Smogon Tournament #10
Welcome to this year's Official Smogon Tournament, the tenth installment of one of Smogon's most prestigious tournaments. The OST is one of Smogon's longest standing traditions in tournaments and has crowned many great Pokemon players as its champions across three generations. Over the next few months, hundreds of players will compete to the best of their ability as they attempt to join the exclusive ranks of the OST trophy holders. Only one of those players will succeed in their journey and earn the recognition that comes with their victory, along with the iconic OST trophy.
Before participating in this tournament, please take some time to read the following thread: Tournament Rules, Guidelines, and General Information
Specific Rules
- This is a standard XY OU tournament.
- The tournament will be single elimination.
- Players will play a best of three series of games each round.
- Matches are to be played on Pokemon Showdown! If both players agree, matches may also be played on Pokemon Online 2.
Standard Rules and Clauses
- Sleep Clause: A player cannot put two or more different opposing Pokémon to sleep using attacks that induce sleep to opposing Pokémon.
- Species Clause: A player cannot have two of the same Pokémon on their team. For example, a player cannot have two Koffing on his or her team.
- Evasion Clause: A player cannot use the moves Double Team or Minimize in their Pokémon's movesets.
- OHKO Clause: Players cannot use Horn Drill, Guillotine, Sheer Cold, or Fissure in any of their Pokémon's movesets.
- 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 pokemon that is capable of intentionally causing an endless battle is banned from competitive play. Check this thread for more informations.
- Uber Clause: Players may not use any items, moves, abilities, or Pokemon that appear on Smogon's OU Ban List. If the tiers change or new items, abilities, moves, or Pokemon become available in the middle of a round, the changes will take effect in the following round. There will be an announcement in the relevant round if this occurs.
About Activity Decisions
Activity Decisions / Coin Flips: We are changing the rules for activity / coin flip decisions for this tournament. 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. 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.
Activity Win Request
I contacted my opponent on the 27th, one day after the round was posted and told him my timezone. He responded on the 30th but did not indicate his timezone. I replied back asking for a timezone on the 1st of December, and he never replied. On the 7th, I VMed him again asking whether he could battle on the weekend, and yet again he didn't respond. I deserve the activity win because my opponent ignored my attempts to schedule our battles.
I contacted my opponent on the 27th, one day after the round was posted and told him my timezone. He responded on the 30th but did not indicate his timezone. I replied back asking for a timezone on the 1st of December, and he never replied. On the 7th, I VMed him again asking whether he could battle on the weekend, and yet again he didn't respond. I deserve the activity win because my opponent ignored my attempts to schedule our battles.
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.
Timer Clause will be strictly enforced for this tournament. This means that the normal disconnection rules found in the Tournament Rules, Guidelines, and Information thread do not apply. If a player disconnects and does not reconnect to their battle before the timer expires, they lose that particular game. This doesn't necessarily mean they lose the entire best-of-three set.
Substitutions
Players may sign up as a substitute if they either didn't join in time or their posts in the signups thread were deleted. If you are eliminated from the tournament (i.e. you lose your games, are substituted out, or drop out), you may not sign up as a substitute. I will endeavor to substitute players in whenever a player drops out, and one week before the Round 1 deadline, I will look through all players and activity win requests and replace any inactive players with substitutes. There is a very high chance that you will get to play if you sign up as a substitute. Substitutes will only be allowed into the tournament during Round 1. Substitutes will be implemented on a mostly first come, first serve basis, but if you are inactive after you sign up as a substitute then I will not substitute you into the tournament.
Playing before the prediction tour occured
You may play before the prediction tournament is up but try not to announce the result of your games before it actually get posted. In case you would play, the result wouldn't be altered anyway.
If a ban occurs during the Round 1, it won't affect the tournament until its next round.
Pairings
Make sure to double check if you're there just in case there is a typo in your username. Also, just in case there would be any confusions, Hugendugen actually made the pairings.
