D/P Gaming Guild Presents:


Welcome to the second Annual Halloween Hysteria Tournament! As the name suggest, this tournament is held around Halloween and features pokemon of the Night. In this tournament, only Dark, Ghost, and Poison pokemon are allowed, with a selective few exceptions. Now, lets get this fright fest started.
Note: In order to recieve Point for the battles during this tournament each participent must be registered in the Battle Tower.
Pokémon Allowed: Only Dark, Ghost, and Poison types are allowed in this tournament.
With the exception of: Hoothoot, Noctowl, Cubone, Marowak, Gligar, Gliscor, Lunatone, Rattata, Raticate, Glameow, Purugly, Snorunt, Glalie, Baltoy, and Claydol.
Pokémon Banned: All Ubers, Legendaries, and Big 5 are prohibited from this tournament. That list includes: Arceus, Giratina, Darkrai and Tyranitar.
Clauses in Effect:
Species Clause: All of your Pokémon must be different.
Sleep Clause: You can only put 1 of your opponent's Pokémon to sleep at a single time.
Self-KO Clause: Your Pokémon cannot use moves like Explosion or Self-Destruct to win if it's the only Pokémon remaining on your team. The same applies for Perish Song and Destiny Bond.
Evasion Clause: Moves like Double Team and Minimize are banned from being used.
Luck "Hax" Item Clause: When this clause is in effect, that means the following items are banned from use: Brightpowder, Quick Claw, Focus Band and King's Rock.
OHKO Clause: Moves like Fissure, Guillotine, Horn Drill and Sheer Cold are banned from use.
Preliminaries: To move on to the main tour, each trainer must obtain 3 victories. The battles must follow the rules and clauses, and must be Singles set to either level 50 or level 100. Trainers may challenge anyone at any time as long as they obtain 3 victories form 3 different trainers. Loses do NOT count against you. Preliminaries will last until November 15th then the qualifying Trainers will proceed. (Dates may change as needed.)
Main Event: The Main Event will be a simple Bracket style Tournament with all matches being Best 2/3. Each Round will have 1 week before each unfinished matches get cut and the rest move on.
- Update 10/27/10: Prizes added - More soon to come.
Update 10/31/10: Battle Tower Points will now be earned for participating in the tournament.
Update 11/9/10: Due date for Preliminaries has been extended to November 15th.