Playoffs Smogon Grand Slam IV - Play-offs - No Winner

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Vinc2612

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Ladies and gentlemen, after four months of intense battling, six opens full of deathmatchs and almost 800 turquoise dreams crushed, the time has finally come. The best players of this edition will now duke it out in the play-off stage of the fourth Smogon Grand Slam. Thirteen players, all with the same goal:


The overall standings can be found here. But before going more in detail, I wish to say a big thank you to Sam, macle, Oglemi, Mizuhime, Fireburn, Raseri, Jirachee and Sweep for hosting the Opens, and also to Zracknel for providing the artwork. All of your contributions was really appreciated!

Each series will be Bo5 with the higher seed choosing which one of the six GS tiers (Ubers, UU, RU, NU, LC, Doubles) is excluded. The higher seed MUST inform their opponent of their selection within 24 hours. The higher seed also chooses which tier is played first. The remaining games will use the standard "loser picks next" deciding order.

Also as always, if you feel like the god of all of the Internet connections is against you, you can protect yourself by sending your team to either me or any TD present at the time of the battle (to ease recreation).

Identity

I expect many battles to be completed under alts and I expect many battles to be completed on other servers to prevent scouting. These kind of factors are pretty bad for tournament security, and thus I will make this clear: If I hear any whispers of identity theft (battling as someone you are not) or proxy battling (helping someone else battle through pm) I will not be pleased and I will take severe actions.

Scouting

Next, I do not want to hear anything about counterteaming, at all. It is the silliest thing I have ever heard, any battler worth their marbles has more than one team. Do not complain about it. I also don't want to hear about any forceful scouting, whether it be spying on another teams irc channel or following your opponent around on PO. There is a difference between "ipl is known for using stall" and "let me follow ipl around all day to watch all his battles since I am his opponent". I expect a lot of the former and none of the latter.

With that said, I give permission to all battlers to ask any person spectating their battle to leave if they do not want them watching. However, given the fact that this is the big stage, I am sure a lot of people want to watch, so don't be too mean.

Timer Clause

As for taking long between moves, if your opponent asks you to hurry up, please oblige. If you are doing a damage calc for a key turn that is one thing, but prolonging every move is suspicious and annoying. Don't do it. Furthermore, Battle Timeout is a rule for a reason. If you run out of time, you lose, simple as that. It does not matter what your opponent says. Do not battle if you think you will have to leave mid battle, and instead reschedule for a better time. Timing out is still classified as a loss, unless the reason for timing out is a disconnection. If there is any suspicion that a disconnect was carried out deliberately to take advantage of this rule in any way, we reserve the right to exercise a harsh punishment.

Disconnections

If a player disconnects and either player contends that they could still win, the optimal solution is to recreate the exact situation the disconnection occurred at during the battle. If it is agreed between players that this is not feasible due to unreasonable battle length, highly improbable circumstances, or some other reason, the player who did not disconnect may choose to rematch with either the same teams or (the option to use) new teams. Timing out is still classified as a loss, unless the reason for timing out is a disconnection. If there is any suspicion that a disconnect was carried out deliberately to take advantage of this rule in any way, we reserve the right to exercise a harsh punishment. Do not do it.

I know that was a lot to read, but it is all necessary for me to have posted here so everyone can see it in the case of a dispute. I don't want any confusion or any problems.


The play-offs will be handled following the Smogon Classics format, meaning that the top four seeds will rest for a round while the seeds five to twelve will play from the start. But before going to the pairings, we need to break the tie between the 11th, 12th and 13th places.

Frizy, atomicllamas and qsns will face in a round robin. The winner of the round robin will pick his seed between 11 and 12, the second will take the other seed while the last player will be eliminated.

Tiebreaks:

Frizy vs atomicllamas
Frizy vs qsns
atomicllamas vs qsns

The player on the left has a higher win/lose ratio and will pick the five tiers.


Matchups:

5/ TewMew vs 12/ qsns
6/ Kushalos
vs 11/ atomicllamas
7/ teal6 vs 10/ Level 56
8/ HJAD vs 9/ Scythe.


Not playing this round:

1/ Tesung
2/ Mazar
3/ Kingler12345
4/ Bouffalant


The deadline to play the tiebreaks is Saturday, December 5th (11:59 pm GMT+1).
The deadline of the first round is Thursday, December 10th (11:59 pm GMT+1).


1/ Tesung vs 8/ HJAD
2/ Mazar vs 7/ teal6
3/ Kingler12345 vs 6/ Kushalos
4/ Bouffalant vs 12/ qsns


1/ Tesung vs 4/ Bouffalant
7/ teal6 vs 3/ Kingler12345

The deadline of the third round is Thursday, January 7th (11:59 pm GMT+1).



Finals :
3/ Kingler12345 vs 4/ Bouffalant

there was no winner, explanation here

No deadline this time, tell us when you play please, good luck both‼

Congratulations to all the participants who made it this far, and may the better player win!
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pj

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Tiebreaks:

Frizy vs atomicllamas-goat
Frizy vs qsns-more exp tour player
atomicllamas vs qsns-goat-2
Matchups:

5/ TewMew vs 12/ Tiebreak Winner-great low tier player
6/ Kushalos vs 11/ Tiebreak Winner-must be guud than 11 rank player
7/ teal6 vs 10/ Level 56-ubers dou and lc and he has been playing great lately
8/ HJAD vs 9/ Scythe.-uu nu and ru wud be a wrap

MAZAR or KINGLER12345 takes it
or one of VODs
 
5/ TewMew vs 12/ Atomicllamas
6/ Kushalos vs 11/ Tiebreak Winner
7/ teal6 vs 10/ Level 56
8/ HJAD vs 9/ Scythe.

llamas or tesung to win it all :D
 

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5/ TewMew vs 12/ Frizy
6/ Kushalos vs 11/ atomicllamas
7/ teal6 vs 10/ Level 56
8/ HJAD vs 9/ Scythe.
 
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