Old Gen Tournaments Calendar
RoA Tournament Statistics Index
Old Gen Tournament Achievements
RoA Tournament Statistics Index
Old Gen Tournament Achievements
RoA Major Tournaments Calendar (2021-)
January: *
RoA Tour (Winter) /
SM OU WS / ORAS OU WS / BW OU WS / DPP OU WS
February:
ADV OU / GSC OU / RBY OU WS /
Victory RoAd (Winter) /
ADVPL
March:
SM OU / ORAS OU GC /
Smogon Tour /
Indigo Plateau (Spring) /
RoAPL
April:
BW OU /
DPP OU /
ADV OU /
GSC OU /
RBY OU Global Championships
May:
SM OU /
ORAS OU /
BW OU /
DPP OU Summer Seasonals /
HGSSPL
June:
RoA Tour (Summer) /
RCoP /
ADV OU / GSC OU / RBY OU Summer Seasonals
July:
Major League RoA /
SM Cup /
ORAS Cup /
BW Cup /
BW Premier League
August:
DPP / ADV / GSC / RBY Cup (1-5 inside
Smogon Classic) × /
RoA Olympics
September:
RoAST /
Victory RoAd (Summer) /
Smogon Tour /
RoA Team Trials
October:
Ruins of Alph Ladder Tournament /
Indigo Plateau (Fall Season) /
RBYPL
November:
Past Gen Championships (7 individual tournaments for each old gen)+
December:
Smogon Premier League /
RoA Forum Championship (8 divisions)+ /
GSCPL
Every month:
RoA Room Championship(& Playoffs)
On Hiatus:
World's Longest Tournament
All of the above indicate the approximate starts of the signups.
* indicates starting month of qualifying for Past Gen Championships.
× indicates ending point of qualifying for Past Gen Championships.
+ indicates a qualification only tournament.
Underline - Multi-gen tournaments or GenPLs that don't count for Past Gen Championship
SPL, WCoP, Classic and Tour (in bold) are hosted by the Tournaments forum, not RoA.
Modules Director Lutra
Annual-only
Seasonals Module: Winter & Summer Seasonals
14 organized by Rage & Arai
Diverse Module: Victory RoAd & Indigo Plateau & GCs & MLRoA
12 organized by HSOWA & Waves
Team Tournaments Module: RoAPL & RCoP & RoA Team Trials & RoA Olympics & GenPLs
9 organized by Lutra
Playoff Points Module: RoA Tour (×2) & RoALT & Past Gen Championships
4 organized by kjdaas & Golden009
Lightweight Module: SM Cup & ORAS Cup & RoAST & RoAFC
4 organized by vanisherrr & emma
Regular
Spotlight Module: RoA Spotlight Tournaments and Ladders (& World's Longest Tournament)
72+ organized by Kris and Rage
Minor Module: RoA Room Championship & RoA Tour Nights (&RoA Mini-tournaments&BotW&KotH)
1260+ organized by Lutra
RoA Forum Championship [1, 2, 3, 4] involves inviting all winners of major RoA tournaments, and RoA Room Championship winners since the last edition to participate in either a round-robin division for a specific generation or the RoA multi-gen round-robin division.
Past Gen Championships [1, 2, 3] consists of a first-to-2-win single elimination playoffs (top 16) for each generation, involving qualification points from Global Championships and Classic Cups (Type A+: worth 40%), Winter and Summer Seasonals (Type A-: worth 30%) and RoA / Smogon Tour (Type B worth 30%). Winning these championships awards you a ribbon in your postbit. See the 2018 (first year) qualification post here and 2019 update.
Winter and Summer Seasonals are two standard double elimination tournaments for each old generation's OverUsed tier, which serve as the 2 of 4 past gen circuit majors, along with Classic cups and Global Championships.
