DPP DPP OU Summer Seasonal #6: Round 2

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DPP OU Summer Seasonal #6​

Round 2 - Hang in there!

Welcome back, everyone, to the DPP OU Seasonal. I'm GraveBee, hosting this tour alongside Irene. Apologies for the delays, I do the best I can to get these out on time but due to some near-death experiences and a need to consult a TD, we've run just a tad late. However, I'll hang in there as best I can, and I hope y'all can too. If you can manage to get past this round, you'll begin to accumulate points towards qualifying for the DPP OverUsed championship and possibly earn the right to display trophies on your signature!

Rules and formalities, as usual, are guarded by pretty buttons. Click them if you feel the need to know more. The woopers have gone on vacation to London, so they've entrusted a new guy to guard them - I wonder who it is...

General Tournament Rules
  • Visit this link if you need any sort of refreshers as far as how tours work.
  • If I need to clarify tournament rules in further detail, I will. However, as far as I know, either A) this spoiler will never be read, or B) you'll already know any of the rules I could possibly need to yap on about.
  • If you ever have any questions about general tournament rules, please ask me. I'm here to ensure that everyone is able to have fun, as part of a respectable tour. I'd be more than happy to go over rules/rulings in detail if people ask, but the truth of the matter is that the link above covers almost anything you'd possibly need to know.
Seasonal Tournament Rules
  • This is a Gen 4 OU Tournament. All matches must be played in "[Gen 4] OU".
  • This tournament will be Double Elimination. If you lose a game, don't flipping quit the tour. Play it out.
  • All matches are best of three. You may switch teams between games within a match.
  • Saving replays is mandatory. You do not have to post your unless mentioned in the round's OP.
  • Matches are to be played on Pokemon Showdown (or smogtours server).
Battle Clauses
  • Sleep Clause Mod: Limit one foe put to sleep
  • Species Clause: Limit one of each Pokémon
  • OHKO Clause: OHKO moves are banned
  • Evasion Clause: Evasion moves are banned, as are Sand Veil and Snow Cloak for Pokémon with more than one ability.
  • HP Percentage Mod: HP is shown in percentages
  • Baton Pass Stat Trap Clause: The following combinations of moves/effects are prohibited
    • Baton Pass + Any Stat-Boosting Move
    • Baton Pass + Any Effect which restricts the switching of pokemon
  • As a note: If anyone tries to cause an infinite battle, use the /offertie command. If they don't accept, let me know.
  • I'd prefer y'all didn't cancer in tours, but this is smogon we're talking about. My words only mean so much.
:sphearical: We're expanding our roster - have a spheal for your troubles, and thanks for reading the rules! :sphearical:
Don't know what to bring or where to get started? Here are the DPP OU sample teams
Looking to chat about the tier or ask questions? We have the Q&A Thread and the Metagame Discussion Thread for that
Want to get more involved with the DPP community? Check out their community discord
For your convenience:
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And now, for your (TD-Corrected) Brackets!


