Official Smogon Tournament XVI - Quarterfinals

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Welcome to the ninth 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!

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 SS 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.
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.

General Tournament Rules

Insult vs cleann
Akola vs Sjneider
Rexus vs mncmt
FlamingVictini
vs ima

Deadline is Sunday, April 12, 11:59pm EDT (GMT -4).
(Extension deadline is Wednesday, April 8, 11:59pm EDT (GMT -4)).


REPLAYS ARE REQUIRED. ALL WINNERS MUST POST REPLAYS.
 

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(Lopunny Kicks vs Insult) vs cleann
Akola vs Sjneider
Rexus vs mncmt
FlamingVictini vs ima

First time for me to ever get far in this tournament, so hopefully I was able to prove to everyone that I am really competent at this tier. Sucks to go out in such a close series, especially because I didn't really get close to losing any series before. But that's how it goes and looking at the g3 I can only blame myself for it.

Thanks to everyone that has supported me, see you soon!:pimp:

And obviously GL to everyone left
 

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(Lopunny Kicks vs Insult) vs cleann Punny vs Insult is one of the HLs of the tour and would've been a great pairing for finals. In SM I would bold Punny but in SS he feels a bit less inspired so I'm gonna predict the Invitational Winner to win this as well as the whole tournament. I've never seen cleann on the tour scene before his r8 match, in which he has shown some flaws, so I'd predict him to lose against both players, but the skill gap isn't big.

Akola vs Sjneider Sjneider is better overall but Akola feels more comfortable with the meta and his team choices are more inspired

Rexus vs mncmt the fake jamvad hadn't show much before SPL but he's looking like a threat, and very comfortable with the meta as well, whereas Rexus feels a bit less consistant. He definitely has the talent to take this one though.

FlamingVictini vs ima 8-3 in Snake Draft
 

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(Lopunny Kicks vs Insult) vs cleann - Insult may be one of the strongest SS players right now. I think he is least likely to misplay of the three, but Lopunny Kicks does have potential to outplay him admittedly. Should be some good sets all around, but I think Insult's the best of the three in the current metagame.
Akola vs Sjneider - Akola is not an easy opponent for Sjneider at all, but Sjneider has been pretty strong dating back to Snake. Going to side with recent experience/success here.
Rexus vs mncmt - Both solid, but neither strong enough to take out the other winners in final four I feel. Should be a close series, I expect something funky from Rexua and a Jirachi from mncmt.
FlamingVictini vs ima - ima is lowkey putting together a really good run lately. FV is the conventional stronger player, but I know very little about him in SS and I like going with the hotter hand.

Good final 8, gl guys. Rooting for ima and Insult
 
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