Tournament Ubers Premier League VIII - Week 1

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Welcome to the eighth edition of Ubers Premier League, an all-Ubers team tournament where managers draft from the pool of players to compete in a seven-week round-robin battle for Ubers supremacy. The top four teams will then advance to the playoffs, where the winning team will be crowned the premier of Ubers battling. This is Uber’s premier team tournament, providing an opportunity for Ubers powerhouses to display their dominance, veteran players to return, and for new talent to emerge.

Here's a few things to remember:
- A replay / log must be saved of your match or it will be considered invalid. No exceptions.
- General tournament rules and regulations apply. Pokemon Showdown is the default simulator for all metagames unless both parties agree. If you play on anywhere that isn't PS! you must save a log of the match. All matches are best of one, except for the best of three slot.

We reserve the right to judge any individual match on a case by case basis, regardless of assumed precedence set. If you don't like that, you are welcome to not play. Be aware of this.

To protect yourself as much as possible from DCs and timer issues, play on Showdown (because it has an at least semi reliable system of rejoining after a DC) and make a gentleman's agreement to not hit timer.

Regarding time outs, they are a bit more complex, specifically because some timeouts are due to DCs. The best we can do for this scenario is say that there is some number between 1 minute and 2 minutes (which we will not publicize) that we will set as a limit for timing out, and if you timeout with more than that limit time remaining, we'll assume it is a DC, whereas the opposite is a true timeout. A true timeout defaults to a loss, while the DC timeout is prone to the DC rules.
Tournament Standings and Records




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Dapper Dracovish (5) vs. DaReal Drizzlers (3)

SS: Icemaster vs. TrueNora
SS: cromagnet vs. Ballfire
USM: Eternal Spirit vs. Perry
ORAS: orch vs. Persephone
BW: Carl Murray vs. 64 Squares
DPP: absdaddy vs. Staxi
ADV: hs vs. l'habitat
BO3 (SS | USM | ORAS): PurpleGatorade vs. SiTuM



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Defiant Durians (6) vs. Manly Melmetal (2)

SS: Skysolo vs. Royal1604
SS: TonyFlygon vs. Fc04
USM: byronthewellwell vs. Sharow
ORAS: Duncajuwon vs. fourmi
BW: Kebabe vs. PROBLEMS
DPP: Hamhamhamhamham vs. Tomahawk
ADV: The Kyle vs. Kushalos
BO3 (SS | USM | ORAS): TDK vs. KyogreF4N


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Heavy Duty Ho-Ohs (3) vs. Choice Bandits (5)

SS: dice vs. crucify
SS: Shuwri vs. Alpha Rabbit
USM: Lopunny Kicks vs. Hugo Barrington
ORAS: dream vs. Dominatio
BW: watashi vs. Endill
DPP: Melle2402 vs. Lord Thorx
ADV: Finchinator vs. squinn
BO3 (SS | USM | ORAS): lax vs. Zesty43



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Delta Rayquazas (5) vs. Devastating Dialgas (3)

SS: Goat Heart ♥ vs. Reje
SS: Jaajgko vs. 100%GXE
USM: The Dovahneer vs. HunterStorm
ORAS: CKW vs. Lasen
BW: Chill Shadow vs. Hack
DPP: Aishia vs. Manaphy
ADV: Wamr vs. IoSonoNeon
BO3 (SS | USM | ORAS): Garay oak vs. March Fires​




Deadline is July 5th at 11:59 PM PDT
 
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SS: Icemaster vs. TrueNora: I'm high on both players a bit higher on ice in age however I think he does a good job of beating his opps in the builder there. Gonna go with nora they ladder a ton and I think they are poised for a really good tour.
ORAS: orch vs. Persephone: Probably not a game everyone is looking at, any matchup that poses the possibility of whimsi vs whimsi gets me excited.
USM: byronthewellwell vs. Sharow: I think sharow was one of the steals of the draft from experience I know prepping for him is a nightmare and he's going to help out his teammates a ton. I think he can give byron issues with his unconventional style and byron possible over prepping for HO.
BO3 (SS | USM | ORAS): TDK vs. KyogreF4N: TDK went insane in upl last year. I think he could have similar success this year, I just think ss this early could be hard for him to navigate so I'm giving the edge to kf4n.
BO3 (SS | USM | ORAS): Garay oak vs. March Fires: likely the two or two of the best players I have personally played in ubers. I think it goes split between sm and oras and comes down to ss. I know garay has played more ss than tape so ill give him the edge.
 
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time for tape's top three (minus SS because that's a dumpster fire of a tier ik nothing abt) :toast:

1. Byronthewellwell [55] vs. Sharow [45]: byron is coming off a hot usm cup win and strong finish in mw while sharow has been out of the limelight recently. however, sharow has always had a few tricks up his sleeves and is a highly competent player so i think this will be a really good one to watch. i think if byron preps well and stays cool he should be able to handle sharow comfortably, but there's always a chance the frenchman take him off guard and my fellow australian tumbles down under.

2. Kebabe [60] vs Problems [40]: oli returns for his third? fourth? attempt to knock out the undisputed bw champ whose name i still havent figured out if it's meant to mean a skewer of grilled meat. contrary to popular opinion, imo this is closer than people think, and oli has a pretty decent chance of taking it as he is capable of making the plays necessary to put him into a winning position. like last year, i think it will come down to how he handles the end game and ultimately, whether or not he chokes on some perfectly charred grilled meat again (there are worse ways to die i guess?).

3. TDK [48] vs. Kyogref4n [52]: this match between top tier ou player tdk and our humble [hero]kyogref4n is sure to be a good one. kyogref4n has started off strong in ss and considering durian's lineup i don't think there is adequate ss support for tdk to take this out from kyogref4n. that said, i don't think kyogref4n's oras is on par with tdk who has the support of both pohjis and gunner, which leaves sm to be the decider. personally i think kyogref4n's sm is lowkey underrated and he performed admirably once he got into his rhythm on mukkers. if we see that version of kyogref4n i think he can take it in a squeaker.

shoutout to icemaster vs nora which will be a doozy as well but i know absolutely zero about ss so who the fuck knows ?_?
 
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Heavy Duty Ho-Ohs vs. Choice Bandits
SS: dice vs. crucify - im not sure if crucify is even good at ubers, I've never seen him play a game of ubers other than me crushing him in gen5..
SS: Shuwri vs. Alpha Rabbit - Shuwri made ubers lt finals so they are prolly good
USM: Lopunny Kicks vs. Hugo Barrington - how can u predict against the goat himself HUGO BARRINGTON
ORAS: dream vs. Dominatio - idk much about dream but he was ranked last in agpl power rankings..
BW: watashi vs. Endill - u both lose if ur playing in a meta where bp and evasion passing is allowed
DPP: Melle2402 vs. Lord Thorx - MELLOAT
ADV: Finchinator vs. squinn - finch makes quality youtube content
BO3 (SS | USM | ORAS): lax vs. Zesty43 - LAX NEVER LOSES
 
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