Global Championships are first-to-2-win double-elimination per round tournaments, where each player is randomly paired twice. If they win twice, they are through; if they lose twice, they are out; and if they win 1 and lose 1, they go into a tiebreak match to decide which 1 of 2 players go through.
Classic Cups are first-to-2 win single eliminations tournaments, 5 of which are part of the Official Tournament known as
Smogon Classic, with RBY, GSC, ADV, DPP and BW Cups earning you points towards entry into the Smogon Classic Playoffs. Winning the playoffs awards you with a trophy in your postbit. The remaining unofficial SM and ORAS Cups, along with the individual official ones, count towards RoA Forum and Past Gen Championships.
Smogon Premier League [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12] is a 10-team, 12-slot, franchise-based team tournament, with 9 weeks of qualifying and 2 weeks playoffs. Being on the winning team of the playoffs awards you with a trophy in your postbit.
RoA Premier League [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6] is RoA's version of SPL, a franchise-based team tournament with currently 12 slots, 2 per old generation OU and 8 teams, for a total of 7 weeks qualifying and 2 weeks playoffs.
The Gen-centric Premier Leagues are 6-team franchise-based team tournaments centered around a specific old generation each. They may allow the manager to play due to their small size. They are currently RBYPL [1], GSCPL [1] and ADVPL [1].
World Cup of Pokémon [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15] is a nations-based team tournament which features a qualifying tournament going into a 16-team 10-slot main tournament. Slots are current gen OU. For a period, OU was featured in all generations, with old generations occupying a slot each. Being on the winning team of the playoffs awards you with a trophy in your postbit.
Retro Cup of Pokémon is a team tournament format based of off World Cup of Pokémon which pits nations together in old generation OUs not featured in WCoP.
RoA Team Trials is a single elimination team tournament currently featuring Gens 1-5 OU. Each individual match is a first-to-2-win series, with the collective series being best of 5. Players are locked to tiers.
RoA Olympics [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] is a hybrid team-individual tournament whereby players of a team are selected to compete in individual tournaments for a number of old generation tiers where they can be awarded gold, silver and bronze for finishing 1st, 2nd and 3rd place respectively and earn points based on those finishes. The team with the highest points at the conclusion is the winner of the RoA Olympics. Features Ubers and UU Tiers.
Major League RoA [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] is a round-robin based tournament where players are split into conferences based on their timezones. The top 4 from each conference goes into a top 16 playoffs where they play first-to-3-wins matches until they are either eliminated or become the Major League champion.
Smogon Tour is Smogon's biggest series of live tournaments, featuring the latest 3 generation OU tiers, currently USM, ORAS and BW over 9 weeks, concluding in a 16-man first-to-2-win playoffs. Winning the playoffs awards you with a trophy in your postbit.
RoA Tour [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8] is RoA's version of Smogon Tour, a series of live tournaments, culminating in an 8-man first-to-2-win single elimination playoffs, featuring all the OU tiers (currently DPP, ADV, GSC, RBY) of the discontinued tiers from Smogon Tour, i.e. RoA Tour and Smogon Tour complement one another.
RoA Ladder Tournament is RoA's version of OLT, with a week for each old generation OU which earn you points, with the top 16 qualifying for a first-to-2-win-squared single elimination tournament in all tiers.
RoA Standard Tournament [1, 2, 3, 4] is an elimination tournament featuring all old generation OU tiers every round.
Victory RoAd [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9] is a gym leader-esque challenge consisting of veteran trainers for each old generation OU, most of which have to be defeated to qualify for
Indigo Plateau. The Winter season is intended to feature UU tiers, while the Summer Season Ubers tiers.
Indigo Plateau [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7] functions as the playoffs for those who have successfully conquered Victory RoAd. Only one of these conquerors can claim the trophy, via a round-robin or single elimination tournament if necessary.
RoA Room Championship Playoffs occur almost every month, and allow a whole month period for you to qualify for the top 8 single elimination first-to-3-win playoffs via live Pokémon Showdown tournaments in the Ruins of Alph room, with a leaderboard present following the conclusion of each live tournament.
