Gen 8 OU Tournament (Won by ANoobWithoutAName!)

Question

Ayup. This is a Gen 8 OU Tournament. As the name suggests, this is.....gen 8 OU. Overused is a Smogon tier hosted on http://play.pokemonshowdown.com. This is a good link to find some good information about the tier if you're new: https://www.smogon.com/dex/ss/formats/ou/

Rules

• Standard OU Rules
• The link sent has clauses, and all of the rules

Miscellaneous

• It will be hosted here: http://pokemondatabase.psim.us/
• If a matchup gets too long, y'all can forfeit and start another one
• Teams can be switched between battles
• Matchups are, in fact, randomized

Replays

Save your replays

How to sign up

• Guidelines for playing in tourneys: https://pokemondb.net/pokebase/meta/68847/guidelines-for-playing-in-tournaments-wip
• POST AN ANSWER
  To sign up, list:
• Pokemon Showdown Username(s)
• Timezone
• Days and times in those days you're available (more for your opponents)
• Finally, since I am unsure if y'all want single or double elim, just say so I can count votes and stuff idk

12thmanforlife
EST (GMT -4)
3 am only (this is random so I'll do what I want)
Double Elimination

After sign ups, I'll read it and see if you guys are cool (double elimination) or cool (single elimination).

The deadline is 9/25/21 GMT to sign up.

When the battle is finished with your opponent, send the replay in the comments of the round of the battle. If I faced Primordial Sea (Who would destroy me) in round 1, and I won, I would post the replay and something else under the round 1 answer.

Good luck kids.

Comments

Yo what's the policy for calling act?

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@frozen, sure.
@geniusgatik, not sure, everyone has to finish their matchups.
@assault, what

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@湿ったマフィン Assault Ποσειδώνας is probably asking what the policy on calling inactivity wins is.

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Just curious, but did you hide the Round 1 answer?

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@J™ looks like they did, since I can't find it on either page.

Answer 1

ANOOBWITHOUTANAME WON

I would like to say congratulations to ANoobWithoutAName for winning, as well as to PsychicX1!

Good job to everyone else too!

Comments

Can you edit all the replays and the matchups in the answer, like x vs. y with their replay?

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This is my regular reminder that you can now sign up to host the next tournament by commenting on this answer.

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I can host but this double elim, brackets, who battles who, losers round, winners round etc. is very confusing to me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

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@cristal maybach, give me around a week, but I’ll slowly get around to it

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Arite.

Answer 2

melcakes
EST
Usually after 6 weekdays, anytime weekends
Double elim best of 3!

Comments

Can you battle tonight around 8?  Otherwise, the next time I'll be available will be next Monday.

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yea pretty sure i can

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Can you battle tonight around 7-8 pm?

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i can battle rn

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You can just take the win.  I'm too busy to get the battle done.  I'm sorry.

Answer 3

PsyKlone Wars
EDT (GMT-4)
6pm-10pm on weekdays, 12pm-12am on weekends
Double elimination

Comments

Hey, can you battle at 5 today? Sorry for short notice

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Yeah that should work

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could u get online, server ain't working

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When can you battle?

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Wanna try saturday at 6?

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Yep.  Sounds good.  If I can't make it, will Sunday at 6 work?

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Yeah probably

Answer 4

Shining Yin
EST
Any time after 5 PM EST
Double Elimination

Came to check on this website after a long period.. so I figured why not?

Comments

I'm online as Gatik on the normal showdown server

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Are you able to play on Sunday at 6pm your time?

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Yeah I should be able to. I’ll see you then.

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I'm on the db server rn. Good luck!

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Okay, give me a few minutes I’m sorry. Gl btw :)

Answer 5

FINALS WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

PSYCHICX1 VS ANOOBWITHOUTANAME

YOOOO

Comments

LETS GOO gl hf to the two x)

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Won against PsychicX1, gg!

https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/pokemondatabase-gen8ou-9992-3javsxjvku08dgxzp3pp7w50zm9r9vgpw

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Ayyyy
Gz

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Congrats!

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congrats :D

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Congratulations!

Answer 6

12thmanforlife
EST (GMT -4)
4-7 on tuesday to thursday, mostly free from 1-5 on weekends.
Double Elimination

am cool first answer lel

Answer 7

Username: KRLW890
Time zone: American Central (GMT-5)
Availability: Available all day on Saturdays, Thursdays, and Fridays. On Mondays and Tuesdays, I'm available after 1, before 7 on Wednesdays, and after 3 on Sundays.

