No tribute summon is a normal summon. It's called tribute because you have to pay the cost of the summon by sending 1 (for LV5 or LV6) or 2 (LV7+) monsters from the field to the graveyard.
So basically it's same as a normal summon for a lower level monster.
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Yes, there is nothing inherently within the tributing or summoning rules which would stop you from tributing a monster you summoned the same turn you summoned it. Obviously, due to the regular summon rules, you can not Tribute Summon the monster you just Normal Summoned on the same turn; it would count as two Normal Summons. But if the first summon was a Special Summon, you had used "Double Summon", or wanted to tribute it for an effect like "Enemy Controller", then it's totally fine to tribute that monster for them.
It all depends on the tokens being used. They can be used to Tribute Summon unless said otherwise on the card. For example, the card "Scapegoat" says: "...The tokens [summoned by this card] cannot be used as a Tribute for a Tribute Summon."Take note of this last condition (a Tribute for a Tribute Summon). That means the tokens can be tributed for a Special Summon for monsters such as "Destiny Hero - Plasma".Tokens that can be used for a Tribute Summon include: "Stray Lambs", "Statue of the Wicked", "Fiend's Sanctuary", and "Dandylion".
Yes, you can tribute monsters for card effects and Tribute Summon the same turn you summon a monster. However, you cannot Normal Summon a monster and Tribute Summon on the same turn because you can only Normal Summon once per turn. Cards such as Double Summon and Ultimate Offering will let you do that.
An 'advance summon' is the Japanese OCG term for what the English TCG calls a 'Tribute Summon'.
If a monster is set you cannot activate it. "Torrential Tribute" can only activate when any player performs a flip summon, normal summon, Ritual summon, Fusion summon or Special summon, but a set is different from a summon so you cannot activate "Torrential Tribute". The same applies to other cards that activate when a monster is summoned (like "Bottomless Trap Hole" and "Solemn Judgment").