Old Gen Tournaments Calendar
RoA Tournament Statistics Index
Old Gen Tournament Achievements
RoA Forum Championship [1] 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 consists of a first-to-2-win single elimination playoffs (top 16) for each generation, involving qualification points from Global Championships, Classic Cups and Seasonals (Type A - worth 60%), RoA / Smogon Tour (Type B worth 30%) and RoAST / RoALT (Type C worth 10%). Winning these championships awards you a ribbon in your postbit. See the 2018 (first year) qualification post here.
Winter and Summer Seasonals are two standard double elimination tournaments for each old generation's OverUsed tier, which serve as the remaining 2/4 majors, along with Classic cups and Global Championships.
Global Championships are 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, lose 1, they go into a tiebreak match to decide which 1 of 2 players go through. RBY OU GC [1, 2, 3, 4] is first-to-2 wins each match while GSC [1], ADV [1], DPP [1], BW [1] and ORAS OU GCs [1] are first-to-1 win.
Classic Cups are first-to-2 win single eliminations tournaments, 5 of which are part of the Official Tournament known as
Smogon Classic [1, 2, 3, 4], 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 ORAS Cup just counts towards RoA Forum and Past Gen Championships.
Smogon Premier League [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10] 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] 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.
World Cup of Pokémon [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13] is a nations-based team tournament which features a qualifying tournament going into a 16-team 10-slot main tournament. Slots are all OU, currently 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 [1] 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 Olympics [1, 2, 3] 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] 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] 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 [1, 2] 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] is an elimination tournament featuring all old generation OU tiers every round.
Victory RoAd [1, 2, 3, 4] 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] 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.
RoA Tournament Statistics Index
Old Gen Tournament Achievements
RoA Major Tournaments Calendar
January:
RBY OU GC /
GSC OU GC /
RoA Ladder Tournament
February:
ADV OU GC /
DPP OU GC /
Victory RoAd (Winter)
March:
ORAS Cup /
RoAPL /
Indigo Plateau (Spring) /
STour
April:
BW Cup/DPP Cup/ADV Cup/GSC Cup/RBY Cup (
Smogon Classic)
May:
BW OU GC /
ORAS OU GC /
World Cup of Pokémon ~~~~~
June:
RoA Tour (Summer) /
RBY OU Summer Seasonal /
GSC OU SS
July:
ADV OU Summer Seasonal /
RCoP(if necessary) /
DPP OU SS
August:
RoAST /
BW OU SS /
Victory RoAd(Summer) /
ORAS SS ×
September:
RoA Olympics /
IP(Fall) /
Major League RoA /
STour
October: *
RBY OU Winter Seasonal /
GSC OU WS /
ADV OU WS ~~~~
November:
DPP OU WS /
RoA Tour (Winter) /
Past Gen Championships+
December:
RoA Forum Championship+ /
BW OU WS /
ORAS OU WS /
SPL
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 that don't count for Past Gen Championship
SPL, WCoP, Classic and Tour (in bold) are hosted by the Tournaments forum, not RoA.
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 that don't count for Past Gen Championship
SPL, WCoP, Classic and Tour (in bold) are hosted by the Tournaments forum, not RoA.
January:
RBY OU Global Championship
April:
RBY Cup (
Smogon Classic)
June:
RBY OU Summer Seasonal
October:
RBY OU Winter Seasonal
November:
RBY OU Championship
December:
RoAFC RBY Division
April:
June:
October:
November:
December:
January:
GSC OU Global Championship
April:
GSC Cup (
Smogon Classic)
June:
GSC OU Summer Seasonal
October:
GSC OU Winter Seasonal
November:
GSC OU Championship
December:
RoAFC GSC Division
April:
June:
October:
November:
December:
February:
ADV OU Global Championship
April:
ADV Cup (
Smogon Classic)
July:
ADV OU Summer Seasonal
October:
ADV OU Winter Seasonal
November:
ADV OU Championship
December:
RoAFC ADV Division
April:
July:
October:
November:
December:
February:
DPP OU Global Championship
April:
DPP Cup (
Smogon Classic)
July:
DPP OU Summer Seasonal
November:
DPP OU Winter Seasonal /
DPP OU Championship
December:
RoAFC DPP Division
April:
July:
November:
December:
May:
BW OU Global Championship
April:
BW Cup (
Smogon Classic)
August:
BW OU Summer Seasonal
November:
BW OU Championship
December:
RoAFC BW Division /
BW OU Winter Seasonal
April:
August:
November:
December:
May:
ORAS OU Global Championship
April:
Unofficial ORAS Cup
August:
ORAS OU Summer Seasonal
November:
ORAS OU Championship
December:
RoAFC ORAS Division /
ORAS OU Winter Seasonal
April:
August:
November:
December:
January:
RoA Ladder Tournament
February:
Victory RoAd (Winter)
March:
RoA Premier League /
Indigo Plateau (Spring)
June:
RoA Tour (Summer)
July:
Retro Cup of Pokémon (if necessary)
August:
RoA Standard Tournament /
Victory RoAd(Summer)
September:
RoA Olympics /
Indigo Plateau (Fall) /
Major League RoA
November:
RoA Tour (Winter)
December:
RoA FC RoA Division
February:
March:
June:
July:
August:
September:
November:
December:
Underlined tournaments in the descriptions indicate team tournaments.
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