The NU Open I - Round 2

***Zebraiken**** · Sep 10th, 2012, 9:47:16 PM

amazing logo by Zracknel!

Welcome to the NU Open, where all of your old favorites like Charizard and Pikachu (lol) reside. We're almost at the end of the Grand Slam, so do your best in the final stretch!

Tournament Rules:

General tournament rules and regulations can be found here.
Grand Slam rules can be found here.
Standard BW2 NU.
Best of three, single elimination.
The banlist for this tournament is the same as the NU ladder of the Smogon University server of Pokemon Showdown.
If tier changes occur during the middle of a round, they will take effect in the subsequent round.
Battles should take place on Pokemon Showdown! unless both players agree otherwise.*

Gothitelle is BANNED from UU, and thus from the NU Open.

a bunch of rulings I expect you all to read

Identity

I expect many battles to be completed under alts and I expect many battles to be completed on other servers to prevent scouting. These kind of factors are pretty bad for tournament security, and thus I will make this clear: If I hear any whispers of identity theft (battling as someone you are not) or proxy battling (helping someone else battle through pm) I will not be pleased and I will take severe actions.

Scouting

Next, I do not want to hear anything about counterteaming, at all. It is the silliest thing I have ever heard, any battler worth their marbles has more than one team. Do not complain about it. I also don't want to hear about any forceful scouting, whether it be spying on another teams irc channel or following your opponent around on PO. There is a difference between "ipl is known for using stall" and "let me follow ipl around all day to watch all his battles since I am his opponent". I expect a lot of the former and none of the latter.

With that said, I give permission to all battlers to ask any person spectating their battle to leave if they do not want them watching. However, given the fact that this is the big stage, I am sure a lot of people want to watch, so don't be too mean.

Timer Clause

As for taking long between moves, if your opponent asks you to hurry up, please oblige. If you are doing a damage calc for a key turn that is one thing, but prolonging every move is suspicious and annoying. Don't do it. Furthermore, Battle Timeout is a rule for a reason. If you run out of time, you lose, simple as that. It does not matter what your opponent says. Do not battle if you think you will have to leave mid battle, and instead reschedule for a better time. Timing out is still classified as a loss, unless the reason for timing out is a disconnection. If there is any suspicion that a disconnect was carried out deliberately to take advantage of this rule in any way, we reserve the right to exercise a harsh punishment.

Disconnections

If a player disconnects and either player contends that they could still win, the optimal solution is to recreate the exact situation the disconnection occurred at during the battle. If it is agreed between players that this is not feasible due to unreasonable battle length, highly improbable circumstances, or some other reason, the player who did not disconnect may choose to rematch with either the same teams or (the option to use) new teams. Timing out is still classified as a loss, unless the reason for timing out is a disconnection. If there is any suspicion that a disconnect was carried out deliberately to take advantage of this rule in any way, we reserve the right to exercise a harsh punishment. Do not do it.

I know that was a lot to read, but it is all necessary for me to have posted here so everyone can see it in the case of a dispute. I don't want any confusion or any problems.

Battle Clauses:

Evasion Clause
OHKO Clause
Sleep Clause
Species Clause
Timed Battle
Team Preview

A few coinflips / activity wins I missed in the last post:

MOET vs The Hitman
shrang vs Dr Ciel
davidness v. Foster

Extension

undisputed vs JabbaTheGriffin
papai noel vs breh

Extensions have 3 days (September 13th) to complete their matches before I coinflip them. Please get them done as soon as possible, thanks!

Round 2 Matchups:

kuja20 vs Vinc2612
Master of the Six Kings vs shrang
Nachos vs Demist
DestinyUnknown vs JabbaTheGriffin
Pkrs vs MikeDecIsHere
Pedrock vs Django
uxsee vs senegal
mostwanted vs T-Dogg
MMF vs Fiction.
Arc Tech vs FLCL
Pocket vs -Manu-
breh vs TrollFreak
SoulWind vs Annoyer
Redjar vs Brotom
CheezitKing vs Ningildo
AuraRayquaza vs SilentVerse
The Hitman vs Heist
Ginku vs Malekith
Bloo vs DrMohammadLi
davidness vs mfhoundoom
Pidge vs Friar
Double01 vs Zebraiken
Vintage Books vs Mew
Philip7086 vs shnen
FelixMinamimoto vs Ciele
HSA vs MarceloDK
Nexuz vs Infinity.Cypher
Nelson-X vs McMeghan
kokoloko vs The Immortal
-Green- vs blarajan
Hantsuki vs Amell
CrashinBoomBang vs srk1214

