Something big is coming for this "tournament". I'll post more soon when I get home and edit the #454 post. I hope we can make it a real tournament, starting the 1st.
Actually, I'll just re-post here. This post amends and supersedes the earlier one (#454). Sorry for the confusion!
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Coming August 1st . . .
(or a later date if necessary)
How does a multi-layered tournament for STABmons sound? Depending on the number of participants, the tournament will consist of four rounds each with their own unique twist.
It could work as a point system, where you are assigned an opponent for each round for 3 battles and gain points for each win. For example, if Player X and Player Y battle each other in Round 1 three times and X wins twice, he/she gains 2 points while Y gains 1. This would ensure that everyone gets a chance to play all four rounds (for a total of 12 games). The person with the most number of points out of 12 would win. A tiebreaker would result in a standard STABmon best-of-three game (or other means, we'll see).
Sample for Player X:
Round 1- Won 2 games, lost 1 = 2 points
Round 2- Won 3 games = 3 points
Round 3- Won 1 game, lost 2 = 1 point
Round 4- Won 2 games, lost 1 = 2 points
Total- 8/12
Of course this is all preliminary, as I have never hosted a tournament nor do I really know how to organize one (can you tell?) so I was just going to snatch up the format most often used in OM (see Doubles/BH tourneys) with some alterations of course. Please provide input with ideas to make this better! And thank you!
*A note on the rounds*: The bans are in place so threats that have already risen in standard STABmons don't overpower their respective group. Suspects are Pokémon that are still powerful and limited to one per team since more than one would generally give that player the upper hand in most cases.
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Round 1:
Banned: Chansey
Azumarill
Sableye
Wobbuffet
Swellow
Suspect: Bibarel
Medicham
Smeargle
Auto-weather (Vulpix, Hippopotas, Snover)
Combusken
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Round 2:
Banned: Forretress
Sawsbuck
Whimsicott
Ferrothorn
Suspect: Staraptor
Darmanitan
Kangaskhan
Tauros
Stoutland
Bouffalant
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Round 3:
Banned: Drizzle
Drought
Sand Stream
Blaziken
Suspect:
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Round 4:
- Standard STABmons rules except OU Banlist is lifted
- All Pokémon must have a BST of 600 or higher (http://pastebin.com/cQcGzMmD)
- 1 Suspect allowed per team
Banned: Arceus
Suspect:
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Proposed Round 5:
- Standard STABmons rules except OU Banlist is lifted
- All Pokémon must have a BST of at least 1
- 1 Suspect allowed per team
Banned: Arceus
Suspect:
Tentative Participants:
The Eevee General
Harbinger of Peace
Spartan Malice
Level 51
The Reptile
Mr Omgness
Adrian Marin
Zapteryx
Toxicroaker
TheBurgerKing99
PokemonMasterDebater
Pikachuun
Keldeo DeArtagnan
Stay tuned. More to come...