Winners: https://www.smogon.com/tools/bracketmaker/view/14039/
el poeta  vs  Cyrakii
Gjaku  vs  fate1q
Hubriz  vs  NoName6293
Oskari  vs  thebestever543
Tempo di anguria  vs  Tomas Bombadil
Slugmalveniz  vs  Mishimono
VACM RED  vs  Shing
Churielix  vs  Hiro'
Lialiabeast  vs  Abel685 - EXTENDED
A Welcome Guest  vs  Mister Magnus
ManbaStrike15  vs  AgenteDino
SANKE CARP  vs  Magician
Private  vs  Rackham
Baddy  vs  Tamamo
Oathkeeper  vs  Squeeby
Blox  vs  Bygone Days
Cigtar  vs  SalvatoreSesso
mkizzy  vs  le LLiolae
Monai  vs  entrocefalo
Ara  vs  Milkshook
mjfblaze  vs  Marshall.Law
BIG WILL  vs  DBK31TH
weird mon  vs  RageAgainstTheMagearna
Dridri457  vs  Sergio Aguero
false  vs  BlueBreath - EXTENDED
etern  vs  PANNAMAA
lihj  vs  Sheik :
Skrublax  vs  (Winner of spell vs Don Bork)
NDK  vs  Kristyl
tipulipa  vs  agentkeval
velvet  vs  TyCarter
Al4nt_  vs  Dastardlydwarf
Dawn Dreams  vs  Cryolite - EXTENDED
Davidoar15  vs  Flareblitzkreig
Malekith  vs  Tizio Potente Ao
FadedCharm  vs  tahatahat
SFG  vs  seawardcargo195
Airi  vs  Mendeez
John Madden  vs  bydy
199 Lives  vs  Nudepantsman
JesusGameplays2  vs  fidgety
16bit  vs  therealcptn
jking55  vs  Allor
Maarck  vs  ImZer0
acuamirror  vs  Broken Promises;
Hydra089  vs  Zygarde12
T1W1B  vs  nightcore
Spance  vs  Makesuit

Losers: https://www.smogon.com/tools/bracketmaker/view/14037/

jhm5  vs  feen
Sunrose  vs  AM
w_r  vs  Abyssal Ruins
OmBrArch  vs  charizardsnuts
Waffleztastegood  vs  kokeri
FoolyCooly  vs  Falancies
Alice Kazumi  vs  a fairy
triple axel blaze  vs  KeshBa54
royzin  vs  Xyzzy - EXTENDED
Pikete  vs  Commmi
robjr  vs  Incognition
naviii 1  vs  DazzlingCream
Cosmo'Star  vs  D6_Dalton
Bye 24  vs  Zelph
competitiveZero  vs  violet river
pixie909  vs  chiefbeef1234
(Loser of spell vs Don Bork)  vs  Fr3ya
Caesarr  vs  Xalvadore
Luispeikou  vs  Django
Sevenor3  vs  aubury
adorluigi  vs  TheDougArt
metagross does architectu  vs  Thor - EXTENDED
Yelou  vs  BIG loven
Laurel  vs  woobysmooby
bananatree2479  vs  donk27
Christos  vs  Bye 1
katerina  vs  Bye 2
Loser of AmShaegar  vs  Bye 3
binary search  vs  Bye 4
MeEsSm  vs  Bye 5
katerina  vs  Bye 6
VanZ  vs  Bye 7
eminemfan2009  vs  Bye 8
Big Thicc Blissey  vs  Bye 9
TGA  vs  Bye 10
SPMagnezone97  vs  Bye 11
Katiuska  vs  Bye 12
Dp2Neat  vs  Bye 13
Jhonx~  vs  Bye 14
Seanobiwan  vs  Bye 15
Jfaun  vs  Bye 16
burninghalfapie  vs  Bye 17
Vermillion Gangsta  vs  Bye 18
MisterWN  vs  Bye 19
Neko vs  Bye 20
im a blisy  vs  Bye 21
Elfuseon  vs  Bye 22
Kiryu Gaming  vs  Bye 23

Bracket Notes: Massive shoutouts to Merritt for saving my hide with this week's brackets. The misplaced bye in winners is due to name conflicts with a banned user.

Your deadline for this week is Sunday, August 18th, at 11:59PM GMT-4.
Those paired with a bye, sorry that this stuff happens. I don't make the brackets, the smogon-standard tool does.

:spheal: This is Spheal. Spheal occasionally plays tournaments. Spheal contacts their opponents by Wednesday to make sure they have ample time to respond, and does so over the opponent's smogon wall where a host can easily judge act cases. Sometimes, spheal asks for extensions, and does so clearly in the forum thread. Spheal is respectful to any opponents, both over the forums and in the match itself. Spheal is aware that not everyone is perfect, and both understands and plans around that to the benefit of those around them. :spheal:

:sphearical: Be like Spheal.

