Tournament Champions Draft Kickoff - Round 3

scionicle · May 17, 2026

Fantastic art by vmnunes

This is Smogon Draft's first singles event for Champions! We'll be playing a custom format to simulate a 6v6 environment using Regulation Set M-A availability and mechanics. The tour will consist of battle pools followed by a single-elimination bracket with a redraft at top 32. We hope to get the draft board as ready as possible prior to the tour, but it may be updated for the redraft. Hosts are scionicle and Thomas18.

The following spoilers will cover signup information and rules for the tournament.

You have up to 90 points with which to draft 8 Pokémon. Costs are listed on your pool’s tab on the drafting spreadsheet.
You may only draft 1 Mega Evolution and the non-Mega variants of Pokémon may not Mega Evolve.
If a Pokémon is picked by someone else, you may not pick it.
For the first round, there is a 12 hour timer. After the first round ends, there will be a continuous 6 hour timer within which you must pick, or you will be skipped, and will be required to make-up your pick when you are next online. All timers are off between 10pm-7am local time (check your pools pinned message for local time).
In order to help speed up the first few rounds of the draft for everybody, tournament staff will impose a 24 hour check in. What that means is this:
- From the commencement of the draft until 24 hours after, every single competitor will need to reach out to their pool mod (either in drafting channel discussion thread, or Discord DM)
- This message can be simple "I'm here for pool X and ready to draft", no need to be elaborate
- Any competitor who has already made a pick does not need to check in.
- Any competitor who has not checked in with their pool mod by the time check-in is over in 24 hours will be replaced.
Your timer will halve every time you are skipped. It is recommended to leave picks (with backups) with your pool moderator to avoid this.
- It is the responsibility of the player to inform the other members of the pool if they have left a pick with the pool mod so the players can properly notify the pool mod it is your turn to pick. The pool mods are not responsible for watching every pick at every hour of the day waiting to input your pick.
- If you are skipped by the other players when you left a pick but did not inform them that you did, the skip is justified.
- If the pool mod does not respond in a timely manner, notify 1 online Moderator for further assistance.
The following complex bans are in place:
:basculegion: - No Pokémon may use the move Last Respects. :basculegion-f:
:heliolisk: - No Pokémon may use the move Shed Tail. :orthworm:
:scovillain: - No Pokémon may use the ability Moody. :glalie:
:vivillon: - No Pokémon may use directly sleep-inducing moves. This includes Yawn, Hypnosis, Sing, and Sleep Powder. :ninetales:
The following Pokémon have access to all of their non-Mega forms (although you may only bring up to 1 to each battle):
:meowstic: - Meowstic :meowstic-f:
:gourgeist: - Gourgeist :gourgeist:
:basculegion: - Basculegion :basculegion-f:
:maushold: - Maushold :maushold-four:
If a Pokémon that is available in Champions Reg M-A is untiered, please ask a host.
Smogon’s Species Clause applies to your draft.

All games must be played in the [Champions] Draft tier on smogtours.psim.us or psim.us. Be aware that each game on smogtours starts a timer automatically and cannot be turned off.
General tournament rules and regulations can be found here.
In-game win conditions are in place; there are no ties.
Each set is a best-of-one set.
The following clauses apply:
- Species Clause: A player cannot have two Pokémon with the same National Pokédex number on a team.
- Sleep Moves Clause: Sleep-inducing moves are banned.
- Item Clause: No two Pokémon on the same team can hold the same item.
- Evasion Clause: A Pokémon may not hold an item, use a move or possess an ability that can increase their evasion stat
- OHKO Clause: A Pokémon may not have the moves Fissure, Guillotine, Horn Drill, or Sheer Cold in its moveset.
- Moody Clause: A team cannot have a Pokémon with the ability Moody.
- Endless Battle Clause: Players cannot intentionally prevent an opponent from being able to end the game without forfeiting.
- Baton Pass Clause: A Pokémon may not have Baton Pass in its moveset.
Quick Claw and King's Rock are banned.
Any items unreleased in Champions Reg M-A are banned.
Replays must be posted to the round thread.

