Smogon Tournament #10
Welcome to this year's Official Smogon Tournament, the tenth installment of one of Smogon's most prestigious tournaments. The OST is one of Smogon's longest standing traditions in tournaments and has crowned many great Pokemon players as its champions across three generations. Over the next few months, hundreds of players will compete to the best of their ability as they attempt to join the exclusive ranks of the OST trophy holders. Only one of those players will succeed in their journey and earn the recognition that comes with their victory, along with the iconic OST trophy.
Before participating in this tournament, please take some time to read the following thread: Tournament Rules, Guidelines, and General Information
Specific Rules
- This is a standard XY OU tournament.
- The tournament will be single elimination.
- Players will play a best of three series of games each round.
- Matches are to be played on Pokemon Showdown! If both players agree, matches may also be played on Pokemon Online 2.
Standard Rules and Clauses
- Sleep Clause: A player cannot put two or more different opposing Pokémon to sleep using attacks that induce sleep to opposing Pokémon.
- Species Clause: A player cannot have two of the same Pokémon on their team. For example, a player cannot have two Koffing on his or her team.
- Evasion Clause: A player cannot use the moves Double Team or Minimize in their Pokémon's movesets.
- OHKO Clause: Players cannot use Horn Drill, Guillotine, Sheer Cold, or Fissure in any of their Pokémon's movesets.
- Team Preview: Players must turn on the Team Preview feature where players can view the opposing team's Pokémon and choose their lead Pokémon.
- Timer Clause: If a player exhausts the timer, he/she loses.
- Endless Battle Clause: Any moveset on any pokemon that is capable of intentionally causing an endless battle is banned from competitive play. Check this thread for more informations.
- Uber Clause: Players may not use any items, moves, abilities, or Pokemon that appear on Smogon's OU Ban List. If the tiers change or new items, abilities, moves, or Pokemon become available in the middle of a round, the changes will take effect in the following round. There will be an announcement in the relevant round if this occurs.
About Activity Decisions
Activity Decisions / Coin Flips: We are changing the rules for activity / coin flip decisions for this tournament. 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.
Activity Win Request
I contacted my opponent on the 27th, one day after the round was posted and told him my timezone. He responded on the 30th but did not indicate his timezone. I replied back asking for a timezone on the 1st of December, and he never replied. On the 7th, I VMed him again asking whether he could battle on the weekend, and yet again he didn't respond. I deserve the activity win because my opponent ignored my attempts to schedule our battles.
I contacted my opponent on the 27th, one day after the round was posted and told him my timezone. He responded on the 30th but did not indicate his timezone. I replied back asking for a timezone on the 1st of December, and he never replied. On the 7th, I VMed him again asking whether he could battle on the weekend, and yet again he didn't respond. I deserve the activity win because my opponent ignored my attempts to schedule our battles.
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.
Timer Clause will be strictly enforced for this tournament. This means that the normal disconnection rules found in the Tournament Rules, Guidelines, and Information thread do not apply. If a player disconnects and does not reconnect to their battle before the timer expires, they lose that particular game. This doesn't necessarily mean they lose the entire best-of-three set.
Substitutions
Players may sign up as a substitute if they either didn't join in time or their posts in the signups thread were deleted. If you are eliminated from the tournament (i.e. you lose your games, are substituted out, or drop out), you may not sign up as a substitute. I will endeavor to substitute players in whenever a player drops out, and one week before the Round 1 deadline, I will look through all players and activity win requests and replace any inactive players with substitutes. There is a very high chance that you will get to play if you sign up as a substitute. Substitutes will only be allowed into the tournament during Round 1. Substitutes will be implemented on a mostly first come, first serve basis, but if you are inactive after you sign up as a substitute then I will not substitute you into the tournament.
Playing before the prediction tour occured
You may play before the prediction tournament is up but try not to announce the result of your games before it actually get posted. In case you would play, the result wouldn't be altered anyway.
If a ban occurs during the Round 2, it won't affect the tournament until its next round.
Also, if you notice any error made in the pairings (because I missbolded your name in Round 1 for example), please notice me as soon as possible.
Pairings
Make sure to double check if you're there just in case there is a typo in your username. Also, just in case there would be any confusions, Hugendugen actually made the pairings.
KingDragonite00 vs
makiri
Labyrinthine vs
Mr. Perry
.Robert vs
macle vs
Sapientia vs
PttP vs
Usatoday
Lunar. vs
fhugwigads
Haruno vs
JSND vs
DerDomme vs
Conflict vs
-Manu- vs
TGMD
-Tsunami- vs
lukw1010
Lizardons vs
Wonder_
PDC vs
Plus vs
Sheks
CTC vs
Meridian
Boudouche vs
Asterat
Ajwf vs
Rockhp31 vs
Picollo
Moonclawz vs
undisputed vs
gr8astard vs
DracoMalfoy vs
SwagSandwich vs
Remedy
Sparko vs
Based
Grey Knight vs
ShootingStarmie
E-ShenLong vs
MiloticRaichy
BahaWin vs
Hakumen
reyscarface vs
Typhlito vs
DetroitLolcat
zorbees vs
vileman
EnerG218 vs
HBK
Agnaktor vs
red97
Enguarde vs
Choice Specs vs
MikeDecIsHere
Scene vs
Mew
Ginku vs
Malekith
Shiny Sparks vs
Nelson vs
Edgar vs
Nachos vs
J O G A vs
Lustiger Lega
C05ta vs
ssbbm vs
-Frexa- vs
ZoroDark vs
Kushalos
Kid Buu vs
HSA
vs Cicada
Reiku vs
Arcticblast
Erick17 vs
Pridy
MarceloDK vs
Steven Snype vs
Zebraiken
The Immortal vs
Shoka
cbt vs
NightFox
Ash Borer vs
Delta 2777
Tesung vs
moonbase
bobbyvaporeon vs
blarajan vs
Axel Rouche
Danilo vs
Cherub Agent vs
Deadline
The deadline for Round 2 will be 17:59 EST on the 21st of February, 2014. Any matches not played by this time will be coin flipped unless one or both players have submitted a request for an activity win.
Thanks to Zracknel for the amazing logo!
Last edited:
