BW2 Teambats--SEASON 2

**blarajan** · Jul 5th, 2012, 6:46:22 PM

That's right, with BW2 we're starting season 2 of the Little Cup teambats. Most of you should already know what they are, but in case you don't...I'll shamelessly copy and paste parts of the first teambat OP!

In a teambat you are assigned to one team with various other competitors and together you create a team based on specific restrictions given to you in a specified amount of time (20 minutes). Some restrictions may be for both teams (such as no using any of the top 10 Pokemon in x month's usage stats) and some may be for only one team (for example, both teams may be required to build a team around a Pokemon, be it the same Pokemon or two Pokemon of comparative in game or usage stats). After you build your team, you go fight the other team(s)!

The teambuilding part of the teambats will take place on the irc #littlecup channel and the battling part on the Smogon server. (If Smogon is down, another server will be used.) After you are put in a team, one of the people on your team makes a channel for the team and that's where you discuss the team-building and such. For the battle, one member is chosen by their team to battle for their team, they may consult their actions with their teammates. It can be very stressful during these teambats as you have a limited amount of time and your teammates may not be the most reliable, but that's part of the fun! Sometimes unique, potentially tier-changing discoveries may be found in these teambats!

Overall, these teambats will attempt to encourage participation of both new players and pros in LC. If you are interested in participating and have some time to spare, come on to #littlecup! Teambats can be as large as the number of people that want to participate in them. In general, try to keep the teams at 3-5 people (if necessary, more than 2 teams can participate).

Now, who's hosting these teambats, you may ask? The following users are eligible to host a teambat. Note, hosts can play in the teambat they're hosting, though it'd probably be better for them not to...I won't fret though!:

Eligible Hosts

It doesn't matter who hosts which teambat, as long as it's one of these users. Now, I know you all want to participate...what time are these teambats, you're wondering?

There will be three teambats a week, at the following times:

Schedule

Do not host a teambat unless it's one of these times. The theme for each teambat will be announced at that time--never fear, the hosts will be constantly stockpiling themes for each week. If you have an idea for one, feel free to PM a host! We will definitely consider each one!

Responsibilities of a Host

Every member of the winning team will receive 1 point. The losing team will not receive any points. Each player's points will be maintained throughout the teambat season. To maintain fairness, only two teambats a week per player will influence ranking. If you want to play three teambats that week, then the Saturday teambat will not influence your ranking.

Example 1: Player A participates Tuesday and Saturday. Both affect Player A's ranking.
Example 2: Player B participates Thursday and Saturday. Both affect Player B's ranking.
Example 3: Player C participates Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. Only Tuesday and Thursday affect Player C's ranking--Saturday does not.

Now, we want teambats to be fun for all players. Don't fret if you're hopping on board towards the end of the season--there will be awards for various things, which won't all take into consideration your score for the season. So if you come on board late, still do your best! Your contributions will be noted, and who knows...you might get recognized for them, even if you come in last place (prem)!

Now most importantly...have fun!

Recorded Teambats

Teambat Leaderboard

Remember to have fun!

**blarajan** · Jul 5th, 2012, 6:46:59 PM

The first teambat for this season will take place Saturday, July 7th, at 2 PM EST.

iss · Jul 5th, 2012, 9:53:11 PM

brb wrecking blarajan

To be honest, this is going to really improve BW2 teambuilding by leaps and bounds. Good but somewhat gimmicky sets will probably be seen in a few teambats, and hopefully the best sets from teambats will be brought into the metagame itself. Try not to make it bog standard every teambat!

Ray Jay · Jul 5th, 2012, 10:13:22 PM

In terms of which teambats affect our ranking in a week, is it the first two we participated in that week or is it the two we did the best in?

iss · Jul 5th, 2012, 10:30:14 PM

Quote:

If you want to play three teambats that week, then the Saturday teambat will not influence your ranking.

9.9 (so yeah it is the last one)

viashinomage · Jul 5th, 2012, 11:03:40 PM

so what exactly are these said awards going to be? i want to know how i should play my hand so i have the best bet at winning an award :P
and is it going to be one person on the team playing for the whole team when you fight or are you all going to showdown and the team with the best win record gets the points

**blarajan** · Jul 5th, 2012, 11:22:54 PM

Just do your best and have fun. It'd be silly to tell you the categories and such now.

also lol reading comprehension Ray Jay...

prem · Jul 5th, 2012, 11:29:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fat viashinomage

so what exactly are these said awards going to be? i want to know how i should play my hand so i have the best bet at winning an award :P
and is it going to be one person on the team playing for the whole team when you fight or are you all going to showdown and the team with the best win record gets the points

basically 1 person per team is picked to play, but ghosting is allowed.

