Summer 2026 National Dex OU Tournament

Question

Welcome once again to the National Dex OU tour hosted by me, Anchor9. Who will take the crown from Saber?

Rules

• This tournament will run using the current National Dex OU ruleset, which can be found here.
• This tournament will play in National Dex OU on the usual showdown server
• Save Your Replays! Post them on this thread here.
• Conduct your battle and post the replay by the deadline. If not, a random player will be chosen to win( there will be flexibility in this depending on the situation).
• This tournament will be Bo3.

Something to vote on

In your signup post, please vote if you want the tour to be:
1. Single Elimination bo3
2. Double Elimination bo3

Sign-ups

Please read sumwun's guidelines for tournament participation before signing up.

For those interested in signing up, please post an answer below. Your answer should include your Pokemon Showdown username, your time zone, and what hours and days you will be available to battle normally. As an example of how to sign up:

Showdown Username: Anchor9
Time Zone: GMT -5 (Central Standard Time)
Availability: Generally on Thursdays and Fridays 5-9 P.M. or all Saturday

Sign-ups will close on Sunday, July 5 around 10 P.M. -5 and the first round will be posted within 24-hours of signups closing.

Use a time zone converter to help you decide battle times.

Good luck to all participants and I can’t wait to see who wins!

Comments

I'll join

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Please leave an answer in a similar format as mine. Use the '>' symbol to indent it that way. You need to post that in order to join the tour by the way.

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Ok I'll do it in a little while when I have a minute. Not sure if I have time, haven't read guidelines, etc.

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calling it right now Ax109 is gonna win mark my words

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you should use a bracket maker like https://brackethq.com/ or https://challonge.com/tournament/bracket_generator or https://bracketmaker.app/ or https://www.score7.io/en

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Oh yeah, I almost forgot, I'm going to be using a team I posted on RMT, would I be able to play open teamsheet against everyone else
And thank you Zyles for your encouragement

Answer 1

Oi!
> Showdown Username: Anchor9
Time Zone: GMT -5 (Central Standard Time)
Availability: Generally all Fridays and Saturdays when I’m awake 11 A.M. to 10 P.M.

Voting: Double Elimination

Answer 2

Showdown Username: TripleHexahedron
Time Zone: GMT -4 (Eastern Daylight Time)
Availability: Most evenings on Monday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday are pretty safe, but I'm flexible, just suggest a time that works for you
Voting: Double

Answer 3

I'll try...

• Showdown Username: Bob the L bozo
• Time Zone: GMT -8 (Pacific Standard Time)
• Availability: Usually on Friday afternoons and Saturday mornings; possibly on undetermined time from July 4 to the 7 ^th or 8 ^th
• Tournament Type Vote: Double Elim

Answer 4

Showdown Username: EeroyeTheCamerupt
Time Zone: GMT -4 (Eastern Daylight Time)
Availability: Most if not all day Sunday & Wednesday, on all other days before 1PM or after 11PM
Voting: Double Elimination

Answer 5

Showdown username: Ax109
Time Zone: GMT
Availability: Tuesdays-Thursdays 4pm, Fridays (at a stretch) 5pm, 12pm-8pm Saturdays, 2pm-8pm Sundays. (May not be around during GO Fest week.)
Voting: Double Elimination

Answer 6

Why doesn't anyone want to play the gimmick tournaments anymore :(

Showdown Username: XScipio
Time Zone: GMT -4 (Eastern Daylight Time)
Availability: Pretty much all evenings
Voting: Double

Comments

You should look at my latest idea in the tournament suggestions thread

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Lol I tried that a few days ago and rolled Gen 1 Bug types. Luck is not on my side.

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Did you get Attack as your highest stat? Mega Beedrill and Eviolite Scyther would be pretty good. And you could have parasect for electric coverage.

Edit: If you got Special defense you get to reroll.

Also none of this counts for you if the tourney ever actually happens btw but you probably already know that

Answer 7

Im going to get so cooked I turn into char and then the char is going to get so cooked it turns into dust and the dust will get so cooked the air turns black. Anyway

Showdown Username: R-the-greater
Time Zone: AMC (American central time)
Availability: most days between 10am-5pm
Voting: Double

Comments

Will the air then get cooked so much that it expands to the point of being the size of the universe, destroying the universe and ripping its boundaries, thus tearing all matter previously within the universe into infinitesimal particles due to the expansion of all matter and therefore all gravity outwards into nonexistence?

And the the particles themselves will burn and nothing in the material plane will exist.

And then the nonexistence will catch on fire...

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Yeah im that bad

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says the one who got 1000 points in their first week thanks to their skill at competitive.

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I got 1k in a week cause I know VGC. I’ve barely ever touched singles

Answer 8

Showdown Username: JustATypicalPerson
Time Zone: GMT -4 (Eastern Daylight Time)
Availability: Evenings on Weekdays and Weekends at a reasonable time. If you suggest a time around these, it'll probably suffice for me.
Voting: Double Elimination

Answer 9

My second interaction on this site this year? Checks out.

Showdown Username: Big L'chonkus
Time zone: British Summer Time (GMT+1)
Availability: Monday and Tuesday, 10AM-7PM, then 9PM-1AM. Saturdays 10AM-12PM. No Wednesdays to Fridays. Ask me about Sundays closer to the date.
Voting: Double Elimination