Ideas For Tournaments

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  1. Hobbes2

    Hobbes2 Aren't I dead or something

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    well, it could garner support now, couldn't it?

    another possible tour i was thinking of was...probably a random tier tour, where each round you have a random tier from all the tiers. and i mean random. like you could get CC gen 3 Doubles 1v1, or you could get Gen 1 NU Triples, or maby simply Gen 5 Wifi Triples or something. Could be cool.

    So basically, put EVERY SINGLE TIER (including doubles and triples and cc and stuff) in a RG, then randomly generate the tier.
     
  2. marmoteo

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    I think that Wifi OU Doubles/Wifi OU Triples have been completely underrepresented, considering we've had 'gimmicky' tournaments in the past, and those two tiers have been neglected - aside from an unsuccessful Alphabet Tourney, which included Doubles and Triples into its formula. Therefore, I'm proposing a Wifi Triples / Wifi Doubles tourney. Or perhaps even a 'lesser known tiers' tournament, for that matter.
     
  3. Hobbes2

    Hobbes2 Aren't I dead or something

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    we all know how much marm loves his triples ;)

    Yeah, i agree. Triples is a fun tier, and it's lost momentum, and it even lost it's gym. Triples / Doubles would make a pretty interesting tourney, and we could see some pretty cool strategies and stuff
     
  4. Xinc

    Xinc Time for Oras?

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    I'll put my vote in for that. (Even though Triples is chaotic)
     
  5. Plumbum

    Plumbum The Ultimate n00b

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    Here's one (that in truth I've already sent off), but the Selector as I call it.

    It's a tourney that needs a new team every stage because each player in an upcoming match picks 3 pokémon (in secret), and the six mon team that comes from this is the team that both of the players need to use (although only the species is set in stone, that's where the actual teambuilding part comes in).

    Ubers are still banned because most can rip clean through a team not made entirely of other Ubers.


    Edit: Definitely hot on a Triples tour.
     
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  6. PsuedoSaku

    PsuedoSaku New Member

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    What about a best of 3, 1 vs 1 (singles) 2 vs 2 (doubles) and 3 vs 3 (triples) tour?
     
  7. Django

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    This came up somehow on the server but I really think we should do a World Cup tournament of sorts, countries/regions facing each other. Thoughts?
     
  8. Dr. Fomantis Toboggan

    Dr. Fomantis Toboggan man in the couch

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    Whoa, I was literally thinking about posting this idea ten minutes ago, that's crazy. Team tours are awesome, I just wish we could come up with a major tour idea before smog on did. Either way though, this sounds great.
     
  9. Twisted Cosmos

    Twisted Cosmos Hope = giving up.

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    +1 to this
    Though im sure id never get the chance to play anyways :3
     
  10. Xdevo

    Xdevo Phrasing Super Moderator Tour Director Super Moderator Tour Director

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    iirc We didn't do this because it would have very unbalanced teams, or because the representation of large areas is very low.
     
  11. ASH_CHAMPION

    ASH_CHAMPION A very useless person~

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    And mainly because the timezone differences were too hard to fix. Hey Dingo search on the 4th page of this or something, there was a long discussion on it.
     
  12. SockPuppet

    SockPuppet lmao

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    What does everyone think of an Assassins tournament?

    Basically, everyone signs up publicly on the thread (or via PM, it's a personal preference) and after x amount of time, sign ups end and the host randomly orders the contest in a list. Here is an example.

    Person A -> Person B
    Person B -> Person C
    Person C -> Person D
    Person D -> Person A

    Person A would target Person B, who targets C, who targets D, who targets A. If Person A beats Person B, Person B is eliminated and Person A will be given Person C as their target next round, but only if Person C beats Person D, which would make Person A target Person C who also targets A. Of course, there would be more people, so it wouldn't be as cramped as it seems so far. Anyway, it works like that, but let's say Person A beat Person B, but Person C lost to Person D. Person D would eliminate their assassin and A would be their target and D would be A's target and so on. I know how it works, so if you have questions, ask and I shall clarify.

