Smogon's Official Ladder Tournament II - Cycle 5 Signups

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McMeghan

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Big Chungus Winner
Welcome to Cycle 5 of Smogon's Official Ladder Tournament. Please make sure to read the rules of the tournament carefully. If your sign-up post does not follow the rules explained below, it will be deleted. This Cycle will run for 7 days and 22 hours and will end on Friday, September 25th, 4:00 PM Eastern time.

Here are the specifics:

1. The hosts of this tournament are Jirachee and McMeghan. We will be using the regular Pokemon Showdown ORAS OU ladder for this tournament, not a new one. This will ensure maximum activity and competition.

2. The qualification period for the OLT will run for a total of 64 days with 8 day cycles, which is 2 months to put things into perspective. After each 8 day cycle, the top 4 accounts that appear on the leaderboard (using ELO) at the end of the cycle with the sign-up criteria explained in #3 below will qualify for the playoffs of the OLT, which will be a 32 man, best of three, double elimination tournament. The tournament is not seeded. Pairings for the qualified 32 are randomized. The ladder is not reset after each cycle, only alts are (meaning you create new alts after each cycle).

We are currently in CYCLE 5, which means that after 7 days and 22 hours [ending on Friday, September 25th, 4:00 PM Eastern time], the top 4 accounts that signed up for this tournament following the proper sign-up criteria explained in #3 below will be qualified for the eventual playoffs of the OLT.

3. In order to sign-up for the OLT, FOLLOW THE SIGN-UP FORMAT BELOW AND REGISTER YOUR FRESHLY MADE ALT(S) ON POKEMON SHOWDOWN USING THE FORMAT BELOW:

[LT1#] ForumNameHere - the "#" denotes a letter of your choosing, and "ForumNameHere" obviously denotes your forum name. You are allowed an unlimited number of alts for this cycle.

Here's an example sign-up post for you all to follow:


Forum name: Reymedy
Cycle 5 Alts: LT5M Reymedy, LT5A Reymedy, LT5D Reymedy
Do my alts for Cycle 5 contain my forum name or a very similar variation/abbreviation of it as required by the rules? Yes.
YOU MUST SIGN UP WITH YOUR FRESHLY MADE ALT BEFORE STARTING BATTLES WITH IT. Your alt must be registered on the day of sign-ups or onwards to prevent people from registering an account beforehand and laddering with it to gain and unfair advantage. It's very easy to check when an account was registered and we will be checking to make sure people comply. By the way, make sure to register your LT alt on Pokemon Showdown!. We've had to deal with people who got their account registered by someone else because they were unprotected. It is advised that you once you sign up here, you immediatly register the accounts on PS afterwards. disclaimer: PS! only allows you to register 2 alts at a time.

4. Since there is a possibility we will need substitutes for the tournament, we'll take the 5th and 6th people in each period (so 16 total) and randomize them as subs for the 32 man tournament. If you qualify as #5 or #6, you are still able to participate in other cycles and try to qualify for the top 4 of a given cycle.

5. Once you make the top 4 and qualify (this does not mean making the top 4 at any given point during the cycle, it means being in the top 4 at the end of the cycle), you’re qualified for playoffs. You are free to ladder any other week you wish. However, making the top 4 more than once won’t give a player anything other than personal satisfaction and bragging rights. If a person qualifies again during a week after their initial qualification, the newly qualified account will be skipped and the next unqualified account will be selected from the leaderboard to participate in the tournament.

6. To quote Aldaron here, the intent of the project this time is increase ladder activity and quality. If we set up set time periods that were always Monday - Sunday, we estimated we would primarily see activity boosts at the end. By shifting, we hope it, even on a minor level, helps spread activity which in turn translates to a more spread increase in activity, as opposed to just on the weekends.

7. In the case of one person having more than one account in the top 4 during any given cycle, their highest ranked account will be the one to qualify and the duplicates will be skipped. Let's say one person in the top 4 holds positions #1, #2 and #3 on the ladder during cycle 1 with the alts he signed-up with. In this scenario, #1 will be the only account of theirs to qualify and #2 and #3 will be skipped over because they are the same person as #1. In this same scenario, position #4 on the ladder will be the second qualifier of the cycle and so on.

