DOU USUM Doubles Spring Seasonal - Round 2

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SPECIFIC RULES
  • This is a standard USUM Doubles OU tournament
  • This tournament will be Double Elimination
  • 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.)
  • If you are found signing up under more than one alt, you will be banned from circuit events for life.
  • Activity calls will be made by me, potentially with neutral assistance from a TD. Coin flips will be done on PS!
  • In the event that something is added to or removed from the Doubles OU metagame in the middle of a round, that change will be in effect starting the next round. Doubles Ubers is available as a challenge option if something is banned mid-round.
Standard Rules and Clauses
  • 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.
  • Swagger Clause: Swagger is banned.
  • Uber Clause: Anything that appears on Doubles OU's banlist is banned. This is the banlist for Doubles OU:
  • Snorlax
  • Mewtwo
  • Lugia
  • Ho-oh
  • Kyogre
  • Groudon
  • Rayquaza
  • Jirachi
  • Dialga
  • Palkia
  • Giratina
  • Giratina-Origin
  • Arceus
  • Reshiram
  • Zekrom
  • Kyurem-White
  • Xerneas
  • Yveltal
  • Solgaleo
  • Lunala
  • Magearna
  • Marshadow
  • Necrozma-Dusk Mane
  • Necrozma-Dawn Wings
  • Dark Void
  • Gravity and sleep moves with below one hundred percent accuracy
  • Eevium Z
  • Gengarite
  • Kangaskhanite
  • Power Construct

HOW TO SCHEDULE

Pairings:
Winner's Bracket:
Lord Death Man vs majority
Royal1604 vs Memoric
voltix31 vs tenzai
Yoda2798 vs Stratos
Vallex vs EternalSnowman
Spurrific vs jugol
Demantoid vs Tagmouse27
The Idiot Ninja vs Mr.GX
emforbes vs PinkSylvie
eifo vs MajorBowman
Havens vs Eisenherz
YoBuddy vs Caasi
zaaya vs Tikkito
Mishimono vs zikam
GenOne vs Kiichikos
Clemens vs egalvanc
Tman vs umbreon098
AtmosphereVGC vs Bvrvkkv
Qwello Lee vs Frrf
NintendoKenny vs Jrenner
Nido-Rus vs King Leo V
TheUndeclared243 vs Star
London13 vs n10sit
n1n1 vs frisoeva
Human vs Test Bots
fespy vs Mammaluu
Biosci vs Yay
Pigeons vs JoeUX9
Croven vs AuraRayquaza
Sunrose vs Riccio
SMB vs Gramgus
Jarii vs Paraplegic

Loser's Bracket:
Yellow Paint vs GotCookies
Mint16 vs stableprince569
calvonix vs LightScreener
TonyFlygon vs Marowak10
Bouff vs Watchog
BLINGAS vs ZoroDark
DurzaOffTopic vs talkingtree
Zpulv vs FloristtheBudew
1_TrickPhony vs zugubu royale

Loser's Bracket byes:
Huston DaAwesomeDude1 Yami Mack Knife TheJ3estPenguin SirCloud iKiQ byronthewellwell Givrix roman Moose And Goose RuffletMuffler Wamr entrocefalo Redsilver The Thunderbirds DarkAngeallenq.q DugZa tennisace Haki The Kyle flyingfalcons7 Chippy2

For transparency, here is the bracket: https://challonge.com/2019summerssnl

The deadline for this round is Monday, May 13th, at 11:59 PM Eastern time (GMT-4). The extension deadline is Thursday, May 9th at 11:59pm Eastern time (GMT-4)

If you'd like to join the tournament, we still have open spots in the Loser's Bracket, so signing up will get you paired with one of the people given byes there. Just post "in as sub" to get a match.
 
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who's ready for some PREDICTIONS? i know i'm not. my physical state consistently approximates a hangover due to my continuous lack of sleep and i can't shake this feeling of anxiety about the future but here's some predictions anyway.

lots of great highlight matches to predict this round:
  • Lord Death Man vs majority: definitely the best match there is in this seasonal. lord death man is definitely a strong opponent but there's no way he can possibly stand up to the power and skill of major "only didnt get drafted bc kiyo is a snake" ity
  • Yoda2798 vs Stratos: stratos had 3 years to build teams without being able to play them in tournaments, you'd think he'd have some fire ass teams stored up by now
  • Havens vs Eisenherz: while it seems wrong to predict against my DPL teammate it's pretty hard to predict against eisenherz since his choice of hobby means he has more doubles wins than the entire doubles council put together.
  • Mishimono vs zikam: this is a battle of dou's most easily tilted user vs dou's most tilting user to play a tournament set against. if neither player ends up locked or infracted after this match i'll be mildly surprised
  • London13 vs n10sit: fun fact that some of you might not know: 13 is a larger number than 10, so london will win
  • Human vs Test Bots: the ultimate battle of human vs AI
  • Croven vs AuraRayquaza: i signed a long contract to predict against croven at every opportunity capable and i'm not about to default on the terms
  • BLINGAS vs ZoroDark: zorodark to win on activity, to no one's surprise. actually i thought we blacklisted blingas from seasonals
good luck everyone i'm going back to sleep
 
R1 opp didn't answer VM, made discord contact on tues telling me to play wednesday but we both forgot and he hasn't been around today. act
 
Resolving the remaining extension matches:
The Idiot Ninja vs calvonix - TIN posted and got no response, TIN gets the activity win
DurzaOffTopic vs TheUndeclared243 - Although the contact was a bit late, TheUndeclared243 did post to attempt to schedule and I saw no activity from Durza. Thus, granting the win to TheUndeclared243.

Pinging affected matches for this round:
The Idiot Ninja vs Mr.GX
TheUndeclared243 vs Star
calvonix vs LightScreener
DurzaOffTopic vs talkingtree

EDIT: Also, GenOne PM'd me and is dropping out of the tour, so his opp will be given the win this round and his next round opp will receive a bye.
 
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