    Also, targets are assigned via PM so it's all private and nobody knows who is targeting who until they have them cornered either in PM or another channel, which brings up battling. A person may be challenged via PM, and if they are done so, they cannot decline unless they have to leave or do something similar. If a person were to be found doing this multiple, consequences would ensue, of course. People can also be confronted in back channels if they are invited, but it's up to the inviter and the invitee to deliberate whether or not they will fall for it. ;)

    It's a very strategic game, especially in Pokemon, and it's worked in other places I've hung around, so I believe it will work very well, here. Thanks for your time.
     
  13. "Bad To The Bone" Balla

    "Bad To The Bone" Balla so B.A.D.

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    I was just contemplating the Doubles/Triples idea above, and I was thinking, what about a tour which is a best of three -> ADV Doubles, DP Doubles and BW Doubles.

    There has definatley been a lack of love for these kind of tiers, (removal of triples gym etc.) and this would be a great boon for the popularity of them.
     
  14. .Rawr!

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    This idea came to me yesterday, is sort of crazy but anyway: There are actually 6 standard tiers in PO, and the number of pokemons for a team are 6, so... yeah, u get it. What about a tournament where every team is made for 1 pokemon for every tier? (Little Cup, NU, LU, UU, OU, Uber)
    Certainly there can be banned pokemons, like Arceus, weather summoners (groudon, kyogre, politoed, abomasnow, ttar, ninetales, vulpix, etc), and others (maybe Wobbuffet too?)...
    Well what do you think?
     
  15. Blitzamirin

    Blitzamirin Waluigi! Number one!

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    I don't like it. The Top 3 are going to pretty much be used. Just play DW 1v1.
     
  16. Annoying Orange

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    Team Tournament:

    ~32/64 people join. Each person has a partner.
    A different tier is chosen each round.
    The brackets would be like this:

    Person 1/Person 2 vs. Person 3/ Person 4
    Person 5/Person 6 vs. Person 7/Person 8.... and so on

    The concept is, each person on the team has 2 lives. You and your teamate decide who will battle each round. Same for the other team. Each time a teamate loses a round, he/she loses a life. The last person/team left wins.
     
  17. Juanca

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    wut about a mono weakness tournament ._.
     
  18. Blitzamirin

    Blitzamirin Waluigi! Number one!

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    ^ How would that work?

    I was thinking of doing a tournament which involves using the Pokemon's CC adjusted level (for example, Level 70 Milotic). Using those levels, but with your own movesets and EVs. It's similar to how the Level 78 Groudon/Kyogre were tested back in DP OU.

    In short, using Pokemon with their set Challenge Cup levels, but with your own moveset.
     
  19. Juanca

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    well......wut i mean by mono weakness was to get for example a whole team weak to psychic moves....the other pokes weakneses dont matter aslong as the main weakness is psychic.....but this doesnt work with the normal type :<
     
  20. Dr. Fomantis Toboggan

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    For those of you not in America, March Madness is a College Basketball tournament with 64 schools and each school with a seed that's going on currently. Heres further rules on seeding and such if you don't know; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCAA_Men%27s_Division_I_Basketball_Championship#Seeding_and_the_Bracket During this tournament, all of America goes insane over filling out who they think will win each game on their bracket. So a group of educated people would decide on what seed everyone would be of the best 64 people based on their achievements or whatever they put in their signup and whether that player is known to be good and such. And then rather then roundly predictions, everyone would fill out their brackets at the beginning. Bracketology is rather fun for those of you who don't know. I haven't decided how it would work yet, but to make it different from the Official PO Tour I suppose it could be best 2 out of 3; Ubers, OU, and UU. Hope that idea sounds fun, also Duke is going win.

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  21. ThatIsWhatSheSaid

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    I like your idea, March Madness is the best and we need to share this with the world. I think the difficulty would be finding a format that would work, especially finding a way to seed everyone that would be equitable. I am a fan of the idea though.

    But mostly I'm posting to say DUKE JUST LOST. LMFAO Lehigh too stronf.
     