Underlined tournaments in the descriptions indicate team tournaments.
January: *
February:
March:
April:
May:
June:
July:
August:
September:
October:
November:
December:
Every month:
On Hiatus:
All of the above indicate the approximate starts of the signups.
* indicates starting month of qualifying for Past Gen Championships.
× indicates ending point of qualifying for Past Gen Championships.
+ indicates a qualification only tournament.
Underline - Multi-gen tournaments or GenPLs that don't count for Past Gen Championship
SPL, WCoP, Classic and Tour (in bold) are hosted by the Tournaments forum, not RoA.
February:
RBY OU Winter Seasonal
April:
RBY OU Global Championship
June:
RBY OU Summer Seasonal
August:
RBY Cup (
Smogon Classic)
October:
RBYPL
November:
Past Gen Championships: RBY OU
December:
RoAFC RBY Division
April:
June:
August:
October:
November:
December:
February:
GSC OU Winter Seasonal
April:
GSC OU Global Championship
June:
GSC OU Summer Seasonal
August:
GSC Cup (
Smogon Classic)
November:
Past Gen Championships: GSC OU
December:
GSCPL
December:
RoAFC GSC Division
April:
June:
August:
November:
December:
December:
February:
ADV OU Winter Seasonal
February:
ADVPL
April:
ADV OU Global Championship
June:
ADV OU Summer Seasonal
August:
ADV Cup (
Smogon Classic)
November:
Past Gen Championships: ADV OU
December:
RoAFC ADV Division
February:
April:
June:
August:
November:
December:
January:
DPP OU Winter Seasonal
April:
DPP OU Global Championship
May:
HGSSPL
May:
DPP OU Summer Seasonal
August:
DPP Cup (
Smogon Classic)
November:
Past Gen Championships: DPP OU
December:
RoAFC DPP Division
April:
May:
May:
August:
November:
December:
January:
BW OU Winter Seasonal
April:
BW OU Global Championship
May:
BW OU Summer Seasonal
July:
BW Cup (
Smogon Classic)
July:
BWPL
November:
Past Gen Championships: BW OU
December:
RoAFC BW Division
April:
May:
July:
July:
November:
December:
January:
ORAS OU Winter Seasonal
March:
ORAS OU Global Championship
May:
ORAS OU Summer Seasonal
July:
Unofficial ORAS Cup
November:
Past Gen Championships: ORAS OU
December:
RoAFC ORAS Division
March:
May:
July:
November:
December:
January:
SM OU Winter Seasonal
March:
SM OU Global Championship
May:
SM OU Summer Seasonal
July:
Unofficial SM Cup
November:
Past Gen Championships: SM OU
December:
RoAFC SM Division
March:
May:
July:
November:
December:
January:
RoA Tour (Winter)
February:
Victory RoAd (Winter)
March:
RoA Premier League /
IP (Spring)
June:
RoA Tour (Summer) /
RCoP
July:
MLRoA
August:
Ruins of Alph Olympics
September:
RoAST /
Victory RoAd (Summer) /
RoA Team Trials
October:
RoALT /
Indigo Plateau (Fall)
December:
RoA FC RoA Division
February:
March:
June:
July:
August:
September:
October:
December:
Modules Director Lutra Annual-only
14 organized by Rage & Arai
12 organized by HSOWA & Waves
9 organized by Lutra
4 organized by kjdaas & Golden009
4 organized by vanisherrr & emma
Regular
72+ organized by Kris and Rage
1260+ organized by Lutra
Classic Cups are first-to-2 win single eliminations tournaments, 5 of which are part of the Official Tournament known as
Retro Cup of Pokémon is a team tournament format based of off World Cup of Pokémon which pits nations together in old generation OUs not featured in WCoP.
Underlined tournaments in the descriptions indicate team tournaments.
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