So, for those of you interested, here are the rules for the mono-type tourney we'll be having...

We will be using the Showdown battle simulator found here: http://play.pokemonshowdown.com/
If you don't have an account, go ahead and make yourself one and get yourself familiarized with the team builder.

I assume most of you know how the competitive metagame works, so I'll skip over most of that shit.
Just keep in mind that Showdown uses Smogon rules, so any Pokémon considered "Uber" will be ineligible.

Rather than a standard elimination bracket, we'll be using a round robin tourney. That is, you have a match with every other person in the tournament to gain points (and whoever has the most points at the end of the tourney wins). A "match" will be considered whoever wins the first two out of three battles.

This means the winner of the match will always get two points--but the loser can still gain at least one point. This adds a further dynamic to the scoring, and it helps prevent ties. In the event of a tie, everyone who tied up will engage in another round robin style tourney, gaining points once again until there is a definitive winner.

Now for the fun stuff!

Given that this is a Mono-type tourney, you are limited only to your selected type. If your type is Water, you may use any 'mon who is solely water, primarily water, or secondarily water. To make things more fun and dynamic, however, you will not be allowed to choose your OWN type--I will use a random number generator to give you one. If you are unhappy with your type, I can reroll for you once--but if you do that, you can't go back on your decision. Failure to comply with that will result in your forfeiting of the tournament.

TEAMS WILL BE FLUID. That is to say, you can edit your teams in between matches at your leisure as long as you only use 'mons that are in your designated type, but you don't have to use the same Pokémon with the same moves. This allows you to optimize your strategy against an opponent who may have a type advantage over you--but be wary, for your opponent will likely have an optimized strategy against you, as well.

(also important: if you choose to reroll, you may get your type twice in a row, so be wary of that. ALSO, no two participants will have the same type, for maximum diversity)

The nice thing about round robin is that it allows for relatively free reign--you can fight whoever you need to, whenever you are able to. So for the sake of getting more people involved, signup for the tourney will end on January 31st. That's next Saturday at midnight, EST. You can take your time building yourself a team and battling everyone, but keep in mind that this tournament will END at the end of February. That's plenty of time for you to get all your battles done with everyone. Be wary if new people signup before the 31st of January, however!

CURRENT PARTICIPANTS:

xVerbatim
therealTyger
IberianHusky
Luis3318
Alphy
CK97
Cheatlancer
Byrnex
GreyValkrie (Mega Sceptile)
Yutakas
Valentimes (Prime Meridia)
Funnington Bear (Simseo)
DAS B00T
Argonar (Noodles)
Prehistoric (Snake)
Niedopalek (Ember)
exalted orion
TBlocks

Bold indicates that this is their username on Showdown.

LET ME KNOW IF YOU ARE UNABLE TO PARTICIPATE / WANT TO SIGN UP (Before the 31st of this month).

As mentioned, battles can be done at your convenience--there's no bracket, just a scoreboard. HOWEVER:

If you battle someone, MAKE SURE TO SAVE A REPLAY OF EACH BATTLE and report to this thread after each match (you can also send a PM). This authenticates your win/loss. If you don't have a replay, you need confirmation from both you and the person you battled with. I will keep a log of each replay in that thread as well.

The current type designations are as follows:

If you have any questions, fire away. This is actually my first time setting up a tournament, so, I hope I'm not too sloppy right now.

Regarding megas,
Let's say I have mono-dark

Can I use mega-gyarados?

Basically I'm asking if a pokemon changes types after mega evolving, can we use them if the mega satisfies our team type?

Good question.

You cannot. The 'mon has to have been that type originally, before any mega evolutions or other type-altering abilities. However, if your type was Flying, you could still use Mega Gyarados--because Gyarados was originally Flying.

Shit, I'll join. Sounds like fun if we do this as a random type thing.

Hey you wanted in on this right?

Also should get get this pinned or have a game night banner or whatever

Holy shit can I get my 1 reroll

Well, my Fire-type team is all ready.

ALPHY YOU SON OF A BITCH, YOU TOOK MY TYPE.

Quote from: Mega Sceptile on January 24, 2015, 07:13:18 PM

ALPHY YOU SON OF A BITCH, YOU TOOK MY TYPE.

Are you playing?

i was, but now that grass is taken, i don't wanna.

Quote from: Verbatim on January 24, 2015, 07:20:38 PM

Quote from: Mega Sceptile on January 24, 2015, 07:13:18 PM

ALPHY YOU SON OF A BITCH, YOU TOOK MY TYPE.

Are you playing?

i was, but now that grass is taken, i don't wanna.

i'll change but like he said grass cant be guaranteed

You completely forgot me...

My bad!


That is just so fitting.

Quote from: Alphy on January 24, 2015, 07:49:47 PM

okay, i dont wanna be grass

reroll

Alphy

Fighting

That puts Grass back in...

Quote from: Nagato on January 24, 2015, 07:52:12 PM

I'll give this a shot, I've never properly played PvP mainly because I'm stubborn and work on a honour system of no field effects, items or recovery >.>, but I'll try this for fun and hopefully won't fuck up too badly.

No items!? I hope you get Bug.

Byrne

Dark

Ten types remain: Normal, Poison, Ground, Rock, Bug, Grass, Ghost, Steel, Water, and Psychic.

put me in for grass

Quote from: Alphy on January 24, 2015, 07:49:47 PM

okay, i dont wanna be grass

reroll

Alphy

Fighting

That puts Grass back in...

Quote from: Nagato on January 24, 2015, 07:52:12 PM

I'll give this a shot, I've never properly played PvP mainly because I'm stubborn and work on a honour system of no field effects, items or recovery >.>, but I'll try this for fun and hopefully won't fuck up too badly.

No items!? I hope you get Bug.

Byrne

Dark

Ten types remain: Normal, Poison, Ground, Rock, Bug, Grass, Ghost, Steel, Water, and Psychic.

ass i wanted to be steel

ah well

One other thing, full team or half team?
Sorry, if I'm just not reading right. 2am over here...

put me in for grass

I'll... roll for you twice, how about that?

I don't see anything about Pokemon levels here, do we just set them to 100?

If you don't wanna lose, yeah.

Technically, they can be whatever level you want them to be (I'm sure you're familiar with the infamous FEAR strategy), but yeah, in general, just set them all to 100.

Sure, why not.

We're gonna run out of types at this rate...

Quote from: Nagato on January 24, 2015, 08:03:26 PM

One other thing, full team or half team?
Sorry, if I'm just not reading right. 2am over here...

6v6 (full team) at level 100.

Bingo.