Pokemon D/P Tournament - The winner is Tycho!

[Kamica]

I have this going at the official boards as well:
http://boards2.sega.com/psu_board/viewtopic.php?t=30177
I figure that it would be best to get people from both forums.

Rulez:
-This will be an eight person tournament.
-After the tournament begins, you have three days to battle your opponent in the current round. If the battle does not occur, I will either pick a winner myself and/or pick whoever has proven to be more active.
-3 vs. 3 Set 50 battles only
-No legendaries allowed. I am aware that some legendaries suck, but I do not care.
-You can NOT use the same two hold items
-You can NOT use the same two exact pokemon types. You may use a same type if the dual type is different. EX: Fighting and Fighting/Ground
-No use of moves that induce sleep are allowed
-The winner gets a choice band


Choice Band:
If you use an attack move, power up that move by 1.5 . The attacking pokemon is then unable to use a different move.

1. Kamica - 4381-8559-0744
2. Beatrice - 0215-7344-4280
3. Giovani - 2878-6067-1929
4. Amy - 0258-6773-0951
5. Pheromone - 5369-6880-5374
6. Tycho - 0129-7902-7509
7. SatanV1 - 2062 5653 5460
8. Zael - 4381 8454 5468

First Round Matches:
Beatrice vs. Amy
SatanV1 vs. Kamica
Pheromone vs. Zael
Giovani vs. Tycho

Second Round Participants:
1. SatanV1
2. Amy
3. Zael
4. Tycho

Second Round Matches:
1. Tycho vs. SatanV1

2. Amy vs. Zael

THE FINAL MATCH
Tycho vs. Zael

Either use this topic or use private messages to arrange the meeting time for your matchups. Good luck!

Edit: Finalizing the rules. What you see now will not change.


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[DurakkenX]

Are there actual reasons for all these rules... I don't see any so I'm curious if there are any kind of glitches or what not associated with them...If there is none then I really don't see any reason for them.

I'm just curious as the only reason allowed in the fighting game scene for banning something is because there is huge power difference or a game breaking glitch...none of the rules seem to encompass these...

[foamcup]

Yeah, no offense, but DT is easy to beat, Aerial Ace and Aura Sphere are two moves I can name right off the top of my head that can beat a DTer, and Haze, Roar, or Whirlwind will shut it down too. Sleep clause I can understand, because having all your pokes taking a nap while the opponent sweeps is not cool, but there are ways around sleep as well. No legendaries is weak too, I use a Latios on my team, that's not uber.

I think it's cool that you're running this, but my team is nowhere near ready for any kinda competitive battling, so maybe I'll get in on the next one.

[Kamica]

On 2007-05-17 14:56, DurakkenX wrote:
Are there actual reasons for all these rules... I don't see any so I'm curious if there are any kind of glitches or what not associated with them...If there is none then I really don't see any reason for them.

I'm just curious as the only reason allowed in the fighting game scene for banning something is because there is huge power difference or a game breaking glitch...none of the rules seem to encompass these...



The reason for the first two rules is variation

The reason for the sleep clause is so that the game doesn't turn purely into a game of luck.

Essentially, the person who has put the most thought into their team will be the winner. I would like to think that mostly anybody who has the game would easily be able to meet the restrictions. These restrictions were not added for my benefit. I fully expect to lose because none of my pokemon are EV trained. The point of the tournament is to have a fun pokemon battle. If I can get that of any person I might face, than the loss of a choice band would be fully worth it.



On 2007-05-17 15:07, foamcup wrote:
Yeah, no offense, but DT is easy to beat, Aerial Ace and Aura Sphere are two moves I can name right off the top of my head that can beat a DTer, and Haze, Roar, or Whirlwind will shut it down too. Sleep clause I can understand, because having all your pokes taking a nap while the opponent sweeps is not cool, but there are ways around sleep as well. No legendaries is weak too, I use a Latios on my team, that's not uber.

I think it's cool that you're running this, but my team is nowhere near ready for any kinda competitive battling, so maybe I'll get in on the next one.



I decided to allow the move double team. The move is only effective on pokemon that can recover HP. I just hope that no one will attempt to use such a cheap combination.


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[DizzyDi]

When is the tourney?

[Kamica]

Three days from now

[DurakkenX]

i meant more so in general as i see ppl with a lot of rules... i can understand a few as i have had 6 pokemon put to sleep before and just had to wait, but a lot of the rules just seem unneeded... such as banning legendaries... to me they are just another pokemon... banning on type...some like to have themes and if you have an all fire time hey thats you fault for getting knocked out by a single water pokemon.

I personally choose pokemon based on look mostly and whether i think the move could be cool when i think about how it would look visually...not on type or anything like that for the most part... i do look at type and stats, but almost always as a least important thing...

[BigBadWolf]

Yeah, I can't believe these rulesets, you won't allow ANY type of sleep attack? You know how many pokemon are eliminated right off the bat?

How is that okay, but the hax no skill, move like Double Team is allowed?

Well whatever, Idk, I'm in this tourney anyway just for the sake of supporting PSU Pokemon tourneys. (My FC is on the other thread/forum)

[DizzyDi]

On 2007-05-17 15:25, Kamica wrote:
Three days from now



Nope, can't do it. Busy.

[DLShAdOw]

count me in also http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif
FC in sig

[Pheromone]

And I apply here? My friend code R 5369 6880 5374

XD my team is far from ready though. I haven't been to the pokemon league yet.

