Tournament Rules:
- General tournament rules and regulations can be found here.
- Replays are mandatory for this tournament and must be posted! It is recommended to play on the Smogon Tournaments server due to its ability to automatically save replays. Failure to do so will result in games having to be replayed.
- All series played will be a best of five with the higher seed choosing the first metagame out of the following: USM, ORAS, BW2, DPP, and ADV. The loser of that game will then pick the next tier, and so on until the series is complete. Be aware that metagames cannot be repeated during a series!
- Matches are to be played on Pokemon Showdown! (smogtours take priority over main, unless there's an issue on smogtours making it not feasible to play - in that case, playing on main is acceptable)
- Do not make baseless activity posts, get in contact with your opponent and report missed times / scheduling issues only.
- Standard clauses apply.
- All the usual Smogon rules regarding activity, timer, disconnection, and cheating rules apply.
- Species Clause: A player cannot have two Pokemon with the same PokeDex number on his team.
- Evasion Clause: Evasion Clause: The moves Double Team and Minimize are banned. (No other evasion boosting things are banned). The exception to this is BW Ubers
- 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
- SleepTrap Clause: A Pokemon cannot use a move that can inflict sleep status on the opponent if it has the ability Shadow Tag.
- Rayquaza is not permitted to Mega Evolve.
- The move Baton Pass is banned.
- 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.
- Moody Clause
- Sleep Clause
- Swagger Clause: Swagger is banned
- SleepTrap Clause: A Pokemon cannot use a move that can inflict sleep status on the opponent if it has the ability Shadow Tag.
- Rayquaza is not permitted to Mega Evolve.
- Sleep Clause Mod: Limit one foe put to sleep
- Species Clause: Limit one of each Pokémon
- Moody Clause: Moody is banned
- Evasion Moves Clause: Evasion moves are banned
- OHKO Clause: OHKO moves are banned
- Endless Battle Clause: Forcing endless battles is banned
- 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
- Arceus is banned
- Sleep Clause Mod: Limit one foe put to sleep
- Species Clause: Limit one of each Pokémon
- OHKO Clause: OHKO moves are banned
- Evasion Moves Clause: Evasion moves are banned
- Endless Battle Clause: Forcing endless battles is banned
- Wobbuffet / Wynaut + Leftovers is banned
Tiebreak
Due to a tie between 6 players for 4 spots in playoffs, after consulting the TD team, the format of the tiebreak will be as follow :
Round 1:
The players face each other based on their seeding. The seeding is determined (in this order) by : the points, the winrate, the deepest run in a cup, the size of the tournament of the deepest run, and repeat for every successive cups if needed. The winners are qualified for the playoffs.
Round 2:
Losers of Round 1 face each others in a round robin. The winner is qualified for the playoffs.
Round 1:
Lacus Clyne vs FadedCharm
March Fires vs Wamr
LBN vs RichardMillePlain
The deadline for Round 1 is Sunday, May 19th @ 10:59 PM GMT+2.
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