The second DPP Cup begins!
Tournament rules:
General tournament rules and regulations can be found here.
Smogon Classic rules can be read here.
Standard DPP OU
Best of three, single elimination.
Battles should take place on Pokemon Showdown.
READ THESE
If I hear any whispers of GHOSTING (helping someone else battle through pm) I will not be pleased and I WILL hunt the offenders down. Let's make this tournament a clean one.
I've taken the scheduling and timing out rules from SPL.
On... Scheduling Matches
Activity will be determined through VERY SPECIFIC VM correspondence. Read further to see exactly how. (close)
I'm sure plenty of you have come across activity drama while scheduling matches. I'm here to reduce the arbitrary element associated with some of these decisions. It is entirely your decision to adhere to these STRONG RECOMMENDATIONS, but note that if you choose not to, I'll most likely ignore any pleading from your end.
YOU MUST ACTIVATE YOUR VM WALL IF YOU WISH TO PLAY IN THIS TOURNAMENT. THIS IS HOW ALL OFFICIAL SCHEDULING WILL BE HANDLED.
Once that round's thread is posted, you have up to 48 hours to contact your opponent ON HIS VM WALL and mention your timezone and exactly what dates, what time ranges you are available, and where you will battle. Note that the default accepted sim and server is the official server on Showdown/Smogon Tournament Server, or PO if you're playing an old gen. You must provide at least 3 different time ranges at least 48 hours from the timestamp of your message, with at least 2 that are 24-hours apart from each other. The minimum and maximum length for 1 time range is 30 minutes, and the minimum difference between the 3 required time ranges is 3 hours. If you give 3 time ranges that stick with this policy, you can give any additional time ranges at any time you please.
NOTE THAT THIS SCENARIO INVOLVES RESPONSE DYNAMICS; THERE IS SOMEONE WHO WILL CONTACT FIRST AND SOMEONE WHO RESPOND...THESE REQUIREMENTS ARE NOT FOR BOTH OF YOU TO ASSUME TO YOU CAN BE FIRST CONTACTS...WHOEVER CONTACTS FIRST IS THE FIRST, AND THE OTHER DEFAULTS TO THE RESPONDER. THIS SHOULD BE OBVIOUS BUT SOME OF YOU ARE DUMB.
Once your opponent has contacted you, you now have up until 72 hours after the week's thread has been posted (NOT after your opponent's message) to respond with times that are good for you. What this means is that if both of you spend the maximum time contacting and responding, you should have back and forth collaboration at a maximum of 72 hours after the round has been posted, with both parties given an additional 24 hours to prepare for the battle should it be scheduled as soon as required. If none of the opponent's proposed time ranges are good for you, you must respond with alternative time ranges.
The first opponent now has X hours to prepare for the battle (if the second opponent agreed to some time) or 24 hours to contact a TD if, for whatever reason, this second set of time ranges does not suit the first opponent. Note this should be an absolute last measure.
Once a time is agreed upon, please make a message on your opponent's VM wall between 10 minutes and 1 second before the agreed upon time and say you are ready to battle and then get to agreed upon location (regardless of whether or not your opponent sends you a response VM). Please protect yourself by making this message, as it makes decisions much easier. You will be required to wait for your opponent for the duration of the time range.
If neither of you contact each other before 48 hours after the thread has been posted, you're both opening yourself up to a potential coin flip or substitution (in round one). If I look at the situation, I might just determine I'm going to coin flip, or whatever based on however I'm feeling at that moment. Don't leave yourself and your team vulnerable to this.
Just because at anytime one of the responders does not respond within the given range does not give you automatic activity win credentials. If they don't contact at all on your VM wall up until 48 hours before the end of the round (note, I'm not going to take irc or sim messages as evidence due to how easily they can be doctored...so if you want to protect yourself, stick to the VM messages), then you obviously have activity win justification. You WILL contact your opponent in a timely manner. However, if they do contact you at all after the suggested response time and before 48 hours before the end of the round, you are required to respond before 24 hours before the end of the round with 2 1-hour time ranges at least 1 hour apart before the end of the round. The opponent, since he did not stick to the proposed response schedule, WILL BE REQUIRED TO PLAY AT ONE OF YOUR NEWLY SUGGESTED TIMES, so you have the advantage here. This obviously puts a bit of an emphasis on the last 48 hours of each round (as is standard operating procedure for most of our official tournaments anyway), so I will try my best to keep the last 48 hours of the round as close to the majority of the weekend for as much of the world as I can.
