Stratos
Banned deucer.
SPECIFIC RULES
- This is a standard ORAS Doubles tournament
- This tournament will be Double Elimination
- All rounds will be Best of Three. You may switch teams in between battles of the same set.
- Matches are to be played on Pokemon Showdown!
- To encourage the development of the metagame, and so that everyone is on an even playing field, all matches must have replays recorded. If neither player posts replays of the match, both players will suffer an automatic game loss. (If you were in losers' when you played, you are both out. If you were in winners', the winner is in losers' and the loser is out.)
- Every round, I will choose a match (possibly two) as the Highlight Match. If your match is chosen as the highlight match, two of our commentary crew (myself, Lohgock, Arcticblast, Laga, BLOOD TOTEM) will be commentating your match through the SmogonU Twitch, and it will then be uploaded to Smogon's YouTube. I will contact both players by PM immediately in order to schedule a time. If either player wishes to not be streamed, they may opt out, but let me know quickly, so I can choose someone else to be the highlight match for the week.
- Because of the nature of the prizes of this tournament, if you are found signing up under more than one alt, you will be banned from circuit events for life.
- Didn't think I needed to say this, but please do your best to play your entire bo3 in one sitting. It's ok if you have to leave because of unforseen events, but going into game 1 knowing that you won't be finishing game 3 right then is against the spirit of a best of 3 set. If you refuse to finish your set but stick around chatting, I will think less of you as a person.
- I'm going to be playing in this tournament, so in the interest of fairness, all activity calls will be made by a neutral TD. If you get an activity loss, do not bitch to me, maybe you should have put more effort into playing your damn match to avoid that contingency.
- Species Clause: A player cannot have two Pokemon with the same PokeDex number on his team.
- Evasion Clause: The moves Double Team and Minimize are banned. (No other evasion boosting things are banned).
- OHKO Clause: The moves Horn Drill, Guillotine, Sheer Cold, and Fissure are banned.
- Endless Battle Clause: Anything capable of intentionally creating an endless battle is banned.
- Uber Clause: Anything that appears on Smogon Doubles' banlist is banned. Because the dex page is outdated (i put in a pull request like three weeks ago but it hasn't been approved), this is the banlist for Smogon Doubles:
- Mewtwo
- Lugia
- Ho-oh
- Kyogre
- Groudon
- Rayquaza
- Dialga
- Palkia
- Giratina
- Giratina-O
- Arceus
- Reshiram
- Zekrom
- Kyurem-White
- Xerneas
- Yveltal
- Dark Void
- Salamencite
Identity
I expect many battles to be completed under alts. This can be 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. Do not complain about it. I also don't want to hear about any blatant scouting. There is a difference between "[user] is known for using stall" and "let me follow [user] 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. I give permission to all battlers to ask any person spectating their battle to leave if they do not want them watching. Everyone will have access to your replays from earlier rounds though.
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.
Disconnections
Finally, in the case of a disconnect, the decision is in the hands of the player who did not disconnect. The options are: redo the battle move for move, redo the battle with the same teams but different moves, or redo the battle with completely different teams. If the battle was without a doubt over, they may also take the win. Any suspicion that a disconnect was committed on purpose to redo a match may be appealed to me, and if I feel this happened there will be severe consequences, don't do it.
I expect many battles to be completed under alts. This can be 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. Do not complain about it. I also don't want to hear about any blatant scouting. There is a difference between "[user] is known for using stall" and "let me follow [user] 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. I give permission to all battlers to ask any person spectating their battle to leave if they do not want them watching. Everyone will have access to your replays from earlier rounds though.
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.
Disconnections
Finally, in the case of a disconnect, the decision is in the hands of the player who did not disconnect. The options are: redo the battle move for move, redo the battle with the same teams but different moves, or redo the battle with completely different teams. If the battle was without a doubt over, they may also take the win. Any suspicion that a disconnect was committed on purpose to redo a match may be appealed to me, and if I feel this happened there will be severe consequences, don't do it.