Highlight Matches

Pedrock vs Django

Brazilian not-so-superstar, Pedrock, faces off against one of NUs most prominent battlers in a battle that will be remembered for days to come. Pedrock has been doing very well for himself throughout the Grand Slam, but Django, aka. Dongo, aka. Dingle has a plethora of NU knowledge backing him up. Will Pedrock be able to ride his wave of success through yet another round of an Open or will Dongo's superior knowledge of the tier lead him to victory? Only time will tell. ~kokoloko

Ginku vs Malekith

While neither one of these players are really known for their NU battling prowess, both of them have had their fair share of success in the tournaments scene. With--not one, but two--recent tournament victories, Ginky is certainly on a roll, but that by no means puts Smogon Tour XIII runner-up, Malekith, at a disadvantage. As one of Spain's most prominent battlers, he's certain to give the barely-out-of-COPPA-range black German kid a run for his money. Regardless of the outcome, this is sure to be an entertaining series of battles! ~kokoloko

Double01 vs Zebraiken

Double01 stands out as a decent player among the playerbase commonly regarded as the worst on Smogon, RU's. The real reason for this highlight is none other than NUs very own leader: Zebstriker! Will Double01 be able to pull an upset? Probably not. But if he does, Zebacon can certainly look forward to being immortalized in a certain IRC channel's Hall of Shame for all eternity. ~kokoloko

Nelson-X vs McMeghan

McMeghan, a player who just about everyone in the tournaments circuit has heard of by now, faces off against his fellow "almost a shoe-in for top 8" competitor Nelson-X. While neither player is particularly known for their NU prowess, their general battling ability should nevertheless make this series a very entertaining one. And with McMeghan being undefeated so far in Grand Slam and Nelson-X having been eliminated from only a single Open, the dynamic of this match-up promises to be just as interesting. ~kokoloko

Deadline is September 18th.

Quick note about activity wins. If your opponent gives you an explicit date and time he can play, or he gives you exact times where he's free, please DO NOT simply respond with "i'm free sometime next week." That will get your opponent the activity win every time. Make an effort to actually schedule a match. A lot of activity wins last round were decided because of this.

**FLCL** · Sep 10th, 2012, 9:56:15 PM

VMed Arc Tech

MMF · Sep 10th, 2012, 10:07:49 PM

vm'd fiction

Django · Sep 10th, 2012, 10:17:38 PM

vm'd pedrock

DrMohammadLi · Sep 10th, 2012, 10:55:08 PM

So, I've drawn Eo round 1 twice in the Opens, and now that I beat him, I get Bloo in round 2.

What the actual hell, guys. I'll VM tomorrow...

***kokoloko**** · Sep 10th, 2012, 10:56:34 PM

vm'd

MarceloDK · Sep 10th, 2012, 11:04:36 PM

vm'd hsa ~n_n~

Amell · Sep 10th, 2012, 11:05:04 PM

vmed

Philip7086 · Sep 11th, 2012, 12:14:03 AM

Shining Latios still hasn't been on since yesterday at 7am. I'll keep checking, but wanted to keep you informed.

FelixMinamimoto · Sep 11th, 2012, 12:19:14 AM

So, which irc channel (irc hates me ;A;) should I be visiting to find the hall of shame, anyway?

**The Immortal** · Sep 11th, 2012, 2:05:18 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fat kokoloko

vm'd

Replied.

Fiction. · Sep 11th, 2012, 2:29:55 AM

replied to MMF.

Ginku · Sep 11th, 2012, 7:16:30 AM

lmao why would you let koko write anything of importance

Double01 · Sep 11th, 2012, 7:36:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fat Ginku

lmao why would you let koko write anything of importance

^^

Lol anyways I plan to play zebraiken today.

papai noel · Sep 11th, 2012, 7:47:52 AM

I sent another VM to Breh, still waiting for a response.

