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Smogon Masters III - Round 4, Thread B [2-1, 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.
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 4
Meru vs ZDen
Django vs agenS
toshimelonhead vs Astoria
Laurel vs Lux2821
watashi vs hi.naming is hard
HANTSUKI vs S1nn0hC0nfirm3d
awyp vs Mendeez
Raichy vs yone
Finchinator vs mentalsoft
MANNAT vs wvsp
Nuxl vs Ryuji
Star vs mrfraud
Steve Angello vs Skypenguin
Bundy300 vs Howkings
Always! vs basaninho
Spammernoob vs Ayatou
Kid Buu vs Mike Cometa
z0mOG vs angolano06
Mix vs thajester
Eeveeto vs localdealerr
lighthouses vs kimer
Baddy vs ySagaz_
Jay vs Kaif
Exiline vs Fc
Storm Zone vs Fusien
SHSP vs Micciu
Sabella vs Mok3s
Gei vs Vioz
ima vs Rowlet69420
Bloody vs lotiasite
Blui vs Don Eduardo
Akaru Kokuyo vs Skyiew
Tace vs Me Empty
Ming549 vs Taka
Lusa vs 8truc
Brigtel vs MahTheBot
Drud vs Spoontech
crying vs Sachumberto
BAGANHA13 vs Ado
TJ vs Alhen
Ash KetchumGamer vs Frailty
Santu vs Fragments
adjustments vs purbaj
Drifting vs Pokemh
Azery vs Chaitanya
BluBirD vs dota
Xiri vs Leroipolux
Gochan vs Slowpoke Fan
Blazer001 vs Silent Waltz
Nichalho vs Tytohbird
fiish vs Sheik :
Hacker vs JC98
Ampha vs Savouras
Maxouille vs damien the genius
DAHLI vs Miyoko
Luthier vs LucioCerra

The deadline for games is <t:1760320800>! 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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