It's finally time to get the first leg of Smogon's brand new tournament series underway! We start our quest to find Smogon's greatest side-tier player with everyone's obvious favorite, UU. Good luck to everyone! May all your Focus Blasts hit and your Scalds triple crit burn.
Tournament Rules:
- General tournament rules and regulations can be found here.
- Grand slam rules can be found here.
- Standard BW2 UU.
- Best of three, single elimination.
- The banlist for this tournament is the same as the UU ladder of the Smogon University server of Pokemon Showdown.
- If tier changes occur during the middle of a round, they will take effect in the subsequent round.
- Battles should take place on Pokemon Showdown! unless both players agree otherwise.*
Identity
I expect many battles to be completed under alts and I expect many battles to be completed on other servers to prevent scouting. These kind of factors are pretty bad for tournament security, and thus I will make this clear: If I hear any whispers of identity theft (battling as someone you are not) or proxy battling (helping someone else battle through pm) I will not be pleased and I will take severe actions.
Scouting
Next, I do not want to hear anything about counterteaming, at all. It is the silliest thing I have ever heard, any battler worth their marbles has more than one team. Do not complain about it. I also don't want to hear about any forceful scouting, whether it be spying on another teams irc channel or following your opponent around on PO. There is a difference between "ipl is known for using stall" and "let me follow ipl around all day to watch all his battles since I am his opponent". I expect a lot of the former and none of the latter.
With that said, I give permission to all battlers to ask any person spectating their battle to leave if they do not want them watching. However, given the fact that this is the big stage, I am sure a lot of people want to watch, so don't be too mean.
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. Timing out is still classified as a loss, unless the reason for timing out is a disconnection. If there is any suspicion that a disconnect was carried out deliberately to take advantage of this rule in any way, we reserve the right to exercise a harsh punishment.
Disconnections
If a player disconnects and either player contends that they could still win, the optimal solution is to recreate the exact situation the disconnection occurred at during the battle. If it is agreed between players that this is not feasible due to unreasonable battle length, highly improbable circumstances, or some other reason, the player who did not disconnect may choose to rematch with either the same teams or (the option to use) new teams. Timing out is still classified as a loss, unless the reason for timing out is a disconnection. If there is any suspicion that a disconnect was carried out deliberately to take advantage of this rule in any way, we reserve the right to exercise a harsh punishment. Do not do it.
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.
I expect many battles to be completed under alts and I expect many battles to be completed on other servers to prevent scouting. These kind of factors are pretty bad for tournament security, and thus I will make this clear: If I hear any whispers of identity theft (battling as someone you are not) or proxy battling (helping someone else battle through pm) I will not be pleased and I will take severe actions.
Scouting
Next, I do not want to hear anything about counterteaming, at all. It is the silliest thing I have ever heard, any battler worth their marbles has more than one team. Do not complain about it. I also don't want to hear about any forceful scouting, whether it be spying on another teams irc channel or following your opponent around on PO. There is a difference between "ipl is known for using stall" and "let me follow ipl around all day to watch all his battles since I am his opponent". I expect a lot of the former and none of the latter.
With that said, I give permission to all battlers to ask any person spectating their battle to leave if they do not want them watching. However, given the fact that this is the big stage, I am sure a lot of people want to watch, so don't be too mean.
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. Timing out is still classified as a loss, unless the reason for timing out is a disconnection. If there is any suspicion that a disconnect was carried out deliberately to take advantage of this rule in any way, we reserve the right to exercise a harsh punishment.
Disconnections
If a player disconnects and either player contends that they could still win, the optimal solution is to recreate the exact situation the disconnection occurred at during the battle. If it is agreed between players that this is not feasible due to unreasonable battle length, highly improbable circumstances, or some other reason, the player who did not disconnect may choose to rematch with either the same teams or (the option to use) new teams. Timing out is still classified as a loss, unless the reason for timing out is a disconnection. If there is any suspicion that a disconnect was carried out deliberately to take advantage of this rule in any way, we reserve the right to exercise a harsh punishment. Do not do it.
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.
Battle Clauses:
- Evasion Clause
- OHKO Clause
- Sleep Clause
- Species Clause
- Timed Battle
- Team Preview
Round 2 Matchups:
~GreenCore vs Pidge
Django vs TrollFreak
FLCL vs Jirachi
Stormsire vs Malekith
Yonko7 vs W M
McMeghan vs Mew
cim vs WhiteQueen
Quantum Mechanics vs DestinyUnknown
Private vs shartruce2
A l e x a n d e r vs blaaz
Cristal vs Light The Thunder
xtrashine vs CS4m
Leftiez vs Nexuz
Double01 vs Z-Rex
LuckOverSkill vs zdrup15
HBK vs Fiction.
Perche No Fai vs TPO3
AlphaJolt vs Eo Ut Mortus
CTI vs Ciele
MMF vs SuperMango
Scimjara vs Alice
Espo vs Rydro
Orichalcos Owl vs -Manu-
Takua vs Friar
Scienceandreligion vs Eustatic
BKC vs Exppoint
BIG loven vs locopoke
Pedrock vs Giga Punch
franky vs The Immortal
Brotom vs LonelyNess
Vinc2612 vs MOET
Nachosvs Noblesse Oblige
Ordile vs Foster
kokoloko vs Amell
mien vs Jlance
Thatsjustpeachy vs srk1214
B-Lulz vs shnen
wilson46 vs Hot N Cold
Mr. XYZ vs badabing
Arc Tech vs Smurf.
SJCrew vs Pokemazter
Ginku vs SGV
DC. vs Wobbanaut
spuds4ever vs ThisMysteriousGuy
IceCarAdler vs ShakeItUp
Imanalt vs Steven Snype
-Rockstar- vs askaninjask
Kennen vs Stone_Cold
Bad Romance vs reyscarface
Hantsuki vs CrashinBoomBang
Folgorio vs idiotfrommars
_TyRoGuE_ vs Novaray
Dewhinifier vs Nelson-X
Neto-senpai vs Colchonero
MarceloDK vs Cicada
llvallejoll vs Philip7086
Master of the Six Kings vs Seco453
fatty vs Level 51
AkHolic vs DittoCrow
kuja20 vs TV-Rocka
FelixMinamimoto vs Limitless
Bloo vs MikeDecIsHere
FAFUS vs PsYch071c
dragonuser vs kd24
Deadline for this round is August 9th.
Quick note about activity wins. If your opponent gives you an explicit date and time he can play, or he gives you exact times where he's free, please DO NOT simply respond with "i'm free sometime next week." That will get your opponent the activity win every time. Make an effort to actually schedule a match. A lot of activity wins last round were decided because of this.
