Tournament Doubles Ladder Tournament - Won by Frania

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I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said—"Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert... Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered table lies, whose rows,
And Elo values, and sneer of poor W/Ls,
Tell that its sculptor well those plays read
Which yet survive, stamped on these Spindarcanine,
The Thundurus that mocked them, and the Landorus that fed;
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
Pokemon Showdown Doubles OU Ladder.
Nothing beside remains. Round the Elo decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sand teams stretch far away."



Dust off your Mega Salamence and pitchforks! Ready your torches and your Prankster Taunts! It's time for an all-new Frania Open Doubles Ladder Tournament, with your host SamVGC! This will be one of the two Doubles Ladder tournaments happening this year, and only your best finish between the two will be counted for the Invitational. But before you get around to smashing Spindarcanine / Oricorio and trampling down the ladder, here are a few specifics you should know. Please read every one of the rules; important information lies within. This is to prevent confusion, especially regarding the qualification process.

The Rules
  1. The engine of the tournament is the regular Pokemon Showdown Doubles OU ladder, not a new one. All normal Doubles Rules and Clauses apply. All qualification will be done on this ladder. The top 24 players (selected as described below) will be placed into a best of 3 single elimination bracket playoffs.
  2. You need to make a new alt account for this tournament. You do not need a DLT [X] Account name this time, but to show that your account is clean please include in your sign-up post a picture of your laddering alt without a [Gen 7] Doubles OU rating (the screenshot should not include an entry for "[Gen 7] Doubles OU").
  3. In order to sign-up for the Doubles Ladder Tournament, please create post in this thread listing your alts. You are allowed an unlimited number of alts, so don't worry about starting over with a new one; just remember to keep to the format for each alt you create, and please update your post each time you create a new alt. Include in your post a picture of your "clean" alt (one that shows it didn't have games played previously).
  4. You must create and register a new alt before you play any battles on it. We will be checking the registration date of all alts; in order to qualify for this tournament, they must be registered on or after 4 February, 2017.
  5. The tournament lasts 4 weeks. The cutoff times for each week are listed below; at the cutoff time, one of the tournament hosts will take a screenshot of the ladder. In order to qualify for the playoffs, your alt must be among the top 6 newly made alts in this screenshot. Merely being among the top 6 unqualified alts some time during the week does not qualify you for playoffs. If a player is already qualified, their alt will be ignored when counting the top 6 alts in a week. The Top 2 Players each week will receive a bye in the first week of the playoff portion.
  6. During the playoffs stage, players will be seeded by their Elo at their respective screenshot time.
  7. Don't show unsportsmanlike behavior on the ladder. If we have a reason to believe you forfeited a game to boost a friend's account, you will be punished. If you try to prevent your opponent from joining the battle again after a disconnection, you will also be punished. There isn't even a trophy at stake here so I'm not sure why people would do these things, but just don't. Again, please please use your common sense.
  8. In your sign-up post, please include a line reflecting the fact that you have read and understand the rules. Your alt may not be considered eligible if your post does not contain this line.
  9. You must like this post in order to be eligible for playoffs.


Relevant Dates

(all times EST, GMT-5)

Week 1
START | 4 February 2017, 12:01am
END | 10 February 2017, 11:59pm

Week 2
START | 11 February 2017, 12:01am
END | 17 February 2017, 11:59pm

Week 3
START | 18 February 2017, 12:01am
END | 24 February 2017, 11:59pm


Week 4
START | 25 February 2017, 12:01am
END | 3 March 2017, 11:59pm



Qualifiers

Week 1
Matame (playoffs bye) || frania (playoffs bye) || miltankmilk || Croven || GenOne || Pocket

Week 2
gorex (playoffs bye) || DaAwesomeDude1 (playoffs bye) || Sipher || Mishimono || SableyeMyBae || Rafooa11

Week 3
Laga (playoffs bye) || Gorgon (playoffs bye) || nvakna || dev611 || Demantoid || Stax

Week 4
BlueSkiddoWeCanToo (playoffs bye) || Level 51 (playoffs bye) || Lorda Floterchai || Yellow Paint || Cease Tick || MajorBowman



Playoffs




Top 24
dev611 vs Cease Tick (Game 1 | Game 2 | Game 3)
Sipher vs Pocket (Game 1 | Game 2)
Yellow Paint vs Croven (Game 1 | Game 2)
SableyeMyBae vs Stax (Game 1 | Game 2)
nvakna vs Demantoid (Game 1 | Game 2)
Mishimono vs Rafooa11 (Game 1 | Game 2 | Game 3)
miltankmilk vs GenOne (Game 1 | Game 2 | Game 3)
Lorda Floterchai vs MajorBowman (Game 1 | Game 2)

Top 16
Matame
vs Cease Tick (Game 1 | Game 2 | Game 3)
Gorgon vs Pocket Walkover
DaAwesomeDude1 vs Croven (Game 1 | Game 2)
Laga vs Stax (Game 1 | Game 2 | Game 3)
gorex vs Demantoid (Game 1 | Game 2)
Level 51 vs Mishimono (Game 1 | Game 2 | Game 3)
BlueSkiddoWeCanToo vs miltankmilk (Game 1 | Game 2)
frania vs Lorda Floterchai (Game 1 | Game 2)

Top 8
Matame vs Pocket (Game 1 | Game 2 | Game 3)
Croven vs Stax (Game 1 | Game 2)
Demantoid vs Mishimono (Game 1 | Game 2)
miltankmilk vs frania (Game 1 | Game 2 | Game 3)

Top 4
Pocket vs Croven (Game 1 | Game 2)
Demantoid vs frania (Game 1 | Game 2)

Finals
Croven vs frania (Game 1 | Game 2)


The deadline for these matches is one week from today: Monday, March 20, at 11:59 PM GMT.


Prizes
Champion

Mention in the Pokemon Showdown! Smogon Doubles roomintro

Finalist
Custom title of the user's choice

Semi-Finalists
Custom title of the user's choice

All Playoffs Qualifiers
Doubles Circuit Points (exact payout levels TBC)



That's it! Good luck to all of our participants, and may the best ladderer win! :toast:
 
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e2: Peaking at 1641 on my first alt, so I made a second alt (GenOneDLT2) to try to ladder up again
 
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EDIT: Actually going with GG King Kong Gun :D



 
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