Tournament Pure Hackmons Premier League - Week 6

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- Player and Manager Signups | Standings (Records) (Not yet available) | Commencement | Replays and Usage Stats | Information and Administrative Decisions -
- Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | Week 6 | Finals -

Welcome to the Pure Hackmons Premier League- a chance to show that you shine in Pure Hackmons!

Replays are going to be required for all matches, and best-of-three will be enforced (this is subject to change, and any decision will be posted in Information and Administrative Decisions). The Wildcard format is going to be Gen 8 Pure Hackmons. Please post any replays in this thread as soon as you can after completing your set. Scheduling will be up to the players, and managers can be contacted if there are any problems. Matches will be due by Sunday, March 16th at 11:59pm GMT-5. Good luck to all of the teams!

/challenge gen4anythinggoes @@@ !Obtainable, -Future, -Past, -LGPE, -CAP, -Custom, !Arceus EV Limit
/challenge gen8anythinggoes @@@ !Obtainable, -Future, -Past, -LGPE, -CAP, -Custom, -Eternatus-Eternamax + Substitute

This tournament will be made up of four teams (subject to change depending on the number of signups), and each team will have six main players and at least two substitutes. Players will be purchased in a draft with the 70,000 points assigned to each team to spend. Managers can buy themselves for 13,500 points, and must let one of the tournament hosts (Electra102 and/or Test Rex) know before the draft. The price of a player will be dependent on the auction, with players starting at 3,000 points and the minimum bet being 500 points.

The tiers played will be USUM PH, USUM PH, ORAS PH, ORAS PH, DPPt PH, and the Wild Card. The wild card format will be one of GSC PH, ADV PH, BW PH, SwSh PH, BDSP PH, and SV PH, and will be randomly selected each week.

All games will be played on the Smogtours server, and challenge codes will be provided for formats that are not challengeable. Best-of-three will be enforced for every format, although players can gentleman to a best-of-one, or even a higher number of matches (for example, a best-of-five).

Teams will earn points depending on how well their players do each week. Each team will earn two points for every complete set of matches a player wins. Any ties will not be considered complete games, and will be replayed. After each team has played every other team, the playoffs will begin. The team with the most points will face the team with the least, and the remaining two teams will face each other. Once that week is complete, the two winning teams will face each other in the finals. Whichever team wins the finals wins the tournament.

In the case of a tie in the finals, three best-of-threes will be played- one of ORAS is required, and each team will be allowed to choose a format (that was either played earlier as a wild card or is USUM/DPPt) to play. If both teams choose the same format, USUM will become the third format. If USUM is chosen by both teams, DPPt will become the third format.

Replays will be required. Please send replays to the tournament-games channel in the Pure Hackmons Discord server. The link will be provided in the next section. Please post replays as well in the dedicated thread for that week here on the Smogon Forums.

The tournament will take up to seven weeks to complete for your team. Please try to stay active in your team's Discord server throughout that period.

Some reminders of rules-

Tourbanned players are not allowed to participate. A team that knowingly drafts a banned player under an alt will be severely punished
Any players that are caught having signed up under an alt to lower their price will also be punished
If a drafted player is ejected from the tournament, the team they were on will be allowed to choose an undrafted player at no cost
Trades are not allowed
There are no retains
Activity calls can be started when a player is 15 minutes late to a match, and can be started by pinging the entire opposing team in the PHPL Discord server (please explain who is missing in your ping). If a manager is not responding, any sub that is not playing that week can independently take the battle themselves. Otherwise, the substitution decision will be up to the opposing team’s manager. After 30 minutes has passed after an activity call has been made, and no substitute has been found, the win will be given to whoever made the activity call.

:necrozma-ultra: Nascent Necrozmas (3) vs. (3) Sussy Slakings :slaking:
gen6ph: mayopockets vs Iguana
gen6ph: realExcaliju vs NToTheN
gen7ph: Akira 153 vs rightclicker
gen7ph: AV Cosmoem vs teamo
gen4ph: Highlord vs Planet
Wildcard (gen8ph): Glory vs splodge

:audino-mega: Mega-Hacked Audinos (2) vs. (4) Monday John Maximus :eternatus-eternamax:
gen6ph: Cazenovia vs LycanrocWastaken
gen6ph: Maxouille vs Sheep Liver
gen7ph: cscl vs big tony 2014 Afox4567
gen7ph: Anson Is The Best vs TheCreatorOfBullsht
gen4ph: GhastlyPixie vs blahpy
Wildcard (gen8ph): Ransei vs lag=bad


Feel free to post predictions here or in the commencement thread.
:necrozma-ultra: Nascent Necrozmas (0) vs. (0) Sussy Slakings :slaking:
gen6ph: mayopockets vs Iguana
gen6ph: realExcaliju vs NToTheN
gen7ph: Akira 153 vs rightclicker
gen7ph: AV Cosmoem vs teamo
gen4ph: Highlord vs Planet
Wildcard (gen8ph): Glory vs splodge

:audino-mega: Mega-Hacked Audinos (0) vs. (0) Monday John Maximus :eternatus-eternamax:
gen6ph: Cazenovia vs LycanrocWastaken
gen6ph: Maxouille vs Sheep Liver
gen7ph: cscl vs big tony 2014
gen7ph: Anson Is The Best vs TheCreatorOfBullsht
gen4ph: GhastlyPixie vs blahpy
Wildcard (gen8ph): Ransei vs lag=bad
 
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Standings (and explanation)
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As things stand, all teams except Audinos (They CAN qualify, chessking will explain better) can qualify for finals, these are the situations:

If the Necrozmas tie or win the week, they go to finals
If necrozmas win the week and audinos win the week, eternatus and slakings will have to play a tiebreaker week (unless win diferential is diferent)
If necrozmas tie the week and eternatus tie as well, same situation as above.
If necrozmas tie the week and eternatus wins the week, both go to finals.

