Welcome to the fifth iteration of the largest PU tournament, the PU Open! It's been almost twelve months since last year where watashi took home the prize in wins against mushamu and termi! Let's see who wins it this year! Good luck to all competitors!
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.
Good luck to all competitors!
Round 1
Elfuseon vs Chhayank
dahli vs Beraldinho
eifo vs ProDigeZz
Cristianchini74 vs gorex
Scottie vs Inder
Kerthwack vs jonfilch
Feaniix vs egalvanc
Xiri vs mj
marowakcity vs elodin
Sabella vs Confide
Raichy vs Monkeer
Luthier vs Tenebricite
King Billu vs TheAprilFool
robjr vs Exiline
TLTK vs BoomBoomBoo
GW vs 5Dots
Nineage vs frisoeva
perfect minun vs false
GoldenSaiiber vs BulbaBrain
Shiba vs Permission Slip
Hockey1 vs DugZa
JKoster vs ctproonie217
pattek vs Askov
Goat Heart ♥ vs QuinnXD
Perish Song vs hariyana grande
Sickboy vs Danny
trace vs RaJ.Shoot
Poek vs Expulso
Aberforth vs Banbadoro
Estuardo19 vs ShloopNoop
Nael222 vs Fakee
Rodigou vs EternalSnowman
SpiritNeko666 vs Squash
Fille vs Ara ara
Surfy vs GBlaze
mentalsoft vs OnArceus
Bruno de Lucas vs Froggy
memedose46 vs TheFranklin
Star vs fujitive
Malekith vs jcbc
afakedugong vs Yves Stone
SiceXV vs Micciu
Alkione vs Drachenkeule
TDNT vs Ryuji-Sempai
iNasty vs Wingless
pannuracotta vs jonas
mebadatgame vs luisin
Heracross2.0 vs chlo
Fc vs xujing691691
S1nn0hC0nfirm3d vs Bushtush
blittius vs Moutemoute
zS vs Corperate n
freezai vs Garay oak
maroon vs Charmflash
Quantum Tesseract vs Lycidaes
Eonito vs Mr.Bossaru
Brig. vs Meru
GXE vs Floss
Specs vs kythr
Fant'sy Beast vs Heika
txitxas vs bb skarm
Lily vs Mendeez
SoulWind vs Limpy Lucario
QWILY vs FailureGirl
Eternal Spirit vs playtest
DonBottle vs blank who
Kenix vs azogue
avarice vs AmericanPi
Finchinator vs skimmythegod
bydy vs IRazvannN
Luigi vs ToastedBunzzz02
Bag of Trixx vs MichaelderBeste2
Haffling vs Pepeduce
Rubyblood vs Mercupty
Ashbala vs Ninja
Cielau vs giove97
TJ vs Huargensy
turtledoggo1 vs Welli0u
TheKingKarp vs pdt
Lyss vs Enzonana.
Kev vs Revenge Killer
Sjneider vs Crunchman
Heart Doom vs Void
StitChuu vs When the 2)
LordST vs Roginald
Dflo vs velvet
roxiee vs Daruma
elleapple vs Skilpad
RampageWebber vs Zephyri
LillianOfficial vs Jaytop31
shiloh vs Punny
Heuxo vs Roseybear
Kink vs termi
Jhonx~ vs Perry
MZ vs Royal1604
temp vs bbeeaa
gum vs NHelioX7
SergioRules vs TDK
Oathkeeper vs PA
PU Rules vs MagearnaTheBoss
CDW Enrique vs KM
TonyFlygon vs banks
bruno vs Dlanyer
30N vs Le Dieunnotor
Aliss vs Corazan
martinvtran vs Blimax
ojr vs monchooo
Freezerman vs swordstrike
Eeveeto vs airfare
TPP vs Rhmsitb
Parpar vs Chaitanya
mixwell vs De-ee-ecent
Stareal vs cy
PuddingMcNick vs Drud
Spl4sh vs Aurora
yandaud vs Excal
InfernoDragon vs EviGaro
itsjustdrew vs dunoks
keppy vs yovan33321
xDarkcrafterHDx vs TeamCharm
Thiago Nunes vs Guille14
Fruitdealer vs HSA
Prof.Otaku vs snaga
Vulpix03 vs Sificon
Meri Berry vs ninjadog
crying vs halaman95
SingleAye vs 64 Squares
aim vs xavgb
Laurel
pinorska
NoivernSkrub
pkcc
Josepharas1
acluh1
Goblin
HikariNR
Chaos23333
Rose The Beloved
Jelmer
JoeMama
Axelsior
cardinalofclubs
Jannis1-Gegner0
Zesty43
Noxey
zoowi
neomon
Estarossa
Toadow
Moron5
weakermaker
nasaruinz
BeatsBlack
Charredcheese
Leo
Sam
KarliTheFrenshie
bulufan14
Ajna
zben
Ewin
Josepharas1
gali
Sharow
updated to Post #165
The deadline for this round is Sunday, April 17th at 11:59 PM EDT (GMT-4).
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