Art by in the hills
Welcome to the NFE Open! This will be a single elimination tournament in the NFE format, as part of the inaugural Unofficial Metagames Circuit and the Unofficial Metagames Grand Slam! This tournament will earn you points for both the year-long circuit, as well as the Grand Slam! This will be a single elimination best of three tournament held in the NFE format on Pokemon Showdown. All replays must be posted to the round's thread for a win to count, and each round will take one week.
Here are some useful NFE resources:
NFE Viability Rankings
NFE Role Compendium
NFE Speed Tiers
NFE Sample Teams
Here are some Smogon tournament resources:
- Tournament Rules
- Scheduling Guidance
- Smogtours and Smogtours server information
Standard Rules and Clauses
- General tournament rules and regulations can be found here
- Species Clause: A player cannot have two Pokémon with the same Pokédex number on his team.
- Sleep Clause: You cannot inflict sleep upon more than one member of the opposing team.
- Evasion Clause: The moves Double Team and Minimize are banned.
- OHKO Clause: The moves Horn Drill, Guillotine, Sheer Cold, and Fissure are banned.
- Team Preview: Players must turn on the Team Preview feature where players can view the opposing team's Pokémon and choose their lead Pokémon.
- Timer Clause: If a player exhausts the timer, he/she loses.
- Endless Battle Clause: Any moveset on any Pokémon that is capable of intentionally causing an endless battle is banned from competitive play. Check this thread for more information.
Activity Decisions / Coin Flips: In the event that there is an uncompleted match at the deadline, 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.
Host discretion will be applied for all unplayed games. This means that an activity win will not be automatically granted if you post, and a lack of post does not automatically result in a coinflip.
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.
Host discretion will be applied for all unplayed games. This means that an activity win will not be automatically granted if you post, and a lack of post does not automatically result in a coinflip.
srvoltmike vs Stillstarting 77
sufys vs chuggachuggachooo
temp vs BloodAce
cototrazo vs TTTech
Lyna vs Squeeby
Nashrock vs txitxas
cherif18 vs Baddy
Fragments vs dex
5Dots vs Cao Jie
VigilanteVigoroth vs Shing
Velcroc vs TTK
tf vs Medeia
Maybca☆〜ゝ。∂ vs Mirbro
Mada vs demirab1
RoFnA vs RL
RiloBR vs sealoo
*Note: RoFnA and RiloBR's matchups would erroneously be Bye 1 and Bye 2, due to the bracket not being printed as properly intended. A coinflip was used to decide their opponents for this round:
To compensate for the awkward deadline, I'll be moving the extension deadline to this Sunday, February 4, 11:59 PM GMT-5, and this round's matchups to next Sunday on February 11, 11:59 GMT-5. Replays are mandatory!
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