Smogon Tournament #11
Welcome to this year's Official Smogon Tournament, the eleventh 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 ORAS 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.
- Baton Pass Clause: Check this thread.
- 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.
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 2, it won't affect the tournament until its next round.
Also, if you notice any error made in the pairings (because I missbolded your name in Round 1 for example), please notice me as soon as possible.
Pairings
Make sure to double check if you're there just in case there is a typo in your username. Also, to avoid any confusion, Bloo actually made the pairings.
PDC vs
Ee Ohgh Ah Han vs
Brophlosion
badabing vs
HNA
Korby vs
Aqualouis
Ditto vs
dice
el poeta vs
Steven Snype
LighTz911 vs
Blightbringer vs
BLOOD TOTEM vs
Darkdiglett
DennisEG vs
Fruitdealer vs
Nuanda92
Lowgock vs
Zamrock vs
reiku vs
HBK vs
FlamingVictini vs
Metaphysical
Calloflochie vs
Ninety Nine
boltsandbombers vs
Alloy
daftmau5 vs
FURORE DEI MICETTI vs
snagaa vs
ben gay
PROBLEMS vs
cosine180 vs
Hot N Cold
Void vs
Enki vs
KratosMana vs
Emvee vs
Deckline vs
Marky B
Wiz T7 vs
fatty vs
Haunted Diamond vs
habajiga
Arcticblast vs
Nldvkie
Bluwing vs
Doppelsoldner vs
C and E vs
DoomXFTW
Laga vs
BKC vs
Angelin
Mike Fenix vs
Staraptor
H-C vs
Toxzn vs
ggggd
steelphoenix vs
Holiano
Improbable vs
IronBullet93
Laurel vs
FAJI vs
TheEnder vs
Nails vs
martyrDOM
Water Drone vs
Obliviate vs
paradox.ans
Floppy vs
shartruce2 vs
Thatsjustpeachy
-Tsunami- vs
King UU
Floushaide vs
Style vs
husk
jacob vs
Dlanyer
McMeghan vs
Zebraiken vs
Livio
DestinyUnknown vs
cirlo
Zephir vs
Misugi
d0nut vs
Sovahkiin
Ranger Dave vs
Ginku vs
Honor
Deadline
The deadline for Round 2 will be 17:59 EST on the 21st of February, 2015. 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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