Hot N Cold · Sep 11th, 2012, 7:55:42 AM

Dingle, Malekith, Zebraiken and McMeghan.

Good luck all ~

Alexander. · Sep 11th, 2012, 8:06:39 AM

Django, Ginku, Zebraiken and McMeghan

LuckOverSkill · Sep 11th, 2012, 9:00:44 AM

Pedrock vs Django

MikeDecIsHere · Sep 11th, 2012, 2:04:02 PM

my R1 opponent is unable to battle today at the time we scheduled, and is giving me the win.

Django · Sep 11th, 2012, 4:15:28 PM

Beat Pedrock in 2 with some luck on my side. Sorry about that and ggs

emirinho · Sep 11th, 2012, 4:31:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fat MikeDecIsHere

my R1 opponent is unable to battle today at the time we scheduled, and is giving me the win.

i never gave you the win i just wasnt able to come on time because i had an important job to do. I would like to ask for an extension.

Malekith · Sep 11th, 2012, 5:07:47 PM

In contact with Ginku.

T-Dogg · Sep 11th, 2012, 7:20:29 PM

VM'ed.

MikeDecIsHere · Sep 11th, 2012, 7:21:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fat emirinho

i never gave you the win i just wasnt able to come on time because i had an important job to do. I would like to ask for an extension.

You edited your vm...

Double01 · Sep 11th, 2012, 8:24:34 PM

lost to zeb 2-0 in fun games ggs.

