Well alright, the long wait is over. Smogons downtime came at an inopportune time as far as this tournament is concerned but everything is finally sorted out. I present to you the first round.
Rules
-ADVANCED MODE
-Single Elimination
-No Ubers (No Mewtwo, Mew, Lugia, Ho-oh, Wobbuffet/Wynaut, Latias, Latios, Kyogre, Groudon, Rayquaza, Deoxys [All Forms])
-Sleep Clause
-Freeze Clause
-Species Clause
-Self-KO Clause
-No OHKO/Evasion based moves
-XD moves will be allowed
-Unrated/PP Ups optional
Pairings
USA Central VS Canada
zfs vs cloud on a hunch
SSBMRoy vs Dragon_Hawk no clue
Lesm46 vs homsar Lesm lucks out. I bet you.
Aeolus vs Jackal Canada beats Hufflepuff. What a pairing.
ToP vs DragonDance no idea who the latter is
Roy vs skarm Skarm is a master of street Pokemon. Pairing of the round.
Nate vs Articuno64
Sanders vs Pokemon Professor
USA Central Subs: undecided
Canada Subs: Basics, Alamaster
Asia VS South America
husk vs Batistitu
goofball vs Soujiro San
Veteran in Love vs Hill
Cromat vs Conker
Groudon80 vs Anyone
MoP vs 180.ROGER
Vapicuno vs HairyPimp
Council vs Mosh
Asia Subs: Anomalous, Raikou21
South America Subs: Yu-Ri-Oh, Mizuno
Europe West VS USA West
Thunda vs Noobster
Shiny vs gdpt
Dynamo vs Floppy
Hazerider vs Obi2Kenobi
Pikapete vs Syberia
0mastar vs ls
DanDan vs Warthog You can do it Dan, use awesome Articuno powers!
Doomsday vs Batpig
Europe West Subs: Havak, Big Boss
USA West Subs: Zerowing, Chicken
Europe East VS USA East
Nowster vs Holyknight
Lexay vs Black Leather Jacket don't want black leather (BAN ME PLEASE) to win
Picollo vs chaos
Ulti vs gotei(13) Hyorinmaru
Devilkid vs Sir Chris
Cerberus vs meddle
peter_pan vs Justin8649
Mekkah vs Bugsy23
Go Dutchies! *waves flag*
Europe East Subs: Siphai, el_B
USA East Subs: Giga_Punch, Riou
It takes 5 wins of the 8 battles to advance to the second round. In the case of a 4-4 tie, each team will choose a representative (not necesarily the captain) to compete in a tiebraker match. Captains are responsible for PMing me if they need to sub someone out.
The deadline for this round is TWO WEEKS from today, Friday, September 8, 2006 at 4:00pm EDT, a time that should work for all timezones. However, I trust you all to get your battles done as soon as possible by PMing you opponent and arranging something.
Feel free to post predictions/smack talk in this thread. Scores can be posted here also and/or pmed to me on the forums. Good luck to all participants, and FIGHT FOR YOUR COUNTRY!
PS: Canada is the best.