BW Cup III - Semifinals

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BW Cup!


...and it's back!

Tournament Rules:
  • General tournament rules and regulations can be found here.
  • Smogon Classic rules can be read here
  • Standard BW OU
  • Best of three, single elimination.
  • Battles should take place on Pokemon Showdown!
  • Do not make baseless activity posts, get in contact with your opponent and report missed times / scheduling issues only.
Identity

I expect many battles to be completed under alts and I expect many battles to be completed on other servers to prevent scouting. These kind of factors are pretty bad for tournament security, and thus I will make this clear: If I hear any whispers of identity theft (battling as someone you are not) or proxy battling (helping someone else battle through pm) I will not be pleased and I will take severe actions.

Scouting

Next, I do not want to hear anything about counterteaming, at all. It is the silliest thing I have ever heard, any battler worth their marbles has more than one team. Do not complain about it. I also don't want to hear about any forceful scouting, whether it be spying on another teams irc channel or following your opponent around on PO. There is a difference between "ipl is known for using stall" and "let me follow ipl around all day to watch all his battles since I am his opponent". I expect a lot of the former and none of the latter.

With that said, I give permission to all battlers to ask any person spectating their battle to leave if they do not want them watching. However, given the fact that this is the big stage, I am sure a lot of people want to watch, so don't be too mean.

Timer Clause

As for taking long between moves, if your opponent asks you to hurry up, please oblige. If you are doing a damage calc for a key turn that is one thing, but prolonging every move is suspicious and annoying. Don't do it. Furthermore, Battle Timeout is a rule for a reason. If you run out of time, you lose, simple as that. It does not matter what your opponent says. Do not battle if you think you will have to leave mid battle, and instead reschedule for a better time. Timing out is still classified as a loss, unless the reason for timing out is a disconnection. If there is any suspicion that a disconnect was carried out deliberately to take advantage of this rule in any way, we reserve the right to exercise a harsh punishment.

Disconnections

If a player disconnects and either player contends that they could still win, the optimal solution is to recreate the exact situation the disconnection occurred at during the battle. If it is agreed between players that this is not feasible due to unreasonable battle length, highly improbable circumstances, or some other reason, the player who did not disconnect may choose to rematch with either the same teams or (the option to use) new teams. Timing out is still classified as a loss, unless the reason for timing out is a disconnection. If there is any suspicion that a disconnect was carried out deliberately to take advantage of this rule in any way, we reserve the right to exercise a harsh punishment. Do not do it.

I know that was a lot to read, but it is all necessary for me to have posted here so everyone can see it in the case of a dispute. I don't want any confusion or any problems.


Battle Clauses:
  • Evasion Clause
  • OHKO Clause
  • Sleep Clause
  • Species Clause
  • Timed Battle
  • Team Preview
  • Moody Clause
Matchups:

(matchups made by me)

Pairings:
Get this Money vs. SoulWind
dice vs. sugarhigh
Fakes vs. Posho

Deadline for the semifinals is May 21st at 11:59pm GMT-4 (EST). Extension deadline is Wednesday May 17th at 11:59pm GMT-4 (EST). Good luck to everyone and make sure to get your games done! Post replays of your games, too, btw -- nice to see some high-level matches :o[/quote]
 
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( Get this Money vs. kael ) vs. SoulWind - really hard to go against one of the best bw players ever, but GTM has really stepped up his bw game in the last months and I know he puts a lot of effort in this, so will be interesting to see
dice vs. sugarhigh - dice is the overall more consistent player imo, but sugarhigh showed that he's a SPL-level bw player, too. should be close
Fakes vs. Posho - both are friends, but Fakes is just a beast and kinda has to win this for playoffs so I'm going with him :o
 
activity, been waiting for 5h now, i gave a timewindow in which i could make time to play, opponent gave me the entire timewindow as a response when i asked for a specific time, didnt reply when i asked him to give me something specific, im leaving now so i cant play anymore. check kaels vm wall for details...
 

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Kael missed the whole scheduled range and has only viewed forums twice throughout the entire extension period. He has not tried to schedule, being very general and vague, and simply put not been 'active' in any sense of the word. Get this Money has been active throughout, trying to schedule on numerous occasions and contacting me and Kael with specifics, information about the situation, when he could play/was online, etc. This is a clear-cut activity win for Get this Money -- I hate doing it this late in the tournament, but it has been pretty ridiculous to even get to this point, to be quite honest.

Get this Money vs SoulWind - get it done ASAP, will enforce an extension deadline for next week tomorrow night if you do not get it done beforehand
 
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