Double elimination.

Comments

Play same time as you played sumwun? Wanna have this as early as done because exams.

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Oh Why am I getting a tough match up even in the second round lol?

Can you play @7:30 pm Friday (your time)? It would be 8 am (Saturday) here...

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Sorry I missed your message. I can battle that same time today (7:30 pm Saturday my time, 8:00 am Sunday your time). Would that work for you or would we need to schedule another time?

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I'll try. It's just 10 mins from now...

Answer 8

Trippy Soup
EST
Unavailable between the hours of 3 PM and 8 PM
Double Elimination

I’ll probably bring an early meta team and lose twice in a row due to stall. Yay! :P

Good Luck, Have Fun

Comments

Can you battle on Saturday? I probably won't be available from 2PM to 6PM then, but I'm available for the rest of Saturday otherwise. I can't play tomorrow or on Friday.

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I’ll see if I can get on noon Saturday, but if not, I’ll probably be on after 8PM Saturday.
If the site server is still down then, I usually hang out in the CAP Project room on main Showdown! when I go on, so you can find me there if searching my name is too inefficient or whatever. :P

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So can you play at noon today?

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Are you available sometime tonight?

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are you on rn?

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Hey, since I can't seem to find you, I'm going to assume that you aren't coming, especially since it's 9:30 PM right now.  If I am still on by the time you're reading this, feel free to challenge. But I can't guarantee I'll be on when you come on.

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okay :P

Answer 9

My first tour, however I gonna lose anyway. My schedule is a li'l tight, but I'll try to come!

Username: BlazeLostHisName
Timezone: IST (GMT +5.5)
Availablity: All days except Sunday and Wednesday. From 10am to 1:30pm, from 3:30pm to 6:45pm. Not available from Sep 27 to Oct 4, but I'll try!
Tournament type: Single Elimination.

Comments

I know it says you aren't available on Sundays, but by any chance can you play tomorrow? I'm available around 8-11 AM and 4-7 PM tomorrow (my time). https://time.is/EDT for my time. On Monday and Tuesday I can play 4-8 PM, and on Thursday I might be able to play from 6-8 PM.

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EDT 4 pm - IST 1:30 am
EDT 8 pm - IST 5:30 am

Can you play at 9pm? I'll try to adjust at 6:30 am here. Pls specify the date.

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I can probably play at 9PM EDT today, 6:30AM on Tuesday for you.

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OK done!

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I'm online on the main Showdown server as Sir Chasm 27.

Answer 10

Polite Patamon
EST
11 PM - 10 AM on Fri-Sun
11 PM - 3 PM most weekdays

Comments

anytime today

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Sorry I missed your comment, I was busy all day yesterday...

I can play after 11 p.m. EST any day this week (including today), as well as all day Saturday and Monday afternoon from 4 p.m. to 12 a.m. Any of these times convenient for you? (If not, let me know)

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I'll be on the DB Showdown server tonight if you're up for the match.

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i'm available right now

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i'll be on the server tonight at 11 pm est

Answer 11

MechSteelix
EDT (GMT-4)
pretty much free all times during weekends
double elimination ofc

Comments

When do you want to fight, good sir? :P

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Hey Staka, when are you free this weekend? I am open to doing most times EDT on Sunday.

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I am available between 12PM-1PM and 9PM-11PM EDT Saturday and Sunday. :P

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Hey Staka, let's do 9PM EDT on Sunday. Hope to see you then!

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Also, I made a note about Daylight's saving time on your wall. Let me know if you have any questions about it

Answer 12

Double elimination won. Landslide. Massacre.

Moving on, here are matchups!

Byes:

Frozen Inferno
Wantanabe
GeniusGatik942
J
ANoobWithoutAName
Call_Me_Joey
melcakes
Primordial Sea
Cyberbear IV
Staka~

Yes I know there are a lot of byes, I'm using a tournament gen. Now onto matchups.

sumwun VS KRLW890 (this'll be fun)
Your excellency VS mech steelix
Chesta Adabi 481 VS Sixer
Kuroyupii VS Shining Yin
Psyklone VS me
Spooky Terrain VS Tasty Mushroom

Bracket Link Kids:
https://challonge.com/x7jlr060

SEEDING IS RANDOMIZED
Idk how good y'all are, so uh randomized.

Please have replays ready by next week. Salutations for now

Comments

Matched up with sumwun in round 1, yikes.

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Do you have a bracket image with this tour Gen? If so, I’d like a screenshot of it, but by no means is this necessary.

