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The Combatants Cup: UPN Edition
Back before the Compacalyse of 2013, there was an idea. An idea to create a real, sports-style league for those interested in Pokémon. With one successful iteration taking place in the wasteland that was Serebii Comp, a decision was made to tweak things and introduce the tournament to the UPN community. As such I am proud to present: The Combatants Cup: UPN Edition Table of Contents: 1: Introduction 2: Rules 3: Signup Information 4: Draft Information & Results 5: Submitting Battles 6: In-Team Substitutions 7: Off-Team Substitutions 8: Substitute List: 9: Rosters 10: Schedule 11: Week 1 12: Week 2 13: Week 3 14: Week 4 15: Week 5 16: Week 6 17: Week 7 18: Playoffs Round 1 - Semifinals 19: All-Star Week 20: Finals 21: Regular Season Records 22: Regular Season Awards 23: Championship Presentation This will run as a team-style tournament, but teams will not be submitted by the participants. There have been assigned 6 Team Captains, who will draft teams of 5 (including the captains) once the signup period ends. The tournament, as a team style tournament, will run in a round-robin format. This means that each team will play every other team once, followed by a 4-team playoff. Each match will consist of a best-of-3 series of RANDBATS! Lineups will be submitted by the captains prior to week 1 and will rotate throughout the tournament. This ensures that all participants will have a chance to participate, instead of having one or two players sitting the bench for the whole tournament and thus defeating the entire reason that they signed up. Upon completion of the round robin format we will enter a 4-team playoff to decide the final champion. Oh, it's also important to note that the almighty Jerichi has approved ASB/WF prizes! The members of the winning team will be awarded their choice of either 5 SP or 2 Shards, whichever they prefer! Finally, we have a Discord Server set up for this (Huge thanks to Apollo for doing most of the heavy lifting with that). The server can be found here I've selected 7 captains from the UPN community. If we get enough participants, I'll be adding more teams so as to ensure as many people as possible get to join in the fun. The team captains are as follows. The Lilycove Jetstream, captained by the leader of Team Instinct, Sparkbeat! The Canalave Nightstalkers, captained by the big bully himself, Snorby! The Celestic Archfiends, captained by the resident Yu-Gi-Oh fanatic, Emi! The Accumula Wisps, captained by everyone's favorite edgy roleplayer, Lil'twick! The Mahogany Marauders, captained by The Cianwood Brawlers, captained by the original Hax God, Apollo77! The Floaroma Honeybees, captained by the owner of the art shack, Extroph! The Pallet Pipsqueaks, captained by the child prodigy, Mew the Gato! RULES: 1: Matches are XY Randbats. All Smogon rules apply. No exceptions. 2: All battles are to be done via PS. 3: Individual matches are Best Of 3. Not Best Of 1. Not Best Of 5. Best Of 3. 4: Do not troll or flame. If you do so, I have absolutely no qualms about kicking you out of the tournament and bringing in a substitute. 5: If you are going to be inactive for a portion of a week when you are supposed to be battling, it is your responsibility to send both your captain and me a PRIVATE MESSAGE stating so. 6: You are expected to contact your opponent via vm or pm. Do not wait on Discord waiting for an opponent to show up. Time zone differences are not an excuse. Set up a time to battle. REGISTRATION If you wish to sign up for the tournament, please fill out the following form (What, you didn't think you could get through this without a form, did you?) and post it as a reply to this thread: Code:
UPN username: Timezone: (GMT format - can be found at the bottom of the page) I hereby acknowledge the fact that I am under no circumstances guaranteed to be on any specific team. I also agree to being a substitute if I am not selected for a team. I do recognize the fact that, If I am selected for a team, I will participate in no fewer than 2 battles throughout the course of the tournament. Please be aware that, as of the current set-up, this tournament will last approximately 2 months. Art credit obviously goes to Extroph. Because who else could make things this excellent? Last edited by kingothestone; 09-26-2016 at 08:18 AM. |