Sep 10th, 2012, 9:47:16 PM	#1
*Zebraiken to stay alive you've got to kill your mind Super Moderator** Join Date: Oct 2011 Posts: 2,179 shine ∞ Mentor	The NU Open I - Round 2 amazing logo by Zracknel! Welcome to the NU Open, where all of your old favorites like Charizard and Pikachu (lol) reside. We're almost at the end of the Grand Slam, so do your best in the final stretch! Tournament Rules: General tournament rules and regulations can be found here. Grand Slam rules can be found here. Standard BW2 NU. Best of three, single elimination. The banlist for this tournament is the same as the NU ladder of the Smogon University server of Pokemon Showdown. If tier changes occur during the middle of a round, they will take effect in the subsequent round. Battles should take place on Pokemon Showdown! unless both players agree otherwise.* Gothitelle is BANNED from UU, and thus from the NU Open. a bunch of rulings I expect you all to read Identity I expect many battles to be completed under alts and I expect many battles to be completed on other servers to prevent scouting. These kind of factors are pretty bad for tournament security, and thus I will make this clear: If I hear any whispers of identity theft (battling as someone you are not) or proxy battling (helping someone else battle through pm) I will not be pleased and I will take severe actions. Scouting Next, I do not want to hear anything about counterteaming, at all. It is the silliest thing I have ever heard, any battler worth their marbles has more than one team. Do not complain about it. I also don't want to hear about any forceful scouting, whether it be spying on another teams irc channel or following your opponent around on PO. There is a difference between "ipl is known for using stall" and "let me follow ipl around all day to watch all his battles since I am his opponent". I expect a lot of the former and none of the latter. With that said, I give permission to all battlers to ask any person spectating their battle to leave if they do not want them watching. However, given the fact that this is the big stage, I am sure a lot of people want to watch, so don't be too mean. Timer Clause As for taking long between moves, if your opponent asks you to hurry up, please oblige. If you are doing a damage calc for a key turn that is one thing, but prolonging every move is suspicious and annoying. Don't do it. Furthermore, Battle Timeout is a rule for a reason. If you run out of time, you lose, simple as that. It does not matter what your opponent says. Do not battle if you think you will have to leave mid battle, and instead reschedule for a better time. Timing out is still classified as a loss, unless the reason for timing out is a disconnection. If there is any suspicion that a disconnect was carried out deliberately to take advantage of this rule in any way, we reserve the right to exercise a harsh punishment. Disconnections If a player disconnects and either player contends that they could still win, the optimal solution is to recreate the exact situation the disconnection occurred at during the battle. If it is agreed between players that this is not feasible due to unreasonable battle length, highly improbable circumstances, or some other reason, the player who did not disconnect may choose to rematch with either the same teams or (the option to use) new teams. Timing out is still classified as a loss, unless the reason for timing out is a disconnection. If there is any suspicion that a disconnect was carried out deliberately to take advantage of this rule in any way, we reserve the right to exercise a harsh punishment. Do not do it. I know that was a lot to read, but it is all necessary for me to have posted here so everyone can see it in the case of a dispute. I don't want any confusion or any problems. Battle Clauses: Evasion Clause OHKO Clause Sleep Clause Species Clause Timed Battle Team Preview A few coinflips / activity wins I missed in the last post: MOET vs The Hitman shrang vs Dr Ciel davidness v. Foster Extension undisputed vs JabbaTheGriffin papai noel vs breh Extensions have 3 days (September 13th) to complete their matches before I coinflip them. Please get them done as soon as possible, thanks! Round 2 Matchups: kuja20 vs Vinc2612 Master of the Six Kings vs shrang Nachos vs Demist DestinyUnknown vs JabbaTheGriffin Pkrs vs MikeDecIsHere Pedrock vs Django uxsee vs senegal mostwanted vs T-Dogg MMF vs Fiction. Arc Tech vs FLCL Pocket vs -Manu- breh vs TrollFreak SoulWind vs Annoyer Redjar vs Brotom CheezitKing vs Ningildo AuraRayquaza vs SilentVerse The Hitman vs Heist Ginku vs Malekith Bloo vs DrMohammadLi davidness vs mfhoundoom Pidge vs Friar Double01 vs Zebraiken Vintage Books vs Mew Philip7086 vs shnen FelixMinamimoto vs Ciele HSA vs MarceloDK Nexuz vs Infinity.Cypher Nelson-X vs McMeghan kokoloko vs The Immortal -Green- vs blarajan Hantsuki vs Amell CrashinBoomBang vs srk1214 Highlight Matches Pedrock vs Django Brazilian not-so-superstar, Pedrock, faces off against one of NUs most prominent battlers in a battle that will be remembered for days to come. Pedrock has been doing very well for himself throughout the Grand Slam, but Django, aka. Dongo, aka. Dingle has a plethora of NU knowledge backing him up. Will Pedrock be able to ride his wave of success through yet another round of an Open or will Dongo's superior knowledge of the tier lead him to victory? Only time will tell. ~kokoloko Ginku vs Malekith While neither one of these players are really known for their NU battling prowess, both of them have had their fair share of success in the tournaments scene. With--not one, but two--recent tournament victories, Ginky is certainly on a roll, but that by no means puts Smogon Tour XIII runner-up, Malekith, at a disadvantage. As one of Spain's most prominent battlers, he's certain to give the barely-out-of-COPPA-range black German kid a run for his money. Regardless of the outcome, this is sure to be an entertaining series of battles! ~kokoloko Double01 vs Zebraiken Double01 stands out as a decent player among the playerbase commonly regarded as the worst on Smogon, RU's. The real reason for this highlight is none other than NUs very own leader: Zebstriker! Will Double01 be able to pull an upset? Probably not. But if he does, Zebacon can certainly look forward to being immortalized in a certain IRC channel's Hall of Shame for all eternity. ~kokoloko Nelson-X vs McMeghan McMeghan, a player who just about everyone in the tournaments circuit has heard of by now, faces off against his fellow "almost a shoe-in for top 8" competitor Nelson-X. While neither player is particularly known for their NU prowess, their general battling ability should nevertheless make this series a very entertaining one. And with McMeghan being undefeated so far in Grand Slam and Nelson-X having been eliminated from only a single Open, the dynamic of this match-up promises to be just as interesting. ~kokoloko Deadline is September 18th. Quick note about activity wins. If your opponent gives you an explicit date and time he can play, or he gives you exact times where he's free, please DO NOT simply respond with "i'm free sometime next week." That will get your opponent the activity win every time. Make an effort to actually schedule a match. A lot of activity wins last round were decided because of this. Last edited by Zebraiken; Sep 18th, 2012 at 4:22:34 PM.

Sep 10th, 2012, 10:56:34 PM	#6
*kokoloko winter is coming Super Moderator** Join Date: Aug 2009 Posts: 2,321	vm'd __________________

Sep 10th, 2012, 11:04:36 PM	#7
MarceloDK Join Date: Aug 2010 Posts: 577 Brazil	vm'd hsa ~n_n~ __________________ :)!

