Tournament Rules:
- General tournament rules and regulations can be found here.
- Grand Slam rules can be found here.
- Standard SS PU.
- Best-of-three, single elimination.
- Battles should take place on Pokemon Showdown!
- SS cartridge win conditions are in place; there are no ties.
- Tiers are locked at the beginning of each round.
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: Tournament matches must be played on the Smogtours server. The Main PS! server is also acceptable if both parties agree to that. Other servers are not sanctioned by the TD team and playing in them might result in your game not counting. Protect yourself from that by playing in Smogtours, where we also have the power to recreate games that end due to DC's.
Scouting
On scouting opponents: Going through your opponents 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
On the Timer: The timer must stay on throughout the whole battle, not to be turned off even in the case of a player disconnecting as we now have a separate disconnection timer (more details here). The timer may not be turned off in any circumstance.
On Timeout losses: A player that loses by having all his time run out loses the game. This is only not the case if the player that received the timeout loss can be verified to have suffered a True Disconnection. Rematches in such cases are not allowed.
On True Disconnection: The TD team has a secret threshold of seconds that your timer must be at or above, from the moment you disconnect, for a timeout loss to be considered a True disconnection. If your game is determined to be a true disconnection if you played on Smogtours and contacted a TD before the room expired your game will be recreated up to the point the disconnect happened. It is the responsibility of the player that disconnected to get a TD into the room before it expires.
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: Tournament matches must be played on the Smogtours server. The Main PS! server is also acceptable if both parties agree to that. Other servers are not sanctioned by the TD team and playing in them might result in your game not counting. Protect yourself from that by playing in Smogtours, where we also have the power to recreate games that end due to DC's.
Scouting
On scouting opponents: Going through your opponents 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
On the Timer: The timer must stay on throughout the whole battle, not to be turned off even in the case of a player disconnecting as we now have a separate disconnection timer (more details here). The timer may not be turned off in any circumstance.
On Timeout losses: A player that loses by having all his time run out loses the game. This is only not the case if the player that received the timeout loss can be verified to have suffered a True Disconnection. Rematches in such cases are not allowed.
On True Disconnection: The TD team has a secret threshold of seconds that your timer must be at or above, from the moment you disconnect, for a timeout loss to be considered a True disconnection. If your game is determined to be a true disconnection if you played on Smogtours and contacted a TD before the room expired your game will be recreated up to the point the disconnect happened. It is the responsibility of the player that disconnected to get a TD into the room before it expires.
Battle Clauses:
- Evasion Clause
- OHKO Clause
- Sleep Clause
- Species Clause
- Timed Battle
- Team Preview
- Contact your opponent as soon as possible upon the round going up. Activity cases are going to be handled in a very strict manner.
- When scheduling, offer a wide selection of times when you are available to play. 1 hour of activity on one or two weeknights is unlikely to be considered acceptable.
- Schedule specifically - do not schedule for "Friday afternoon" or "Sunday morning", pick a date, a time and note the timezone.
- If I catch news of ghosting or some other sort of atrocious behavior, I reserve the right to investigate to the full limits of my ability in conjunction with the TD team provided there is adequate evidence to warrant it.
Round 3- As per the Sunday bans, Ninjask, Perrserker, and Exeggutor are NOT allowed
SiTuM vs lighthouses
Kushalos vs Ajna
Slowbroth vs Loki
Toy Time King vs MJ
DEG vs Baoba
Feliburn vs Adaam
(Juno vs HJAD) vs Gingy
PasteurPS vs King Billu
Nowh vs GhostieNero
SacredKunoCV vs London13
Haru vs barton
Dominatio vs Finding True Love
TioDragonite vs Santu
IoSonoNeon vs (RahelGamer03 vs Natan)
(termi vs Enzo Gorlami) vs Lennart
Vaboh vs Sapientia
xSkelly34 vs CBU
Fylkir Pudin vs Taskr
Insult vs ProDigeZz
Riku Sakuraba vs twitch.tv/Bag_of_Trixx
UBERLandon21 vs false
Ktütverde vs MetalGro$$
Mazinger vs pokeisfun
Elias PSY vs Procopius
jacob vs ggggd
Hamhamhamhamham vs zoowi
atomicllamas vs MetaRiolu7
Royal1604 vs Splash
(Squash17 vs Conor3197) vs Maki's Fox
Alkione vs Roseybear
jeronipuff vs Expulso
BIHI vs (everybody vs HaxxSel)
Sensei Axew vs McMeghan
yedla vs The LpZ
Duncajuwon vs Vulpix03
EnzoLapras vs Blue YM
KingKdot vs Skipkan
Garay oak vs Estarossa
SANJAY vs RaJ.Shoot
ZoroDark vs ToastedBunzzz02
Marshall.Law vs Xiri
zeriloa vs Spl4sh
Memoric vs Davon
ggopw vs FeaNiiX
martha vs Hydreigon971
Moutemoute vs Star
lockjaw vs Lord_Enz
frisoeva vs tlenit1
(Bouff vs Sonired) vs Osh
K3ppr vs Confide
Dlanyer vs snaga
Ren-chon vs gum
zugubu royale vs UltraBallz
Amaranth vs Chloe
Lilburr vs zben
TDK vs SaDiSTiCNarwhal
KarliTheFrenshie vs 5gen
GW vs luisotte
Luthier vs naruto(sage)
GuzzlesOwO vs EviGaro
MZ vs vani
ivyz vs SoulWind
PinkDragonTamer vs Haund
Pepeduce vs zS
Deadline is Sunday, July 26th at 11:59PM EDT (GMT -4). Extension deadline is Wednesday, July 22nd at 10PM EDT (GMT -4).
For round 3 competitors: the PU Post-DLC Viability List and PU Resources thread should be updated for the newest bans (no Perrserker, Ninjask, or Exeggutor). The PU viability rankings are still for the pre-July tier shifts meta and should not be used.
For round 2 extension: The 3 aforementioned Pokemon are still legal, if you play on main you may need to play in the NU format instead. Smogtours will probably not be updated before the extension deadline.
Good luck to all competitors!
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