Announcement November 3rd 1v1 Direct

[lost heros]

Welcome to the 1v1 Direct. My name is lost heros, and I would like to share with you some exciting news regarding the latest in 1v1 developments​

2025 has been a busy year for all 1v1 players from those competing in individual circuit tours, 3 different team tours, and 1v1 Classic to those talking about 1v1 in the 1v1 Room or participating in 1v1 Projects like our 1v1 Core Ladder Challenge and 1v1 Set Comp. Today we would like to share with you some of our upcoming plans for 1v1 as we finish 2025 and move into 2026.

1v1 Room Official Tournaments

1v1 Room Other Tier of the Day

2026 1v1 Circuit

2026 OGPL III / 1v1CL I

1v1 Discord Revamp

1v1OT Discord Revamp

Set Compendium Project

Metagame Update

1v1 Festival

 

[Sificon]

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New official schedule!​

We will be (and already are) making some changes regarding the tournaments held in the room.

The first of the two changes is affecting the official roomtours. There will be 2 alternating weekly schedules which should allow more people to play in different formats, no matter their timezones as well as this now includes Natdex 1v1. This started this past Saturday, November 1st.

and the following week (and then every other week) it'll be this one

Format of the day!​

The second of these changes is introducting a Format of the day! Those will be 2 new daily tours at 5am and 5pm servertime and they will be a random format from this list! This will introduce more fun formats into the cycle and should just allow for more silly and experimental tiers to be played in a roomtour.

None of these changes are set in stone and have to be permanent but they have been be implemented like this with the potential to be adjusted/removed/reworked after some time if needed.

 

[lost heros]

2026 Circuit​

Hello everyone,

The 2025 1v1 Circuit hasn't quite ended yet, but we want to start planning for the 2026 Circuit early!

For 2026, here are the major questions I think that need to be addressed, and we'll be talking with community members to help answer them:

Do we want to stick with 4 tours a year or do we want to increase the number of tours we run? If we do, do we want to introduce certain tours as Type B and Type C tours, which could give a lower amount of points.

Do we want to keep the same formats as last year, or do we want to change them? And if so to what? Do we want to bring back any historic formats that we didn't run this year?

Do we want to make any changes to champs itself?

We're looking to answering all of these questions (and more!) by talking with our community at large both in 1v1 Tournament Policy Discussion Thread and on Discord! Once we get some general feedback, we'll be releasing a poll to answer some of these questions quantitively, so stay tuned!

 

[lost heros]

OGPL III / 1v1CL I​

1v1CL 1v1CL 1v1CL WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

As most people know I've been testing the waters on 1v1CL as rebrand/replacement for OGPL. OGPL has been a very successful tour, highlighting and showcasing some of our older gens and their players, although it's come with its fair share of hiccups. Last year we tested out flex slots in OGPL which allowed each team to submit a tier of their choice every week from GSC to SS. While many (not everyone) like the flex slots, there were some concerns with GSC being both a tier in the tour at all and with it being a flex-exclusive slot. There's also the concerns regarding 3 team playoffs, as that can be a momentum killer for the leading team.

Now there are a lot of ways we can do 1v1CL.

1. We can basically do what we did in years past with OGPL regarding slots with either none or few flex slots.
2. We can do what RUCL I is doing, where we have a lot of flex slots
3. We can do what NUCL talked about doing, where we have both SV and non-SV static slots
4. We can do some new thing entirely! (Rotating Static Bo7 slot potentially?)

However, all of this is putting the cart before the horse. I want to be clear, we don't have to replace OGPL with 1v1CL. We want to have a discussion first about whether or not to rebrand this tour or not. We'd like to invite all manner of discussion regarding OGPL / 1v1CL in the 1v1 Tournament Policy Discussion Thread and on Discord! Once we get some general feedback, we'll be releasing a poll to better plan this next major team tour.

 

[lost heros]

1v1 Discord Rework!​

I, like many of you, spend a lot of time in the 1v1 Discord. Like a lot a lot of time. Anyways, because we all spend so much time in the discord, I am always looking for ways to improve it.

First let's talk about what's not changing, which is most of it! There will still be several channels relating to 1v1 Meta Discussion, different tournament discussions, and a few off topic chats as well.

However a lot of stuff will be going away including, Project Discussion, Weeb, Sports, Laddering Music, Emoji Suggestion, and a few more channels. You'll also notice some channels being condensed and combined. What was once, Rules, Resources, and Role-assignment, will be be combined into one channel instead of three.

But let's get to what you're actually interested in. What's being added?

Over the next few days, you're going to see 1v1 Old Gens and 1v1 Other Tiers change from being regular old channels to becoming FORUM CHANNELS. Inside these forum channels, all of our major old gens will get a thread where old gens and other tier lovers can talk to their hearts content. That being said as there are A LOT of old gens and other tiers, and not all have nearly the same level of interest, the less popular channels will be shuttered, and those tiers will have to use a general thread instead.

1v1 OT Discord Rework!​

Now I know what you're thinking. With OTs getting threads in the main discord, there's no reason for this discord anymore right? Well we don't think so. While all of the major formats will be hosted on the main discord, with our new format of the day tournaments in the room, we're opening up this discord to help develop these tiers if players show interest in them.

We're also opening up this discord to be a little more tour-friendly. While I always encourage anyone and everyone to host tours on Smogon, if there are a lot of ongoing tours on the forums, or if you feel like your tour is not suited for that environment, we want this to be where you go. Whether it's a No Johns Tour, a weirdo team tour, or whatever else you can imagine (NOT JUST OTHER TIERS), we are excited to work with you and get whatever channels, roles, and anything else you need to run an awesome and cool tour!

 

[bellchime]

1v1 Sets Compendium Revamp!​

Sets Compendium is getting revamped. glitched will be the one handling the sets compendium project. The thread and document should be up now. Feel free to submit sets for the sets in the EV explanations document that do not have any set for them.

Additionally, all sets compendium sets will be ported to Smogon Dex in a timely manner. They will not have analyses, but this should at least allow for us to have all the sets compendium sets in the damage calculator in a timely manner.

The thread is linked.

 

[Indi01]

1V1 METAGAME UPDATE ​

With 1v1 World Cup entering its final stages for the year, we of the 1v1 Council have been closely observing all of its SV games and have been considering where to take the meta in the near future. We are hoping to release a post-World Cup survey to better gauge the current state of the meta, and to evaluate whether some mons have the potential/need to be looked closer. Please take the time now to consider whether you are enjoying SV 1v1 as it is, or if there may be further improvements to the metagame that could be done. Thank you.

 

[Iron Crusher]

The 1v1 Festival​

It’s time for a party! The 1v1 room will be hosting an end of year 1v1 festival in the month of december! Prepare to compete for points in ladder challenges, room events and tournaments for your chance to earn a Custom Avatar prize! Full event details will be revealed at a later date, so stay tuned!