Smogon's Official Ladder Tournament III - Cycle 1 Signups

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Jirachee

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Welcome to Cycle 1 of Smogon's Official Ladder Tournament. Please make sure to read the rules of the tournament carefully. If your sign-up post does not follow the rules explained below, it will be deleted. This Cycle will run for 8 days and will end on Tuesday, August 9th, 11:59 PM Eastern time.

Here are the specifics:

1. The host of this tournament is Quite Quiet. We will be using the regular Pokemon Showdown ORAS OU ladder for this tournament, not a new one. This will ensure maximum activity and competition.

2. The qualification period for the OLT will run for a total of 56 days with 8 day cycles. After each 8 day cycle, the top 2 accounts that appear on the leaderboard (using ELO) at the end of the cycle with the sign-up criteria explained in #3 below will directly qualify for the playoffs of the OLT. Following that, the 7 players after the top two will earn a preliminary qualification spot (7 players in cycle 1, 5 players in cycle 2-6). During cycle 7, these preliminary slots will be paired against another preliminary qualifier and the winners of these will be put into the winner's bracket for round 1 and the losers will start out in the loser's bracket. Cycle 7 will, because of that, have no preliminary slots and instead 4 direct qualifying slots instead. Playoffs will be a best of three, double elimination tournament. The tournament is not seeded outside the preliminary qualification round. Pairings for the qualified are randomized. The ladder is not reset after each cycle, only alts are (meaning you create new alts after each cycle).

We are currently in CYCLE 1, which means that after 8 days [ending on Tuesday, August 9th, 11:59 PM Eastern time], the top 9 accounts that signed up for this tournament following the proper sign-up criteria explained in #3 below will be qualified for the eventual playoffs of the OLT.

3. In order to sign-up for the OLT, FOLLOW THE SIGN-UP FORMAT BELOW AND REGISTER YOUR FRESHLY MADE ALT(S) ON POKEMON SHOWDOWN USING THE FORMAT BELOW:

[LT1#] ForumNameHere - the "#" denotes a letter of your choosing, and "ForumNameHere" obviously denotes your forum name. You are allowed up to 3 alts total for this cycle, each of which must follow the aforementioned format.

Here's an example sign-up post for you all to follow:


Forum name: McMeghan
Cycle
1 Alts: LT1B McMeghan, LT1A McMeghan, LT1D McMeghan
Do my alts for Cycle 1 contain my forum name or a very similar variation/abbreviation of it as required by the rules?: Quoi?
YOU MUST SIGN UP WITH YOUR FRESHLY MADE ALT BEFORE STARTING BATTLES WITH IT. Your alt must be registered on the day of sign-ups or onwards to prevent people from registering an account beforehand and laddering with it to gain and unfair advantage. It's very easy to check when an account was registered and we will be checking to make sure people comply. You will be allowed to include 2 to 3 alts in your sign-up for each cycle. You will not be allowed to edit these alts after you include them in your initial sign-up for any given cycle. By the way, make sure to register your LT alt on Pokemon ShowDown!. We've had to deal with people who got their account registered by someone else because they were unprotected. It is advised that you once you sign up here, you immediatly register the accounts on PS afterwards.

4. Once you make the top 2 and qualify (this does not mean making the top 2 at any given point during the cycle, it means being in the top 2 at the end of the cycle), you’re qualified for playoffs. You are free to ladder any other week you wish. However, making the top 2 more than once won’t give a player anything other than personal satisfaction and bragging rights. If a person qualifies again during a week after their initial qualification, the newly qualified account will be skipped and the next unqualified account will be selected from the leaderboard to participate in the tournament, this includes preliminary qualifications. If you first get a preliminary qualification and during a later cycle earn a direct qualification, the preliminary slot is given to next in line.

5. To quote Aldaron here, the intent of the project this time is increase ladder activity and quality. If we set up set time periods that were always Monday - Sunday, we estimated we would primarily see activity boosts at the end. By shifting, we hope it, even on a minor level, helps spread activity which in turn translates to a more spread increase in activity, as opposed to just on the weekends.

6. In the case of one person having more than one account in the top during any given cycle, their highest ranked account will be the one to qualify and the duplicates will be skipped. Let's say one person in the top holds positions #1, #2 and #3 on the ladder during cycle 1 with the alts he signed-up with. In this scenario, #1 will be the only account of theirs to qualify and #2 and #3 will be skipped over because they are the same person as #1. In this same scenario, position #4 on the ladder will be the second qualifier of the cycle and so on.

7. Given that this is a ladder tournament, many of you are likely thinking there are ways people can cheat the system. We are aware of these issues and have been working with Zarel to monitor and patrol instances of cheating. Any person found cheating will be subject to strict punishments.
To add onto that: if we have a reason to believe you forfeited a game to boost a friend's account, you will be sanctionned.

