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 3
Abettergreen vs Spcplayzz
Ace98121212 vs Akaru Kokuyo
Achimoo vs Kaneki-san
Akashi vs zS
alive vs @Bye20
Bahkelabah vs Joy840
Barter 16 vs BijouMode
Beka vs Brum
Bestplayerever777 vs TTTech
BIG loven vs ForgottenOnes
BKC vs toytean
Boom4Life vs KillaLeston
qsns vs @Bye38
Dabman1069 vs @Bye40
Cam vs Knightsharp
CTC vs softtxznn
Charwillusher vs Royal1604
cicepece11 vs MysteryDonut1
corvere vs vandesaar
Crayscent vs Estarossa
CyberOdin✝ vs yinshang
Enzonana. vs Sirwings
Epic Dave vs ZeroNo
EPM vs KKZ0
fiish vs VictorySymbol
Hacker vs lou dort
Hollow Soul vs RedMeatMeal
Hyogafodex vs SHRAIDER
i am a mcrib vs Xpok
JRoberts vs oversway
kiritofps vs NicoCrystal
Kyler_ vs Quint_
MAHOH vs Nichalho
jyusaan vs Sage
mew fan 7 vs Pura Killa
Mirbro vs RadicalSoul
MrSoup vs zenandy1
msnt vs toyko
Nashrock vs Rowlet69420
Nuxl vs pkcc
Purple Lum vs Spurrific
Reuben_Thomas05 vs shiloh
Suhayb vs jb291
agenS vs @Bye09
aguafiestas vs @Bye17
AlmostNamedOne vs br_xton
Arcanine1929 vs toinha
Bane the bird vs Excal
BaniRTX vs Lekstaz
bas!234 vs @Bye26
blank vs Delta4
Bodi 69 vs Haruno
bydy vs NDK
X-999 vs @Bye19
urrgh vs @Bye35
CAROL MVP vs SrBruno32
Chloe vs MonkeBoi215
Chris Chien Pao vs O Batataplays
Cielau vs jchampion_
CiroComedia vs hs
DAHLI vs Sificon
Dapoez vs LoneHorse
dylans.lol vs Gewehr16
Emphasized_Burst vs Tarre25
Excalibur6106 vs okgoogle4
F1reyy vs Theah
Fablle vs Meta
fatBatman vs Misterioussaint
Fireballwizard12 vs vampere
Foufakirby vs Theia
Jhonx~ vs Tinii
Johnny boy vs Nateis_Fate18
Juseth sepulveda vs zee
kaiegurlmao vs Srita Kaguya
karrottensirup vs MustardNischal
Leo vs ToadNorton
LityL vs Rejector
Luca2604 vs shadowtime2000
luisito agustin vs sanmerlion
Lórius388 vs silentg7972
MC Farzi vs MrScraggs
Mindnight vs TrainerZanza
MIO1339 vs RiloBR
NEWAL vs Thiago Nunes
PokeClassroom vs PopularMods1
promisingpanda vs Sheik :
raf vs Zerotti
ricky a go go vs TheGrimToucan
shojomojo vs tehdicktutor
Siddakid vs Yoink 0
The Hitman vs YasuKe
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 15th at 10 PM GMT-4. Start this round in SM OU if you cannot decide. Thanks
Replays are required to be saved all tournament and posted.
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