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
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 3
Vileman vs I Feel Stabby
Leftiez vs waffle04
jam vs OmBrArch
Feliburn vs Mik3y
shiloh vs zmath
pj vs Flareblitzkreig
fran17 vs LeBomboclats
xray vs Lightniong
Tushar Cool vs Radox786
Career Ended vs DonBoneJones
blank vs Das-a
Larry vs jyusaan
Our Last Dance vs monchooo
Hyssou vs leall
dex vs Aln
Staxi vs SEROO
etern vs consoleconsole
Kaboom vs Eelektrone
velvet vs AFoundHeart
Rio Vidal vs zAllonso
Kyo vs Falancies
Kaneki-san vs Irene
Guille vs NDK
crow crumbs vs Iride
Ske vs StFirezim
Sificon vs Nowelle
weird mon vs Splash
AJ vs Monuki
BoomBoomBoo vs Noaa
EggoWafflez vs pkcc
Ringmaster Uta vs LudwigFrog
Endill vs mixnite
Surfy vs Toxinalpaca
Iguana vs harshest
Heitor vs B1Kharma
Yves Stone vs Azaan
Lizardu vs Tricknology
Stampi vs Ikra
Metallica126 vs shinystorm_xd
Dr. Geo vs Mentality
YoruNoxx vs Genhui
Astro vs Kochu_shak
BagelJohn vs Tiammat Rpplf
Waffleztastegood vs Gibson2
StreetBoom vs impersonxtor
ibleachyourskin vs Pietjedemon
bydy vs Yuddx
Pranjalsingh vs CringeLord!
Zoyotte vs Macaco Socialista
Going Hard vs Remnonc
Bouff vs ILoveGarchom
Hizuri vs HK Hokori
darkman64 vs frognjen
Maxisc23 vs slopcat
Dddddsf vs Loneling
Unstoppable1 vs SeaLife
Nashrock vs samuelthestrong
gulch vs Mistico02@
Soda_Eesti vs Atsushi20
1yr vs Viperino+1997
Don Bork vs iPetBigfoot
Ace98121212 vs NAMAN07
Surimi vs bello figo
Marss Barss vs JensenDale
Envy vs LUCASQUAQUE
OnlyAntagonist47 vs gfredu18
HSK7 vs abreuolindo
Cloudznn vs krwozen
birqzz vs Vaporeonds
Wappy.kBs vs AAAspot
Pawchete vs Nihl
Jethin 10 vs mipc
balmain vs vwnz
platanazo vs YaVR_1
200NFZombieBomb vs JinF
The deadline for games is <t:1759629600: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!
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.
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.
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.
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
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 3
Vileman vs I Feel Stabby
Leftiez vs waffle04
jam vs OmBrArch
Feliburn vs Mik3y
shiloh vs zmath
pj vs Flareblitzkreig
fran17 vs LeBomboclats
xray vs Lightniong
Tushar Cool vs Radox786
Career Ended vs DonBoneJones
blank vs Das-a
Larry vs jyusaan
Our Last Dance vs monchooo
Hyssou vs leall
dex vs Aln
Staxi vs SEROO
etern vs consoleconsole
Kaboom vs Eelektrone
velvet vs AFoundHeart
Rio Vidal vs zAllonso
Kyo vs Falancies
Kaneki-san vs Irene
Guille vs NDK
crow crumbs vs Iride
Ske vs StFirezim
Sificon vs Nowelle
weird mon vs Splash
AJ vs Monuki
BoomBoomBoo vs Noaa
EggoWafflez vs pkcc
Ringmaster Uta vs LudwigFrog
Endill vs mixnite
Surfy vs Toxinalpaca
Iguana vs harshest
Heitor vs B1Kharma
Yves Stone vs Azaan
Lizardu vs Tricknology
Stampi vs Ikra
Metallica126 vs shinystorm_xd
Dr. Geo vs Mentality
YoruNoxx vs Genhui
Astro vs Kochu_shak
BagelJohn vs Tiammat Rpplf
Waffleztastegood vs Gibson2
StreetBoom vs impersonxtor
ibleachyourskin vs Pietjedemon
bydy vs Yuddx
Pranjalsingh vs CringeLord!
Zoyotte vs Macaco Socialista
Going Hard vs Remnonc
Bouff vs ILoveGarchom
Hizuri vs HK Hokori
darkman64 vs frognjen
Maxisc23 vs slopcat
Dddddsf vs Loneling
Unstoppable1 vs SeaLife
Nashrock vs samuelthestrong
gulch vs Mistico02@
Soda_Eesti vs Atsushi20
1yr vs Viperino+1997
Don Bork vs iPetBigfoot
Ace98121212 vs NAMAN07
Surimi vs bello figo
Marss Barss vs JensenDale
Envy vs LUCASQUAQUE
OnlyAntagonist47 vs gfredu18
HSK7 vs abreuolindo
Cloudznn vs krwozen
birqzz vs Vaporeonds
Wappy.kBs vs AAAspot
Pawchete vs Nihl
Jethin 10 vs mipc
balmain vs vwnz
platanazo vs YaVR_1
200NFZombieBomb vs JinF
The deadline for games is <t:1759629600: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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