Welcome to the Draft League forum's SS Cup! This thread will contain the bracket assignments for this round of the tournament. Please be aware that the bracket section of the tournament is single elimination, best of one.
Below are the rules for the tournament.
- You have up to 90 points with which to draft 8 Pokémon. Costs are listed on your pool’s tab on the drafting spreadsheet.
- If a Pokémon is picked by someone else, you may not pick it.
- For the first round, there is a 12 hour timer. After the first round ends, there will be a continuous 6 hour timer within which you must pick, or you will be skipped, and will be required to make-up your pick when you are next online. All timers are off between 10pm-7am local time (check your pools pinned message for local time).
- Your timer will halve every time you are skipped. It is recommended to leave picks (with backups) with your pool moderator to avoid this.
- The following complex bans are in place:
- Kyurem-Black cannot use the move Dragon Dance
- Zygarde-50% and Zygarde-10% may not have the ability Power Construct.
- Cinderace may not have the ability Libero. - The following Pokémon have access to all of their forms (although you may only bring up to 1 to each battle):
- Pikachu
- Wormadam
- Basculin
- Meowstic
- Pumpkaboo
- Gourgeist
- Oricorio
- Silvally
- Toxtricity
- Indeedee - Smogon’s Species Clause applies to your draft.
- All games must be played in the [Gen 8] Galar Dex Draft tier on smogtours.psim.us or psim.us.
- General tournament rules and regulations can be found here.
- SS cartridge win conditions are in place; there are no ties.
- Each set is a best-of-one set.
- The following clauses apply:
- Species Clause: A player cannot have two Pokémon with the same National Pokédex number on a team.
- Sleep Clause: If a player has already put a Pokémon on their opponent's side to sleep and it is still sleeping, another one can't be put to sleep.
- Evasion Clause: A Pokémon may not hold an item, use a move or possess an ability that can increase their evasion stat
- OHKO Clause: A Pokémon may not have the moves Fissure, Guillotine, Horn Drill, or Sheer Cold in its moveset.
- Moody Clause: A team cannot have a Pokémon with the ability Moody.
- Endless Battle Clause: Players cannot intentionally prevent an opponent from being able to end the game without forfeiting.
- Baton Pass Clause: A Pokémon may not have Baton Pass in its moveset. - Any items unreleased in SS are banned.
- Replays must be posted to the pool/round thread, please mention the result, your opponent's name and your pool number.
- Rankings within pools may not be 100% accurate as the spreadsheet does not track head-to-head results. Players are ranked based upon: most wins, head-to-head, battle differential.
About Activity Decisions
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.
[Credit to the Official Smogon Tournament hosting team for the rule.]
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.
[Credit to the Official Smogon Tournament hosting team for the rule.]
Matchups:
Coltrainzzz vs crow crumbs
dtGray vs Zooch
Habaduh vs crucify
BLAZING HAWK vs Chronalga
Lucas2543 vs not mishmesh
Deranged_Lime vs BigTimeBrownie
3.14dgeot-Mega vs PikachuZappyZap
SlickPanther vs Orange Fruit
King L5 vs ayep
SOM/05 vs Shiritu
vengabenga vs a12qsd too
kurse vs HJ5ean
WombatBaby vs scionicle
Pampey vs Sealrv
(winner of Sir.dee vs Shaad Skyel) vs Xiphactin
AkkiVGC vs Almighty Rye
Pollitoshark vs bjk1903_62
SoggyDoggySage vs ultraplayer
Zaqwe51 vs ThinkingSceptile
Down By VI vs chi yu later
Amukamara vs Commander Beta
Hacker vs sablolol
skimmythegod vs foodv_v
PlatDog vs KingofKrook
HarmonyHatterene37 vs robjr
CM_Metro vs Meowscarada!
Palkia62 vs RoiDadadou
twig___ vs Frablz
ComputerWhiz vs zomb™
rray vs aces3232
Techno6377 vs Gravity Monkey
Star vs Rissoux
The drafts for each matchup in this round can be found at this link:[/B]
https://spo.ink/ss_cup_bracket_matchups
All games must be complete by 11:59PM GMT-0 on Sunday, June 4th, 2023. The deadline for extended games is 11:59 GMT -0 on Tuesday, May 30th. Incomplete games will be resolved by the hosts (abriel and AngularPenny5) following the Activity Win Rules above.
Here's the challenge command that includes all the teambuilder bans to make it easier for validation. Just paste it in the PMs of your opponent on Smogtours:
/chall gen8galardexdraft @@@ -Kyurem-Black+Dragon Dance, -Zygarde+Power Construct, -Cinderace+Libero, -Baton PassREPLAYS ARE MANDATORY.
This thread and all other SS Cup threads should be considered the final ruling in case of discrepancy between threads, Discord announcements, and Google spreadsheets. Contact a host if you have any questions or spot an error.
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