[] Gym Battlers Open 2: This Time, It's Woopersonal

After a somewhat long hiatus, Gym Leaders both old and new return for a chance to become one of the the Elite Four!* *Five participants required

The top two Gyms from the previous tournament, Psychic and Dragon, have been retired. Future tourneys will undoubtedly see their return, so fear not.

Current Sign Up Status: CLOSED

Originally Posted by Kairyu, with a little bit of GB

Tournament format: Round Robin

Since this is a round robin tournament you are required to fight everyone for at least one round. First to three wins/draws ought to do it, that means a minimum of three actual battles per person before switch against a new player. So be sure to log down your victories and losses! And post about it back here.

Points Break Down:
Win = 2 points
Draw = 1 Point (Either when each player's final Pokemon is KO'd in the same turn or when both players are in a deadlock lasting more than 10 mins. For the latter~ it is at both player's discretion to accept the draw. Not a requirement.)
Loss = 0 points

Once all players have done their rounds points will be tallied and the top 4 will battle it out for first place. Mostly to see who is the clear winner. To advance in the top 4, all you have to do is battle the person with more points than you (4th -> 3rd, 2nd -> 1st. Winner of those matches will then battle each other once.)

And one last thing. Any point ties that may effect placing in the top 4 will require a sudden death match (quick 3-on-3 battle.) An extra point will be given to the victor.

RULES:

• Battles will be done at the lv.100 preset in either 6-on-6 or 3-on-3. In case participants do not have enough time to make a full team that can comply with this tournament.
• All Pokémon in your team must be the same type you are given! Dual types are fine too.
• If applicable, each team will be allowed one Pokemon of the Psychic or Dragon type. There is no restriction on whether it is their primary or secondary type, so long as the other type is that of your team.
• No Legendary Pokémon and Wobbuffet. Gym leaders are too awesome for that.
• Sleep Clause: At any one time only one pokemon on your opponent's team can be put to sleep by you.
• Benching is allowed. On top of your team of 6 Pokémon you are allowed 3 alternates. This should help keep battles somewhat less predictable.

How to Enter:

Here's the interesting part. And the only fair method I could think of without going over board. To enter, post in this thread saying you want to play. "Maybe" and "I think" do not count as this next part is crucial to this tournament's success.
Before entering your post to play, type a number between 1 and 15 that has not been picked by a previous participant. That number will determine the above poster's element type. Once that is done I will then PM the above poster's type and let things go from there. Since this happens to be the opening post I will choose the last poster's number right now.

Last poster will get this number:

CURRENT PARTICIPANTS: (as of February 2)

- Black Mage - 2406-1602-4421
- Chaotic - 1332-5334-3114
DarkMageOzzie - Dropped out
- Crash Landon - 0645-2635-1419
- GB - 4854-3643-9530
- Identity Crisis - 3737-6076-6955
- Kairyu - 1246-5201-4026
- NinjaguyDan - TBD
- Sousuke - 0259 5604 6732

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TOURNAMENT RECORDS
I present you with my magnificent record-keeping chart made with the best MSPaint skills in the Western Hemisphere:



Some lines are thicker than the others because I originally had Ozzie in there for effect, but later cropped him out to keep the clutter down.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Crash Landon

I sort of oppose the no Psychics/Dragons as a secondary typing rule because that does rule out some good choices for otherwise less-than-ideal types. For example, if someone gets Steel, then it means Metagross and Bronzong are both disqualified. The same goes for Fighting - Medicham and Gallade are lost. Water loses Kingdra. These are significant setbacks.

It only seemed unfair when a person's team was overloaded with Dragons or Psychics. I don't think they should be banned altogether. I would suggest that any team's roster cannot have more than two of any combination of Psychics or Dragons.

The reason I decided against allowing secondary types was because of how disproportionately it helps certain types compared to others-- for example, Steel gets the absurdly powerful Metagross and Bronzong, and Water and Ground get a dragon while no one else does (and on top of that, both types already have ample amounts of beasts). As for Fighting, it really only loses Medicham since Gallade has Psychic as a primary type.

Steel and Fighting will have smaller pools to choose from, sure, but I've counted seven very competitive pokemon in both groups, and 2-4 others that would be a decent enough pool to make up the rest of their reserve teams. They'd be working under better conditions than Ghost, that's for sure. Lastly, Water and Ground will do plenty fine without access to Kingdra and Flygon.

I see no real reason to add them when we already agreed last time that true fairness has to be thrown out the window to do Gym tournaments. But if I see there's strong support for Crash's idea (please voice it if you do support it), I'll restart this number-calling process. We won't need a full week to get all the participants signed up.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

EDIT: Nevermind, we'll compromise here. Not to mention I just realized I, um, fucked this process up and gave people types based on the numbers they themselves chose; not based on the next member's number.

