Smogon Tournament #12
Welcome to this year's Official Smogon Tournament, the twelfth 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 four 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
This year, we will also have a cash prize! The winner of the tournament wins a hundred (100) US Dollars, provided generously by Pokémon Showdown. The winner will get contacted about the details of the money transfer after the tournament is completed.
The tournament will have a best of three format. This means that players will play until one of them wins two games. This will later change to a best of five format when there's 16 players remaining, requiring a player to win three games to complete the set. Players are allowed to switch teams completely between games, or use the same team, it is completely up to the player. If players only partially complete a series before the deadline, it will be considered an uncompleted match and action will be taken accordingly (either an activity win or a coin flip).
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, changing to a best of five series when 16/24 players remain in the tournament.
- Matches are to be played on Pokemon Showdown!. If both players agree, matches may also be played on Pokemon Online.
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.
- Swagger Clause: Players cannot use Swagger 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: 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 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 current round, 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.
123/128 games played
Kushalos vs Reymedy
empoleonlove vs Unamed
Nintendi vs Tomahawk
all falls down vs Meteordash
We Three Kings vs Shaneghoul
The Holy Penguin vs Zamrock
Thueris vs I'm Rick Astley
Rayzark vs Hachimaki98
TopLel TopKek vs Korby
kingmidas vs Lfrs
(Shoka vs
soulgazer vs boudouche
njnp vs Mr. Mendes
karla Schnikov vs wayup
Syncrasy vs dukevesper
chimpact vs FLCL
Merkagge vs ben gay
Pendulum Swing vs WECAMEASROMANS
Cubonerss vs Void
Croconaw Guy vs Carl Murray
Newrof vs Jimmy Turtwig
candyflip vs -Frexa-
Miridy vs Fruitdealer
Enki vs Dilwar
ShiroFox vs TheKFC
Vrille vs Ox the Fox
bromelain vs Vore Gidal
Alastor Law vs Cheek Pouch
juanen vs Loveless Rhapsody
Quaggster vs AstroGecko
Vapo vs Parpar
Azelea vs Xboy
Philip7086 vs Sir_Bagel
Yoda2798 vs cuzzie
Sam vs Guinzo
Vinc2612 vs Miles Tails
SheWentToJarod's vs ShootingStarmie
Eternal Spirit vs Calloflochie
BLOOD TOTEM vs KJ Corp
LLH vs PDC
Flexxen vs Mounts
Scotti vs Starmei
KratosMana vs BKC
H&MBerkeley vs Centygon
Teremiare vs Leremyju
Specterito vs Poek97
Trosko vs Bad Ass
Choice Specs vs (
henry vs BerserCar
Axel10 vs scpinion
Rare Poison vs ABR
(Shiba vs
dEnIsSsS vs idiotfrommars
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Jim zoldyck vs Dominatio
L0ST vs Tele
SaiyanMaster95 vs Lufia
-Snow vs TheThorn
Shogarth vs Sacred Lie
MikeDecIsHere vs Mob Barley
HJAD vs dragonlord94240
jpw234 vs FairlyFleek-_-
idarki vs Bro Kappa
Zockcent vs Dark Sphynx
Curtain vs Clone.
M Dragon vs Alkov
Ban ponyta vs Frizy
Baxstenias vs Gunner Rohan
Fredrick1 vs CTC
Zephir vs GustavoYAY
Costi vs sand1234
Karppi vs Thirst
Sleigh Bells vs TDK
Memento Ein vs Ojama
Toxzn vs Diogo
Mimolette vs Asuya
ShadowQuinn vs iplaytennislol
Bowlii- vs dekzeh
obii vs FAJI
Esteemed User Ginku vs Gene Sp
Posho vs CrashinBoomBang
naruto(sage) vs Real FV13
passion vs @[K-12] The Madchine
Dark G vs Mark Suckerberg
Lost in the city vs Laurel
(Mysteria vs
Rupe vs Flynned'
ShinySopheon vs C and E
Jarii vs Exiline
Iloveleague vs TheGreninjaWarrior21
yunggucci06 vs Shoot
Pidge vs Tom0410
Crystal Xman vs BradSharp
ArchPhantom vs aim
MagmarJoe vs (
Barian vs jeran
dodmen vs Snowy.
HQuaze vs Steve Angello
majaspic22 vs lord qwilfish
Bushtush vs -okara
Always! vs Rinzer
bluri vs Tricking
FullLifeGames vs TheUzigunner
Omfuga vs EV Umbreon
Sweep vs Endeby
Lange vs Decision Makers
cosine180 vs Welli0u
Analytic vs Mia Risi
1996ITO vs Valentine
AntBadMon vs Rydro
Seeme vs Accelgor
OP vs SJCrew
snagaa vs GOD MARTH
Aminiscent vs Improbable
Coverride vs WhiteQueen
Rodriblutar vs MetalGro$$
Realistic Waters vs Arii~
praj.pran vs Entei.
Googly vs Level 56
Toptierboy vs (
Stathakis vs shartruce
peere vs Robert.
Veni Vidi Vici vs A I Got TM87
White Lion18 vs cdumas
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Regnite vs Criticality
TheLaughingCats vs Chechen U Out
R0ady vs etaoi
Deadline
The deadline for Round 3 will be 23:59 CEST (GMT+1) / 18:59 EST (GMT-4) on the 13th of March, 2016. 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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