Edit: BTW, I find 3v3 or 6v6 duo battles much more challenging than single battles... maybe next time? Lol, my team is built for duo.



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[Kamica]

Im sure that you will do fine. The tournamet is just for fun anyway.

[omegapirate2k]

I would enter and all, but I'm still constructing a team and I have a lan party that day too.

[DLShAdOw]

Kamica check your sega thread we got 8.

[Kamica]

Matchups:
Beatrice vs. Amy
SatanV1 vs. Kamica
Pheromone vs. Jack
Giovani vs. Revan

Either use this topic or use private messages to arrange the meeting time for your matchups. Good luck!

[Zael]

Oh yeah, as a bonus to this tournament, I'll select one random person from the winners of the first round to battle me for a TM13, TM35, or TM29 prize (if you win) >_>.

[Tycho]

Was in Belgium for a couple of days, but anyway, you can count me in for the next one. ;-;

[Weeaboolits]

Dija' have fun?

[BigBadWolf]

Oh I don't know if Revan posted on this topic, but I left a PM on the official PSU forums.
FYI.
All the first round match ups have to take place today?

[Kamica]

On 2007-05-21 10:36, BigBadWolf wrote:
All the first round match ups have to take place today?



No way! There is no way that all the matchups would be finished today. Heck, even my matchup is not happening today. I am using three days for each round as a guideline that will not be strictly enforced. Instead,
I would PM both participants who have not finished their match to find out when it can get done.

[BigBadWolf]

Alright, it's already been two days and no response yet from my guy. Has anybody else battled yet?

[DLShAdOw]

nope, I just got a response from my guy today. we set the battle time for tomorrow 4 EST.

[Kamica]

The first match in the first round has been completed. SatanV1 is moving on.

[DLShAdOw]

kamica lost http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_frown.gif

But I defeated Beatrice

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[Kamica]

On 2007-05-23 13:00, DLShAdOw wrote:
I defeated Beatrice

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Good job! How close was your matchup?

[DLShAdOw]

well it pretty much went like this:

I sent out my first pokemon and he his, I did about 85% damage to his and he killed mine in one shot.

I sent out my second and he switched to his second. I killed his second in two hits and his did a little less than half to mine.

He sent out his third and I did about 1/3 damage to it right when it came out, then mine was faster so i did the other 2/3 of it's health with a different move and killed it.

At this point he was left with his first at 15% health and my second was much faster, so it was basically my game.

Then for some reason we got DC'd(neither of us had any hand in it) and we just called it my game.

Summary: He took out my first, but my second killed pretty much his whole team.

[BigBadWolf]

Oh Tycho, Kamica mentioned something about you subbing for Revan, that means that you and I have to battle O_O!
So how about it?

And I still don't know who Jack is

[Tycho]

'Kay, awesome. :D
FC 0129-7902-7509.

Ready when you are, pretty much (although I'll still have to pick a team >_>). I'll try MSN, since it's easier to pick a time and stuff.


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[BigBadWolf]

Okay, I'm here, how does this work?

We both fight Satan, or me and Tycho fight and the winner battles Satan?

Anyway, I'm be waiting on Wi-Fi whoever wants to battle.
FC: 2878 6067 1929

MSN: [email protected]

I must warn you, I've been listening to emo music, so my attacks will be full of spite and self loathing.













No I'm kidding http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_razz.gif

Edit: Omg my Wi-Fi is down X_X. I might have to run to the library



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[BigBadWolf]

Alright Tycho won, but just out of curiosity was this tourney single elimination or best out of 3?

[DLShAdOw]

I'm gonna be gone til monday so I hope thats ok, btw I haven't yet seen jack on AIM.

[BigBadWolf]

Alright so today's monday, DLShadow should be back today to resolve the finals with Tycho.
My request to the winner is to go ahead and make a warstory out of it and post on this thread, and/or post up his tourney winning team.

I honestly think this entire tournament is a big waste of time if the PSUkemon community doesn't learn anything from it. I will also post this message on the main Pokemon thread as a heads up that I'm not spamming.

[BigBadWolf]

Alright so today's monday, DLShadow should be back today to resolve the finals with Tycho.
My request to the winner is that he go ahead and make a warstory out of it and post on the main pokemon thread, and/or post up his tourney winning team.

I honestly think this entire tournament is a big waste of time if the PSUkemon community doesn't learn anything from it. I will also post this message on the main Pokemon thread as a heads up that I'm not spamming.



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[DLShAdOw]

errr what do you mean resolve the finals with Tycho? I was told I have to fight Zael, ZAEL I'M READY!!!

[BigBadWolf]

Oh, you're right, I didn't even know Zael was in this tourney. Well the rest of my post still stands, so you guys try to remember the details of the battle and make a warstory out of it.
Here's a link to a good smogon warstory

http://www.smogon.com/forums/showthread.php?t=19842&highlight=Warstory

It's not important to write things down, the trick is to remember the last attack and the last pokemon of the game, then just work your way backwards all the way to the initial first turn action.

and it should be a LOT easier since it's only 3 pokemon and not 6 X_X.
Or even better you can video tape the whole thing like those cool Marriland Wi-Fi battle vids on youtube.com

[DLShAdOw]

bleh zael won, and i'm not making a warstory for a forty minute battle >_>

[Zael]

That took forever ;_;

[BigBadWolf]

I really can't help but see the irony in the fact the two players that were supposed to act as back ups are the ones going to the finals.

/goes back to building his new team.