co-hosted with ionnss, approved by Dark Pulse
art by the absolute goat skype
Edit: Thanks to the wonderful goldmason this tournament now comes with a 5k react prize for each player on the winning team!
Welcome prospective managers to the first-ever Random Doubles Team Tournament! This tour is a celebration of all things both random and doubles, a place for those who want to think twice as much for half as long. If you're newer to the randdubs community, don't fear. All are welcome, and this won't be a super scary tournament to draft for, as there will be lots of good options available for every slot.
Tournament Formats
Six teams will compete in a round-robin main stage lasting five weeks, followed by a two-week (or more with tiebreakers) single-elimination playoffs. The tournament will consist of the following formats:
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[Gen 9] Random Doubles Battle Bo5
[Gen 9] Random Doubles Battle Bo3
[Gen 9] Official Competitive Format Rules (OCFR) Random Doubles Battle Bo3 (Bring-6-pick-4, open teamsheet, VGC timer)
[Champions] Random Doubles Battle Bo3
[Gen 9] Challenge Cup 2v2 Bo7 (LJDA Rules, explained below)
[Gen 9] Doubles Hackmons Cup Bo3If there are a large number of signups (around 100), hosts may choose to add two additional starting slots to each team; formats TBD.
Under Los Juegos Del Azar rules, players may select three wildcards to use over the course of a match. They may choose from:
To facilitate the remake wildcard, players usually play their match as a best of 9 using this challenge code:
- Remake Game
- Ban Tera
- Ban a Pokemon
- Showset
To facilitate the remake wildcard, players usually play their match as a best of 9 using this challenge code:
/chall gen 9 Challenge Cup 2v2 @@@ best of = 9, and whoever is remaking forfeits the game immediately upon using the card. I also recommend checking that your opponent is ready for you to select in any game where you've used a wildcard to avoid the situation described above.How to Manage
- Managers should signup as a pair.
- Managers should choose a pair of pokemon to be their team mascots, ideally with some cohesive theme or synergy. Torkoal and Sunflora may not be chosen, as they're the mascots for the whole tour.
- Managers should choose a team name that relates to their chosen mascots. This can be pretty much anything you want it to be.
- Over the course of the tournament, please try to be generally responsive to pings from hosts and other teams.
- Have fun with it! That's really it. We will be providing managers with a ton of advice for how to handle auctions, team discords, and management, so don't hesitate to give it a shot even if you're new.
Auction Rules
- Teams will have 100K points to spend on at least 8 players.
- Bidding for a nominated player will begin at 3K.
- Teams may self-buy one or both managers at a price set by the hosts. Our goal is to keep the overall playing field fair while still allowing managers to play.
- As the auction approaches, we will explain the mechanics in more detail and likely run a brief mock round just to get people comfortable.
- The auction will occur on or about September 19. The first week will begin on the Monday after the auction.
How to Sign Up
Just copy and paste this form into a post below and fill it out. You are welcome to keep your answers brief. You may make a post with some fields TBD'd as long as you edit them in before the deadline.
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Team Name:
Mascots:
Co-Manager:
What have either of your duo managed before, if anything?:
Why would you make a good manager duo?:If you have any questions, feel free to ask in the Random Doubles Discord Server or message me or ionnss here. Managers will be expected to join the Discord server, as they will be pinged there with important information throughout the tournament. Happy dubsing everyone!
Manager signups will close on <t:1788746400:F>
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