Welcome to the very first seasonal tournament of the 2024 Ubers Tournament Circuit, the ninth edition of the Ubers Winter Seasonal! This seasonal, like other tournaments that compose this year's circuit, will award points towards a general Ubers leaderboard which will ultimately award the 2024 Ubers Ribbon!
Tournament Rules:
- General tournament rules and regulations.
- 2024 Ubers Circuit information.
- Best of three, double elimination.
- This tournament will use the standard SV Ubers banlist, which can be found on Smogon's strategy dex.
- If metagame changes occur during the middle of a round, they will take effect in the subsequent round.
- Battles must take place on Pokemon Showdown! or the SmogTours server
- SV cartridge win conditions are in place; there are no ties.
- Replays are recommended to prevent disputes but are not mandatory unless otherwise stated.
- Species Clause: A player cannot have two Pokemon with the same PokeDex number on his team.
- Evasion Clause: The moves Double Team and Minimize are banned. (No other evasion boosting things are banned).
- OHKO Clause: The moves Horn Drill, Guillotine, Sheer Cold, and Fissure are banned.
- Endless Battle Clause: Anything capable of intentionally creating an endless battle is banned.
- Sleep Clause: Limit one foe put to sleep.
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: The matches must be played on either the Smogtours server or the Main PS! server if both parties agree to that. Other servers are not sanctioned by the host(s) and playing in them might result in your game not counting. Protect yourself from that by playing on Smogtours.
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
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, redo the battle with the same teams but different moves, or redo the battle with completely different teams. 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.
Scheduling
Use VMs to schedule with your opponent to make it easier for me to track activity calls when needed, and use this guide to ensure you don't lose via activity or coinflip. If you use other methods to contact your opponent outside of VMs, then post in this thread confirming you're in contact with your opponent; otherwise, it's not necessary. Extensions for those with time conflicts will only be given when proof is provided of scheduling with their opponent in the beginning of the round, so do not schedule last minute expecting to be compensated in case of timezone conflicts or be given an activity win over your opponent.
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.
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: The matches must be played on either the Smogtours server or the Main PS! server if both parties agree to that. Other servers are not sanctioned by the host(s) and playing in them might result in your game not counting. Protect yourself from that by playing on Smogtours.
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
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, redo the battle with the same teams but different moves, or redo the battle with completely different teams. 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.
Scheduling
Use VMs to schedule with your opponent to make it easier for me to track activity calls when needed, and use this guide to ensure you don't lose via activity or coinflip. If you use other methods to contact your opponent outside of VMs, then post in this thread confirming you're in contact with your opponent; otherwise, it's not necessary. Extensions for those with time conflicts will only be given when proof is provided of scheduling with their opponent in the beginning of the round, so do not schedule last minute expecting to be compensated in case of timezone conflicts or be given an activity win over your opponent.
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 are expected to know and follow all general tournament rules.
VMs are the only thing that matter for activity. Use this guide to ensure you don't lose via activity or coinflip.
Round One
Inder vs Rhmsitb
King Billu vs Bassai Dai
Monai vs Exiline
ToasterBoi420 vs el poeta
FadedCharm vs KeshBa54
Mashin Sentai vs lepton
C0nfiden1 0yster vs RL
Aberforth vs skimmythegod
Ainzcrad vs Nowh
Arcanine1929 vs havocknight
ToastedBunzzz02 vs Seraphz
TDR vs Farce Of The Death
Joya vs Lasen
shadowtime2000 vs Dark Shion
Drud vs Nashrock
Terracotta vs Durk27
Danny vs KeldeoCrowned
Mister Magnus vs 1729is56time
RichardMillePlain vs Squeeby
MTB vs Shuwri
ShamylSA vs Magician
Rubiaa vs Wamr
Melbelle vs wjq
TheRealBigC vs Frito
NHelioX7 vs Yippie
Mister McLovin vs Tiagus
Fardin vs LBN
tMoi vs Career Ended
dex vs Concept Everything
sayyonara vs entrocefalo
DaviDXrt vs roxie
DeCurry vs i am a mcrib
Eledyr vs Trade
Arvinraj K III C vs s7a
Huntu vs byulharang
avarice vs Expulso
Foufakirby vs OreoSpeedruns
The White Room vs realaccountami?
txitxas vs Skyiew
Edgar vs OranBerryBlissey10
Estuardo19 vs giove97
Fc vs corvere
Irella vs Beleth
Zerotti vs Kate
Raph369 vs The Strap
Manaphy vs aurora
yovan33321 vs etern
Mada vs LillianOfficial
skierdude101 vs Zesty43
NDK vs LpZ
JojenReed vs Taka
Staxi vs HaxxSel
SiTuM vs Colteor
Ara vs drakey
DAHLI vs Baddy
Lightniong vs feen
fish anemometer vs hs
naere vs wesh papillon
temp vs Airi
IoSonoNeon vs Nowelle
pichus vs Welli0u
velvet vs BrunnoGreen
Alpha1013 vs Evuelf
Nyx vs GeniusFromHoenn
The deadline for this round is Sunday, January 21st at 11:59 PM GMT-5
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