In case you haven't heard somehow, Turkey and Syria were recently struck by a massive earthquake, hitting a whopping 7.8 on the Richter scale, alongside a 7.6 aftershock mere hours later. Thousands of civilians have been killed, displaced, or majorly harmed; in an effort to provide relief to those affected, Smogon is going to be hosting its fourth Charity Bowl, this time in Scarlet and Violet OverUsed. This tournament will take place this Sunday, February 19th, at 12PM (noon) EST (GMT -5). We will be raising funds for the Syrian American Medical Society (SAMS) Foundation.
You can join us for this tournament as a participant, or follow the action live on our Twitch streams at twitch.tv/smogonu. Smogon will be raising money via donations throughout the event, so we are encouraging all participants and spectators to donate whatever you can spare. You will be able to donate through Twitch itself in this event when the stream is live. You can also donate right now if you so choose! You can donate at Smogon's Twitch, link here.
FORMAT
The Smogon Charity Bowl will consist of two brackets that will merge into a single bracket from Round Three of the tournament onwards. The tournament will be single elimination, best-of-one. The format will be Scarlet and Violet OU.
Players will be randomly divided into two groups. Each group will play in a live best-of-one tournament, following the same rules and format as the Smogon Tour. From Round 4 onwards, players will play in one bracket.
All games will take place on the official Smogon Tournament server at http://smogtours.psim.us/.
General Smogon Tour rules:
- You must have a Smogon forum account to sign up for this tournament. You cannot participate if you do not post in the signup thread. Proxy signup posts are not allowed.
- When signups for this tour is posted, post as quickly as you can to ensure a place in the tournament. It is up to the discretion of the host on when sign-ups will be closed. On Xenforo (our current forum software), YOUR POST NUMBER IS NOT ALWAYS ACCURATE. Please do not attack the host or on SmogTours if your post number implies you should have been in the tournament and you are not.
- Substitute players will only be applied in the first round and as deemed necessary by the host.
- If you have signed up successfully, you must stay for the entire tournament unless you have lost.
- You may change teams between rounds without penalty. You are, in fact, encouraged to do so to prevent your opponents from knowing your team in advance.
- Do not hassle the host(s) of the current tournament.
- The format is Scarlet and Violet. The current status of the appropriate standard ladder will function as the prevailing tier list. If you have any question about whether a particular Pokemon is banned or not in any particular tier, reference the banlist of the appropriate ladder on PS! with '/tier'. This is not confusing. There will be no exceptions.
- Species Clause: A player cannot have two (2) of the same species of Pokemon on their team, based on National Pokedex number. For example, a player cannot have two Koffing on their team.
- Sleep Clause: A player cannot put two or more different opposing Pokemon to sleep using attacks that induce sleep to opposing Pokemon.
- Evasion Clause: A player cannot increase their Pokemon's evasion stat with a move that specifically increases evasion. Items or indirect boosts do not break this clause.
- OHKO Clause: A player cannot use a move that has a chance of instantly KOing an opposing Pokemon. For example, Horn Drill or Sheer Cold are illegal moves.
- Timer Clause: If a player exhausts the timer, that player loses. SmogTours staff will not turn the timer off in any circumstance.
- Self-KO Clause: If a player uses a recoil move to cause a draw, that player wins. If a player uses Explosion, Selfdestruct, Destiny Bond, or Perish Song to cause a draw, that player loses. If a draw would be caused by a hold item or ability that causes recoil to the opponent, the player that controls the Pokémon with the hold item or ability wins. (This clause helps determine the winner of what would be called a tie in DPP. Later generations do not apply this clause, because their cartridge mechanics will prevent ties from happening.)
- Endless Battle Clause: A player cannot use a combination of items / moves / abilities to force a game that will never end (example: Recycle / Leppa Berry / Heal Pulse, etc).
- Moody Clause: A player can not use the ability Moody.
PRIZES
The winner of the Charity Bowl will receive a prize banner to appear on their Smogon account. In addition, the following Pokemon Showdown prizes are being offered, courtesy of PS! Staff:
- A custom avatar.
- The ability to recolor your PS username.
- The ability to claim an unused PS username.
The prize banner will appear under the user’s custom title and state that they are the winner of the Smogon Charity Bowl. The winner will be allowed to choose from a range of colours.
The custom PS avatar must meet all ordinary rules for custom avatars, and is subject to Marty's approval.
The PS name recolor will allow you to change your PS username color to the color of another account that you own.
Regarding claiming an unused PS username, only names that have not been used for three or more years are eligible to be claimed.
The custom PS avatar must meet all ordinary rules for custom avatars, and is subject to Marty's approval.
