PU PU Fall Seasonal : Round 8 (POST/PM REPLAYS)

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Welcome to the first SM PU Seasonal! These seasonals will be part of the PU Circuit. Entering in this seasonal earns you points for an overall PU leaderboard.

Specific Rules:
  • This is a standard USUM PU tournament.
  • This tournament will be a double elimination tournament.
  • If you drop out of the tournament immediately after losing in winner's bracket, you will be banned from future PU circuit tournaments, and potentially risk being infracted.
  • All rounds will be best of three.
  • Matches are to be played on Pokemon Showdown!.
  • To encourage the development of the metagame, and so that everyone is on an even playing field, all matches must have replays recorded. If neither player posts replays of the match, regardless of whether you confirm that your opponent won, your series will be coinflipped unless you can provide replays. We will not disqualify both players, but we will coinflip the series, not because we don't believe that you played, but because the replay rule ensures everyone is on an even playing field, as stated.
  • PU is a usage based tier. Essentially you can use anything that is not in a higher tier; NU effectively serves as the PU banlist. However, there are several Pokemon and one move banned from PU which are not in NU or a higher tier; aka BL4.
Standard Rules and Clauses
  • Species Clause: A player cannot have two Pokemon with the same PokeDex number on his team.
  • Sleep Clause: You cannot inflict sleep upon more than one member of the opposing team.
  • Evasion Clause: The moves Double Team and Minimize 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.
General Tournament Rules:

  • Identity: I expect many battles to be completed under alts. This can be bad for tournament security, and thus I will make this clear: If I hear any whispers of identity theft (battling as someone you are not) or proxy battling (helping someone else battle through pm) I will not be pleased and I will take severe actions.
  • Scouting: Next, I do not want to hear anything about counterteaming, at all. Do not complain about it. I also don't want to hear about any blatant scouting. There is a difference between "[user] is known for using stall" and "let me follow [user] around all day to watch all his battles since I am his opponent". I expect a lot of the former and none of the latter. I give permission to all battlers to ask any person spectating their battle to leave if they do not want them watching. Everyone will have access to your replays from earlier rounds though.
  • 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.


Winner's Bracket:

Teddeh vs Arifeen
amber lamps vs Arcobaleno
HJAD vs Robert Alfons
Megazard vs zugubu royale

Loser's Bracket:

jklioe vs Many
Jason Genova vs Dundies
Taskr vs TSR
5gen vs Raiza

Deadline

Tuesday December 26th since Monday is Christmas, giving extra 2 days to get matches done.
 
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Predictions (by the way props to everyone who has made it thus far; you should all feel proud)

Winner's Bracket:
Teddeh vs Arifeen Both are extremely solid players but I think Teddeh will outedge Arifeen if he adequately prepares.
amber lamps vs Arcobaleno idk Acrobaleno, but amberlamps is pretty good.
HJAD vs Robert Alfons What was the name of Alfon's PUPL team again? I can't remember. But seriously I think HJAD just has a stronger grip on the metagame.
Megazard vs zugubu royale I'm predicting Megazard to win Winner's Bracket and the seasonal.

Loser's Bracket:
jklioe vs Many I'm predicting jklioe to win the Loser's Bracket #comebackkid
Jason Genova vs Dundies super cute
Taskr vs TSR also super cute
5gen vs Raiza Toughest matchup to call but I think Raiza is slightly better + he has Italian advantage so...
 
Requesting an extension for taskr and I, I couldn't open my browser with all my teams yesterday and we're gonna need to wait till Tuesday for another good time to play
 

ManOfMany

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jklioe and I will probably need an extension, as he was busy until the weekend and we've both been busy during the holidays.
 
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