If you follow all of these guidelines, you will a.) most likely get your match done with minimal issue or b.) protect yourself from an undue no contest or activity decision. Yes, I hate activity decisions in official tournaments. Yes, I will do my best to prevent activity decisions in the playoffs, but don't push your luck.
Here is an example of how following this would work:
Round 1 thread is posted April 8, 2016 at 12:00 AM. Its deadline is April 15th, 2016 at 11:59PM. User A and User B are matched up. User A contacts User B on his VM wall on April 8, at 9:00 PM (47 hours after the thread was posted, so ok), and gives 4 time ranges: April 10, from 7:00-7:30 PM (22 hours after the timestamp of his message, which is only ok so long as at minimum 3 of the other proposed time ranges adhere to the requirements), April 11, from 9:00-9:30 PM (48 hours after the timestamp of his message, which is ok), April 12, from 6:00-6:30 PM (69 hours after timestamp of his message, so ok, but only 21 hours after the earliest time range that is 48 hours after the timestamp), and April 12, from 9:00-9:30 PM (72 hours after the timestamp, so ok, and 24 hours after a legal time range and 3 hours after another legal time range). The April 11 and both April 12 time ranges satisfy the requirements, so User A can propose his first April 10 time range as well. User B responds on June 10, at 8:00 PM (23 hours after User A contacted him, so ok), and picks April 11, at 9:00 PM to battle, which is ok because it is 24 hours after his own response.
You'll note I made most of my response ranges multiples of 24 hours, but also included 24 hours. This means I expect you to be able to check Smogon at least once a day. If that is not feasible, you put yourself at risk.
~ Aldaron
I'm sure plenty of you have come across activity drama while scheduling matches. I'm here to reduce the arbitrary element associated with some of these decisions. It is entirely your decision to adhere to these STRONG RECOMMENDATIONS, but note that if you choose not to, I'll most likely ignore any pleading from your end.
YOU MUST ACTIVATE YOUR VM WALL IF YOU WISH TO PLAY IN THIS TOURNAMENT. THIS IS HOW ALL OFFICIAL SCHEDULING WILL BE HANDLED.
Once that round's thread is posted, you have up to 48 hours to contact your opponent ON HIS VM WALL and mention your timezone and exactly what dates, what time ranges you are available, and where you will battle. Note that the default accepted sim and server is the official server on Showdown/Smogon Tournament Server, or PO if you're playing an old gen. You must provide at least 3 different time ranges at least 48 hours from the timestamp of your message, with at least 2 that are 24-hours apart from each other. The minimum and maximum length for 1 time range is 30 minutes, and the minimum difference between the 3 required time ranges is 3 hours. If you give 3 time ranges that stick with this policy, you can give any additional time ranges at any time you please.
NOTE THAT THIS SCENARIO INVOLVES RESPONSE DYNAMICS; THERE IS SOMEONE WHO WILL CONTACT FIRST AND SOMEONE WHO RESPOND...THESE REQUIREMENTS ARE NOT FOR BOTH OF YOU TO ASSUME TO YOU CAN BE FIRST CONTACTS...WHOEVER CONTACTS FIRST IS THE FIRST, AND THE OTHER DEFAULTS TO THE RESPONDER. THIS SHOULD BE OBVIOUS BUT SOME OF YOU ARE DUMB.
Once your opponent has contacted you, you now have up until 72 hours after the week's thread has been posted (NOT after your opponent's message) to respond with times that are good for you. What this means is that if both of you spend the maximum time contacting and responding, you should have back and forth collaboration at a maximum of 72 hours after the round has been posted, with both parties given an additional 24 hours to prepare for the battle should it be scheduled as soon as required. If none of the opponent's proposed time ranges are good for you, you must respond with alternative time ranges.
The first opponent now has X hours to prepare for the battle (if the second opponent agreed to some time) or 24 hours to contact a TD if, for whatever reason, this second set of time ranges does not suit the first opponent. Note this should be an absolute last measure.
Once a time is agreed upon, please make a message on your opponent's VM wall between 10 minutes and 1 second before the agreed upon time and say you are ready to battle and then get to agreed upon location (regardless of whether or not your opponent sends you a response VM). Please protect yourself by making this message, as it makes decisions much easier. You will be required to wait for your opponent for the duration of the time range.
If neither of you contact each other before 48 hours after the thread has been posted, you're both opening yourself up to a potential coin flip or substitution (in round one). If I look at the situation, I might just determine I'm going to coin flip, or whatever based on however I'm feeling at that moment. Don't leave yourself and your team vulnerable to this.