Good luck, everyone, and have fun!
 
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There are 96 players in winner's bracket, which would lead to a round robin final, which is a concept that doesn't really make sense in double elim

there are two options from here that i can see:

1) Round robin winners final, round robin losers semifinal. Round robin losers final with the two who dropped from winners. Having 3 round robins across 2 rounds drastically increases the chance of resets extending the tour but isnt the end of the world I guess.

2) 32 losers randomly selected to be moved back into winners bracket, basically under the logic that they 'would have' gotten byes if r1 was paired correctly. This is almost perfectly fair and I don't think anyone has a right to complain. Technically the people who get screwed are the winners who played for r1 and may not have had to, but they won anyway and didn't have to reveal teams (since it was r1) so they dont have much to complain about either.

obviously option 2 seems better to me but regardless there should be a decision before any round 2 games are played.
 
His boy Elroy said:
There are 96 players in winner's bracket, which would lead to a round robin final, which is a concept that doesn't really make sense in double elim

there are two options from here that i can see:

1) Round robin winners final, round robin losers semifinal. Round robin losers final with the two who dropped from winners. Having 3 round robins across 2 rounds drastically increases the chance of resets extending the tour but isnt the end of the world I guess.

2) 32 losers randomly selected to be moved back into winners bracket, basically under the logic that they 'would have' gotten byes if r1 was paired correctly. This is almost perfectly fair and I don't think anyone has a right to complain. Technically the people who get screwed are the winners who played for r1 and may not have had to, but they won anyway and didn't have to reveal teams (since it was r1) so they dont have much to complain about either.

obviously option 2 seems better to me but regardless there should be a decision before any round 2 games are played.
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don't know whether you're an alt or someone who just really cares about smogon specific tournament generation and knowledge on how we run things and never had an account before 10 minutes ago (you're probably an alt) but two TDs and several hosts were involved in this decision, and a head TD was literally the person who generated the bracket

the decision was already made
 
a fairy said:
don't know whether you're an alt or someone who just really cares about smogon specific tournament generation and knowledge on how we run things and never had an account before 10 minutes ago (you're probably an alt) but two TDs and several hosts were involved in this decision, and a head TD was literally the person who generated the bracket

the decision was already made
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Aight that should have been communicated by the tour host but as long as everyone is aware of whats happening its cool :thumsbup:
 
His boy Elroy said:
There are 96 players in winner's bracket, which would lead to a round robin final, which is a concept that doesn't really make sense in double elim

there are two options from here that i can see:

1) Round robin winners final, round robin losers semifinal. Round robin losers final with the two who dropped from winners. Having 3 round robins across 2 rounds drastically increases the chance of resets extending the tour but isnt the end of the world I guess.

2) 32 losers randomly selected to be moved back into winners bracket, basically under the logic that they 'would have' gotten byes if r1 was paired correctly. This is almost perfectly fair and I don't think anyone has a right to complain. Technically the people who get screwed are the winners who played for r1 and may not have had to, but they won anyway and didn't have to reveal teams (since it was r1) so they dont have much to complain about either.

obviously option 2 seems better to me but regardless there should be a decision before any round 2 games are played.
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So that everybody's aware, unfortunately yes the tour's going to have a bunch of round robins at the end. Without dropping people somewhat arbitrarily (which we'd really prefer not to do in a circuit tour), there's not a recoverable way to go from having a 192 bracket Round 1 to having two 64 brackets in Round 2 or advancing people who lost to winners anyways (hard line against doing that except in cases of cheating). Weirdly enough moving people to winners as suggested would also delay the tour by at least one and I believe actually two weeks while winners/losers bracket sizes equalize and only one bracket gets played (winners only this week since 128 winners and 64 losers, then losers only next week since 64 winners and 128 losers).

Sorry about this, we try to avoid having these sized tours for double elimination but the tournament had a generation issue in Round 1.
 
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