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 2 [0-1]
Estarossa vs UBstachel
Estuardo19 vs sanmerlion
Excal vs Mister McLovin
Excalibur6106 vs TomatoZause
Exotic64 vs Misterioussaint
F1reyy vs RaJ.Shoot
Fablle vs Xalvadore
fatBatman vs Punny
fiish vs Son Can Toa Trio
Fireballwizard12 vs SeenArt
FL5 vs jchampion_
flygonisdragon vs qsns
Foufakirby vs Nick
Fragments vs Kyler_
Gewehr16 vs soiled it
GGTC vs RiloBR
Googled222 vs MrScraggs
Hacker vs Iris67
HANTSUKI vs Yoink 0
heyimporg vs Jhonx~
Hockey1 vs KillaLeston
Hollow Soul vs naviii 1
Hookah Doncic vs hs
Huargensy vs Lórius388
Hyogafodex vs Wigglytuff
Ina fable vs Rowlet69420
jb291 vs MangoSteak
JojenReed vs TheGrimToucan
JOKERDOG vs toytean
Joy840 vs tausifur
JRoberts vs Seraphz
justdrew vs MC Farzi
jyusaan vs Mashing
kaiegurlmao vs tpfire
Kaneki-san vs Kerthwack
karrottensirup vs Liz Angeles
kDCA vs Sheik :
Kenix vs MAHOH
Kibo vs MIO1339
kiritofps vs Sahki
Kizdop vs shojomojo
Knight who says "Ni" vs ToadNorton
Knightsharp vs Sly Solo
Kyo vs Royal1604
Lekstaz vs Uber45
Leo vs Star
Lilymoding vs LityL
LoneHorse vs X-Wing
lou dort vs Souw
Luca2604 vs ruuko
lucasishere745 vs zee
Luirromen vs Reuben_Thomas05
luisin vs Nichalho
luisito agustin vs Zavok :3
MatLaTomate vs mew fan 7
Melle2402 vs MOHAMEDALL
Meta vs the pharoah
Mihowk vs YasuKe
Mimikyu Stardust vs NEWAL
Mirbro vs Ryuji
MonkeBoi215 vs Rubixe
msnt vs pokem1399
MysteryDonut1 vs Staxi
Nateis_Fate18 vs Pevere1l
NicoCrystal vs The Strap
O Batataplays vs urban
oopsalldeoxys vs Srita Kaguya
oversway vs SpookyZ
pkcc vs RTM
PlugDome vs Tarre25
PokemonCestDur vs vampere
PopularMods1 vs Tempo di anguria
promisingpanda vs Welli0u
Pura Killa vs yakarimseni
Purple Lum vs sasha
RainVGC vs Sage
ricky a go go vs Satanic Beast
RoiDadadou vs Suhayb
sapaditore vs zS
sayyonara vs zenandy1
Scoptile vs Theah
SenseiSese vs Sificon
shadowtime2000 vs Wamr
Shiningmewtwo17 vs SrBruno32
SHRAIDER vs TPH
Shucklegigas vs vandesaar
SmartsellerIsOfSmogon vs toyko
SoulWind vs Xpok
Spcplayzz vs Waci
Thiago Nunes vs Vholtninja
Trickster7 vs urrgh
TTTech vs Zenadark
Yippie vs ZeroNo
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.
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