In case you haven't heard somehow, Turkey and Syria were recently struck by a massive earthquake, hitting a whopping 7.8 on the Richter scale, alongside a 7.6 aftershock mere hours later. Thousands of civilians have been killed, displaced, or majorly harmed; in an effort to provide relief to those affected, Smogon is going to be hosting its fourth Charity Bowl, this time in Scarlet and Violet OverUsed. This tournament will take place this Sunday, February 19th, at 12PM (noon) EST (GMT -5). We will be raising funds for the Syrian American Medical Society (SAMS) Foundation.
You can join us for this tournament as a participant, or follow the action live on our Twitch streams at twitch.tv/smogonu. Smogon will be raising money via donations throughout the event, so we are encouraging all participants and spectators to donate whatever you can spare. You will be able to donate through Twitch itself in this event when the stream is live. You can also donate right now if you so choose! You can donate at Smogon's Twitch, link here.
FORMAT
The Smogon Charity Bowl will consist of two brackets that will merge into a single bracket from Round Three of the tournament onwards. The tournament will be single elimination, best-of-one. The format will be Scarlet and Violet OU.
Players will be randomly divided into two groups. Each group will play in a live best-of-one tournament, following the same rules and format as the Smogon Tour. From Round 4 onwards, players will play in one bracket.
All games will take place on the official Smogon Tournament server at http://smogtours.psim.us/.
General Smogon Tour rules:
- You must have a Smogon forum account to sign up for this tournament. You cannot participate if you do not post in the signup thread. Proxy signup posts are not allowed.
- When signups for this tour is posted, post as quickly as you can to ensure a place in the tournament. It is up to the discretion of the host on when sign-ups will be closed. On Xenforo (our current forum software), YOUR POST NUMBER IS NOT ALWAYS ACCURATE. Please do not attack the host or on SmogTours if your post number implies you should have been in the tournament and you are not.
- Substitute players will only be applied in the first round and as deemed necessary by the host.
- If you have signed up successfully, you must stay for the entire tournament unless you have lost.
- You may change teams between rounds without penalty. You are, in fact, encouraged to do so to prevent your opponents from knowing your team in advance.
- Do not hassle the host(s) of the current tournament.
- The format is Scarlet and Violet. The current status of the appropriate standard ladder will function as the prevailing tier list. If you have any question about whether a particular Pokemon is banned or not in any particular tier, reference the banlist of the appropriate ladder on PS! with '/tier'. This is not confusing. There will be no exceptions.
- Species Clause: A player cannot have two (2) of the same species of Pokemon on their team, based on National Pokedex number. For example, a player cannot have two Koffing on their team.
- Sleep Clause: A player cannot put two or more different opposing Pokemon to sleep using attacks that induce sleep to opposing Pokemon.
- Evasion Clause: A player cannot increase their Pokemon's evasion stat with a move that specifically increases evasion. Items or indirect boosts do not break this clause.
- OHKO Clause: A player cannot use a move that has a chance of instantly KOing an opposing Pokemon. For example, Horn Drill or Sheer Cold are illegal moves.
- Timer Clause: If a player exhausts the timer, that player loses. SmogTours staff will not turn the timer off in any circumstance.
- Self-KO Clause: If a player uses a recoil move to cause a draw, that player wins. If a player uses Explosion, Selfdestruct, Destiny Bond, or Perish Song to cause a draw, that player loses. If a draw would be caused by a hold item or ability that causes recoil to the opponent, the player that controls the Pokémon with the hold item or ability wins. (This clause helps determine the winner of what would be called a tie in DPP. Later generations do not apply this clause, because their cartridge mechanics will prevent ties from happening.)
- Endless Battle Clause: A player cannot use a combination of items / moves / abilities to force a game that will never end (example: Recycle / Leppa Berry / Heal Pulse, etc).
- Moody Clause: A player can not use the ability Moody.
PRIZES
The winner of the Charity Bowl will receive a prize banner to appear on their Smogon account. In addition, the following Pokemon Showdown prizes are being offered, courtesy of PS! Staff:
- A custom avatar.
- The ability to recolor your PS username.
- The ability to claim an unused PS username.
The prize banner will appear under the user’s custom title and state that they are the winner of the Smogon Charity Bowl. The winner will be allowed to choose from a range of colours.
The custom PS avatar must meet all ordinary rules for custom avatars, and is subject to Marty's approval.
The PS name recolor will allow you to change your PS username color to the color of another account that you own.
Regarding claiming an unused PS username, only names that have not been used for three or more years are eligible to be claimed.
The custom PS avatar must meet all ordinary rules for custom avatars, and is subject to Marty's approval.
