Registration Open for the Season 4 Nugget Bridge Major
The long awaited fourth Nugget Bridge Major is finally here. Last year’s Nugget Bridge Major was the largest tournament we ever held here on Nugget Bridge with 449 participants and after a long and grueling tournament, DarkAssassin was declared the victor. We hope this year’s Major will be even bigger and better and the first way we aim to do so is an increase in prizes!
The Major has always had a large prize pool and we are nearly doubling the prize payout compared to last year. This years prizes (US dollars):
- 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
Of course remember that 100 Nugget Points are needed for an invite to the Nugget Bridge Invitational, so the Major will be key in obtaining that invite.
The second way we hope to make this Major even bigger and better is making it easier to signup and track your progress in the tournament. This year we are using Battlefy to host the entire bracket. No more searching for the right bracket, it will all be right there in front of you. You will need a Battlefy account, so do sign up for one and use this link to actually sign up for the tournament. Signups will be open for 7 days, so don’t delay.
Finally the rules will be important to follow for this tournament. If you don’t follow them you are at risk of losing matches or even being disqualified from the tournament altogether.
- 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.
- The password is “ireadtherules” Do not share this password.
- Use your Nugget Bridge username as your In game name when registering. Do not enter your Pokémon In Game Name twice. Unjoin and rejoin with the correct information if you do this incorrectly. A Nugget Bridge account is required to play.
- 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.
There is no need to signup in this thread, but feel free to let everyone know you signed up and discuss the tournament. Round 1 will begin on February 2nd, so be ready!
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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iMagikarp…Sounds familiar. You’re Justin, right?
signed up earlier. my first nuggetbridge major. i just wanna make it to top 32. if i get there, i’ll be good 🙂
If that’s gonna be your goal why not go ahead and make winning your goal
Holy cow! I just looked and we’re sitting at over 700 players now. That’s just insane.
Uh.. The player count shows me 3 times. If that could be fixed… xD
Yea, did I play you last weekend?
I only see you once. Can you check again? What browser and operating system are you using?
Is one round a set of 3, or just one game ?
Please read the entire post people. SO many of you are asking redundant questions that are already answered if you would just read. Thank you
Thank you for the confirmation. I did read the whole post, I only asked because I had doubts after Arcade said:
Ah it appears fine now. There must have been some lag, when I joined nothing changed, so I signed up two times more by accident because it wasn’t registering straight away. It’s all fine now though. If it means anything my Browser is Google Chrome and OS is Windows 7 Home Premium.
I’m sooooo NOT ready for this, but! I must do something in my return to the game.
I joined too! Can’t wait
Good luck everyone!
I’m in, just can’t wait for a chance to beat lunarr. :>
This starts next week, yeah?
Almost 900 players so far, compared to last years 449.
How big do you think the tourney will get?
I’m gonna guess 1100 participants
in =)
Over 900 people now, wonder if it’ll break 1,000?
It seems likely that it’ll break 1000 players registered. That’s a great statistic to be able to throw around too.
I look forward to seeing how this grand tournament plays out.
I’m in. My FC is in my signature, and so is my IGN for Alpha Sapphire.
So I’m definitely not as ready as I’d like to be xD
This is my first season playing competitive and my first ever tournament. I wonder how I’ll do
Signed up. This should be fun. Actually battling instead of resetting constantly for good legendaries.
Oh my, now I have to stop theoreymoning and actually build a team… Haha, but 1,000 players, wow this is going to be insane for my first major! Can’t wait to begin!
Would you be able to change your FC after the comp starts as I am looking to get the new 3DS?
So ready for this tournament!
I don’t think battlefy allows you the option to change details such as your FC when you’ve joined and mid-way through the tournament. That said however, you will need to contact your opponents each week in any case to arrange a time and date, so you can always let them know that your FC has changed. I expect there will be a fair few people making a switch over the next couple of months to the new 3ds, so don’t worry too much.
When exactly star the tournament?
It would be cool if we can get some statistics about the origin of all this players, i’m sure this raise of the number of participants this year it’s because the global expansion of VGC this season.
I have a question, is this the biggest Pokémon Tournament ever? I just can’t remember a tournament with more than 1k players….
im in 4940 5568 7572
So is there going to be a way to change Friend Code at some point in this tournament? Because New 3DS XL comes out soon so a lot of people will have different Friend Codes whenever they get them…
Literally 3 posts up