Welcome to the first edition of Smogon Masters! This is a Swiss bracket, Bo3 tournament with each set consisting of ORAS OU, SM OU, and SS OU. Players will decide which metagame to play first, then the loser picks a different generation for the following game. If both players cannot agree on a metagame to play first, each round will have a default generation randomized at the start of each round. After several rounds of the swiss bracket, a top cut according to record and resistance will be created and a Bo3 single elimination tournament will determine who wins Smogon Masters and the trophy
Rules & Tournament Format
General Tournament Rules
- This is a tournament that will employ the standard rulesets for ORAS OU, SM OU, and SS OU.
- Smogon Masters I will be a swiss tournament.
- Players will be automatically dropped when they hit three losses as they are no longer in contention for top cut.
- Players will be assigned a random opponent out of the pool of players with the same record as you each round.
- More information on the specifics of the swiss will be placed in the HIDE tag below.
- Rounds will be Best of Three -- one game of each tier.
- 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.
- Saving replays is required and must be posted in each winpost starting in the second round
- There are no extensions due to the nature of a swiss tournament, so please get your games done on time.
- Finchinator is the primary host of this tournament while Lady Salamence, Eledyr, and Frozoid will be the co-hosts.
This was written by Lady Salamence -- thank you!
This tournament uses a Swiss format, where everyone plays until they lose three times, or until Play-Ins / Top Cut begins after Round 9. The Top Cut will be single elimination and based on a 64-player bracket. All matches will be a Best of 3, involving ORAS OU, USUM OU, and SWSH OU.
In the first three rounds, a number of Byes will be placed in the tournament to hit the 768-participant number, to ensure a participant count that works well with Swiss tournament structure. These Byes will exist until Round 3, successively lowering in the Swiss structure – in Round 2, some number of 0-1 players will receive Byes, and in Round 3 some number of 0-2 players will receive Byes.
During the final round, Round 9, three players will have an 8-0 score. These three players have the option to play a Round Robin to lock in their seedings. They may choose to forfeit their games and receive the worst Resistance seeding of the three. Should a Round Robin be fully played and end in 1-1 for each player, their placings/resistance scores would stay identical to before the Round Robin.
Once Round 9 concludes, there will be 69 players qualified (7-2 score or better) for Playoffs. These players will be ranked by Resistance, which is the cumulative win percentage all of their opponents throughout the Swiss phase. The ten 7-2 players with the lowest Resistance (the smallest cumulative win percentage) will play against each other for the final 5 slots, with the first 59 going to the players with higher resistances and scores. Once Play-Ins are finished, Top Cut begins.
This tournament uses a Swiss format, where everyone plays until they lose three times, or until Play-Ins / Top Cut begins after Round 9. The Top Cut will be single elimination and based on a 64-player bracket. All matches will be a Best of 3, involving ORAS OU, USUM OU, and SWSH OU.
In the first three rounds, a number of Byes will be placed in the tournament to hit the 768-participant number, to ensure a participant count that works well with Swiss tournament structure. These Byes will exist until Round 3, successively lowering in the Swiss structure – in Round 2, some number of 0-1 players will receive Byes, and in Round 3 some number of 0-2 players will receive Byes.
During the final round, Round 9, three players will have an 8-0 score. These three players have the option to play a Round Robin to lock in their seedings. They may choose to forfeit their games and receive the worst Resistance seeding of the three. Should a Round Robin be fully played and end in 1-1 for each player, their placings/resistance scores would stay identical to before the Round Robin.
Once Round 9 concludes, there will be 69 players qualified (7-2 score or better) for Playoffs. These players will be ranked by Resistance, which is the cumulative win percentage all of their opponents throughout the Swiss phase. The ten 7-2 players with the lowest Resistance (the smallest cumulative win percentage) will play against each other for the final 5 slots, with the first 59 going to the players with higher resistances and scores. Once Play-Ins are finished, Top Cut begins.
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.
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.
Round 2 [1-0]
2HP vs Dj Breloominati♬
avarice vs Seasons
Xiri vs Zaza
-Frexa- vs Akalli
-Howkings vs Axzel
3d vs Alkione
46m ツ vs blunder
691 vs Lifeismyth
A Hero's Destiny vs Nikebeamz
A Welcome Guest vs Fun Trading
AcneAutist vs Weaselfie
ACR1 vs LustfulLice
Ado vs Splash
Adri vs ninjadog
AgenteDino vs Roller K
agentkeval vs Strat8246
Ahsan-219 vs giove97
Ainzcrad vs Blui
airfare vs pannu
Airi vs Malekith
Akarui~Kurayami vs Wesleyy
Akboss13 vs Axel
Akola vs ImperialH
Alhen vs kythr
Alpha1013 vs Astrø
Altthiel vs skrimps
Always! vs Ox the Fox
Analytic vs Fakes
Ann vs Caesarr
ApacheRomero vs sensei axew
Ash KetchumGamer vs Sadi Tonmoy
Ashbala vs Squirtle Nornor
Askov vs malefic
Aurella vs Kaif
autumn vs Mr.Bossaru
Avendesora vs pj
awyp vs Vermillion Gangsta
Azphiel vs EviGaro
BaddyGames vs Frania
BaitWiz vs Eternal Spirit
basaninho vs Vinc2612
Beleth vs TyCarter
Beraldo vs Shaneghoul
bharathraj240 vs ZeroKitss
bigboygrimace vs Potatoboybob
BIHI vs BlueLobster
BiscotteKouloulou vs Mako
Bka Onon vs z0mOG
BlessyZ vs Vaictador
Bogging vs memedose46
boris69 vs Hayburner
Bowlii- vs Corperate n
Brigtel vs Eeveeto
Buhrito vs rocky2024
Bundy300 vs SetsuSetsuna
cDoogle vs Torchic
ChaFouuu vs Ophion
Chaitanya vs dunoks
chapado de ivern vs Tace
Chicos vs damflame 3
Chiles Habaneros vs TheRandomEnma
ChrisPBacon vs Vkhss
Cicada vs zSoulx
CringeLord! vs Igniizard
crying vs realaccountami?
Cureja vs rs
damien the genius vs Monai
Danny vs OranBerryBlissey10
Dark Shion vs Jisoo
DarmanitanDLuffy vs Finchinator
Dasmer vs PureJules
Davidoar15 vs Prinz
db vs Lazuli
decis vs devin
DeimosH vs thundersparksdown
dex vs Garay oak
DHUVANESH vs Skyrio
Divine10 vs Medeia
DKM vs MTB
DonSalvatore vs Shadow2054
DripLegend vs Trout In Space
DugZa vs lax
E-create vs Nyx
Ecca vs Exiline
egalvanc vs Robert
Egor vs Mister Magnus
El Quixana vs h4g
eliana. vs Lycans
Elrog vs pulsar512b
Empo vs JustFranco
entrocefalo vs Fakee
EntryHazardous vs MichaelderBeste2
etern vs zaydapoketrainer
Euglena vs Vileman
Ev_Evan vs Javi
Evil vs promethezine
There are no extensions in this tournment and no exceptions to this whatsoever, so please do your best to get your games done by Sunday, October 8th at 10 PM GMT-4. Start round two in SS OU if you cannot decide. Thanks
Replays are required to be saved all tournament and posted starting now.
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