The Randoms Trial - Round 1

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Ads20000

( Name inspired by The Alolan Trial, approved by Quite Quiet )

With the exception of BEST FACTOURNEY (which is Battle Factory, anyway), there have been few (no?) Random Battle tournaments. Time to change this! Random Battle is the flagship tier on Pokemon Showdown - Smogon's preferred battle simulator - and it's time that there were Smogon tournaments for it. So, without further ado:

  • The tournament is for all seven generations of Random Battle
  • Each player bans one generation, indicated on the VM posts, they cannot be the same generation - the player on the left of the matchup should ban first though this is not necessary, the player on the right may ban first
  • The remaining generations are played in a best of 5 series - from most recent generation to least recent generation
  • Single elimination
  • Matches should be played on smogtours or main
  • Since these are Random Battles, please (optionally) share the replays!
  • You can split your matchups into two if you like, just state you'd like to play later in the battle chat with your opponent (ideally) or DM them on Showdown and then agree the later time on your Smogon profiles. Please try to get the second stint done otherwise the activity decisions will be...complicated
  • Usual rules apply - including First Come First Served (for first 62.5% of players)
A few things you should know about Random Battles:
  • The movesets are somewhat fixed, use `/w ladymonita, .randbats pokemon` to find out what moves the opposing Pokemon could have (you'll be DM'd by the bot Lady Monita with the answer)
  • EVs are all 84 unless the Pokemon has Gyro Ball or Trick Room, in which case they'll have 0 Speed
  • The last I worked it out, Pokemon levels were based on tiers (the higher the tier, the lower the level), but I'm not sure at the moment!
Subs are listed on the signups post, feel free to signup as a sub!

Round 1
Deadline: Saturday 28th July 18:50 GMT

hoblaph vs. DarkAngeallenq.q
tjdaas vs. Moosical
ajhockeystar vs. pikachu<3
TGC United vs. Fantos13
Ticken vs. byronthewellwell
Gweebis vs. Karalynia
Poison Adhesive vs. ToadNorton
SciencePanda vs. Triopsman
Emboar02 vs. The Idiot Ninja
Anttya vs. Astamatitos
Escoffier vs. jcbc
SanJl vs. martha
pasy_g vs. Sae
dhaarma vs. Dreamcatcher
Acsel vs. rpr1020 ILoveMilk
Pkrs vs. Ceteris Paribus
GustavoYAY vs. majaspic22
Elgino10 vs. Kantan
SOMALIA vs. Freddy Kyogre tonithetourguide
RaJ.Shoot vs. Level 56
Chief_Paco vs. Broken Promises;
fanyfan 85percent vs. Hijasu
lhce628 vs. Danuh
stuuful12 vs. Ninjadog13
jtf1993 peere vs. Hassin627
Tenebricite vs. Lutra
Will-I-am vs. TJ
LordST vs. Ads20000
Diophantine vs. Tom Copson
Mitsuki vs. fujitive
ChiefWek vs. Kalalokki
cb aaron judge vs. HSOWA
 
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I've edited the deadline to Saturday 28th July (was briefly 21st) to allow more time for possible subs etc. Further rounds will each be one week long.
 
 
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I will start subbing on Saturday 21st 18:50 GMT based on activity (randomizing who's subbed out if there's the same levels of low activity between multiple people) so make sure you get scheduling before then. Of course, if the matches are all done before then we can move on early! :D
 
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