Did You Always Exist? - Round 1 [SEND IN YOUR CLAIMS!]

DYAE is a tournament where you'll have to battle with low usage Pokémon in order to climb to the top and get yourself a legend. Today, we are finally starting the battles!

The bracket will be ramdomized at the start of every round. There will only be 1 round of Single Elimination, while after that it becomes kind of double elimination. Kind of because even if you lose even once, you won't get 1st place, but you can get second!
Here's what I mean:



Zekrom2525 didn't make it in because he didn't send a complete team in time. He'll get priority in case a sub is needed, followed by SubwayJ.

So, the matches will be as follows:

Texas Cloverleaf vs. Leethoof
Ref: Frosty
Link: http://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/dyae-round-1-leethoof-vs-texas-cloverleaf.3542321/

SubwayJ vs. acidphoenix
Ref: Birkal
Link: http://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/dyae-acidphoenix-vs-subwayj.3542513/

FishShapedFish vs. Elevator Music
Ref: Black Heart
Link: http://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/dyae-r1-fishshapedfish-vs-elevator-music.3542058/unread

YellowAdminSilver vs. waterwarrior
Ref: Black Heart
Link: http://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/dyae-r1-yellowadminsilver-vs-waterwarrior.3542331/unread

Matezoide vs. deadfox081
Ref: acidphoenix
Link: http://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/dyae-r1-matezoide-vs-deadfox081.3542915/

Canis Majoris vs Dogfish44
Ref: deadfox081
Link: http://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/dyae-round-1-canis-majoris-vs-dogfish44.3542219/

Birkal vs S0L1D G0LD
Ref: Gale Wing Srock
Link: http://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/dyae-round-1-birkal-vs-s0l1d-g0ld.3542226/

Maxim vs Frosty
Ref: tavok
Link: http://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/dyae-round-1-frosty-vs-maxim.3542170/

Its_A_Random vs Rainman Legends
Ref: Maxim
Link: http://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/dyae-round-1-its-a-random-vs-rainman-legends.3542377/

AOPSUser vs Mowtom
Ref: tavok
Link: http://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/dyae-round-1-aopsuser-vs-mowtom.3542023/

zarator vs Ragnarokalex
Ref: S01D G0LD
Link: http://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/dyae-r1-zarator-vs-ragnarokalex.3542659/

P2X7 vs Black Heart
Ref: acidphoenix
Link: http://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/dyae-round-1-black-heart-vs-p2x7.3542901/

YOU NOW SEND 3 OF YOUR POKÉMON TO THE REF FOR YOUR BATTLE. You have 3 days to do so.

The rules are the following:
- 3v3 Singles.
- 3 Day DQ Time. Each player has two DQ warnings a match. Go over DQ thrice, you will be DQed. Unless, of course, you post a LoA, in which case you'll have more time. Do have in mind that I want these two round to be fast, so G0LD and I WILL give a DQ warning if you go over DQ and we WILL DQ you if you go over DQ thrice. If your battle has has not ended in a month, DQ time will be reduced to 2 days. If it has not finished in 1 and a half month, the hosts will decide who wins based on who played better.
- Infinite Recoveries/Chills per Pokémon.
- Two Substitutions per player excluding KO Substitutions.
- 0 Mega Evolutions
- Switch = OK
- Abilities = ALL
- Items = ON
- Arena: ASB Tournament Arena
- MID-BATTLE EVOLUTION IS FORBIDDEN

Rewards:
Winner: 3 CC and 5 UC.
Loser: 3 CC.
Ref: 1.5 x the usual payout.

Good Luck to everyone, and have fun!

EDIT: For those advancing to the next rounds, you get 50 MC and 10 CC to use in your claims. Remember: CC can be saved, MC can not.

EDIT 2: Please, send the updated profiles of your Pokémon in you claim. This to make it easier for us and make this go faster.

Texas Cloverleaf vs. Leethoof
Even matchup but Texas is the better singles player.

Gale Wing Srock vs. acidphoenix
acidphoenix will never beat someone who has subs that take up four lines on a forum and PM's the ref for questions each round.

FishShapedFish vs. Elevator Music
Sorry don't know y- wait I am not WhiteQueen.

YellowAdminSilver vs. waterwarrior
IRL will be the only thing stopping ww from winning.

Gerard vs. deadfox081
deadfox will probably get off to a good start but then choke.

Canis Majoris vs Dogfish44
Close match that will be decided by an obscure ruling in Canis' favour.

Birkal vs S0L1D G0LD
S0L1D G0LD is dangerous but Birkal will probably beat him like he is doing in LLAMA atm.

Maxim vs Frosty
See Gerard vs. deadfox minus the Maxim getting off to a good start bit.

Its_A_Random vs Rainman Legends
Good luck, you will need it.

