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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3 PM eastern
Half an hour from now, if my clock is correct.
Let’s have fun with the tournament, is my first big tournament. I hope to meet great people and enjoy the battles ^^
Is the roster late being put up? Iirc it was supposed to be up at 3 pm EST
Whens the bracket going up
Guys, please be patient on this. With 1300+ players, you have to expect that there will be some time required to sort out everything. Makiri believe it or not does have a life outside of this site, contrary to popular belief.
Makiri said on twitter the bracket is expected to go up tomorrow. They need time to sort everyone into flights and etc.
Exactly what the 2 posts above me said. Battlefy is working on something with the tournament that is out of my hands, I cannot make that go faster. A news post will be posted when the bracket is up, in the meantime please be patient, PMing me or asking where the bracket is won’t make it go faster.
New here! I want to show my gratitude to Nugget Brigde for let me participate on this great tournament. Hope to have great battles!!
Brackets will be up tonight. Tournament starts tomorrow. Most people should have received an email about this unless you signed up on Sunday night..
I haven’t received an email yet and I signed up within an hour of the registration period opening.
I’ll assume there are other factors at play and check back tomorrow.
Don’t worry, I was in the first twenty to sign up and I haven’t got one.
I imagine it’s just taking a while longer than expected given the high turnout.
Also new, though I’ve been lurking since last year reading all the articles that get posted. Not much experience in VGC tournament play. Nothing this large at least! Very exciting, can’t wait to jump in!
I am not in a rush or anything but, are they going to be putting the matchups on the battlefy page and if so when will they go up.
Sorry about previous comment, all of the newer comments answering my questions were not updated when i posted.
I haven’t received an e-mail yet, either. Then again, I can’t quite remember when I signed up. Maybe it was Saturday or last night, but I’m not sure.
Just be patient guys.
Thank you for all your efforts Nugget Bridge and all the organizers. 🙂 It’s my first time playing in a tournament using VGC format, so I am excited!
Sooo many participants
Still no idea what team to use, but it’s gonna be fun anyway ^^
The Pools are up…. (apparently Battlefy calls them flights)
I signed up from beginning and did everything and my name is not in any of the flights..?
Some help mods?
Some of you may have noticed flights are up.
DO NOT BATTLE YET. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CONTACT YOUR OPPONENT YET. DO NOT DO ANYTHING YET.
There is an issue that needs to be resolved. When you are allowed to start battling you will get an announcement on the front page of Nugget Bridge.
According to my battfly, all the flights are empty? Is that the issue or is my internet just trolling me?
They are being re-seeded and are blank for now.
Wait Major hasn’t officially started?
No. Keep up Sdan
Good thing I haven’t looked at the flights yet. I wouldn’t even know where they would be. ^^;
Phew good thing I saw that don’t battle yet part haha
So guys we have until when to do the first round matched and who is my opponent?