  22. Dr. Fomantis Toboggan

    Dr. Fomantis Toboggan man in the couch

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    I know, I posted it when they were up by a little. I had michigan state winning anyway. But why does Duke always loose to crappy team? Shiz....
     
  23. Annoying Orange

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    There should be a March Madness tournament..in po
     
  24. Dr. Fomantis Toboggan

    Dr. Fomantis Toboggan man in the couch

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    You might be joking, but that's what I just said.
     
  25. Annoying Orange

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    Ohh, how about an All Generation Challenge Cup Tournament? Every round should include a differeng gen. of challenge cup.
     
  26. Darklight

    Darklight Nothing is True

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    I'm pretty sure we have such a tour running or already suggested..
     
  27. ASH_CHAMPION

    ASH_CHAMPION A very useless person~

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    These tournaments are intended to be a bit more competitive. Not sure that Challenge Cup would be fun.
     
  28. Annoying Orange

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    I post here a lot O.o

    Anyways, monoSTAB is just an idea, all of your pokemon have STAB moves, preferably dual-type pokemon. Status moves of the same type are legal, etc.
     
  29. SockPuppet

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    This would be rather tedious from the beginning, making for a slow, boring tournament.
     
  30. ASH_CHAMPION

    ASH_CHAMPION A very useless person~

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    If you make it compulsory to have stabs WHILE also allowing other moves then that's better, but then again that might just be a normal Wifi OU tournament, nothing new in it.
     
  31. SockPuppet

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    That would make it more sustainable, but then it would, as said, become a standard tournament. Can we attempt to discuss the Assassins tournament idea I proposed a page ago?
     
  32. ASH_CHAMPION

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    So nobody knows who they're being targeted by and can get challenged out of the blue? Sounds pretty cool but weird at the same time. I don't see what exactly is strategic about that
     
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    might have been mentioned before or possibly done but I've often seen arguments from people(me included) about which server is "better" between smogon and PO, which gave me an idea about having an inter-server tournament with the best people from each tier going at it.I know there's a lot of people who play on both so getting the idea around wouldn't be hard to do to see who's interested though they'd have to choose one side to be on obviously personally I'm interested to see how that would play out though I wouldn't be actually in it considering there's so many people better than I am on both sides xD.
     
  34. TacoBell

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    Since we have a Lower Tier Showdown tournament, I think a mono tiers tournament could be fun. It would basically be 3 person teams and one person would play for monogen, another for monotype, and the last person for monocolor. Mono tiers need more love.
     
  35. marmoteo

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    Mono tiers have actually gotten love before. If anything, Doubles and Triples are the ones who have been left forgotten!
     
  36. "Bad To The Bone" Balla

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    a while ago jcp said he approved my 3rd 4th 5th gen doubles tour, but im not sure
     
  37. mael

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    I would like a LC tournament
    Like DP LC, Wifi LC and ADV LC bo3, or maybe something different with thsi tiers, because we have so much bo3 tours
    something with the LC tiers I would some good LC player willing to join it.
    give me more Ideas with LC tiers please lol
     
  38. fidgety

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    I Tried this, with BWC filling in for the then non-existant Monogen, lack of participation, and my lack of time to sort out the ban list as to balance out MonoFighting and to a lesser extent MonoPsychic due to the fact that i wanted it at least in the Semis before I had to leave for college, and the fact that JCP (And possibly IFM) couldn't connect BWC (A tier where you can only build with gen 5 Pokes) with a Mono theme caused its cancellation. though the tour was non-team, instead played in BO3 format.
     
  39. emac

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    How about a moNUtype tournament? It would run with standard monotype rules except all pokemon would have to be in the NU tier. This idea has been floating around PNU for a couple days and I feel like it would be super fun because these rules encourage the use of pokemon that are almost never seen, even in the nu tier. Also, the absence of auto-weather starters and damp rock would mean that stupid mono-weather teams would be pretty much nonexistent. School is winding down/ending soon so I would be willing to host!
     
  40. ASH_CHAMPION

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    If you made it a BO3 for MonUUtype (lolfail), MonoType LU and MoNUtype then I'd be eager to join, though that could mean lots of johns not finding the time to build teams '-'
     
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