Tournament 2018 Doubles Circuit

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The 2018 Doubles Circuit format will follow the same general format as its predecessor
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It will consist of the following:
1. 2 Doubles Ladder Tournaments: 1 in Winter and 1 in the Fall (BFL of 1)
2. 3 Doubles Seasonals: Winter, Spring, Fall (BFL of 2)
3. Smogon Doubles Tour: Summer

This all concludes with an Invitational with the Top 16 players based on Circuit Points earned through the events. A breakdown of how many points may be earned via each tournament will be edited in later below.

Points will be distributed according to tournament finishes as follows:

Seasonals:
1st: 16 CP (Winner)
2nd: 13 CP (Out by Round 14)
3rd: 11 CP (Out by Round 13)
4th: 10 CP (Out by Round 12)
5-6: 9 CP (Out by Round 11)
7-8: 8 CP (Out by Round 10)
9-12: 7 CP (Out by Round 9)
13-16: 6 CP (Out by Round 8)
17-24: 5 CP (Out by Round 7)
25-32: 4 CP (Out by Round 6)
33-48: 3 CP (Out by Round 5)
49-64: 2 CP (Out by Round 4)
65-96: 1 CP (Out by Round 3)

DLT:
1st: 10 CP
2nd: 8 CP
3-4: 6 CP
5-8: 4 CP
9-16: 2 CP
17-24: 1 CP
Note: If a player qualifies for playoffs for both DLT I and DLT II then they will earn 1 CP as a bonus

Smogon Doubles Tour:
1st: 18 CP
2nd: 14 CP
3-4: 10 CP
5-8: 7 CP
9-16: 4 CP
17-32: 2 CP
33-64: 1 CP

Unlike previous iterations which awarded a temporary banner, the winner of this Tournament will gain the Current Gen Circuit Ribbon on their postbit


FAQ:
1. What are Seasonals?

- Seasonals are large Double Elimination Tournaments held in the Circuit Tournaments Forum on Smogon which pretty much take around 14-15 weeks to finish fully. Each round you will be paired up with an opponent and play a Bo3 USUM Doubles OU Match (you will be allowed to switch teams between games). This will be held in the Winter, Spring, and Fall this year only so that the Summer has more room open for the Doubles OU Tour. The First Seasonal's signups are here.

2. What is the Smogon Doubles Tour?
- The Smogon Doubles Tour is a tournament similar to the Smogon Tour. It consists of 9 weeks of live tournaments and concludes with a playoffs of the top finishers point wise. The tiers played will be the current plus 2 most recent Doubles OU Tiers (SM DOU, XY DOU, BW DOU). Each week one of the 3 tiers will be format for the live tours and they will cycle between each week until each format has been played for 3 weeks each. The thread for the previous iteration of the Smogon Doubles Tour can be found here

3. What is the Doubles Ladder Tournament?
- In this tournament people will be signing up alts to ladder and endure a full week to rank as high as possible. The highest ranking finishers may earn a spot in the playoffs. This cycle will continue for a few weeks and end in a single elimination best of 3 playoffs between those who qualified. There may be some small changes to this general format but the previous iteration of the Doubles Ladder Tour can be found here.

4. What does BFL mean?
- BFL, or Best Finish Limit, is a restriction that limits how many placings you may count for your Circuit Point totals and is also used in the Official VGC Circuit. 3 Seasonals with a BFL of 2 would only count your top 2 Finishes even if you played in all 3, and if you played less than or equal to 2 Seasonals it would count all your finishes. The idea behind a BFL is to reward high placings and not consistently average performances. It also becomes a safety net for people who for whatever reason have a bad performance, cant play in that specific season, or have to drop out midway because of extenuating circumstances.

5. When do the tournaments happen?
- Check out the third post in this thread for a full schedule of all the tournaments going on this year!
 
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New Doubles Circuit Points System

Seasonals:
1st: 16 CP (Winner)
2nd: 13 CP (Out by Round 14)
3rd: 11 CP (Out by Round 13)
4th: 10 CP (Out by Round 12)
5-6: 9 CP (Out by Round 11)
7-8: 8 CP (Out by Round 10)
9-12: 7 CP (Out by Round 9)
13-16: 6 CP (Out by Round 8)
17-24: 5 CP (Out by Round 7)
25-32: 4 CP (Out by Round 6)
33-48: 3 CP (Out by Round 5)
49-64: 2 CP (Out by Round 4)
65-96: 1 CP (Out by Round 3)

DLT:
1st: 10 CP
2nd: 8 CP
3-4: 6 CP
5-8: 4 CP
9-16: 2 CP
17-24: 1 CP
Note: If a player qualifies for playoffs for both DLT I and DLT II then they will earn 1 CP as a bonus

Smogon Doubles Tour:
1st: 18 CP
2nd: 14 CP
3-4: 10 CP
5-8: 7 CP
9-16: 4 CP
17-32: 2 CP
33-64: 1 CP

Changes include adding one point to a Seasonal win, adding the bonus for qualifying for both DLT playoffs, and slightly different point values for Smogon Doubles Tour.
 

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Below is the prospective schedule for Doubles Tournaments for the rest of the year.

