Elite Tournament: ONE MORE TIME!!! A Hacker Community Pokemon Online Tournament! (8/25/12) (5:00 PM EST)

[HitoshirezuJamal]

Sorry for the long wait, guys. I would have hosted this earlier, but you know... computer issues and all. Let's try this... ONE MORE TIME!!!

General Rules and Clauses:

- Double elimination.

- All sets are Best of 3. For Grand Finals, the winner of Losers' Finals must win 2 sets, while the winner of Winners' Finals only has to win one. Team changing during a set is up to the 2 players.

- Team preview is enabled for all matches.

- BE SURE TO SAVE YOUR LOGS AND SEND THEM TO ME! I will be uploading tournament battles on my YouTube account, which is: www.youtube.com/user/HitoshirezuJamal

- You may only use Pokemon that have been released legally in the US or Japanese games. This includes Dream World Pokemon. For a list of released Dream World Pokemon, you may find them on Smogon here.

- Species Clause: The use of more than one of the same Pokémon is forbidden. Pokémon that evolve from the same Pokémon but are not an evolution of each other are exempted. For example, the use of Gorebyss and Huntail is allowed, but the use of Gorebyss and Gorebyss or Clamperl and Clamperl in one team is not. If the Pokémon has many different formes that are very different from each other, such as Wormadam or Rotom, they are still limited by species clause as they share the same Pokédex number (and are thus still of the same Pokémon species).

- Sleep Clause: You lose if, at the end of your turn, two of your opponent's Pokemon were put to sleep by a move you used but were not forced into, and neither have had their sleep removed since then.

The clause basically means that if you have already put a Pokemon on your opponent's side to sleep and it is still sleeping, you can't put another one to sleep.
A move you were "forced into" is a move you must use because all other moves (that cannot inflict sleep) are disabled (by Choice item, Encore, or some combination of Taunt, Disable, Torment, and lack of PP) and you cannot switch (due to trapping moves, trapping abilities, Ingrain, or having all other pokemon be fainted).
A move you used includes moves called by Metronome, Sleep Talk, Assist, Me First, or Copycat. It does not include Magic Coat or Magic Bounce.
Rest, used by either player, is never counted by this clause. The ability Effect Spore is also exempted.

- Evasion Clause: The use of evasion boosting moves like Double Team or Minimize, or hold items like Brightpowder or Lax Incense, is forbidden. Similar moves which instead decrease the opposing Pokémon's accuracy, such as Sand-Attack, Mud-Slap, Mirror Shot and Mud Bomb, are allowed. Acupressure, Metronome, and the abilities Sand Veil and Snow Cloak can increase the user's evasion, but still does not fall under this clause.

- OHKO Clause: A Pokemon may not have the moves Fissure, Guillotine, Horn Drill, or Sheer Cold in its moveset.

- Moody Clause: A team cannot have a Pokemon with the ability Moody.

- WiFi Battle: WiFi Battle MUST BE ON at all times.

Ban List:

Items
All items that increase Evasion (BrightPowder, Lax Incense)

Moves
All moves that increase Evasion only (Double Team, Minimize)
All instant OHKO moves (Fissure, Guillotine, Horn Drill, Sheer Cold)

Abilities
Moody
Drizzle + Swift Swim on the same team

Species
All Unreleased Dream World Pokemon
Arceus-Bug
Arceus-Dark
Arceus-Dragon
Arceus-Electric
Arceus-Fighting
Arceus-Fire
Arceus-Flying
Arceus-Ghost
Arceus-Grass
Arceus-Ground
Arceus-Ice
Arceus-Normal
Arceus-Poison
Arceus-Psychic
Arceus-Rock
Arceus-Steel
Arceus-Water
Blaziken
Darkrai
Deoxys
Deoxys-A
Deoxys-S
Dialga
Excadrill
Garchomp
Giratina
Giratina-O
Groudon
Ho-Oh
Kyogre
Kyurem-B
Kyurem-W
Latias w/ Soul Dew
Latios w/ Soul Dew
Lugia
Manaphy
Mewtwo
Palkia
Rayquaza
Reshiram
Shaymin-S
Thundurus
Zekrom

SIGN-UP PAGE: http://challonge.com/tournaments/signup/7jkjyiw6t7

You MUST sign up if you want to be in the bracket.

NOTE: The placeholder time is 12:00 PM.

[Guest]

IM GONNA BEAT ALL OF U

[SilverShiningMoon]

12:00 PM.... Urr... Wut.

[Guest]

12 PM? **** I MISSED IT!!

[HitoshirezuJamal]

It was changed to 5:00 PM EST.

My bad, I forgot to update the OP.

[Guest]

cool im gonna win now! wat server is every1 gonna b at?

[HitoshirezuJamal]

[TH]Pkbasic Server - 171.99.180.168:5080

That's the server for the tournament!

[Relyt]

Nope, Jamal is trolling y'all. The tourney was at 12, and I won with my super special awesome mega team.

You jelly? c:

But yeah, tourney is being held now, we're just fixing connection issues.

[HitoshirezuJamal]

84.139.28.150:6112

The last server D/Ced everyone, so this is the new server!

[Sasab]

...Huh... The one day I decide not to go on the PHC forums... I miss a tourney... -___-

[HitoshirezuJamal]

Shuckle Empire [GER] - 46.38.233.96:1337

The last server D/Ced everyone (again)... so this is the new one!

[Ink]

IM GONNA BEAT ALL OF U

You're conceited. Tell me, have you gotten your **** together yet, Tyrone?

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