaments adds to it. But these priorities are in the complete wrong place.

This place is crawling with power trippers and control freaks, craving to swing a banhammer at anything (especially not from their own discord jerk) near the line, in hopes that they’ll manifest some legitimacy, some real-life significance, to the outcomes of these tours through sheer volume of rulings.

Congrats. You banned ADV’s best player for un-hax-ing an ultimately inconsequential game2 between two players who entered a total of 0 other cups. You’ve put a fat asterisk on the ADV Cup win of Star, MDragon, or whoever else wins this thing.

I’m sure y’all love patrolling parking meters in your spare time, in the rare event you leave the house. I’m steering clear of this nonsense going forward. I hope you’ll reassess, but if not, you’re a disgrace.
 
What do we surprise here? Smogon bans ultimately are for small reasons or for reasons that dont deserve ban at all, I dont care if I get punished for this comment but we the playerbase should get used to this incredible bad policy in this site.

Smogon is getting worse and facing really bad times when it comes to "policy", I wouldnt be surprised if people keep quitting or users amount dropping.

Fun fact is it the series dont affect at all playoffs qualifying, and lot of players have won and get far in classic with byes, stupid activity wins and other immoral reasons, there will be maybe an answer trying to solve that issue, but who knows, lets dq both players cuz hell yea lets keep this issue going on and apply rules even when they look wrong
 
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Colteor

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So rather than allow either of these like top 10 best advers to continue, you opt to ban the winner (who would've won either way even if the game in question didn't happen) even though neither of these guys would've made playoffs. We're really banning the best players in the name of competitiveness now, this site is a fucking joke.
 
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