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DOU Doubles OU Spring Seasonal Signups!
- Thread starter Stratos
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SPECIFIC RULES
Standard Rules and Clauses
- This is a standard ORAS Doubles OU tournament
- This tournament will be Double Elimination
- All rounds will be Best of Three. You may switch teams in between battles of the same set.
- Matches are to be played on Pokemon Showdown!
- To encourage the development of the metagame, and so that everyone is on an even playing field, all matches must have replays recorded. If neither player posts replays of the match, both players will suffer an automatic game loss. (If you were in losers' when you played, you are both out. If you were in winners', the winner is in losers' and the loser is out.)
- Every round, I will choose a match (possibly two) as the Highlight Match. If your match is chosen as the highlight match, our commentary crew (Stratos, BLOOD TOTEM, kamikaze) will be commentating your match through the SmogonU Twitch, and it will then be uploaded to Smogon's YouTube. I will contact both players by PM immediately in order to schedule a time. If either player wishes to not be streamed, they may opt out, but let me know quickly, so I can choose someone else to be the highlight match for the week.
- If you are found signing up under more than one alt, you will be banned from circuit events for life.
- Activity calls will be made by me with probably the neutral assistance from a TD, flips will be made on PS with !pick for transparency.
- In the event that something is added to or removed from the Doubles OU metagame in the middle of a round, that change will be in effect starting the next round. Doubles Ubers is available as a challenge option if something is banned mid-round. If the banlist changes right near the end of the tour I reserve the right to keep the old banlist for the duration of the tour.
- Species Clause: A player cannot have two Pokemon with the same PokeDex number on his team.
- Evasion Clause: The moves Double Team and Minimize are banned. (No other evasion boosting things are banned).
- OHKO Clause: The moves Horn Drill, Guillotine, Sheer Cold, and Fissure are banned.
- Endless Battle Clause: Anything capable of intentionally creating an endless battle is banned.
- HypnoGravity Clause: The move Gravity is banned with all moves that can induce Sleep. I am not 100% sure if this is fully implemented on Pokemon Showdown!, so if it is not and you are found to be using it you will be disqualified and banned from future Circuit events.
- Uber Clause: Anything that appears on Doubles OU' banlist is banned. This is the banlist for Doubles OU:
New Rule As Of This Seasonal: The bracket will be SEEDED according to your current placing on the Doubles Power Rankings (which is always from the last four seasonals, so in this case, 2015's Spring/Summer/Fall/Winter seasonals).
What are we playing for?
Most importantly, for recognition. The results of this tournament will be recorded in the Doubles Power Rankings for posterity. Over the course of the year there are probably going to be many events where placing high on this ranking gets you some sort of carrot, in addition to the prestige of being one of the best Doubles players.
Maybe also for cash. Prizes from last fall still haven't paid out so I'm not sure if we're still doing this.
Post in to join!
The signups will close at 11:59 PM on Sunday, February 28th so make sure you've joined by then!
Player list:
Stratos
SocialSocialSocial
Joey's Raticate
OP
Lana Del Seldo
Memoric
thetalkingtree
Vinc2612
Meloettaaa
Pearl
Level 56
Yoda2798
Haund
TheLusterLink
HANTSUKI
Mysterious M
Holiano
Gros orteil
Peef Rimgar
-Tynamo-
Foggi
Chill Shadow
karla Schnikov
Melle2402
Pohjis
Croven
Pak
n1n1
Barian
Megazard
miltankmilk
teal6
Talenheim
HyperTHD
BlueSkiddoWeCanToo
Tricking
Arii~
GenOneRaisedGenY
Hiro97
New Attitude
Shaneghoul
n10sit
Sanjay.
Flame Road
GiraGoomy
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Stratos
Banned deucer.
There are some pretty low standards of respect when it comes to participating in Smogon tournaments, and you've failed to meet even those. Your behavior toward your opponents in the past has been simply disgusting. As such, I'm not going to let you enter any circuit events (or any other tournaments I host, for that matter) until you apologize to the opponents you disrespected last time and accept that you can't just absolutely shit all over someone, call them trash, nobody, easy, free, shit, unwelcome etc because they're slightly worse at competitive Pokémon than you are
Arcticblast edit: as half of the primary Doubles OU leadership I think this is a little harsh but endorse it nonetheless
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