Wave⁂
Smash Legend
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You might be wondering why this thread exists. In fact, you probably should be. It would be in your best interest to read this little bit, if you are interested in participating in this tournament. If you are not, well, there's no real reason for you to be even reading this post, it's mostly just boring rules with a cool picture. Also, Pokémon Special is a great manga, and you should read it. Anyways, to the story.
Once upon a time, in a land far, far away, there were successful tournaments in the Poké Center. Why these rarely occur now, I can't be sure. Perhaps it's the decrease in active members who participate in tournaments. Whatever it is, it doesn't change anything. Perhaps to host a successful tournament, old ways must be changed. Posting in this thread does not necessarily make you eligible for this tournament. In line with the hope for active participants, this tournament will use an actual bracket, to be fair. On a similar note, mods are now fairness police and can close threads if the fairness level is not satisfactory. On top of being able to ban people for having lots of expired infraction points. But I digress. This actual bracket to increase the fairness level of this thread, ironically, means that if you see yourself playing Terywj in the second round, you should dig the **** up his RMT and build a team that perfectly counters it. If you have a problem with this, you should complain to the fairness police. Another practice of the "old times" are what I will call "executive decisions". If one pair of players in the first round doesn't finish their matches in a 16-player tournament, what do you do? Do you reward the more active person for NOT doing his or her match and throw him or her in winners? Do you kick out the less active player? Do you base the answer of the previous question on the activity level of the player in question? If so, where do you draw the line between active and inactive, where do you draw the line between "throw him in loser's" and "get the **** out"? In traditional tournaments, this is not a problem. A Super Smash Bros. Melee tournament is a good example. Brawl sucks. Everyone is in one location. If someone doesn't make it to a match, it's safe to say that they aren't there, and you should just kick them out. Online, it might not be fair, because one player lives in Singapore and another lives in Brazil, while both are active online. This is where executive decisions come into play, when there is no definitive "right" answer. In the first NROAOF tournament, the friend of a mod was booted out of the tournament for not posting in the thread until the first round 1 was called. Said mod was understandably upset. However, this is a Christmas tournament, in case you did not notice the clever pun in the title (denying the cleverness of the reference makes you ineligible for this title). To sign up for this tournament, either PM me or send me a message on Skype with the form at the bottom of this post. My Skype name is "wave.dash". I tried my best to keep the tournament active without compromising the ending date, which I planned to be before or on December 24th. Needless to say, this end date is now thrown out the window, because **** the holidays. In addition to this, if you planned to gift your prize to a friend and / or relative for a Christmas present, well tough ****, complain to the fairness police.
General Rules:
Team Rules:
Prizes:
As always, but with an addition:
SWF Username:
Pokémon Online Username:
Skype Name (optional):
Time Zone:
Sign-ups will close when 16 people have signed up. Anyone interested after the quota has been filled will be used as a substitute.
