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 6
Laurel vs BIHI
NHelioX7 vs Akola
Corperate n vs Typical_bastard
Baloor vs damflame 3
crying vs skrimps
Blui vs Surfy
Liimpy vs OranBerryBlissey10
Davidoar15 vs Wesleyy
Lily vs sensei axew
Micciu vs Shucklegigas
BlazingDark vs El Quixana
Ashbala vs Yves Stone
awyp vs LudwigFrog
Luigi vs TerrorFang
Quinn vs Yelodash
Richard harrow vs Trogba Trogba
Unamed vs Zerkas
AcneAutist vs E-create
ACR1 vs Axzel
dex vs Lazuli
flyingtaco vs Waci
lucardinho vs Nowelle
tr1x vs Vileman
Quartosa vs Marshall.Law
Abbehat vs Tuthur
Akarui~Kurayami vs Trade
Kerthwack vs eliana.
Nyx vs sunsets
Star vs Shaneghoul
BlessyZ vs Lacks
promethezine vs soiled it
Airi vs ChaFouuu
Raichy vs Vulpix03
RTM vs Lycans
wangyu vs Ina fable
Always Edgy vs Originality56
Ann vs Ikaishi
Fun Trading vs PJB
JJ09LIE vs GasaiYunoSan
BiscotteKouloulou vs Metallica126
Mimikyu Stardust vs Bowlii-
-Frexa- vs Weaselfie
691 vs Dark Shion
Ainzcrad vs DripLegend
airfare vs Monai
Alexander IV vs BaddyGames
Altthiel vs hariyana grande
Fran vs Strat8246
Leru vs Louna
Medeia vs za Josephiroth Jetray
Always! vs Nowh
Jefozz vs Trickster7
A Welcome Guest vs Aurella
Hyssou vs ImperialH
Ampha vs Miyoko
etern vs Magician
NoName6293 vs TDR
Zooch vs maroon
Dhrabb vs QWILY
Hockey1 vs Tempo di anguria
Sahki vs tko
Vaictador vs yakarimseni
autumn vs Alpha1013
Fakes vs agentkeval
Liz Angeles vs Chaitanya
Ryuji vs Fragments
z0mOG vs Phantom0rion
Bka Onon vs EviGaro
devin vs Sylvi
ETJX vs GGTC
yovan33321 vs Albret
Adri vs Teclis
Autistic Soviet vs Seanobiwan
PANNAMAA vs leoperi99
clean vs KillaLeston
Drachenkeule vs Fluore
Ecca vs ZeroKitss
Fakee vs VyoletRayn
localdealerr vs MGdos16
Mihowk vs Potatoboybob
Nichalho vs Ophion
Portrait or Ruin vs Spcplayzz
ruuko vs avarice
Annihilape vs Mysterious M
Gaboswampert vs Scoptile
Lilymoding vs Mashing
bhkg vs Blox
egalvanc vs RoiDadadou
Aberforth vs it's tago!
alive vs vandesaar
chuggachuggachooo vs pkcc
DarmanitanDLuffy vs Elfuseon
Gei vs Kaneki-san
HANTSUKI vs MrSoup
Kanha Greninja vs kDCA
Kibo vs The412Gang
MatLaTomate vs Vholtninja
Fc vs TGA
Perish Song vs msnt
flygonisdragon vs TomatoZause
ACII vs Rowlet69420
Divine10 vs EPM
Euglena vs So Noisy
ibleachyourskin vs tausifur
JojenReed vs stargaming
Lizardu'' vs tipulipa
PopularMods1 vs Zerotti
SenseiSese vs Tytohbird
TPH vs Void
sleid vs Antonazz
AlmostNamedOne vs tpfire
Cristian Jimenez vs Leo
Ev_Evan vs havocknight
Batzi vs YasuKe
shadowtime2000 vs Royal1604
Gochan vs vampere
Mindnight vs urrgh
the pharoah vs Srita Kaguya
Tarre25 vs bydy
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, November 5th at 10 PM GMT-5 (be aware of the timezone change - deadlines will be an hour later as a result outside of the affected regions). Start this round in SS OU if you cannot decide. Thanks.
Replays are required to be saved all tournament and posted.
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