Round 3 Matchups (interesting matches in italics):
Loser's Bracket:
Rumor vs pyromaniac720 game 1 game 2 game 3
Lolk vs Mack Bus
AngryShroomish vs ZeldamonMaster519
FAJI vs Fer
pokebasket vs GuglioM game 1 game 2
Anty vs Level 51 game 1 game 2
We R DNA vs Ninety Nine
innovamania vs [winner of Qwilphish vs Victorious B.I.G] game 1 game 2
Mix vs Pat Labor
scorpdestroyer vs chimpact
__INS__ vs Spitzkopf Larry
Yellow Paint vs Joey's Raticate game 1 game 2
GGamer vs TheKFC game 1
shrop05 vs
scotti vs blinkie game 1 game 2 game 3
Not Canadian vs shifty12
youngjake93 vs D4RR3N
Shurrik vs siler97
Lustiger Lega vs srk1214
Sapientia vs pastelgameboy game 2
koolkranny vs Metaphysical game 1 game 2 game 3
s_aman vs hard game 1 game 2
Wushl vs Arcticblast
byronthewellwell vs Meloetta<3
13ulbasaur vs
PomMan vs Expulso
LzrGunPewPew vs aleuser
n1n1 vs
Hashtag vs Der Dreckige Dan game 1 game 2 game 3
BKC vs xtra$hine
Rozykli vs OlekTheDon129
PDC vs Princess Bri
SOMALIA vs SocialSocialSocial
antemortem vs Sinclair
based n bad vs Rams
It Is Guest vs floppy
Regigigas-Primal vs Braverius
Terraquaza vs Hikari game 1 game 2 game 3
Dr Ciel vs galbia
Shaian vs thelley16
[Loser of Void vs Croven] vs Royal Flush
radianthero156 vs Laurel game 1 game 2
Erick17 vs GeoTal
Memoric vs Brophlosion
Divixel vs Babbytron
Moony vs
Fereydun vs Nido-Rus game 1 game 2 game 3
sebixxl vs PROBLEMS
AceYoshi2014 vs Asterya
atomicllamas vs Zubat
aim vs Laga game 1 game 2 game 3
tape vs Mattyhanna
TUO vs ElegyOfVGC game 1 game 2 game 3
Lord Alphose vs Azumarill
blarajan vs Finc2612 game 1 game 2
Lohgock vs
King UU vs zdrup15 game 1 game 2
clius vs ZANBAKUResh game 1 game 2
Cronenberg vs
stunner047 vs -Clone-
AllAttack vs
Highlight Match: Laga vs aim VIDEO LINK (sorry for the early mic troubles)
Scheduling Rules:
USE VM WALLS! If you really don't want to schedule via a VM conversation, then post in this thread to let me know that you are in contact with your opponent some other way. If you use VM walls, you do not need to post in this thread to let me know. (If you don't know how to access your opponent's VM wall, type their name in the search box like shown). If neither player has established contact by the sub date, you will be at risk of a double sub. If one player has contacted and the other has not responded, he will be at risk of a sub. Unless you have clearly scheduled for a date shortly after the deadline (and cannot make a date before the deadline) you will be given an activity call instead of an extension. I'm not making the calls, so I can't promise what will or won't make you safe, but I know that activities which will up your chances are posting specific times on your opponent's wall, responding to their VMs promptly, and posting any IRC logs of you scheduling in this thread.
Extension Deadline: Wednesday Mar 11 at 11:59 PM EST
Deadline: Sunday Mar 15 at 11:59 PM EST
In double elimination tournaments, there are more losers' bracket than winners' bracket rounds, so (roughly) every other round will be losers' bracket only. This is the first such round. Everyone in the winners' bracket will resume playing in this tournament in the next round. As a last note, please tell me if you're not listed and you're in losers' bracket, in which case i fucked up somewhere.
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