Smogon's Official Ladder Tournament XII - Playoffs (Swiss) Round 1

[Quite Quiet]

(Art by ium)​

After four weeks of big and intense competition and frustration spent on the ladder, here we are to the playoffs of the eleventh Official Ladder Tournament. There's been a lot of things going on over the last four cycles, so let's give everyone a show in playoffs too! The competition will be fierce and we all hope we'll get to see interesting and high-level SV OU battles between you all.

This playoff bracket will start as a swiss tournament. As such, you continue playing in this stage until you have won or lost three matches in the playoffs stage.

Remember, all matches are to be played in a BEST OF THREE format, and all standard SV OU rules apply.

Finally, before going into the pairings, we'd like to thank the PS Staff, from the owners to the moderators, for making the ladder phase of the tournament possible and smoother in its running. We appreciate your help and support, and a special thanks to pre and Mia for making this a lot better. Now, without further ado...

Round 1

Stareal vs oldspicemike
Tace vs zS
leng loi vs 3d
Originality56 vs Alhen
Storm Zone vs crying
Separation vs TDNT
heileone vs Giannis Antetokommo-o
SoulWind vs clean
ima vs Light DN
Unstoppable1 vs MRH1106
Typhlosion48 vs Fusien
Ewin vs hellom
Vert vs JJ09LIE
Let's Rumble Shall We vs Dasmer
SupaGmoney vs xavgb
Bloody vs Gray


Please, let us know in the thread when you will be playing once your games are scheduled, we would all very much like to spectate.

Deadline
Sunday, August 31st @ 11:59 PM EDT

 

[Isza]

Vert 3d xavgb clean Ewin hellom
zS

 

[leng loi]

Pookie and I are playing 3pm -4 Saturday.

 

[Unstoppable1]

friday 3 pm -5

 

[Hiro']

A few miscellaneous facts about the qualification phase...

Congratulations to heileone, ima, leng loi, Let's Rumble Shall We, Light DN, MRH1106, Unstoppable1, and zS on their first qualification!
Meanwhile, SoulWind caught up Empo at 9 total qualifications.
But he's not the only OLT veteran, we also have Tace, Storm Zone, Giannis, Ewin, and Vert all sitting at 4 qualifications or more!

SoulWind and xavgb are the only two past winners to have qualified this year, with xav competing for a back-to-back win!

Storm Zone is sitting at 2131 average ELO and 1.17 average attempt, which means he always qualified on his first attempt except once in 6 qualifications.
This is the 8th time in a row that Tace qualifies for swiss... out of 8 total participations. SoulWind's qualification streak is at 6.

15/32 participants in swiss this year were also qualified in 2024.
Among them, 7 also qualified in 2023 and have thus qualified for all OLTs featuring SV OU: Ewin, hellom, SoulWind, Storm Zone, SupaGmoney, Tace, and Vert.

People have had generally better GXEs this year than in the two previous editions

Cycle 1 was pretty high in terms of ELO compared to the two previous editions

Besides Cycle 3, cutoffs were slightly higher than the two previous editions, with Cycle 4 being significantly higher

As for Swiss, we have 2 rematches:

• Ewin vs hellom which happened both in 2023 and 2024
• Vert vs JJ09LIE which happened in 2023

 

[LB]

Storm Zone Fusien hellom

WIN.

 

[sire clod]

SupaGmoney leng loi ima Fusien my goats get the job done.

 

[waffle04]

JC98 (most accurate sv predictor in wcop) & I's predicts

Stareal v Oldspicemike (45/55)

Tace v zS (46/54)

leng loi V 3d (HIGHLIGHT)

Originality56 v Alhen (40/60)

Storm Zone v Crying (51/49)

Seperation v TDNT (55/45)

Heileone v Giannis (45/55)

Soulwind v Clean (45/55)

Ima v Light (60/40)

Unstoppable v MRH (49/51)

Typhlosion48 v Fusien (47/53)

Ewin v Hellom (55/45)

Vert v JJ09lie (55/45)

Lets rumble v Dasmer (49/51)

Supa v Xavgb (45/55)

Bloody v Gray (51/49)

 

[DELTA_1152]

Hello everyone, and as is tradition, I'm going to make predictions based on what I saw during these four weeks of competitions. Yes, I watched a lot of matches, and I even write the names of each player I watched.

I didn't make this for cycle 1, but I did for cycles 2 / 3 / 4, which makes about 150 for cycle 1 | 180 games (cycle 2) | 209 in cycle 3 | 161 games in cycle 4 | = 700 matches.

I'll try to be objective based on what I saw. I'm absolutely not OU expert.

I'd like to take this opportunity to thank eachs participants because there are only 32 spots in the end out of hundreds.

Stareal vs oldspicemike

Tace vs zS

leng loi vs 3d

Originality56 vs Alhen

Storm Zone vs crying

Separation vs TDNT

heileone vs Giannis Antetokommo-o

SoulWind vs clean

ima vs Light DN

Unstoppable1 vs MRH1106

Typhlosion48 vs Fusien

Ewin vs hellom

Vert vs JJ09LIE

Let's Rumble Shall We vs Dasmer

SupaGmoney vs xavgb

Bloody vs Gray

Good luck everyone and let the show begin ! ​

 

[JohnYiu]

Separation

 

[clean]

Requesting extension, we are scheduled for: <t:1756738800:F>

 

[Let's Rumble Shall We]

playing sunday 8pm gmt+6

 

[cala_aa]

gendercast predictions, w/ 10+ people contributing

Stareal vs oldspicemike (45-55)
Tace vs zS (43-57)
leng loi vs 3d (40-60) (betting the house on leng tho)
Originality56 vs Alhen (48-52)
Storm Zone vs crying (51-49)
Separation vs TDNT (60-40)
heileone vs Giannis Antetokommo-o (35-65)
SoulWind vs clean (45-55)
ima vs Light DN (70-30)
Unstoppable1 vs MRH1106 (45-55)
Typhlosion48 vs Fusien (40-60)
Ewin vs hellom (45-55)
Vert vs JJ09LIE (70-30)
Let's Rumble Shall We vs Dasmer (60-40) (as long as he doesnt bring jolteon)
SupaGmoney vs xavgb (42-58)
Bloody vs Gray (51-49)

 

[Astro]

Vamos les gars zS Bloody

 

[Mok3s]

LETS GO Separation