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.
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.
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.
Round 3
Fantasy vs yovan33321
FL5 vs monchooo
Fluore vs lotiasite
Gei vs Nowh
Guille vs Kizdop
HANTSUKI vs Originality56
Hashg Skynyrd vs Lusa
HolaSoyBalto vs MGdos16
hotbootytoucher vs Souw
Huargensy vs Zoyotte
Hybuyn vs Segale
ibleachyourskin vs Lilymoding
ima vs Manan999
Inder vs Mysterious M
IoSonoNeon vs velvet
it's tago! vs Shucklegigas
JJ09LIE vs watashi
Jojo8868 vs tausifur
juninxisl vs ThePeasent
justdrew vs MangoSteak
Mashing vs nightcore
kDCA vs Shiningmewtwo17
Kibo vs sasha
Kyo vs localdealerr
kythr vs Vermillion Gangsta
Lialiabeast vs tpfire
Lizardu'' vs Welli0u
lucasishere745 vs TGA
Luirromen vs PokemonCestDur
maggnargina vs Seanobiwan
MatLaTomate vs Xalvadore
memedose46 vs Scarfire
Mimikyu Stardust vs Zenadark
Miyoko vs Nick
Monai vs Staxi
naviii 1 vs Ophion
Niko vs RainVGC
Nowelle vs Uber45
Ox the Fox vs Xiri
Perish Song vs TheRandomEnma
Punny vs Swynot
ruuko vs soiled it
Ryuji vs s7a
Scoptile vs So Noisy
Seraphz vs Wamr
SpookyZ vs TomatoZause
Star vs לַ֫הַב†
Teclis vs z0mOG
The Strap vs ToasterBoi420
urban vs XelloW
Aberforth vs Groza
ACII vs TPH
Alexander IV vs Mihowk
Ampha vs MOHAMEDALL
angelthesaucegod vs Mister McLovin
Annihilape vs Batzi
Antix.❄ vs Sahki
Antonazz vs Pais
BlazingDark vs Gochan
Bouff vs BP
brokenmotor vs Iris67
bronzo vs SuperOinge22
CalamityGreed vs Doedf
CaptainEikichi vs The412Gang
Career Ended vs Gaboswampert
chuggachuggachooo vs Waci
cosmonatus vs leoperi99
Dhrabb vs PANNAMAA
Durk27 vs flygonisdragon
Estuardo19 vs RaJ.Shoot
Fc vs heyimporg
feen vs vgc
Fragments vs sleid
Googled222 vs Sogs
havocknight vs Lasen
Hockey1 vs SmartsellerIsOfSmogon
Hookah Doncic vs sapaditore
Ina fable vs VyoletRayn
JojenReed vs sayyonara
JOKERDOG vs Lionyx
Kanha Greninja vs Paul Robeson
Kenix vs Wigglytuff
Kingsous vs tipulipa
Knight who says "Ni" vs Rampecker
Liz Angeles vs pokeman showdowns
luisin vs stargaming
oopsalldeoxys vs RTM
Pevere1l vs Ravenna
Phantom0rion vs X-Wing
PlugDome vs Tenebricite
RoiDadadou vs Zavok :3
Satanic Beast vs SeenArt
SenseiSese vs Son Can Toa Trio
showdownguy124yt vs Sly Solo
the pharoah vs Melle2402
A1Gallade vs DevBetta
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 15th at 10 PM GMT-4. Start this round in SM OU if you cannot decide. Thanks
Replays are required to be saved all tournament and posted.
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