Beautiful art by Zracknel
Tournament Rules:
- General tournament rules and regulations can be found here.
- Grand Slam rules can be found here.
- Standard SV Ubers.
- Best-of-three, single elimination.
- Battles should take place on the Smogtours server.
- SV 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, only being turned off in the case of a player disconnecting, and in that case will only be turned off for 5 minutes. The timer may not be turned off in any other 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, only being turned off in the case of a player disconnecting, and in that case will only be turned off for 5 minutes. The timer may not be turned off in any other 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.
- Evasion Clause
- OHKO Clause
- Sleep Clause
- Species Clause
- Timed Battle
- Team Preview
General recommendations:
- 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 as wide a swathe of time 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 nefarious play, 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.
That aside, feel free to get back to me (or a tournament director if, for some reason, you don't really trust my judgement) on Smogtours discord server if you still have any questions regarding this tournament (or Grand Slam in general) after reading this post. Since this is Smogon's biggest individual Ubers tournament, I'm expecting a lot of excellent moments, a high level of competition and, eventually, a winner!
Last but not least, aside from points towards qualifying for Grand Slam playoffs, this tournament is part of the Ubers Tournament Circuit, so points for that will also be awarded accordingly depending on how well you do!
Replays MUST be posted, and games be played under the Pre-Home SV Ubers metagame. Failing to this will result in deadgames or loss. No exceptions.
Round Two
luisin vs Malekith
PigWarrior19 vs Perry
Shiba vs Floss
crying vs JustFranco
fish anemometer vs The White Room
Dark Shion vs Bouff
TDR vs Surfy
SoulWind vs Noxey
wesh papillon vs pichus
Cam vs PolloAriosto
rickpo vs Fc
Kingsous vs avarice
Fogbound Lake vs BigFatMantis
Royal1604 vs z0mOG
Eledyr vs Sharow
false vs KneeStealer
Mandibuladel5555 vs Punny
Giannis Antetokommo-o vs Ryuuji
localdealerr vs Skarph
yovan33321 vs OreoSpeedruns
tlenit vs Finchinator
SpaceSpeakers vs Tenebricite
byulharang vs zS
gorex vs AtraX Madara
Webwyane vs Concept Everything
swag god vs Beraldo
RaJ.Shoot vs skimmythegod
ProDigeZz vs Éric
DAHLI vs The Strap
MOHAMEDALL vs GXE
Undefeated Alt vs Aurora
Enzonana. vs RichardMillePlain
Elfuseon vs Medeia
So Noisy vs A Welcome Guest
Booty vs Sificon
Mihowk vs Archie034
Athena's Myth vs Mercupty
DugZa vs ZoroDark
Brammi vs fade
eifo vs Frito
KanzakiHAria vs egalvanc
Hasbxm vs Kaboom
bydy vs Quartosa
Ether21 vs LORD SAGIS
Lady Salamence vs Magician
Blue YM vs MTB
Gene Sp vs Farce Of The Death
corvere vs QuinnXD
IoSonoNeon vs Tails72
Arcanine1929 vs BaddyGames
Nael222 vs ImDoneThrowing
Star vs Aurella
Raiza vs entrocefalo
Garay oak vs EternalSnowman
Ainzcrad vs Go greeninja
Trogba Trogba vs Fragments
Jo3y49 vs Icemaster
Lily vs Drookez
MagusZ vs sasha
Baloor vs roxie
Aberforth vs TMM
NHelioX7 vs Ash KetchumGamer
ox04 vs Hiro'
hjj no vs Danny
LpZ vs velvet
Nyx vs 7u9i2
TheFranklin vs mncmt
skierdude101 vs Yves Stone
Micciu vs Luthier
1729is56time vs Chaitanya
Phantom0rion vs Confide
StepC vs phantomclaw8888
Kate vs Zenadark
Evuelf vs Alpha1013
damien the genius vs Hacker
Monai vs Devious flamigo
Eeveeto vs kythr
bb skarm vs artificialdeath
shiloh vs Nat
YasuKe vs tko
gum vs Inder
TPP vs NoahDeKnight
Some Thug vs Sylveon used calm mind
Luispeikou vs TLTK
Opelucid vs Bread Sandwich
LBN vs Mashing
Real FV13 vs EviGaro
robjr vs Yippie
JJ09LIE vs Aurorarul
HCG Toothpaste vs yogo896
kDCA vs Groza
Drifting vs swordstrike
squinn vs Lasen
Wooper Person vs MichaelderBeste2
Mr.Bossaru vs ASKid679
Potatoboybob vs Kev
I'm looking forward to a great tournament, good luck everyone!
Extension deadline is at Wednesday, May 31st at 11:59 PM EDT (GMT-4).
Deadline is at Sunday, June 4th at 11:59 PM EDT (GMT-4).
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