Sep 11th, 2012, 12:14:03 AM	#9
Philip7086 Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 2,935 Mentor	Shining Latios still hasn't been on since yesterday at 7am. I'll keep checking, but wanted to keep you informed. __________________ # of times I've beaten the E4: 173 # of level 100 Pokes: 9 (NO HACKS!!!)

Sep 11th, 2012, 12:19:14 AM	#10
FelixMinamimoto Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 418 Inside a box with both hearts torn in two	So, which irc channel (irc hates me ;A;) should I be visiting to find the hall of shame, anyway? __________________ we're anything brighter than even the sun (we're everything greater than books might mean) we're everyanything more than believe (with a spin, leap, alive we're alive) we're wonderful one times one. Finally no longer busy. I can play again.

Sep 10th, 2012, 9:56:15 PM	#2
FLCL Moderator Join Date: Mar 2010 Posts: 985	VMed Arc Tech

Sep 10th, 2012, 10:07:49 PM	#3
MMF Give me the strength to part this sea Join Date: Jun 2010 Posts: 535 PM/VM me for an NU rate! Also part of NU QC VM me for a check!	vm'd fiction

Sep 10th, 2012, 10:17:38 PM	#4
Django Hear me Roar Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 1,669	vm'd pedrock

Sep 10th, 2012, 10:55:08 PM	#5
DrMohammadLi Join Date: Nov 2011 Posts: 119	So, I've drawn Eo round 1 twice in the Opens, and now that I beat him, I get Bloo in round 2. What the actual hell, guys. I'll VM tomorrow...

Sep 10th, 2012, 11:05:04 PM	#8
Amell Join Date: Oct 2011 Posts: 248 Brazil	vmed

Sep 11th, 2012, 2:29:55 AM	#12
Fiction. the king Join Date: May 2010 Posts: 305 Limousin, France	replied to MMF.

Sep 11th, 2012, 7:16:30 AM	#13
Ginku my Angel's on Angel dust Join Date: Jun 2010 Posts: 559	lmao why would you let koko write anything of importance

Sep 11th, 2012, 7:47:52 AM	#15
papai noel Join Date: Jun 2012 Posts: 249 Brazil	I sent another VM to Breh, still waiting for a response. __________________ ^-^

Sep 11th, 2012, 7:55:42 AM	#16
Hot N Cold Join Date: Jun 2011 Posts: 493 Spain	Dingle, Malekith, Zebraiken and McMeghan. Good luck all ~

Sep 11th, 2012, 8:06:39 AM	#17
Alexander. Join Date: Jan 2012 Posts: 1,132	Django, Ginku, Zebraiken and McMeghan

Sep 11th, 2012, 9:00:44 AM	#18
LuckOverSkill Join Date: Nov 2010 Posts: 390	Pedrock vs Django __________________ Luck>Skill—Patron of virtue, Rome's best champion, / Successful in the battles that he fights

Sep 11th, 2012, 2:04:02 PM	#19
MikeDecIsHere Laying the Groundwork for the Pound Work Join Date: Sep 2010 Posts: 1,838 Staten Island Mentor	my R1 opponent is unable to battle today at the time we scheduled, and is giving me the win. __________________

Sep 11th, 2012, 4:15:28 PM	#20
Django Hear me Roar Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 1,669	Beat Pedrock in 2 with some luck on my side. Sorry about that and ggs __________________

Sep 11th, 2012, 5:07:47 PM	#22
Malekith Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 838 Spain	In contact with Ginku.

Sep 11th, 2012, 7:20:29 PM	#23
T-Dogg Join Date: Jan 2011 Posts: 342	VM'ed.

Sep 11th, 2012, 8:24:34 PM	#25
Double01 HSA made me do this... Join Date: Sep 2011 Posts: 600 I'm a Cheese Head and Proud of It	lost to zeb 2-0 in fun games ggs. __________________ <ium> <double01> team: 13circus maximus tigers tier: bw ru record: 0-4-ever <@Tsunami> [13:34:50] <@Tsunami> stats double01 <@Tsunami> [13:34:51] <ium> <double01> team: 13circus maximus tigers tier: bw ru record: 0-4-ever Location: Bench