Challenge The Orange League Round 2 (Deadline January 8th, 2014)

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Alright everybody, Round 2 is finally up and running! Sorry for the delay, but things have gotten a little chaotic over the holiday season. In any case, here's the scoop on this week's challenge!

First off, we won't be posting the whole sh'bang on what the Orange League is about and how it works here this week, since we have a spiffy new sticky topic devoted to that purpose. Instead, we're going to get right into this week's challenge.

~*Challenge*~
This week a certain someone *cough* Jimera0 *cough* MIGHT have not allotted enough time to fully work out all the niggly little details that go into making a brand new challenge. So instead we're falling back on an old favorite: the Battle Factory! Yes, this week you'll be renting and trading your way through the Platinum or HG/SS Battle Factory to try and get the best streak you can. Only, to make things interesting, you won't be doing Singles like you've likely tried before. Oh no, this time around you'll be trying your hand at Doubles! Be prepared for hardship, but keep the thrill of victory in mind, because this is one event that is truly anyone's game!

Rules and Guidelines:

1. Double Battle, Open Level Battle Factory runs only.
2. Please no previous streaks if you have them.
3. No glitch abuse, cheats, save state abuse, RNG manipulation, screenshot manipulation, submitting someone else's score as your own, etc. If we have solid reason to believe you have cheated you WILL be permanently disqualified from this round and all future rounds, as well as have your name stricken from the leader board. Also, Hulavuta will cry.
4. No sign-ups required, but posting on this topic if you're interested in competing would be appreciated.
5. All submissions must be in by 11:59PM EST on January 8th, 2014.
6. In the event of a tie, the person who submitted their highest streak first will win.

Submitting:

Start a Conversation with TheOrangeLeague and send us photographic (screenshots or camera photos) proof of your streak. You can submit as many times as you want. What we're looking for is this:

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Only of course we want the doubles one from Generation 4. You can find this screen by accessing the computer in-between the two officials that start the Battle Factory challenge and selecting the "DOUBLE" option. Battle Videos will NOT be accepted because Jimera0 can't get his Soul Silver to connect to the goddamn internet anymore.

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If you have any further questions, first refer to the main topic. If that fails, then contact either Jimera0 or Hulavuta via forum conversation or in #orangeislands. Note that Hulavuta may not be available over the next couple weeks, so Jimera0 is probably your best bet for this particular round.

Good luck everyone and have fun! Arceus knows, you'll need it...



 
Hopefully a luck based challenge will give me a better advantage than last round.

I'm in. (Besides I have to protect my spot - last -on the leader board.)
 
I would like to participate, however I started a new HG playthrough recently so I'm barely in Goldenrod City. I'll try to get to the Battle Frontier before the 8th!
 
This is so ridiculously difficult. I had no idea how brutal the battle factory could be until now... Like the Emerald Challenge was a pain in the butt, but this is just sheer torture.

Ive lost like 5 times on battle 6 to stupid things, the worst being a Ice Punching Froslass -__- Mekkah is telling us stories of the AI outright lying to him at certain points about what Pokemon the opponent is going to use too... I am currently sitting on a best streak of just 7... :O

EDIT: I got to double figures!

Oh and Mekkah is a bum so here is the lies:

[16:13] <&@Mekkah> "first out will be a tough hammer arm using heracross"
[16:13] <&@Mekkah> no such heracross in the database
[16:13] <&@Mekkah> guy leads with gastrodon and metagross
[16:13] <&@Mekkah> wtf
[16:13] <&@Mekkah> fu
[16:14] <&@DHR> hahaha
[16:14] <&@DHR> just trolling you totally now
[16:15] <&@Mekkah> ok wtf
[16:15] <&@Mekkah> they are allowed to lie?
[16:15] <&@Mekkah> his last mon was skuntank

Best part is Heracross does not even learn Hammer Arm.
 
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You all are a bad influence on me, making me return to the battle factory. I was over it. Done with that abusive relationship. But nooo, you had to pull me back in. At least I feel I did pretty well, considering that the factory exists only to inflict torture upon the soul.

Also, are we sure that the factory was lying, or was it just Mekkah not being able to read the difference between "heracross" and "metagross"...?

756 | Metagross | Adamant | Occa Berry | Hammer Arm | ThunderPunch | Ice Punch | Aerial Ace | Atk/Def
 
Also, are we sure that the factory was lying, or was it just Mekkah not being able to read the difference between "heracross" and "metagross"...?

756 | Metagross | Adamant | Occa Berry | Hammer Arm | ThunderPunch | Ice Punch | Aerial Ace | Atk/Def

I've never made this mistake before. I wouldn't be surprised if this was the case though.
 
This sounds right up my alley. And gives me something to do while waiting on pokebank. Also this was the whole reason I created an account.

Edit: This is extremely hard. Im on a 7win streak but sadly have to go to work. Guess I'll see how far i can go later.
 
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Ugh do I have to complete this game again? ._. I don't want to bother but I don't have a completed file.
 
I did warn you to prepare for hardship :P. if you're getting really low streaks don't worry; from what I've been hearing everyone is struggling with this one.

If you're having trouble, this might help:
http://www.snapperthetwig.com/poke/search.php
It's a search that'll let you look up what sets the Pokemon you're fighting against and using have, which should help you make better decisions along the way.

BTW a side note: since I'm the one who's going to be tallying the results for this one I'm not participating. That being said, I haven't actually checked any of the submitted results yet :P but I've heard enough talk to know that runs petering out around a streak of 10 or so are not uncommon. Remember, in the result of a tie whoever submitted their streak first wins, so you'll be wanting to submit every good run you get ASAP.
 
