Welcome to the eleventh iteration of the NU Open, hosted by Kris! Almost a year has passed since S1nn0hC0nfirm3d emerged victorious over TeamCharm and Charmflash to close out a thrilling tournament. Who will win this year? Let's find out!
Tournament Rules:
- General tournament rules and regulations can be found here.
- Grand Slam rules can be found here.
- Standard SS NU.
- Best-of-three, single elimination.
- Battles should take place on Pokemon Showdown!
- SS 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, not to be turned off even in the case of a player disconnecting as we now have a separate disconnection timer (more details here). The timer may not be turned off in any 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, not to be turned off even in the case of a player disconnecting as we now have a separate disconnection timer (more details here). The timer may not be turned off in any 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
- 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 a wide selection of times 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 atrocious behavior, 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.
Good luck to all competitors!
Round 1
FrostPixel vs CelienneileC
Luthier vs TDNT
Sjneider vs swordstrike
Eulelp vs giove97
MagearnaTheBoss vs Meru
Baloor vs jcbc
velvet vs Sage
EternalSnowman vs Davon
bydy vs Ashbala
weakermaker vs Malekith
TDK vs Tarrembeau
Jordy004 vs 5Dots
BoomBoomBoo vs Xiri
RampageWebber vs IRazvannN
Toadow vs potato14798
Brexus vs Laurel
temp vs Punny
KM vs Noxey
SpacialRendevous vs UnzipsCrogre
Mendeez vs Welli0u
StitChuu vs pattek
Bushtush vs SimonBoi
Squash vs Leo
Feliburn vs rom1x38
Danny vs Marshall.Law
Expulso vs zioziotrip
blittius vs Thiago Nunes
dahli vs Heart Doom
Parpar vs elodin
Snak vs Shogeki
Armada vs pinorska
eifo vs Lucario
Zenadark vs yovan33321
Kenix vs Garay oak
InfernoDragon vs Nineage
frisoeva vs xander073
Elfuseon vs BlazingDark
Charmflash vs Phantomistix
neomon vs JuanSG
Bag of Trixx vs ProDigeZz
Alkione vs Scottie
Blimax vs halaman95
chlo vs etern
Fille vs Daruma
Kev vs decis
TheFranklin vs pokemonisfun
Corazan vs egalvanc
Quartosa vs Mr.Bossaru
Spl4sh vs GoldCat
Nael222 vs zben
ToastedBunzzz02 vs Oathkeeper
turtledoggo1 vs inaccufade
airfare vs StarFalcon555
Drud vs Crunchman
Aberforth vs Tenebricite
John1240 vs Void
Estarossa vs EviGaro
Fruitdealer vs OnArceus
Star vs TJ
Aurora vs Tuthur
monchooo vs txitxas
Heika vs Eonito
Beraldinho vs ACR1
Moutemoute vs Skilpad
bulufan14 vs robjr
Yves Stone vs Askov
Roseybear vs Minimizing
bb skarm vs Stareal
Kink vs maroon
Froggy vs London Beats
bruno vs Mihowk
Finchinator vs Attack on Samurott
64 Squares vs KSr
King Billu vs Feaniix
Quiche Nuts Gandhi vs roxiee
xujing691691 vs mj
Xenqt vs TGA
hariyana grande vs trace
Inder vs august
kythr vs Baoba
Revenge Killer vs OranBerryBlissey10
Poek vs aim
vani vs Mike Cometa
tazz vs Fakee
Goblin vs ninjadog
the pharoah vs Permission Slip
The Strap vs Pepeduce
jonfilch vs Skeltzy
azogue vs Meri Berry
TPP vs TeamCharm
afakedugong vs ShloopNoop
KJLX vs TonyFlygon
pdt vs Banbadoro
Fc vs gum
TheAprilFool vs WMAR
Fant'sy Beast vs crying
DugZa vs RaJ.Shoot
Eeveeto vs javitu
TectonicDestroyer vs Micciu
mael vs Togkey
Aliss vs Monai
AzZoCcX vs Ara ara
false vs Ninja
Miss Novelist vs Luigi
GW vs banks
Sificon vs avarice
mentalsoft vs Confide
Lunala vs Rhmsitb
Chaitanya vs Surfy
zS vs beatiful
QWILY vs Goat Heart ♥
Elias PSY vs S1nn0hC0nfirm3d
omi vs Freezerman
SoulWind vs Lyss
AmericanPi vs Dflo
HikariNR vs freezai
GXE vs Proszz
itsjustdrew vs dunoks
Raichy vs Roginald
Lily vs Call me PK
snaga vs Excal
Vulpix03 vs Ryuji-Sempai
Quantum Tesseract vs Shiba
Draphirion vs MichaelderBeste2
Sabella vs
TheKingKarp vs HeroicTobias
Corperate n
Floss
Luck O' the Irish
Enzonana.
fujitive
Hockey1
Ouroboro
Guille14
Kerthwack
cy
Ruby.
Kirigakure
Rubyblood
luisin
LJDarkrai
TLTK
Zesty43
GBlaze
shiloh
xavgb
NHelioX7
gorex
HSA
Wabane
Luna's Banned now
PinguGamer1
DerpyBoi
scorbunnys
termi
Axelsior
outbackrabbit
MatLaTomate
Ampha
poh
Reddo161
Royal1604
jonas
zee
Melle2402
Xerche
Yokago
Dlanyer
GotCookies
KarliTheFrenshie
julian113
queso
Perry
Jhonx~
nishikino kotori
The deadline for Round 1 is Sunday, April 10th at 11:59 PM EDT (GMT-4).
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