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Welcome to the tenth(!) Smogon Classic! This tournament celebrates Smogon's and Pokemon's history throughout the years. Players will compete in separate tournaments for the RBY, GSC, ADV, DPP, and BW generations, culminating in a play-off stage where the contestants must play all generations with this amazing trophy on the line:
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The format is the same as previous editions and consists of five separate tournaments: The BW Cup, The DPP Cup, The ADV Cup, The GSC Cup, and The RBY Cup. Each tournament is single elimination, best of three. Depending on your performance in a Cup, you will be awarded points. The point system is the same as the one used in Smogon Tour. When all the Cups have been finished, the sixteen players with the most points will advance to the play-offs. There they will battle in a best of five series until there is one undisputed Smogon Classic champion.

Signups for each Cup will be posted a week after the signups for the previous Cup. Here is the list of the five Cups with the names of the hosts and the dates each signup thread will be posted:

  • The BW Cup - Hosted by a fairy - June 17th
  • The DPP Cup - Hosted by dhelmise - June 24th
  • The ADV Cup - Hosted by Hiro' - July 1st
  • The GSC Cup - Hosted by Amaranth - July 8th
  • The RBY Cup - Hosted by emma - July 15th
If there are any questions, then you can post in this thread or message me on Discord (merritty). Please do not use this thread as a venue to complain about the format.

Tiering changes to the metagames in this tournament might not immediately affect this tournament the round after they happen.

Please note that replays will be required starting in Round 2 of every Classic Cup.

Also, this edition of Smogon Classic will award a cash prize to top finishers! The winner of the tournament will receive $100, and the runner up will earn $50.

Have fun and good luck to everyone competing!
 
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It's time for what people are calling the hardest tournament on smogon. With the recent ban of cloyster and discussions of a Reuniclus suspect in BW, and continuing discussion of Jirachi in DPP, this is sure to be an interesting year for Classic
 
Hold on, what is the smogon tour scoring system? It used to say it was the Grand Slam system and there was a link to the points per round table before, but now it's this with no link or explanation? tf is going on?
 
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Hold on, what is the smogon tour scoring system? It used to say it was the Grand Slam system and there was a link to the points per round table before, but now it's this with no link or explanation? tf is going on?
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To clarify, it used to say the same system used in both smogon tour and grand slam, as all three tours used to use the same system. Grand Slam changed its point scaling system a couple years ago, to bring tours of disparate sizes closer together in point values, but smogon tour did not, so the two are no longer identical.

The difference is that the Smogon Tour point system is +1 point for the first three rounds, then +2 points for winning every round afterwards (+3 in the case of winning a round robin final). The Grand Slam point system awards +1 point for every round until top 32/top 48 (depending on overall tour size) and then gives +2 points for every victory starting in the round of 32/48 (+3 for winning a round robin final).

Since Classic last year used the Smogon Tour scaling and the issue with claiming two different point systems would be used did not come up until the point where it would affect participant's points, Classic for this year will be using the Stour scaling (see above paragraph).
 
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