The Doubles Open V - Round 4

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kamikaze

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Welcome to the third iteration of the Doubles Open
Tournament Rules:
  • General tournament rules and regulations can be found here
  • Grand Slam rules can be found here
  • Standard ORAS Doubles OU
  • Best of three, single elimination.
  • Battles should take place on Pokemon Showdown!
  • ORAS cartridge win conditions are in place, there are no ties
  • Tiers are locked at the beginning of each round
Identity

I expect many battles to be completed under alts and I expect many battles to be completed on other servers to prevent scouting. These kind of factors are pretty bad for tournament security, and thus I will make this clear: If I hear any whispers of identity theft (battling as someone you are not) or proxy battling (helping someone else battle through pm) I will not be pleased and I will take severe actions.

Scouting

Next, I do not want to hear anything about counterteaming, at all. It is the silliest thing I have ever heard, any battler worth their marbles has more than one team. Do not complain about it. I also don't want to hear about any forceful scouting, whether it be spying on another teams irc channel or following your opponent around on PO. There is a difference between "ipl is known for using stall" and "let me follow ipl around all day to watch all his battles since I am his opponent". I expect a lot of the former and none of the latter.

With that said, I give permission to all battlers to ask any person spectating their battle to leave if they do not want them watching. However, given the fact that this is the big stage, I am sure a lot of people want to watch, so don't be too mean.

Timer Clause

As for taking long between moves, if your opponent asks you to hurry up, please oblige. If you are doing a damage calc for a key turn that is one thing, but prolonging every move is suspicious and annoying. Don't do it. Furthermore, Battle Timeout is a rule for a reason. If you run out of time, you lose, simple as that. It does not matter what your opponent says. Do not battle if you think you will have to leave mid battle, and instead reschedule for a better time. Timing out is still classified as a loss, unless the reason for timing out is a disconnection. If there is any suspicion that a disconnect was carried out deliberately to take advantage of this rule in any way, we reserve the right to exercise a harsh punishment.

Disconnections

If a player disconnects and either player contends that they could still win, the optimal solution is to recreate the exact situation the disconnection occurred at during the battle. If it is agreed between players that this is not feasible due to unreasonable battle length, highly improbable circumstances, or some other reason, the player who did not disconnect may choose to rematch with either the same teams or (the option to use) new teams. Timing out is still classified as a loss, unless the reason for timing out is a disconnection. If there is any suspicion that a disconnect was carried out deliberately to take advantage of this rule in any way, we reserve the right to exercise a harsh punishment. Do not do it.

I know that was a lot to read, but it is all necessary for me to have posted here so everyone can see it in the case of a dispute. I don't want any confusion or any problems.


Battle Clauses:
  • Evasion Clause
  • OHKO Clause
  • Species Clause
  • Swagger Clause
  • Timed Battle
  • Team Preview
For planning purposes the following is the round schedule and it will be adhered to strictly

Jul 21: Signups
Jul 25: Round 1
Aug 4: Round 2
Aug 13: Round 3
Aug 22: Round 4
Aug 29: Round 5
Sep 5: Round 6
Sep 12: Round 7
Sep 19: Round 8


kamikaze Specific Hosting Rules
  • Contact your opponent as soon as possible (preferably through Smogon VM's since I can check it). Make your scheduling absolutely clear by specifying specific time, day, and timezone if you want to be favored in activity decisions (Dont just be like "lets play Thursday afternoon"). Also you really should specify where to meet as a courtesy to your opp more so. I dont wanna deal with two users getting into an argument where they were both online but in different places
  • If you contact with a method outside of smogon vm's then please post "contacted" in this thread so I am aware and wont sub you out
  • I will be doing regular activity sweeps so subs can be given the chance to play if there is an inactive user in any matchup so please do one of the above within the next couple days. First activity sweep will be within 72 hours of the round going up

Round 4 Pairings (courtesy of talkingtree)
TDK vs MajorBowman
Rare Poison vs Star.
Memoric vs Rafooa11
Demantoid vs Mint16
RedMaxx vs marilli
ScrubADabDab vs Mizuhime
(Winner of kamikaze vs xzern) vs Croven
Asukara vs MONNA LUSA
Stax vs Kudasai
Real FV13 vs frania
Snowy. vs checkmater75
DennisEG vs Oma
Nails vs Alice Kazumi
p2 vs Level 51
Dominatio vs Tricking
DaAwesomeDude1 vs (Winner of Derk vs Lorda Floterchai)

DEADLINE IS AUGUST 28th 11:59 PM EDT (GMT -4)

All extension matches from Round 3 are expected to finish by Wednesday 8/24 11:59pm EDT (GMT -4)
 
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kamikaze

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taking activity on xzern. We scheduled for 6pm EDT and I waited a good 40 minutes after the game time and he never showed up. I put aside work to get the match done so I need to work for the rest of tonight unfortunately.
talked with mizuhime at 6pm and waited until 6:40pm as shown in the bottom right
 

Akaru Kokuyo

Discord: Akaruyo
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Little question:
We were given an extension, told me to look for him on Tuesday or Wednesday on smogtours, I was on both days (even though on Tuesday I got a lil bit late for him). What happens next ?-?
Told him to search for me again, didnt replied nor yesterday nor today >_>
 

Fran

formerly Frania
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DPL Champion
Lost g1 due to Internet rip. Not even 1 turn. G3 haxed as fuck.
i read somewhere that if you disconect its up to the tournament host to decide if you should redo the game or should anyone be given the win (if one side was winning regardless of the disconect)
 

Vinc2612

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i read somewhere that if you disconect its up to the tournament host to decide if you should redo the game or should anyone be given the win (if one side was winning regardless of the disconect)
Unfortunately, this is not a thing. Let's see a simple example for the explanation: player A doesn't know if he wants steel wings or tailwind on his Talonflame. He gives it tailwind, see at team preview that his opponent has a Diancie. He could abuse such rule by disconnecting on purpose, asking the rematch but with steel wings this time.

I'm not saying that someone would actually do that, but for obvious reason, the guy who did not disconnect should not suffer any possible consequence from the Internet of the other guy. That's why he is the one who picks between rematch same teams, rematch different teams or taking the win.

In a playoffs situation, you can send your team to a TD to protect yourself from those instances. That way, we know that you can't modify anything in your team. But the sheer number of battles makes it impractical in the regular season.
 
My opponent and I scheduled for 2pm (gmt+10) today, but my opponent failed to show over the hour duration i waited. I'm about to go out to eat with the fam and have a busy day tomorrow, so activity.

 

raf

quite alright
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Had to play against memoric 40 mins ago.

Ive been waiting and he isnt on yet.
The thing is, tomorrow is a sunday and i have to be with family and stuff since its my last holiday, then i have school from monday so its gonna be kinda tough starting a new year.
 
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