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Season #5 Rules

League Rules

  1. All matches will follow the SV Singles OU Play Restrictions as of 2/5/23:
    https://www.smogon.com/dex/sv/formats/ou/
  2. OU tier valid Pokemon will freeze as of 2/5/23 for the duration of the league, no new Pokemon will be added or banned for duration of the league if implemented OU Play Restrictions, including the addition of Pokémon HOME Pokémon.
  3. Garganacl and Chien-Pao cannot be drafted or picked up in the Free Agency.
  4. No player can bring a Pokémon with the Illusion Ability to a league match.
  5. Teams/Pokemon movesets can change between matches
  6. Conference ranking is determined by number of wins, draws, then differential
  7. Regular Season will schedule 1 match per week for 8 weeks with 1 bye week.
  8. Teams/Pokemon movesets can change between matches
  9. Players can only bring Pokémon on their roster to matches
  10. Each player will play the 6 of their in-conference players once in the Regular Season
  11. Each player will play a selected in-conference player, also known as their rival, twice in the Regular Season.
  12. Cross conference trades are allowed
  13. Trades will be allowed up to the end of Week 5 (5 rounds of games)
  14. Any match that ends prematurely (e.g. from a server crash) can be settled in verbal agreement between the players, else a rematch between players (Teams/Pokemon movesets can change before rematch)

Conference Draft Rules

  1. Two Conference Drafts (Great Tusk and Iron Treads)
  2. Conference Draft will be a 12 round snake draft with the order pre-determined by Sid, Adi, and Prakash
  3. No duplicate draft picks per conference
  4. Rotom formes are treated as separate Pokémon

Free Agency Draft Rules

  1. Two Conference Free Agency Drafts mid-way through Regular Season (end of Week 5)
  2. Pokémon drafted must be allowed by the SV Singles OU Play Restrictions as of 2/5/23: https://www.smogon.com/dex/sv/formats/ou/
  3. Free Agent Drafts will be a 2 round snake draft ordered from lowest to highest conference-ranked player, order will be determined after Week 5 at the point that the Conference Free Agency Draft is held
  4. Players cannot draft a Pokémon if the Pokémon exists in the Player's Conference's Current Roster
  5. Players cannot draft a Pokémon if two of it exist in opposing Conference
  6. Players can only drop a Pokémon that is on their Current Roster or previously picked up in Free Agency
  7. Pokémon dropped before a player's draft pick can be picked as long as Rules 2 and 3 are met*
  8. Players can opt out of 1 or both free agency draft picks
  9. Trades are banned for the duration of the Free Agency Drafts (start of the first FA draft to the end of last FA draft)

Playoff Rules

  1. Rankings are determined by Wins, Draws, then Differential
  2. Top 2 players per conference (4 total players) make playoffs and are seeded globally in the playoff tournament
  3. The remaining conference ranked players that don't have a playoff spot are ranked globally and the top 4 players enter the playoffs as the 5th through 8th seeds respectively
  4. Tie-breakers for playoff seeding are either determined by verbally agreement of both tie-breaking players or a single tie-breaking game
  5. Each playoff game will be a best of 3 game series

** Interesting Edge Case: Julian and Sid both have Volcarona and are in the Great Tusk Conference, if one of us drops Volcarona, a player in Iron Treads Conference can draft Volcarona, if both of us drop Volcarona, a player in Great Tusk Conference can pick Volcarona