Smogon Masters IV - Round 1 [Thread B]

[cala]

Art by Blazenix
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Welcome to the fourth 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 c0mp joining the esteemed company of MichaelderBeste2 and Empo, do you think you have what it takes to join the pantheon?

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.
• The hosts for this tournament are a fairy, cala_aa, ego, vmnunes, and Zac.

About Activity Decisions

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, or if hosts determine an activity win was earned based on public contact. 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.

Host discretion will be applied for all unplayed games. This means that an activity win will not be automatically granted if you post, and a lack of post does not automatically result in a coinflip.

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.

RETAINED FOR MASTERS IV: We will be implementing an extra round of Swiss (similar to OSDT VI 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.

Starting tier in case of lack of agreement is SM OU.

Round 1:
cripwalk on sunday vs Peum
Monai vs thajester
Luiz010. vs Ryuji
Ash KetchumGamer vs Mollymiltoast
Mzmarcos1 vs UGaming
Cielau vs Vusty
Genhui vs OranBerryBlissey10
HAVOCKNIGHT vs lmu
Capidaxter vs kDCA
lawlpaca vs Znain
moocowvin vs Aries Dragons
Wanony vs FatYoshi314
blaab vs hiroakiruby
Wamr vs destroyingpotato
melgaalan vs MrAldo
lax vs Sagazinha
Avacato vs mrfraud
toinha vs Sarje
Aurella vs Analytic
Amaske vs harshest
Tempo di anguria vs Pherusa
darkman64 vs Superhuy
waffle04 vs Feitan_allt
SH4D yfn vs Finchely
wakespeare shilliam vs alive or death
Cluelessmagnet vs Ruffles
Mati R vs Ahsan-219
Elian vs tofa
xqiht vs Santu
Hisoka vs babble
1yr vs old lemons
Dwagon vs Stareal
mrrrmonkeee vs Arcanine1929
Slowpoke Fan vs Leftiez
SoulWind vs GhostGallade
SHSP vs Riruia
justbaguette vs Micciu
PixelBob vs Sossa
Plague vs blooclipse
Duko vs Suuicunee
notlena vs Iguana
deaje vs Nara
vk vs Greenytg
Leni vs stratdkt
someone random vs DemigraX
Niko vs beto cachinhos
White Atoq vs Ashbala
Mysterious M vs Airi
Yttoshirib vs MichaelderBeste2
Drifting vs Agera
awyp vs TBE
vini_koraidon vs Kokona Aoba
VoidOfDarknesss vs Long Spirit
betathunder vs remedy
Feaniix vs crying
CyberOdin✝ vs Sussaix
Smartduck vs xSuko
Iride vs DonBoneJones
kingofking vs Achimoo
Nor vs rixkEZ_
Exequiel vs Trawkan
Mix vs Miyoko
pkcc vs VascoAbsolute
Django vs rainq
Ewin vs giatneh
Fdmw vs doso749
Autistic Soviet vs LB
crucify vs Medeia
urrgh vs 40kultra
Spring_mist vs Oathkeeper
sugarhigh vs DeMarvelous
Maxouille vs wvsp
liliou vs sire clod
starkswalls vs Brandonlee1
Alloutdragadarts vs Interlinked
MadelinMorningstar vs Zerotti
magma_man vs Radox786
gxewho? vs ZDen
Regiboob vs mike
shiloh vs GUZOT
Scoptile vs hida
Steve Angello vs Yash Vortex
reyscarface vs ste not your doll
Batmen vs Glurakaiser
Amphetamine4 vs pyu
Nu vs Steven Stone 007

Round 1 will end at <t:1789351200:f>! Use Substitute Entry for late joins, an inactivity check will occur in roughly a week to sub out potential people who've gone missing. EXTENSIONS CANNOT BE PROVIDED.

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

 

[CyberOdin✝]

Pm sent to my opponent.

 

[Mysterious M]

Won ggs

 

[Regiboob]

won in 2 ggs

 

[Fdmw]

won vs doso gg shoutout p5 vioz and typical bastard

 

[Django]

won ggs

 

[Mzmarcos1]

My opponent is banned, do they receive a substitution or a direct walkover?

 

[hida]

won ggs

 

[cala]

My opponent is banned, do they receive a substitution or a direct walkover?

After our activity check (happening on Sunday) we'll add your opponent to the list of inactive players who may be subbed out.

Basically you'll find out in a week

 

[destroyingpotato]

won ggs

 

[babble]

won v Hisoka gg

 

[vk]

Won ggs

 

[Miyoko]

Won ggs

 

[Laurel]

won ggs

 

[Zerotti]

Won in 3 ggs

 

[mrrrmonkeee]

calling act vs Arcanine1929, hour+ late to scheduled time

 

[Nara]

calling act vs deaje, late to scheduled time and i have too many things booked to reschedule

rescinding this since 2 week deadline, will probably reschedule for next weekend

 

[Ashbala]

Won ggs

 

[Glurakaiser]

won vs batmen, ggs

 

[urrgh]

Won vs 40kultra, ggs

 

[SHSP]

won in 2, ggs

 

[Finchely]

won ggs

 

[Ryuji]

act, opp didnt show up

 

[Iride]

won ggs

 

[lmu]

i won with a bit of luck vs havocknight, sorry :/ ggs