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.
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.
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.
Round 2 [1-0]
Ewin vs juninxisl
Expulso vs maggnargina
Fabriisse vs MetroGloomin
fade vs spellcaster
false vs Lusa
Fant'sy Beast vs Inder
Fantasy vs NoName6293
Fantos13 vs Slowpoke Fan
fish anemometer vs sunsets
Fluore vs SHSP
FlygonNo.1 vs MS3D
Flying Beagle vs HaxxSel
flyingtaco vs Scarfire
Forestz vs Gondra
fran17 vs Sharow
GasaiYunoSan vs watashi
Gei vs Rex Slayer
GeniusX vs IoSonoNeon
Giannis Antetokommo-o vs Metallica126
Glurakaiser vs Miyoko
Guille vs nonfoolnonfish
hariyana grande vs UnzipsCrogre
hellpowna vs Manan999
hi.naming is hard vs weird mon
HikozaruGG vs Savouras
HolaSoyBalto vs Yelodash
hotbootytoucher vs tofa
Hybuyn vs Sylvi
Hydronics vs Segale
Hyssou vs Uta The Clown
Iguana vs Perish Song
Ikaishi vs Void
ima vs Laurel
Isza vs Twixtry
jackuzzler vs Joya
jay vs Kaboom
Jefozz vs tr1x
jetou vs xdRudi.exe
JJ09LIE vs Jytcampbell
Jojo8868 vs Sachumberto
Juanpa vs Kabani
jus vs skimmythegod
Kebab mlml vs TerrorFang
Ken_jaspher vs LpZ
kenny vs London Beats
KSr vs tko
Lacks vs Lily
Lialiabeast vs Lyppa
Liimpy vs RichardMillePlain
Lizardu'' vs seroo
lolebruh vs PA
LORD SAGIS vs Santu
Lostmemories vs ThePeasent
Louna vs nightcore
lucardinho vs So Noisy
LudwigFrog vs Sylveon used calm mind
Luigi vs xavgb
Luthier vs TJ
Mada vs Portrait or Ruin
Magician vs Sieeeffmon
maroon vs NHelioX7
Marshall.Law vs SBPC
MAVERICK SHOOTERS vs Skooma
Maxouille vs Zoyotte
Mendeez vs patrick robertson
Micciu vs Tytohbird
mj vs Zooch
ncalathes vs Trogba Trogba
Niko vs Waylaid
Nowh vs Reze
Originality56 vs Rewer
PikachuZappyZap vs Xrn
pixie909 vs XelloW
PJB vs wangyu
Quartosa vs xray
Quinn vs Surfy
QWILY vs teal6
Raahel vs Yves Stone
Raichy vs TDR
RaiZen1704 vs Swynot
Revenge Killer vs velvet
reyscarface vs Tuthur
Richard harrow vs yokoisop
robjr vs Rubyblood
s7a vs Thor
Sibwind vs Unamed
SiTuM vs za Josephiroth Jetray
Skypenguin vs Tanish
Teclis vs TPP
temp vs TGA
TLTK vs Zerkas
Trade vs ZDen
Typical_bastard vs UGaming
Vulpix03 vs Éric
w_r vs לַ֫הַב†
zioziotrip vs Zokuru
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 8th at 10 PM GMT-4. Start round two in SS OU if you cannot decide. Thanks
Replays are required to be saved all tournament and posted.
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