The Offstat Tournament - Round 2 (stop johning guys please q.q)

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Approved by Earthworm and the Tournament Director Team!


Excellent art by RitterCat!

The Offstat Tourney

Introduction

[14:07] <&@Mekkah> I don't see the big deal. Back in my day, Special Gyarados was nothing to laugh at.
Have you ever wondered how Focus Blast Machamp would fare? How about Choice Band Alakazam? It seems pretty obvious that these sets would be outclassed in standard OU matches. But if everyone's Pokemon were like this, would they go far? Well now is the time to find out!

Rules

  • General tournament rules and regulations can be found here.
  • Best of three, single elimination.
  • 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. If you're uncomfortable playing on Pokemon Showdown, matches can be played on Pokemon Online v2, which has also updated to BW2.
Special Rules
  • This tournament is standard BW2 OU, except:
  • Pokemon may only use attacks coming off their weaker attack stat (e.g. Machamp can only use Special moves, Espeon can only use Physical moves)*. Status and other non-attacking moves are allowed (e.g. Thunder Wave, Swords Dance, Rain Dance, Protect, Substitute, etc.).
  • Only Pokemon with a difference of at least 50 between their Attack and Special Attack stats are allowed. The list of allowed Pokemon is provided below.
  • For balancing purposes, no hazards are allowed.
*Night Shade is treated as a regular Special move; Seismic Toss is treated as a regular Physical move.


List of allowed Pokemon, courtesy of Earthworm:
Code:
Abra
Absol
Aggron
Alakazam
Anorith
Armaldo
Axew
Beheeyem
Bisharp
Blissey
Bonsly
Bouffalant
Braviary
Breloom
Chandelure
Conkeldurr
Cranidos
Darmanitan [B](Zen Mode Darmanitan is not allowed, because it always breaks Clause 2)[/B]
Darumaka
Dodrio
Doduo
Donphan
Drilbur
Druddigon
Duosion
Durant
Escavalier
Espeon
Fraxure
Gallade
Garchomp
Gardevoir
Gastly
Gengar
Geodude
Gigalith
Glaceon
Gliscor
Golem
Golurk
Granbull
Gurdurr
Gyarados
Hariyama
Haunter
Haxorus
Heracross
Hitmonchan
Hitmonlee
Hitmontop
Jynx
Kabutops
Kadabra
Kangaskhan
Keldeo [B](Keldeo-R is not allowed, because it must by definition always utilise Secret Sword, hence Breaking Clause 2)[/B]
Kingler
Krabby
KrookodileLampent
Leafeon
Lilligant
Machamp
Machoke
Magnemite
Magneton
Magnezone
Mamoswine
Meloetta [B](Meloetta-P is not allowed, because it must first come from a Relic Song-using Meloetta, which breaks Clause 2)[/B]
Mr. Mime
Musharna
Omanyte
Omastar
Pinsir
Porygon-Z
Rampardos
Regice
Regigigas
Regirock
Reuniclus
Rhydon
Rhyhorn
Rhyperior
Roggenrola
Roserade
Sandshrew
Sandslash
Sawk
Scizor
Scyther
Shedinja
Slaking
Smoochum
Sneasel
Solosis
Staraptor
Stoutland
Sudowoodo
Tauros
Terrakion
Throh
Timburr
Togekiss
Trapinch
Ursaring
Volcarona
Weavile
Zangoose
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 th eft (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
Last Round:
Activity Wins

Woodchuck > H-C
MAlkaviano > CheezitKing
Brotom < rlyn99
shartruce2 > Wobbanaut
Blue Eon < dragonuser
Nike < ZoroDark
SoulWind < braveswin11
FelixMinamimoto < LucaroarkZ
TCskux < Rydro
V0x > Orichalcos Owl
Myzozoa > DrMohammadLi
McMeghan > llvallejoll
Colchonero > Vrille
lijero13ss > mostwanted
Iconic < Xelgodis

Husky > V17

Coinflip Wins

Funkasaurus > Eranu
Rust > King
Weegee the haxer
> senegal
relaunched > Afonso97


Extensions

Princess Bri vs Oglemi
shstakvchlvr vs Kennen
~GreenCore vs Zacchaeus
Jayde vs LuckOverSkill
Living Things vs ThePillsburyDoughBoy
Cicada vs Pkrs
Turnip123 vs Hantsuki

