Welcome to the second 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 500 USD!
If there are any questions, please don't hesitate to reach out to me or a tournament director!
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.
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- 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.
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.
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:
Now then, without further ado..
fa500 vs Siglut
Gtcha vs beatiful
dextromethorphan vs Detlef Steves
crying vs Laurel
Flyte vs Empo
Boat vs aim
Union kel vs The Black Hippopotas
Alumn vs Kaiser747898
Xoskeled vs andres1006
Dark Red vs Coolcodename
txitxas vs XKH
Jim9174 vs Nat
AquaFinity vs LampTTV
Asilis vs AquaVanilla
The Reunited Kingdom vs ramboss
hamiltonion vs Fruitdealer
Zerawhora vs FanteP
trace vs luisin
MANNAT vs EviGaro
omi vs Hoopa590
AymanKun vs Cureja
ArcticBreeze vs bhtvincent
Exiline vs obii
Leo vs ifthiii
Altthiel vs Lunala
Abhinav INGK vs egalvanc
Nuxl vs Algeria
S poi re vs PKS Blaze
rarre vs Pabloxty
DarkCryZe vs Darkness abides me
VastayanTheif vs Pinto
Tachibana vs AmoghOp
Clouds vs Adriatic Tides
Beka vs 16bit
The412Gang vs AlphaRay01
taxi driver vs For an Endless Night
hislop vs Dasmer
AJay2042 vs dahli
Surfy vs Meru
Nowno vs Whydon
ojr vs Cion
ayk vs Hjwang
BluBirD252 vs Miles Mcfly
ok cool omg vs Dorron
[K-12] The Madchine vs Coffee1090
Thunder~BALLZ vs Baksteens
Boss Surge vs Weaselfie
OmBrArch vs Zephyri
Ian_AGES vs eu
Heart Doom vs TheFranklin
GoldenTTRex vs Archiiiie17
4ndre4 vs Anime Absol
Bomby23 vs damflame 3
TPP vs Sylveontaco
eslsvsisss2 vs Srita Kaguya
mael vs snobbull
Autistic Soviet vs Notnice56
KJ Corp vs reymaki
Thiago Nunes vs infinitemugen99
5Dots vs Pataozinho
Lillia2.0 vs Iziyo ⍟
StepC vs -Tsunami-
za vs baddummy
Failures vs Chiles Habaneros
hariyana grande vs MagicalXerneas
Michielleus vs ironwater
OGSafariZone vs a salamence
I1Eschaton1I vs Lanzhu
MagearnaTheBoss vs Sagdiyev
Froggy vs The Dovahneer
Always! vs SuperKaizer
assfarmer vs Feen
seathc02 vs baaaabaaaar
daycamp vs Aocry
Vieux Singe vs mixwell
Jaywonnnz vs lacknesalfa
giove97 vs Scottie
lightofdoom vs Trunx
Hybuyn vs Zaza
maroon vs zee
London Beats vs argus2ghl
flygonisdragon vs Quartosa
Jackelopewill21 vs Villuminati
Turtle Cultist vs ausma
GuardArc vs Sirwings
Fusien vs Ditching
willmac88 vs InvictusMaster
Ruft vs CloudDay
Eeveeto vs Genesis7
snaga vs jawabarat
Pissog vs Pandapear
Zokuru vs BlueFoxNova
Yuu hiroko vs SquareGoGamers
TheBigSadd vs pancakeboyo
Ryuji-Sempai vs soulgazer
Permission Slip vs ja1tina
UnknownCells vs Mclovinstan ES
Gravitea vs Jessalyn Ouellette
Hugo Barrington vs ggggd
GhostlyWeeb vs hyperscreens
Meminger21 vs Revenge Killer
pannuracotta vs THFish
Thor vs Huston
R0110 vs Rambo_Piggy
Rated_PG vs touc
gamerboy07k vs Style_Dota
Venuesaur vs Corperate n
avarice vs TheSergio235
Estarossa vs AceKirazo
lockjaw vs Hyssou
dovehoney vs ZIP_ALIEN
jcbc vs PureJules
D. House vs SNAK30PRA
Psycko21 vs PandaDoux
Menace17 vs Lopez2004
Crunchman vs Queenzz
ZachPKM vs Proxxd999
ninjadog vs Loki
LoveStallLiveLife vs Yves Stone
Nowh vs Esgological
Broil vs RaiZen1704
PolloJunior vs Bale25
Hockey1 vs Foriver
Mishimono vs OriginalSurko
Yelodash vs LagFrost
BlueRacoonXD vs proudbrownie102
mr.slimeking vs RLplayer
noob annihilator vs IloveScaldBurns
(If your name isn't in this list check the OST Round 2-B, 2-C and 2-D threads for it!)
Deadline is Sunday, February 6th at 11:59 PM EST (GMT-5).
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