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Published on February 24th, 2015 | by makiri

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Round 3 of the Season 4 Nugget Bridge Major Has Begun

The second round of the Nugget Bridge Major 4 is in the history books. After a hard fought round, everyone is still in a position to make the top cut so don’t give up because you lost already. The third round of the Major is now finalized and you may begin battling and reporting your scores.

Important Note: Players need to be aware that self reporting a game that never happened is against the rules. Whether your opponent is missing or you two could never schedule a time for a match, you should never report a win if the match never happened. Talk to your flight leaders if you feel you deserve a win, but NEVER take it upon yourself to award a win to yourself without playing your match. The tournament staff will find out and you will be disqualified. I hate to continue reiterating this fact but it keeps happening and people keep getting disqualified, don’t risk your tournament by giving yourself a win undeservedly.

As a reminder here is the bracket. Please read the kick off post for instructions on reporting your score and messaging your opponent.

Flight Leaders are an important part of this tournament, make sure you are using them properly. Please do not spam them with requests and private messages. They are busy people and they will eventually be able to help you. In case you may have forgotten these are your Flight Leaders (they have not changed):

Once again the rules for this tournament:

  • The ruleset will be the Standard Format.
  • The tournament will follow the Swiss structure and leads to a final single elimination top cut to determine the champion. This means you play every round whether you win or you lose
  • The top 32 players or all players with 2 or fewer losses (whichever is the larger number) will make it to the top cut single elimination stage
  • Games will be played in a best of 3 set and the winner of 2 games will be declared the winner of the match. Report the proper score because your tiebreakers are affected. The only results should be 2-0 or 2-1.
  • You may not change teams during that best of 3, but you can change teams between rounds.
  • Games must be played on Nintendo 3DS systems using Pokémon Omega Ruby or Alpha Sapphire. In certain circumstances Pokémon Showdown may be used, but it needs to be cleared with makiri, the tournament host.
  • This is not a live tournament. Matches will play out over the course of the week.
  • A Nugget Bridge account is required to play.
  • If your match comes down to activity and you either never read your opponent’s communication, never replied to your opponent’s communication, or never logged on to Nugget Bridge during the current round you will be dropped from the tournament.
  • As mentioned it is Swiss, just because you lose it does not mean you are done, play the tournament out!
  • Please record a video while playing your match (using a phone or camcorder or something similar) to help in case of disputes. We also recommend saving all battle videos.

Any other important information can be found in the kick off post.

Deadline for this round for Flights A, B, and C is Monday, March 2, 2015 at 11:59 PM Pacific Standard Time.

Deadline for this round for Flight D is Tuesday, March 3, 2015 at 11:59 PM Pacific Standard Time.

Highlight Matches

Flight A

  • R Inanimate vs Darkpenguin67
  • NidoRich vs Sekiam

Flight B

  • Shinon64 vs Havak
  • Toazdt vs Fatum

Flight C

  • Henrique vs Lajo

Flight D

  • Michelele vs Poops


About the Author

started playing VGC in 2008 and has been an advocate for VGC play since then. With three Regional Championship victories and multiple other high placings, makiri is a seasoned competitor ready to impart knowledge of the game to others.



20 Responses to Round 3 of the Season 4 Nugget Bridge Major Has Begun

  1. Artemis Flynn says:

    Looks like I was the first match in Flight D. That gould have gone better………

  2. AdventVGC says:

    The bracket isn’t updating for me for some reason.

  3. Eakes says:

    I won my lost match but received a loss. Hibiki was in the message where my opponent admitted defeat and I have battle videos. I tried to submit my battle results on battlefy (late Monday night) and could not find the report results symbol. My opponent also received the win (not a tie or double loss) when I won clearly. I don’t find this to be a really adequate series of events.

  4. Biscuit says:

    I won my lost match but received a loss. Hibiki was in the message where my opponent admitted defeat and I have battle videos. I tried to submit my battle results on battlefy (late Monday night) and could not find the report results symbol. My opponent also received the win (not a tie or double loss) when I won clearly. I don’t find this to be a really adequate series of events.

     
    They made it very clear when self-reporting got turned off (approximately 24h before the round deadline).
     
    I’d suggest contacting your flight leaders to see if there’s anything they can do to fix it.

  5. Eakes says:

    I did, my flights leader was in the message of showing who won. And I could not record who won even though the match was done by the deadline.

  6. Biscuit says:

    I did, my flights leader was in the message of showing who won. And I could not record who won even though the match was done by the deadline.

     
    As I said, they closed self reporting approximately 24 hours before the round deadline. Meaning after that deadline it should be reported in the thread for the round (in the online tournaments section). If you didn’t report it there then you will need to physically contact a flight leader in order to attempt to fix it. I’m pretty sure just having them in on the message is not enough as they don’t have time to go through every PM thread in order to try and find out if there was a result.

  7. Eakes says:

    I am also in a physical message with my flight leader and have been and they have said there are no ties and “I” didn’t record my results which neither did my opponent. But my flight leader was also in private message with my opponent where both parties clearly state who won. So the problem here is if both opponents did not record results but the flight leader is aware of who won the game with statements from both parties why were the results recorded as they were. And why won’t they be changed. All this occurred before this post also meaning there was time in between to correct it.

  8. makiri says:

    I am your second flight leader and let me start off by showing you this post: http://nuggetbridge.com/forums/topic/13210-nugget-bridge-major-4-round-2/page-3?p=175920#entry175920
     
    Failure to read that post leads to issues like yours.
     

    IF YOU DON’T DO THESE THINGS YOU MAY BE AT RISK OF AN ACTIVITY LOSS. LOSSES CANNOT BE CHANGED SO YOU BETTER PAY ATTENTION.

