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[Akroma]

Ice is strong against flying, because birds flee away from it southwards during the winter, obviously

anyone calling dibs on any types yet? be quick, before the best ones are gone

[hihi2463]

hey guys i just got a pokemon book for my birthday and now i can build teams a whole lot better

[Akroma]

oho, I already thought we might not see you again. I'll be in arts and crafts if you want to battle.


The current tournament has progressed so far, it is currently closed for new entries, however stay tuned for the next tournament - it will be a journey of epic proportions, and will benefit from having more players. I will make sure to notify you once that tournament goes up.

[hihi2463]

ok i'll keep checking in

[Akroma]

of course not every battle has to be in-tournament. I have some non-tournament teams on standby for you

[Bluerobin]

I have an all-ground team already, but I kind of think I'd like water, grass, or bug better. I guess I'll call grass for now.

[hihi2463]

I call fire water and dark

[Rolepgeek]

I made a water mono rain team. No drizzle, and not typical mons, but a pretty decent team so far. Greninja is the only 'cheap' mon, and he's mostly for unusual coverage. Bloody Ferrothorn.

What are you even calling? Battling other monos of your type is good practice.

Regardless, I have ice, and water, and need to work on a steel team. I have to get into their head...

[Akroma]

We are calling for the gyms of the 2.0 version of the tournament (I edited a post earlier, you might not have seen it)
you only need to call two types, one type that is certain, for the gym, the other type in case you manage to land on place 2-6, to become the (soon to be ex) champion, or a member of the elite four.


as said before, I'll run the Dark gym, if elite 4, fairy comes in

edit: GWG just left showdown, so it appears his battles will not be happening tonight. If they aren't done by tomorrow, I'll move the tournament into round 4 anyway. I am getting seriously hot for the 2.0 version, and want to move this on.

also, I will be leaving the decision on the scoring system (for the remainder of this tournament), up to popular vote. Do you want to continue as before (one point per defeated mon) or do you want to decrease the rate (one point per 2 defeated mons) ?

[Bluerobin]

Ahh, ok. I'll do grass with bug secondary then.

Edit: as far as scoring goes, changing the scoring won't make it easier to catch up, since your knockouts will be worth less too, it'll just make it so that previous rounds aren't worth way less than later round. I'm kind of in favor of changing it because I personally like the idea of the team having to sort of be workable at every step along the way and not devaluing early rounds. I don't really have a strong preference, though, and I'm already starting to move on to thinking about round 2 anyway.

[Culise]

edit: GWG just left showdown, so it appears his battles will not be happening tonight.

>_<

Ah, well.  There's still tomorrow, if only for a little bit. 

EDIT:

Spoiler: Kansa v. Culise, Round 3 (click to show/hide)

Culise joined.
Kansa1 joined.
Format:
OU (beta)
Sleep Clause Mod: Limit one foe put to sleep
Species Clause: Limit one of each Pokemon
OHKO Clause: OHKO moves are banned
Moody Clause: Moody is banned
Evasion Moves Clause: Evasion moves are banned
HP Percentage Mod: HP is reported as percentages
Culise's team: Poliwhirl / Scizor / Rotom-Wash
Kansa1's team: Litwick / Skrelp / Sigilyph
Battle between Culise and Kansa1 started!
Go! Yu Shi (Poliwhirl)!
Kansa1 sent out Lacie (Litwick)!

Turn 1
Yu Shi used Rain Dance!
It started to rain!
The opposing Lacie used Energy Ball!
It's super effective! Yu Shi lost 100% of its health!
The opposing Lacie lost some of its HP!
Yu Shi fainted!
Go! Lan Caihe (Rotom-Wash)!

Turn 2
Kansa1 withdrew Lacie (Litwick)!
Kansa1 sent out Jubjub bird (Sigilyph)!
Lan Caihe used Hydro Pump!
The opposing Jubjub bird lost 100% of its health!
The opposing Jubjub bird fainted!
AkromaBay12 joined.
Kansa1 sent out Jabberwock (Skrelp)!