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Draft Order & Results Below is the order for the draft: 1: Accumula Wisps 2: Celestic Archfiends 3: Mahogany Marauders 4: Floaroma Honeybees 5: Pallet Pipsqueaks 6: Lilycove Jetstream 7: Canalave Nightstalkers 8: Cianwood Brawlers The draft will be held on our discord server at 1:00 GMT -4 tomorrow, Friday the 22nd. We will utilize a standard snake draft. this means that, in the first round of picks, team 1 will pick first, and team 8 will pick last. then, in the second round, the order will be reversed. This will continue until all the participants have been chosen. Each Captain will have 3 minutes to make a pick (they will be pinged at the 1 and 2 minute marks) before a player is selected for them, at random, and the pick goes to the next captain in line. All captains agreed to the 1:00 start time in advance, so hopefully this won't be an issue. The first two rounds of the draft will be open to public viewing. The second and third rounds will be closed to the public eye to avoid any hard feelings. Come the end of the draft, captains will have 24 hours to submit a lineup for weeks 1-5. For Clarity, we are utilizing rotating lineups to ensure that everyone has a chance to participate. If I do not have a lineup from you by then, your lineup will be randomized. I will not accept lineups via any form other than a private message. To clarify, you submit 1 lineup, and it rotates through over the course of 5 weeks. in the first week, spots 1 2 and 3 start. in week 2, spots 2 3 & 4, then 3 4 & 5, then 4 5 & 1, then 5 1 & 2. Below are the results for rounds 1 and 2 of the draft. - Wisps Daisy - Archfiends Talon - Marauders Phoopes - Honeybees TrainerChris - Pipsqueaks Miror - Jetstream Beautiful Savage - Nightstalkers Crys - Brawlers Ger - Brawlers Celebi - Nightstalkers Eliteknight - Jetstream KamenAeons - Pipsqueaks Altocharizard55 - Honeybees RealMrGame10 - Marauders Lanturn - Archfiends DaveTheFishGuy - Wisps rotomotorz Last edited by kingothestone; 07-23-2016 at 08:29 AM. |
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SUBMITTING BATTLES:
In the interest of keeping things orderly, I need you all to use very simple forms when submitting battles. They are found below. Code:
My Team: Opponent's UPN Username: Opponent's Team: Battle 1 ( w/l/d; score): Battle 2 ( w/l/d; score): Battle 3 ( w/l/d; score): In-Team Substitutions: An In-Team Substitution may only be made if: a) The player in question has been inactive on UPN for 4 consecutive days AND has not informed me that they would be missing for that time. b) The player in question has sent their captain and me a PRIVATE MESSAGE stating that they will be unable to battle during the week in question. A screenshot of the PM must be provided. c) The player in question has been active on UPN, but has made no effort to contact their opponent for 5 days. Off-Team Substitutions: An Off-Team Substitution may only be made if: a) The player in question has been inactive on UPN for 11 consecutive days and has not informed me that they would be missing for that time. b) The player in question has been subbed out for 2 consecutive weeks. c) The player in question has sent either their captain or me a PRIVATE MESSAGE stating their intent to quit the tournament. A screenshot of the PM must be provided. d) A player has been removed from the tournament due to flaming and/or trolling. An Off-Team Substitution will be performed in the following manner: The substitutes will be broken into groups of 2-4 (depending on the number of subs) by a Random Number Generator. The Team Captain will choose a group WITHOUT knowing who is in said group. They will then have the choice of one of the players in that group. Substitute List: The following is the list of substitutes. If you wish to become a substitute, send me a PM or VM saying so. Lucario188 Sneaze Aposteriori ROSTERS With 8 teams, we will have 2 divisions. At the end of the regular season (the round robin portion) the two teams from each division with the best records will move on to a bracket-style playoff. Below you will find the rosters of each team. Once edited into the OPs, each name will be linked to the profile page of each player The ASB Division: The Accumula Wisps, the Celestic Archfiends, the Mahogany Marauders and the Cianwood Brawlers Spoiler: show The WF Division: The Lilycove Jetstream, The Floaroma Honeybees, the Pallet Pipsqueaks and the Canalave Nightstalkers Spoiler: show Schedule: Below you will find the schedule for the regular season. Spoiler: show Week 1 Spoiler: show Week 2: Spoiler: show Week 3 Spoiler: show ---------- Week 4: Spoiler: show ----------- Week 5 Spoiler: show ----------- week 6 Spoiler: show -------------- Week 7 Spoiler: show ------------ Playoffs Round 1 - Semifinals Spoiler: show ---------- All-Star Week Spoiler: show ---------- Finals Spoiler: show ---------- Regular Season Records Spoiler: show ----------- Regular Season Awards Spoiler: show ---------- Championship Presentation Spoiler: show I want to give a huge thank you to everyone for participating in this tournament. Back when I was in Serebii comp, running tournaments like this was pretty much my favorite thing to do, as I was never really good at the whole "battling" thing. It's especially good for me now, as I have a lot going on and it's a fairy low-effort thing to do, hosting tournaments. I have a plethora of tournaments to pick from, so I plan on introducing the UPN community to at least a couple of them (although I am going to try not to overload everyone). That said, the next one will be starting in just a few days purely because it has to align with something else that's coming soon, so I hope to see a lot of you signing up for that as well! Until next time! Last edited by kingothestone; 09-26-2016 at 08:35 AM. |
