RBY LADDER TOURNAMENT PS! ROOM
thank you dhelmise for your technical support in setting everything up
thank you dhelmise for your technical support in setting everything up
Rules and Tournament Format
General Tournament Rules
- This is a standard RBY OU tournament
- This will be a Ladder Tournament into Single Elimination, Best of Three, Top 16 Playoffs
- Ladder Portion Rules
- This tournament will be hosted on the regular Pokemon Showdown! RBY OU ladder. All qualification will be done on this ladder. The Top 16 players (described below) will advanced to a single elimination, best of three playoffs.
- You need to make a new alt account for this tournament. Your alt name must begin with RBYZA. For example, I may register the alt "RBYZA emma" for laddering. To give us a way to identify each account, please include in your sign-up post your alt name(s) in plain text, as well as a picture of your laddering alt(s). You are not required to make a new alt for each ladder cycle.
- In order to sign up for the RBY Ladder Tournament I, please create a post in this thread listing your alts. You are allowed an unlimited number of alts, so don't worry about starting over with a new one; just remember to follow the name format for each alt you create, and please update your post each time you create a new alt. Include in your post a picture of your "clean" alt before playing any games on it. If an alt in the Top 4 at the end of a cycle is not registered in this thread at the time the cycle ends, it will be ignored.
- You must create and register a new alt in this thread before you play any battles on it.
- The ladder portion of the tournament spans 4 cycles lasting 7 days each. The cutoff times for each cycle are listed below; at the cutoff time, one of the moderators will take a screenshot of the ladder. In order to qualify for the playoffs, your alt must be among the top 4 newly made alts in thr screenshot. If a player in the top 4 of a given cycle is already qualified, their alt will be ignored when counting the top 4 alts for that cycle. Cycles will have adjusted end times to give players from different regions and timezones a better chance at being on at the end of the cycle.
- In order to break potential ties, the unrounded ELO of each player who qualifies in a given cycle will be recorded in order to break any potential ties. Your unrounded ELO can be found by using the following URL: https://play.pokemonshowdown.com/~~showdown/action.php?act=ladderget&user=[your username here]
- For the playoffs stage, players will be seeded by their ELO at their respective screenshot time
- All ladder games involving a player with a RBYZA prefix are forced to be public. If you have the "Don't allow spectators" box checked when you start a RBYZA game, your game will be public and you will be met with this message: "This battle is required to be public due to a player having a name starting with 'RBYZA'."
- Playoffs Portion Rules
- Rounds will be Best of Three. You may switch teams in between battles of the same set.
- Matches are to be played on Pokemon Showdown!. Smogtours is mandatory for the entirety of playoffs.
- Replays are required for all matches.
- Activity calls will be made by me, potentially with neutral assistance from a RBY Moderator or Tournament Director. Coin flips will be done publicly on PS!
- In the event that something is added to or removed from the RBY OU metagame in the middle of a round, that change will be in effect starting the next round.
- General Rules
- Do not cheat. Cheating will result in a disqualification. Additional punishments may be applied as necessary. Cheating includes, but is not limited to:
- Asking your opponent to forfeit on the ladder
- Ghosting or being ghosted by another player (e.g. while playing a set, asking for advice about what plays to make)
- Manipulating match outcomes (e.g. throwing a match in exchange for Smogon likes)
- Do not harass or insult your opponents. I reserve the right to disqualify anyone breaking this rule. Additional punishments may be applied as necessary.
- Do not cheat. Cheating will result in a disqualification. Additional punishments may be applied as necessary. Cheating includes, but is not limited to:
- Standard Clauses / Mods
- Desync Clause Mod: Desyncs changed to move failure.
- Sleep Clause Mod: Limit one foe put to sleep
- Freeze Clause Mod: Limit one foe frozen
- Species Clause: Limit one of each Pokémon
- OHKO Clause: OHKO moves are banned
- Evasion Moves Clause: Evasion moves are banned
- Endless Battle Clause: Forcing endless battles is banned
- HP Percentage Mod: HP is shown in percentages
- Banned Moves
- Dig, Double Team, Fissure, Fly, Guillotine, Horn Drill, Minimize
- Banned Pokemon
- Mew, Mewtwo
This tournament will award points towards the 2024 RBY OU Circuit, which awards a ribbon to the winner of the entire circuit. If you win the tournament itself, you also get a spot in the RBY Hall of Fame!
Resources
RBY Discord
RBY Resources
RBY OU Sample Teams
Cycle Start & End Times + Qualifiers
(all times US Eastern)
(US Eastern is currently GMT-5, but will change to GMT-4 on Sunday, March 10th at 2:00 AM)
Cycle 1
START | Monday, March 4th at 12:00 AM (Midnight)
END | Sunday, March 10th at 5:59 AM
Qualifiers
Kenix (RBYZA Carapinga) - 1669
chuva de perereca (RBYZA perereca) - 1655
Serpi (RBYZA Serpi) - 1618
Kaz (RBYZAk) - 1604
Cycle 2
START | Sunday, March 10th at 6:00 AM
END | Sunday, March 17th at 11:59 AM
Qualifiers
Laroxyl (RBYZA Laro) - 1627
gastlies (RBYZA haxerohaxero) - 1593
NotVeryCake (RBYZA FishNChips) - 1576
royzin (RBYZA ICBB) - 1557
Cycle 3
START | Sunday, March 17th at 12:00 PM (Noon)
END | Sunday, March 24th at 5:59 PM
Qualifiers
Mikon (RBYZA Shangri-La) - 1655
ABR (RBYZA Breeze) - 1606
MrSoup (RBYZAP) - 1603
Amaranth (RBYZA aneroid) - 1586
Cycle 4
START | Sunday, March 24th at 6:00 PM
END | Sunday, March 31st at 11:59 PM
Qualifiers
Sceptross (RBYZA Courage) - 1635
RaiZen1704 (RBYZA Raizen) - 1633
ACII (RBYZA acii) - 1630
Tarvold (RBYZA PersNegRNG) - 1622
