Smogon Premier League VIII - Week 6

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Reminders:

On Sportsmanship
Note the sportsmanship infraction may be used liberally this SPL, and any unsportsmanlike conduct on the forums, in #spl / #pokemon / any of the semiofficial tier channels, or in opposing SPL team channels (I won't infract for you being a dick in your own SPL team channel unless the situation is so extreme I feel I absolutely have to make an exception (consider basically any masterclass interaction ever)), will be grounds for an infraction. We encourage you to play semi-aggressively, but don't be a Masterclass.

~ Aldaron

On Scheduling Matches
I'm sure plenty of you have come across activity drama while scheduling matches. I'm here to reduce the arbitrary element associated with some of these decisions. It is entirely your decision to adhere to these STRONG RECOMMENDATIONS, but note that if you choose not to, I'll most likely ignore any pleading from your end.

YOU MUST ACTIVATE YOUR VM WALL IF YOU WISH TO PLAY IN THIS TOURNAMENT. THIS IS HOW ALL OFFICIAL SCHEDULING WILL BE HANDLED.

Once that week's thread is posted, you have up to 48 hours to contact your opponent ON HIS VM WALL and mention your timezone and exactly what dates, what time ranges you are available, and where you will battle. Note that the default accepted sim and server is the official server on Showdown/Smogon Tournament Server. You must provide at least 3 different time ranges at least 48 hours from the timestamp of your message, with at least 2 that are 24-hours apart from each other. The minimum and maximum length for 1 time range is 30 minutes, and the minimum difference between the 3 required time ranges is 3 hours. If you give 3 time ranges that stick with this policy, you can give any additional time ranges at any time you please.

NOTE THAT THIS SCENARIO INVOLVES RESPONSE DYNAMICS; THERE IS SOMEONE WHO WILL CONTACT FIRST AND SOMEONE WHO RESPOND...THESE REQUIREMENTS ARE NOT FOR BOTH OF YOU TO ASSUME TO YOU CAN BE FIRST CONTACTS...WHOEVER CONTACTS FIRST IS THE FIRST, AND THE OTHER DEFAULTS TO THE RESPONDER. THIS SHOULD BE OBVIOUS BUT SOME OF YOU ARE DUMB.

Once your opponent has contacted you, you now have up until 72 hours after the week's thread has been posted (NOT after your opponent's message) to respond with times that are good for you. What this means is that if both of you spend the maximum time contacting and responding, you should have back and forth collaboration at a maximum of 72 hours after the round has been posted, with both parties given an additional 24 hours to prepare for the battle should it be scheduled as soon as required. If none of the opponent's proposed time ranges are good for you, you must respond with alternative time ranges.

The first opponent now has X hours to prepare for the battle (if the second opponent agreed to some time) or 24 hours to contact a TD if, for whatever reason, this second set of time ranges does not suit the first opponent. Note this should be an absolute last measure.

Once a time is agreed upon, please make a message on your opponent's VM wall between 10 minutes and 1 second before the agreed upon time and say you are ready to battle and then get to agreed upon location (regardless of whether or not your opponent sends you a response VM). Please protect yourself by making this message, as it makes decisions much easier. You will be required to wait for your opponent for the duration of the time range.

If neither of you contact each other before 48 hours after the thread has been posted, you're both opening yourself up to a potential no contest or substitution. If I look at the situation, I might just determine I'm going to no contest, or whatever based on however I'm feeling at that moment. Don't leave yourself and your team vulnerable to this.

Just because at anytime one of the responders does not respond within the given range does not give you automatic activity win credentials. If they don't contact at all on your VM wall up until 48 hours before the end of the round (note, I'm not going to take irc or sim messages as evidence due to how easily they can be doctored...so if you want to protect yourself, stick to the VM messages), then you obviously have activity win justification. You WILL contact your opponent in a timely manner. However, if they do contact you at all after the suggested response time and before 48 hours before the end of the round, you are required to respond before 24 hours before the end of the round with 2 1-hour time ranges at least 1 hour apart before the end of the round. The opponent, since he did not stick to the proposed response schedule, WILL BE REQUIRED TO PLAY AT ONE OF YOUR NEWLY SUGGESTED TIMES, so you have the advantage here. This obviously puts a bit of an emphasis on the last 48 hours of each round (as is standard operating procedure for most of our official team tournaments anyway), so I will try my best to keep the last 48 hours of the round as close to the majority of the weekend for as much of the world as I can.

If you follow all of these guidelines, you will a.) most likely get your match done with minimal issue or b.) protect yourself and your team from an undue no contest or activity decision. Yes, I hate activity decisions in official tournaments. Yes, I will do my best to prevent activity decisions in the playoffs (the qualifying round is fair game however and I will have no problem issuing an activity call here), but don't push your luck.

