The Draft League Winter Seasonal is part of the 2024 Draft League Circuit and will provide points toward this year's Draft League Championship. This tournament is a Type A tournament and will be hosted by Theia and olivia. This tournament will take place in the [Gen 9] Tera Preview Draft tier on Pokémon Showdown! and battles will take place in a swiss style bracket.
The following spoilers will cover the rules for the tournament.
- You have up to 90 points with which to draft 8 Pokémon. Costs are listed on your pool’s tab on the drafting spreadsheet.
- If a Pokémon is picked by someone else, you may not pick it.
- For the first round, there is a 12 hour timer. After the first round ends, there will be a continuous 6 hour timer within which you must pick, or you will be skipped, and will be required to make-up your pick when you are next online. All timers are off between 10pm-7am local time (check your pools pinned message for local time).
- Your timer will halve every time you are skipped. It is recommended to leave picks (with backups) with your pool moderator to avoid this.
- Once the draft is over, you must declare two Tera Captains totalling equal to or less than 25 points. These are the only Pokémon on your draft that may terastalise.
- The following complex ban is in place:
- No Pokémon may use the move Last Respects - The following Pokémon may not be Tera-Captains:
- Baxcalibur
- Blaziken
- Chi-Yu
- Darkrai
- Dragonite
- Enamorus-Incarnate
- Garchomp
- Gouging Fire
- Iron Boulder
- Iron Bundle
- Iron Valiant
- Kyurem
- Latios
- Necrozma
- Ogerpon-Hearthflame
- Palafin 
- Roaring Moon
- Sneasler
- Terapagos
- Ursaluna-Bloodmoon
- Urshifu-Single-Strike
- The following Pokémon have access to all of their forms (although you may only bring up to 1 to each battle):
- Pikachu
- Basculin 
- Oricorio 
- Toxtricity 
- Indeedee 
- Basculegion 
- Oinkologne 
- Squawkabilly 
- Tatsugiri 
- Meowstic 
- If a Pokémon that is available in SV is untiered, please ask a host.
- Smogon’s Species Clause applies to your draft.
- All games must be played in the [Gen 9] Tera Preview Draft tier on smogtours.psim.us or psim.us. Be aware that each game on smogtours starts a timer automatically and cannot be turned off.
- General tournament rules and regulations can be found here.
- SV cartridge win conditions are in place; there are no ties.
- Each set is a best-of-one set.
- The following clauses apply:
- Species Clause: A player cannot have two Pokémon with the same National Pokédex number on a team.
- Sleep Clause: If a player has already put a Pokémon on their opponent's side to sleep and it is still sleeping, another one can't be put to sleep.
- Evasion Clause: A Pokémon may not hold an item, use a move or possess an ability that can increase their evasion stat
- OHKO Clause: A Pokémon may not have the moves Fissure, Guillotine, Horn Drill, or Sheer Cold in its moveset.
- Moody Clause: A team cannot have a Pokémon with the ability Moody.
- Endless Battle Clause: Players cannot intentionally prevent an opponent from being able to end the game without forfeiting.
- Baton Pass Clause: A Pokémon may not have Baton Pass in its moveset. - Quick claw and king's rock are banned.
- Any items unreleased in SV are banned.
- Rankings within swiss may not be 100% accurate as the spreadsheet does not track head-to-head results. Players are ranked based on the following criteria: most wins, resistance, head-to-head, battle differential.
- Replays must be posted to the round thread, please mention the result, your opponent's name and your pool number.
About Activity Decisions
Activity Decisions / Coin Flips: In the event that there is an uncompleted match at the deadline, and an extension has not been requested, it will be coin flipped unless one or both of the players involved in the match specifically request an activity win and explain sufficiently why they deserve to win over their opponent. Attempting to schedule a battle is required in order to receive the win by activity. To make it clear that you are requesting an activity win when you post, you must open your post with "Activity Win Request" in bold.
For example, if you believe your opponent is making an unfair request and that they don't deserve the activity win over you, you can either make your own request or quote their post and explain why they don't deserve it. You should try to make your activity win request posts at least 24 hours before the deadline to give your opponent a reasonable opportunity to contest it with their own activity win request.
Please note that all extension requests and activity claims must be posted to the thread, and that all of these will be judged on a case by case basis.
The deadline for all extension requests is Thursday, 29th February, at 23:59, GMT-5. Any requests submitted after this deadline will not be considered.
Activity Decisions / Coin Flips: In the event that there is an uncompleted match at the deadline, and an extension has not been requested, it will be coin flipped unless one or both of the players involved in the match specifically request an activity win and explain sufficiently why they deserve to win over their opponent. Attempting to schedule a battle is required in order to receive the win by activity. To make it clear that you are requesting an activity win when you post, you must open your post with "Activity Win Request" in bold.