Turn 3
Lan Caihe used Hydro Pump!
It's not very effective... The opposing Jabberwock lost 92% of its health!
The opposing Jabberwock used Sludge Wave!
Lan Caihe lost 44.1% of its health!
The opposing Jabberwock restored HP using its Black Sludge!

Turn 4
Lan Caihe used Hydro Pump!
The opposing Jabberwock avoided the attack!
The opposing Jabberwock used Sludge Wave!
Lan Caihe lost 41.2% of its health!
The opposing Jabberwock restored HP using its Black Sludge!

Turn 5
Lan Caihe used Hydro Pump!
It's not very effective... The opposing Jabberwock lost 19% of its health!
The opposing Jabberwock fainted!
Kansa1 sent out Lacie (Litwick)!
Turn 6
Lan Caihe used Hydro Pump!
It's super effective! The opposing Lacie lost 91% of its health!
The opposing Lacie fainted!
Culise won the battle!
Kansa1: gg
Culise: Good game.
Culise: Sorry, though.
Kansa1: No problem
AkromaBay12: 5 hydropumps, one of them missing, perfect average
AkromaBay12: once skrelp evolves, hydropump will be less of a problem
AkromaBay12 left.
Kansa1: Yeah it should be
Kansa1: Would you like to post the logs or should I?
Culise: I don't mind. I can take care of it.
Kansa1: Ok thank you

3-1 to Culise.

[GreatWyrmGold]

We are calling for the gyms of the 2.0 version of the tournament (I edited a post earlier, you might not have seen it)
you only need to call two types, one type that is certain, for the gym, the other type in case you manage to land on place 2-6, to become the (soon to be ex) champion, or a member of the elite four.

Oh.
Alright, what types are chosen? I'd like the Dragon Gym, obviously.

edit: GWG just left showdown, so it appears his battles will not be happening tonight. If they aren't done by tomorrow, I'll move the tournament into round 4 anyway. I am getting seriously hot for the 2.0 version, and want to move this on.

Hey, I'm ready to battle now...for the next hours and a half or so. And then an hour or so after that, for a couple hours. And then a couple hours later, probably, for an hour or two.

also, I will be leaving the decision on the scoring system (for the remainder of this tournament), up to popular vote. Do you want to continue as before (one point per defeated mon) or do you want to decrease the rate (one point per 2 defeated mons) ?

Or maybe...

Spoiler: Other System (click to show/hide)

You get a number of points equal to the percentage of your opponent's Pokemon you knocked out, plus the percentage you have left.

Notice the clause: You knocked out. Explosion/Self-Destruct aren't great, but they wouldn't be suicide.

Example: A 5x5 battle. GreatWyrmGold beat up Kansa, who had one Pokemon self-destruct, KOing GWG's Dragonite; two other Pokemon of GWG's were also KO'd. (Hey, I can dream!) Four out of five Pokemon were KO'd by GWG; he gets 80 (or maybe 0. points for that. He has three out of five Pokemon conscious; he gets 60 (or 0.6) points for that. Kansa knocked out three out of five and so gets 60 or 0.6 points, with no bonus from his lack of conscious Pokemon.

Of course, that might be a bigger consideration for next round.

[Akroma]

too much math.

[Bluerobin]

Oh, so basically you could get a maximum of 2 points per round if you KOd all of their and didn't lose any of yours, or a minimum of zero if you were on the receiving end of that same exchange. I actually really like that system, because it ends up making every round count for 2 points total, it's just that the points are split between the participants depending on how well they did. Explosion/Self Destruct would be a bit weird, I guess.

Edit: Why can't we just do 1 point for a win, 0 points for a loss? Just do it like a normal tournament?

[Akroma]

I think we will do that in 2.0. if only to make the book keeping easier