Welcome to the first 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, 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, a top cut according to record and resistance will be created and a Bo3 single elimination tournament will determine who wins Smogon Masters and the trophy
Rules & Tournament Format
General Tournament Rules
- This is a tournament that will employ the standard rulesets for ORAS OU, SM OU, and SS OU.
- Smogon Masters I will be a swiss tournament.
- Players will be automatically dropped when they hit three losses as they are no longer in contention for top cut.
- Players will be assigned a random opponent out of the pool of players with the same record as you each round.
- More information on the specifics of the swiss will be placed in the HIDE tag below.
- Rounds will be Best of Three -- one game of each tier.
- Matches are to be played on Pokemon 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.
- Finchinator is the primary host of this tournament while Lady Salamence, Eledyr, and Frozoid will be the co-hosts.
Activity Decisions / Coin Flips: 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. 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.
In case of disconnections, if you played in the SmogTours server, call a Tournament Director as soon as possible and we'll see about the possibility of having a rematch.
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.
In case of disconnections, if you played in the SmogTours server, call a Tournament Director as soon as possible and we'll see about the possibility of having a rematch.
This was written by Lady Salamence -- thank you!
This tournament uses a Swiss format, where everyone plays until they lose three times, or until Play-Ins / Top Cut begins after Round 9. The Top Cut will be single elimination and based on a 64-player bracket. All matches will be a Best of 3, involving ORAS OU, USUM OU, and SWSH OU.
In the first three rounds, a number of Byes will be placed in the tournament to hit the 768-participant number, to ensure a participant count that works well with Swiss tournament structure. These Byes will exist until Round 3, successively lowering in the Swiss structure – in Round 2, some number of 0-1 players will receive Byes, and in Round 3 some number of 0-2 players will receive Byes.
During the final round, Round 9, three players will have an 8-0 score. These three players have the option to play a Round Robin to lock in their seedings. They may choose to forfeit their games and receive the worst Resistance seeding of the three. Should a Round Robin be fully played and end in 1-1 for each player, their placings/resistance scores would stay identical to before the Round Robin.
Once Round 9 concludes, there will be 69 players qualified (7-2 score or better) for Playoffs. These players will be ranked by Resistance, which is the cumulative win percentage all of their opponents throughout the Swiss phase. The ten 7-2 players with the lowest Resistance (the smallest cumulative win percentage) will play against each other for the final 5 slots, with the first 59 going to the players with higher resistances and scores. Once Play-Ins are finished, Top Cut begins.
This tournament uses a Swiss format, where everyone plays until they lose three times, or until Play-Ins / Top Cut begins after Round 9. The Top Cut will be single elimination and based on a 64-player bracket. All matches will be a Best of 3, involving ORAS OU, USUM OU, and SWSH OU.
In the first three rounds, a number of Byes will be placed in the tournament to hit the 768-participant number, to ensure a participant count that works well with Swiss tournament structure. These Byes will exist until Round 3, successively lowering in the Swiss structure – in Round 2, some number of 0-1 players will receive Byes, and in Round 3 some number of 0-2 players will receive Byes.
During the final round, Round 9, three players will have an 8-0 score. These three players have the option to play a Round Robin to lock in their seedings. They may choose to forfeit their games and receive the worst Resistance seeding of the three. Should a Round Robin be fully played and end in 1-1 for each player, their placings/resistance scores would stay identical to before the Round Robin.
Once Round 9 concludes, there will be 69 players qualified (7-2 score or better) for Playoffs. These players will be ranked by Resistance, which is the cumulative win percentage all of their opponents throughout the Swiss phase. The ten 7-2 players with the lowest Resistance (the smallest cumulative win percentage) will play against each other for the final 5 slots, with the first 59 going to the players with higher resistances and scores. Once Play-Ins are finished, Top Cut begins.
Round 8
Glurakaiser vs Reze
Kaif vs Rubyblood
reyscarface vs Giannis Antetokommo-o
BIHI vs Sylveon used calm mind
pannu vs Buhrito
GeniusX vs ChrisPBacon
Empo vs robjr
Gondra vs Lostmemories
zioziotrip vs Akola
Ado vs pulsar512b
Waylaid vs xdRudi.exe
Fant'sy Beast vs Squirtle Nornor
blunder vs Dasmer
RaiZen1704 vs Zerkas
Baloor vs Malekith
fish anemometer vs Splash
OranBerryBlissey10 vs Sharow
JustFranco vs entrocefalo
DugZa vs luisin
Scarfire vs UnzipsCrogre
Zokuru vs Akalli
Axel vs Ashbala
Alhen vs Strat8246
dunoks vs Marshall.Law
Star vs tofa
skimmythegod vs Vulpix03
ACR1 vs Expulso
Luigi vs Isza
MangoSteak vs Lazuli
Xiri vs awyp
Vermillion Gangsta vs Originality56
Ikaishi vs soiled it
Ina fable vs Oya/Semort
Alkione vs Lycans
Leru vs The Strap
JJ09LIE vs Airi
etern vs agentkeval
PikachuZappyZap vs Mimikyu Stardust
SiTuM vs Thor
DripLegend vs Akarui~Kurayami
DKM vs Lacks
Igniizard vs Altthiel
Medeia vs monchooo
ruuko vs Dark Shion
MANNAT vs Teclis
Fun Trading vs ImperialH
Ryuji vs Satanic Beast
CDW Enrique vs PANNAMAA
TyCarter vs QWILY
MGdos16 vs Fakee
egalvanc vs XelloW
Miyoko vs NoName6293
Fc vs Blox
Souw vs Elfuseon
alive vs GGTC
clean vs TomatoZause
Mashing vs Tenebricite
Kaneki-san vs So Noisy
Leo vs kDCA
pkcc vs Batzi
JojenReed vs SenseiSese
Mindnight vs the pharoah
Tarre25 vs Bye
There are no extensions in this tournment and no exceptions to this whatsoever, so please do your best to get your games done by Sunday, November 19th at 10 PM GMT-5. Start this round in ORAS OU if you cannot decide. Thanks.
Replays are required to be saved all tournament and posted.
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