Hello, and welcome!
I know what you're thinking, there's been numerous pokémon poll tournaments like this already. What makes this one any different?
Well, the biggest and most important difference is the timing of the tournament, and by extension, the number of contestants. As of the full release of Pokémon Scarlet and Violet (version 3.0.0), there are almost exactly 1024 total different pokémon! That means every single match can be 1v1 without the need for preliminaries, round skipping, round robins, or any other weird thing that needs to be done to make an irregular bracket work. Just ten rounds of pure 1v1 elimination all the way through.
"Hold on, you said almost exactly, not exactly." Yes, there are actually 1025 pokémon, which can be turned into 1024 if I treat both nidorans as one pokémon. These guys were introduced before gender was a mechanic and there have since been single pokémon with more extreme sexual dimorphism, so it's fine.
Oh, but that's not all! This tournament will also be seeded using the Ultimate Pokémon Tournament's round 1 results. Were any of the other pokémon tournaments seeded? No, because the hosts of those tournaments are sane and don't hate themselves! I, however, have already put in the work for this because I'm really interested in finding out how this setup changes the results, if at all.
Oh, and it's double elimination too. I don't recall any "every pokémon" tournament doing that either, also for good reason.
So if you liked the other pokémon tournaments and aren't tired of them yet, or if you're, like me, the type of autist who'd feel immense satisfaction from participating in a tournament with exactly 1024 contestants, then you've come to the right place!
4 polls are posted a day at 12-2pm utc (8-10am est) and reblogged 12 hours later.
@tournament-announcer