art by Chras
Welcome to the Winter Monotype Seasonal, the final tournament in the inaugural Monotype Circuit!
For those of you that are new, Monotype isn't a part of any official (trophy) tournament here on Smogon. However, we would still like to establish who is the best of the best throughout the year, and crown a yearly champion. The Monotype Seasonals are our way of doing that. The four seasonal tournaments serve as the premier individual Monotype events throughout the year, while the circuit format is structured to give players incentive to hone their skills over time and reward players that consistently battle well.
Winning in this tournament earns you points towards the Monotype Power Rankings. After four seasonals, the top 16 players on this leaderboard will enter a seeded playoff, where the winner of the tournament will become the Monotype champion for the year! There may also be other prizes in store, which are still being discussed.
Special note: In the (unlikely) event the winner of the Winter Seasonal does not have enough points to make the top 16 and ties, they will be considered as a part of the top 16 and ties anyways. This could happen if a new player that hasn't participated in past seasonals wins the tournament and I don't want to discourage new players from joining. The other 3 seasonal winners will be granted the same privilege (although they will likely make playoffs anyways).
Specific Rules
- The entire tournament will be played using the SM Monotype banlist.
- This is a Double Elimination tournament.
- All rounds are Best of Three. You may switch teams in between battles of the same set.
- Matches are to be played on Pokemon Showdown! main or SmogTours (matches played on other servers will not count!)
- To encourage metagame development, and so that everyone is on an even playing field, all matches must have replays recorded. If neither player posts replays of the match, the game will be coinflipped regardless of whoever won.
- Identity/Ghosting: Identity theft (battling as someone you are not) or proxy battling/ghosting will not be tolerated.
- Scouting/Counter-teaming: Everyone can watch replays. Knowing your opponents tendencies is a major part of tournament battling, so don't complain if you get counter-teamed—learn what you're weak against and be prepared for it next time.
- 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. Any suspicion that a disconnect was committed on purpose to redo a match may be appealed to the tournament host. If the battle was almost certainly over, the player may take the win. In this scenario, the final decision remains with the tournament host if the two players cannot work it out.
This next thing is outside the hide tags because it is really important. Read it!
Scheduling/Activity: Scheduling rules will be strictly enforced. Here's the guide on how to schedule. If you don't follow it then don't complain when an activity decision/coinflip goes against you.
Subs
The first 5/8ths to sign up were guaranteed a spot. The final 3/8ths were randomized. We have 16 subs for this tour, so people that are not proactive with scheduling will be subbed out after a week. That means you either need to use Smogon VMs (like you're supposed to) or post your scheduled time in this thread.
Round 1 Deadline: January 24th.
Huston vs. TheAce22
Jase Duken vs. p2 [*DNP]
Z strats vs. WorstPlayerEva [*DNP]
Dominatio vs. le fat kid
Zarif vs. Navy [*DNP]
PokeC9 vs. scpinion
rnbs vs. Conor3197
Akashi vs. Its Hatch
Tyke vs. ZekromFan
insult vs. Wanka
GotCookies vs. Shadestep
terrors vs. KevinELF
Clearly vs. Mateeus_1
Hilary-X vs. Chras
Hamhamhamham vs. Attribute
Pak vs. Entei
Its Choco Bitch vs. Lord Sample Team
Kudasai vs. Sabella
Level 56 vs. TraceofLife
Confluxx vs. Aki Kino
TheTacoMan vs. cuzzie
Arifeen vs. Tamatan
MiyoKa vs. Oshawott Fan
Dak Prescott vs. Paleo
Mix vs. parivard
Acast vs. Ferox
Eien vs. DurzaOffTopic
Capt. KnightWalker vs. Asim12
xRoy vs. Yaksok
Hys vs. Endal
LSB vs. PokemonmasterTj
Misaka Mikoto vs. Mysterious M
AV8 vs. KGBanter
Elise vs. 6ti
Temperarious vs. Vid
Megazard vs. Hammy
SubMindRaikou vs. Alpha-Harpreet
truedrew vs. Adalind [*DNP]
Mold vs. iLlama
Izaya. vs. Axel™
czim vs. Zenji
Quantum Tesseract vs. ara
Bluxio vs. Oibaf cune
Ronnintoad vs. Mr. Miner [*DNP]
GreenGogoatttt vs. Croven
ArkenCiel vs. Empo
MaxbVGC vs. LegitEU
Balto vs. TheOfficialVodoom
Velvet Blood vs. vakatalesau
Waszap vs. Ridley.
Nick~XVZ vs. Maskun529
Lax vs. Escoffier
aGroove vs. bugzinator
Wando vs. LaxLapras
Bondie vs. Rare Poison
Bitana vs. WhiteLion
Devinp0 vs. 1 True Lycan
Oberyn vs. Catalystic
Melle2402 vs. The Excadrill
LitoS9 vs. HNBL
Lotus Wincon vs. Sour Apples
Chleg vs. Stormvy [*DNP]
Kyo004 vs. Holiano [*DNP]
RedEmptionMc vs. Leru
Subs:
Alpha-Harpreet
Navy
So4ring
Zuuzifer
flyingfire11
Ferox
Adalind
Ronnintoad
aGroove
Stormvy
Kyo004
Leru
AR6D
Nefertum
Aparctias
zugubu royale
iDell
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