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 2 [0-1]
1LDK vs shiloh
A1Gallade vs Hashg Skynyrd
Abbehat vs Zerotti
Abele01 vs @Bye35
Aberforth vs silentg7972
Abettergreen vs it's tago!
Ace98121212 vs SuperOinge22
Achimoo vs Mandibuladel5555
ACII vs VictorySymbol
agenS vs Ravenna
aguafiestas vs Antix.❄
Akaru Kokuyo vs Mysterious M
Akashi vs vgc
Albret vs Quint_
Alexander IV vs RedMeatMeal
alive vs feen
AlmostNamedOne vs Always Edgy
Ampha vs i am a mcrib
angelthesaucegod vs Juseth sepulveda
anique vs PokeClassroom
Annihilape vs KKZ0
Antonazz vs Nuxl
Arcanine1929 vs Sogs
Autistic Soviet vs MustardNischal
Bahkelabah vs sleid
Baloor vs MrSoup
Bane the bird vs Kingsous
BaniRTX vs Fc
Barter 16 vs Phantom0rion
bas!234 vs bronzo
Batzi vs toinha
Beka vs monchooo
Bestplayerever777 vs PANNAMAA
bhkg vs RadicalSoul
BIG loven vs ETJX
BigDaddyAddy vs Pais
BijouMode vs Seanobiwan
BKC vs Dhrabb
blank vs Gaboswampert
BlazingDark vs Mindnight
Blox vs yinshang
BMG vs Siddakid
Bodi 69 vs lotiasite
Boom4Life vs Lionyx
Bouff vs Rejector
BP vs Nashrock
br_xton vs ibleachyourskin
brokenmotor vs X-999
Brum vs yovan33321
bydy vs Groza
Longestbanana vs @Bye09
pokeman showdowns vs @Bye17
Tenebricite vs @Bye19
localdealerr vs @Bye20
cosmonatus vs @Bye26
MANNAT vs @Bye38
Gochan vs @Bye40
CalamityGreed vs Sirwings
Call me PK vs Tinii
Cam vs stargaming
Cao Jie vs dylans.lol
Captain Funk vs tehdicktutor
CaptainEikichi vs Crayscent
Career Ended vs Emphasized_Burst
CAROL MVP vs Leru
Cat food and vs CTC
CDW Enrique vs Simasnitrogen
Charwillusher vs Paul Robeson
Chloe vs The412Gang
Chris Chien Pao vs ToasterBoi420
chuggachuggachooo vs The Hitman
Churielix vs Remedy4brokenh3art
cicepece11 vs showdownguy124yt
Cielau vs VyoletRayn
CiroComedia vs havocknight
clean vs TrainerZanza
Clementine vs Herv
Clorodulce vs Spurrific
corvere vs tipulipa
Cristian Jimenez vs Haruno
cyberas vs softtxznn
CyberOdin✝ vs MGdos16
Dabman1069 vs Lasen
DAHLI vs Yahoodles
Dapoez vs Rampecker
deku216 vs okgoogle4
Delta4 vs Kanha Greninja
DevBetta vs WhoDatMan
Doedf vs raf
Drachenkeule vs ForgottenOnes
Drud vs Theia
Durk27 vs Johnny boy
Elfuseon vs NDK
Enzonana. vs ziloXX
Epic Dave vs leoperi99
EPM vs Nowelle
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 starting now.
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