Just because at anytime one of the responders does not respond within the given range does not give you automatic activity win credentials. If they don't contact at all on your VM wall up until 48 hours before the end of the round (note, I'm not going to take irc or sim messages as evidence due to how easily they can be doctored...so if you want to protect yourself, stick to the VM messages), then you obviously have activity win justification. You WILL contact your opponent in a timely manner. However, if they do contact you at all after the suggested response time and before 48 hours before the end of the round, you are required to respond before 24 hours before the end of the round with 2 1-hour time ranges at least 1 hour apart before the end of the round. The opponent, since he did not stick to the proposed response schedule, WILL BE REQUIRED TO PLAY AT ONE OF YOUR NEWLY SUGGESTED TIMES, so you have the advantage here. This obviously puts a bit of an emphasis on the last 48 hours of each round (as is standard operating procedure for most of our official tournaments anyway), so I will try my best to keep the last 48 hours of the round as close to the majority of the weekend for as much of the world as I can.
If you follow all of these guidelines, you will a.) most likely get your match done with minimal issue or b.) protect yourself from an undue no contest or activity decision. Yes, I hate activity decisions in official tournaments. Yes, I will do my best to prevent activity decisions in the playoffs, but don't push your luck.
Here is an example of how following this would work:
Round 1 thread is posted April 8, 2016 at 12:00 AM. Its deadline is April 15th, 2016 at 11:59PM. User A and User B are matched up. User A contacts User B on his VM wall on April 8, at 9:00 PM (47 hours after the thread was posted, so ok), and gives 4 time ranges: April 10, from 7:00-7:30 PM (22 hours after the timestamp of his message, which is only ok so long as at minimum 3 of the other proposed time ranges adhere to the requirements), April 11, from 9:00-9:30 PM (48 hours after the timestamp of his message, which is ok), April 12, from 6:00-6:30 PM (69 hours after timestamp of his message, so ok, but only 21 hours after the earliest time range that is 48 hours after the timestamp), and April 12, from 9:00-9:30 PM (72 hours after the timestamp, so ok, and 24 hours after a legal time range and 3 hours after another legal time range). The April 11 and both April 12 time ranges satisfy the requirements, so User A can propose his first April 10 time range as well. User B responds on June 10, at 8:00 PM (23 hours after User A contacted him, so ok), and picks April 11, at 9:00 PM to battle, which is ok because it is 24 hours after his own response.
You'll note I made most of my response ranges multiples of 24 hours, but also included 24 hours. This means I expect you to be able to check Smogon at least once a day. If that is not feasible, you put yourself at risk.
~ Aldaron
On... Disconnecting and timing out drama
Submit teams to Oglemi via FORUM PM if you want the opportunity to replay a disconnection. (close)
We reserve the right to judge any individual match on a case by case basis, regardless of assumed precedence set. If you don't like that, you are welcome to not play. Be aware of this.
Also, to protect yourself as much as possible from DCs and timer issues, play on Showdown (because it has an at least semi reliable system of rejoining after a DC).
That said, here is the main way we will probably handle DCs / timing out:
To handle all DC cases...you're gonna submit your teams before the match. Oglemi, who is not playing and is the head TD in charge of this tournament, will manage this team submission form. You don't have to submit, but if you do, you protect yourself from the opponent taking a win. If you do DC (and you can't rejoin the battle) and you haven't submitted your team, your opponent will have the right to take the win. Yes, I'll most likely make a judgment call if he is on his last turn with 1 Pokemon at 5% and paralyzed and with you at 6 100% health Pokemon, because the only way to lose this is to misclick multiple times. However, if you're at 6 100% Pokemon and your opponent is at last Pokemon 10% needing to crit flinch you 6 - 12 times for the win, I'll give him the win if you DC and haven't submitted your team.
I know people like Philip7086 will beg me "to use common sense for a judgment call" for all cases, I would normally agree, but I am giving you all a 100% out by allowing you to submit your team. Basically, submit your team, and protect yourself and your team from any and all DCs. It's a simple procedure that removes almost all subjectivity from a decision regarding a DC. Unlike with the scheduling restrictions, all you have to do is submit the team your are using at anytime before the match takes place, and you'll have 100% protected yourself. Read this rule and understand this now before you join the tournament. Since I'm stating this now, I'm basically going to ignore you if you DC, didn't submit a team, and "had a guaranteed win." Expect it. Also note that I'm going to let the PLAYER (not the team), decide whether he is going to take the win or go another route (replay same moves, replay different teams, etc.).
