Official Smogon Tournament XVIII - Round of 16

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Welcome to the eighth 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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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.


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..

SoulWind  vs  xray
xavgb  vs  Star
Kyo  vs  Giannis Antetokommo-o
Yves Stone  vs  beatiful
TJ  vs  dahli
Allen-xia  vs  afakedugong
Storm Zone  vs  Gondra
Bushtush  vs  Chaitanya

~~~REPLAYS ARE REQUIRED~~~
Deadline is Sunday, March 20th at 11:59 PM EST (GMT-5).
Deadline for extended games from Round 7 is Wednesday, March 9th at 11:59 PM EST (GMT-5).
 
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SoulWind  vs  xray
xavgb  vs  Star
Kyo  vs  Giannis Antetokommo-o
Yves Stone  vs  beatiful
(Winner of TJ vs Pohjis)  vs  dahli
Allen-xia
 vs  afakedugong
Storm Zone  vs  Gondra
Bushtush
 vs  Chaitanya
 

Ara ara

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SoulWind  vs  xray
xavgb  vs  Star
Kyo  vs  Giannis Antetokommo-o
Yves Stone  vs  beatiful
(Winner of TJ vs Pohjis)  vs  dahli
Allen-xia
 vs  afakedugong
Storm Zone  vs  Gondra
Bushtush  vs  Chaitanya
 

Kenix

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SoulWind  vs  xray
xavgb  vs  Star
Kyo  vs  Giannis Antetokommo-o
Yves Stone  vs  beatiful
(Winner of TJ vs Pohjis)  vs  dahli
Allen-xia  vs  Afakeundog
Storm Zone  vs  Gondra
Bushtush
 vs  Chaitanya
 

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SoulWind  vs  xray - soulwind's series vs mncmt was impressive since mncmt is a very strong opponent and was probably a tougher test than anyone xray has played so far (toughest opponent was ruft it seems?). not to be salty but i was also in a p good position vs xray then lost g2 off some rng and, uh, inted g3 in about 5 turns lol oops. i also liked soulwind's team choices more including the broken ass gastro corv blobs squad that somehow never loses. this series should be excellent and i'm looking forward to it a lot
xavgb  vs  Star - aside from misplaying badly vs drill in spl semis xavgb has looked fantastic in SS OU, star's obviously a great player but i do think xavgb will pull off the "upset" thru his greater recent experience in the tier
Kyo  vs  Giannis Antetokommo-o - go midwest *-*
Yves Stone  vs  beatiful - im definitely surprised to see yves stone this far, though good for him and perhaps that statement motivates him to go further. bea on the other hand is farming this tour very hard and has played like 5 very tough opponents so
(Winner of TJ vs Pohjis)  vs  dahli - the abr slayer has looked rly good and i trust him to prep well for the tour with his LatAm bros and bring something with a slight edge against the meta teams tj/pohjis would use; even if not hes a good enough player to win the minor "upset"
Allen-xia  vs  afakedugong - idk much abt these guys except that ppl have talked about dugong for some time and idk allen-xia; gl both
Storm Zone  vs  Gondra - gondra looked rly good against confide imo but storm zone is the protagonist of this tour and i always see him on ladder w some extreme heat
Bushtush  vs  Chaitanya - i havent seen much of their games but bushtush has winner energy this tour

excited to watch a lot of these, gl all (but especially kyo)
 
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