About Activity Decisions

Activity Decisions / Coin Flips: In the event that there is an uncompleted match at the deadline, and an extension has not been requested, 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.

Please note that all extension requests and activity claims must be posted to the thread, and that all of these will be judged on a case by case basis.

[Credit to the Official Smogon Tournament hosting team for the base form of this rule.]

Contact your opponent as soon as possible upon the round going up. Activity cases are going to be handled in a very strict manner.

When scheduling, offer as wide a swathe of time when you are available to play. 1 hour of activity on one or two weeknights is unlikely to be considered acceptable.

Schedule specifically - do not schedule for "Friday afternoon" or "Sunday morning", pick a date, a time and note the time zone, ideally as GMT offset.

If either host catches news of ghosting or some other sort of nefarious play, we reserve the right to investigate to the full limits of our ability.

not mishmesh  vs  Azcelerator
BurningMonSoul  vs  guigaxs2000
thebeardydragon  vs  zachmander
gary buster holmes  vs  Metsfan5715
babble  vs  lavaskull100
JRoberts  vs  Bastien_YG
takuaa  vs  daddydaveslidinintourdms
Ghoul in PJs  vs  Kingsous
Black117  vs  Minissou
Mok3s  vs  urban
mikejohns  vs  CoolEvan1098
SEROO  vs  Zong200
platanopower420  vs  Clb7
Almighty Rye  vs  JCMShadow
64 Squares  vs  Amaske
Zygarde12  vs  Vulpix03
c1utch  vs  ogalbina
Thootjuh  vs  LogIce
jscurf  vs  Sy1h
jozar  vs  Donnel
GypsyKing  vs  Jamieon
ZebstrikemDown  vs  kerbecs
Jadinobambino  vs  Tjb145
LeftoverHotdish  vs  Princess Autumn
ReverseTracebacks  vs  Big Pharma
Lou2697  vs  Scribble
Babyhuey  vs  Roller K
berna-  vs  sujaybhoite
Puckbud  vs  ACExDiscostu93
vengabenga  vs  GoldenCyber
SixftHax  vs  Zooch
LeBomboclats  vs  Neil445
DonMarto  vs  kyrogeniz
Idyll  vs  GrandmasterCake
Manan999  vs  Coconut | 椰果
Doncon123  vs  Meta
Treyunt  vs  SIrKill
ConquestGanda  vs  Deranged_Lime
Oopsie Peach  vs  ElysianSoul
scionicle  vs  gengariza
urhere  vs  Capitão General
Ayø  vs  yerdunc
impersonxtor  vs  ElyFlyGuy
Maxomega  vs  Xev
Lux2821  vs  Mokratha
nefertum_1  vs  NHLKA
Nozzermat  vs  Shade1x
Lyssa  vs  yapo
sablolol  vs  Exyss
Aleksanteri  vs  Ehmcee
jebistee  vs  1 True Lycan
Thanos  vs  DeeColon
amyayayy  vs  Murp3
chimechoo  vs  Jimbocephus
subzero_slammer  vs  ThinkingSceptile
Portrait or Ruin  vs  sqoiche
Moron5  vs  Down By VI
kurse  vs  Iride
legonene  vs  diegoyuhhi
vmnunes  vs  HazyNoir
Jiggypoo  vs  Marshy.
BLAZING HAWK  vs  Crystal Methyd
Fish and Chips  vs  OdinRM
Bananacrazy111  vs  gxewho?

MATCHUPS DOC

This challenge code should be used to ensure neither player breaks the rules:
/challenge gen9championsdraft @@@ -Last Respects, -Shed Tail, -Moody, -Baton Pass, -King's Rock, -Quick Claw, Item Clause=1, Sleep Moves Clause

Games are due <t:1779674400:F>

This thread and all future Champions Draft Kickoff threads should be considered the final ruling in case of discrepancy between threads, Discord announcements, and Google spreadsheets. Contact a host if you have any questions or spot an error. We are human, after all.