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Kennisiou · Last edited by Kennisiou on Wed Jun 18, 08 2:16 PM; edited 7 times in total.

I remember back when I joined, BC was going through a huge pokemon craze... I figured that right now, since a lot of people have reset their games, would be a good time to try to organize another BC pokemon championship.

The championship would be a tournament with two divisions: one for game-resetters and one for people that didn't reset. This would mean that someone who had reset their game wouldn't auto-lose round one to a team that's been perfected and purified for over a year. After both divisions have finished their games, the champions from each division play eachother for first place over-all. Without further ado, here are the rules.

Rules:

Evasion clause
No use of moves or items that increase evasion. Abilities granting conditional evasion are okay, as is making use of them. Sand cloak/Snow cloak can be used on a sandstorm/hailstorm team without breaking this rule. It is also okay to use acupressure (the random stat boost move), even though it can randomly increase evasion. Use of these moves in a match invalidates the match. It must be replayed without the evading pokemon in the team, or without the evasion item being held. If the pokemon was using an evasion move, that pokemon is banned from your team for the rest of the tournament.

No ubers
We'll use Smogon's uber tier list with the exception that Latias isn't uber unless it's holding Soul Dew and Wobuffet is uber. If your Latias is holding Soul Dew, it will be obvious because of how much damage it will deal. This rule is to prevent the incredibly fast-paced play that comes from allowing use of legends like Mewtwo, Palkia, Kyogre, and Rayqaza, and to stop the incredible stalling powers of Lugia, Ho-oh, and Giratina. Ditto is also banned, not for power reasons, but to prevent situations where both players are left with only their ditto surviving (struggle matches are annoying). Teams containing these pokemon will not be verified. Using Soul Dew Latias carries the same penalty as using an impossible hack.

No impossibly-hacked pokemon
Okay, this is tricky... Technically... You can use a hacked pokemon, but no illegal movesets [aqua jet and ice punch on an Azumarill is as illegal as ice beam on an infernape, it has to be a moveset of moves that you can put on the same pokemon in the same game without the aid of a hacking device], no illegal stats [anything with IV's that are all 30 or 31 is assumed hacked, anything with 999 in all stats is hacked, anything with any one impossible stat is hacked, anything with more than max EVs is hacked, etc.] otherwise, if you want to use a hacking device to make a realistic pokemon in a reasonable amount of time, that's fine. Breaking this rule disqualifies you from the tournament.

No OHKO moves
This rule is self-explanatory, but I'll explain it more anyways. Lock-on and Sheer Cold is an unavoidable OHKO, exept by protect/detect, and we don't want to make sure everyone packs those moves on every pokemon to avoid getting killed by a single guy. Breaking this rule invalidates your match, you have to play it with a different team, and whichever pokemon had this move in its moveset is not allowed on your team for the rest of the tournament.

Sleep clause
Only one pokemon per team can be put to sleep at a time. A pokemon with natural cure that's been retreated doesn't count as being asleep. A pokemon that rested to sleep doesn't count as being asleep. This means that if my snorlax uses rest, then I switch it out to a natural cure blissey and the opponent's gengar is allowed to use hypnosis, then if I switch to my Umbreon he can use hypnosis again. Breaking of this rule the first time in a match means the match is invalid and can be replayed at the request of the opponent. Breaking it a second time in the same match means that you lose the match.

Species clause
You cannot have two of the same pokemon on the same team. Breaking this rule means you have to re-sign-up your team.

Selfdestruct clause
If both players only have one pokemon left, a move that causes both pokemon to die (either from recoil or as an effect of the move) counts as a loss for the move's user, not the recipient. So an Electrode as the last pokemon exploding and killing a Snorlax means the Electrode loses.

Rules of matches
Unlike other BC tournaments, we don't all have to be online at the same time. For the first round, players have a week to find their opponent for their first match and play them. As long as their next opponent is available as well, they can play their next match in that week, too. This means that people won't have to stay up late or get up early to deal with time zone issues in order to make the tournament. Matches are 6 vs. 6 single battle level 100 set. Matches not played in this way are invalid, and need to be replayed correctly, except for the following occurrence. If one player's team has had enough of its pokemon banned due to breaking of the evasion clause / OHKO clause, they must play the match with a team of as many unbanned pokemon as they can and the match is legal. Their opponent may still use a full team of 6.

Rules for signing up
You sign up a team of 8 pokemon by posting that team in this thread, along with your FC (it's okay to just point out that it's in your signature), and whether or not your game has been reset (this decides your division). You're allowed to make the team you use out of 6 of any of the 8 pokemon you signed up. The sign up list will be made public, so be careful of that. You don't need to make movesets, natures, or hold items public for the pokemon that you sign up, but if you are suspected of hacking or using Soul Dew Latias you will need to PM me your pokemon's stats, and the opponent needs to PM me the stats of one of their pokemon that faced this one down, and a description of the situation that made them think it was hacked. I'll check to see if this situation can occur without hacks and, if it can, then everything's fine.

