Official Smogon Tournament XXI - Round 2-A (REPLAYS REQUIRED)

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Welcome to the first round of this year's Official Smogon Tournament! The OST is one of Smogon's longest standing traditions in tournaments and has crowned many great Pokémon players as its champions across five generations. Over the next few months, over a thousand (!) 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.

The tournament will have a best of three format. This means that players will play until one of them wins two games. Players are allowed to switch teams in between games, or use the same team throughout the set; 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).

Just like last year, there will be a cash prize for this tournament! The winner of this year's Official Smogon Tournament will receive 200 USD and the runner up will win 95 USD!

If there are any questions, please don't hesitate to reach out to me or a tournament director!

  • REPLAYS WILL BE REQUIRED IN YOUR WINPOST STARTING IN ROUND 2
OST Specific Rules
  • This is a standard SV 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 you can't agree on which server to play on, the Smogtours server is the default option.
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Standard Rules and Clauses
  • 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.
  • Sleep Moves Clause: A player cannot use moves that induce Sleep status on the opponent in their Pokemon's movesets.
  • 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 Pokémon that is capable of intentionally causing an endless battle is banned from competitive play. Check this thread for more information.
  • Baton Pass Clause: The move Baton Pass is banned outright.
  • 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.

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.


In case of disconnections, if you played in the SmogTours server, call a Tournament Director as soon as possible and we'll see about the possibility of having a rematch.

General Tournament Rules

Substitutions

Substitutes will only be allowed into the tournament during round 1.[/URL]

Please read this guide if you're unsure how to schedule with your opponent! Alternatively, watch this video made by teal6:

Now then, without further ado..

Round 2-A

Nor  vs  cheru
leng loi  vs  Niko
Dawn Dreams  vs  Fluore
Leni  vs  TwentyTwan
lax  vs  Javi
Cam  vs  LpZ
Pkel SweeTforU  vs  sire clod
Legendary spam  vs  sluGGy
Jusfordlolz  vs  AlejanDraco
Plague  vs  Larry
dex  vs  Thiago Nunes
Destro16  vs  needle on top
Devious flamigo  vs  Akaru Kokuyo
yone  vs  Phantom0rion
Cicada  vs  Ming549
Vaporeonds  vs  qways
DBK31TH  vs  SASAGEYO
neymar X  vs  Nichalho
Ayante  vs  LOOR
JspKiC  vs  mind gaming
lolebruh  vs  Vortex!
Ash KetchumGamer  vs  Sylveon used calm mind
clean  vs  crying
PHB11677  vs  Onionsmoothie
Santu  vs  Bad Player
Expulso  vs  elodin
Luigi  vs  Hiro'
Pawchete  vs  GCGoat
agenS  vs  zioziotrip
691  vs  kDCA
tahatahat  vs  Supreme_Volo
Potayo  vs  KanzakiHAria
Altthiel  vs  jscurf
Squeeby  vs  Beemo666
QT  vs  Skmagnet
HANTSUKI  vs  avaluggsimp
Laroxyl  vs  estra
Dead by Daylight  vs  Karmazz
SalvatoreSesso  vs  VerySuboptimal
duckycrater  vs  3d
Unowndragon  vs  someone random
Shivam_Z  vs  DigoDigo
TJ  vs  ApacheRomero
Critsomnia  vs  MrAlpaca
emforbes  vs  Dugtrio Is Broken
Lialiabeast  vs  Confide
TPH  vs  Auxplr
iiFWM  vs  D4 Repertoire
schwipper  vs  FFK
Sun  vs  LegitlyIzOP
Toxinalpaca  vs  Dota
phantomclaw8888  vs  Giannis Antetokommo-o
Mrbanana45  vs  drossito pambisito
OmBrArch  vs  Gilbert arenas
volcanionisgood  vs  SetsuSetsuna
sunsets  vs  cicepece11
pannu  vs  Ehmcee
Clementine  vs  C0zzLax
sugar ovens  vs  Suzuya
zo  vs  Lily
SWAGCOLFO  vs  GabrieLopez
ong  vs  Zokuru
rarh2  vs  Mimikyu Stardust
Akeras  vs  HSK7

(If your name isn't in this list check the OST Round 2-B, 2-C, and 2-D threads for it!)

Deadline is Sunday, February 9th at 11:59 PM EST (GMT-5).

REPLAYS MUST BE POSTED FOR YOUR WIN TO COUNT!! SEE THE ANNOUNCEMENTS THREAD FOR INFO
 
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Opponent hasn't responded since Monday. I had given him available times, however the availability of time is reducing as I need to honor the commitments that I am aware will be kept in real life :/ The 9 hour time difference further complicates the scheduling. So claiming act.

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Edit: bro got back for 3 PM PT(6 PM ET, 11 PM GMT for Saturday). So pulling back act claim
 
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