07-09-2016, 11:26 AM | #4 |
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So do I sign up now? Because if so, let's go, m8
Combatants Cup signup: UPN Username: RealMrGame10 Timezone (GMT Format - found at bottom of page): currently GMT-6 since I'm currently travelling but will almost always be GMT-5 under DST conditions. I hereby acknowledge the fact that I am under no circumstances guaranteed to be on any specific team. I do recognize the fact that I WILL be on a team and I will participate in no fewer than 2 battles during the course of this tournament. (btw, my notable comp-chievements include: peaking at #136 on the randbats board with a rating of 1672 after the Smogon Server Crash, peaking at #2 on the Super Staff Bros Melee OM, which I held for roughly 48 hours, having played nearly 2000 random battles on Showdown since the Smogon Server Crash)
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07-09-2016, 11:39 AM | #5 |
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UPN Username: Extroph Timezone: GMT -4 I hereby acknowledge the fact that I am under no circumstances guaranteed to be on any specific team. I do recognize the fact that I WILL be on a team and I will participate in no fewer than 2 battles during the course of this tournament. (btw, no notables)
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07-09-2016, 11:40 AM | #6 |
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Combatants Cup signup:
UPN Username: Machamp-X Timezone (GMT Format - found at bottom of page): GMT-4 due to DST, GMT-5 otherwise. I hereby acknowledge the fact thrat I am under no circumstances guaranteed to be on any specific team. I do recognize the fact that I WILL be on a team and I will participate in no fewer than 2 battles during the course of this tournament. I'm new to this, and the best I've done is get up to 1300 in randbats and OU with no prior experience on my first day And promptly fall back down.
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07-09-2016, 11:46 AM | #7 |
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UPN Username: Ironthunder Timezone (GMT Format - found at bottom of page): Britain so GMT +1 because lol DST I hereby acknowledge the fact that I am under no circumstances guaranteed to be on any specific team. I do recognize the fact that I WILL be on a team and I will participate in no fewer than 2 battles during the course of the tournament. Let's have some fun...
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07-09-2016, 11:58 AM | #8 |
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UPN Username: DarkLucarioADV Timezone (GMT Format - found at bottom of page): GMT -4 I hereby acknowledge the fact that I am under no circumstances guaranteed to be on any specific team. I do recognize the fact that I WILL be on a team and I will participate in no fewer than 2 battles during the course of this tournament.
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07-09-2016, 12:05 PM | #9 |
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UPN Username: Celebii151 Timezone (GMT Format - found at bottom of page): GMT -4 I hereby acknowledge the fact that I am under no circumstances guaranteed to be on any specific team. I do recognize the fact that I WILL be on a team and I will participate in no fewer than 2 battles during the course of this tournament.
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07-09-2016, 01:08 PM | #11 |
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UPN Username: TrainerChris Timezone (GMT Format - found at bottom of page): GMT-5 I hereby acknowledge the fact that I am under no circumstances guaranteed to be on any specific team. I do recognize the fact that I WILL be on a team and I will participate in no fewer than 2 battles during the course of this tournament. |
07-09-2016, 01:24 PM | #12 |
Think ye can take me?
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Combatants Cup signup: UPN Username: rotomotorz Timezone (GMT Format - found at bottom of page): GMT -4 I hereby acknowledge the fact that I am under no circumstances guaranteed to be on any specific team. I do recognize the fact that I WILL be on a team and I will participate in no fewer than 2 battles during the course of this tournament.
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07-09-2016, 01:36 PM | #13 |
seems theres a case aclaw
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I'm here to kick ass and chew bubblegum.