Me waiting for sûMwüñ to edit the capital “S” in his/her/its name to lowercase. He/She/It/They might as well also fix the quote formatting on the “Byes” section of the post. :P

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So we post the replays here or on the original post?

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@Staka, I do have a bracket link actually, I shall update it. And @kuroyupii, ye, post em here for round 1

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am amazing: https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen8ou-1423851708 (I lost)

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Btw @Staka~ "it" is like a "derogatory" term to refer to anyone. It is almost never appropriate to use it for a person. Sometimes, we seem to use it when asking about somebody's gender (for instance, "It's a girl!", but here it is just a dummy pronoun). It's actually offensive, you're better off with "they".

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What date do we need to have replays ready by?

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Might be different by time zones, but it should be around 4:00 PM October 2nd (UTC-4) if round 1 ends EXACTLY 7 days from the answer’s posting. :P

Also remember that extensions may be given.

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how the heck can there be this many byes ._.
just match people with byes up lol

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unless its totally necessary for double elim

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Yeah matching the people with byes up will just create more byes later in the tourney

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if staka comment was right, me and my opponent could battle at saturday my time zone:D

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so, what is deadline of the replays? i need the host to answer

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I can't go to the losers bracket in the first round this time!

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@Chesta Adabi the answer says to have the replays ready by next week

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i know that but, at what hour and in what timezone

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If for UTC -4, it is 4 pm, then for GMT, it is 8 pm. Depending on your timezone, you can change the time.

For example, if your timezone is UTC +8, the deadline is at 4 am, Oct 3.

Btw, why worries? Send it on or before Oct 1...

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i have time play, only at saturday, sunday, holiday, and exception

but if im lucky i could play at weekdays (not often) at GMT+7

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Don't worry; you can get an extension. Even official Smogon circuits, WCoP, SmogTours etc. give extensions.

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thanks mrow!

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Np g'luck with your match.

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I lost to Spooky https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen8ou-1425119339

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melcakes edited it, but thought i'd confirm w/ replay https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen8ou-1427708991

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yall do have a due date for this round right?

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Yeah, it was today lol. Uh.

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sumwun and I are going to get our battle in early tomorrow, hope that's all right.

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Lost to Chesta gg bud https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen8ou-1428256922

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All but lost to sumwun, but he decided to forfeit the last minute. Guess he's dropping out of the tour..? (Don’t want to speak for him though, so make sure to confirm that with him)
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen8ou-583513

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When's the next round? Also, please give us a exact date which is done in any regular tour as only "next week" causes lot of confusion.

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I haven’t been able to battle with my opponent cause they haven’t really been able to be on at the same time as me due to time zones so I might have to request an extension. I’ve reached out multiple times with no luck.

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Yesterday i got an extension, so you probably can get extension

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It would probably be best to drop out of this tournament. If I stay in, then I will most likely do the same thing to the first person I face in the loser bracket.
Also how did I almost defeat KRLW (who has defeated me a few times before) with 6 hours of sleep, no Clefable or Landorus, and a team that I tested exactly once before the tournament battle?

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when will the bracket link be updated? And also thanks for whoever give me the OU Bazaar team. It was very helpful and im gonna use it again (i think its assault).

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@Chesta try not to use same teams each round. Opponents can just cteam lol. (That team was rlly weird though :/)

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@Assault Ποσειδώνας i know that, i will change my team so no one knows my pokemon (obviously from the bazaar) but personally, i like that team. and i dont use like the most top teams, cause a lot os people knows it. and why is the team weird? i think that team is pretty solid (from a guy who its first OU battle is the first round of this tournament).

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The team's weird because it's outdated. The team looks like it was from before the first 2 DLCs, so a majority of the team isn't viable. Try using teams from the more recent pages of the Bazaar, around the most recent 2 or 3 pages.

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aah i see, thanks spooky! also i find it in the first page, and there is no problem with the viability.

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I recommend releasing Round 2 now so people can play sooner. You can match somebody with [winner of Kuroyupii VS Shining Yin].
Maybe make a precise deadline, then do this again if matches fall behind.

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If you see the bracket link provided by the host, you can see the Round 2 matchups too. So, should we wait or not?

