The UU Open VI - Semifinals!

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If you guys ever find yourselves losing motivation, remember to let me know whenever you're playing so I can summon my goons to gas your shit up​

Tournament Rules:
  • General tournament rules and regulations can be found here.
  • Grand Slam rules can be found here.
  • Standard SM UU.
  • Best of three, single elimination.
  • Battles should take place on Pokemon Showdown!
  • SM cartridge win conditions are in place, there are no ties.
  • Tiers are locked at the beginning of each round.
Identity

I expect many battles to be completed under alts and I expect many battles to be completed on other servers to prevent scouting. These kind of factors are pretty 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. It is the silliest thing I have ever heard, any battler worth their marbles has more than one team. Do not complain about it. I also don't want to hear about any forceful scouting, whether it be spying on another teams irc channel or following your opponent around on PO. There is a difference between "ipl is known for using stall" and "let me follow ipl 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.

With that said, I give permission to all battlers to ask any person spectating their battle to leave if they do not want them watching. However, given the fact that this is the big stage, I am sure a lot of people want to watch, so don't be too mean.

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. Timing out is still classified as a loss, unless the reason for timing out is a disconnection. If there is any suspicion that a disconnect was carried out deliberately to take advantage of this rule in any way, we reserve the right to exercise a harsh punishment.

Disconnections

If a player disconnects and either player contends that they could still win, the optimal solution is to recreate the exact situation the disconnection occurred at during the battle. If it is agreed between players that this is not feasible due to unreasonable battle length, highly improbable circumstances, or some other reason, the player who did not disconnect may choose to rematch with either the same teams or (the option to use) new teams. Timing out is still classified as a loss, unless the reason for timing out is a disconnection. If there is any suspicion that a disconnect was carried out deliberately to take advantage of this rule in any way, we reserve the right to exercise a harsh punishment. Do not do it.

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.

Battle Clauses:
  • Evasion Clause
  • OHKO Clause
  • Sleep Clause
  • Species Clause
  • Timed Battle
  • Team Preview

General recommendations (formerly known as teal6's Specific Hosting Rules, which I'm shamelessly stealing and including in the OP due to the his status as Smogon's former Head Tournament Director ;_;):
  • 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 as wide a swathe of time 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 nefarious play, 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.

Semifinals!

Sacri' vs. Level 56
FLCL vs. (winner of A Hero's Destiny vs. Tricking)

Deadline is September 17 11:59 PM EDT

The most recent tier shifts will be in effect for the last two rounds of this tournament. However, Hoopa-Unbound, Mega Gallade and Mega Heracross have been quickbanned and cannot be used. Prepare accordingly, competitors!
 
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Freeroamer

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Sacri' vs. Level 56
FLCL vs. (winner of A Hero's Destiny vs. Tricking)

Would be cool to see replays of these games seeing as we're so far into the tour and these games are in the new tier with all the shifts!
 

Euphonos

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>inb4 Sacri' vs. FLCL

Though I wouldn't discredit A Hero's Destiny and Level 56; anything can happen either way!
 

teal6

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The hiding shit, IMO, is getting ridiculous. This isn't 2008 where people can win OST with two teams, it's a spectator sport now - half the appeal is the community being able to analyze and enjoy the matches.
 

Sacri'

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i get l56 wanted to hide the games, but come on, why would you modjoin games in the semifinals of one of smogons biggest ever tournaments? D:!
The hiding shit, IMO, is getting ridiculous. This isn't 2008 where people can win OST with two teams, it's a spectator sport now - half the appeal is the community being able to analyze and enjoy the matches.
Honestly I was just eager to get the games done and didnt want to start arguing with him when I consider him as a friend. Still, I would like to apologize to everyone who wanted to catch the games live, wont happen in the future.
 

Level 56

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Apologies to everyone, really wasn't a smart decision by me. I'll try my best to avoid this kind of thing in the future.

ggs wp sacri and good luck in final n_n

Thanks to dodmen / ict / hogg for the teams / help. Really enjoyed playing uu throughout this tour
 
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