**blarajan** · Jul 7th, 2012, 12:29:58 PM

Get excited--the first teambat of the new season is in less than two hours.

**blarajan** · Jul 7th, 2012, 3:41:21 PM

We just successfully had our first teambat of the season!

The theme was: No Team Preview

Team 1: spuds4ever / Al_Alchemist / dragonboy52 / DittoCrow / shnen
team: http://pastebin.com/Y5vmLkTF

Team 2: Ray Jay / iss / Chieliee / MarceloDK
team: http://pastebin.com/8VysPzR9

Winner: Team 2! In a 1-0 victory
Log: http://pastebin.com/t2eeGPBF (sorry, no replays yet...we played on Showdown!)

viashinomage · Jul 7th, 2012, 7:33:39 PM

potentially couldn't you convert the log into a PO format and then paste to showdown?

Edit:nvmd don't try it

iss · Jul 10th, 2012, 9:44:38 PM

lost to blarajan in literally the most depressing game ever

seriously >>>>>>:(

Deinosaur · Jul 10th, 2012, 9:47:43 PM

obtains points in teambats

did nothing

prem · Jul 10th, 2012, 9:48:20 PM

theme was: Lv 4 Arceus

team 1: iss / fatty / chieliee / Ebeast / DTC
team: http://pastebin.com/4Jf7WDiq

team 2: blarajan / elevator_music / deinosaur / viashinomage / snowflakes
team: http://pastebin.com/VyB9FVFZ

team 2 won! amazingly enough blarashit is better than issux. 2-0 victory!
log: http://pastebin.com/gHA4Dubf

viashinomage · Jul 10th, 2012, 10:00:05 PM

What a fine way to start off my teambat career

Charmander · Jul 12th, 2012, 6:55:44 PM

theme was: no stab moves

team 1: DTC iss prem MarceloDK
team: http://pastebin.com/eAwEcdJf

team 2: elevator_afk blarajan Deinosaur Tanner
team: http://pastebin.com/Jqhg64JS

team 1 won

log: http://pastebin.com/fZk5Hq7J

iss · Jul 14th, 2012, 3:10:40 PM

Theme: DPP LC

Team 1: Ray Jay / spuds4ever / D4RR3N

Team 2: MarceloDK / Al_Alchemist / dragonboy52

Winner: Team 2

i regret everything, this was painful to watch dpp lc is better than this

viashinomage · Jul 15th, 2012, 2:10:51 AM

two in a row?!? i need to get my act together, or i'm going to miss the whole season
Edit: and i'm going to miss this one too, eventually i'll just sit here and accept my fate but for now: WHY ME!!!???

**blarajan** · Jul 18th, 2012, 2:34:53 AM

Uh did a teambat happen today our or did the hosts loaf really hard? I completely forgot...

I'm sorry. Two of the hosts went on vacation. Accordingly, I'm adding Al_Alchemist as a host. Nothing like this will happen again lol.

I'll edit the op when I'm off my phone. We are not doing a teambat to make up sure this one. We will adhere to the schedule from here.

**blarajan** · Jul 19th, 2012, 3:27:16 PM

I apologize for the blip in schedule of the last teambat. We will make this up with a teambat in 30 minutes!

**blarajan** · Jul 19th, 2012, 5:14:03 PM

Theme: No switching. U-Turn, Volt Switch, and Baton Pass are banned. Both teams know of each other's teams before the match (not intentional, but for one fucking shithead of a user {wilde32} posting Team 2's team in Team 1...only way to be fair)

Team 1: DTC / Prem / Woodchuck / vwall
Team 2: HSA / Raseri / Psych071c / Ebeast

Team 2 won, in an incredibly close match! Timburr lived Abra's Psychic with one HP and finished the match! http://pastebin.com/e74JAzez

Team 1's team: http://pastebin.com/LdfxLs22
Team 2's team: http://pastebin.com/dCi8EHpu <==Flash > HP Fighting on Misdreavus

**Raseri** · Jul 19th, 2012, 5:17:02 PM

Flash should have been a cool move, but even when you lower Houndours accuracy to nothing it can still hit with Dark pulse :) still it was a fun battle for sure, memento + flash was a lot of fun to use

EBeast · Jul 19th, 2012, 5:22:49 PM

Team 2's team: http://pastebin.com/dCi8EHpu <==Flash > HP Fighting on Misdreavus

I approve, Flash might not have done anything AT ALL that match (;_;), but it made for a random and fun battle

