Welcome to the first week of TLT! Throughout this tournament, players will battle in a best-of-three format each round, with Smogon's standard tiers being the metagames played. This tournament is also double elimination, so if you're defeated once, you're still in the loser's portion of the bracket.
The tiers that will be played are:
SM Ubers
SM OU
SM UU
SM RU
SM NU
SM LC
SM Doubles OU
In order to fairly determine the three of these seven tiers played in each individual matchup, players will take turns eliminating tiers among themselves. They'll both eliminate two tiers, thus leaving three tiers to be played. The lower seeded player will eliminate the first tier, followed by the higher seed player, and it will repeat in that order once more. The higher seed player picks what tier is played first of the three tiers. After that, the loser of game one picks which of the two tiers is played for game two. Naturally, game three will be played in the last remaining tier.
(Example: Eyan is a one seed, while Natalie is a sixteen seed. Natalie, the lower seed, chooses to first eliminate UU. Eyan follows with RU. Natalie then eliminates Doubles OU, and Eyan eliminates LC. Of the three tiers remaining, Eyan, the higher seed, chooses to play NU first. Eyan then loses game one, and chooses to play OU next. Should it go to game three, the game mode would be Ubers.)
Basic tournament rules - you absolutely should read this, especially if you're new to forum tournaments
This round ends November 12th at 11:59pm (GMT -5). Good luck everyone!
e: Replays are not mandatory but are certainly appreciated
The tiers that will be played are:
SM Ubers
SM OU
SM UU
SM RU
SM NU
SM LC
SM Doubles OU
In order to fairly determine the three of these seven tiers played in each individual matchup, players will take turns eliminating tiers among themselves. They'll both eliminate two tiers, thus leaving three tiers to be played. The lower seeded player will eliminate the first tier, followed by the higher seed player, and it will repeat in that order once more. The higher seed player picks what tier is played first of the three tiers. After that, the loser of game one picks which of the two tiers is played for game two. Naturally, game three will be played in the last remaining tier.
(Example: Eyan is a one seed, while Natalie is a sixteen seed. Natalie, the lower seed, chooses to first eliminate UU. Eyan follows with RU. Natalie then eliminates Doubles OU, and Eyan eliminates LC. Of the three tiers remaining, Eyan, the higher seed, chooses to play NU first. Eyan then loses game one, and chooses to play OU next. Should it go to game three, the game mode would be Ubers.)
Basic tournament rules - you absolutely should read this, especially if you're new to forum tournaments
Sportsmanship: Don't be an ass. Not to your opponents, not on PS, not on Smogon, not to me. A bit of friendly banter is ok, but please know where to draw the line. Think before you type, please.
Scheduling and Activity Wins: Contact your opponent as quickly as possible on their Smogon wall, and look out for them on PS. You will have one week from the posting of the week's matches to get it done. Extensions will be for two days after the scheduled deadline, and no further. If your opponent is not responding to your post on their wall, cannot be found on PS, or miss multiple scheduled times, make a detailed activity post in the thread letting me know why you deserve the win. No activity post means no activity call. As long as you have visible attempts at scheduling (such as wall posts), you will be fine.
Disconnections and Timer: A timer loss is a loss. No if's, and's, or but's about it. If your opponent is nice enough to replay that's fine, but they are by no means obligated to.
Ghosting and Identity: Don't take or give battle advice or make moves based solely on the suggestions of others, and don't pretend to be someone else in order to play as them. You will be caught, and you will be disqualified from this tournament as well as future PS! tournaments (BLT, PSPL, etc.).
Substitutions: Substitutions will be made only for rounds one & two, with round two subs only being allowed for any participants in the loser's bracket.
Scheduling and Activity Wins: Contact your opponent as quickly as possible on their Smogon wall, and look out for them on PS. You will have one week from the posting of the week's matches to get it done. Extensions will be for two days after the scheduled deadline, and no further. If your opponent is not responding to your post on their wall, cannot be found on PS, or miss multiple scheduled times, make a detailed activity post in the thread letting me know why you deserve the win. No activity post means no activity call. As long as you have visible attempts at scheduling (such as wall posts), you will be fine.
Disconnections and Timer: A timer loss is a loss. No if's, and's, or but's about it. If your opponent is nice enough to replay that's fine, but they are by no means obligated to.
Ghosting and Identity: Don't take or give battle advice or make moves based solely on the suggestions of others, and don't pretend to be someone else in order to play as them. You will be caught, and you will be disqualified from this tournament as well as future PS! tournaments (BLT, PSPL, etc.).
Substitutions: Substitutions will be made only for rounds one & two, with round two subs only being allowed for any participants in the loser's bracket.
Round One Matchups
bdov vs. Trace
t0te vs peachycl0uds
lkapkd1 vs Mikaav
Xiri vs Skelos
Abbp vs blinkboy
MJ vs Mohican
Chloe vs explodingdaisies
Roseybear vs Karalynia
Overdragoon vs Poison Adhesive
Ark vs byronthewellwell
OminousDraco vs leo05051998
Le Sabreur vs BigBoy038
Villa vs TheFranklin
Luthier vs Elyna
Naian Dach vs Mysterious M
Hamhamhamham vs MS3D
The Cheesen One vs Uwoodz03
Go0d vs Plas
parivard vs MiyoKa
EternalSnowman vs Trade
Akiko Yosano vs Microwavable
Osh vs Jrsmash9
SableyeMyBae vs Blitzburgh
PD vs PokemonCestDur
youmu@poke vs USAPIKACHU2K7
London13 vs lightning1870
Pradhaaan vs lopd
Hell Rayquaza11 vs FMG
Kingofcrimea vs Abyssal Ruins
RevivalCircus vs SANJAY
Whitewash vs -Latios-
Jrdn vs neomon
Just to be clear, the higher seed is on the left side of the matchups.
Please remember to keep this thread civil regardless of friendly banter.bdov vs. Trace
t0te vs peachycl0uds
lkapkd1 vs Mikaav
Xiri vs Skelos
Abbp vs blinkboy
MJ vs Mohican
Chloe vs explodingdaisies
Roseybear vs Karalynia
Overdragoon vs Poison Adhesive
Ark vs byronthewellwell
OminousDraco vs leo05051998
Le Sabreur vs BigBoy038
Villa vs TheFranklin
Luthier vs Elyna
Naian Dach vs Mysterious M
Hamhamhamham vs MS3D
The Cheesen One vs Uwoodz03
Go0d vs Plas
parivard vs MiyoKa
EternalSnowman vs Trade
Akiko Yosano vs Microwavable
Osh vs Jrsmash9
SableyeMyBae vs Blitzburgh
PD vs PokemonCestDur
youmu@poke vs USAPIKACHU2K7
London13 vs lightning1870
Pradhaaan vs lopd
Hell Rayquaza11 vs FMG
Kingofcrimea vs Abyssal Ruins
RevivalCircus vs SANJAY
Whitewash vs -Latios-
Jrdn vs neomon
Just to be clear, the higher seed is on the left side of the matchups.
This round ends November 12th at 11:59pm (GMT -5). Good luck everyone!
e: Replays are not mandatory but are certainly appreciated
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