Smogon Masters II - Top Cut Finals [Won by Empo]

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Welcome to the second 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
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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 II will be a swiss tournament with a to-be-determined top cut size depending on signups.
    • Players will be automatically dropped when they hit three losses as they are no longer in contention for top cut. Players who achieve top cut scores before the end of swiss will not be matched up for the remainder of the swiss rounds.
    • Players will be assigned a random opponent out of the pool of players with the same record as them each round. Exceptions may be made to avoid unpaired users.
  • 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.
  • a fairy is the primary host of this tournament and the co-hosts will be Finchinator, Princess Autumn, and vmnunes.
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.

This tournament uses a Swiss format, where everyone plays until they lose three times, or until Play-Ins / Top Cut begins after Round 9 (or 10). 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.

This tournament is expected to match the following size:
768 [9 rounds of Swiss, with a 69-player Top Cut sized down to 64 via a Play-In round]

If byes are necessary, in the first three rounds, a number of Byes will be placed in the tournament to hit the 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. If subs are necessary, the host team will aggressively substitute out inactive players to ensure as many players can participate as possible.

Players who achieve a Top Cut-qualifying record before the final round of Swiss will be removed from the Swiss rounds. They will be seeded in brackets depending on when they qualified.

Once Round 9 concludes, there will be a non-perfect amount of players qualified (7-2 score or better) for Playoffs. Seeding will prioritize ranking, with players who achieved a qualifying record being seeded higher the earlier they qualified. Within ranks, these players will be ranked by Resistance, which is the cumulative win percentage all of their opponents throughout the Swiss phase.

Round 5
[34] ChrisPBacon vs Empo [53]

For the bracket history you can find a visual guide and information here.

Predictions format
ChrisPBacon vs Empo

Start Top Cut Finals in the tier choice of the higher seed. Thanks. Extensions are possible but will be granted on host discretion.

Finals deadline: January 19th, 10PM GMT-5

Replays are required to be saved all tournament and posted.
 
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If my boy Chris wins this it marks the first Oceanic trophy in 13.5 years, all the way back in July 2011 with Golden Sun. If Empo wins he becomes the first person to ever obtain 5 Individual Trophies. Either way, this will be a milestone finals.

Needless to say, I'm rooting for my WCoP teammate. You got this bro #FalsekandaForever
 
won vs chrispbacon ggs
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as per usual, i'd like to make a mandatory shoutout to the following people, closest friends ive made on here + if it wasnt for you all i wouldnt be here playing in 2025: kek u_u haxrme devin Isaac Ahy Wddicted
special thanks to will of fire, even though i didn't end up bringing the couple teams we discussed you were there as always, ready to provide when i need the most, thanks goat
to raptor, not exactly sure why ur banned/dont rlly care but ur a nice dude, thanks for the cheerleading and nice messages every week. hopefully u get unbanned soon
to my og's at TSS: not sure how we all somehow still play and it's 2025 LOL we need to follow xtra and retire fr, as always massive thanks for the support, especially nagol
and finally a big thanks to JF and PT for constantly cheering me on, means a lot.

and that's it. see you around ~
 
time and time again you guys discredit him. you say he got LUCKY. you say that the moonblast crit mattered. you say he went against bums. you said his opponent choked. you said he made nonsensical plays by high jump kicking 5 times in a row. you said he lucked vert by getting flame body burn and how vert missed magma. how many FREAKING times do i have to tell y'all to stop coping and hes the greatest player in the world and to touch the freaking game.

"oh empos not good he doesnt play old gens" GTFO mons is mons and if he wanted to play old gens he'd win classic and whoop all the goats. look at him he touched adv for the first time in april 2023 and then got to top 32 in adv revival without even knowing shit how half the mechanics do in that gen.

how many times does empo have to freaking win on this site for yall to give him his respect. don't also forget that he's also the greatest manager to win of all time too (we won 2.5k from ojamapl) and bums like Raiza wants to talk shit after taunting us for weeks and try to downplay empo's name in stours like a bum he is.

Empo greatest player to ever touch the game. if xtra was here he'd be so proud RIP xtra. you're a legend and consistency is unrivaled and unparalelled while so many of your peers fell off. let's see what excuses people got to say this time

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we need to update our emoji now that shit is like 4 years holy hell the greatest to ever freaking do itttt how many excuses are people gonna keep making to discredit empo
 
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oh man looks like we got the excuses already how many times do i have to tell you you dont WIN this consistently by being lucky. if you gonna say this shit to empo behind his back better say it to his face. anyone else wanna keep talking or is it just the peanut gallery trying to comment how they'll play when they'll never make a playoffs in their life?

robbed? bro chrispbacon literally won if he ft instead he risked overheat. don't forget he robbed his SPL game this past weekend too. im tired of these damn excuses.

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