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Sep 27 '07
Ladies and gentlemen, I announce to you the solo event of The Libelldra League! Welcome to season one of...
THE FLYGON CUP!
I. Summary
II. Schedule
III. Scoring
IV. Tourney Rules
V. League Rules
VI. Current Standings
I. Summary
The Flygon Cup is a 10-week tournament during which players compete every week in single-elimination brackets to earn points. The top eight players with the most points at the end of the ten weeks will then go on to the double-elimination playoff rounds. There will be two tournaments every week, one on Friday night and one on Saturday morning, to allow as many people as possible to participate. These weekly tourneys will be hosted by a TLF staff member, and points will be recorded in this topic. Every week will have its own theme, and all players must stay within the theme or face disqualification.
II. Schedule
Each of the regular season competitions will be held at the same time, no matter what. Sign-ups begin half an hour before the tournament begins, and if you don't sign up, you're not competing. Period. No exceptions. This sign-up topic will also contain the theme and rules for that given week, so make sure you pay close attention to them.
Friday Tournament- 7 pm (-8 GMT)
Saturday Tournament- 11am (-8 GMT)
These times are based on Pacific time, so you will need to adjust accordingly. For those on Mountain time, that means 8pm and 12pm. Central, you're looking at 9pm/1pm. Eastern people, show up at 10pm/2pm. For our European competitors, the "Friday night" tournament will be rather inconvenient for you, which is why you have a chance to play on Saturday night instead. For Hawaiians and any Asian competitors, you have it easy on both days.
Here is the weekly schedule:
Week 1 (10/12 & 10/13)- Tier 2 standard
Week 2 (10/19 & 10/20)- Tier 1 standard
Week 3 (10/26 & 10/27)- Tier 2; Choice items only
Week 4 (11/02 & 11/03)- Tier 3 standard
Week 5 (11/09 & 11/10)- Tier 2; evasion/OHKOs allowed
Week 6 (11/16 & 11/17)- Tier 2 standard
Week 7 (11/23 & 11/24)- Tier 1 standard
Week 8 (11/30 & 12/01)- Tier 2; mono-type teams only
Week 9 (12/07 & 12/08)- Tier 6 Standard
Week 10 (12/14 & 12/15)- Tier 2 standard
This means that playoffs begin on December 21, which is (not coincidentally) the last day of school for most students (at least here in the US), so people should have plenty of time to battle over winter break.
III. Scoring
1st place- 10 points
2nd place- 8 points
3rd/4th place- 6 points
*A player may only earn points for placing 1st-4th once a week. This means that if you placed in the top four spots on Friday, you cannot participate in Saturday's tournament. This is to help keep the point distribution close and to give people who can't show up to every tournament a fair chance. People who have more free time should not have an advantage over those who are more skilled.
*If there are less than 4 people present, the tournament continues anyway. If somehow there is only one person present, it'll most likely be me, so I'll just award myself free points.
IV. Tourney Rules
*Half an hour before each tournament starts, I will open a sign-up topic here on the Tournament board. Players must sign up in that topic within the half hour time frame. If you miss sign-ups, you're out. Sorry.
*All battles will take place on the Official Server (unless someone wants to go in and edit our mod file with the correct Grass Knot formula, we have no choice).
*Stalling matches by refusing to choose a move is not allowed. However, you are allowed to select your pokemon/moves to legally stall as long as you possibly can. I recommend NOT doing this if you want to make any friends, though.
*Spectating matches during the tourney is strictly forbidden. Spectating people you expect to fight (and thus making counter-teams based on their playstyle and strategy) before the tourney actually begins is allowed.
*Switching teams mid-tourney is allowed.
V. League Rules
*Unless otherwise specified, all battles will be played in accordance with TLF's tier list. You may use any pokemon from lower tiers than the weekly rules specify, but you may not use any pokemon from higher tiers.
*In order to qualify for the playoffs, you must have participated in at least 5 tournaments. If a player has not competed in at least 5 tournaments, they forfeit their playoff spot. If there's somehow a tie for 8th place, whoever participated in more tournaments moves on to the playoffs. If that is also a tie, then those players must battle amongst themselves to determine who moves forward.
*Register and use a nickname that starts with [TLF] so that we know whose matches we are not allowed to watch.
*If you disconnect, you lose. Sorry. Fix your connection before the next tournament. Problems like this are the reason we have two tourneys every week, and players may only earn points once per week.
*If there is a Shoddy error that disconnects both players, the battle must be re-fought with the same teams (same moves not required) unless one player admits defeat willingly.
*If there is a glitch in Shoddy's programming (ability programmed incorrectly, pokemon allowed to use illegal movesets, etc) that somehow affects your match, deal with it. If you feel you lost because of it, try again next week.
*When in doubt, the staff member hosting the tourney gets the final call on all decisions.
VI. Current Standings
1) ArecP, gameboy3333 (16)
3) tpx_vengeance (14)
4) SNX7, Fantasty (10)
6) Masterofidiots, repelex, Ongakujin(8)
9) Resum, Ray, FearMonger99 (6)