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Welcome to the Draft League Summer Seasonal! This is a Type A tournament in the 2024 Draft League Circuit and will provide points toward this year's Draft League Championship, and will be hosted by Nyx and Happygate. This tournament will take place in the [Gen 9] Tera Preview Draft tier on Pokémon Showdown! and battles will take place in a swiss followed by a single elimination bracket.
- 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. They may not cost more than 25 points total. They are the only Pokémon on your draft that may Terastallize.
- The following complex bans are in place:
- No Pokémon may use the move Last Respects
- No Pokémon may use the move Shed Tail. - The following Pokémon may not be Tera-Captains:
- Baxcalibur
- Blaziken
- Darkrai
- Deoxys-Speed
- Dragonite
- Enamorus-Incarnate
- Garchomp
- Gouging Fire
- Iron Bundle
- Iron Valiant
- Kyurem
- Latios
- Latias
- Ogerpon-Hearthflame
- Palafin 
- Regieleki
- Roaring Moon
- Sneasler
- Terapagos
- Ursaluna-Bloodmoon
- Volcarona - 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 
- Maushold 
- Squawkabilly 
- Tatsugiri 
- Dudunsparce 
- If a Pokémon that is available in SV is untiered, please ask a host.
- Smogon’s Species Clause applies to your draft.
- Prior to the start of the top 32 top cut, there will be a redraft.
- All games must be played in the [Gen 9] Draft tier on smogtours.psim.us or psim.us with Tera Type Preview enabled. 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, King's Rock and Razor Fang are banned.
- Any items unreleased in SV are banned.
- Replays must be posted to the round thread.
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.
[Credit to the Official Smogon Tournament hosting team for the base form of this rule.]
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.
[Credit to the Official Smogon Tournament hosting team for the base form of this rule.]
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 time zone, ideally as GMT offset.
If either host catches news of ghosting or some other sort of nefarious play, we reserve the right to investigate to the full limits of our ability.
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 time zone, ideally as GMT offset.
If either host catches news of ghosting or some other sort of nefarious play, we reserve the right to investigate to the full limits of our ability.
The following players have qualified for top cut with the following seeding:
1) CM_Metro | 7-0 (0.68441 Res)
2) Habaduh | 7-0 (0.624603 Res)
3) ConquestGanda | 7-0 (0.603175 Res)
4) AgencyIsOwn | 7-0 (0.491667 Res)
5) MoneyGuy9559 | 7-1 (0.67872 Res)
6) KCric12 | 7-1 (0.656399 Res)
7) Hacker | 7-1 (0.653274 Res)
8) vinithewini | 7-1 (0.646875 Res)
9) urban | 7-1 (0.63244 Res)
10) Msousa | 7-1 (0.609028 Res)
11) TheFallenShooriken | 7-1 (0.585466 Res)
12) Battlestorm | 7-1 (0.57619 Res)
13) jscurf | 7-1 (0.565873 Res)
14) maki | 7-1 (0.559276 Res)
15) Haildras | 7-1 (0.515278 Res)
16) PZZ | 7-1 (0.497569 Res)
17) Nozzermat | 7-2 (0.751235 Res)
18) Meta | 7-2 (0.659392 Res)
19) guigaxs2000 | 7-2 (0.638228 Res)
20) idkup | 7-2 (0.623589 Res)
21) MysticNyan | 7-2 (0.608466 Res)
22) Gengar_Mask | 7-2 (0.598677 Res)
23) Roller K | 7-2 (0.597884 Res)
25) pattek | 7-2 (0.597663 Res)
27) Baddy | 7-2 (0.59127 Res)
28) IMCOOKiNG | 7-2 (0.581922 Res)
29) aagarocks | 7-2 (0.562169 Res)
31) Azcelerator | 7-2 (0.559303 Res)
32) TwentyTwan | 7-2 (0.55754 Res)
35) Professor Shuckle | 7-2 (0.538492 Res)
39) choptch | 7-2 (0.495282 Res)
41) Shikshtenaan | 7-2 (0.470503 Res)
All matchups have been psuedo-seeded, with seeds 1-4 playing one of 32-41, seeds 5-8 playing seeds 27-31 and so on and so forth. This is to preserve seeding as best as possible while avoiding people counter-teaming during the draft. The exception to this is seed 41, Shikshtenaan, as they are tourbanned and thus their round one opponent will be seed 1, CM_Metro, who will be given a bye.
Round One
1) CM_Metro vs Bye
3) ConquestGanda vs 32) TwentyTwan
4) AgencyIsOwn vs 39) choptch
2) Habaduh vs 35) Professor Shuckle
5) MoneyGuy9559 vs 29) aagarocks
7) Hacker vs 27) Baddy
8) vinithewini vs 28) IMCOOKiNG
6) KCric12 vs 31) Azcelerator
12) Battlestorm vs 21) MysticNyan
10) Msousa vs 22) Gengar_Mask
9) urban vs 25) pattek
11) TheFallenShooriken vs 23) Roller K
14) maki vs 17) Nozzermat
15) Haildras vs 19) guigaxs2000
16) PZZ vs 20) idkup
13) jscurf vs 18) Meta
You can find all matchups with drafts here: https://spo.ink/summer_seasonal_2024_matchups
The challenge code for this event is: /chall gen9draft @@@ teratypepreview, -Last Respects, -Baton Pass, -King's Rock, - Quick Claw, -Razor Fang, -Shed Tail
When challenging your opponent please use this code.
Games are due at 11pm GMT-4 on Sunday, 15th September. Extensions may be granted on a case by case basis.
This thread and all future Summer Seasonal 2024 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.
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