Smogon's Official Ladder Tournament II - Cycle 2 Signups [read post #409 and #433]

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Jirachee

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Welcome to Cycle 2 of Smogon's Official Ladder Tournament. Please make sure to read the rules of the tournament carefully. If your sign-up post does not follow the rules explained below, it will be deleted. This Cycle will run for 7 days and 22 hours and will end on Tuesday, September 1st, 10:00 PM Eastern time.

Here are the specifics:

1. The hosts of this tournament are Jirachee and McMeghan. We will be using the regular Pokemon Showdown ORAS OU ladder for this tournament, not a new one. This will ensure maximum activity and competition.

2. The qualification period for the OLT will run for a total of 64 days with 8 day cycles, which is 2 months to put things into perspective. After each 8 day cycle, the top 4 accounts that appear on the leaderboard (using ELO) at the end of the cycle with the sign-up criteria explained in #3 below will qualify for the playoffs of the OLT, which will be a 32 man, best of three, double elimination tournament. The tournament is not seeded. Pairings for the qualified 32 are randomized. The ladder is not reset after each cycle, only alts are (meaning you create new alts after each cycle).

We are currently in CYCLE 2, which means that after 7 days and 22 hours [ending on Tuesday, September 1st, 10:00 PM Eastern time], the top 4 accounts that signed up for this tournament following the proper sign-up criteria explained in #3 below will be qualified for the eventual playoffs of the OLT.

3. In order to sign-up for the OLT, FOLLOW THE SIGN-UP FORMAT BELOW AND REGISTER YOUR FRESHLY MADE ALT(S) ON POKEMON SHOWDOWN USING THE FORMAT BELOW:

[LT1#] ForumNameHere - the "#" denotes a letter of your choosing, and "ForumNameHere" obviously denotes your forum name. You are allowed an unlimited number of alts for this cycle.

Here's an example sign-up post for you all to follow:


Forum name: Bloo
Cycle 2 Alts: LT2S Bloo, LT2T Bloo, LT2Y Bloo, LT2L Bloo, LT2E Bloo
Do my alts for Cycle 1 contain my forum name or a very similar variation/abbreviation of it as required by the rules? Yes.
YOU MUST SIGN UP WITH YOUR FRESHLY MADE ALT BEFORE STARTING BATTLES WITH IT. Your alt must be registered on the day of sign-ups or onwards to prevent people from registering an account beforehand and laddering with it to gain and unfair advantage. It's very easy to check when an account was registered and we will be checking to make sure people comply. By the way, make sure to register your LT alt on Pokemon Showdown!. We've had to deal with people who got their account registered by someone else because they were unprotected. It is advised that you once you sign up here, you immediatly register the accounts on PS afterwards. disclaimer: PS! only allows you to register 2 alts at a time.

4. Since there is a possibility we will need substitutes for the tournament, we'll take the 5th and 6th people in each period (so 16 total) and randomize them as subs for the 32 man tournament. If you qualify as #5 or #6, you are still able to participate in other cycles and try to qualify for the top 4 of a given cycle.

5. Once you make the top 4 and qualify (this does not mean making the top 4 at any given point during the cycle, it means being in the top 4 at the end of the cycle), you’re qualified for playoffs. You are free to ladder any other week you wish. However, making the top 4 more than once won’t give a player anything other than personal satisfaction and bragging rights. If a person qualifies again during a week after their initial qualification, the newly qualified account will be skipped and the next unqualified account will be selected from the leaderboard to participate in the tournament.

6. To quote Aldaron here, the intent of the project this time is increase ladder activity and quality. If we set up set time periods that were always Monday - Sunday, we estimated we would primarily see activity boosts at the end. By shifting, we hope it, even on a minor level, helps spread activity which in turn translates to a more spread increase in activity, as opposed to just on the weekends.

7. In the case of one person having more than one account in the top 4 during any given cycle, their highest ranked account will be the one to qualify and the duplicates will be skipped. Let's say one person in the top 4 holds positions #1, #2 and #3 on the ladder during cycle 1 with the alts he signed-up with. In this scenario, #1 will be the only account of theirs to qualify and #2 and #3 will be skipped over because they are the same person as #1. In this same scenario, position #4 on the ladder will be the second qualifier of the cycle and so on.

8. Given that this is a ladder tournament, many of you are likely thinking there are ways people can cheat the system. We are aware of these issues and have been working with Zarel to monitor and patrol instances of cheating. Any person found cheating will be subject to strict punishments.
To add onto that: if we have a reason to believe you forfeited a game to boost a friend's account, you will be sanctionned.
More about this: if you try to prevent your opponent from joining the battle again after a disconnection, you will be sanctionned (read more about this here).

9. As with all official tournaments, there will be a trophy given to the winner of the OLT. The trophy will be well-earned. The qualifying period requires an estimated minimum of 50 wins with the playoffs having 32 at least "OK to good players" (so a non arbitrary, good field), followed by a best of three, double elimination. That's arguably harder than most of the official tournaments we have in place today.

