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Published on February 3rd, 2015 | by makiri

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Season 4 Nugget Bridge Major Kicks Off

The Season 4 Nugget Bridge Major has begun! You can find the brackets hosted on Battlefy. Due to the unprecedented number of registrations, we’ve split the tournament into four flights for a more manageable event. Players who finish with two or fewer losses in their flight will move on to the single elimination stage of the tournament.

We’re incredibly proud to kick off the largest online Pokémon tournament ever and one of the largest gaming tournaments period. 1327 players have signed up and we have some amazing competitors from all six inhabited continents. Thank you to everyone for the support you’ve shown the Nugget Bridge Circuit. We wish everyone good luck in what we hope will be a smooth tournament. That said there are a few guidelines and news items participants should be aware of in making this tournament run as smoothly as possible. Remember that you will be coordinating with players of a wide age range and from time zones as far apart as 12 hours!

Score Reporting

You will report the score in the bracket on Battlefy. Find your match in the bracket and click the icon beside it. Click Report Score. Remember to click “WIN” under the winner’s name and enter if it’s a 2-0 or 2-1 victory before saving.

Never report the score unless you have played a game. If you need to report a missing opponent, report that to your Flight Leader (see the next section). Battlefy’s score reporting will be active until Sunday night. You will have Monday to look at the bracket and make sure everything is correct. You must report any problems to your Flight Leader by the end of Monday. We will not go back and change scores once a new round has been generated.

If you need to report a score on Monday when self score reporting is disabled, please do so by posting in the thread for the current round in our Online Tournaments forum.

Communication

One of the most important parts of the Nugget Bridge Major is communication. Communicate with your opponent by contacting them here on Nugget Bridge using our private messaging system. Your opponent’s username should be relatively close to the one listed in the Battlefy bracket. Try to reply to your opponent as promptly and courteously as possible. You will have about 1 week to complete your best of 3 match so while battles do not need to be done immediately, do keep in mind that there is a deadline to each round. This leads into my next point.

Not every match will be completed. Sometimes people forget they joined the tournament. Sometimes they no longer wish to play. Sometimes you guys just can’t find a suitable time to battle. This is where the Nugget Bridge private message system comes in handy. In case of any dispute or if a battle didn’t get completed, you can add your Flight Leaders (explanation in a bit) to your private message with the following steps:

Step 1

Click “Add” on the left hand side.

Step 2

Type in your Flight Leader’s name and then “Add.”

Step 3

All done. Your Flight Leader is now aware of any issues that you may have with that round’s battle.

Now I’m sure you are wondering what a Flight Leader is. Due to the number of players the entire tournament has been split into four flights and each flight has two Flight Leaders in charge of that flight. The Flight Leaders are the ones who will help determine activity calls so as mentioned it is very important you add the correct ones to your private messages. If you have ANY other issues, contact your Flight Leader first. The Flight Leaders are as follows:

• Flight A: Wyrms Eye + feathers
• Flight B: makiri + Hibiki
• Flight C: Gonzo + Unreality
• Flight D: Braverius + majorbowman

Can’t Find Your Opponent?

If your opponent doesn’t seem to have a Nugget Bridge account search some variations on their name. If your opponent’s name has spaces on Battlefy, maybe they have no spaces on Nugget Bridge. Maybe they have a 3 instead of an E in their name. If you still cannot find your opponent after doing your due diligence wait a couple days, they may contact you. If after several days you do not get contacted and you cannot find your opponent, message your Flight Leaders so they can take care of it. Please give your opponent some time prior to contacting your Flight Leader about this, as mentioned they may have a slightly different name that you just haven’t been able to find.

If you have signed up twice (or more), notice someone else signed up twice, or may just have the same exact name as someone post here with all the information so we can figure out what is going on. Their name, flights they are in, and any other identifying features so we can easily find them. We will try to take care of these ASAP since we know the issues that arise around that.

Please do not make “activity” posts. We don’t use them to judge activity, the only way we will judge activity is through PMs and such.

Prizes

Because of the much larger than expected tournament we have extended Nugget Points to the top 128 now. It isn’t much but it will give points to everyone who makes it to top cut in this difficult tournament. The updated Nugget Point spread:

• 1st place: $300 + 120 NP
• 2nd place: $150 + 110 NP
• 3rd/4th place: $75 + 100 NP
• 5th-8th place: $25 + 70 NP
• 9th-16th place: 50 NP
• 17th-32nd place: 30 NP
• 33rd-64th place: 20 NP
• 65th-128th place: 10 NP

To make top cut, finish your flight as a 7-2, 8-1, or 9-0 player and you will be entered into the top cut. Top cut will be best of three single elimination and will ultimately crown the Season 4 Nugget Bridge Major champion.

Tournament Rules

As a reminder here are the tournament rules:

• 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.

Highlight Matches

The first round will start off strong! Here are the top ten battles to keep an eye out in the first week. We’ll have battle videos of our top matches up on our YouTube channel once they’re done so subscribe and keep an eye out!

Flight A

• Baz Anderson vs Firestorm
• Dubulous vs Cybertron
• Simon vs Sekiam
• CT MikotoMisaka vs Cobalte

Flight B

• KobraTail vs Linkyoshimario
• Bargens vs Rookie Slayer MLG
• TalkingLion vs Shinon64

Flight C

• Zog vs Legacy

Flight D

• Drizzleboy vs Toquill
• Human vs Alexis

Deadline for this round is Monday, February 9, 2015 at 11:59 PM Pacific Standard Time.

About the Author

makiri 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.

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