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!
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