Group Pool Play VGC 2015 Tournament - [Phase 2] Single Elimination Round 1

Who do you think will definitely be in the final four?


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  • Activity wins and scheduling: Contact your opponent as quickly as possible on their Smogon wall, and look out for them on PS too. Unfortunately, I'll have to make some activity calls - I'll be making these based on activity posts (make these detailed, please, and explain why you deserve an activity win) and VM conversations, so be active and schedule as early as you can with your opponent. Use VMs and you will be fine. No extensions, sorry. (Stolen from Darnell)



Single Elimination
  • Simple best of 3 games single elimination throughout the rest of the tournament.
  • Your 'seed' for your spot into the single elimination bracket will be depended on how well you placed in the Pool Play Rounds. In short terms, the better your performance in Pool Play, the better chance you have against easier opponents who barely made it out.
  • Once the participants reach the semifinals, the players matches will be best of 5.
  • You can change teams. At first I thought about not changing teams, but since the meta game still somewhat 'new' and has some unused strategies out there, it would be nice to see people adapt when the meta game goes through changes during the weeks/rounds of the tournament
You have until Febuary 1st 2015 at 11:55 PM EST to complete your match. Next round begins the following day.

Best way to schedule a match with your opponents is to message them via PM on Smogon or write on there Smogon profile wall and say your time zone, when can you play, etc.

Whether you win or lose, I would like both players reporting the match and showing proof in this thread. Saving replays of the match is necessary, but its optional to post it in the thread. I would like you to post it in the thread because: 1) It's good practice 2) To avoid any cheating scandal and 3) Making a YouTube montage of all the highlights.

If you want to leave the tournament, please think it through of course


Matches and Seed #
coolking49 #1
vs
Shaian #16

e7e #2
vs - Activity
Croven #15

FullLifeGames #3
vs
qwerts #14

Duetis #4
vs - Coin flip
innovamania #13

Laurel #5
vs
Vinc2612 #12

Spitzkopf Larry #6
vs
Henry #11

Xanthopoulus- #7
vs
Goao #10

Level 51 #8
vs
Professor Birch #9

Good luck and have fun everyone! Don't forget to vote in the poll =]
 
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#1 seed hell yeah.
So these two parts seen to contradict each other.

  • If you qualify for this part of the tournament, you will need to submit your teams details via pm and must only use that team throughout the rest of the tournament.
And
You can change teams.
 
I'm here to thank the no one that was supporting me the whole time. You'd think that coolking emerging as first seed would deem him good support, nope, 0 votes. Contacted Opp.
 
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I'm here to thank the no one that was supporting me the whole time. You'd think that coolking emerging as first seed would deem him good support, nope, 0 votes. Contacted Opp.
You're right, you'd think the guy who hasn't lost yet would have more support XD (Although I'm probably going to lose r1)

Also, Shaian and I should be playing on Friday.

Edit: shaian just told me he was dropping. See his wall for proof.
 
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"Whether you win or lose, I would like both players reporting the match and showing proof in this thread. Saving replays of the match is necessary, but its optional to post it in the thread. I would like you to post it in the thread because: 1) It's good practice 2) To avoid any cheating scandal and 3) Making a YouTube montage of all the highlights."

Lol who even followed this
 
Still waiting on my opponent to show. There's still around an hour left.

Edit: Waited up til the last second, no show from opponent. I'm getting a bit fed up with all these no shows, I haven't played a single game this tournament yet -_- Hopefully will be able to get some games played next week :z
 
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innovamania

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I messaged you on showdown Duetis.

Edit: Let me know if you can play some other time before the deadline. If not I'd like to request an extension from stevo
 
My play time is 6-10GMT pm Sat. If you did msg me it was after 10pm because I was active up til then. Past that time and it's my account still logged in whilst I get ready to go sleep. Which I now am going to.
Will be on same time next week.
 
My play time is 6-10GMT pm Sat. If you did msg me it was after 10pm because I was active up til then. Past that time and it's my account still logged in whilst I get ready to go sleep. Which I now am going to.
Will be on same time next week.
Can you guys battle tomorrow, or at least within the next two days? A week for one match that's not finals seems a bit long..
 

Croven

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I've sent him VM's and he said he'd be available online this weekend, but I got a bit busy and when I was online I didn't see him. Idk how we can sort this out, but I can try to meet him soon and battle.
 

Croven

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Alright, I've VM'ed him once again, to no response, and I haven't seen him on at all today, so I'm not sure what to do. Activity post.
 
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