[collapse="Contestant details"]1. SWF Username: UltiMario
Pokémon Online Username: UltiMario
Skype Name: ultima_mario
Time Zone: EST
2. SWF Username: SilentVerse
Pokémon Online Username: SilentVerse, VileSenters,
Time Zone: MST (GMT -7)
3. Username: vVv ChiboSempai
Pokemon Online: Chibo
Skype: ChiboSempai
AIM: ChiboSempai
Time Zone: EST
4. SWF Username: Terywj
Pokémon Online Username: Terywj
Skype Name (optional): Terywj Lee
Time Zone: EST
5. SWF Username: Fuelbi
Pokemon Online Username: Fuel
Time Zone: EST
6. SWF Username: TheRealGamer
Pokémon Online Username: appleseed
Skype Name (optional): RealGamer123
Time Zone: Eastern Time zone
7. Username: Yoshididdy
Pokemon Online: Chimpakt
Skype: shamasshareef
AIM: lbjames92
Time Zone: EST
8. SWF Username: Moozle
Pokémon Online Username: Moozle
Skype Name (optional): Moozle
Time Zone: Central
9. Username: Angel.M <3 C:
Pokemon online: Sapphire Birch
Aim: leafninjamarth
Timezone: EST
10. Username: Punishment Divine
Pokemon Online: Punishment Divine
AIM: secondreference
Time Zone: EST
11. Username: Wrath`
Time Zone: EST
AIM: Akward Seabass
PO Name: Seabass
12. Username: Riddle
Time Zone: EST
AIM: RiddleSWF
Po Name: Riddle
13. SWF Username: ss118
Pokémon Online Username: articanus
Time Zone: EST
14. SWF username: why is this required for tournament entry when it's painfully obvious
Pokemon Online Username: Alice Margatroid
Time Zone: PST
15. SWF Username: BLM (black mage)
Pokémon Online Username: B.L.M
Skype Name (optional): none
Time Zone: EST
16. SWF Username: Circa
Pokémon Online Username: Circa
Time Zone: EST[/collapse]
Once upon a time, in a land far, far away, there were successful tournaments in the Poké Center. Why these rarely occur now, I can't be sure. Perhaps it's the decrease in active members who participate in tournaments. Whatever it is, it doesn't change anything. Perhaps to host a successful tournament, old ways must be changed. Posting in this thread does not necessarily make you eligible for this tournament. In line with the hope for active participants, this tournament will use an actual bracket, to be fair. On a similar note, mods are now fairness police and can close threads if the fairness level is not satisfactory. On top of being able to ban people for having lots of expired infraction points. But I digress. This actual bracket to increase the fairness level of this thread, ironically, means that if you see yourself playing Terywj in the second round, you should dig the **** up his RMT and build a team that perfectly counters it. If you have a problem with this, you should complain to the fairness police. Another practice of the "old times" are what I will call "executive decisions". If one pair of players in the first round doesn't finish their matches in a 16-player tournament, what do you do? Do you reward the more active person for NOT doing his or her match and throw him or her in winners? Do you kick out the less active player? Do you base the answer of the previous question on the activity level of the player in question? If so, where do you draw the line between active and inactive, where do you draw the line between "throw him in loser's" and "get the **** out"? In traditional tournaments, this is not a problem. A Super Smash Bros. Melee tournament is a good example. Brawl sucks. Everyone is in one location. If someone doesn't make it to a match, it's safe to say that they aren't there, and you should just kick them out. Online, it might not be fair, because one player lives in Singapore and another lives in Brazil, while both are active online. This is where executive decisions come into play, when there is no definitive "right" answer. In the first NROAOF tournament, the friend of a mod was booted out of the tournament for not posting in the thread until the first round 1 was called. Said mod was understandably upset. However, this is a Christmas tournament, in case you did not notice the clever pun in the title (denying the cleverness of the reference makes you ineligible for this title). To sign up for this tournament, either PM me or send me a message on Skype with the form at the bottom of this post. My Skype name is "wave.dash". I tried my best to keep the tournament active without compromising the ending date, which I planned to be before or on December 24th. Needless to say, this end date is now thrown out the window, because **** the holidays. In addition to this, if you planned to gift your prize to a friend and / or relative for a Christmas present, well tough ****, complain to the fairness police.
General Rules:
- I am always correct.
- If I am not correct, please refer to Rule 1.
- Yes, there are prizes. No, there is no entrance fee. Donations are welcome.
- Just kidding, there is an entrance fee. The fee is your word that you will attempt to your best ability to complete your matches by the deadline.
- All matches must be played on Pokémon Online.
- Save your logs.
- In Pokémon Online, there is an option to always save battle logs. Do it.
- Each round will one week.
- The tournament is double elimination.
- All matches are best two out of three, with the sole exception of the finals, which will be best three out of five.
- Feel free to use as many teams as you wish, as long as all teams operate within the boundaries stated in the rules. This rule does not require usage of multiple teams.