Answer 13

Calquischezlerynop

Byes:

Cyberbear
J

Matchups:

Staka~ vs Sumwun
Primordial Sea vs Your Excellency
Call_Me_Joey vs Sixer
Chesta Adabi vs ~azureshiram~
Me vs Watanabe (They were banned, so free dubs lel)
KRLW890 vs TastyMushroom
Frozen Inferno vs GeniusGatik
MechSteelix vs ANoobWithoutAName
Shining Yin vs melcakes
PsyKlone vs SpookyTerrain

Bracket: https://challonge.com/x7jlr060

Matchups done by 21/10 please

Salutations Calquischezlerynops

Comments

I think u need to bring up last rounds losers to this rounds losers
I think I'm not good with double elims

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Is this gonna update or..?

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I guess we wait for the host...

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I'm updating it rn sorry guys, I've had a busy week

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You should hide this answer, I guess.

Answer 14

Showdown! Username: reshiwum
Timezone: WIB (GMT +7 Indonesia)
Availability: usually free around 13:00 - 16:00 in weekdays and 08:00 - 17:00 in weekends
Double Elimination

Glhf everyone! <3

Comments

I’m down to battle right now if you’re up for it.

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Battle?

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battle? i use my chesta adabi b account

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im online in showdown right now, tell me if youre ready

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you could fine me in monotype room

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Can you battle this Sunday anytime between 10 and 3 EST?

Answer 15

Showdown! username: AGCL3 Swastik
Timezone: IST (GMT +5.5)
Availability: 1 PM to 11 PM weekdays, 10 AM to 11 PM on weekends
Tournament type: Either works, preferably Single Elimination since it's gonna be a small tour anyway

Comments

Hey man, me free today. You?

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Hey Swastik, I'm on the main PS server now if you're ready.

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I’m ready whenever you are.

Answer 16

Username: HunterBear4
Timezone: EDT (GMT-4)
Avalibility: Sunday, 8:00 AM-5:00 PM Saturday, 8:00 AM-11:20 AM, 2:10 PM-6:00 PM
Double Elimination

Comments

Hey, wanna battle saturday at 3:00 PM EDT?

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Sure (filler)

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My bad I forgot I couldn’t do today. Wanna try 2PM tmrw and 4PM if that doesn’t work?

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2PM is good.

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When do you want to battle? You can DM me on Discord and I might be available at that time. Otherwise, we could schedule a date and time. Whichever you prefer. :P

Answer 17

sumwun
GMT - 13
1 pm to 1 am GMT on Saturdays and Sundays, not sure when I can play on weekdays
double elimination

I will be unusually busy for the next 2 months. I will lose this tournament because I have no time to prepare properly, not because I really suck at gen 8 OU.

Comments

But your other comment says you want to battle earlier? Did you mean Friday?

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I meant, since the weekend is basically the deadline, it would be good to get it in during the week, if possible. But if it can't be helped, the weekend should be fine, too.

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I didn't see you on the default server or Smogtours today. Can we try to meet Sunday 2 pm GMT on Smogtours? That's 9 am your time, right?

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Whoops, sorry for missing that. Yeah, I should be able to make that.

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I'm online right now, on both the default server and smogtours. I'll be available for a couple hours, but the sooner, the better.

Answer 18

Let's get my butt kicked because of my Stall addiction.

Showdown! Username: Jhnfui
GMT -4
I'm usually only available on weekends from 9-12am and 6-8pm, but sometimes weekdays work from 6-8pm.

Single Elimination.

Comments

The entire purpose of stall is preventing your butt from getting kicked.

Answer 19

Bouta lose but eh
KitkatKK2
MDT (GMT -6)
Available 4-8 pm on weekdays and 11am-8pm on weekends
Single elim

Comments

oh yeah, i forgot sorry. And im still waiting about the extension, im gonna tell you about that when it is given to me. And im gonna see what time are we available on. Pls wait, and sorry because of my availability.

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hey we got the extension!
also can you play at your time zone 19.00-21.00pm, in my place is 08.00-10.00 am. if im fast, i could play at that time, how thats sound?

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i am ready. i use Abimaster300 account. tell me when your ready

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Hi, we've been paired up this round. Of the times you're available, what time this week suits you best to play a match?

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I'm on the DB server right now for our match. If you're ready, meet me there as soon as you can. If not, let me know.

Answer 20

Sir Chasm 27
EDT (GMT -4)
Pretty much all day on weekends, and 4 pm - 9 pm weekdays (not monday and friday)
Single Elimination

Comments

Yeah that’s fine with me, see you then.

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I'm online on the Pokebase server.

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Okay can you give me like 15 mins cause I’m heading to my house right now

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Yeah no problem

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Thank you, I’m gonna get on in a minute.