**blarajan** · Jul 21st, 2012, 2:38:16 PM

No one showed up, so we're skipping the Teambat for Saturday 07/21.

viashinomage · Jul 21st, 2012, 6:34:16 PM

yeah, i was just in Corpus Cristi, everyone else slept in late otherwise i would've been there, sorry :/

Jul 5th, 2012, 6:46:22 PM	#1
blarajan no abuse pls Moderator Join Date: Aug 2010 Posts: 2,795 Mentor	BW2 Teambats--SEASON 2 That's right, with BW2 we're starting season 2 of the Little Cup teambats. Most of you should already know what they are, but in case you don't...I'll shamelessly copy and paste parts of the first teambat OP! In a teambat you are assigned to one team with various other competitors and together you create a team based on specific restrictions given to you in a specified amount of time (20 minutes). Some restrictions may be for both teams (such as no using any of the top 10 Pokemon in x month's usage stats) and some may be for only one team (for example, both teams may be required to build a team around a Pokemon, be it the same Pokemon or two Pokemon of comparative in game or usage stats). After you build your team, you go fight the other team(s)! The teambuilding part of the teambats will take place on the irc #littlecup channel and the battling part on the Smogon server. (If Smogon is down, another server will be used.) After you are put in a team, one of the people on your team makes a channel for the team and that's where you discuss the team-building and such. For the battle, one member is chosen by their team to battle for their team, they may consult their actions with their teammates. It can be very stressful during these teambats as you have a limited amount of time and your teammates may not be the most reliable, but that's part of the fun! Sometimes unique, potentially tier-changing discoveries may be found in these teambats! Overall, these teambats will attempt to encourage participation of both new players and pros in LC. If you are interested in participating and have some time to spare, come on to #littlecup! Teambats can be as large as the number of people that want to participate in them. In general, try to keep the teams at 3-5 people (if necessary, more than 2 teams can participate). Now, who's hosting these teambats, you may ask? The following users are eligible to host a teambat. Note, hosts can play in the teambat they're hosting, though it'd probably be better for them not to...I won't fret though!: Eligible Hosts blarajan Charmander Elevator Music iss prem Ray Jay It doesn't matter who hosts which teambat, as long as it's one of these users. Now, I know you all want to participate...what time are these teambats, you're wondering? There will be three teambats a week, at the following times: Schedule Tuesday, 8 PM EST (GMT-4) Thursday, 4 PM EST (GMT-4) Saturday, 2 PM EST (GMT-4) Do not host a teambat unless it's one of these times. The theme for each teambat will be announced at that time--never fear, the hosts will be constantly stockpiling themes for each week. If you have an idea for one, feel free to PM a host! We will definitely consider each one! Responsibilities of a Host -Choose one of the themes -Split the teams up using a randomizer or bracketmaker. (this is a good one) -Send the teams to #team1 and #team2 -Give them 30 minutes to make a team (if it's a harder theme, longer is fine)...the time doesn't really matter though. They can take as long as necessary. -Have both battlers record the battle. -Post the theme, the members of each team, the pastebins of team 1 and team 2's team, who played for each team, who won, and an Aesoft replay from the winner's perspective (preferably) in this thread Every member of the winning team will receive 1 point. The losing team will not receive any points. Each player's points will be maintained throughout the teambat season. To maintain fairness, only two teambats a week per player will influence ranking. If you want to play three teambats that week, then the Saturday teambat will not influence your ranking. Example 1: Player A participates Tuesday and Saturday. Both affect Player A's ranking. Example 2: Player B participates Thursday and Saturday. Both affect Player B's ranking. Example 3: Player C participates Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. Only Tuesday and Thursday affect Player C's ranking--Saturday does not. Now, we want teambats to be fun for all players. Don't fret if you're hopping on board towards the end of the season--there will be awards for various things, which won't all take into consideration your score for the season. So if you come on board late, still do your best! Your contributions will be noted, and who knows...you might get recognized for them, even if you come in last place (prem)! Now most importantly...have fun! Recorded Teambats http://www.smogon.com/forums/showpos...5&postcount=10 http://www.smogon.com/forums/showpos...4&postcount=14 http://www.smogon.com/forums/showpos...6&postcount=16 http://www.smogon.com/forums/showpos...4&postcount=17 http://www.smogon.com/forums/showpos...1&postcount=21 Teambat Leaderboard MarceloDK--3 iss--2 Al_Alchemist--1 blarajan--1 Chieliee--1 D4RR3N--1 Deinosaur--1 dragonboy52--1 DTC--1 Ebeast--1 Elevator_Music--1 HSA--1 prem--1 Psych071c--1 Raseri--1 Ray Jay--1 Snowflakes--1 viashinomage--1 DittoCrow--0 fatty--0 shnen--0 spuds4ever--0 Tiffanyy-0 vwall--0 Woodchuck--0 wilde32--YOU ARE AN ASSHAT AND ARE BANNED FROM FURTHER TEAMBATS Remember to have fun! __________________ Team Babby: Little Cup in Ubers RMT Last edited by blarajan; Jul 19th, 2012 at 5:22:50 PM.