This Round:
Pairings


(Princess Bri vs Oglemi) vs (shstakvchlvr vs Kennen)
> Princess Bri vs Kennen
(~GreenCore vs Zacchaeus) vs (Jayde vs LuckOverSkill)
> Zacchaeus vs Jayde
(Cicada vs Pkrs) vs (Turnip123 vs Hantsuki)
> Pkrs vs Turnip123
Husky vs (Living Things vs ThePillsburyDoughBoy)
> Husky vs Living Things
V4Victini vs Xelgodis
Metal Sonic vs CrashinBoomBang
HeroponRiki vs jonathanrp
Vinc2612 vs The Immortal
zfs vs Theorymon
FLCL vs MAlkaviano >_>
Sujiro Kifuja vs ZoroDark
breh vs lijero13ss
SethZiBritannia vs Woodchuck
MikeDecIsHere vs dragonuser
Double01 vs shartruce2 ~ Walkover
TalkingLion vs braveswin11
Dude24 vs Django
shnen vs LucaroarkZ ~ Also walkover
kael vs rlyn99
papai noel vs Rydro
V0x vs McMeghan
Myzozoa vs Colchonero ~ Walkover :/
Funkasaurus vs relaunched ~Walkover again gdi
Weegee the haxer vs Rust

Subs
Anno nyme

Highlight Matches
lol, I don't know enough people to write highlight matches

You have 13 days to get your matches done; the deadline is November 20 2012, Tuesday. Good luck to everyone!

Pairs which I have granted extensions to will have 4 days (until November 11 2012, Sunday) to get their matches done. After this, I will make coinflips/activity wins. Good luck; let's get these matches done!
 

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Forgive me for the double post, but I think this is necessary.

For this round, Kyurem-B is not allowed. So please, please don't PM me about it. Thanks! n‿n

Also, we have a public service announcement here.

T Harmonia Gropius said:
USE BLISSEY. ALSO USE BLISSEY COUNTERS. TYVM
 

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Meh, sorry about the coinflip guys, I somehow forgot to add you guys in (probably because I was mad about all the johns and stuff). I'll add you into the OP now.

Yeah, actually why did I allow Kyurem-B anyways? /me slaps self
umm, theoretically I could ban Kyu-B, but it'd be a bit late and these two pairs would have to replay all their matches...

edit: Also apparently there are a few solid counters to it (blissey. magnezone. omastar. gyarados.), so I think it's good to go.

edit2: Okay, I've banned Kyurem-B. Thanks for helping me decide, guys :|
 
Yeah, actually why did I allow Kyurem-B anyways? /me slaps self
umm, theoretically I could ban Kyu-B, but it'd be a bit late and these two pairs would have to replay all their matches...
It's two matches... better they replay it than have some dumb rule mess everything up imo
 

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...wow, really? This guy never even tried to contact me =_=' I guess this should more be an activity win for me..
oh, damn
I must have been really tired last night man, I put it in the wrong place :|
Fixed it though, sorry about that :/
 

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Meh, sorry about the coinflip guys, I somehow forgot to add you guys in (probably because I was mad about all the johns and stuff). I'll add you into the OP now.

Yeah, actually why did I allow Kyurem-B anyways? /me slaps self
umm, theoretically I could ban Kyu-B, but it'd be a bit late and these two pairs would have to replay all their matches...

edit: also apparently there are a few solid counters to it (blissey. magnezone. omastar. gyarados.), so I think it's good to go.
Magnezone gets destroyed by Earth Power, Omastar and Gyarados just get OHKOed and 2HKOed by Dragon Pulse...Blissey I'll give you, but its not exactly the most threatening Pokemon. Anyway idc what you do with it this round but it really shouldn't be allowed next round at least.
 

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Kyurem + Trapinch Rest/Toxic. GGgg
Too bad I can't play them anymore. Also contacted my opponent.
 

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I won against The Immortal. The first match was clean, I was lucky the second, it would have been closer without the 3-turns sleep.

ggs
 
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