Re-signing up
As long as sign ups still are continuing, you may sign up a different team of 8 instead of your original. I'm doing this because I know some of the game resetters may not have a team that they like for this tournament at the moment and could be busy training a team, but don't want to be caught only having half of the pokemon with the team they signed up. The rule applies to both divisions, though, to be fair.

Sign ups:

No-Reset Division
Kennisiou: (Spiritomb, Infernape, Alakazam, Umbreon, Milotic, Snorlax, Arcanine, Latias){2363-2868-5636}
Turtleman: (Exeggutor, Crobat, Umbreon, Electrode, Charizard, Hitmonchan, Drifblim, Zapdos) {1762-3285-6753}

Reset Division
Jumpin' Jack Flash (?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?) {????-????-????}

Prizes:

That's right, prizes. This tournament will have four awards given out: an overall first place award, an overall second place award, and a separate second place award for each division. I'll be able to provide each of these awards, but... That's not how I'm going to run this tournament. Since I'm a participant, I want a prize if I win, too, right? So I want someone's help with this. If someone can sign up as another prize-giver, I'd appreciate it. They'll give either first or second place (deciding on who the first-place winner wants a prize from) overall prizes and one of the second place division prizes, while I give the other prize. Here's how the prize system will work:

First place (overall): Wins an uber-tier legend from R/S/E (if they choose me as prize-giver) or an uber-tier legend from FR/LG or from D/P or wins an event legend (if they choose the other prize-giver).
Second place (overall): Wins either one of the regi-trio from R/S/E (if the first-place winner chooses the other person as prize-giver, I give second place their prize) or wins one of the runners or birds from FR/LG or one of the fairies from D/P (if first-place chooses me as prize-giver, the other giver gives a prize of matching power)
Second place (division): The prize-givers decide amongst themselves which division they'll give the second-place prize to. Second place division prizes are a useful hold item (leftovers, focus sash, king's rock, etc) on a pokemon that is hard to obtain (one of the starters, a rare non-legend, maybe a shiny). The division-winners can request their pokemon to be any of the starters that the division-prize-giver can breed for them, otherwise the prize-giver determines the prize.

For first and second place overall, I'd like to emphasize, the giver chooses which legend to give, and not the receiver. I'll try to farm some good-natured legends off of my emerald version, but I don't know how lucky I'll be (or how willing I'll be to part with them once I have them XD).

Sign-ups will end in a week or two, and the tournament starts right after that.
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Kennisiou · Level 21: Purple Prophecy **Posts:** 1541 **Timestamp:** Sat Jun 14, 08 9:35 AM

Signing up for the no reset division, FC in sig.
Team: Spiritomb, Umbreon, Infernape, Alakazam, Milotic, Snorlax, Latias, Arcanine.
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turtleman

turtleman - 1762-3285-6753
Pokemon I'm using:
Exeggutor
Crobat
Umbreon
Electrode
Charizard
Hitmonchan
Drifblim
Zapdos

If you could notice, I have 4 Exploders on my list, My team doesn't fuck around.
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Kennisiou · Level 21: Purple Prophecy **Posts:** 1541 **Timestamp:** Sat Jun 14, 08 6:49 PM

I know that you've reset, so I'm putting you in the reset division, but if you want you can sign up for the no-reset, too and I'll change it.

Also, I'm considering a clause in the no-reset division that fully bans hacked teams, just so you're aware. I figure people in that division are likely to be playing with teams made to beat the elite four anyways, so a hacked competitive team would kill them. If you win the reset division, you can use a hack device if you want to make your team better able to stand up with the no-reset team, but... Again, no unrealistic hacks.
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turtleman

Actually, since I've beat the elite 4 last thursday, I've been competitive training like crazy. If you want, we could battle with 3 of my newly EV trained pokemanz.
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Kennisiou · Level 21: Purple Prophecy **Posts:** 1541 **Timestamp:** Sat Jun 14, 08 9:18 PM

So should I put you in the no-reset division, or do you feel like you want to see if you can top the reset division before your epic confrontation with your rival? :P I'd like a straightforward answer about that.
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turtleman

Jumpin' Jack Flash · Level 27: Master Sword **Posts:** 4153 **Timestamp:** Sun Jun 15, 08 11:21 AM

I might sign up, depending on when the actual tournament is going down.
I'm getting a copy of Diamond off of my bro, and I'll have to start a new game...

So just sign me up in the reset division with an indefinite team.
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Kennisiou

Well, sign ups will go on for two weeks, longer if we don't get enough people for either division and there are people saying they need more time to finish a team.
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Jumpin' Jack Flash · Level 27: Master Sword **Posts:** 4153 **Timestamp:** Sun Jun 15, 08 11:42 AM