UU Classic VIII

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Welcome, Smogon, to the eigth UU Classic! This is part of our official UU Tour Circuit where you can test your mettle against the top players in the community. The UnderUsed Classic is a chance to celebrate the history of the UnderUsed tier through the generations. Participants will compete in separate, single elimination UU tournaments for the SWSH, USM, ORAS, BW, DPP, ADV, GSC, and RBY generations, culminating in playoffs and finals. Additionally, players who make playoffs will be awarded points that will count towards the UU Tour circuit of 2022.

This tournament format should be familiar to anyone who has participated in Smogon's Grand Slam or Classic tournaments. The format consists of eight separate tournaments: the SWSH UU Cup, USM UU Cup, the ORAS UU Cup, the BW UU Cup, the DPP UU Cup, the ADV UU Cup, the GSC UU Cup, and the RBY UU Cup. Each participant will earn points for how far they advance in each cup, following a similar point system used in Grand Slam and other tours (see here for more details), but 2 points will be given out for round 3 onwards instead of round 4.

As with last years UU Classic, we will be employing a Best Finish system for qualifying for playoffs due to having 8 cups.

When all 8 cups have been completed, the top 16 players with the most points will advance to the playoffs. There they will compete in a best-of-five series consisting of a combination involving whichever generations they counterpick until we have an undisputed Smogon UnderUsed Classic Champion.

Sheet Link for Points will be here once its set up

Signups for the first Cup go up on 5th August 2024, with dates staggered by a week:

RBY UU Cup - Hosted by NotVeryCake - 5th August
GSC UU Cup - Hosted by Estarossa - 5th August
ADV UU Cup - Hosted by TBD - 12th August
DPP UU Cup - Hosted by TBD- 12th August
BW UU Cup - Hosted by Lizzie - 19th August
ORAS UU Cup - Hosted by dingbat - 19th August
USUM UU Cup - Hosted by autumn - 26th August
SWSH UU CUp - Hosted by Akeras - 26th August

If you have any questions or concerns about the format or predictions about the tour, please post them here. Initially, playoffs will be top 16 players, but that's subject to changes depending on the number of signups.
 
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To clarify regarding our best finish limit on this tour, we will be running a best finish limit of FIVE this time. This means that for the purposes of qualifying for playoffs, we will only consider your 5 best performances across the 8 cups, but you are still allowed to compete in all 8 cups if you wish.

Last year we ran a lot of 4 but the entire team of hosts for this tour agreed that it would be better to preserve a limit that is over 50% of games, and this limit also appropriately matches the fact that playoff games are designed to be a Bo5.
 
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