Regarding time outs, they are a bit more complex, specifically because some timeouts are due to DCs. The best we can do for this scenario is say that there is some number between 1 minute and 2 minutes (which we will not publicize) that we will set as a limit for timing out, and if you timeout with more than that limit time remaining, we'll assume it is a DC, whereas the opposite is a true timeout. A true timeout defaults to a loss, while the DC timeout is prone to the DC rules (did you submit or not).
~ AldaronBasically: use VMs to communicate and schedule your matches, don't be an unreasonable dbag, submit your teams, and everything will be fine.
Also, to protect yourself as much as possible from DCs and timer issues, play on Showdown (because it has an at least semi reliable system of rejoining after a DC).
That said, here is the main way we will probably handle DCs / timing out:
To handle all DC cases...you're gonna submit your teams before the match. Oglemi, who is not playing and is the head TD in charge of this tournament, will manage this team submission form. You don't have to submit, but if you do, you protect yourself from the opponent taking a win. If you do DC (and you can't rejoin the battle) and you haven't submitted your team, your opponent will have the right to take the win. Yes, I'll most likely make a judgment call if he is on his last turn with 1 Pokemon at 5% and paralyzed and with you at 6 100% health Pokemon, because the only way to lose this is to misclick multiple times. However, if you're at 6 100% Pokemon and your opponent is at last Pokemon 10% needing to crit flinch you 6 - 12 times for the win, I'll give him the win if you DC and haven't submitted your team.
I know people like Philip7086 will beg me "to use common sense for a judgment call" for all cases, I would normally agree, but I am giving you all a 100% out by allowing you to submit your team. Basically, submit your team, and protect yourself and your team from any and all DCs. It's a simple procedure that removes almost all subjectivity from a decision regarding a DC. Unlike with the scheduling restrictions, all you have to do is submit the team your are using at anytime before the match takes place, and you'll have 100% protected yourself. Read this rule and understand this now before you join the tournament. Since I'm stating this now, I'm basically going to ignore you if you DC, didn't submit a team, and "had a guaranteed win." Expect it. Also note that I'm going to let the PLAYER (not the team), decide whether he is going to take the win or go another route (replay same moves, replay different teams, etc.).
Regarding time outs, they are a bit more complex, specifically because some timeouts are due to DCs. The best we can do for this scenario is say that there is some number between 1 minute and 2 minutes (which we will not publicize) that we will set as a limit for timing out, and if you timeout with more than that limit time remaining, we'll assume it is a DC, whereas the opposite is a true timeout. A true timeout defaults to a loss, while the DC timeout is prone to the DC rules (did you submit or not).
~ AldaronBasically: use VMs to communicate and schedule your matches, don't be an unreasonable dbag, submit your teams, and everything will be fine.
I am not going to baby you guys with extensions. You have been warned.
Battle Clauses:
Evasion Clause
OHKO Clause
Sleep Clause
Species Clause
Timed Battle
Cheek Pouch vs ash is trash
Chez Minuit vs reyscarface
bye vs Cristal
Golden Sun vs Alice Kazumi
Cased vs babidi1998
Gene Sp vs Steven Snype
Decision Makers vs -Snow
Ice Tea vs PNF
Haund vs Star.
Zebraiken vs giara
Bughouse vs Fakes
Mael vs Quite Quiet
TSR vs petyer
littlelucario vs Lusch
Wind Ice vs The Idiot Ninja
Dark G vs TTFTW
The_Wonder vs Apollo.
mfhoundoom vs Twixtry
praj.pran vs Veni Vidi Vici
ZANBAKUResh vs MetalGro$$
M Dragon vs AAamen
karla Schnikov vs BIHI
OP vs Der Dreckige Dan
D. Miralis vs PDC
Nails vs Disbelief
Rodriblutar vs Vinc2612
flowsociety vs MarceloDK
blunder vs Derk
Axel™ vs groudon518
majaspic22 vs Ciele
bye vs Flares.
