Welcome to the first edition of Smogon Masters! This is a Swiss bracket, Bo3 tournament with each set consisting of ORAS OU, SM OU, and SS OU. Players will decide which metagame to play first, then the loser picks a different generation for the following game. If both players cannot agree on a metagame to play first, each round will have a default generation randomized at the start of each round. After several rounds of the swiss bracket, a top cut according to record and resistance will be created and a Bo3 single elimination tournament will determine who wins Smogon Masters and the trophy
Rules & Tournament Format
General Tournament Rules
- This is a tournament that will employ the standard rulesets for ORAS OU, SM OU, and SS OU.
- Smogon Masters I will be a swiss tournament.
- Players will be automatically dropped when they hit three losses as they are no longer in contention for top cut.
- Players will be assigned a random opponent out of the pool of players with the same record as you each round.
- More information on the specifics of the swiss will be placed in the HIDE tag below.
- Rounds will be Best of Three -- one game of each tier.
- 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.
- Saving replays is required and must be posted in each winpost starting in the second round
- There are no extensions due to the nature of a swiss tournament, so please get your games done on time.
- Finchinator is the primary host of this tournament while Lady Salamence, Eledyr, and Frozoid will be the co-hosts.
This was written by Lady Salamence -- thank you!
This tournament uses a Swiss format, where everyone plays until they lose three times, or until Play-Ins / Top Cut begins after Round 9. The Top Cut will be single elimination and based on a 64-player bracket. All matches will be a Best of 3, involving ORAS OU, USUM OU, and SWSH OU.
In the first three rounds, a number of Byes will be placed in the tournament to hit the 768-participant number, to ensure a participant count that works well with Swiss tournament structure. These Byes will exist until Round 3, successively lowering in the Swiss structure – in Round 2, some number of 0-1 players will receive Byes, and in Round 3 some number of 0-2 players will receive Byes.
During the final round, Round 9, three players will have an 8-0 score. These three players have the option to play a Round Robin to lock in their seedings. They may choose to forfeit their games and receive the worst Resistance seeding of the three. Should a Round Robin be fully played and end in 1-1 for each player, their placings/resistance scores would stay identical to before the Round Robin.
Once Round 9 concludes, there will be 69 players qualified (7-2 score or better) for Playoffs. These players will be ranked by Resistance, which is the cumulative win percentage all of their opponents throughout the Swiss phase. The ten 7-2 players with the lowest Resistance (the smallest cumulative win percentage) will play against each other for the final 5 slots, with the first 59 going to the players with higher resistances and scores. Once Play-Ins are finished, Top Cut begins.
This tournament uses a Swiss format, where everyone plays until they lose three times, or until Play-Ins / Top Cut begins after Round 9. The Top Cut will be single elimination and based on a 64-player bracket. All matches will be a Best of 3, involving ORAS OU, USUM OU, and SWSH OU.
In the first three rounds, a number of Byes will be placed in the tournament to hit the 768-participant number, to ensure a participant count that works well with Swiss tournament structure. These Byes will exist until Round 3, successively lowering in the Swiss structure – in Round 2, some number of 0-1 players will receive Byes, and in Round 3 some number of 0-2 players will receive Byes.
During the final round, Round 9, three players will have an 8-0 score. These three players have the option to play a Round Robin to lock in their seedings. They may choose to forfeit their games and receive the worst Resistance seeding of the three. Should a Round Robin be fully played and end in 1-1 for each player, their placings/resistance scores would stay identical to before the Round Robin.
Once Round 9 concludes, there will be 69 players qualified (7-2 score or better) for Playoffs. These players will be ranked by Resistance, which is the cumulative win percentage all of their opponents throughout the Swiss phase. The ten 7-2 players with the lowest Resistance (the smallest cumulative win percentage) will play against each other for the final 5 slots, with the first 59 going to the players with higher resistances and scores. Once Play-Ins are finished, Top Cut begins.
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.
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.
Round 1
Maxouille vs Cat food and
Fc vs jus
BP vs TLTK
Akarui~Kurayami vs BijouMode
Rewer vs Leru
Sogs vs Sibwind
Waci vs tko
Nuxl vs Sadi Tonmoy
BlazingDark vs Zokuru
DAHLI vs HikozaruGG
Glurakaiser vs Baloor
Jytcampbell vs Kerthwack
false vs ziloXX
McMeghan vs Dj Breloominati♬
dex vs Alexander IV
Scoptile vs Yves Stone
lotiasite vs Blui
Finchinator vs jyusaan
Gaboswampert vs Avendesora
egalvanc vs Juseth sepulveda
KSr vs Uber45
Thor vs Abettergreen
Mimikyu Stardust vs LpZ
Weaselfie vs angelthesaucegod
eliana. vs Kenix
PJB vs Dhrabb
promisingpanda vs s7a
SpookyZ vs BIHI
Ophion vs blank
zSoulx vs Johnny boy
Ev_Evan vs karrottensirup
Vinc2612 vs Boom4Life
Flying Beagle vs oversway
Sieeeffmon vs Lionyx
Lifeismyth vs Nichalho
havocknight vs QWILY
Rubyblood vs ToasterBoi420
rocky2024 vs TheGrimToucan
Buhrito vs msnt
Achimoo vs Potatoboybob
RainVGC vs Micciu
Yahoodles vs lucardinho
Bestplayerever777 vs PikachuZappyZap
Igniizard vs O Batataplays
LityL vs Manan999
Spcplayzz vs Savouras
Bodi 69 vs ThePeasent
Ravenna vs -Frexa-
Cao Jie vs promethezine
Clementine vs Lily
Rejector vs JJ09LIE
lou dort vs Sachumberto
Guille vs Cielau
db vs MrSoup
Foufakirby vs So Noisy
El Quixana vs Ryuji
Mihowk vs kenny
Gochan vs A Hero's Destiny
xray vs JRoberts
Vulpix03 vs Albret
wangyu vs Beka
Bka Onon vs Hollow Soul
Cureja vs Doedf
Aberforth vs Twixtry
jb291 vs Void
Sharow vs justdrew
Ewin vs Hacker
Spurrific vs ChaFouuu
MIO1339 vs Trout In Space
Enzonana. vs Eeveeto
CDW Enrique vs Axzel
Mandibuladel5555 vs Zerkas
Zooch vs deku216
RTM vs TDR
LustfulLice vs Iris67
MonkeBoi215 vs nightcore
Excalibur6106 vs z0mOG
bronzo vs Santu
Bowlii- vs Misterioussaint
Fakee vs X-Wing
bhkg vs damflame 3
Skypenguin vs FL5
realaccountami? vs Siddakid
fran17 vs Antonazz
Lórius388 vs bharathraj240
Davidoar15 vs feen
Chaitanya vs Emphasized_Burst
Career Ended vs hariyana grande
Malekith vs toytean
hi.naming is hard vs tipulipa
Knight who says "Ni" vs Akboss13
basaninho vs Pevere1l
heyimporg vs Jefozz
Niko vs tehdicktutor
NDK vs Perish Song
Fireballwizard12 vs Jojo8868
There are no extensions in this tournment and no exceptions to this whatsoever, so please do your best to get your games done by Sunday, October 1st at 10 PM GMT-4.
Replays are required to be saved all tournament and posted starting round 2.
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