Welcome to the Anything Goes Winter Seasonal! This seasonal is a type A tournament that will be included in the 2022 AG tournament circuit; learn more about it here.
Tournament Rules:
- General tournament rules and regulations can be found here, or below.
- This is a standard SS Anything Goes tournament.
- Best of three, double elimination.
- Matches are to be played on Pokemon Showdown!
- Do not make baseless activity posts, get in contact with your opponent and report missed times / scheduling issues only.
- All the usual Smogon rules regarding activity, timer, disconnection, and ghosting rules apply.
- Replays are not required until the last couple of rounds, but you should save them in the case of a disagreement; it is the only way to settle disputes!
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: The matches must be played on either the Smogtours server or the Main PS! server if both parties agree to that. Other servers are not sanctioned by the host(s) and playing in them might result in your game not counting. Protect yourself from that by playing on Smogtours.
Scouting
On scouting opponents: Going through your opponent's 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
Timer Clause: As for taking long between moves, if your opponent asks you to hurry up, please oblige. If you are doing a damage calc for a key turn that is one thing, but prolonging every move is suspicious and annoying. Don't do it. Furthermore, Battle Timeout is a rule for a reason. If you run out of time, you lose, simple as that. It does not matter what your opponent says. Do not battle if you think you will have to leave mid battle, and instead reschedule for a better time.
Disconnections: Finally, in the case of a disconnect, the decision is in the hands of the player who did not disconnect. The options are: redo the battle move for move, redo the battle with the same teams but different moves, or redo the battle with completely different teams. If the battle was without a doubt over, they may also take the win. Any suspicion that a disconnect was committed on purpose to redo a match may be appealed to me, and if I feel this happened there will be severe consequences, don't do it.
Scheduling
Use VMs to schedule with your opponent to make it easier for me to track activity calls when needed, and use this guide to ensure you don't lose via activity or coinflip. If you use other methods to contact your opponent outside of VMs, then post in this thread confirming you're in contact with your opponent; otherwise, it's not necessary. Extensions for those with time conflicts will only be given when proof is provided of scheduling with their opponent in the beginning of the round, so do not schedule last minute expecting to be compensated in case of timezone conflicts or be given an activity win over your opponent.
I know that was a lot to read, but it is all necessary for me to have posted here so everyone can see it in the case of a dispute. I don't want any confusion or any problems.
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: The matches must be played on either the Smogtours server or the Main PS! server if both parties agree to that. Other servers are not sanctioned by the host(s) and playing in them might result in your game not counting. Protect yourself from that by playing on Smogtours.
Scouting
On scouting opponents: Going through your opponent's 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
Timer Clause: As for taking long between moves, if your opponent asks you to hurry up, please oblige. If you are doing a damage calc for a key turn that is one thing, but prolonging every move is suspicious and annoying. Don't do it. Furthermore, Battle Timeout is a rule for a reason. If you run out of time, you lose, simple as that. It does not matter what your opponent says. Do not battle if you think you will have to leave mid battle, and instead reschedule for a better time.
Disconnections: Finally, in the case of a disconnect, the decision is in the hands of the player who did not disconnect. The options are: redo the battle move for move, redo the battle with the same teams but different moves, or redo the battle with completely different teams. If the battle was without a doubt over, they may also take the win. Any suspicion that a disconnect was committed on purpose to redo a match may be appealed to me, and if I feel this happened there will be severe consequences, don't do it.
Scheduling
Use VMs to schedule with your opponent to make it easier for me to track activity calls when needed, and use this guide to ensure you don't lose via activity or coinflip. If you use other methods to contact your opponent outside of VMs, then post in this thread confirming you're in contact with your opponent; otherwise, it's not necessary. Extensions for those with time conflicts will only be given when proof is provided of scheduling with their opponent in the beginning of the round, so do not schedule last minute expecting to be compensated in case of timezone conflicts or be given an activity win over your opponent.
I know that was a lot to read, but it is all necessary for me to have posted here so everyone can see it in the case of a dispute. I don't want any confusion or any problems.
Winners Bracket
AIsang vs Pawnnel
Vannte vs Enigmaticeric
Yoyoko vs Demonic Asura
RuthlessDragon6 vs ThatBendyPie
Skarph vs crying
Pokemon Trainer 596 vs entrocefalo
Severalwriter vs Skooma
Dr. Phd. BJ vs Avocadorable
Trade vs BirdNotReal
Fc vs 1729is56time
Icemaster vs KingOfTheZoogers
skimmythegod vs Farce Of The Death
Inder vs ADF Test
Webwyane vs The White Room
memedose46 vs WSun1
mnbjhg vs Nhanttt
Milo vs Nevelle
subaru vs SOM/05
default0 vs martinvtran
baconeatinassassin vs Masquerain is #1
Royal1604 vs Lysandre-Pyroar2020
Ford Prefect vs Ballfire
Birds30 vs ToasterBoi420
Uncle Gonk vs RichardMillePlain
Mr.Bossaru vs polt
Dark Shion vs Seldanna
fireclaim24 vs TL The Legend
yven vs LordZelkova
Agentkeval vs Alpha1013
torettosad vs Nineveh
Chris32156 vs velvet
Undefeated Alt vs Jewish Reuniclus
Losers Bracket
Josepharas1 vs Dockiva~~
Silas AR vs SSJ4Fab
Eledyr vs Xlez7
noleafclover32 vs Nick.see
kayxd vs Quarren_Show
Archiiiie17 vs Tal22
Arkaeus-1 vs Goblin
Yori vs bydy
Chase Suno vs MultiPokemon
Gcdsssa vs Renatox27
KeshBa54 vs iKiQ
Bricks D 92 vs Chisaki Kai
HRCassetteTape vs fatBatman
Plasma darts vs kerrozxl-
Jhnfui vs Remon>>>
nvk vs swag god
Arigamer vs Zyfa
LimeTheSL vs SourYoshi
Sweetpotatoe88 vs bdov
8142e33 vs Yellowpikachu678
Anster501 vs cromagnet
lotiasite vs Brendanpal1
sean1445645 vs Rotten
hot_dogs vs SkyRider69
tier vs Geysers
Entreri_Artemis vs Unni 1.2
SirKidd7 vs Dead by Daylight
Jase Duken vs 80 yrs
Redplayer69420 vs Runoisch
Swas vs Tic-Tac-Toe Guru
Amberr vs LuxrayDown_101
L4zybo1 vs Mitchy26
The extension deadline is Wednesday, August 3rd at 11:59 PM GMT -4.
The deadline for this round is Sunday, August 7th at 11:59 GMT -4.