Jul 5th, 2012, 6:46:59 PM	#2
blarajan no abuse pls Moderator Join Date: Aug 2010 Posts: 2,795 Mentor	The first teambat for this season will take place Saturday, July 7th, at 2 PM EST. __________________ Team Babby: Little Cup in Ubers RMT

Jul 5th, 2012, 9:53:11 PM	#3
iss report this bug Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 2,023 sirndpt <3	brb wrecking blarajan To be honest, this is going to really improve BW2 teambuilding by leaps and bounds. Good but somewhat gimmicky sets will probably be seen in a few teambats, and hopefully the best sets from teambats will be brought into the metagame itself. Try not to make it bog standard every teambat! __________________ "Mienfoo is a shitty Pokemon." - blarajan ~CHINCHOUS~

Jul 5th, 2012, 10:13:22 PM	#4
Ray Jay Clearly cannot choose the wine in front of you Join Date: May 2010 Posts: 1,508	In terms of which teambats affect our ranking in a week, is it the first two we participated in that week or is it the two we did the best in? __________________ Don't count the days, make the days count. Katakiri: How did you even get into this university?

Jul 5th, 2012, 11:22:54 PM	#7
blarajan no abuse pls Moderator Join Date: Aug 2010 Posts: 2,795 Mentor	Just do your best and have fun. It'd be silly to tell you the categories and such now. also lol reading comprehension Ray Jay... __________________ Team Babby: Little Cup in Ubers RMT

Jul 5th, 2012, 11:03:40 PM	#6
viashinomage Join Date: Aug 2011 Posts: 113 Here	so what exactly are these said awards going to be? i want to know how i should play my hand so i have the best bet at winning an award :P and is it going to be one person on the team playing for the whole team when you fight or are you all going to showdown and the team with the best win record gets the points

Jul 7th, 2012, 12:29:58 PM	#9
blarajan no abuse pls Moderator Join Date: Aug 2010 Posts: 2,795 Mentor	Get excited--the first teambat of the new season is in less than two hours. __________________ Team Babby: Little Cup in Ubers RMT

Jul 7th, 2012, 3:41:21 PM	#10
blarajan no abuse pls Moderator Join Date: Aug 2010 Posts: 2,795 Mentor	We just successfully had our first teambat of the season! The theme was: No Team Preview Team 1: spuds4ever / Al_Alchemist / dragonboy52 / DittoCrow / shnen team: http://pastebin.com/Y5vmLkTF Team 2: Ray Jay / iss / Chieliee / MarceloDK team: http://pastebin.com/8VysPzR9 Winner: Team 2! In a 1-0 victory Log: http://pastebin.com/t2eeGPBF (sorry, no replays yet...we played on Showdown!) __________________ Team Babby: Little Cup in Ubers RMT

Jul 7th, 2012, 7:33:39 PM	#11
viashinomage Join Date: Aug 2011 Posts: 113 Here	potentially couldn't you convert the log into a PO format and then paste to showdown? Edit:nvmd don't try it

Jul 10th, 2012, 9:44:38 PM	#12
iss report this bug Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 2,023 sirndpt <3	lost to blarajan in literally the most depressing game ever seriously >>>>>>:( __________________ "Mienfoo is a shitty Pokemon." - blarajan ~CHINCHOUS~

Jul 10th, 2012, 9:47:43 PM	#13
Deinosaur Join Date: Aug 2010 Posts: 493 Pretty average user.	obtains points in teambats did nothing __________________ I knew you were trouble when you walked in~ Pretty much all I do on Smogon anyway

Jul 10th, 2012, 9:48:20 PM	#14
prem failed abortion Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 1,221 <@Sarenji> anyway i learned knitting pretty fast <@Sarenji> because im a woman Mentor	theme was: Lv 4 Arceus team 1: iss / fatty / chieliee / Ebeast / DTC team: http://pastebin.com/4Jf7WDiq team 2: blarajan / elevator_music / deinosaur / viashinomage / snowflakes team: http://pastebin.com/VyB9FVFZ team 2 won! amazingly enough blarashit is better than issux. 2-0 victory! log: http://pastebin.com/gHA4Dubf __________________ +Yamata no Orochi: I don't get pussy

