E4 Pokémon VGC Tournament - Generation 5

[ddk]

Can you believe we’re already at the fifth generation of E4 Pokémon tournaments? We’re heading west to America Unova, which covers the fifth generation of Pokémon games Black & White and Black 2 & White 2!

Once again, we’ll be holding brackets for Single Battles and VGC Double Battles!

Singles Bracket Rules

Tournament matches will be played on Pokémon Showdown using Smogon Gen 5 OU Singles rules.

Your team (Pokémon, items, moves, EVs/IVs) must remain the same for all games within a set. However, you can swap your lead Pokémon between games. Any player that is found swapping teams between games in a set will automatically have that game count as a loss for them. You can bring a different team for each round/new opponent.

Singles matches will be played in a “Best of 3” format where the winner will need to win 2 games to advance to the next round. The tournament will be a Double Elimination bracket, meaning players that lose in the winner’s bracket will still be able to progress through the loser’s bracket.

VGC 2013 Bracket Rules

Tournament matches will be played on Pokémon Showdown using the VGC 2013 Ruleset.

VGC double battles require you to build a full team of 6 Pokémon but only bring 4 into each battle. You can change which 4 you bring into each battle for each game within a set.

Players are only allowed to bring one team of 6 for the entire bracket and are required to post their full team in this thread before their first match. These restrictions are keeping in line with how official VGC tournaments operate now. If you are entering VGC please submit your teams to me via DM before the tournament start date.

VGC matches will be played in a “Best of 3” format where the winner will need to win 2 games to advance to the next round. The tournament will be a Double Elimination bracket, meaning players that lose in the winner’s bracket will still be able to progress through the loser’s bracket.

Tournament Brackets

E4 Generation 5 VGC 2013 Live Bracket

E4 Generation 5 OU Singles Live Bracket

VGC 2013 Teams

E4 Pokémon VGC Tournament - Generation 5

Hi all, thank you for your patience. Here are everyone’s teams for the VGC bracket: DDK: Red Moon (OTS) wisewailmer: VGC wo IVs EVs (OTS) silversnorlax204: Untitled 3 (OTS) SeasidePokemon: SeasidePokemon VGC 2013 Team (OTS) caughtatpoint: Copy of copy of co- (OTS) Tryson21: Final VGC team gen 5 (OTS) Jimmerr: Jimmerr's VGC 2013 Team (OTS) cosrob: Untitled 6 (OTS) pfm: pfm gonna win with Lopunny (again)! (OTS) DarthEevee: DarthEevee's VGC 2013 Team (OTS) MrBubbles: E4_Tourney_test1 (OT…

Saving Replays

Participants are required to report the results of their sets here and post replays of all their games. Refer to the post below if you aren’t sure how to save replays on Pokémon Showdown.

E4 Pokemon VGC Tournament - Generation 3

[replays] Since a number of people are having trouble sharing replays, please refer to the image above to properly share replays here. Step 1: After the match is over, do not exit out of the battle screen. Step 2: Click the “Upload and share replay” button circled in red Step 3: A pop-up window will appear with the replay URL. Copy that URL and either save it somewhere or post it here Repeat for any other games Here is a video walkthrough if the above doesn’t make sense: https://www.youtu…

Previous E4 Tournaments
Generation 1: DDK cosrob candle/G1TLandon
Generation 2: DDK caughtatpoint cosrob
Generation 3: DDK mossdeep silversnorlax204
Generation 4 Singles: DDK caughtatpoint Tryson21
Generation 4 VGC: DDK caughtatpoint SeasidePokemon

Resources
Sample Gen 5 OU Teams
Gen 5 OU Viability Rankings

VGC Resources
VGC 2013 Worlds Teams
VGC 2013 Sample Teams by Tryson21
VGC 2013 Metagame Analysis by silversnorlax204

[ddk]

Please post in this thread if you would like to sign up. Registration will stay open until Sunday, February 2 at midnight (PDT). The tournament will begin afterwards.

Indicate whether you’d like to participate in Singles, VGC Doubles or both brackets.

If you haven’t participated in an E4 tournament before, please mention your skill level in competitive Pokemon battles (Showdown laddering etc.) or any outside tournaments you’ve participated in (Smogon/VGC) with a brief overview of your results. This will help for tournament seeding.

Please keep in mind you will need to build and submit a team for VGC 2013 before the tournament begins. This will be the team you will use for the entire tournament bracket.

[lyleberr]

Sign me up for all of it.
Skill level is in the negatives for all of it.

[ddk]

Here we go again!

E4 Pokemon VGC Tournament - Generation 3

@lyleberr in gen 3 [1] @lyleberr in gen 4 [2]

[wisewailmer]

Sign me up as well for both brackets

[silversnorlax204]

VGC me please.

[SolemnStar]

you have won everything so far. Can we ban you to ubers?

[SeasidePokemon]

Sign me up! I’ll stick with VGC.

[ddk]

There’s apparently a bounty on my name (I’m not sure what the bounty is). But if you wanna dethrone me, be my guest (good luck)!

[SolemnStar]

no way, I suck. lol.

[lyleberr]

Thats boring. He either gets beat or holds the crown. There’s no room for intentional weakness in the Gen 5 tournament! Im ready to take him down… if the equivalent of a dozen miracles happen all at once.

[SolemnStar]

maybe he’ll have a sneezing fit, misclick 3 turns in a row and lose?

[lyleberr]

You underestimate how terrible I am. I need at least 7 turns. The first 3 are to figure out how the attacks even work, and then 4 to cause moderate damage.

[Will]

Pencil me down for both

[pfm]

I will try both

[mossdeep]

@caughtatpoint

[cosrob]

Both please

[DarthEevee]

I’m in for VGC. Skill level is “great at coaching other players, not amazing at playing myself”

[DarthEevee]

[Tryson21]

sign me up for both!