Good luck to everyone! Again, this is Cycle 1 of Smogon's Official Ladder Tournament. Please make sure to read the rules of the tournament carefully. If your sign-up post does not follow the rules explained below, it will be deleted. This Cycle will run for 8 days and will end on Tuesday, August 9th, 11:59 PM Eastern time.
 

Rare Poison

if im butter then ur a hot knife
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Forum name: Rare Poison
Cycle 1 Alts: LT1A Rare Poison, LT1K Rare Poison, LT1X Rare Poison
Do my alts for Cycle 1 contain my forum name or a very similar variation/abbreviation of it as required by the rules?: ya
 

jpw234

Catastrophic Event Specialist
Forum name: jpw234
Cycle 1 Alts: OLT1A jpw, OLT1B jpw, OLT1C jpw
Do my alts for Cycle 1 contain my forum name or a very similar variation/abbreviation of it as required by the rules?: yep
 
Forum Name: 6ft
Cycle 1 alts: LT1A 6FT, LT1B 6FT, LT1C 6FT
Do my alts for Cycle 1 contain my forum name or a very similar variation/abbreviation of it as required by the rules? yes
 

Eclipse

Like a chimp with a machine gun
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Forum name: CrystalRam
Cycle 1 Alts: LT1H CrystalRam, LT1R CrystalRam, LT1Q CrystalRam
Do my alts for Cycle 1 contain my forum name or a very similar variation/abbreviation of it as required by the rules?: Yes
 

hero

amiwos :J
Forum name: hero
Cycle 1 Alts: LT1X hero, LT1Y hero, LT1Z hero
Do my alts for Cycle 1 contain my forum name or a very similar variation/abbreviation of it as required by the rules?: Yea
 
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Zokuru

The Stall Lord
is a Tiering Contributor
Forum name: Zokuru
Cycle 1 Alts: LT1Q Zokuru, LT1S Zokuru, LT1D Zokuru
Do my alts for Cycle 1 contain my forum name or a very similar variation/abbreviation of it as required by the rules?: Yes
 
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Bushtush

Banned deucer.
Forum name: Bushtush
Cycle 1 Alts: LT1B Bushtush, LT1A Bushtush LT1D Bushtush
Do my alts for Cycle 1 contain my forum name or a very similar variation/abbreviation of it as required by the rules?: yes
 
Forum name : Iku
Cycle 1 Alts: LT1A Iku, LT1B Iku, LT1D Iku
Do my alts for Cycle 1 contain my forum name or a very similar variation/abbreviation of it as required by the rules?: yes
 
Forum name: FireMonkeyGamer
Cycle 1 Alts: LT1M FMG, LT1A FMG, LT1Z FMG
Do my alts for Cycle 1 contain my forum name or a very similar variation/abbreviation of it as required by the rules?: Yes


edited: I made a mistake so i had to edit it sorry :[
 
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Forum name: omgitsquon
Cycle 1 Alts: LT1A quon, LT1Z quon, LT1X quon
Do my alts for Cycle 1 contain my forum name or a very similar variation/abbreviation of it as required by the rules?: yeaa
 
forum name: DRAMPAAGE
cycle 1 alts: lt1a drampaage, lt1b drampa, lt1c drampa
Do my alts for Cycle 1 contain my forum name or a very similar variation/abbreviation of it as required by the rules?: yes indeed
 
Forum name: jtots123
Cycle 1 Alts: LT1A jtots123, LT1X jtots123, LT1Y jtots123
Do my alts for Cycle 1 contain my forum name or a very similar variation/abbreviation of it as required by the rules?: Yes
 

z0mOG

is a Top Tiering Contributoris a Social Media Contributor Alumnusis the Smogon Tour Season 26 Championis a defending SCL Championis a Past WCoP Champion
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Forum name: z0mog
Cycle 1 Alts: lt1a zomog, lt1b zomog, lt1c zomog
Do my alts for Cycle 1 contain my forum name or a very similar variation/abbreviation of it as required by the rules?: yep
 

AD impish john

Consumed by Darkness...
Forum Name: AD impish john (don yung jeezy basedlord)
Cycle 1 Alts: LT1X AD john, LT1Y AD john, LT1Z AD john
Do my alts for Cycle 1 contain my forum name or a very similar variation/abbreviation of it as required by the rules?: Yes

<Insert Edgy Joke>

Rampecker #damndainal
 
Forum name: ToTheTopHD
Cycle 1 Alts: LT1A Haddi, LT1B Haddi, LT1C Haddi
Do my alts for Cycle 1 contain my forum name or a very similar variation/abbreviation of it as required by the rules? : HD - Haddi
 
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