The PS name recolor will allow you to change your PS username color to the color of another account that you own.
Regarding claiming an unused PS username, only names that have not been used for three or more years are eligible to be claimed.
DONATIONS
We strongly encourage all entrants to donate at least $5. However, if you are unable to give at this time, you will still be able to participate in this tournament.
Again, you can show your support here: twitch.tv/smogonu.
Thank you all.
Round 1
3d vs. mind gaming
Dj Breloominati♬ vs. the pharoah
arcexofficial vs. Coffy
sundays.n_sundaes vs. Highways
One Last Kiss vs. Luirromen
Joelesheesh vs. Nultiprise
Fakee vs. SlickPanther
TLTK vs. Ado
Ainzcrad vs. umbry
ArchAndSet vs. Mako
Aurella vs. damien the genius
PlugDome vs. QWILY
HANTSUKI vs. Baloor
Real_Corviknight vs. MysticalDragon
Tace vs. hi.naming is hard
Chiles Habaneros vs. utofa
KeldeoCrowned vs. Prudis
SwordIsBored vs. reshiramo
decis vs. velvet
Bundy300 vs. OMEGA_G
thepidgeyturtle vs. KeshBa54
EVIL z0mOG vs. GW
LpZ vs. NinjaDJCee
Laurel vs. Irene-2002
SWITHEROO vs. rray
ArcticBreeze vs. Exaguy123
RaiZen1704 vs. Nineveh
Potatochan vs. Vulpix03
TerrorFang vs. xenonaltdelete
ShadowSpoon vs. TrappTea
Scottie vs. Soc
Apollo Barrage vs. Daruma
Mencemeat vs. RaJ.Shoot
Mandibuladel5555 vs. Wardski
ThisIsNas vs. Sylvi
LNumbers vs. autumn
Fantos13 vs. Cosmo'Star
Zerkas vs. thebestever543
Noah_murphy2005 vs. Hiro'
BrainerGamer vs. TheDougArt
elpepeetesechtilin vs. Croo
Coolcodename vs. blunder
luisin vs. Goro Yagami
Azick vs. Meteor Metagroos
sablolol vs. Weaselfie
fatBatman vs. Techno6377
KSr vs. Estuardo19
Turtlek vs. Arcanine1929
ZDen vs. Wheezer
weird mon vs. Beka
BrainDamageHaver vs. Dorron
crying vs. Lunala
ASKid679 vs. Prince of Underworld
Garay oak vs. Brigtel
MassiveDestruction vs. big miike
SetsuSetsuna vs. Always!
JezzyFlash vs. TJ
fakenagol vs. shiloh
kDCA vs. AncientFr33z
Malfunction vs. Danny
Thiago Nunes vs. Fogbound Lake
Foots vs. MAVERICK SHOOTERS
mfhoundoom vs. Inder
Antonazz vs. avarice
Round 2
Croo vs. TerrorFang
Mako vs. arcexofficial
luisin vs. TheDougArt
Techno6377 vs. Fantos13
QWILY vs. Turtlek
Daruma vs. hi.naming is hard
weird mon vs. Exaguy123
MysticalDragon vs. ShadowSpoon
Meteor Metagroos vs. Nultiprise
SetsuSetsuna vs. Mencemeat
sablolol vs. Laurel
rray vs. kDCA
Prudis vs. EVIL z0mOG
[n]TLTK[/b] vs. KeshBa54
shiloh vs. LpZ
MAVERICK SHOOTERS vs. Aurella
BrainDamageHaver vs. 3d
Highways vs. reshiramo
Potatochan vs. RaiZen1704
KSr vs. big miike
Fakee vs. umbry
Inder vs. Mandibuladel5555
Antonazz vs. Thiago Nunes
Baloor vs. TJ
Danny vs. Luirromen
Scottie vs. Sylvi
Bundy300 vs. Hiro'
utofa vs. Zerkas
Wheezer vs. autumn
the pharoah vs. ASKid679
velvet vs. Brigtel
Coolcodename vs. crying
Round 3
utofa vs. weird mon
sablolol vs. crying
Mandibuladel5555 vs. Hiro'
Thiago Nunes vs. MAVERICK SHOOTERS
luisin vs. Mencemeat
Croo vs. QWILY
TopLel TopKek vs. Highways
KSr vs. 3d
autumn vs. Baloor
Meteor Metagroos vs. Fakee
Sylvi vs. Mako
Potatochan vs. Danny
kDCA vs. Techno6377
hi.naming is hard vs. velvet
MysticalDragon vs. the pharoah
Prudis vs. LpZ
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