Smogon Masters III - Round 1, Thread D

[Eledyr]

Art by Blazenix
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Welcome to the third 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 (with the higher seed choosing come Top Cut), 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, all players with 2 or fewer losses will be advanced onto a single elimination, Bo3 bracket which will culminate in a grand finals where we'll crown our winner of Smogon Masters III and the purple trophy

! Last year's Masters was won by none other than Empo in a closely fought finals, do you think you have what it takes to take his title?

Rules & Tournament Format

General Tournament Rules

• This is a tournament that will employ the standard rulesets for ORAS OU, SM OU, and SS OU, being a Best of Three with one game of each tier.
• Smogon Masters III 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, although on rare occasions, players may face someone with a better/worse record to avoid having more than 1 bye in any given round. Players will not face the same opponent during the Swiss portion of the tour.
• Matches are to be played on Pokémon 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. This will be removed for the single elimination Top Cut stage of the tournament.
• Princess Autumn is the primary host of this tournament and the co-hosts will be a fairy, Eledyr, goldmason, and vmnunes.

About Activity Decisions

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.

Swiss information and specifics

This tournament uses a Swiss format, where everyone plays until they lose three times, or until Top Cut begins after Round 10 (or 11). The Top Cut will be single elimination and based on a 32-player bracket, although this may vary depending on the tour's player count. All matches will be a Best of 3, involving ORAS OU, USUM OU, and SWSH OU.

This tournament is expected to fall into of the following sizes:
384 - 512 players = 10 rounds of Swiss, 32 person Top Cut with varying numbers of byes
513 - ~978 players = 11 rounds of Swiss, 32 person Top Cut with varying numbers of byes
~978 - 1024 players = 11 rounds of Swiss, 64 person Top Cut with varying numbers of byes

Byes will be awarded based off of seeding which will be calculated by the following tiebreakers: fewest number of losses, highest opponent's resistance, highest opponent's opponent's resistance.

Opponent's Resistance and Opponent's Opponent's Resistance

Opponent's resistance is defined as the average win% of a player's opponents expressed as a decimal, for example:

• I have a record of 3-0
• My R1 opponent's record is 0-3
• My R2 opponent's record is 1-2
• My R3 opponent's record is 2-1
• My opponent's resistance is (0 + 1/3 + 2/3)/3 = 1/3 = ~0.33
• This value has a hard coded minimum of 0.25

Opponent's opponent's resistance is the average of each of a player's opponent's resistances, and is calculated in a similar manner.

If players are still tied after these, their seeding will be determined by a coin flip.

There will be no substitute slots this year, instead week 1 will last for 2 weeks; substitutes will be allowed to signup for the duration of week 1 and come Sunday, inactive players will be replaced on a first-come first-serve basis.

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.

NEW FOR MASTERS III: We will be implementing an extra round of Swiss (similar to OSDT V or the VGC Live Tour earlier this year). This will shorten the length of Top Cut by 1 round and provide more of a safety net to X-0 and X-1 players.

Round 1
Hacker vs GCGoat
Splash vs Gray
vk vs dex
Ikra vs Juseth sepulveda
Winterbub vs Viperino+1997
SoulWind vs Dr. Geo
Lycans vs Uber45
vwnz vs angolano06
Sificon vs TDNT
drossito pambisito vs Magician
Ado vs Are you vaping?
Kaboom vs Micciu
Airi vs zastra
Feaniix vs violet river
Jojen vs natooo0
ZDen vs Dwagon
PokeINFINITE 07 vs Beemo666
Breezy vs Aso
MortalWombat vs viivian
Akaru Kokuyo vs beto cachinhos
Rowlet69420 vs entrocefalo
Havocknight vs lighthouses
Scarfire vs Tace
Thor vs TakingNotesKinda
Sergio Aguero vs Waffleztastegood
Ashbala vs weird mon
shinystorm_xd vs DeeJ
AAAspot vs Flying Beagle
Devious flamigo vs ACR1
Zenadark vs YaVR_1
feen vs Metagross773
Goobing Fire vs seraphz
Lusa vs A Welcome Guest
Dhrabb vs yuji
Zentrox vs Atsushi20
dunoks vs YouGotMeLOL
jyusaan vs Fragments
Amaske vs LimonPokefan
Legitly vs Kochu_shak
S1nn0hC0nfirm3d vs Astro
Kate vs Shiritu
LuciferKOH vs zmath
AsmiRedx vs agenS
kimer vs Caesarr
chansey and lulu vs Nashrock
Dasmer vs Guille
mj vs Pranjalsingh
zinnias vs pannu
Sheik : vs Spammernoob
SammyCe123 vs Luigi
Nemosse vs Plague
Kid Buu vs Going Hard
Luthier vs ghostlike
B1Kharma vs HANTSUKI
sn00syw00sy vs Ace98121212
hex vs StepC
Ash KetchumGamer vs Cielau
Chaitanya vs SASAGEYO
ibleachyourskin vs PixelBob
egalvanc vs Eelektrone
davidTheMaster vs Mysticwind
CloudyEJ vs X-Wing
Mannuraj vs rarre
AgencyIsOwn vs Flames Of Elixir
ChaFouuu vs Kaneki-san
LogIce vs olivia
Pietjedemon vs lolebruh
Blui vs Mrbanana45
the pharoah vs Elfuseon
Cluelessmagnet vs ChrisPBacon
darkman64 vs roll deep style
Bouff vs Abele
Lacks vs abreuolindo
Niko vs Savouras

The deadline for games is <t:1758506400:F>! Round 1 will have an extended deadline to allow for substitutes at the end of the first week, any inactive players will be replaced.

There are no extensions during the Swiss phase of this tour. Any games that are missing by the deadline will go to an activity call or coin flip.

If there are any questions, please don't hesitate to reach out to myself or any of the other hosts!