Here is an example of how following this would work:

Week 1 thread is posted June 7, 2013 at 12:00 AM. Its deadline is June 14, 2013 at 11:59PM. User A and User B are matched up. User A contacts User B on his VM wall on June 7, at 9:00 PM (47 hours after the thread was posted, so ok), and gives 4 time ranges: June 10, from 7:00-7:30 PM (22 hours after the timestamp of his message, which is only ok so long as at minimum 3 of the other proposed time ranges adhere to the requirements), June 11, from 9:00-9:30 PM (48 hours after the timestamp of his message, which is ok), June 12, from 6:00-6:30 PM (69 hours after timestamp of his message, so ok, but only 21 hours after the earliest time range that is 48 hours after the timestamp), and June 12, from 9:00-9:30 PM (72 hours after the timestamp, so ok, and 24 hours after a legal time range and 3 hours after another legal time range). The June 11 and both June 12 time ranges satisfy the requirements, so User A can propose his first June 10 time range as well. User B responds on June 10, at 8:00 PM (23 hours after User A contacted him, so ok), and picks June 11, at 9:00 PM to battle, which is ok because it is 24 hours after his own response.

You'll note I made most of my response ranges multiples of 24 hours, but also included 24 hours. This means I expect you to be able to check Smogon at least once a day. If that is not feasible, you put yourself at risk.

~ Aldaron

On Disconnecting and timing out drama
Ah, the big beefcake. I'm going to go ahead and put this out there: we reserve the right to judge any individual match on a case by case basis, regardless of assumed precedence set. If you don't like that, you are welcome to not play. Be aware of this.

Also, to protect yourself as much as possible from DCs and timer issues, play on Showdown (because it has an at least semi reliable system of rejoining after a DC) and make a gentleman's agreement to not hit timer and not be hour-a-move dicks.

That said, here is the main way we will probably handle DCs / timing out:

To handle all DC cases...you're gonna submit your teams before the match. Prague Kick and Esteemed SPL Host Ginku, who are not playing nor affiliated with any team, will manage this team submission form. You don't have to submit, but if you do, you protect yourself from the opponent taking a win. If you do DC (and you can't rejoin the battle) and you haven't submitted your team, your opponent will have the right to take the win. Yes, I'll most likely make a judgment call if he is on his last turn with 1 Pokemon at 5% and paralyzed and with you at 6 100% health Pokemon, because the only way to lose this is to misclick multiple times. However, if you're at 6 100% Pokemon and your opponent is at last Pokemon 10% needing to crit flinch you 6 - 12 times for the win, I'll give him the win if you DC and haven't submitted your team.

I know people like Philip7086 will beg me "to use common sense for a judgment call" for all cases and I would normally agree, but I am giving you all a 100% out by allowing you to submit your team. Basically, submit your team, and protect yourself and your team from any and all DCs. It's a simple procedure that removes almost all subjectivity from a decision regarding a DC. Unlike with the scheduling restrictions, all you have to do is submit the team your are using at anytime before the match takes place, and you'll have 100% protected yourself. Read this rule and understand this now before you join the tournament. Since I'm stating this now, I'm basically going to ignore you if you DC, didn't submit a team, and "had a guaranteed win." Expect it. Also note that I'm going to let the PLAYER (not the team), decide whether he is going to take the win or go another route (replay same moves, replay different teams, etc.).

To further ensure no funny business, if, in the case of a DC replay, there is any concern from either party about funny business, both parties have the right to request a screenshot of the current Pokemon's stats in battle. This is irrelevant for Showdown as you can simply rejoin a battle there, but PO allows you to see the currently out Pokemon's stats if you scroll over it with your mouse. Just hit PrntScrn (windows) while scrolling over it if requested by your opponent, preferably with proof that it is a screenshot of that actual battle (consider including the opponent's request in the battle screen in the screenshot).

Regarding time outs, they are a bit more complex, specifically because some timeouts are due to DCs. The best we can do for this scenario is say that there is some number between 1 minute and 2 minutes (which we will not publicize) that we will set as a limit for timing out, and if you timeout with more than that limit time remaining, we'll assume it is a DC, whereas the opposite is a true timeout. A true timeout defaults to a loss, while the DC timeout is prone to the DC rules (did you submit or not).

~ Aldaron
(Use https://cryptobin.co/ to secure your team with a password if you don't trust us)

This should be a smooth ride if everyone follows the instructions above (schedule via VM, submit teams, don't start drama for no reason), but it won't be.

