Smogon Masters III - Round 2, Thread B [1-0, REPLAYS MANDATORY]

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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
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! 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.
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 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 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 2
DonSalvatore vs wssi
Mister McLovin vs FlamPoke
Savouras vs Vaboh
basaninho vs Kaif
Tenebricite vs Caesarr
Aurella vs big tony 2014
Rubyblood vs GUZOT
Éric vs daeronchick
leo568 vs JustFranco
SenseiSese vs Wesleyy
Typhlosion48 vs Insou
Kate vs GCGoat
rylon vs agenS
Mike Cometa vs LoSconosciuto
Sachumberto vs Spoontech
Hockey1 vs Lacks
Skypenguin vs Juseth sepulveda
Gray vs Tempo di anguria
SBPC vs doso749
luisin vs Fabriisse
fade vs lolebruh
PZZ vs Glurakaiser
DugZa vs damien the genius
Waylaid vs urrgh
ChaFouuu vs Micciu
LpZ vs Estuardo19
Monai vs arc101
LORD SAGIS vs TheRealFlower
the pharoah vs TGK
One Last Kiss vs hi.naming is hard
Giannis Antetokommo-o vs violet river
Mkns1070 vs Jojen
Frailty vs Mannuraj
Dasmer vs Tytohbird
Fusien vs Kokona Aoba
Msousa vs NoName6293
devin vs Amomeupaieminhamae
Flying Beagle vs MTB
hex vs roll deep style
Oya/Semort vs Fdmw
Mada vs Beemo666
Ryuji vs Symphonie
Destro16 vs Typical_bastard
Yeloash vs SammyCe123
1LDK vs RiyadLand
Ashbala vs Sulfura28
xdRudi.exe vs vinicria
Mok3s vs Winterbub
MAVERICK SHOOTERS vs Mrbanana45
dunoks vs Kindyy
Kayzn vs GabrieLopez
Clas vs Munchie2ff
kDCA vs mentalsoft
jb291 vs RainVGC
RoFnA vs Waci
TakingNotesKinda vs Alhen
zastra vs hxmo
Nick vs wvsp
Alpha1013 vs July
vk vs David Watts
Runo vs PixelBob
AgencyIsOwn vs LogIce
zinnias vs KeshBa54
Plague vs Taka
Ulti Bastion vs Zentrox
Zeo1 vs churrojr
Mwoonn vs Vortex!
seraphz vs SupaGmoney
Souji/Akumu vs darkprobz
Kustavan vs lolmy
Abele vs Leroipolux1
venesha vs graynium-Z
JojoOui vs Bey is Back
cloud and book vs digo
purbaj vs sn00syw00sy
Meru vs Metallica126

The deadline for games is <t:1759111200:F>! 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!
 
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