Double01 vs
Problems vs
Ningildo
Heist vs
srk1214 vs
Stathakis vs
AMoonGust
C05ta vs
Robert Alfons vs
SnowCristal! vs
Toosuto
Sheks vs
NightFox vs
Labyrinthine vs
Cherub Agent vs
H-C
sebixxl vs
HBK vs
taxi driver
Boudouche vs
LeoMence
Srn9130 vs
Mario With Lasers vs
dcae vs
SoulWind vs
causeNeffect
The Quasar vs
CrashinBoomBang vs
PttP vs
Terraquaza
ModestGarchomp vs
asbdsp
DerDomme vs
Shadonia
Cristal vs
makiri vs
Knight of Cydonia vs
HanakoToast
joshe vs
Fiction. vs
NegaNiels
Thatsjustpeachy vs
Champion Luxor
Shoot vs
DarthChocoboz
The Immortal vs
FreyrEuxine
Edgar vs
lapras6666 vs
topah
Plus vs
Mew vs
badabing vs
BahaWin vs
~GreenCore vs
Scene vs
Prof_Clayton
Subject 18 vs
zfs vs
jira
kd24 vs
Finchinator
zorbees vs
Aurora vs
rojo23
JabbaTheGriffin vs
Colchonero vs
majaspic22 vs
The Baker
Bad Ass vs
Inflikted
Outrageous Fortune vs
Sinclair vs
vileman vs
Deer God
Joim vs
metagamesecrets
Kushalos vs
The Wolf vs
noname4505
Homeslice vs
bugzinator
FLCL vs
little gk
-Tsunami- vs
Steve Angello vs
Hantsuki
Ginku vs
Royalty vs
trev
RODAN vs
Aldaron
EnerG218 vs
Jsaok3
Picollo vs
Own3y vs
Tokyo Tom vs
M Dragon vs
diaoman
CTC vs
Asterat vs
Kojes vs
Steven Snype vs
CF6 vs
atomicllamas
Hakumen vs
Jcpdragonx vs
Ash Borer vs
Foster vs
KingDragonite00 vs
Nog
kokoloko vs
The_Chaser
B-Lulz vs
GatoAjato vs
Bedschibaer
blarajan vs
Mr.378
Based vs
tehy
lokt vs
Raseri
Lasagne vs
AuraRayquaza
Luis Henrique vs
MuzaaK
rotations vs
Raichy vs
Philip7086 vs
Playa vs
[K-12] The Madchine
Honor vs
papai noel vs
Silvershadow234
Nysyr vs
Enki
Illuminase vs
Đark₮aR
RockyRd vs
CaosZero
Enguarde vs
Ruppy
rpryor03 vs
Oglemi vs
Axel Rouche vs
kingmidas
Morpheus vs
Leftiez
Reiku vs
Stone_Cold
LatiosPro vs
Pridy vs
Go10
d0nut vs
llvallejoll vs
prem
SJCrew vs
Sapientia vs
Dreballin3x
Antibiotic vs
Mestre Drako
Sparko vs
idiotfrommars vs
PDC vs
Improbable
Malekith vs
blaaz
Exeggutive vs
InkBlotch1
Prague Kick vs
Annoyer vs
emboar rises vs
Sync- vs
Atticus vs
Radishbutt
el poeta vs
DarkSora. vs
-Manu- vs
JackieChun
Lohgock vs
Biosci vs
iGraffitti
Lizardons vs
ChrisTehAwesome
SwagSandwich vs
Lady Salamence vs
LonelyNess vs
MeowMixx
macle vs
youngjake93
Laga vs
Frizy
Lunar. vs
Highlight Matches
It was a week ago
Fakes vs Marcelo
crazy what the future holds don't you agree?
seemed like yesterday when Marcelo threw an offensive gg
till Fakes' flygon went on a killing spree
Put marcelo to shame, it was a pleasure to see
Fakes made marcelo his bitch that day
he fucked marcelo, he put the D in MarceloDK
now marcelo lookin to make him pay
lookin to slay n make people forget about his horrendous display
no one knows where this ones going
maybe marcelo losing, with his enemies trolling
then he'll go ''as you're alot annoyingf''
Either way it's a match we'll all be enjoying. ~ by Masterclass
Bloo vs
at first glance bloo may have the upper hand
but things may not go as planned, since bloo may not have known
That kland is a cyclone when he's in the zone
a cyclone that'll get bloo blown so far his whereabouts will be unknown
his body parts will scatter across all the cities
kland doesn't give a fuck about 50/50's
you want me to say it again?
NO 50/50s he only knows 90/10
But if bloo can make kland underestimate him he may have a chance
make kland of-guard and avoid using his ''zone'' stance
that is truely bloo's only hope if he wants to advance ~ by Masterclass
Soulwind vs
A year ago SoulWind and Metal Sonic's paths crossed
Tragedy for SoulWind, the nigga lost
Now hes seekin' vengence whatever the cost
Seekin' to get back to winnin' ways
Comin' at Sonic like Shadow with an agility raise
+2 Speed, does Sonic pack haze?
we'll find out in the coming days
So who do u think will win dis shit?
I think it has SoulWind's name all over it
Seriously, take the SO and U and move right a bit
take the L in will and make'm split
Now take ''Win'' and the first letter after it
that's the D from ''dis'' told you it was legit
But if you lose again soulwind.. seriously just quit :/ ~ By Masterclass
Deadline
The deadline for Round 1 will be 17:59 EST on the 7th of February, 2014. Any matches not played by this time will be coin flipped unless one or both players have submitted a request for an activity win.
Thanks to Zracknel for the amazing logo!
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