Welcome to our first ever ZU Ladder Tournament (ZULT)! This laddering tournament will ask participants to ladder as high as they can on the ZU Ladder each week. The four participants with the highest rating at the end of each week will be entered into the playoffs. The playoffs will be a seeded bracket of the top sixteen participants, and the winner of the playoffs will be crowned the winner of the ZU Ladder Tournament.
This tournament will consist of two stages. The first stage is the actual laddering portion of the tournament, which will last an entire month. The four participants with the highest ELO at the end of each week will be entered into the playoffs. If a player "won" for multiple weeks, the next highest ranked person will be admitted into the playoffs. Due to the possibility of needing substitutes for the second stage of the tournament, we'll take the 5th and 6th participants week and randomize them as subs if needed. If you qualify as #5 or #6, you are still able to participate in other cycles and try to qualify for the top four of a future cycle. A participant's rank on the ladder "resets" at the end of each cycle. You must ladder with a new alt each cycle and post it in this thread before you start laddering. There will be a specific tag for each week of laddering that will be posted prior to that qualification period starting.
At the end of the laddering stage, the second stage, our playoffs, will start with the top sixteen ladder players of the month. Pairings will be seeded based on the position players qualified and the week they qualified in, with the higher seed going to the player who qualified first. More information on format and rules are listed below. Since you are rewarded for placing higher on each ladder I assume there will be people who want to improve their seed by laddering again the next qualifying period, this is fine, I'll save the screenshots from each round and adjust it accordingly.
Before participating in this tournament, please take some time to familiarize yourself with Smogon's tournament rules as well as this specific sub-forums rules. If you need help finding either of those feel free to contact me. Ghosting is strictly prohibited! Anyone who joins is essentially in an ongoing tour. Anyone who is found ghosting will be disqualified from the tournament.
From now on all ZU Laddering Tournament wins / posts / activity decisions / future rounds / etc. will be held in this thread. Several players of contested within ZU's ladder to determine the Top 16 players eligible for this tournament. The following lists the top 16 users and their seeding based on their ELO. In such cases where two people tie (Rawmelon and Zugubu Royale), the person who qualified first gets the higher seeding. We've also listed our subs. All series played from now will be best two out of three!
| Players | ELO | Subs | ELO | ||
| 1 | 5gen | 1553 | 1 | chokepic | 1427 |
| 2 | Ho3n | 1551 | 2 | rav3ndan | 1398 |
| 3 | Broken Phobias | 1548 | 3 | Nailec | 1391 |
| 4 | ktutverde | 1515 | 4 | mirbro | 1350 |
| 5 | 85percent | 1497 | |||
| 6 | Rawmelon | 1494 | |||
| 7 | zugubu royale | 1494 | |||
| 8 | Quagg | 1489 | |||
| 9 | yovan33321 | 1488 | |||
| 10 | ganso | 1487 | |||
| 11 | graceclaw | 1485 | |||
| 12 | a fruitshop owner | 1465 | |||
| 13 | LPY | 1462 | |||
| 14 | uberlandon21 | 1452 | |||
| 15 | staticdpp | 1431 | |||
| 16 | tommathan | 1430 |
Round 1 Playoffs Matchups:
5gen vs.
Ho3nConfirm3d vs.
Broken Phobias vs.
Ktütverde
85percent vs.
RawMelon vs.
zugubu royale vs. Ganso
Reminder that this is a Bo3 single-elimination tournament. Deadline is Sunday May 12th at 9pm EST. Best of luck to our Top 16 players!
Last edited:
