Welcome to the first round of this year's Official Smogon Tournament! The OST is one of Smogon's longest standing traditions in tournaments and has crowned many great Pokémon players as its champions across five generations. Over the next few months, over a thousand (!) players will compete to the best of their ability as they attempt to join the exclusive ranks of the OST trophy holders. Only one of those players will succeed in their journey and earn the recognition that comes with their victory, along with the iconic OST trophy.
The tournament will have a best of three format. This means that players will play until one of them wins two games. Players are allowed to switch teams in between games, or use the same team throughout the set; it is completely up to the player. If players only partially complete a series before the deadline, it will be considered an uncompleted match and action will be taken accordingly (either an activity win or a coin flip).
Just like last year, there will be a cash prize for this tournament! The winner of this year's Official Smogon Tournament will receive 200 USD and the runner up will win 95 USD!
If there are any questions, please don't hesitate to reach out to me or a tournament director!
- REPLAYS WILL BE REQUIRED IN YOUR WINPOST STARTING IN ROUND 2
- This is a standard SV OU tournament.
- The tournament will be single elimination.
- Players will play a best of three series of games each round
- 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.
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- Species Clause: A player cannot have two of the same Pokémon on their team. For example, a player cannot have two Koffing on his or her team.
- Sleep Moves Clause: A player cannot use moves that induce Sleep status on the opponent in their Pokemon's movesets.
- Evasion Clause: A player cannot use the moves Double Team or Minimize in their Pokémon's movesets.
- OHKO Clause: Players cannot use Horn Drill, Guillotine, Sheer Cold, or Fissure in any of their Pokémon's movesets.
- Team Preview: Players must turn on the Team Preview feature where players can view the opposing team's Pokémon and choose their lead Pokémon.
- Timer Clause: If a player exhausts the timer, he/she loses.
- Endless Battle Clause: Any moveset on any Pokémon that is capable of intentionally causing an endless battle is banned from competitive play. Check this thread for more information.
- Baton Pass Clause: The move Baton Pass is banned outright.
- Uber Clause: Players may not use any items, moves, abilities, or Pokemon that appear on Smogon's OU Ban List. If the tiers change or new items, abilities, moves, or Pokemon become available in the middle of a round, the changes will take effect in the following round. There will be an announcement in the relevant round if this occurs.
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.
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.
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.
General Tournament Rules
Substitutions
Players may sign up as a substitute if they didn't join in time. If you are eliminated from the tournament (i.e. you lose your games, are substituted out, or drop out), you may not sign up as a substitute. I will endeavor to substitute players in whenever a player drops out, and in the first week before the round 1 deadline, I will look through all players and activity win requests and replace any inactive players with substitutes. Given the size of the bracket this year, there might be two substitution waves. There is a decent chance that you will get to play if you sign up as a substitute. Substitutes will only be allowed into the tournament during round 1. Substitutes will be implemented on a mostly first come, first serve basis, but if you are inactive after you sign up as a substitute then you're at risk of not being substituted into the tournament.
To sign up as a substitute, please use the substitute signup thread.
Please read this guide if you're unsure how to schedule with your opponent! Alternatively, watch this video made by teal6:
Now then, without further ado..
Round 1-C
poyo005 vs Gamixer
27goku vs cactinie
Nashrock vs watashi
TheHBard vs Mirak
someone random vs 666Gengar
Pissog vs Kallum
Staraptor vs Snowmeows
A Welcome Guest vs Zoyotte
hammer798 vs FoulplayG
Kate vs SNOWY HELL
oakdeon vs Magcargo
MANNAT vs na-kanon69
Drookez vs lasesino
~Undead~ vs shinerlizerrr
Arcanine1929 vs iNC
Herigony vs ojr
Ghoulish Champ vs Noaa
MrAldo vs Macadamia11
LegitlyIzOP vs cb aaron judge
Wilfry 95 vs HSK7
wedgematt vs Skmagnet
Mgee vs pookiewookie69
Beuto vs INSULT
zRyan74 vs Destro16
Raahel vs SammyCe123
ETJX vs binary search
Hybuyn vs Rex Slayer
FlamPoke vs ong
MahTheBot vs rafapaia
destroyingpotato vs soul_slayer_102
Toto vs Not360o
Mannuraj vs mudd_skip
Zentrox vs ShadowStricker911
cen344uu vs Oculars
Hugo vs the man245
Wappy.kBs vs glass shadows
spook vs Blazing
waffle04 vs MatLaTomate
sunsets vs lemonstre1
tesyy vs Medeia
Guille vs MakeAmericaGreatAgain
UnzipsCrogre vs estra
tahatahat vs rowynn
BlazingDark vs AlyssaVGC
Miyoko vs Elgino
billclintonlol vs Minatevis
sluGGy vs gephicka
Mossful vs Landino6540
Abso vs DonSalvatore
blittius vs needle on top
Froggy vs Ash KetchumGamer
Dasmer vs Souw
Sputnik vs Devious flamigo
sudoz vs yandaud
Shiiftry vs Lacks
GeniusX vs Dugtrio Is Broken
OJitTiK vs Stellar Flares
wssi vs kythr
pj vs Blox
Metallica126 vs TheDuckChris
OranBerryBlissey10 vs paysa
Feliburn vs terrors
ninth vs angolano06
Nanchlax vs Mix
Clementine vs Kingsous
ASKOV vs krwozen
mclagno vs mind gaming
ptonho vs Ahsan-219
Yippie vs Aggron283
AsmiRedx vs Yves Stone
ziloXX vs wesh papillon
Oblizzy vs CaptainEikichi
Career Ended vs Tytohbird
Are you vaping? vs reyscarface
mikejohns vs Supersam10001
Hiro' vs katyaaaa
crying vs Storm Zone
ClaireC vs Larry
Darkvoid-Daigo vs Surimi
Isza vs TectonicDestroyer
fakenagol vs HydreigonTheChild
meio_potato vs K3TCHUP
Nowelle vs Rasche
Micciu vs Skyfall_
el poeta vs Always!
Tace vs Squash
Scarfire vs Django
Jefozz vs Aberforth
Auxplr vs Albret
Go make a sandwitch vs ScizorDaGoat
Sificon vs Foxy0310
revicteddreams vs Charmflash
RADU vs Truthankamon
eninlol4 vs Chaitanya
tko vs VerySuboptimal
zS vs mkap
jking55 vs Finchinator
pannu vs MrGhost1724
damien the genius vs Aurella
Suzuya vs irlN
Quinn vs PolloAriosto
teal6 vs Baddy
Ninja vs Alisyem
Aliss vs Santouss
Usflon vs Huston
Ren_Harriet vs SalvatoreSesso
Coffy vs memedose46
KnivesTotality vs pkcc
Ewin vs clean
adpg.2007 vs Tempo di anguria
shuzoku vs Bastien_YG
Calmmind75 vs Caesar P. Tuck
Tsaun vs So Unlooky
Soul king0 vs olivia
ApacheRomero vs Lord V
YaVR_1 vs Dead by Daylight
yogo896 vs Antonazz
Vertigo vs Jytcampbell
Regiice vs jscurf
mcp3 vs feen
Stories vs doso749
HANTSUKI vs z0mOG
Karmazz vs eclipseY
s7a vs AndrewRK
recti vs veti
SpaceSpeakers vs Tony
cheru vs joemonke
Navy vs Jucherz
(If your name isn't in this list check the OST Round 1-A, 1-B, and 1-D threads for it! Alternatively, you may be on the substitute list, and you'll be tagged to let you know your pairing when you're substituted in!)
Deadline is Sunday, February 2nd at 11:59 PM EST (GMT-5).
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