Official Smogon Tournament XV - Round 6

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Welcome to the first round of this year's Official Smogon Tournament! The OST is one of Smogon's longest standing traditions in tournaments and has crowned many great Pokémon players as its champions across five generations. Over the next few months, thousands* (!) 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.

The tournament will have a best of three format. This means that players will play until one of them wins two games. Players are allowed to switch teams in between games, or use the same team throughout the set; it is completely up to the player. If players only partially complete a series before the deadline, it will be considered an uncompleted match and action will be taken accordingly (either an activity win or a coin flip).

Just like last year, there will be a cash prize for this tournament! The winner of this year's Official Smogon Tournament will receive 200 USD! With the Finalist receiving $100 and both semifinalists taking home $50 each.

If there are any questions, please don't hesitate to reach out to me or another TD team member!

OST Specific Rules
  • This is a standard USM 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 you can't agree on which server to play on, the Smogtours server is the default option.
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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 Pokémon that is capable of intentionally causing an endless battle is banned from competitive play. Check this thread for more information.
  • Baton Pass Clause: The move Baton Pass is banned outright.
  • 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
: 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.


Playing before the prediction tour occurred

The prediction tournament will return this year! 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.


General Tournament Rules

Substitutions

Players may sign up as a substitute if they didn't join in time. 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. Given the size of the bracket this year, there might be two substitution waves. 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 you're at risk of not being substituted into the tournament.

Please read this guide if you're unsure how to schedule with your opponent! Alternatively, watch this video made by teal6:

MATCHUPS

Rewer vs Chicos
baddjordan vs -Niko-
HSOWA vs GR3Y
Lavos vs Royal1604
Fruitdealer vs Jimmy Turtwig
Bro Kappa vs Bongi
Roseybear vs Finchinator
ggggd vs Ary
c0mp vs Frania
Sacri' vs WarioMaster
Laroxyl vs Eeveeto
MJ vs [K-12] The Madchine
SiTuM vs blarghlfarghl
RedEmption vs Mysterious M
Relous vs Yvettee
CKW vs Icequake
maroon vs Mohamed67
Vulpix03 vs craing ;_;
Lopunny Kicks vs Adri989898
GeniusX vs rozes
Finding True Love vs Mob Barley
ayevon vs Mikasa Ackerman
Fardin vs Tricking
I attract E-Girls vs Water Drone
Insult vs High Impulse
Bruno de Lucas vs Indigo Plateau
KingKdot vs false
up_startme vs isuckstbattles
toinha vs Ojama
Algeria vs mind gaming
Bdlc vs BIHI
John W vs Evuelf


Deadline: Sunday March 17th at Midnight EST
 
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I attract E-Girls

Banned deucer.
requesting act win. we were supposed to play my friday night cause i cant play this weekend, but my opponent didnt show up. Man was unhelpful & didnt suggest anything himself even tho our time zones are pretty bad. Gave him my discord tag so we could find a better moment to play, but the man didnt even try to add me.

its saturday morning and im going to bed
 
requesting act win. we were supposed to play my friday night cause i cant play this weekend, but my opponent didnt show up. Man was unhelpful & didnt suggest anything himself even tho our time zones are pretty bad. Gave him my discord tag so we could find a better moment to play, but the man didnt even try to add me.

its saturday morning and im going to bed
call this man brad pitt cause hes my idol
 
requesting act win. we were supposed to play my friday night cause i cant play this weekend, but my opponent didnt show up. Man was unhelpful & didnt suggest anything himself even tho our time zones are pretty bad. Gave him my discord tag so we could find a better moment to play, but the man didnt even try to add me.

its saturday morning and im going to bed
yeah no way dude youre not getting the activity win you have given nearly no availability and I told you i couldnt play thursday and would try friday, yet here i am at 8 pm and you only messaged me at 6pm so I was supposed to squeeze you into a two hour window that wasnt even established. scummy move on your part not to go for extension or anything. I offered tuesday, could have played wednesday, and this entire weekend but you dropped the fact that you cant play all weekend pretty late. Requesting extension or for my opponent to not be a fucking b*tch!
 
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