Smogon Tournament #11
Welcome to this year's Official Smogon Tournament, the eleventh installment of one of Smogon's most prestigious tournaments. The OST is one of Smogon's longest standing traditions in tournaments and has crowned many great Pokemon players as its champions across three generations. Over the next few months, hundreds 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.
Before participating in this tournament, please take some time to read the following thread: Tournament Rules, Guidelines, and General Information
Specific Rules
- This is a standard ORAS 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 both players agree, matches may also be played on Pokemon Online 2.
Standard Rules and Clauses
- 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 pokemon that is capable of intentionally causing an endless battle is banned from competitive play. Check this thread for more informations.
- Baton Pass Clause: Check this thread.
- 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: We are changing the rules for activity / coin flip decisions for this tournament. 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.
Activity Win Request
I contacted my opponent on the 27th, one day after the round was posted and told him my timezone. He responded on the 30th but did not indicate his timezone. I replied back asking for a timezone on the 1st of December, and he never replied. On the 7th, I VMed him again asking whether he could battle on the weekend, and yet again he didn't respond. I deserve the activity win because my opponent ignored my attempts to schedule our battles.
I contacted my opponent on the 27th, one day after the round was posted and told him my timezone. He responded on the 30th but did not indicate his timezone. I replied back asking for a timezone on the 1st of December, and he never replied. On the 7th, I VMed him again asking whether he could battle on the weekend, and yet again he didn't respond. I deserve the activity win because my opponent ignored my attempts to schedule our battles.
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.
Timer Clause will be strictly enforced for this tournament. This means that the normal disconnection rules found in the Tournament Rules, Guidelines, and Information thread do not apply. If a player disconnects and does not reconnect to their battle before the timer expires, they lose that particular game. This doesn't necessarily mean they lose the entire best-of-three set.
Substitutions
Players may sign up as a substitute if they either didn't join in time or their posts in the signups thread were deleted. 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. 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 I will not substitute you into the tournament.
Playing before the prediction tour occured
You may play before the prediction tournament is up but try not to announce the result of your games before it actually get posted. In case you would play, the result wouldn't be altered anyway.
If a ban occurs during the Round 1, it won't affect the tournament until its next round.
Pairings
Make sure to double check if you're there just in case there is a typo in your username. Also, just in case there would be any confusions, Bloo and I actually made the pairings.
IronBullet93 VS
Bluwing VS
ArchPhantom VS
ashiemore VS
steelphoenix VS
Bad Ass
blunder VS
Stathakis VS
KratosMana VS
Destiny Device
Hot N Cold VS
Toxzn VS
galbia
PROBLEMS VS iTeddeh
Reymedy VS
WECAMEASROMANS VS
JohnYiu
cosine180 VS
Zing
radianthero156 VS
Sergi
BLINGAS VS
reiku VS
Level 56
SoulWind VS
husk VS
Unamed
Leftiez VS
Puralux VS
daftmau5 VS
srk1214 VS
xtra$hine VS
Luckstard. VS
Adversary
Darkdiglett VS
Celsius
Shamki VS
toshimelonhead
lighthouses VS
pokebasket
kill yourself VS
Ken Valbrandur
jas61292 VS
CTC
WhiteQueen VS
Zamrock VS
LighTz911 VS
BLOOD TOTEM VS
Edgar VS
Googly
Marshall.Law VS
chimpact
During Summer vs
Outrageous Fortune vs
Ranger Dave vs
lily vs
New Attitude vs Asek
Angelin vs
OO8
dadoux vs
Valentine vs M Dragon
Tomahawk vs
Anttya
Dark_380 vs
reyscarface
horyzhnz vs doughboy
Livio vs
Shockblade Kongou
Croven vs
TheSuperSaiyanBreloom vs
Gros Orteil
DetroitLolcat vs
Sapientia vs
Zephir vs
etaoi vs
fresh to death
FURORE DEI MICETTI vs
Christo The Gr8
Fantasy vs
Moonclawz vs
Gelli
undisputed vs
Alexey
badabing vs
skysoki
Metaphysical vs
Jaiho vs
D4RR3N
Floppy vs
CELTiiC
Stone_Cold vs
PttP
H-C vs Crestfall
Conflict vs
dekzeh vs
el poeta vs
Cronenberg vs
WreckingBolt
lukw1010 vs
Laurel vs
xzern
Ditto vs
King UU vs
Tom0410 vs DAVIDpwns
-bat vs
shifty12
JabbaTheGriffin vs
The Quasar vs
HBK vs
UltiMario
C and E vs
SoulDragonite
cirlo vs
The TurtleLord
The Unlucky one vs Aristhus
FlamingVictini vs
Kefka vs
Ninety Nine vs
malefic vs
Living So Zambian vs
Double01
Arcticblast vs
HSA vs
Txerogross
fatty vs
Jukain
sugarhigh vs
Miles Tails vs
aim
martyrDOM vs
TeToN
Bundy300 vs
Zeldamon Master519
Enki vs
Yogiras
DOGE EBINEST vs
GGamer vs
Sae Sae
Alloy vs
LonelyNess
Moony vs
Laga vs
Inflikted
Ojama vs
Prankster.
ben gay vs
Pearl.
Enguarde vs
xray
-Clone- vs
brodean vs
Mazar
GeeMick vs
Weebl vs
Draco Meteora
Tokyo Tom vs
Critical-
asterat vs
El-Soldier
Srn vs
Metal Sonic
Wettin vs
Terraquaza vs
Ary vs
z0mOG vs
Contradanza vs
Spitzkopf Larry vs
Maskun529
Kirigakure vs Shyfire
RandomSpanishGuy vs
Neil.
-Tsunami- vs
Iconic
Bedschibaer vs
sebixxl vs
Azumarill vs
Jcpdragonx
Reverb vs
snagaa vs
RiCH HOMiE CHRiS
equin0x vs
K Legacy
Son of Zeus vs
d0nut vs
scorpdestroyer vs Void
Deadline
The deadline for Round 1 will be 17:59 EST on the 7th of February, 2015. Any matches not played by this time will be coin flipped unless one or both players have submitted a request for an activity win.
Thanks to Zracknel for the amazing logo!
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