Welcome everyone to the 2nd round of the 11th iteration of the RU Open!
Tournament Rules:
- General tournament rules and regulations can be found here.
- Grand Slam rules can be found here.
- Standard SS RU.
- 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.
Battle Clauses:
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 will be handled strictly.
- When scheduling, offer a wide swathe of available times 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.
Feel free to contact me or a tournament director if you have any questions regarding this tournament (or Grand Slam in general).
Round 2:
Charmflash vs Squash
mentalsoft vs weakermaker
Stareal vs toinha
GBlaze vs The Strap
C0nfiden1 0yster vs RampageWebber
afakedugong vs Fruitdealer
avarice vs airfare
DugZa vs EternalSnowman
turtledoggo1 vs pannuracotta
PokemonCestDur vs Chaitanya
Infinite Misery vs StuffedRavioli
mixwell vs umbry
swordstrike vs Oathkeeper
Gray vs frisoeva
ProDigeZz vs Sabella
Excal vs Lyss
monchooo vs Toadow
cy vs HSA
Corazan vs TheFranklin
roxiee vs azogue
Thiago Nunes vs RaJ.Shoot
Limpy Lucario vs Draphirion
Royal1604 vs udongirl
Ampha vs PA
Poek vs 7u9i2
itsjustdrew vs DuGuo
HaxxSel vs StitChuu
lighthouses vs KeldeoCrowned
Perry vs Clementine
termi vs Waylaid
mj vs GXE
Ashbala vs Vulpix03
Malekith vs Beraldinho
Feen vs velvet
yovan33321 vs NHelioX7
BoomBoomBoo vs blittius
jonfilch vs Exiline
TDK vs Floss
Surfy vs ninjadog
Guille14 vs Inder
KM vs Feliburn
xavgb vs dunoks
Heni-san vs MatLaTomate
DerpyBoi vs Bushtush
Bruno de Lucas vs TLTK
Rubyblood vs Kev
Luna's Banned now vs Fakee
elodin vs Confide
Corperate n vs gum
aim vs Estarossa
Crunchman vs Aliss
zS vs Moutemoute
Luthier vs Luigi
Pepeduce vs TheAprilFool
Shiba vs JuanSG
Ninja vs SoulWind
Alkione vs robjr
ToastedBunzzz02 vs Nineage
javitu vs Lasen
mael vs Lily
NEON_Voyager vs Aberforth
Void vs giove97
QuinnXD vs Kate
PermaSnow vs BlazingDark
TonyFlygon vs Star
Yay vs TDNT
Danny vs Goblin
Spl4sh vs Chaos23333
jcbc vs Axrtix
luisin vs Elfuseon
hariyana grande vs Marshall.Law
Pataozinho vs tazz
Scottie vs Blui
crying vs Punny
TJ vs Finchinator
Fc vs Askov
xujing691691 vs Mendeez
xray vs Mac3
Masskeau vs bruno
martinvtran vs Sage
bb skarm vs MagearnaTheBoss
Blimax vs Heart Doom
eifo vs daunt vs
Eeveeto vs 64 Squares
skimmythegod vs LNumbers
Garay oak vs Ouroboro
Meru vs Kenix
Laurel vs HeroicTobias
banks vs Alpha Rabbit
Kink vs bulufan14
kythr vs Dlanyer
temp vs MichaelderBeste2
Daruma vs Raichy
Xenqt vs snaga
secretguy63 vs Bye 1
pdt vs Bye 2
Deadline for this round is Sunday, April 10th, at 11:59 PM EDT (GMT -4). Extensions have until the end of the day on Wednesday, April 7th.
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