Next situations are for if necrozmas lose the week:
If slakings and eternatus win the week and win differentials arent different between necrozmas, eternatus and slakings, there will be a 3 way tiebreaker.
If slakings win the week but eternatus tie or lose the week, slakings and necrozmas go to finals.


I think I covered all options, hit me up if not.


Read chessking's post 2 posts below
 
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Current Standings
Necrozma - 7 | 4
Eternamax - 5 | 0
Slaking - 5 | 0
Audino - 3 | -4

Finals Conditions
Necrozma -
A win or draw secures.
Lose by 2-4: If Eternamax win 5-1 or more, tiebreak with Slaking. If Eternamax win 4-2, three-way tiebreak (no Audino, 2 go through). Otherwise secured.
Lose by 1-5 or more: Only if Eternamax do not win.

Eternamax -
Win by 5-1 or more: secures.
Win by 4-2: If Necrozma lose 2-4, three-way tiebreak (no Audino, 2 go through). Otherwise secured.
Draw: If Necrozma draw, tiebreak with Slaking. If Necrozma win, secured.
Lose by 2-4: If Slaking lose 2-4, three-way tiebreak (no Necrozma, 1 goes through). If Slaking lose 1-5 or more, tiebreak with Audino. Otherwise cannot make.
Lose by 1-5 or more: Cannot make.

Slaking -
Win by 5-1 or more: secures.
Win by 4-2: If Eternamax win 5-1 or more, tiebreak with Necrozma. If Eternamax win 4-2, three-way tiebreak (no Audino, 2 go through). Otherwise secured.
Draw: If Eternamax draw, tiebreak with Eternamax. If Eternamax lose, secured.
Lose by 2-4: If Eternamax lose 2-4, three-way tiebreak (no Necrozma, 1 goes through). Otherwise cannot make.
Lose by 1-5 or more: Cannot make.

Audino -
Win by 5-1 or more: Only if Slaking loses.
Win by 4-2: If Slaking lose 2-4, three-way tiebreak (no Necrozma, 1 goes through). If Slaking lose 1-5 or more, tiebreak with Eternamax. Otherwise cannot make.
Otherwise cannot make.
 
:necrozma-ultra: Nascent Necrozmas (3) vs. (3) Sussy Slakings :slaking:
gen6ph: mayopockets (28) vs Iguana (72)
Iguana is definitely going to come in with a better team if Aerobee doesn't help him. Experience wise, I am sure Iguana is better, as Iguana is Oras council, but Aerobee support may be enough; who knows?
gen6ph: realExcaliju (86) vs NToTheN (14)
Last time, I predicted Caze to win that game against Glory, but Caze didn't even play. Now I am sure that Excaliju wins. Dw, N will throw again. I know this because Aerobee will definitely help Excaliju win. I trust them here.
gen7ph: Akira 153 (72) vs rightclicker (28)
It has gone to a point where Akira is playing way too well to not predict her to win. I do think RC stands a chance, but Akira is just way too creative with her teambuilding. Can they both just agree to a Gen 9 BH match? I am sure that might be more entertaining.
gen7ph: AV Cosmoem (L) vs teamo (W)
gen4ph: Highlord(33) vs Planet (67)

Planet has just played well this phpl; however, Highlord did play well the last few weeks; it really could go either way. Let's see how well Planet plays his fast leads; if Highlord can deal with that, they stand a chance, although I'm leaning towards Planet for this one.
Wildcard (gen8ph): Glory (55) vs splodge(45)
THIS IS AURA, W GLORY MAN. Yea, Glory probably wins.
 
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Eternamaxes are bolded but I think these matchups are overall more or less even.

:audino-mega: Mega-Hacked Audinos (2) [2.91-3.08] vs. [2.92-3.09] (3) Monday John Maximus :eternatus-eternamax:

gen6ph: Cazenovia [46-51] vs [49-54] LycanrocWastaken
Coinflip in the truest sense – both have potential to randomly throw in-game but if I had to choose one Caz is somewhat less likely to do so. However, Lycanroc will bring an overall less ineffective team. If Audinos get remotely competent outside help Caz is somewhat favored imo but as is it's essentially a 50-50 with Lycanroc having the slightest advantage

gen6ph: Maxouille [40] vs [60] Sheep Liver
Max is the stronger pilot but Sheep Liver will have a significant team advantage that more than offsets the disparity in playing ability. Again, if Audinos get outside teambuilding help Max has better chances imo.

gen7ph: cscl [85-88] vs [12-15] big tony 2014
Besides myself cscl has unparalleled USUM building fundamentals, Bullsht likely won't help big tony with teambuilding and ladder won't be particularly helpful for practice vs someone like cscl. About as one-sided as it can get in USUM

gen7ph: AnsonIsTheBest [35-40] vs [60-65] TheCreatorOfBullsht
Not as one-sided as people probably think. Bullsht is a better piloter imo but it's not by an insurmountable margin and cscl will be heavily involved in the building process (or just pass teams lol). This should be a fun series to watch

gen4ph: GhastlyPixie [40] vs [60] blahpy
Similar playing ability imo and blahpy generally brings more broken teams – if you play honestly in this gen you will lose. It's DPP though so anything is possible

Wildcard (gen8ph): Ransei [55-60] vs [40-45] lag=bad
lag≠bad but Ransei's a somewhat better pilot imo whose teambuilding style matches up well vs them in wildcard slots. From what I've seen lag tends to disregard "obvious" sets while prepping in favor of taking advantage of common building conventions, which might screw them over against someone like Ransei, who simply elects to spam the brokens. Also, Ransei has more experience and lag thinks SubPass is good here
 
 
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