Chechen U Out vs idiotfrommars
Honor vs BKC
Brick Small. vs LSB
Uchiha Sasuke vs JabbaTheGriffin
k3nan vs Veteran In Love
Raseri vs Rewer
qsns vs Kit10
Lhions vs xXEricXx
Alexander. vs PURPLEDOOSH
RickyGao vs snagaa
Mix vs WFY
Bedschibaer vs OO8
hellpowna vs davidness
Zenadark vs Kiyo
ogasian vs Zebes
FORTUNE vs Mustounet
Hikari-1 vs -Tsunami-
Weegah vs Moony
Jirachee vs Real FV13
Thatsjustpeachy vs Colchonero
CrashinBoomBang vs Tamahome
Prague Kick vs boudouche
Luigi. vs Tomahawk
Coffe vs Fabulous but lazy
Toxzn vs ToF
aimless vs bye
Meloettaaa vs Omfuga
Smilystar vs Threw
trc vs Vertex
Frizy vs Deluks917
Z+V vs benbe
jacob vs Based Godfish
fatty vs Pohjis
Sapientia vs PokèManiac Livio
Znain vs Posho
jeran vs Team Pokepals
NightFox vs twash
Oibaf cune vs Jim zoldyck
aim vs RedMaxx
Eternal Spirit vs choolio
wisc vs Jagi12
ZoroarkForever vs Flex Pavillion
Cicada vs Genos
Brazilian Army vs bugzinator
HANTSUKI vs bye
papai noel vs Mimolette
tjdaas vs bye
IBIREVER vs Asuya
Level 56 vs Mounts
silver97 vs bluri
Rumor vs Jayde
Erz vs Isa
Shrug vs slurmz
imsosorrylol vs Get this Money
#zero vs nLTk
Terraquaza vs Nova
xray vs Alastor Law
toshimelonhead vs Texas Cloverleaf
Loveless Rhapsody vs Kushalos
Laurel vs H-C
~GreenCore vs Haruno
Aidan248 vs Zephir
undisputed vs pork chop man
Chill Shadow vs -okara
KratosMana vs TDK
Bro Kappa vs Vegalius
sugarhigh vs Hogg
Paleo vs bye
fapkingg vs Conflict
LMAO its BT vs ~Mercury~
DennisEG vs Rhythms
Aladyyn vs Navy
Welli0u vs Master Sunny-EX
Kaisser vs Spl4sh
Amaroq vs Void
Shiba vs Mysterious M
Frat Dude vs 199 Lives
Zamrock vs Gunner Rohan
Pearl vs Aurious
TraceofLife vs taxi driver
SoulWind vs davidTheMaster
TheSweeper vs Jimmy Turtwig
passion vs dekzeh
Raspberry vs SaiyanMaster95
Ninjacalibur vs Yarti
teal6 vs Emvee
Altina vs bye
Evuelf vs Malekith
Miridy vs reiku
Coti vs Rokhan
Specterito vs Shoka
shartruce vs Philip7086
ZoroDark vs Robert.
Syncrasy vs Melle2402
Googly vs Foggi
Clone. vs Ackerman
Blightbringer vs Sam
Becks vs lord qwilfish
iGlack vs FlamingVictini
MONNA LUSA vs Leiteng
MegaStarUniverse vs Nelson
Anno nyme vs fran17
Always! vs Ada
Mur vs NaCl
Bowlii- vs badabing
Mr.378 vs We Three Kings
Sweepage vs BlackBloodz
Stathakis vs Freeze Berry
potato14798 vs all falls down
Teddeh vs enter the void
Shogarth vs daftmau5
Rain. vs Calloflochie
Kumiho vs bye
Huston vs Valentine
Smurf. vs Confide
Marcelinho Rodrigues vs Funkasaurus
Sleigh Bells vs Fruitdealer
Steve Angello vs Zokuru
Obliviate vs KJ Corp
Luispeikou vs Bull Of Heaven
GOAO vs Scimjara
Analytic vs Henry
Joltage vs Tesung
Improbable vs M&Msuspect test
xtra$hine vs Mizuhime
Gastrik vs Sacri'
dEnIsSsS vs Brian12345
silver ghost vs Drud
Alvis astley vs potates45
Floppy vs Soldier
iplaytennislol vs d0nut
Hyssou vs Arifeen
Triangles vs Twin Citiez
miltankmilk vs p2
cescken vs Leftiez
Sovahkiin vs Iconic
Crestfall vs Lord Ninjax
Hyogafodex vs Hachimaki98
atomicllamas vs dice
shaian vs Cronenberg
Bomber. vs SparksBlade
rozes vs FLCL
Lfrs vs ReshiRampage
bye vs FullLifeGames
Lax vs Iloveleague
Reymaki vs Finchinator
Logic. vs Doctor_DraX
Black Itachi vs Genesis7
Shaneghoul vs Kurukaito
Reymedy vs IceArrow
Tunc42 vs Crash your face
BlazingDark vs Unamed
rob. vs PROBLEMS
Misugi vs Madness Sky
KSBK vs Rayzark
TheThorn vs pokebasket
Omastar vs Regnite
Heysup vs UmPM
Sergi vs r0ady
Christo. vs Impact
e7e vs Tricking
Deadline is April 17th!
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