We are confident that having an Official Ladder Tournament will be a big boon to the entire competitive aspects of the Smogon community and are excited for its launch.

Good luck to everyone! Again, this is Cycle 2 of Smogon's Official Ladder Tournament. Please make sure to read the rules of the tournament carefully. If your sign-up post does not follow the rules explained below, it will be deleted. This Cycle will run for 7 days and 22 hours and will end on Tuesday, September 1st, 10:00 PM Eastern time.
 
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Cycle # Top 4

Rank #1: cosine180
Qualified Cycle 1 Name: LT1A Cosine180
ELO: 1837
GXE: 80
Total Games: 188 | Wins: 130 | Losses: 58
W/L Ratio: 69.15%

Rank #2: Omfuga
Qualified Cycle 1 Name: LT1D Omfuga
ELO: 1833
GXE: 84
Total Games: 111 | Wins: 80 | Losses: 31
W/L Ratio: 72.07%

Rank #3: Tesung
Qualified Cycle 1 Name: LT1a tessy
ELO: 1831
GXE: 82
Total Games: 351 | Wins: 235 | Losses: 116
W/L Ratio: 66.95%

Rank #4: ABR
Qualified Cycle 1 Name: LT1A ABR
ELO: 1818
GXE: 80
Total Games: 184 | Wins: 128 | Losses: 56
W/L Ratio: 69.57%


SUBSTITUTES [May still try to qualify for top 4 in other cycles]

Rank #5: JohnYiu
Qualified Cycle 1 Name: LT1X JohnYiu
ELO: 1784
GXE: 84
Total Games: 81 | Wins: 62 | Losses: 19
W/L Ratio: 76.54%

Rank #6: FlamingVictini
Qualified Cycle 1 Name: LT1A FV
ELO: 1778
GXE: 84
Total Games: 71 | Wins: 57 | Losses: 14
W/L Ratio: 80.28%​
 

Srn

Water (Spirytus - 96%)
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Forum name: Srn
Cycle 2 alts: LT2S Srn, LT2R Srn, LT2N Srn
Do my alts for Cycle 1 contain my forum name or a very similar variation/abbreviation of it as required by the rules? Yes.

gfdi i rly wanted to be first :<
 

toshimelonhead

Honey Badger don't care.
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Forum name: toshimelonhead
Cycle 2 Alt: LT2T Melonhead
Do my alts for Cycle 1 contain my forum name or a very similar variation/abbreviation of it as required by the rules? Yes.
 
lt2 n_n blarajan, lt2 u_u blarajan, lt2 o_o blarajan

i did not start or register any of those, i just tried one and learned _ isn't an accepted character :(((

lt2h blarajan, lt2a blarajan, lt2x blarajan
 
Forum name: Bouffalant
Cycle 2 Alts: LT2R Bouff, LT2S Bouff, Lt2X Bouff
Do my alts for Cycle 1 contain my forum name or a very similar variation/abbreviation of it as required by the rules? Yah
 
Forum name: reiku
Cycle 2 Alts: LT2X reiku, LT2W reiku, LT2Z reiku
Do my alts for Cycle 1 contain my forum name or a very similar variation/abbreviation of it as required by the rules? Yes.
 
Forum name: groudon518
Cycle 1 Alts: LT2A groudon518, LT2B groudon518, LT2C groudon
Do my alts for Cycle 1 contain my forum name or a very similar variation/abbreviation of it as required by the rules? Yes.
 

Unlucky Desperado

Banned deucer.
Forum Name: Unlucky Desperado
Cycle 2 Alts: LT2B UnluckyD, LT2G UnluckyD
Do my alts for Cycle 2 contain my forum name or a very similar variation/abbreviation of it as required by the rules? Yes.
 
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Welli0u

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Forum name: Welli0u
Cycle 2 Alts: LT2A Welliou, LT2B Welliou, LT2C Welliou
Do my alts for Cycle 1 contain my forum name or a very similar variation/abbreviation of it as required by the rules? Yes.
 
Forum name: Arcpulse
Cycle 2 Alts: LT2A Arcpulse, LT2B Arcpulse
Do my alts for Cycle 2 contain my forum name or a very similar variation/abbreviation of it as required by the rules? Yes.
 
Forum Name: Wond3rbread
Cycle 2 Alts: LT2A Wond3r, LT2B Wond3r, LT2C Wond3r
Do my alts for Cycle 1 contain my forum name or a very similar variation/abbreviation of it as required by the rules? Yes.
 

CrashinBoomBang

außerirdisch, anunnaki
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Forum name: CrashinBoomBang
Cycle 2 alts: LT2S CBB, LT2M CBB, LT2D CBB
Do my alts for Cycle 2 contain my forum name or a very similar variation/abbreviation of it as required by the rules? Yes.

guess i wont sleep through most of the weekend when i was supposed to ladder this time haha
 
Forum name: North
Cycle 2 Alts: LT2A North, LT2B North, LT2C North
Do my alts for Cycle 1 contain my forum name or a very similar variation/abbreviation of it as required by the rules? Yes.
 
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