Smogon's VGC 2012 Tournament
Smogon has just crowned its first king of BW OU with Snunch winning the 8th Official Smogon Tournament. Now its time to find a king or queen for VGC with Smogon's second annual Official Smogon VGC Tournament, and it could be you! This is an official tournament, and that means a profile trophy is up for grabs. Post below to signup, and good luck to all competitors.
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Rules
- This tournament will be played on Pokemon Online
- Matches are best two out of three
- Games are 4v4 doubles.
- Your roster should consist of 6 different Pokemon, but only 4 Pokemon are used in each game, the other 2 are to switch in between games of the best 2 of 3 match.
- You are not allowed to switch anything besides the order of your Pokemon between games 2 and 3. This includes Evs and moveset.
- Games should be played on Smogon's PO server using our custom timer and client. Read more about it here.
- Teams will be required to be submitted each round in a link given at that time.
- The following Pokemon are banned:
- 150 – Mewtwo
- 151 – Mew
- 249 – Lugia
- 250 – Ho-Oh
- 251 – Celebi
- 382 – Kyogre
- 383 – Groudon
- 384 – Rayquaza
- 385 – Jirachi
- 386 – Deoxys
- 483 – Dialga
- 484 – Palkia
- 487 – Giratina
- 489 – Phione
- 490 – Manaphy
- 491 – Darkrai
- 492 – Shaymin
- 493 – Arceus
- 494 – Victini
- 643 – Reshiram
- 644 – Zekrom
- 646 – Kyurem
- 647 - Keldeo
- 648 - Meloetta
- 649 - Genosect
- Team preview will be turned on
- Species Clause
- Item Clause
- Self-KO Clause
- The move "Sky Drop" is banned
- The move "Dark Void" is banned
- Unavailable Dreamworld abilities are banned
- Unavailable items are banned
Identity
I expect many battles to be completed under alts. This can be 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. Do not complain about it. I also don't want to hear about any blatant scouting. There is a difference between "[user] is known for using stall" and "let me follow [user] 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.
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 or redo the battle with the same teams but different moves. If the battle was without a doubt over, they may also take the win. Any suspicion that a disconnect was committed on purpose to redo a match may be appealed to me, and if I feel this happened there will be severe consequences, don't 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. This can be 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. Do not complain about it. I also don't want to hear about any blatant scouting. There is a difference between "[user] is known for using stall" and "let me follow [user] 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.
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 or redo the battle with the same teams but different moves. If the battle was without a doubt over, they may also take the win. Any suspicion that a disconnect was committed on purpose to redo a match may be appealed to me, and if I feel this happened there will be severe consequences, don't 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.
You can PM any questions to a Tournament Director
Important things to remember
1. When contacting, VMs are better because we can see the activity.
2. Save all logs.
JabbaTheGriffin vs Noodlez
Bad Romance vs fitzy72
drcossack vs Bluewind
NidokingKing vs -Dragon9
Reuniclusking vs Nightblade7000
KnightoftheWind vs bearsfan092
~GreenCore vs dragonuser
RiOdO vs Eraddd
Fishy vs The_Chaser
JRank vs Raseri
Kiyo vs Olympus
Giant Enemy Crab vs Z-rex
CakesOfSpan vs Saboros
Ciele vs BraindeadPrimeape
OVERGRO vs Vinc2612
Tan vs emirinho
Skyshayde vs Articuno64
lolfailsnail vs Human
Drifblim vs gene
Cristal vs gohan92
Pidge vs ultimatedra
Darkhallway vs Dozz
HellPowna vs Omicron
Unreality vs mien
ENZ0 vs NC
muffinhead vs zdrup15
Ulyaoth Sultan vs ncsbert
Imitation Black vs kinderlew
zarator vs Heist
Playa vs little gk
The Wolf vs kingofkongs
(Nytefahr vs Sixonesix) - Extended
Darkpenguin67 vs HSA
Devildued2 vs Lord Blood
DracoMalfoy vs dingram
iss vs cartercr
NatGeo vs Infinity.Cypher
DarkLoic vs Hawkstar
WTF BR Pancho vs ZachDro
Steven Snype vs Philip7086
reyscarface vs Floppy
GARCHOMPZILLA vs R Inanimate
Stone_Cold vs Malekith
Eo Ut Mortus vs -Green-
Maaf vs 7014gree
Limitless vs B-Lulz
Rewer vs Plusle
SoulWind vs Texas Cloverleaf
DetroitLolcat vs Improbable
Firestorm vs VirtualSpiritz
Fish vs idiotfrommars
Bloo vs TheFourthChaser
Dimsun vs Synre
Smith vs DukeTheDevil
sandman vs NixHex
xtrashine vs Alice
PungentFruit vs TheMantyke
Ordile vs theamericandream38
Cybertron vs MikeDecIsHere
Juanca529 vs .Robert
Terraquaza vs _TyRoGuE_
Tobes vs TrollFreak
franky vs Matty85
Pocket vs lapras6666
Bad Romance vs fitzy72
drcossack vs Bluewind
NidokingKing vs -Dragon9
Reuniclusking vs Nightblade7000
KnightoftheWind vs bearsfan092
~GreenCore vs dragonuser
RiOdO vs Eraddd
Fishy vs The_Chaser
JRank vs Raseri
Kiyo vs Olympus
Giant Enemy Crab vs Z-rex
CakesOfSpan vs Saboros
Ciele vs BraindeadPrimeape
OVERGRO vs Vinc2612
Tan vs emirinho
Skyshayde vs Articuno64
lolfailsnail vs Human
Drifblim vs gene
Cristal vs gohan92
Pidge vs ultimatedra
Darkhallway vs Dozz
HellPowna vs Omicron
Unreality vs mien
ENZ0 vs NC
muffinhead vs zdrup15
Ulyaoth Sultan vs ncsbert
Imitation Black vs kinderlew
zarator vs Heist
Playa vs little gk
The Wolf vs kingofkongs
(Nytefahr vs Sixonesix) - Extended
Darkpenguin67 vs HSA
Devildued2 vs Lord Blood
DracoMalfoy vs dingram
iss vs cartercr
NatGeo vs Infinity.Cypher
DarkLoic vs Hawkstar
WTF BR Pancho vs ZachDro
Steven Snype vs Philip7086
reyscarface vs Floppy
GARCHOMPZILLA vs R Inanimate
Stone_Cold vs Malekith
Eo Ut Mortus vs -Green-
Maaf vs 7014gree
Limitless vs B-Lulz
Rewer vs Plusle
SoulWind vs Texas Cloverleaf
DetroitLolcat vs Improbable
Firestorm vs VirtualSpiritz
Fish vs idiotfrommars
Bloo vs TheFourthChaser
Dimsun vs Synre
Smith vs DukeTheDevil
sandman vs NixHex
xtrashine vs Alice
PungentFruit vs TheMantyke
Ordile vs theamericandream38
Cybertron vs MikeDecIsHere
Juanca529 vs .Robert
Terraquaza vs _TyRoGuE_
Tobes vs TrollFreak
franky vs Matty85
Pocket vs lapras6666
Round 2 will last for two weeks with the deadline at 5 EST (GMT -5) on Thursday April 12th.
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