The PS name recolor will allow you to change your PS username color to the color of another account that you own.
Regarding claiming an unused PS username, only names that have not been used for three or more years are eligible to be claimed.
DONATIONS
We strongly encourage all entrants to donate at least $5. However, if you are unable to give at this time, you will still be able to participate in this tournament.
Again, you can show your support here: twitch.tv/smogonu.
Thank you all.
Round 1
Rex Slayer vs. Clastia
Ikaishi vs. Ox the Fox
Nick vs. Takatk
crucify vs. Drud
hunternoooob vs. snaga
king_endeavor vs. Exiline
The Gunner vs. SuperSnive17
AquaticCarlie vs. Hollow Soul
Vawpire vs. jcbc
JMSN vs. Dragonair2fair
Skooma vs. Kaif
Plunder vs. Concept Everything
Rewer vs. Herv
jay vs. zaydapoketrainer
Megastar54 vs. Teaching Bitches
Guille14 vs. xxtermanato
Chief_Shado vs. AmongTyr
Milo vs. LBN
Wait2Seconds vs. Ichigo2342
setset77 vs. AtraX Madara
WhoDatMan vs. VTMagno
Knightsharp vs. Ewin
AgenteDino vs. D2quan
Maxouille vs. Frixel
UDM 31 vs. Huargensy
excal vs. PrinceOfAllTacos
Lady Salamence vs. Srn
utramanjay vs. yovan33321
MiNi Charizard-x vs. glimmerrdust
HelloChocobo vs. Spl4sh
Javi vs. Trogba Trogba
Regified vs. Akashi
robjr vs. HydreigonTheChild
Cat_Player vs. Fraolain
yokoisop vs. Sirwings
El Quixana vs. 1Ssep The Chicken
Lazuli vs. wzvd
7DyRex vs. BlackKnight_Gawain
kythr vs. jetou
mael vs. Pataozinho
ong vs. bbeeaa
Lyssa vs. DragonPhoenix333
Xrn vs. kenny
Edgar vs. jawabarat
IPF vs. Archer The Great
TDR vs. tji69
Revenge Killer vs. vincentphung69420
pj vs. lshkreli
Eulelp vs. Leavers
Corporate Donkey vs. Waffleztastegood
dunoks vs. MudkipNerd
Todesrolle vs. LORD SAGIS
Surfy vs. Triangles
Treeko928 vs. TheSerotoninVibes
RoiDadadou vs. Bouff
Ryuji vs. Underspell
Naraku Kirigiri vs. Zaza
LoseToRU? vs. Platum
Ann vs. Yes or no my dude
airfare vs. Endersteve
KSt3ve vs. Astryn
That_Dwayneee vs. Iguana
13naoki130 vs. Nat
sk1191212 vs. LoD Shiddo
Round 2
glimmerrdust vs. bbeeaa
Vawpire vs. Astryn
Nat vs. airfare
Ryuji vs. jay
tji69 vs. Spl4sh
Surfy vs. Exiline
Javi vs. Fraolain
Milo vs. Platum
Herv vs. Ann
yovan33321 vs. dunoks
Maxouille vs. Regified
Plunder vs. snaga
AtraX Madara vs. Ox the Fox
Waffleztastegood vs. pj
jawabarat vs. Lazuli
Treeko928 vs. Zaza
El Quixana vs. yokoisop
Srn vs. IPF
Ewin vs. Clastia
excal vs. D2quan
Kaif vs. Leavers
mael vs. HydreigonTheChild
Hollow Soul vs. Lyssa
Chief_Shado vs. JMSN
Wait2Seconds vs. LORD SAGIS
Revenge Killer vs. crucify
UDM 31 vs. Guille14
The Gunner vs. Megastar54
LoD Shiddo vs. Takatk
kythr vs. Bouff
kenny vs. 7DyRex
VTMagno vs. That_Dwayneee
Round 3
Plunder vs. mael
Spl4sh vs. excal
(Treeko928 vs Zaza) vs. Chief_Shado
Takatk vs. kythr
Guille14 vs. Leavers
(El Quixana vs yokoisop) vs. (Ryuji vs jay)
Ann vs. Ox the Fox
crucify vs. The Gunner
Srn vs. yovan33321
bbeeaa vs. LORD SAGIS
Surfy vs. (VTMagno vs That_Dwayneee)
Ewin vs. Fraolain
Nat vs. Vawpire
Lazuli vs. kenny
Milo vs. Waffleztastegood
Maxouille vs. Lyssa
PLEASE PM ME ON SMOGTOURS WITH YOUR WINNINGS AND NOT ANYWHERE ELSE
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