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Indie Scooters (4) vs Team Raiders (8)

SM OU: TheThorn vs Nedor
SM OU: Welli0u vs reyscarface
SM OU: obii vs TDK
SM Ubers: Gunner Rohan vs Hack
SM LC: Star vs mad0ka
SM DOU: Biosci vs Stax
ORAS OU: Axel10 vs Jimmy Turtwig
BW OU: Jirachee vs Jayde
DPP OU: Philip7086 vs roscoe
ADV OU: Ojama vs UD
GSC OU: Mr.378 vs BKC
RBY OU: Crystal_ vs Tobes


Cryonicles (2) vs Stark Sharks (10)

SM OU: Poek vs Updated Kanto
SM OU: Zamrock vs reiku
SM OU: R!cardo vs PDC
SM Ubers: Fireburn vs Minority
SM LC: Ice Tea vs Vubon
SM DOU: njnp vs I Am A Rookie
ORAS OU: psychicmewtwo vs Trosko
BW OU: SoulWind vs dice
DPP OU: SUPER MARSHALL vs ToF
ADV OU: Fakes vs undisputed
GSC OU: Colchonero vs Bomber
RBY OU: Peasounay vs The_Chaser


Ever Grande BIGS (6) vs Congregation of the Classiest (6)

SM OU: Posho vs Lcans
SM OU: Finchinator vs z0mOG
SM OU: Mael vs Lysergic
SM Ubers: Level 56 vs FAJI
SM LC: ZoroDark vs Heysup
SM DOU: DaAwesomeDude1 vs Braverius
ORAS OU: Genesis7 vs ADVANTAGE
BW OU: Ciele vs Eo Ut Mortus
DPP OU: Porengan vs 6A9 Ace Matador
ADV OU: dekzeh vs Danilo
GSC OU: d0nut vs Earthworm
RBY OU: Alexander. vs Lusch


Wifi Wolfpack (8) vs Circus Maximus Tigers (4)

SM OU: FlamingVictini vs Eternal Spirit
SM OU: Gingy vs Steve Angello
SM OU: Snowy. vs p2
SM Ubers: The Trap God vs Edgar
SM LC: Sken vs Zebraiken
SM DOU: SamVGC vs MajorBowman
ORAS OU: Chill Shadow vs Nintendi
BW OU: LuckOverSkill vs Tokyo Tom
DPP OU: aim vs Tamahome
ADV OU: Astamatitos vs JabbaTheGriffin
GSC OU: Fear vs Century Express
RBY OU: Nails vs Golden Gyarados


Firebot Falcons (7) vs Alpha Ruiners (5)

SM OU: Leftiez vs ABR
SM OU: Sweepage vs blunder
SM OU: Cicada vs GeeMick
SM Ubers: Lacus Clyne vs Astounded
SM LC: zf vs Christo
SM DOU: finally vs Memoric
ORAS OU: Get This Money vs Rodriblutar
BW OU: dEnIsSsS vs sugarhigh
DPP OU: Sauga vs august
ADV OU: Triangles vs Golden Sun
GSC OU: Mr.E vs idiotfrommars
RBY OU: Bedschibaer vs MetalGro$$

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Deadline is Sunday, February 26th, at 11:59 PM EST.

If I made a mistake with any matchups or names, please contact Esteemed SPL Host Ginku or me.

60/60 matches completed
 
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SM OU: TheThorn vs Nedor
SM OU: Welli0u vs reyscarface
SM OU: obii vs TDK
ORAS OU: Axel10 vs Jimmy Turtwig

SM OU: Poek vs Updated Kanto
SM OU: Zamrock vs reiku
SM OU: R!cardo vs PDC
ORAS OU: psychicmewtwo vs Trosko

SM OU: Posho vs Adam
SM OU: Finchinator vs z0mOG
SM OU: Mael vs Reymedy
ORAS OU: Genesis7 vs ADVANTAGE

SM OU: FlamingVictini vs Eternal Spirit
SM OU: Gingy vs Steve Angello
SM OU: Snowy. vs p2
ORAS OU: Chill Shadow vs Nintendi

SM OU: Leftiez vs ABR
SM OU: Sweepage vs blunder
SM OU: Cicada vs GeeMick
ORAS OU: Get This Money vs Rodriblutar
 
DPP OU: Philip7086 vs roscoe
ADV OU: Ojama vs UD (OJ is in great form, i dont think finchinator will ever be the same)

DPP OU: SUPER MARSHALL vs ToF
ADV OU: Fakes vs undisputed

DPP OU: Porengan vs 6A9 Ace Matador (gonna back this man until he gets a W)
ADV OU: dekzeh vs Danilo

DPP OU: aim vs Tamahome
ADV OU: Astamatitos vs JabbaTheGriffin

DPP OU: Sauga vs august
ADV OU: Triangles vs Golden Sun
 

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matches im looking forward to

SM OU: Poek vs Updated Kanto > kekto's spl debut. do i need to say anything else?

