V1 hosted by Hogg, project proposal approved by Hikari and Sam.
Changes in mechanics approved by King UU, now taken over by yours truly.
Changes in mechanics approved by King UU, now taken over by yours truly.
PROLOGUE
Long ago, a man's fantasy became a reality in a form never seen before: Kitchen Coliseum, a giant arena where chefs can cook up new original Pokemon teams and see them tested. The motivation for spending his fortune to create Kitchen Coliseum was to encounter new original teams which could be called true artistic creations.
To realize his dream, he secretly started choosing the top chefs of various styles of battling, and he named his men the Iron Chefs. With great support from the community, he ultimately decided to become part of the pool of Iron Chefs himself. These Iron Chefs possess invincible culinary skills, and they are:
Iron Chef Euphonos
Iron Chef Hogg
Iron Chef Shiba
(Picture temporary at the moment)
Iron Chef NV
Iron Chef Manipulative
(Picture temporary at the moment)
(Credits to LilOu (rip) for the first three sprites; SlaySlenderDragon XD for NV's)
Kitchen Coliseum is the arena where Iron Chefs await the challenges of master chefs from around the world. Challengers must build around the theme ingredient of the round. Using all their senses, skill and creativity, they are to prepare artistic teams never tasted before.
Every battle, reputations are on the line in Kitchen Coliseum, where master chefs pit their artistic creations against each other. What inspiration does this round's challenger bring? And how will the Iron Chef fight back?
The heat will be on!
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INTRODUCTION
Hello, everyone! Chairman and fellow Iron Chef Euphonos here, and welcome to the second installment of Iron Chef Smogon in the Underused Subforum! This project allows the contestants to showcase their creative team building skills and to put their masterful creations to the test against some of the UU's top battlers and team builders. Each round I'll pick a theme to build around, and contestants will do their best to come up with an original, effective team around that theme.
The mechanics of the project will be shown below. There are significant changes that are colored in blue, so take time to read everything.
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MECHANICS
MECHANICS
There are four phases every episode: the first phase being Team Building which will last for three days, the second being Challenging Iron Chefs which will last for two days; the second phase being Judging and Voting, which will last for (less than) two days; the third phase being the Declaration of Victors that will devote a tiny portion of the current round in preparation for the next round.
PHASE 1: TEAM BUILDING
- At the beginning of each round, a secret ingredient will be revealed. Contestants have until a certain time (posted in the secret ingredients post) to build around this secret ingredient, which may be a core, a team concept, or a theme. The team must be submitted to the Chairman through the Smogon Forums PM.
- The Chairman will notify through the reply whether the team has been approved or there are missing elements that need adding.
- Any article submitted elsewhere other than the Smogon Forums PM will not be accepted.
- Teams should be submitted in a standardized format. It should include the importable of your team followed by a brief description of how the team works.
- This is not an RMT, so don't feel like you need to devote several lines of description for each Pokemon, but it is your responsibility to ensure that judges understand how your team functions.
- The Chairman is strictly enforcing the rule of having a brief description of the team in order to make the judging procedure a lot easier. As such, here are the guide questions for a meaningful description of your team (contestants may not opt to follow them):
- What comes to your mind when the secret ingredient is revealed?
- What is your thought process upon building your team?
- Were there any prevalent issues upon building your team?
- As such, any incomplete element in submitting teams will not be accepted.
- Within this period, no Iron Chef battle should be taking place.
- Once the team has been submitted, participants are not allowed to withdraw.
PHASE 2: CHALLENGING THE IRON CHEFS
- Only the participants who have their teams approved are eligible to face any of the Iron Chefs available.
- The Iron Chefs are NOT required to use the theme ingredient. Instead, they will push your team to its breaking point.
- The biggest challenge of the aspiring chefs is that Iron Chefs also know the secret ingredient.
- Battles must be played using the team that was sent to the Chairman. Any discrepancies between teams may result in disqualification.
- As such, slashing any moves and other specifications are not allowed.
- All win/loss posts in the thread must be provided with replays to make the judging process more meaningful.
