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Dust off your Dragapult and pitchforks! Ready your torches and your Chi-Yu! It's time for an all-new
Doubles Ladder Tournament, with your host
Actuarily! This tournament can earn you vital points towards qualifying for the 2024 Doubles 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
- 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.
- You need to make a new alt account for this tournament. Your alt name must begin with DLTIC to make determining the top players for each cycle easier. For example, I might register the alt "DLTIC Actuarily" for laddering. To give us a way to identify each account, please include in your sign-up post your alt name(s) in plain text, as well as a picture of your laddering alt(s). You are not required to make a new alt for each ladder cycle.
- 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 before playing any games on it. 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.
- You must create and register a new alt in this thread before you play any battles on it.
- The ladder portion of the tournament spans 4 cycles lasting 7 days each. 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. Cycles will have adjusted end times to give players from different regions and timezones a better chance at being on at the end of the cycle.
- For the playoffs stage, players will be seeded by their ELO at their respective screenshot time.
- 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.
- 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 'DLTIC'."
- 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.
You can discuss these rules or the tournament in general
in the doubles discord!
Relevant Dates
(all times US Eastern time / GMT-5)
Cycle 1
START | January 1st at 12:00 am
END | January 7th at 5:59 am
Cycle 2
START | January 7th at 6:00 am
END | January 14th at 11:59 am
Cycle 3
START | January 14th at 12:00 pm
END | January 21st at 5:59 pm
Cycle 4
START | January 21st at 6:00 pm
END | January 28th at 11:59pm
Qualifiers
Cycle 1
ratpacker - DL Ticho Bra-He-He - 1913.2022652274984
Fangame10 - DLTIC fangame10 - 1911.5793075609
eragon11145 - dltic eragon - 1908.690330126202
MADARAAAA - dltic steel - 1904.810660725463
Cycle 2
1.
tyo - DLTIC tyo - 1962.476149453
2.
SHIMA - DLTIChgk - 1921.4362912405
3.
Actuarily - DLTIC Actuarily - 1911.948067471774
4.
shadekirby321 - DLTIC Kunal - 1909.015655507616
Cycle 3
Cycle 4
Playoffs
CP Payouts
1st: 10 CP
2nd: 8 CP
3-4: 6 CP
5-8: 5 CP
9-16: 4 CP
The four qualifiers for this cycle are:
