Welcome to the first edition of Smogon Masters! This is a Swiss bracket, Bo3 tournament with each set consisting of ORAS OU, SM OU, and SS OU. Players will decide which metagame to play first, then the loser picks a different generation for the following game. If both players cannot agree on a metagame to play first, each round will have a default generation randomized at the start of each round. After several rounds of the swiss bracket, a top cut according to record and resistance will be created and a Bo3 single elimination tournament will determine who wins Smogon Masters and the trophy
Rules & Tournament Format
General Tournament Rules
- This is a tournament that will employ the standard rulesets for ORAS OU, SM OU, and SS OU.
- Smogon Masters I will be a swiss tournament.
- Players will be automatically dropped when they hit three losses as they are no longer in contention for top cut.
- Players will be assigned a random opponent out of the pool of players with the same record as you each round.
- More information on the specifics of the swiss will be placed in the HIDE tag below.
- Rounds will be Best of Three -- one game of each tier.
- Matches are to be played on Pokemon Showdown!. If you can't agree on which server to play on, the Smogtours server is the default option.
- Saving replays is required and must be posted in each winpost starting in the second round
- There are no extensions due to the nature of a swiss tournament, so please get your games done on time.
- Finchinator is the primary host of this tournament while Lady Salamence, Eledyr, and Frozoid will be the co-hosts.
This was written by Lady Salamence -- thank you!
This tournament uses a Swiss format, where everyone plays until they lose three times, or until Play-Ins / Top Cut begins after Round 9. The Top Cut will be single elimination and based on a 64-player bracket. All matches will be a Best of 3, involving ORAS OU, USUM OU, and SWSH OU.
In the first three rounds, a number of Byes will be placed in the tournament to hit the 768-participant number, to ensure a participant count that works well with Swiss tournament structure. These Byes will exist until Round 3, successively lowering in the Swiss structure – in Round 2, some number of 0-1 players will receive Byes, and in Round 3 some number of 0-2 players will receive Byes.
During the final round, Round 9, three players will have an 8-0 score. These three players have the option to play a Round Robin to lock in their seedings. They may choose to forfeit their games and receive the worst Resistance seeding of the three. Should a Round Robin be fully played and end in 1-1 for each player, their placings/resistance scores would stay identical to before the Round Robin.
Once Round 9 concludes, there will be 69 players qualified (7-2 score or better) for Playoffs. These players will be ranked by Resistance, which is the cumulative win percentage all of their opponents throughout the Swiss phase. The ten 7-2 players with the lowest Resistance (the smallest cumulative win percentage) will play against each other for the final 5 slots, with the first 59 going to the players with higher resistances and scores. Once Play-Ins are finished, Top Cut begins.
This tournament uses a Swiss format, where everyone plays until they lose three times, or until Play-Ins / Top Cut begins after Round 9. The Top Cut will be single elimination and based on a 64-player bracket. All matches will be a Best of 3, involving ORAS OU, USUM OU, and SWSH OU.
In the first three rounds, a number of Byes will be placed in the tournament to hit the 768-participant number, to ensure a participant count that works well with Swiss tournament structure. These Byes will exist until Round 3, successively lowering in the Swiss structure – in Round 2, some number of 0-1 players will receive Byes, and in Round 3 some number of 0-2 players will receive Byes.
During the final round, Round 9, three players will have an 8-0 score. These three players have the option to play a Round Robin to lock in their seedings. They may choose to forfeit their games and receive the worst Resistance seeding of the three. Should a Round Robin be fully played and end in 1-1 for each player, their placings/resistance scores would stay identical to before the Round Robin.
Once Round 9 concludes, there will be 69 players qualified (7-2 score or better) for Playoffs. These players will be ranked by Resistance, which is the cumulative win percentage all of their opponents throughout the Swiss phase. The ten 7-2 players with the lowest Resistance (the smallest cumulative win percentage) will play against each other for the final 5 slots, with the first 59 going to the players with higher resistances and scores. Once Play-Ins are finished, Top Cut begins.
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.
In case of disconnections, if you played in the SmogTours server, call a Tournament Director as soon as possible and we'll see about the possibility of having a rematch.
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.
In case of disconnections, if you played in the SmogTours server, call a Tournament Director as soon as possible and we'll see about the possibility of having a rematch.
Round 1
aguafiestas vs Metallica126
yokoisop vs RoiDadadou
blunder vs Captain Funk
mj vs SuperOinge22
NEWAL vs Quartosa
Satanic Beast vs Mr.Bossaru
Lycans vs Cam
MOHAMEDALL vs FlygonNo.1
h4g vs MrScraggs
SeenArt vs ncalathes
fish anemometer vs Suhayb
JojenReed vs UGaming
MysteryDonut1 vs flyingtaco
MangoSteak vs Garay oak
qsns vs BiscotteKouloulou
Gilbert arenas vs Zaza
MustardNischal vs Teclis
Wamr vs Alpha1013
DarmanitanDLuffy vs Fablle
Altthiel vs Zerotti
F1reyy vs BlueLobster
MAVERICK SHOOTERS vs Chloe
Xalvadore vs crying
Scarfire vs Bane the bird
Drud vs Ashbala
cicepece11 vs TJ
patrick robertson vs the pharoah
Fluore vs Sificon
Meru vs Seasons
EntryHazardous vs Dapoez
vgc vs MetroGloomin
ricky a go go vs Mister Magnus
NoName6293 vs Estarossa
SmartsellerIsOfSmogon vs cDoogle
DeimosH vs Welli0u
UBstachel vs BaddyGames
Slowpoke Fan vs NicoCrystal
ToadNorton vs Forestz
nonfoolnonfish vs BIG loven
Jhonx~ vs E-create
Sage vs Isza
LoneHorse vs Lusa
Robert vs mew fan 7
pokem1399 vs Medeia
Bogging vs Yippie
2HP vs Raptor
Uta The Clown vs SenseiSese
Leo vs Elrog
Staxi vs Ado
SHSP vs DevBetta
clean vs Kebab mlml
Haruno vs hotbootytoucher
Annihilape vs MTB
IoSonoNeon vs Luca2604
robjr vs Phantom0rion
maggnargina vs Delta4
kDCA vs Hayburner
localdealerr vs Trogba Trogba
691 vs PopularMods1
soiled it vs Vileman
LORD SAGIS vs Nowelle
pannu vs Crayscent
Expulso vs vandesaar
dunoks vs Kyo
luisin vs TerrorFang
Clorodulce vs ACR1
pokeman showdowns vs maroon
Bundy300 vs ACII
sunsets vs Meta
Alkione vs RaJ.Shoot
XelloW vs Yoink 0
Alhen vs anique
Splash vs RiloBR
Churielix vs Surfy
TyCarter vs ForgottenOnes
yinshang vs Skyrio
boris69 vs TrainerZanza
M Dragon vs avarice
SetsuSetsuna vs Zenadark
Fun Trading vs VictorySymbol
Beraldo vs urrgh
zS vs damien the genius
Sahki vs Tuthur
Evil vs Googled222
Hybuyn vs AlmostNamedOne
Trickster7 vs Exiline
ZeroKitss vs Nick
Akashi vs DripLegend
CalamityGreed vs DugZa
silentg7972 vs Originality56
SrBruno32 vs bigboygrimace
Always Edgy vs Typical_bastard
LudwigFrog vs TPH
Estuardo19 vs Vkhss
Mister McLovin vs Quinn
Mirbro vs Louna
There are no extensions in this tournment and no exceptions to this whatsoever, so please do your best to get your games done by Sunday, October 1st at 10 PM GMT-4.
Replays are required to be saved all tournament and posted starting round 2.
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