DOU Doubles Ladder Tournament [Won by The_Bandit]

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Drampa! Drampa! Burning bright,
On ladder room, half past midnight;
What immortal hand or eye,
Could guess thy one ability?

In what world and in what time
Would you need to run Cloud Nine?
Who would use a set like this?
Why'd my Ninetales' Blizzard miss?

And which user, and which donk,
Stays in on Fini with their Conk?
For when my Fini threatened harm,
What made your Conk click Hammer Arm?

Why the Hammer Arm, again?
In what dimension runs your brain?
Who clicks Protect in front of 'Cott?
Is that even a brain you've got?

When I claimed hax my enemy's fault
And shower'd Smogon with my salt:
Did I smile my reqs to see?
Do I qualify for TC?

Drampa! Drampa! Burning bright,
On ladder room, half past midnight;
What immortal mouth could tell,
How to escape from Elo hell?

Dust off your Dragapult and pitchforks! Ready your torches and your Volcanion! It's time for an all-new Doubles Ladder Tournament, with your host MajorBowman! This tournament can earn you vital points towards qualifying for the 2021 Invitational. But before you get around to smashing Trick Room and trampling down the ladder, here are a few specifics you should know. Please read every one of the rules; important information lies within. This is to prevent confusion, especially regarding the qualification process.

The Rules
  1. The engine of the tournament is the regular Pokemon Showdown Doubles OU ladder, not a new one. All normal Doubles Rules and Clauses apply. All qualification will be done on this ladder. The top 16 players (selected as described below) will be placed into a best of 3 single elimination bracket playoffs.
  2. You need to make a new alt account for this tournament. Your alt name must begin with DLTXS to make determining the top players for each cycle easier. For example, I might register the alt "DLTXS Bowman" for laddering. To give us a way to identify each account, please include in your sign-up post a picture of your laddering alt. You are not required to make a new alt for each ladder cycle.
  3. In order to sign up for the Doubles Ladder Tournament, please create a post in this thread listing your alts. You are allowed an unlimited number of alts, so don't worry about starting over with a new one; just remember to follow the name format for each alt you create, and please update your post each time you create a new alt. Include in your post a picture of your "clean" alt. If an alt in the Top 4 at the end of a cycle is not registered in this thread at the time the cycle ends, it will be ignored.
  4. You must create and register a new alt before you play any battles on it.
  5. The ladder portion of the tournament spans 4 cycles lasting 7 days each (this is different from previous editions of DLT!). The cutoff times for each cycle are listed below; at the cutoff time, one of the moderators will take a screenshot of the ladder. In order to qualify for the playoffs, your alt must be among the top 4 newly made alts in this screenshot. If a player in the top 4 of a given cycle is already qualified, their alt will be ignored when counting the top 4 alts for that cycle.
  6. For the playoffs stage, players will be seeded by their ELO at their respective screenshot time.
  7. Don't show unsportsmanlike behavior on the ladder. If we have a reason to believe you forfeited a game to boost a friend's account, you will be punished. If you try to prevent your opponent from joining the battle again after a disconnection, you will be punished. If you ask someone to forfeit to you, you will be punished. If you try to fish for matchups against yourself on alternate accounts (i.e. boosting), you will be punished. The consequences could range from disqualification for one cycle, the entire tournament, or even a tournament ban in extreme cases. Again, please please use your common sense.
  8. In keeping with OLT and other ladder tournaments, all ladder games involving a player with a DLT prefix are now forced to be public. If you have the "Don't allow spectators" box checked when you start a DLT game, your game will be public and you will be met with this message: "This battle is required to be public due to a player having a name starting with 'DLTXS'."
  9. In your sign-up post, please include a line reflecting the fact that you have read and understand the rules. Your alt may not be considered eligible if your post does not contain this line.


Relevant Dates
(all times US Eastern time / GMT-4)

Cycle 1
START | March 28 at 12:00 am
END | April 4 at 11:59 pm

Cycle 2
START | April 5, at 12:00 am
END | April 11 at 11:59 pm

Cycle 3
START | April 12 at 12:00 am
END | April 18 at 11:59 pm

Cycle 4
START | April 19 at 12:00 am
END | April 25 at 11:59 pm



Qualifiers

Cycle 1
Karnisbroke | Alt: Karn | ELO: 1869
The_Bandit | Alt: Actuarily | ELO: 1865
JRL | Alt: JRL | ELO: 1846
n1n1 | Alt: Platinum God | ELO: 1843

Cycle 2
Paraplegic | Alt: Drill Wick | ELO: 1864
SMB | Alt: jsckeejeioqwp | ELO: 1860
MADARAAAA | Alt: MADARAAAA | ELO: 1856
Spurrific | Alt: FreeKarakuri | ELO: 1855

Cycle 3
papiloco | Alt: Papi | ELO: 1864
I want Atago to sit on me | Alt: ninosupremacy | ELO: 1858
Yoda2798 | Alt: I love Zikam | ELO: 1853
LightScreener | Alt: papiloco | ELO: 1853

Cycle 4
Frania | Alt: not fran17 | ELO: 1883
fespy | Alt: Fespy | ELO: 1854
emforbes | Alt: i play sm | ELO: 1843
RKD | Alt: SURGING | ELO: 1839


Playoffs

Top 16
(1) Frania vs RKD (16)
(2) Karnisbroke vs emforbes (15)
(3) The_Bandit vs n1n1 (14)
(4) Paraplegic vs JRL (13)
(5) papiloco vs LightScreener (12)
(6) SMB vs Yoda2798 (11)
(7) I want Atago to sit on me vs fespy (10)
(8) MADARAAAA vs Spurrific (9)

Top 8
(16) RKD vs MADARAAAA (8)
(15) emforbes vs fespy (10)
(3) The_Bandit vs SMB (6)
(13) JRL vs LightScreener (12)

Top 4
(8) MADARAAAA vs JRL (13)
(15) emforbes vs The_Bandit (3)

Finals
(13) JRL vs The_Bandit (3)


CP Payouts

1st: 10 CP
2nd: 8 CP
3-4: 6 CP
5-8: 4 CP
9-16: 2 CP

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Good luck to all of our participants, and may the best ladderer win!
 
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MajorBowman

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Updated rule 7 to make it explicit that you are not allowed to boost your DLT account by trying to match with yourself on a different account. Thanks to fespy for the suggestion.

Rule 7 now reads as follows:
Don't show unsportsmanlike behavior on the ladder. If we have a reason to believe you forfeited a game to boost a friend's account, you will be punished. If you try to prevent your opponent from joining the battle again after a disconnection, you will be punished. If you ask someone to forfeit to you, you will be punished. If you try to fish for matchups against yourself on alternate accounts (i.e. boosting), you will be punished. The consequences could range from disqualification for one cycle, the entire tournament, or even a tournament ban in extreme cases. Again, please please use your common sense.
 
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