The tournament is over! You can have a (spoiler free) look at the credits & replays here: smogon.com/forums/threads…

This ends our series of tweets about the event. Thanks everyone for your enthusiasm, and back to good old communications about our site's new features!

The tournament is starting in 30 minutes on play.pokemonshowdown.com/sst! Don't miss the chance to watch it live!

Hello everyone! Here is one last (and long) bit of information about the Showdown Star Tournament, including the two pools.

🕰️When? Tomorrow at 12 PM EST (countdown: spo.ink/ssttime).

🔎Where? The matches will be linked in this chatroom: play.pokemonshowdown.com/sst

⚔️ What

It has been a couple days since the last VGC main we announced, but don't worry: Marcos Perez ➡️ Indianapolis will be making a detour from his Worlds qualification journey to compete in the Showdown Star Tournament!

Is this boss music we hear? Having just earned a Smogon Premier League trophy with the Dragonspiral Tyrants, Agency Seven Star General blunder himself will be the event's fifth participant!

Juggling OverUsed, VGC, and Random Battles, freezai will definitely be a strong contender for the Showdown Star Tournament. One of the two jacks-of-all-trades entering the event, will he succeed against more specialized players?

A gen 3 battles enthusiast who provides all kind of competitive Pokémon related content to his audience, Jimothy Cool will be our third participant to this Showdown Star Tournament! Looking forward to see how he will do in this event!

We have over 60 brand new avatars available for public use thanks to the always amazing work of Kyledove!

See the full set of new avatars here: play.pokemonshowdown.com/sprites/traine…

Type the /avatar command in any textbox on PS! if you're not sure how to access these amazing new avatars!

Can't feature VGC in such a tournament without the format's stars. Praised for his humbleness and talent in equal measure, bc | James Baek will be entering the fray on April 28th!

Another big teambuilder upgrade thanks to tofa!

If you have certain sets you really love using, you can now set them as personal samples with the box feature and import your custom sets from the box into your teams!

Sets are saved on a per-format basis, so you will only be able