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Welcome to the GTS Tourney of Skill. This Tourney will gather the strongest members of this forum and duke it out in an all out Battle Royale. It will take both luck and skill to become the champion of this tourney. This tourney will be fierce, intense and show no mercy.

Tourney Rules:
No Legends/Ubers (Self Explanatory)
Item Clause (Max Of Two Of The Same Item)
OHKO Clause (Horn Drill, Fissure, Guillotine etc are not allowed)
Sleep Clause (You cannot inflict the sleep status more than one pokemon at a time)
Evasion Clause (Double Team, Minimize etc are not allowed)
Bliss/Skarm Clause (Only One Of Them Is Allowed Per Team)
No Shiny Pokemon (Simply because I will not know if they are legit)

Tourney System

No Team Registration
There will be no need to register a team you can cycle through whatever pokemon you need to adapt or change the tables of your fight. Just remember your opponent will also have the choice of cycling as well.

Matches
2 out of 3 Battles wins the fight and moves up the bracket. The loser will report the results to me.

Time Limit
All First Round Matches must be completed 7 days after the tournament start date. After that each round must be completed every 7 days afterwards.

First Round = The First Branch of the Tourney.
Second Round = The Second Branch of the Tourney.
Third Round = The 3rd Branch of the Tourney.
Fourth Round = Semi-Finals
Fifth Round = Finals
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There is no prize for this tourney other than self-satisfaction and the right to call yourself Champion. The Champion will be placed on top of the bracket during the next Tourney defending his/her Championship Title.

The Champion will receive the right to use the below signature.


If things go well I will consider creating an exclusive Avy Bar such as "Stinky Cheese" and it will be titled "GTS Tourney Champion". I cant guarantee anything because I will need to get permission from the higher ups.

* = Validated
~ = Withdrawal

Participants:
1. Prideless*
2. Tama*
3. dark-sayien-soldier (BANNED)
4. LunaSaint*
5. mfbmike*
6. Elite_Four_Blaze*
7. weazalbee
8. gibsonguitar193*
9. switchblade*
10. mono102*
11. Junaia*
12. mustang500*
13. engaged07*
14. PokemonLover1996*
15. SINBA*
16. ericblaze27*
17. Enzotic0*
18. anarch123
19. masterboy1*
20. gneiss914*
21. Rox*
22. ashe*
23. arceus17
24. geoffman
25. Rikusaki*

Total: 24


This Tourney will not take place unless there is a minimum of 16 Participants.


All registered participants will receive PM notifications to confirm their participation as well as another PM to inform them of their matches and standings.

COUGH COUGH COUGH the password is "Let us DO BATTLE" COUGH COUGH COUGH


UPDATE November 2, 2007

The Tourney has officially gone underway, when your opponent has gained a * by his name you may officially battle him.

All match results will be posted here:

Round 1 Results
Blue = Victor

mono102 = anarch123
engaged07 = masterboy1
gneiss914 = gibsonguitar193
PokemonLover1996 = ericblaze27
Prideless = Rox
mustang500 = Rikusaki
Elite_Four_Blaze = SINBA
Tama = switchblade
weazalbee = Junaia
ashe = Enzotic0
LunaSaint = mfbmike
arceus17 = geoffman

hmm why dont you have like a limit of people to have on this thing? like for the next week only X number of people can join until the last day to sign up. Another good idea is not to make it an obligation for people to battle their partners soon.

for example. you finally have X number of people in the tournie. You organize the brackets so everyone will specifically have a certain person to battle. It will be their responsibility to schedule a battle with their opponent via pming, posting, etc. This way, you wont have to drop people because they will set up their own times to battle with their opponents and such.

alot of people are busy and have crap to do. making the tournament a specific date and time wont get the wanted results. This will make the tournament last for around a period of a month or so.

As for the prize...make it something really worth wile. Like have a grand prize like a poke/item along with having the title "GTS Tournament Champ" on the banner thing (the thing that says if your a mod or trainer, etc). But i think youll have to get avias permission for that @__@. And have other prizes for 2nd, 3rd place.

Not to be negative or anything but to host a tournament you will need a basic plan on how it's going down and a prize that people will want to fight for.

its all for pride aint it?

nah I was thinking of just a normal sig... ill show u an example later.

Most people on this board are...Prideless...

Lol...

i am in prize or no prize

Consider me interested. <_>

im in.

Waiting for a response to my idea....

Actually, setting a certain time and date allows the tournament to run smoothly and actually finish properly. <_>

well alot of people bail (or dont show up)on the last minute and crap. Basically im saying have like a deadline to fight your opponent (like within 2 weeks or something). That way it gives you freedom to battle when you can within that deadline.

Here is an example of what I meant.
Im not going use that template.



I was thinking of hosting this tournament once a month.

The tournament can only commence if there is a total of 20 participating members.

I am thinking of making each match 2 out of 3 instead of straight off elimination.

I'll join. Are we free to use any assortment of pokemon or need set teams(similar to the teams registered for gts gym league)? Of course, excluding legendaries etc.

Registering seems like a hassle, its more like just follow the rules.

The reason for registering in the gym challenge is so that you dont pull type advantages on one gym then bring another set types to fight another gym.

wait a minute....so were gonna have to battle our opponent 3 times in a row? 2 out of 3? so if we have the freedom to choose pokes, then either/or both sides will change pokes so they can gain an advantage. I say just register like 8-10 pokes or something.

Registration seems doesnt seem like its worth it.

If one side changes dont you think the other would do the same? It would counter each others actions. Leave it as is I say. We will see what people say about this maybe we should but as of now I dont think its necessary.

Registration does seem like a hassle for an event like this. For the gym's, it's obvious why the registration is necessary. Question is, during a best out of 3 match with a particular person, will be able to switch pokes between a match or have to use them for the entire best out of 3?

Prideless Wrote:The tournament can only commence if there is a total of 20 participating members.

Hmm, shouldn't tournaments consist of powers of two? I mean, otherwise people will be getting byes and such.

The rest of the rules I like, though. <_>

*cough* *cough* ur right im wrong *cough* *cough*

Okay minimum of 16 then.

can i please join?