And I'm all out of gum. Combatants Cup signup: UPN Username: crys Timezone (GMT Format - found at bottom of page): gmt-4 I hereby acknowledge the fact that I am under no circumstances guaranteed to be on any specific team. I do recognize the fact that I WILL be on a team and I will participate in no fewer than 2 battles during the course of this tournament. |
07-09-2016, 01:45 PM | #14 |
Oh, hello
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UPN Username: Beautiful Savage Timezone (GMT Format - found at bottom of page): GMT -5 I hereby acknowledge the fact that I am under no circumstances guaranteed to be on any specific team. I do recognize the fact that I WILL be on a team and I will participate in no fewer than 2 battles during the course of this tournament.
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07-09-2016, 02:13 PM | #15 |
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UPN Username: Aposteriori Timezone (GMT Format - found at bottom of page): GMT -5 I hereby acknowledge the fact that I am under no circumstances guaranteed to be on any specific team. I do recognize the fact that I WILL be on a team and I will participate in no fewer than 2 battles during the course of this tournament. |
07-09-2016, 02:29 PM | #16 |
hail
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blame app
Combatants Cup signup: UPN Username: Tyoyo3131 Timezone (GMT Format - found at bottom of page): GMT -5 I hereby acknowledge the fact that I am under no circumstances guaranteed to be on any specific team. I do recognize the fact that I WILL be on a team and I will participate in no fewer than 2 battles during the course of this tournament. |
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Happy to see this revived!
Combatants Cup signup: UPN Username: Eliteknight Timezone (GMT Format - found at bottom of page): gmt -7 I hereby acknowledge the fact that I am under no circumstances guaranteed to be on any specific team. I do recognize the fact that I WILL be on a team and I will participate in no fewer than 2 battles during the course of this tournament.
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07-09-2016, 11:05 PM | #18 |
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UPN Username: KamenAeons
Timezone (GMT Format - found at bottom of page): GMT +10 I hereby acknowledge the fact that I am under no circumstances guaranteed to be on any specific team. I do recognize the fact that I WILL be on a team and I will participate in no fewer than 2 battles during the course of this tournament. There, happy? |
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07-09-2016, 11:37 PM | #20 |
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UPN Username: Miror Timezone (GMT Format - found at bottom of page): GMT -7 I hereby acknowledge the fact that I am under no circumstances guaranteed to be on any specific team. I do recognize the fact that I WILL be on a team and I will participate in no fewer than 2 battles during the course of this tournament. |
07-10-2016, 06:46 AM | #21 |
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UPN Username: HeroicRein (SilverChiko) Timezone (GMT Format - found at bottom of page): GMT+10 I hereby acknowledge the fact that I am under no circumstances guaranteed to be on any specific team. I do recognize the fact that I WILL be on a team and I will participate in no fewer than 2 battles during the course of this tournament.
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07-10-2016, 06:57 AM | #22 |
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UPN Username: Mew The Gato Timezone (GMT Format - found at bottom of page): +5.5 I hereby acknowledge the fact that I am under no circumstances guaranteed to be on any specific team. I do recognize the fact that I WILL be on a team and I will participate in no fewer than 2 battles during the course of this tournament. |
07-10-2016, 07:08 AM | #23 |
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UPN Username: dirkac Timezone (GMT Format - found at bottom of page): GMT+2 I hereby acknowledge the fact that I am under no circumstances guaranteed to be on any specific team. I do recognize the fact that I WILL be on a team and I will participate in no fewer than 2 battles during the course of this tournament. The forms! They BURN Am having terrible flashbacks to the Serebii Comp section |
07-10-2016, 09:47 AM | #24 |
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UPN Username: Heather Timezone (GMT Format - found at bottom of page): GMT -4 for the time being, don't know how DST is playing right now. I hereby acknowledge the fact that I am under no circumstances guaranteed to be on any specific team. I do recognize the fact that I WILL be on a team and I will participate in no fewer than 2 battles during the course of this tournament. I'm not the greatest at comp, though I do break 1200 on OU with wacky squads when I try hard enough, and once broke 1300 back when Aegislash wasn't banned.
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07-10-2016, 10:15 AM | #25 |
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Sounds fun!
Combatants Cup signup: UPN Username: Lanturn Timezone (GMT Format - found at bottom of page): GMT +8 I hereby acknowledge the fact that I am under no circumstances guaranteed to be on any specific team. I do recognize the fact that I WILL be on a team and I will participate in no fewer than 2 battles during the course of this tournament.
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