Welcome to the third iteration of the Flying Economy tour! This was inspired by a tournament who's name the sands of time took from my mind. This is a Type C tournament that will be included in the 2023 Ubers Tournament Circuit. It's a standard SV Ubers tour but there's a stipulation - you have to manage a budget! Players are given 50 points with which to construct a team, while the price of each Pokemon is dictated by their position in the Viability Rankings at the start of each round. In the event that the Viability Rankings are updated mid-week, the Viability Rankings as they were at the beginning of the round will be used which will be linked in the OP of said round!
The prices for Pokemon selection go as follows:
- S Rank cost 18 points
- A+ to A Rank cost 12 points
- A- Rank cost 11 points
- B+ to B Rank cost 8 points
- B- Rank cost 7 points
- C+ Rank cost 5 points
- C Rank cost 4 points
- C- Rank cost 3 points
- D Rank cost 2 points
- Unranked cost 1 point
- This is a standard SV Ubers tournament
- Matches are to be played on Pokemon Showdown!, preferably on the smogtours server.
- This tournament will be Single Elimination.
- All rounds will be Best of One.
- Because of the nature of the tour, Replays are Mandatory.
- Any eventual tier changes will only take effect in the following round.
- 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
- SleepTrap Clause: A Pokemon cannot use a move that can inflict sleep status on the opponent if it has the ability Shadow Tag.
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: The matches must be played on either the Smogtours server or the Main PS! server if both parties agree to that. Other servers are not sanctioned by the host(s) and playing in them might result in your game not counting. Protect yourself from that by playing on Smogtours.
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
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.
Scheduling
Use VMs to schedule with your opponent to make it easier for me to track activity calls when needed, and use this guide to ensure you don't lose via activity or coinflip. If you use other methods to contact your opponent outside of VMs, then post in this thread confirming you're in contact with your opponent; otherwise, it's not necessary. Extensions for those with time conflicts will only be given when proof is provided of scheduling with their opponent in the beginning of the round, so do not schedule last minute expecting to be compensated in case of timezone conflicts or be given an activity win over your opponent.
I know that was a lot to read, but it is all necessary for me to have posted here so everyone can see it in the case of a dispute. I don't want any confusion or any problems.
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: The matches must be played on either the Smogtours server or the Main PS! server if both parties agree to that. Other servers are not sanctioned by the host(s) and playing in them might result in your game not counting. Protect yourself from that by playing on Smogtours.
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
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.
Scheduling
Use VMs to schedule with your opponent to make it easier for me to track activity calls when needed, and use this guide to ensure you don't lose via activity or coinflip. If you use other methods to contact your opponent outside of VMs, then post in this thread confirming you're in contact with your opponent; otherwise, it's not necessary. Extensions for those with time conflicts will only be given when proof is provided of scheduling with their opponent in the beginning of the round, so do not schedule last minute expecting to be compensated in case of timezone conflicts or be given an activity win over your opponent.
I know that was a lot to read, but it is all necessary for me to have posted here so everyone can see it in the case of a dispute. I don't want any confusion or any problems.
Tour Specific Rules:
- Use of a team that exceeds the given budget will result in a game loss for that player.
Round 1
s7a vs TrainerPla
hidin vs TDR
temp vs Aberforth
7u9i2 vs memedose46
Concept Everything vs Inder
Manaphy vs The White Room
Prikki vs Warucario
Perry vs Royal1604
DKM vs Shuwri
Nyx vs RichardMillePlain
Beraldo vs GeniusFromHoenn
Terracotta vs byulharang
Icemaster vs tMoi
Totally_Odette vs Dark Shion
yovan33321 vs skimmythegod
BijouMode vs YasuKe
bydy vs King Billu
artificialdeath vs LBN
Fc vs SiTuM
OreoSpeedruns vs entrocefalo
Ruby4 vs Ainzcrad
shadowtime2000 vs Bye 1
Xr_Kartana vs Bye 2
Taka vs Bye 3
Mister McLovin vs Kate
realaccountami? vs Bye 5
Melbelle vs Bye 6
Hats vs Bye 7
S-Matrix vs Bye 8
TPP vs Bye 9
1729is56time vs Bye 10
8142e33 vs Bye 11
Deadline for this round is 11:59pm on the 10th September, GMT-4.
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