SM OU: Mael vs Reymedy > cant wait for reymedy to drop his 4th L of the season in as many starts

RBY OU: Alexander. vs Lusch > italian prodige alexander is going to lead the bigs to another victory
 
SM OU: TheThorn vs Nedor
SM OU: Welli0u vs reyscarface
SM OU: obii vs TDK

SM OU: Poek vs Updated Kanto
SM OU: Zamrock vs reiku
SM OU: R!cardo vs PDC

SM OU: Posho vs Adam
SM OU: Finchinator vs z0mOG
SM OU: Mael vs Reymedy

SM OU: FlamingVictini vs Eternal Spirit
SM OU: Gingy vs Steve Angello
SM OU: Snowy. vs p2

SM OU: Leftiez vs ABR
SM OU: Sweepage vs blunder
SM OU: Cicada vs GeeMick

 
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SM OU: Mael vs Reymedy
DPP OU: Porengan vs 6A9 Ace Matador
SM OU: Gingy vs Steve Angello
BW OU: SoulWind vs dice
ADV OU: Fakes vs undisputed

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SM OU: Poek 55-45 Updated Kanto kek, lol
SM OU: Zamrock 55-45 reiku east > spain it has been proven (reiku is still a beastgod of massive proportions though)
SM OU: R!cardo 40-60 PDC possibly the most memey game of all time
ORAS OU: psychicmewtwo 40-60 Trosko this dude is deadass a beast. pm me for metal tips though bro black veil brides and shit is embarassing (parkway drive is cool as far as metalcore goes though)
BW OU: SoulWind 50-50 dice man bw has definitely been the best metagame matchup- and game-wise this season, don't see that changing. anyway this will be sick nasty as usual, both are being Innovative and playing like beasts and repping #overused and whatever
DPP OU: SUPER MARSHALL 45-55 ToF could go either way both in result and in being a good battle, depending
ADV OU: Fakes 50-50 undisputed both been solid so far
GSC OU: Colchonero 50-50 Bomber uhhhhhhh
RBY OU: Peasounay 60-40 The_Chaser something something neet virgin neckbeards on a pokemon forum

SM OU: Finchinator 56-44 z0mOG next spl i'm managing and drafting all the kekkers for the ultimate 4chan experience, it just feels wrong that they aren't together tbh. anyway finch managed to piss off cbb with whatever he did last week so he's probably doing something right
SM OU: Mael 60-40 Reymedy filthy croat
ORAS OU: Genesis7 60-40 ADVANTAGE genesis really showed his stuff last week, stupid jokes aside
BW OU: Ciele 55-45 Eo Ut Mortus lmao so glad this is happening. will surely be "lit" GL
DPP OU: Porengan 40-60 6A9 Ace Matador rebel rebel
ADV OU: dekzeh 49-51 Danilo nilo was actually looking mad fearsome last week since he decided to bring a team that can actually do damage which is what he's best at. hope to see the trend continue, it'll make for a good game should it not rain in brazil
GSC OU: d0nut 40-60 Earthworm hard to go against him man
RBY OU: Alexander. 52-48 Lusch following in the footsteps of nails... Use Rhydon

SM OU: Gingy 58-42 Steve Angello will doubtless be an explosive display of genius
SM Ubers: The Trap God 55-45 Edgar edgar is my guy too but GO TTG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ORAS OU: Chill Shadow 40-60 Nintendi no idea what the meme is here but the guy is good though cs is no slouch
BW OU: LuckOverSkill 40-60 McMeghan as unbearable as smogtours is when he plays its tough to predict against ro and his rekindled love for politoed
DPP OU: aim 55-45 Tamahome joe played like a cornered animal last week, very impressive. tamas teams have been varied and solid if not a bit offbeat so itll be an interesting 1
ADV OU: Astamatitos 60-40 JabbaTheGriffin astas in the zone
GSC OU: Fear 70-30 Century Express dont get me wrong ce is quite good at oras/bw but geez man I assume the tigers know something I don't so I'll put this down to a thunder hit-miss
RBY OU: Nails 60-40 Golden Gyarados GO NAILS GO

SM OU: Leftiez 48-52 ABR afrab vs "afrab," lol
SM OU: Sweepage 50-50 blunder deadass flames my guy
ORAS OU: Get This Money 51-49 Rodriblutar get this money is still a contender for worst username of all time. will be an Interesting battle
BW OU: dEnIsSsS 49-51 sugarhigh lol christ
DPP OU: Sauga 50-50 august a7x is on a roll, aug has been dialing up the interesting stuff
ADV OU: Triangles 41-59 Golden Sun gs has been playing like hes been threatened with death should he misplay once, a man rejuvenated indeed. if triangles can recapture his w1 magic this will be intense as fuck
GSC OU: Mr.E 50-50 idiotfrommars both have been unpredictable in many ways this season
RBY OU: Bedschibaer 51-49 MetalGro$$ youre a coward. stick your knife in me

raider nation baby
 
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