Signups for Doubles Seasonals will be 1 week before the listed date while DPL signups will be about 1-2 weeks before for player signups. The listed dates are all the start of Week/Round 1 of Tournament play


Doubles Circuit Tours


Doubles Winter Seasonal
Jan 16th - Apr 23rd/30th
14-15 weeks


Doubles Ladder Tour 1
Mar 5th - May 6th
4 weeks laddering + 5 weeks playoffs


Doubles Summer Seasonal
May 7th - Aug 12th/19th
14-15 weeks


DOU Tour
May 29th - Aug 26th
9 weeks live tours + 4 weeks playoffs

Doubles Fall Seasonal
Aug 20th - Nov 25th/Dec 2nd
14-15 weeks


Doubles Ladder Tour 2
Sept 17th - Nov 18th
4 weeks laddering + 5 weeks playoffs


Doubles Invitational
Dec 3rd - Dec 30th
4 weeks


Other Tours

Doubles Premier League
April 9th - May 20th
6 weeks

Active Tours are colored in Blue
Completed Tours are colored in Grey
 
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With the conclusion of DLT I, the circuit standings have been updated with the results of the Winter Seasonal and DLT I. You can see the sheet here or at http://spo.ink/dou2018.

Current top 16:
[1st] SMB (20 points)
[2nd] nvakna (17 points)
[3rd] Croven (16 points)
[4th] EmbCPT (14 points)
[5th] AuraRayquaza (13 points)
[5th] Kaori (13 points)
[7th] Memoric (12 points)
[8th] Mint16 (11 points)
[8th] Elise (11 points)
[10th] Demantoid (9 points)
[10th] Mr.GX (9 points)
[12th] Frania (8 points)
[13th] veristas (7 points)
[13th] GenOne (7 points)
[13th] KyleCole (7 points)
[13th] laptops (7 points)

Congratulations especially to SMB for taking a huge lead over everyone else with a Seasonal win and a strong showing in the DLT! For those who aren't quite in the cut, there's still many more tournaments to go, so do your best!
 

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ICYMI: The circuit standings have been updated with the results of the Spring Seasonal and the DOU Tour! You can see the sheet here or at http://spo.ink/dou2018. Thanks so much to MajorBowman for doing the heavy lifting in updating the spreadsheet with these two tournaments.

[1st] SMB (46 points)
[2nd] EmbCPT (31 points)
[3rd] AuraRayquaza (28 points)
[3rd] emiforbes (28 points)
[5th] MajorBowman (27 points)
[6th] Memoric (26 points)
[7th] Mint16 (24 points)
[8th] Croven (23 points)
[8th] Demantoid (23 points)
[10th] The Cheesen One (20 points)
[10th] stax (20 points)
[12th] nvakna (17 points)
[13th] Kaori (16 points)
[13th] Vallex (16 points)
[13th] Yoda2798 (16 points)
[16th] talkingtree (15 points)
 

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The regular season has come to a close! Here are the standings after the conclusion of DLT II and Fall Seasonals:

1st: SMB (47 points)
2nd: emforbes (42 points)
3rd: EmbCPT (35 points)
4th: Demantoid (32 points)
5th: AuraRayquaza (31 points)
5th: lady lumps (31 points)
5th: Mint16 (31 points)
8th: MajorBowman (27 points)
9th: Memoric (26 points)
10th: Croven (23 points)
10th: Mishimono (23 points)
12th: Mr.GX (20 points)
12th: The Cheesen One (20 points)
14th: AtmosphereVGC (18 points)
14th: Kaori (18 points)
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16th: nvakna (17 points)
16th: Sasa (17 points)
16th: Vallex (17 points)
16th: Yoda2798 (17 points)

Congratulations to all of our qualifiers! If you think that your point total is wrong (whether you are on this list or not), please contact any of the doubles forum moderators (talkingtree, Level 51, Arcticblast, or myself) and we will look into it. As with last year, we have a significant tie for the last slot in the year-end invitational tournament. This tie will be broken with a playoff, information regarding which will be posted later today. Speaking of which...

Re: Tiebreaks

Ties for positions that don't involve one player failing to qualify for invitationals were broken using each user's win % across all best-of-three sets that they played in circuit tournaments, regardless of whether or not said tournament counted towards their BFL.

AuraRayquaza, lady lumps, and Mint16 were all tied for 5th place with 31 points. AuraRayquaza has the highest win % at 67.86% (19-9), so he will be the 5th seed. Mint16 and lady lumps have both identical win percentages (66.67%) and set records (14-7), and never played each other in a best-of-three set during this season. As such, their tie was broken with a coin flip. Mint16 will be the 6th seed, and lady lumps will be the 7th seed.

Croven and Mishimono are tied for 10th place with 23 points. Croven's win % is 75.86% (22-7), while Mishimono's is 68% (17-8). Croven will be 10th seed, and Mishimono will be 11th seed.

Mr.GX and The Cheesen One are tied for 12th place with 20 points. Mr.GX's win % is 62.5 (10-6), while The Cheesen One's is 58.82% (10-7). Mr.GX will be the 12th seed, and The Cheesen One will be 13th seed.

Kaori and AtmosphereVGC are tied for 14th place with 18 points. They have identical win percentages (66.67%), but nonidentical set records (12-6 and 10-5, respectively). In this scenario, the higher seed will be given to the player with more set wins. As such, Kaori will be the 14th seed, and AtmosphereVGC will be the 15th seed.

There is a 4-way tie for 16th place between the following users:
  • nvakna (win percentage: 75%, set record: 9-3)
  • Sasa (win percentage: 65%, set record: 13-7)
  • Vallex (win percentage: 61.11%, set record: 11-7)
  • Yoda2798 (win percentage: 50%, set record: 8-8)
As mentioned, the 16th seed will be determined by a playoff, which will begin later today.

If there are any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact any of the forum moderators.

All point information and tiebreak numbers can be found in the 2018 Doubles Circuit spreadsheet.

Massive thanks to talkingtree for crunching these numbers and to Level 51 for maintaining the immaculate spreadsheet once again.

Good luck to all players in the invitational!
 
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