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
ACR1 vs LORD SAGIS
Ado vs BIHI
Akola vs Raichy
Alhen vs Marshall.Law
Alpha1013 vs OranBerryBlissey10
Analytic vs BaddyGames
Ashbala vs Corperate n
Axel vs xdRudi.exe
Axzel vs tofa
Blui vs Vulpix03
blunder vs NHelioX7
Bogging vs LpZ
Chiles Habaneros vs promethezine
ChrisPBacon vs DeimosH
Cicada vs false
CringeLord! vs Torchic
crying vs KSr
damflame 3 vs Vileman
Dasmer vs Finchinator
decis vs Zerkas
DonSalvatore vs Kebab mlml
dunoks vs temp
Egor vs UnzipsCrogre
El Quixana vs London Beats
Eternal Spirit vs Jytcampbell
Exiline vs RaiZen1704
fade vs Mendeez
Fant'sy Beast vs Rex Slayer
Garay oak vs pixie909
GasaiYunoSan vs Sharow
Glurakaiser vs Trade
Gondra vs Laurel
Hayburner vs Rewer
Joya vs Typical_bastard
Juanpa vs Shaneghoul
lax vs Tace
Liimpy vs Zooch
Lily vs ZeroKitss
lolebruh vs sensei axew
lucardinho vs Skypenguin
Medeia vs Unamed
Micciu vs zaydapoketrainer
Nyx vs pj
Prinz vs SetsuSetsuna
reyscarface vs Trogba Trogba
Roller K vs seroo
Rubyblood vs zioziotrip
Skooma vs w_r
Surfy vs weird mon
tr1x vs Yves Stone
3d vs SHSP
AcneAutist vs Thor
agentkeval vs Maxouille
Ahsan-219 vs NoName6293
Akalli vs Potatoboybob
Akarui~Kurayami vs fish anemometer
Always! vs ChaFouuu
Ann vs DripLegend
Askov vs TyCarter
autumn vs Lycans
awyp vs Kaif
Azphiel vs Robert
BiscotteKouloulou vs Giannis Antetokommo-o
Bka Onon vs Yelodash
BlessyZ vs nonfoolnonfish
Buhrito vs Sylvi
damien the genius vs wangyu
Dark Shion vs GeniusX
db vs Fabriisse
Dj Breloominati♬ vs skrimps
DKM vs rs
Eeveeto vs MS3D
Empo vs pannu
entrocefalo vs Lostmemories
Ewin vs Fun Trading
Expulso vs Nikebeamz
Flying Beagle vs flyingtaco
hellpowna vs Portrait or Ruin
Hydronics vs xray
Hyssou vs jay
Iguana vs Vinc2612
Ikaishi vs Magician
Isza vs pulsar512b
Javi vs teal6
Lifeismyth vs Skyrio
Louna vs Zaza
Lyppa vs xavgb
Malekith vs Revenge Killer
MichaelderBeste2 vs Slowpoke Fan
ninjadog vs Seasons
PikachuZappyZap vs Waylaid
Reze vs skimmythegod
Richard harrow vs Sadi Tonmoy
Sachumberto vs TPP
Savouras vs TJ
SiTuM vs Sylveon used calm mind
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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