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Smogon Masters III - Round 3, Thread A [2-0, REPLAYS MANDATORY]

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Welcome to the third 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 (with the higher seed choosing come Top Cut), 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, all players with 2 or fewer losses will be advanced onto a single elimination, Bo3 bracket which will culminate in a grand finals where we'll crown our winner of Smogon Masters III and the purple trophy
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! Last year's Masters was won by none other than Empo in a closely fought finals, do you think you have what it takes to take his title?

Rules & Tournament Format

General Tournament Rules
  • This is a tournament that will employ the standard rulesets for ORAS OU, SM OU, and SS OU, being a Best of Three with one game of each tier.
  • Smogon Masters III will be a Swiss tournament with a to-be-determined Top Cut size depending on signups.
    • Players will be automatically dropped when they hit three losses as they are no longer in contention for top cut. Players who achieve top cut scores before the end of Swiss will not be matched up for the remainder of the Swiss rounds.
    • Players will be assigned a random opponent out of the pool of players with the same record as them each round, although on rare occasions, players may face someone with a better/worse record to avoid having more than 1 bye in any given round. Players will not face the same opponent during the Swiss portion of the tour.
  • Matches are to be played on Pokémon 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. This will be removed for the single elimination Top Cut stage of the tournament.
  • Princess Autumn is the primary host of this tournament and the co-hosts will be a fairy, Eledyr, goldmason, and vmnunes.
This tournament uses a Swiss format, where everyone plays until they lose three times, or until Top Cut begins after Round 10 (or 11). The Top Cut will be single elimination and based on a 32-player bracket, although this may vary depending on the tour's player count. All matches will be a Best of 3, involving ORAS OU, USUM OU, and SWSH OU.

This tournament is expected to fall into of the following sizes:
384 - 512 players = 10 rounds of Swiss, 32 person Top Cut with varying numbers of byes
513 - ~978 players = 11 rounds of Swiss, 32 person Top Cut with varying numbers of byes
~978 - 1024 players = 11 rounds of Swiss, 64 person Top Cut with varying numbers of byes

Byes will be awarded based off of seeding which will be calculated by the following tiebreakers: fewest number of losses, highest opponent's resistance, highest opponent's opponent's resistance.
Opponent's resistance is defined as the average win% of a player's opponents expressed as a decimal, for example:
  • I have a record of 3-0
  • My R1 opponent's record is 0-3
  • My R2 opponent's record is 1-2
  • My R3 opponent's record is 2-1
  • My opponent's resistance is (0 + 1/3 + 2/3)/3 = 1/3 = ~0.33
  • This value has a hard coded minimum of 0.25
Opponent's opponent's resistance is the average of each of a player's opponent's resistances, and is calculated in a similar manner.
If players are still tied after these, their seeding will be determined by a coin flip.

There will be no substitute slots this year, instead week 1 will last for 2 weeks; substitutes will be allowed to signup for the duration of week 1 and come Sunday, inactive players will be replaced on a first-come first-serve basis.

Players who achieve a Top Cut-qualifying record before the final round of Swiss will be removed from the Swiss rounds. They will be seeded in brackets depending on when they qualified.

NEW FOR MASTERS III: We will be implementing an extra round of Swiss (similar to OSDT V or the VGC Live Tour earlier this year). This will shorten the length of Top Cut by 1 round and provide more of a safety net to X-0 and X-1 players.

Round 3
gorgie vs darkprobz
Malekith vs S1nn0hC0nfirm3d
Django vs TDNT
toshimelonhead vs TakingNotesKinda
SoulWind vs Slowpoke Fan
awyp vs roll deep style
blunder vs Dasmer
MANNAT vs Hairoll
elodin vs Winterbub
DeeJ vs Kaif
sugarhigh vs MTB
Always! vs Brandonlee1
Kid Buu vs ojr
Analytic vs adjustments
Ox the Fox vs Drud
feen vs Symphonie
Eeveeto vs LORD SAGIS
Jay vs Xurkiyee
lax vs Frailty
c0mp vs purbaj
Cam vs Rubyblood
Sabella vs Typhlosion48
Sacri' vs chansey and lulu
ima vs Abele
Magician vs xdRudi.exe
Ruft vs BluBirD
3d vs Tace
lotiasite vs kDCA
Vulpix03 vs Savouras
Lazuli vs wvsp
Lycans vs Howkings
Garay oak vs 1LDK
crying vs fade
GeniusX vs jetou
egalvanc vs the pharoah
Attribute vs damien the genius
Ash KetchumGamer vs ChrisPBacon
Santu vs Giannis Antetokommo-o
Fardin vs Gray
Xiri vs Drachenkeule
AlejanDraco vs entrocefalo
Luthier vs Tenebricite
Dj Breloominati♬ vs 8truc
Chaitanya vs Mada
DonSalvatore vs seraphz
DKM vs Premonitions
Mister McLovin vs Sachumberto
Aurella vs agenS
Éric vs Slip
leo568 vs Lacks
Kate vs LB
Skypenguin vs PZZ
LoSconosciuto vs thajester
Waylaid vs Kayzn
Estuardo19 vs Micciu
devin vs angolano06
Oya/Semort vs zinnias
Ashbala vs GOATED im_m0rtal.
Fabriisse vs Vortex!
Jojo8868 vs NoName6293
MAVERICK SHOOTERS vs MemphisDepay
dunoks vs AgencyIsOwn
Clas vs July
jb291 vs churrojr
RoFnA vs SammyCe123
arc101 vs Bey is Back
Typical_bastard vs Wesleyy
vk vs Blazing
Runo vs doso749
Taka vs graynium-Z
hi.naming is hard vs Daharan
Jojen vs hxmo
Kustavan vs JeoZ
Zentrox vs Know treasure
Skyiew vs cloud and book
Kokona Aoba vs memedose46

The deadline for games is <t:1759629600:F>!

There are no extensions during the Swiss phase of this tour. Any games that are missing by the deadline will go to an activity call or coin flip.

If there are any questions, please don't hesitate to reach out to myself or any of the other hosts!
 
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