Each team will be allowed one Pokemon of the Psychic or Dragon type. There is no restriction on whether it is their primary or secondary type.

Agreed?

Chaotic and Crash, please reselect your numbers.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Well, I guess I'll put up a new ChocoDecided number in a moment.

And I'll start adding Friend Codes from the first tournament. If they have changed, please tell me!

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Too late, it's already been replaced! 1 is now the off-limits number.

Not to worry though, I needed to change it for the reshuffling. The original post has been edited due to recent events, and in fairness I've also made it known what type I am-- Dark.

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If you guys know of anyone else who might be interested in participating, please talk to them about it. I know it's only day two of registration, but I'm pretty sure the all of the usual suspects are already present and accounted for.

I'll PM some of the people from last time who still post.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Hey, I'm Dark!

...Anyway, what I can say that's new is that I finished my team today and I'm ready to go. I think it's pretty good and very... non-dependent on dinosaurs.

EDIT: Also added Kairyu to the participant list, since I had somehow missed him when adding everyone. Sorry, Kai!

FELIPE NO

It's tough since it's technically a slippery slope, but I guess I'll allow it. Most people here are pretty understanding, and it is a fairly underused and lower-tier legendary.

Because of this, I'm willing to review arguments for a single, lower-tier legendary in other teams. But only until we're done with registration!

Additional Post of Great Import:
In case anyone is out there, we have less than one full day remaining until the close of registration. I will be kind of busy at the exact time tomorrow, so I'm just going to wait until I'm home an hour or two later.

Actual play should begin tomorrow evening or Tuesday.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

We're doing it however it was done the first time around. So, I was planning on having everyone submit their rosters after the tourney. If someone saw a pokemon from that person during their fight that wasn't listed as part of their nine-man team, it could be called out.

That way no one has to reveal any secrets, and cheaters would be discovered.

Or we could just use Rotorblade as a guinea pig (as I have been doing) and just PM our teams to him so that he can hang on to them as a neutral third-party. I don't care either way since I'm not concerned about cheating and would rather not reveal my team straight away.

Oh, also, registration is officially closed!

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Except that it has a beastly base-130 Special Attack compared to Articuno's 95. Also has better defenses (from a typing perspective), so even if it is critically weak to ground, Heatran is a little too good for this competition. Besides, it's past the registration close date, so I'm not looking at requests anymore.

If it turns out that this Articuno was a mistake on my part and it starts tearing up teams, I'll go ahead and put an asterisk next to Kai's name in the rankings. Or maybe ban it from the finals. Dunno yet since nothing's happened.

EDIT: That sounds a little harsh for Kai since he did nothing wrong and I'm the one who's allowing it. I just mean I'd make it clear for future tourneys that legendaries are probably banned for a good reason.

How ya doing, buddy?

Simply put, I won because I was Dark and he was Ghost. There was no skill on my part-- not to mention Icy gave me that disconnected match even though he still had 3 or 4 guys left.

His team scares the bejeesus out of me.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Well, since Wobbuffett has been banned and is so mentioned in the rules thus making it an impossibility to see that team... yes, you are in before then.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

I'm also under the assumption that a lot of people aren't finished with their teams yet, since we've only had one match in three or so days.

I'm still in class, but I may have time for another match this evening.

I was speaking idiomatically.

I'm not sure if it's wise to be openly admitting that you've Pokesav'd your team.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

What the fuck? You have no say on anything ever.

I'm not concerned about cheating, so it's not necessary Crash. It'd be... kinda pathetic of someone to cheat in a smalltime Pokemon tournament on an internet forum, anyway.

FELIPE NO

You only have to get to Jubilife to use Wi-Fi (maybe even only to Professor Rowan's town).

I'll supply your team. How about that? Just catch six Starlys or something.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

Dude, there's only been one match in almost a week, and one person wants to drop out.

ChocoDecided you 9, which makes you Grass. Welcome to the tourney!

Jam it back in, in the dark.

It's not like someone couldn't trade you a Thunder Stone or 30.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Sorry guys, I've been neglecting the shit out of this tournament, I know. I'm going to take the sissy way out and say the past two weeks have been crazy with my classes, which led up to a bunch of exams today. Now that things have quieted a tad, I will be issuing challenges and updating stuff this weekend.

Additional Excellence:
As promised, I've added much-needed updates to the opening post (including Sousuke's Friend Code, the little type tabs, and the current records for all participants). Finally, right?! This is only the beginning, I assure you!

Challenges may come later today. Not sure yet.

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Okay, so basically that leaves me. I better get on it.

Fear not gentlemen, this competition will be over before Platinum is released.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Not this particular one, no, as I failed hardcore at managing it and schoolwork at the same time.

But I have no doubt we'll do another Gym Battle for those games next year. I'm actually sort of itching to do another, but it's better to wait and not burn out.

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