With the thrilling Smash Bros Ultimate LAN Play tournament safely behind us, we continue on to the next event: Pokemon Sword and Shield![prebreak]1[/prebreak] This will be using official servers, and as such, you'll need both a copy of the game and an active Nintendo Switch Online subscription. The event kicks off tomorrow, April 6th, at 6 PM in the UK. You may be asking what time that is in your local region? To those unwilling to use a search engine, we have your backs! Click right here and you'll be taken to a countdown for the event. With $50 on the line, you won't want to miss out!

To participate, simply reply to this thread with your in-game name. When the tournament starts, I'll put together a bracket of participants, and you'll battle each other via Link Battle on the Y-Comm. To make things a bit more interesting, the rules we'll be using will be put to a vote, between 3v3 Singles and 4v4 Doubles.

Regardless of format, the following restrictions will apply:

• All Pokémon are set to Lv. 50, including Pokémon below Lv. 50
• Duplicate Pokémon are not allowed
• Duplicate held items are not allowed
• Dynamax and Gigantamax are legal with no restrictions
• You may only use one team of Pokemon for the duration of the tournament, with no edits to this team allowed between games

Additionally, the following Pokemon are not permitted:

• Zacian
• Zamazenta
• Eternatus
• Mewtwo
• Mew
• Celebi
• Jirachi
• Reshiram
• Zekrom
• Kyurem
• Keldeo
• Solgaleo
• Lunala
• Necrozma
• Marshadow
• Zeraora
• Melmetal

If there's any further information or clarifications wanted, by all means ask away and I'll try my best to get everybody on the same page. Don't forget there's also still time to submit your perfect Animal Crossing New Horizons home designs! Check out the main tournament thread here for more information.

 

[Scarlet]

Wait wait, best of one? Not three?
A round robin would be best with less than eight, though.

Bo3 isn't a bad idea either tbh. Round robin where each round is a Bo3 sounds fun.

With the rules more closely mirroring the VGC setup, I'm also tempted to restrict people to entering one team for the whole event. Any thoughts on that? Seems like a good idea to not put people with a few battle ready mons at a disadvantage, and actually makes best of three into a game of strategy as you learn about your opponent.

 

[Darth Meteos]

Bo3 isn't a bad idea either tbh. Round robin where each round is a Bo3 sounds fun.

With the rules more closely mirroring the VGC setup, I'm also tempted to restrict people to entering one team for the whole event. Any thoughts on that? Seems like a good idea to not put people with a few battle ready mons at a disadvantage, and actually makes best of three into a game of strategy as you learn about your opponent.

One team for the event. This is a tournament for money, it should be a strong ruleset.

 

[Scarlet]

One team for the event. This is a tournament for money, it should be a strong ruleset.

Aye, it's something I just thought about. I'll stick it in the main post. Ideally we'd have a way to verify that the same team is being used, but outside of people messaging an independent party their teams it's not the easiest thing lol

 

[Darth Meteos]

Aye, it's something I just thought about. I'll stick it in the main post. Ideally we'd have a way to verify that the same team is being used, but outside of people messaging an independent party their teams it's not the easiest thing lol

set "show battle team to opponent"
if they don't, dq

 

[Scarlet]

set "show battle team to opponent"
if they don't, dq

Nah that's not so simple. If they showed after the first game it ruins the other two.

 

[Darth Meteos]

Nah that's not so simple. If they showed after the first game it ruins the other two.

That's true! Ugh.
I guess the only way to do it is to hope and pray they can't switch in teams with identical Pokemon, but non-identical movesets.
Players could keep an eye on what moves are used and call foul if they see something untoward. That's about it.

EDIT: It's official servers anyway, it should be unlikely for such a thing to happen.

 

[breaktemp]

Hey there, currently staying in Tennessee (USA)
Looks like things will start in about 2 hours ?
Never got around to making a team yet...now that all Pokémon events are cancelled for 2020 :

https://www.pokemon.com/us/pokemon-news/2020-pokemon-championship-series-canceled/

Anyhow, will just throw something together to kill some time.
Also voting for double battles as they are a bit faster.
Below is my information :

NSwitch Name : break
Friend Code : SW-3584-5726-8593
Pkmn Shield Name : Tyramigo
Trainer Card Code : 0000-0000-Y7HH-DW

 

[Darth Meteos]

I prefer singles, but could we decide which format with at least 90 minutes left? I need time to throw together a doubles team and warm up if we do indeed go that direction.

 

[Scarlet]

Aye that works for me. I'm throwing together a doubles team in a panic also lol

 

[breaktemp]

Hmm...if the vote ends up a tie
Would it be possible to run both singles and doubles ?
While it would take a bit longer
People would get to play two matches minimum.
Don't have a team trained up myself
But will run some Max-Raids to get candy to get them up to level 50.

 

[Scarlet]

Hmm...if the vote ends up a tie
Would it be possible to run both singles and doubles ?
While it would take a bit longer
People would get to play two matches minimum.
Don't have a team trained up myself
But will run some Max-Raids to get candy to get them up to level 50.

Matches are already best of three, so if it's a tie I plan to remove my vote from the mix. Seems the simplest way to sort it.

 

[breaktemp]

@Scarlet
Okay, that seems fair
Have not played this one much...is there a way to record or save the battles ?
Would be nice to see what people are using.

 

[Scarlet]

@Scarlet
Okay, that seems fair
Have not played this one much...is there a way to record or save the battles ?
Would be nice to see what people are using.

Ahahahahahaha, wouldn't that be nice. Nothing of the sort.

 

[breaktemp]

Darn, that is a shame...I guess we got spoiled with the VS-Recorder back on the handheld games
Okay, will use the rest of this time to level up my pokemon.

 

[Scarlet]

Well we start in 90 minutes so our format will be........

Doubles! Since my vote is being redacted. Get your teams ready!

 

[Darth Meteos]

Entrant Information as Available in this Thread

@Darth Meteos
SW-0835-9387-9878
ReiSixx9

@RedBlueGreen
???
Dylan

@Something whatever
???
Renton

@Kinqdra
???
Polokus

@Scarlet
???
Scarlet

@breaktemp
SW-3584-5726-8593
Tyramigo

@phalk
???
Junior

will update when possible

 

[Scarlet]

oh fucking hell
i was really looking forward to eating food tonight

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Entrant Information as Available in this Thread

@Darth Meteos
SW-0835-9387-9878
ReiSixx9

@RedBlueGreen
???
Dylan

@Something whatever
???
Renton

@Kinqdra
???
Polokus

@Scarlet
???
???

@breaktemp
SW-3584-5726-8593
Tyramigo

Friend codes are kinda irrelevant when you're searching via a link code anyway lol. Anyways I'm waaay ahead of you ;D

Entry still open for another hour though!

 

[phalk]

My ingame name is Junior, can I still entry?

 

[Darth Meteos]

Friend codes are kinda irrelevant when you're searching via a link code anyway lol. Anyways I'm waaay ahead of you ;D

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Entry still open for another hour though!

dude get me on that smash.gg
would be cool to have my results recorded

 

[Scarlet]

My ingame name is Junior, can I still entry?

Yup! Starting in just over an hour!