The Unscrupulous Tiering Director Tournament - Quarterfinals

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If you haven't heard, we've decided to revise Smogon's tiering system. Everyone knows that the OU council is run by people who don't actually play, and suspect tests are just ban-happy bandwagoning fools who don't appreciate what Blaziken and Shaymin-S contribute to the metagame. Our new system will be a democracy: everyone will have a say.

The Unscrupulous Tiering Director Tournament


Rules:
Standard OU rules apply
- No Ubers
- Evasion Clause
- OHKO Clause
- Sleep Clause
- Species Clause
- Drizzle + Swift Swim Clause
- Moody Clause
- Wifi Battle
- Timed Battle

This is a BW2 Tournament. Battles are to be played by default on Showdown, but can be played on PO if both people agree.

In your sign-up post, include exactly two Pokemon, moves, or items you wish to ban. Please use the following format:

BAN HIPPOWDON
BAN ICE BEAM
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You can ban two Pokemon (Hippowdon and Flaaffy)
You can ban two moves (Lava Plume and Flare Blitz)
You can ban two items (Fist Plate and Magnet)
You can ban a Pokemon and a move (Reuniclus and Icy Wind)
You can ban a Pokemon and an item (Dragonite and Leftovers)
You can ban a move and an item (Hyper Beam and Life Orb)

If you ban the original Pokemon, it will NOT ban any alternate formes.

You CANNOT ban combinations (U-turn + Earth Power, Stone Edge + Close Combat on Terrakion)
You CANNOT ban parts of Pokemon (Speed Boost on Sharpedo, Magic Mirror Xatu)
You CANNOT ban strategies (Dragon Spam, VoltTurn)
You CANNOT ban abilities (Sheer Force, Flash Fire)
You CANNOT ban users (Bloo, Stone_Cold)

You may not ban the same thing twice (yourself). That's just pointless, and I will not count your sign-up post if you do so. If you really don't want to ban anything else, ban Magikarp.

Whatever you ban will remain banned for EVERYONE in the tournament--that is, until you lose. If you lose in this tournament, you will be deemed unqualified to act as a tiering leader and will be assassinated by Smogon administrators in the middle of the night. Your bans will be revoked at the beginning of the tournament's next round.

You may ban something even if other people have already banned it. Bans enacted by multiple people will remain in effect until all people with the same ban are eliminated.

You cannot change your bans! Nobody likes a flipflop tiering leader.

Substitutes' bans will not take effect. Substitutes will adopt the bans of the players whose positions they take.

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I have included the banlists both in the form of a spreadsheet and in hide tags below. I have also included a list of available OU Pokemon.

Make sure to review these lists carefully!

Spreadsheet

OU
Blissey
Dragonite
Jirachi
Ninetales (2)
Politoed
Tentacruel
Thundurus-T
Baton Pass
Quiver Dance
Scald
Spikes (3)
Stealth Rock
Toxic Spikes
Abomasnow
Alakazam
Breloom
Celebi
Chansey
Cloyster
Conkeldurr
Deoxys-D
Ferrothorn
Gliscor
Donphan
Dugtrio
Espeon
Forretress
Gastrodon
Gengar
Gyarados
Heatran
Hippowdon
Hydreigon
Infernape
Jellicent
Jolteon
Keldeo
Landorus
Latias
Latios
Lucario
Magnezone
Mamoswine
Metagross
Mew
Reuniclus
Rotom-W
Salamence
Scizor
Skarmory
Starmie
Terrakion
Tornadus
Tornadus-T
Toxicroak
Tyranitar
Vaporeon
Venusaur
Virizion
Volcarona
Pokemon
Abomasnow
Amoonguss
Breloom
Chansey
Conkeldurr
Deoxys-D
Durant
Ferrothorn
Gliscor
Haxorus
Heatran
Hippopotas
Hippowdon
Hydreigon
Keldeo
Kingdra
Kyurem
Landorus-T
Latias
Latios
Magnezone
Mamoswine
Munchlax
Pikachu
Reuniclus
Salamence

Scizor
Scrafty
Skarmory
Slowbro
Snorlax
Snover
Terrakion
Tornadus-T
Tyranitar
Volcarona
Vulpix
Wobbuffet

Moves
Brave Bird

Bulk Up
Calm Mind
Charge Beam
Close Combat
Draco Meteor
Dragon Claw
Dragon Dance
Dragon Pulse
Earthquake
Focus Blast
Giga Drain
Hidden Power
Hurricane
Iron Head
Light Screen
Outrage
Protect
Pursuit
Rain Dance
Rapid Spin
Recover
Reflect
Roost
Sandstorm
Shell Smash
Softboiled
Spore
Stone Edge
Substitute
Sunny Day
Superpower
Swords Dance
Tailwind
Thunder Wave
Toxic
U-turn
Volt Switch

Will-O-Wisp

Items
Bridge Mail D

Choice Band
Choice Specs
Choice Scarf
Eviolite
Flame Orb
Focus Sash
Iron Ball
Lagging Tail
Leaf Stone
Leftovers
Life Orb
Muscle Band

Rocky Helmet
Wise Glasses

Notable bans (does not include everything):
- Drizzle (Politoed) and Drought (Ninetales) are banned; all other forms of inducing weather have been unbanned
- All entry hazards are still banned.
- Scald is still banned.
Meloetta, Genesect, and Shadow Tag Gothitelle/Gothorita are all banned, seeing as they did not exist at the beginning of this tournament.

Notable unbans:
- All items are now available, with Eviolite / Rocky Helmet the last two to be unbanned
- Volcarona has been unbanned; it is the only new Pokemon to be unbanned (Quiver Dance is still banned though)
- Substitute is now available
- Spore is now available
- Shell Smash is now available

Pairings:
68. Ginku vs 129. papai noel
1. Heist vs 8. CrashinBoomBang
124. cescken vs 116. Lady Bug
69. Zebraiken vs 122. Ricky Horror

68. Ginku (Ninetales / Spikes) vs 129. papai noel (Tentacruel / Dragonite)
1. Heist (Politoed / Scald) vs 8. CrashinBoomBang (Spikes / Stealth Rock)
124. cescken (Ninetales / Quiver Dance) vs 116. Lady Bug (Jirachi / Baton Pass)
69. Zebraiken (Thundurus-T / Spikes) vs 122. Ricky Horror (Blissey / Toxic Spikes)

It's the quarterfinals so please save and give me your logs :)! Thanks!

Deadline: Sunday, September 9 at 11:59 PM CDT (GMT-5)
 
68. Ginku vs 129. papai noel
1. Heist vs 8. CrashinBoomBang
124. cescken vs 116. Lady Bug
69. Zebraiken vs 122. Ricky Horror

GL cescken ;)
 
68. Ginku vs 129. papai noel
1. Heist vs 8. CrashinBoomBang
124. cescken vs 116. Lady Bug
69. Zebraiken vs 122. Ricky Horror
 
68. Ginku vs 129. papai noel
1. Heist vs 8. CrashinBoomBang
124. cescken vs 116. Lady Bug
69. Zebraiken
vs 122. Ricky Horror
 
68. Ginku vs 129. papai noel
1. Heist vs 8. CrashinBoomBang
124. cescken vs 116. Lady Bug
69. Zebraiken vs 122. Ricky Horror
 

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I'd rather not make an activity decision at this point in the tournament. There is one match left, so I will grant a two day extension to cescken vs. Lady Bug. Please schedule an actual time and get it done.
 
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