
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
- 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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- 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.
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
REPLAYS MUST BE POSTED FOR YOUR WIN TO COUNT!! SEE THE ANNOUNCEMENTS THREAD FOR INFO
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