The Randoms Trial - Round 3

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( 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!
Round 3
Deadline: Sunday 12th August 18:10 GMT

Mitsuki vs. Escoffier
majaspic22 vs. Gweebis
Sae vs. Lutra
LordST vs. cb aaron judge
Will-I-am vs. Diophantine
Ninjadog13 vs. The Idiot Ninja
Ticken vs. dhaarma
hoblaph vs. Ceteris Paribus
 
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won in 5, ggs
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen7randombattle-786670325
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen5randombattle-786671688
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen4randombattle-786672790
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen3randombattle-786673657
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen2randombattle-786674904
i removed gen6 and in a shocking turn of events my opponent removed gen1

also, just a notice to Ceteris Paribus : if you tag under spoiler we don't get notifications, tag everyone first and then edit the spoiler tag in
 
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Sorry for the delay in getting decisions out and the new round up. This should be completed today around 6pm GMT. If you can get your games done before I get round to making activity decisions then great!
 
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Resolving unfinished matches
All of these are worked out with VMs if I haven't seen any other messages. Please schedule on users' Smogon Forums profiles so that these kinds of decisions are accurate!

majaspic22 vs Gweebis
Activity win - The extension request above is denied because I had already extended the deadline to the time that you agreed to play by (Gweebis: 'I'd prefer to get it done before 2 AM my time' majaspic22: 'If you can do the same tomorrow it would be ok' majaspic: [no response]).

Will-I-am vs. Diophantine
Coinflip - Diophantine gave specific times in their initial post but failed to make one of those times (Sunday 5th 6pm GMT, though it's not clear in the initial post whether 'weekends' covered the starting Sunday (strictly speaking, 'weekend' being plural that does cover the first weekend, but the intention may be that it only applied to the second weekend, indicated by the fact that it was listed after 'weekdays'), this should've been made even more clear (thanks though for listing available times at the outset!!)). Then, Saturday 11th 7pm, said that Sunday was a good time (rather than attempting to battle immediately and specifying a fallback later date/time), even though 'all day' was stated to be a good time for weekends (perhaps, strictly speaking, 7pm doesn't count as 'day', 'all day' was not really specific enough). Basically, Diophantine, I very much appreciate the considerable effort, but you weren't quite precise enough with your scheduling to get the activity win (you were close to getting it).
Will-I-am didn't specify times at all really, aside from requesting an immediate game on the first Sunday, but they should've specified a specific later time.

I checked with a TD that these decisions were OK.
 
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