Bonjour (that’s Italian for “hello”)! We have made it to Poke-France…I mean Kalos and more importantly the sixth iteration of E4 Pokémon tournaments! These friendly competitions will cover the sixth generation of Pokémon games: X & Y and Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire!
Once again, we’ll be holding brackets for Single Battles and VGC Double Battles! The formats we’ll be playing this time are Smogon Gen 6 OU Singles and VGC 2015.
Singles Bracket Rules
Tournament matches will be played on Pokémon Showdown using Smogon Gen 6 OU Singles rules.
Your team (Pokémon, items, moves, EVs/IVs) must remain the same for all games within a set. However, you can swap your lead Pokémon between games. Any player that is found swapping teams between games in a set will automatically have that game count as a loss for them. You can bring a different team for each round/new opponent.
Singles matches will be played in a “Best of 3” format where the winner will need to win 2 games to advance to the next round. The tournament will be a Double Elimination bracket, meaning players that lose in the winner’s bracket will still be able to progress through the loser’s bracket.
VGC 2015 Bracket Rules
Tournament matches will be played on Pokémon Showdown using the VGC 2015 Ruleset.
VGC double battles require you to build a full team of 6 Pokémon but only bring 4 into each battle. You can change which 4 you bring into each battle for each game within a set.
Players are only allowed to bring one team of 6 for the entire bracket and are required to post their full team in this thread before their first match. These restrictions are keeping in line with how official VGC tournaments operate now. If you are entering VGC please submit your teams to me via DM before the tournament start date.
VGC matches will be played in a “Best of 3” format where the winner will need to win 2 games to advance to the next round. The tournament will be a Double Elimination bracket, meaning players that lose in the winner’s bracket will still be able to progress through the loser’s bracket.
Little Cup Bracket
New this time is the introduction of “Little Cup”. Players who do not qualify for top 8 in either bracket will be entered in a single elimination, best of three bracket against their fellow competitors who are also out of the main bracket.
This allows players who are eliminated early more opportunities to play games and a chance to win their own unique Little Cup badge! While sharing its name with the ruleset introduced in Pokemon Stadium 2, Little Cup will use the exact same rulesets as the main brackets and not the one with level 5 unevolved Pokemon.
Saving Replays
Participants are required to report the results of their sets here and post replays of all their games. Refer to this post if you aren’t sure how to save replays on Pokémon Showdown.
Previous E4 Tournaments
Generation 1: 
DDK 
cosrob 
candle/G1TLandon
Generation 2: DDK caughtatpoint cosrob
Generation 3: DDK mossdeep silversnorlax204
Generation 4 Singles: DDK caughtatpoint Tryson21
Generation 4 VGC: DDK caughtatpoint SeasidePokemon
Generation 5 Singles: wisewailmer DarthEevee DDK
Generation 5 VGC: silversnorlax204 Tryson21 wisewailmer
sign me up for both. My skill level is “I like doubles more but placed better in singles last gen”