- After finishing a match, post in this thread the result. For example, if player A beat player B in the first battle and lost in the second and third battles, this is what is expected to be posted - A: "Lost, 1-2" - B: "Won, 2-1"
- Do not post publicly, anywhere, the contents of your opponents team unless your opponent explicitly gives your permission to do so.
- No scouting.
- I reserve the right to deny entrance to this tournament from anyone who has shown a lack of activity in the past or for other reason, in either tournaments and / or general posting.
Team Rules:
- The following Pokémon are not permitted:
Arceus
Darkrai
Deoxys
Deoxys-A
Deoxys-S
Dialga
Giratina
Giratina-O
Groudon
Ho-Oh
Kyogre
Lugia
Manaphy
Mewtwo
Palkia
Rayquaza
Reshiram
Shaymin-S
Zekrom - The item Soul Dew is banned.
- All Dream World abilities and moves are allowed.
- Team Preview is off.
- The following battle clauses are in effect:
Evasion Clause
Sleep Clause
Freeze Clause
OHKO Clause
Self-KO Clause
Species Clause
Prizes:
- First place: a fabulous set of Kanto gym badges!
I am not in any way affiliated with Mr. Glyph. This prize may be replaced with something of approximately equal monetary value, plausibly similar to second and third place prizes, in the case that Mr. Glyph either discontinues production or does not want his badges to be used as a prize.
- Second place: $15 worth of games from Steam or any other similar service. Other games that support gifting, such as Minecraft, are also acceptable.
- Third place: $10 worth of games from Steam or any other similar service.
- In the case that the first place winner does not want his or her designated prize, he or she can "drop down" a level, and take any other prize.
- Prizes do not necessarily have to be delivered to the prize earned. If he or she wishes, the prize may be gifted to someone else.
As always, but with an addition:
SWF Username:
Pokémon Online Username:
Skype Name (optional):
Time Zone:
Sign-ups will close when 16 people have signed up. Anyone interested after the quota has been filled will be used as a substitute.
[collapse="Contestant details"]1. SWF Username: UltiMario
Pokémon Online Username: UltiMario
Skype Name: ultima_mario
Time Zone: EST
2. SWF Username: SilentVerse
Pokémon Online Username: SilentVerse, VileSenters,
Time Zone: MST (GMT -7)
3. Username: vVv ChiboSempai
Pokemon Online: Chibo
Skype: ChiboSempai
AIM: ChiboSempai
Time Zone: EST
4. SWF Username: Terywj
Pokémon Online Username: Terywj
Skype Name (optional): Terywj Lee
Time Zone: EST
5. SWF Username: Fuelbi
Pokemon Online Username: Fuel
Time Zone: EST
6. SWF Username: TheRealGamer
Pokémon Online Username: appleseed
Skype Name (optional): RealGamer123
Time Zone: Eastern Time zone
7. Username: Yoshididdy
Pokemon Online: Chimpakt
Skype: shamasshareef
AIM: lbjames92
Time Zone: EST
8. SWF Username: Moozle
Pokémon Online Username: Moozle
Skype Name (optional): Moozle
Time Zone: Central
9. Username: Angel.M <3 C:
Pokemon online: Sapphire Birch
Aim: leafninjamarth
Timezone: EST
10. Username: Punishment Divine
Pokemon Online: Punishment Divine
AIM: secondreference
Time Zone: EST
11. Username: Wrath`
Time Zone: EST
AIM: Akward Seabass
PO Name: Seabass
12. Username: Riddle
Time Zone: EST
AIM: RiddleSWF
Po Name: Riddle
13. SWF Username: ss118
Pokémon Online Username: articanus
Time Zone: EST
14. SWF username: why is this required for tournament entry when it's painfully obvious
Pokemon Online Username: Alice Margatroid
Time Zone: PST
15. SWF Username: BLM (black mage)
Pokémon Online Username: B.L.M
Skype Name (optional): none
Time Zone: EST
16. SWF Username: Circa
Pokémon Online Username: Circa
Time Zone: EST[/collapse]
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