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With 4 Strikeouts received, Thundurus will be banned for this and the future rounds.
Having showed both on 6 teams with none of them getting more strikeout than each other, Rotom-W and Jirachi will be banned for this and the future rounds.
Global Banlist
Jirachi
Latios
Ninetales
Politoed
Reuniclus
Rotom-W
Scizor
Thundurus
Tyranitar
Any battler who doesn't send me their teams by the deadline is automatically disqualified, whether they won or lost. You're warned.
Semifinals match ups (people who sent strikeout in blue, winners are bolded)
Heist vs Yondie
toshimelonhead vs Iconic
tophway vs franky
Deadline for sending in strikeouts is July 30th, 11:59 AM. If you do not send in your strikeout by that time and your opponent did, you are disqualified - even if this means disqualifying both the battlers.
Deadline for battling is August 6th, 11:59 AM. Again, even if you win the battle, if you don't PM me your team by then, you are disqualified.
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Round 4
Strikeout Tournament - Black/White Edition
The Black/White metagame is still relatively young, and has already seen several Pokémon receiving the ban hammer. How will your teambuilding skills fare in an environment where the banlist grows larger each round?
As many of you probably know, a Strikeout Tournament revolves around a progressively larger banlist which force people to adapt their teams to the everchanging banlist. Each round, a player may issue a strikeout - that is, they can PM me the name of a Pokémon of their choice which the opponent won't be able to use for the round. Once I get both strikeouts, I send them to the respective players and ask them to reply with their teams (I only need to know the name of the Pokémon used because I need to know the usage statistics of the tournament battles, I'll explain below).
Moreover, every round two Pokémon will be globally banned. These two Pokémon are:
- The most used Pokémon of the last round
- The Pokémon who had been "struck out" most
- The most used Pokémon of the last round
- The Pokémon who had been "struck out" most
None of the participants will be able to use these Pokémon for the remaining rounds. The list is cumulative, so every round two additional Pokémon will be banned.
So, to sum up the rules:
Tournament Rules:
- Tier: Black/White OU
- Singles
- Single Elimination
- Players can't use the Pokémon which is selected as the strikeout by their respective opponents
- Players can't use any Pokémon from the global banlist
- Sleep Clause
- Species Clause
- OHKO Clause
- Evasion Clause
- Wi-fi Clause
With 4 Strikeouts received, Thundurus will be banned for this and the future rounds.
Having showed both on 6 teams with none of them getting more strikeout than each other, Rotom-W and Jirachi will be banned for this and the future rounds.
Global Banlist
Jirachi
Latios
Ninetales
Politoed
Reuniclus
Rotom-W
Scizor
Thundurus
Tyranitar
Any battler who doesn't send me their teams by the deadline is automatically disqualified, whether they won or lost. You're warned.
Semifinals match ups (people who sent strikeout in blue, winners are bolded)
Heist vs Yondie
toshimelonhead vs Iconic
tophway vs franky
Deadline for sending in strikeouts is July 30th, 11:59 AM. If you do not send in your strikeout by that time and your opponent did, you are disqualified - even if this means disqualifying both the battlers.
Deadline for battling is August 6th, 11:59 AM. Again, even if you win the battle, if you don't PM me your team by then, you are disqualified.
