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..
fran17 vs MildlyW
lsabela vs TeamCharm
Taylor vs MichaelderBeste2
doublevee vs Kibo
Isza vs Steez Ibanez
lotiasite vs ABR
Xicoru vs Diee
Sensory vs Mok3s
Azick vs Redgoop115
simp vs kael
RohanPokemaster vs Brumirage
Akaru Kokuyo vs minyun811
Eoward vs kythr
Agentkeval vs Analytic
Storm Zone vs NeoNaruto
arcexofficial vs GhoulishCard1319
HANTSUKI vs clean
Hiro' vs Armada
mentalsoft vs Salito
Chazm vs Aurella
freezai vs MST20
jacob vs LxBrndn
Winterains vs ziloXX
PokemonCestDur vs TheKingKarp
lucky160402 vs elodin
Mercupty vs Satanic Beast
DEG vs Aliss
Coffy vs jonfilch
Splash vs lolkecc
sechsNI vs Savouras
SpookyZ vs Zen
Rastadori vs Samqian
Snowy vs BriefMarigold4
Cicada vs FallenXRosa
0NI vs jayrodrick
RichardPepper vs localdealerr
drakey vs baboboy
potato14798 vs Descending
arnavgupta vs HarryPS
Charziken vs FangFoe
peap vs Frania
CursedStar vs turtledoggo1
king 0f skill vs zS
Ara ara vs Drud
Unskilled2004 vs Eulelp
weird mon vs Groudon
MrMister7 vs airfare
Rex Slayer vs SKC44
Abhi vs Jojo8868
MilestoneLevelUp vs pj
Zach Daniel vs Amir
Xtiminator vs Deltaw
ACR1 vs Lily
Flex OKLM vs Corina
Kev vs SetsuSetsuna
oversway vs STABLE
GW vs xujing691691
Lameflame vs sensei axew
JaceyK vs The Strap
SpectralThief vs Guille14
MondyPtoTroll vs GusthavoM
Endill vs sugarhigh
frisoeva vs BIHI
tatedavis2016 vs megaoshawott
DuGuo vs Cristina Makise
Bdlc vs Clementine
KeldeoCrowned vs Enzo Gorlami
TheGreenRoman vs talah
Tenebricite vs Tarah204
tropically vs Medunite
Dj Breloominati♬ vs Daruma
Blui vs Adri
TGA vs Rando T
Trosko vs Fardin
watashi vs Me hate me
Shiba vs GLFGno7
Mr.378 vs requiemite
ukaaa vs Gray
Potatochan vs utofa
KJLX vs DeeJ
nis298 vs baibaiats
Alphaxtor vs jekke11
Rumor vs Azuko
Yuudachi0811 vs Mosaic_Battles
Lukyalpha vs Jade Imperium
miotu vs SC0RBUNNY
Bluxio vs Sahki
Rinzer vs Eledyr
Eboy-10 vs Dflo
Coconut vs Metallica126
RancidPencil27 vs Heni-san
teresbahji vs lvllucklvl
7Lunar_ vs Ch1ck3n Nu99ets
Pais vs daddl_ding
Clasmia vs Squiiid
Ahsan-219 vs Conflict
Amukamara vs Souw
arn.av136 vs ToastedBunzzz02
Shadow2054 vs Hoolin
LpZ vs Xocram
Choice Specs vs Zerotti
powergo1 vs rylon
emma vs wdogy
WormStepper vs IkeDreams
Pkmn trainer Rizzo vs jpflame
RTM vs lnfrvjmkv
Shade904 vs sneakyjeans
Zacktries vs Ninja
Ellie Smith vs Accel
Geohound vs mind gaming
Vault56 vs Oshim
Fant'sy Beast vs FallenXRose
Smart Kid vs Staxi
schwipper vs Sage
D2TheW vs Not Wo1F
martha vs SanBanner
lukxray vs GotCookies
Allen-xia vs MAMP
Clone vs Shoka
zioziotrip vs BurstSpam
Fallenwarrior1992 vs udongirl
Sakis vs Nalorium
Vo huynh anh vs dunoks
RCube vs Smalls
Blox vs CaptainEikichi
Raichy vs Lyss
Hax Believer vs Shashwat Arora
Tenshinhan vs Serpi
(If your name isn't in this list check the OST Round 2-A, 2-B and 2-D threads for it!)
Deadline is Sunday, February 6th at 11:59 PM EST (GMT-5).
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