Jul 10th, 2012, 10:00:05 PM	#15
viashinomage Join Date: Aug 2011 Posts: 113 Here	What a fine way to start off my teambat career

Jul 12th, 2012, 6:55:44 PM	#16
Charmander Join Date: Feb 2010 Posts: 2,705 Great Falls, VA Mentor	theme was: no stab moves team 1: DTC iss prem MarceloDK team: http://pastebin.com/eAwEcdJf team 2: elevator_afk blarajan Deinosaur Tanner team: http://pastebin.com/Jqhg64JS team 1 won log: http://pastebin.com/fZk5Hq7J Last edited by Charmander; Jul 13th, 2012 at 2:21:33 PM.

Jul 14th, 2012, 3:10:40 PM	#17
iss report this bug Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 2,023 sirndpt <3	Theme: DPP LC Team 1: Ray Jay / spuds4ever / D4RR3N Team 2: MarceloDK / Al_Alchemist / dragonboy52 Winner: Team 2 i regret everything, this was painful to watch dpp lc is better than this __________________ "Mienfoo is a shitty Pokemon." - blarajan ~CHINCHOUS~

Jul 15th, 2012, 2:10:51 AM	#18
viashinomage Join Date: Aug 2011 Posts: 113 Here	two in a row?!? i need to get my act together, or i'm going to miss the whole season Edit: and i'm going to miss this one too, eventually i'll just sit here and accept my fate but for now: WHY ME!!!??? Last edited by viashinomage; Jul 17th, 2012 at 7:27:02 PM. Reason: update

Jul 18th, 2012, 2:34:53 AM	#19
blarajan no abuse pls Moderator Join Date: Aug 2010 Posts: 2,795 Mentor	Uh did a teambat happen today our or did the hosts loaf really hard? I completely forgot... I'm sorry. Two of the hosts went on vacation. Accordingly, I'm adding Al_Alchemist as a host. Nothing like this will happen again lol. I'll edit the op when I'm off my phone. We are not doing a teambat to make up sure this one. We will adhere to the schedule from here. __________________ Team Babby: Little Cup in Ubers RMT

Jul 19th, 2012, 3:27:16 PM	#20
blarajan no abuse pls Moderator Join Date: Aug 2010 Posts: 2,795 Mentor	I apologize for the blip in schedule of the last teambat. We will make this up with a teambat in 30 minutes! __________________ Team Babby: Little Cup in Ubers RMT

Jul 19th, 2012, 5:14:03 PM	#21
blarajan no abuse pls Moderator Join Date: Aug 2010 Posts: 2,795 Mentor	Theme: No switching. U-Turn, Volt Switch, and Baton Pass are banned. Both teams know of each other's teams before the match (not intentional, but for one fucking shithead of a user {wilde32} posting Team 2's team in Team 1...only way to be fair) Team 1: DTC / Prem / Woodchuck / vwall Team 2: HSA / Raseri / Psych071c / Ebeast Team 2 won, in an incredibly close match! Timburr lived Abra's Psychic with one HP and finished the match! http://pastebin.com/e74JAzez Team 1's team: http://pastebin.com/LdfxLs22 Team 2's team: http://pastebin.com/dCi8EHpu <==Flash > HP Fighting on Misdreavus __________________ Team Babby: Little Cup in Ubers RMT

Jul 19th, 2012, 5:17:02 PM	#22
Raseri I'm a leaf on the wind; watch how i soar Moderator Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 1,809 Mentor	Flash should have been a cool move, but even when you lower Houndours accuracy to nothing it can still hit with Dark pulse :) still it was a fun battle for sure, memento + flash was a lot of fun to use

Jul 19th, 2012, 5:22:49 PM	#23
EBeast she's probably sexting nprtprt Join Date: Aug 2011 Posts: 749	Team 2's team: http://pastebin.com/dCi8EHpu <==Flash > HP Fighting on Misdreavus I approve, Flash might not have done anything AT ALL that match (;_;), but it made for a random and fun battle __________________

Jul 21st, 2012, 2:38:16 PM	#24
blarajan no abuse pls Moderator Join Date: Aug 2010 Posts: 2,795 Mentor	No one showed up, so we're skipping the Teambat for Saturday 07/21. __________________ Team Babby: Little Cup in Ubers RMT

Jul 21st, 2012, 6:34:16 PM	#25
viashinomage Join Date: Aug 2011 Posts: 113 Here	yeah, i was just in Corpus Cristi, everyone else slept in late otherwise i would've been there, sorry :/