8. Given that this is a ladder tournament, many of you are likely thinking there are ways people can cheat the system. We are aware of these issues and have been working with Zarel to monitor and patrol instances of cheating. Any person found cheating will be subject to strict punishments.
To add onto that: if we have a reason to believe you forfeited a game to boost a friend's account, you will be sanctionned.
More about this: if you try to prevent your opponent from joining the battle again after a disconnection, you will be sanctionned (read more about this here).

9. As with all official tournaments, there will be a trophy given to the winner of the OLT. The trophy will be well-earned. The qualifying period requires an estimated minimum of 50 wins with the playoffs having 32 at least "OK to good players" (so a non arbitrary, good field), followed by a best of three, double elimination. That's arguably harder than most of the official tournaments we have in place today.

We are confident that having an Official Ladder Tournament will be a big boon to the entire competitive aspects of the Smogon community and are excited for its launch.

Good luck to everyone! Again, this is Cycle 5 of Smogon's Official Ladder Tournament. Please make sure to read the rules of the tournament carefully. If your sign-up post does not follow the rules explained below, it will be deleted. This Cycle will run for 7 days and 22 hours and will end on Friday, September 25th, 4:00 PM Eastern time.
 

McMeghan

Dreamcatcher
is a Tournament Director Alumnusis a Top Tiering Contributor Alumnusis an Administrator Alumnusis a Dedicated Tournament Host Alumnusis a Battle Simulator Moderator Alumnusis the 5th Smogon Classic Winneris the Smogon Tour Season 14 Championis a defending SPL Championis a Past SPL Champion
Big Chungus Winner
Cycle 4 Top 4

Rank #1: Tele
Qualified Cycle 4 Name: LT4L Tele
ELO: 1921
GXE: 90.7
Total Games: 95 | Wins: 82 | Losses: 13
W/L Ratio: 86.32%

Rank #2: njnp
Qualified Cycle 4 Name: lt4e NJNP
ELO: 1919
GXE: 87.9
Total Games: 102 | Wins: 80 | Losses: 22
W/L Ratio: 78.43%

Rank #3: FlamingVictini
Qualified Cycle 4 Name: LT4F FV
ELO: 1916
GXE: 88.7
Total Games: 74 | Wins: 61 | Losses: 13
W/L Ratio: 82.43%

Rank #4: Googly
Qualified Cycle 4 Name: LT4X Googly
ELO: 1915
GXE: 83.6
Total Games: 128 | Wins: 90 | Losses: 38
W/L Ratio: 70.31%


SUBSTITUTES [May still try to qualify for top 4 in other cycles]

Rank #5: JohnYiu
Qualified Cycle 4 Name: LT4N JohnYiu
ELO: 1909
GXE: 88.2
Total Games: 104 | Wins: 81 | Losses: 23
W/L Ratio: 77.89%

Rank #6: Choice Specs
Qualified Cycle 4 Name: LT4b CS
ELO: 1884
GXE: 89.0
Total Games: 92 | Wins: 76 | Losses: 15 | Tie: 1
W/L Ratio: 82.6%​
 
Forum name: Thomas9779
Cycle 5 Alts: LT5P Thomas9779, LT5X Thomas9779, LT5D Thomas9779
Do my alts for Cycle 5 contain my forum name or a very similar variation/abbreviation of it as required by the rules? Yes.
 

gorgie

formerly Floppy, now Rock hard
Forum name: Floppy
Cycle 5 Alts: LT5N Floppy, LT5O Floppy, LT5B Floppy,
Yes noob

edit: LT5Q Floppy, LT5J Floppy
 
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FlamingVictini

FV - msg on discord FlamingVictini#3784
is a Top Tiering Contributorwon the 16th Official Smogon Tournamentis a Three-Time Past WCoP Champion
Hey guys, (sorry for the blatant advertising) but i’d just like to let everyone know that I have a teambuilding workshop for HO teams that has been inactive for a while (you can find it in my sig). Now that i’ve finally qualified for OLT, i’ll be posting over 3 months worth of new teams, including the teams i used in OLT. I would be really happy if you guys helped me bring my workshop back alive. I really can’t seem to find any other way to get back activity to my thread other than advertising (at least this is approved by mcm), but i would really love it if you guys checked it out. Thanks! :]
 
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