DOU USUM Doubles OU Summer Seasonal Rounds 11-14 [Won by SMB]

MajorBowman

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SPECIFIC RULES
  • This is a standard USUM Doubles OU tournament
  • This tournament will be Double Elimination
  • Rounds will be Best of Three. You may switch teams in between battles of the same set.
  • Matches are to be played on Pokemon Showdown!
  • To encourage the development of the metagame, and so that everyone is on an even playing field, all matches must have replays recorded. If neither player posts replays of the match, both players will suffer an automatic game loss. (If you were in losers' when you played, you are both out. If you were in winners', the winner is in losers' and the loser is out.)
  • If you are found signing up under more than one alt, you will be banned from circuit events for life.
  • Activity calls will be made by me, potentially with neutral assistance from a TD. Coin flips will be done on PS!
  • In the event that something is added to or removed from the Doubles OU metagame in the middle of a round, that change will be in effect starting the next round. Doubles Ubers is available as a challenge option if something is banned mid-round.
Standard Rules and Clauses
  • Species Clause: A player cannot have two Pokemon with the same PokeDex number on his team.
  • Evasion Clause: The moves Double Team and Minimize are banned. (No other evasion boosting things are banned).
  • OHKO Clause: The moves Horn Drill, Guillotine, Sheer Cold, and Fissure are banned.
  • Endless Battle Clause: Anything capable of intentionally creating an endless battle is banned.
  • Uber Clause: Anything that appears on Doubles OU' banlist is banned. This is the banlist for Doubles OU:
  • Snorlax
  • Mewtwo
  • Lugia
  • Ho-oh
  • Kyogre
  • Groudon
  • Rayquaza
  • Jirachi
  • Dialga
  • Palkia
  • Giratina
  • Giratina-Origin
  • Arceus
  • Reshiram
  • Zekrom
  • Kyurem-White
  • Xerneas
  • Yveltal
  • Solgaleo
  • Lunala
  • Magearna
  • Marshadow
  • Necrozma-Dusk Mane
  • Necrozma-Dawn Wings
  • Dark Void
  • Gravity and sleep moves with below one hundred percent accuracy
  • Eevium Z
  • Kangaskhanite
  • Power Construct


HOW TO SCHEDULE

For transparency, here is the bracket: https://challonge.com/usumsummerssnl

NOTE: This will be the thread for the rest of the tournament. At this point, feel free to play games at any point; you don't have to wait for new pairings to be posted to play your next match. Feel free to use either this thread or the Challonge bracket to figure out what your next match is, I trust all 6 of you left in the tournament to not mess anything up. Just do me a favor and let me know when and who you're playing either by posting in this thread or DMing me on Discord (pls don't just @ me in the DOU server it'll get lost) so we can try to stream it! I'll try my best to update this thread as matches happen, but it'll help me out a lot if y'all let me know what matches are happening when. Good luck to our top 6!

Round 11 Pairings:
Losers' Bracket:
MajorBowman
vs talkingtree
Mint16 vs Demantoid

Round 12 Pairings:
Winners' Finals:
SMB
vs EmbCPT

Losers' Semifinals
Demantoid vs MajorBowman

Round 13 Pairings:
Losers' Finals
EmbCPT
vs MajorBowman

Round 14 Pairings:
Grand Finals
SMB
vs EmbCPT
 

talkingtree

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Gonna pull a wild move and do predicts for the rest of the tour since I was 5/7 the first time and 3/3 the second.

Round 11:
MajorBowman vs talkingtree - Predicting my own match because I have to if I'm doing full predicts. I would be surprised if I'm able to take a second bo3 set against Bowman, but it happened once so I suppose it could happen again. However, I think Bowman is trending up after NAIC and I'm trending down after the loss to SMB.
Mint16 vs Demantoid - Demantoid's building has been very solid, his Zard/Porygon2/Heatran/Kart/Lando/Fini team was particularly notable in getting wins for both SMB and Demantoid last round. I think Mint will have a good shot at taking a game off Demantoid, but I see the latter taking this one.

Round 12:
SMB vs EmbCPT - These two are very deserving winners' finalists, I probably underestimated SMB last round because I've taken sets against some pretty solid players this tour but couldn't even win a game against him. I'm not doing that again, I think SMB has what it takes to win this one. (foreshadowing: for now...)
MajorBowman vs Demantoid - All these games are close so it's boring to say that, I'll just say Bowman has the stuff and gets teams from three solid builders (himself included) that will put him in a position to take the set. Demantoid might be a more varied and unpredictable builder himself, but the small disparity there is slightly less notable than the (in my opinion) bit of playing ability Bowman has over Demantoid.

Round 13:
EmbCPT vs MajorBowman - To put it simply, Edu will be hungry after losing in winners finals, so I think this is where Bowman's impressive run ends.

Round 14 (+ 15):
SMB vs EmbCPT - Continuing on from there, the winners' finals rematch will round out a bo3bo3 that EmbCPT narrowly wins, learning from the first set and making a couple of ambitious plays that put him into positions where he can simply play safe.

Looking forward to the close of this tour, it's nice to see how consistently some of the top DOUers stay at the top. Playing Bowman either Sunday or Monday, will update with exact time if we have it and tag for matches in Discord when it starts.

EDIT: Playing Monday at 2pm Central
 
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SMB

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beat embcpt and talkingtree 's flawless predictions in 3 ggs, i'm sorry for that lame freeze on g3 that cost you the game, this series were really exciting and enjoyable apart from that.

https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen7doublesou-390546
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i'd like to give a huge s/o to all the people who has helped me on this ssnl either with endless test games or with huge support; London13 Akaru Kokuyo Nido-Rus AuraRayquaza Yuichii Demantoid Naian Dach you guys are great and i definitely couldn't have won 2 ssnls in a row without all your help :blobnom:
 

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