Welcome to the NFE Open! This will be a single elimination tournament in the NFE format, as part of the 2026 Unofficial Metagames Circuit and the Unofficial Metagames Grand Slam! This tournament will earn you points for both the year-long circuit, as well as the 2026 NFE Circuit! This will be a single elimination, best of three tournament held in the NFE format on Pokemon Showdown. All replays must be posted to the round's thread for a win to count, and each round will take one week. Here are some useful NFE resources:
Round 8
sleid vs big tony 2014
Extension DL is Wednesday 11:59PM GMT-4, April 18th
Final DL is Wednesday 11:59 PM GMT-4, April 25th
- NFE Viability Rankings
- NFE Role Compendium
- NFE Speed Tiers
- NFE Sample Teams
- Here are some Smogon tournament resources:
- Standard Rules and Clauses
- General tournament rules and regulations can be found here.
- Species Clause: A player cannot have two Pokémon with the same Pokédex number on his team.
- Sleep Clause: You cannot inflict sleep upon more than one member of the opposing team.
- Evasion Clause: The moves Double Team and Minimize are banned.
- OHKO Clause: The moves Horn Drill, Guillotine, Sheer Cold, and Fissure are banned.
- 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 Pokémon that is capable of intentionally causing an endless battle is banned from competitive play. Check this thread for more information.
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, or if hosts determine an activity win was earned based on public contact. 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.
Host discretion will be applied for all unplayed games. This means that an activity win will not be automatically granted if you post, and a lack of post does not automatically result in a coinflip.
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.
Host discretion will be applied for all unplayed games. This means that an activity win will not be automatically granted if you post, and a lack of post does not automatically result in a coinflip.
Round 8
sleid vs big tony 2014
Extension DL is Wednesday 11:59PM GMT-4, April 18th
Final DL is Wednesday 11:59 PM GMT-4, April 25th
Last edited by a moderator:
QWONKA