For example, if you believe your opponent is making an unfair request and that they don't deserve the activity win over you, you can either make your own request or quote their post and explain why they don't deserve it. You should try to make your activity win request posts at least 24 hours before the deadline to give your opponent a reasonable opportunity to contest it with their own activity win request.
Please note that all extension requests and activity claims must be posted to the thread, and that all of these will be judged on a case by case basis.
The deadline for all extension requests is Thursday, 29th February, at 23:59, GMT-5. Any requests submitted after this deadline will not be considered.
Draft matchups can be found at: https://spo.ink/winter_seasonal_2024_matchups
Round 7
6-0
gorex vs ComputerWhiz
vinithewini vs blittius
crow crumbs vs Baddy
ultraplayer vs twig___
5-1
TanyaTK vs LatiGOD
Battlestorm vs One Take or Die
Harv vs doogalhh
PaperRuby vs P is For Penguin
not mishmesh vs Elgino
GoldenCyber vs Sylveon used calm mind
enoelr vs Gengar_Mask
M4ikoOffThePerc vs GammaGoGamma
ThinkingSceptile vs Nalaa
ElevatedGodlynessOfficial vs SkyhorseTamer
Vholtninja vs TheFallenShooriken
scionicle vs Big Pharma
nunogomes21 vs ExtremeHD
P2gyorg vs pkcc
Swagata Mitra vs henguinie
Xiphactin vs sufys
empoleon9000 vs sablolol
amyayayy vs hedja
jscurf2 vs BidoofGangsta
4-2
corvere vs chi yu later
Gryoine vs aleyx2
Baws381 vs Hacker
MysticNyan vs Fierce Flamethrower
EviGaro vs GamerOfTheYear2020
rray vs Nayjar
thatsprison vs Diviniya
AgencyIsOwn vs DiamondScyther
Deranged_Lime vs Trogba Trogba
velvet vs GeniusX
Nuxl vs a12qsd too
Stefaan vs nelluc
thunderbug vs SoggyDoggySage
HyperTM vs Msousagamer
Mana vs ZDen
Juicyjaguar vs attcris
Shadow of Roserade vs stopduckabuse
SlickPanther vs Babyhuey
kaminjaw vs Fabio_59
Taye101 vs IMCOOKiNG
USN vs Ryan&Ditto
Estarossa vs Golden Warrior
Kaveh's Hoe vs FaultierChunk60
Lupla vs Tjb145
robjr vs Flapple1
Vish_1806 vs WombatBaby
Pampey vs 7_0_7
random_goodness vs VoidOfDarknesss
LeoRegulus224 vs Mister McLovin
entrocefalo vs Almighty Rye
KingofKrook vs DustyEskimo
feen vs JRoberts
Lucas2543 vs darkster
Batzi vs aagarocks
vengabenga vs Fauxtrot
Jadinobambino vs Ac130gaming
Mihowk vs Lizardu''
powergo1 vs TheMutantSpaceDancer
Star vs PokeDestined99
Hamish150 vs Kinetic
Nox was taken vs The Hitman
E Man vs Rasche
Gwanian vs vmnunes
Jordy004 vs HisuAvalugg
Lennart vs BigTimeBrownie
Sir.dee vs Roller K
Cureja vs JeoZ
Spcplayzz vs tommy1066
Axel The Flygon vs grookeygaang
REPLAYS ARE MANDATORY. POST THEM AS REPLIES TO THIS POST. All tournaments require competitors to submit the Pokepaste used for each battle to Theia via Smogon Forums or Discord DM (Discord ID: neomeris). These teams will be uploaded for use in the Draft Factory tier (not to be uploaded until after the tournament concludes). Failure to send each team you make and battle with may impact your ability to compete in future tournaments.
Here's the challenge command that includes all the teambuilder bans to make it easier for validation. Just paste it in the PMs of your opponent on Smogtours:/chall gen9terapreviewdraft @@@ -Last Respects, -Baton Pass This thread and all future Winter Seasonal threads should be considered the final ruling in case of discrepancy between threads, Discord announcements, and Google spreadsheets. Contact a host if you have any questions or spot an error. We are human, after all.
Activity claims must be posted in this thread.
Replays are mandatory and must be posted in this thread!
The deadline for this round is Sunday, February 25th at 11:59 PM GMT -5.
Replays are mandatory and must be posted in this thread!
The deadline for this round is Sunday, February 25th at 11:59 PM GMT -5.
NEW: The deadline for all extension requests is now Thursday, 29th, February at 23:59, GMT-5. Any requests submitted after this deadline will not be considered.
