- General tournament rules and regulations can be found here.
- Grand Slam rules can be found here.
- Standard SM RU.
- Best-of-three, single elimination.
- Battles should take place on Pokemon Showdown!
- SM 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 (keep in mind that this is a interim solution while we wait on PS! developers). 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 (keep in mind that this is a interim solution while we wait on PS! developers). 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.
Battle Clauses:
- 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.
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Djokra vs Staxi
Chrisloud1 vs Maskun
El Paraflinch vs Mysterious M
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Twixtry vs felixffzz07
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Sjneider vs dingbat
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hjkhj vs Tamotoji Ryuu
Ajna vs Accelgor
Manipulative vs HarrisIsAwesome
Lord PRXTTY FLVXKO vs RedEmption
Confide vs Gasus
double switches vs Sneakers
Roseybear vs A Hero's Destiny
Ren-chon vs kythr
ara vs (Alpha Rabbit vs Mix )
Eternally vs MJ
jasprose vs FLCL
Sl33ves vs (Groudon vs freakydood )
Akashi vs Hogg
Raiza vs Pearl
scald vs Luigi
elodin vs outbackrabbit
soTsoT vs (Mike Cometa vs Snowy )
Sceptilite vs Baica
Alfredo_Rivero vs Necrozma
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Stan Soojung vs Robert Alfons
Abyssal Ruins vs liptonic
(Zebes vs Malekith ) vs Ganso
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Luthier vs naruto(sage)
GR3Y vs LordST
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Pohjis vs Sabella
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Finchinator vs Diophantine
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Amphareixon vs Dark Shion
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Skelos vs TogliBabineBoeuf
King Wynaut vs Sir Isaac Mewton
Blitzburgh vs philisteen
StepC vs( Slowbrosky vs Lfrs )
"fire dragon" LENNY vs SMB
(Sir Slaking vs Ming549 ) vs trash
Kingofcrimea vs zben
lax vs Soldier
Many vs Trap
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Heart Doom vs Gunner Rohan
shiloh vs Chill Shadow
M Rodrigues vs Guprei
UltraBallz vs Akaru Kokuyo
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IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENTS
Deadline is August 6th, 9:00am (GMT -4)
Extension deadline is August 2nd, 12:00pm (GMT -4)
GAMES SHOULD BE PLAYED IN OU TO ACCOUNT FOR ENTEI BEING BANNED FROM THE RU TIER, AS IT'S STILL USABLE THIS ROUND.
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