We send the submission to the OrangeLeague account, right?
Because thats what I did, just making sure this is correct before the deadline so mine doesn't get discounted.
 
We send the submission to the OrangeLeague account, right?
Because thats what I did, just making sure this is correct before the deadline so mine doesn't get discounted.

That's what it says in the submission section isn't it? :P. The account is TheOrangeLeague and you need to start a conversation with it. If you have more than one submission per a round, keep all your subsequent submissions in that round in the same conversation if you can, it'll keep it a lot neater and easier for us to find.

Just to be clear, TheOrangeLeague is an account both me and Hulavuta have access too, so that if one of us posts something that needs to be edited the other can do so even when the original poster is unavailable, something we wouldn't be able to do normally since neither of us are mods. It also just lets us keep things a little more organized as well since submission conversations won't get jumbled with all our personal conversations.
 
For what it's worth, the best ever streak that was posted in the old DDP battle facility topic for open factory doubles was something like 30 consecutive wins, so yeah getting long streaks in this mode is just hell. On top of all the usual crap you put up with in singles, you now have to put up with trying to get a group of Pokemon that actually work properly in doubles and also synergise well on the battlefield, which is often close to impossible with the 6 Pokemon the game gives you to select from at the start.

Would probably give this a go if I had time, but I'm just too busy. Maybe next time.
 
Yeah the fact that the Factory mons are geared towards Singles instead of Doubles (Very few Protect users, no Follow Me users, very few Fake Out users, etc) makes it all the more difficult, since there is usually very little synergy in the three slots...

The most annoying thing about the challenge is, however...

MACHAMP used Cross Chop!
*Waits 40 seconds*
A critical hit!
It's super effective!
The foe's BLISSEY fainted!

Maybe because I am used to Gen V/VI HP Speeds? ?_?

I am sitting on a streak of seven at the present moment, but I have been too busy to continue... Maybe I might try to get a complete streak in before deadline?
 
When did the closing day become Jan 8th? I thought it was the tenth? :( Now I can't submit... I thought it was a 12 day cycle you were going ot be using Monday to the following Friday?

Sadface ;___;, ... um... I might have to take a pic of my screen with my 3DS and try and put it into the sim and then use that on a PC or something? I dont even know lol. I might be able to take a pic of my screen with my work laptop or something :/

Edit: Testing something. Joim Jimera0
 
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When did the closing day become Jan 8th? I thought it was the tenth? :( Now I can't submit... I thought it was a 12 day cycle you were going ot be using Monday to the following Friday?

Sadface ;___;, ... um... I might have to take a pic of my screen with my 3DS and try and put it into the sim and then use that on a PC or something? I dont even know lol. I might be able to take a pic of my screen with my work laptop or something :/

Edit: Testing something. Joim Jimera0

It never changed, as you can see the topic hasn't been edited at all :P.

The cycle is 2 weeks, 10 days on 4 days off.

Anyway, stay tuned for results in around 20 minutes. I hear we actually have more than 5 entries this time, so if you submitted you're NOT guaranteed to place this time!
 
A WIZARD IS NEVER LATE, NOR IS HE EARLY

I'm back and here are the results for this round! Before we get down to it, I just wanted to give a big thanks to Jimera0 for going ahead and getting this up while I was out on my LOA and whatnot. Also wanted to give a thank you to everyone who entered, we got a lot of entries this time which I was very pleasantly surprised to see. Sadly, this does mean that not everyone will place in the top 5 this time. (Sorry Recec, guess that means you lost your last place spot!)

I gotta say, newcomers pretty much DOMINATED this round. Sad for all the old peeps, very shamefur dispray, commit sudoku better luck next time, I guess. Much to my dismay, once again Mekkah does not win, but he does get an "honorable" mention for most entertaining failure. Oh well! Anyway, here we gooooooooo

Ahem.

In 5th place, we have Dassshhh, who finished with a streak of 21!

In 4th place, we have chronomancy, who barely defeated Dassshhh and claimed 4th place with a score of 22!

In 3rd place, speaking of barely winning, we have sb879 who finished with a top score of 23!

In 2nd place, we have Xdogking, who got a streak of 29!

...and as much as I talked about newcomers dominating this round, the winner of this round is someone I'm sure everyone knows but nobody expected to win...

Kadew !!


She finished with an absolutely mindboggling score of 35 (yes I am not sure how that is even possible either)


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Congratulations Kadew! Make sure you pick up the victory banner from Stellar.

A big thank you to everyone who participated, even if they didn't win...or even come close. As a final note, if anyone has ideas for future challenges, do not hesitate to message Jimera or myself with them (like seriously I don't even know what we are gonna do for next week yet).

See you all next time!
 
Heh heh heh I saw the Kadew win coming, and not because I looked at the scores (this is my first time seeing them, same as everybody else). I saw it coming because I was in a Skype Call with Kadew when she got that streak :P. She was doing it during the stream last week so people who were there won't be too surprised. I'm honestly surprised that anyone else broke 25, this is one hell of a difficult challenge. I made one attempt just to see what other people were up against and lost with 10 wins XD.

Congratulations everyone, especially Kadew! The next 4 days are just for discussion, so you can all take a break from the pain now :P. Next competition starts Monday, Janurary 13th. Hope to see you all next week!
 
Wow, insane run Kadew and everyone else for that matter :)
Looking forward to next weeks challenge. Hopefully it isn't X or Y related, don't have them yet :p. But this was a lot of fun.
Congratulations to everybody!
 
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