- Contestants may issue a challenge to more than one Iron Chefs, but they may do so only once.
- Once all battles are completed, the Chairman will reveal all of the teams, along with their battle replays.
- Regardless of the outcome of the Iron Chef match(es), all teams sent to the Chairman are subject to evaluations and criticisms from Iron Chefs themselves, and to voting from co-participants and third parties.
- If contestants have sent the dish to the Chairman but didn't manage to issue a challenge on any of the Iron Chefs, their dish will not be presented.
- Conversely, if contestants completed battles with the Iron Chefs but didn't manage to send the dish (note: with brief descriptions required; guide questions found above) to the Chairman, their dish will not be presented.
- Only the Iron Chefs will use the system from the previous installment in evaluating contestants' dishes. The system is based on three separate categories in Creativity, Use of Theme, and Effectiveness.
- CREATIVITY (0-5 POINTS): Is your finished dish a delight never before tasted by our judges, or is it the same standard fare? Your goal is not to merely reheat an existing team, but to break boundaries and challenge standards. A team that was copied from an RMT or tournament with a few minor changes should score poorly here, while a team full of new ideas could bring home as many as five points.
- USE OF INGREDIENT (0-5 POINTS): How well does your team use this round's theme? Is it merely tacked on to satisfy the tournament's requirements, or is it a fundamental part of how the team works? A team that barely uses the round's theme could end up with nothing here, while a team that not only uses the theme but redefines might win it all.
- EFFECTIVENESS (0-10 POINTS): And now we're down to the real meat of the dish. How good is the team? This category is worth twice as much as the other two, because in the end, it doesn't matter how original your dish is - if it doesn't taste good, then people won't eat it. A team that will struggle to succeed in the current metagame, even against mediocre teams, might receive a zero here. On the other hand, show the judges how great your team is, and you could take home a full ten points.
- Final scores will be determined using the conformity method, giving each dish a final score between 0 and 20.
- The conformity method is a method wherein Iron Chefs agree or disagree with the initial rates until a certain point is given.
- The Chairman will post the score at the end of the round, including consolidated comments from all Iron Chefs.
- To spare from the hassles of judging during the previous installment, the voting system is now implemented.
- People can vote for their most favorite team in terms of the three aforementioned categories: Creativity, Use of Theme, and Effectiveness. They can also vote for one team in more than one category.
- As such, participants are also allowed to vote, but they are not allowed to vote for their own team.
- At the end of this phase, the Chairman will then post the results, with bonuses and deductions taken into account. These bonuses and deductions are as follows:
- WINNING AN IRON CHEF MATCH: 2 points will be awarded from the total score.
- LOSING AN IRON CHEF MATCH: 1 point will be deducted from the total score.
- The voting template will be given once Phase 1 is over.
PHASE 4: DECLARATION OF VICTORS
- At the end of the round, all winners, along with their dishes, will be entered into our fabled Hall of Fame. These hallowed halls will show the best of the best, and be preserved for future rounds.
- Aside from awarding the OVERALL WINNER of each round, there will three special awards that will be placed in the Hall of Fame as well. They are as follows:
- THE MOST AWE-INSPIRING DISH: This award is given to the participant with the most number of votes in the Creativity category. People who have voted for that participant have witnessed how he/she made use of unorthodox selections that made significant work to the team.
- THE MOST ESSENTIAL DISH: This award is given to the participant with the most number of votes in the Use of Ingredient category. People who have voted for that participant have seen how he/she strongly incorporated secret ingredients to the strength of the rest of the team.
- THE BEST-TASTING DISH: This award is given to the participant with the most number of votes in the Effectiveness category. People who have voted for that participant have seen how he/she plays it to his/her strengths, and how he/she overcomes any disadvantages in match-ups.
- Aside from awarding the OVERALL WINNER of each round, there will three special awards that will be placed in the Hall of Fame as well. They are as follows:
- Any participant who won as Overall Winners of the Iron Chef challenge at least twice will be given the opportunity to supplant one of our existing Iron Chefs, and take on the mantle themselves!
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