    You never posted in the thread like it was asked of you so you ran into an activity loss. Yes one of your flight leaders was in your PM, but that flight leader is European and was likely sleeping when your battle was completed. I was never included in your PM therefore I was unaware your battle was ever completed. You failed to heed the advice in the thread and thus you received the loss. This is entirely your fault for not staying up to date with the round thread, a number of other people were able to properly report their scores via the thread on the last day, what is your excuse?

  9. Hibiki says:

    I am your second flight leader and let me start off by showing you this post: http://nuggetbridge.com/forums/topic/13210-nugget-bridge-major-4-round-2/page-3?p=175920#entry175920
     
    Failure to read that post leads to issues like yours.
     

    You never posted in the thread like it was asked of you so you ran into an activity loss. Yes one of your flight leaders was in your PM, but that flight leader is European and was likely sleeping when your battle was completed. I was never included in your PM therefore I was unaware your battle was ever completed. You failed to heed the advice in the thread and thus you received the loss. This is entirely your fault for not staying up to date with the round thread, a number of other people were able to properly report their scores via the thread on the last day, what is your excuse?

     
    Just dropping in to confirm the above, my ruling was “acitvity win for LecheroCR unless the match is played out”. 
    If you never report your win in the thread before the deadline there is simply nothing we can do for you. Next time read the rules more carefully to avoid unfortunate losses like that.

  10. NidoRich says:

    *Looks at the highlight matches*
    NidoRich vs Sekiam.

    Now this should be quite a game :D

  11. Boomguy says:

    Tomorrow I will be battling SebaGomez and I will be streaming it http://www.twitch.tv/boomguyvgc/profile.  We are both 2-0 in Flight C.  5pm American Eastern time, 10pm GMT.  This is the time we are meeting

  12. Lajo says:

    Even though I liked the idea of playing Henrique, there´s a huge error my opponent made in the first place.
    He´s actually from Brazil and logged into battlefy with his ingame name which is Henrique, while his NB username is actually henricosta!!!
     
    I am not playing vgc14 world´s semi-finalist Henrique in the NB Major.
     
    In fact, Henrique was last active in January this year on NB…
    Well, since things are clarified now, I hope some of henricosta´s opponents in later rounds will read this and not telling him to check the bracket again like I did first!

  13. Dreykopff says:

    Wow. I thought the highlight matches were already poor with me in them, and now we find this… I feel just as trolled as one year ago when that Talonflame + Charizard combination beat my MEGATAR with Sunny Day + Focus Blast, lol. Well played, I tip off my hat I’ve yet to get.

  14. makiri says:

    Hey guys due to an issue with some flight leader schedules the Flight D deadline has been extended 24 hours. That means if you are in Flight D you have 1 extra day to complete your battle this week. Flight A, B, and C will remain on schedule.

    The new deadline for Flight D is:

    Deadline for this round is Tuesday, March 3, 2015 at 11:59 PM Pacific Standard Time.

    Remember this is JUST for Flight D.

    Thank you.

  15. Acetrainer196 says:

    Question: My opponent has not contacted me back yet and my availability tomorrow is limited (basically unavailable as I work all day), so what do I do now? I added my flight leaders to my message to my opponent, but do I do anything beside that? I just wanted to clarify the specifics so I don’t get penalized for not battling this round. Thanks in advance for any replies!

  16. NidoRich says:

    The battle between myself and Sekiam ended in a 2-1 victory for Sekiam. After winning the first game and the losing the second game in two close fought matches it came down to the third battle where it was ultimately decided on a Special Defense drop.They were some real good battles and I’m glad I pushed the 6th best player in the world all the way….maybe I could have even won if I didn’t get the drop but that”s pokemon :D
     
    I’m just glad to have battled such a strong player in this and that I had fun doing so.

  17. Gonzo says:

    Even though I liked the idea of playing Henrique, there´s a huge error my opponent made in the first place.
    He´s actually from Brazil and logged into battlefy with his ingame name which is Henrique, while his NB username is actually henricosta!!!

    I am not playing vgc14 world´s semi-finalist Henrique in the NB Major.

    In fact, Henrique was last active in January this year on NB…
    Well, since things are clarified now, I hope some of henricosta´s opponents in later rounds will read this and not telling him to check the bracket again like I did first!

    Scrub. :P

    Sorry to be the one to cut your hype down, lmao.

    Question: My opponent has not contacted me back yet and my availability tomorrow is limited (basically unavailable as I work all day), so what do I do now? I added my flight leaders to my message to my opponent, but do I do anything beside that? I just wanted to clarify the specifics so I don’t get penalized for not battling this round. Thanks in advance for any replies!

    You’ve done everything you could, now it’s Leaders’ call. You’ll get the win, most likely.

  18. Dracoeye says:

    My battle against Cappa ended up with my win (2-0) but the red sign with stripes didn’t show up near my name so I couldn’t report the result.
    I talked to Unreality and he told me to post here saying what happened.
    My opponent can confirm that this was the result and that it was played before the deadline.

    So: Flight C Dracoeye 2 vs 0 Cappa

  19. Rayce says:

    Man, the reach of this tournament is just astounding. Just in the past matches, I have played Pokemon players from all around the world, and even this upcoming match will do the same. That’s really awesome.

  20. Hibiki says:

    My battle against Cappa ended up with my win (2-0) but the red sign with stripes didn’t show up near my name so I couldn’t report the result.
    I talked to Unreality and he told me to post here saying what happened.
    My opponent can confirm that this was the result and that it was played before the deadline.

    So: Flight C Dracoeye 2 vs 0 Cappa

    Round 3 has ended already. If this is Round 4 related, check the Round 4 thread in Online Tournaments

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