AOPSUser vs Mowtom
Who is Mow- whoops I forgot that gimmick stopped being funny months ago. AOPS has a better team imo.

zarator vs Ragnarokalex
Every tournament zarator fizzles out. This tournament will be no exception.

P2X7 vs Black Heart
P2X7 had the balls to use NFE's... a crazy risk... but it will work out against ... if he does not get DQed first...

<---------------Oh hey look who's not making it past Round 2?

Anyways, no time for predicts but the tournament's name applies to quite a few people in this tourney. gl all

I am just going to predict the not so favorite to win, because isn't it the core idea of this tournament?


Texas Cloverleaf vs. Leethoof
Leethoof is gonna ROCK <3

Gale Wing Srock vs. acidphoenix
acidphoenix is going to prove it to everyone that a Phoenix has risen from the ashes. *burns*

FishShapedFish vs. Elevator Music
Emma is so cool, that he will let the Fish have her swim.

YellowAdminSilver vs. waterwarrior
YAS is going to lose. (There! I said the magic words, now win the battle Silver :p)

Gerard vs. deadfox081
Gerard is probably the under rated here? Coz deadfox can crush teams when he plays in his elements.

Canis Majoris vs Dogfish44
Dogfish is an Underdog and also a fish? Half the Lanturn's in the tournament (almost) are named after him. He has to win it for Lanturn! Go Lumos Maxima!

Birkal vs S0L1D G0LD
Solid Gold is going to beat Birkal in the Water Gym. Guess where Birkal will avenge his loss?

Maxim vs Frosty
If Maxim wants to shut his critics down, then he has to give Frosty a run for his UCs worth.

Its_A_Random vs Rainman Legends
Training in a desert, and sweating in the humid weather has made Rain so hot. That he is going to bring the heat to this battle. Watch out IAR -_-'

AOPSUser vs Mowtom
Mowtom is going to win this tournament. Look at his team man! Primeape! Primeape!
Since Mate didn't send his team, all of Mate and Steve's power are going to assist Mowtom in this tourney. We got no chance #_#

zarator vs Ragnarokalex
Everyone expects Zarator to lose, this will put immense pressure on Alex to win this battle at all costs. Which will probably make him choke against Zara @_@

P2X7 vs Black Heart
Do not underestimate the man who can ref battles like a reffing machine. He knows all the rules, from all the battles that he has reffed. And I am sure that all the big guns of ASB today, had started their ASB adventure by reffing like a machine.

My prediction:

Tavok lets me in the tournament and i beat everyone with a six Primeape team



Yolol

I don't get it...

For Place 1:

Round 1 losers, Out...
Round 2 losers, enters Round 1 of Second Place...
Round 3 losers, Out...
Finals losers, enters Finals of Second Place...

Why does Round 3 losers don't get second chance while Round 2 losers get a second chance ?

Also, How is 3rd place winner decided ?

List of Pokemon used and their frequency...

Sylveon - 8

Lanturn - 6
Tangrowth - 6

Musharna - 5

Ambipom - 4
Diggersby - 4
Exploud - 4
Frogadier - 4
Hariyama - 4
Pangoro - 4
Sudowoodo - 4
Venomoth - 4
Venusaur - 4
Weezing - 4

Espeon - 3
Feraligatr - 3
Krookodile - 3
Staraptor - 3
Swampert - 3

Cloyster - 2
Florges - 2
Forretress - 2
Crawdaunt - 2
Heliolisk - 2
Hippowdon - 2
Hitmonchan - 2
Gogoat - 2
Jellicent - 2
Kadabra - 2
Klinklang - 2
Mandibuzz - 2
Probopass - 2
Serperior - 2
Swoobat - 2
Throh - 2
Trevenant - 2
Wigglytuff - 2

Arbok - 1
Barbaracle - 1
Beheeyem - 1
Blastoise - 1
Chesnaught - 1
Claydol - 1
Cofagrigus - 1
Dodrio - 1
Drifblim - 1
Flareon - 1
Gastly - 1
Granbull - 1
Heatmor - 1
Huntail - 1
Klefki - 1
Maractus - 1
Monferno - 1
Primeape - 1
Scolipede - 1
Simipour - 1
Simisear - 1
Spiritomb - 1
Swalot - 1
Tauros - 1
Vespiquen - 1
Victreebel - 1
Xatu - 1
Yanmega - 1

Items...

Rare Candy - 25
Pixie Dust - 3
Charged Stone - 2
Figy Berry - 2
Moon Stone - 2
Silk Scarf - 2
Deep Sea Tooth - 1
Enigma Berry - 1
Expert Belt - 1
Fairy Tech - 1
Fire Stone -1
Flame Orb - 1
Flying Gem - 1
Mago Berry - 1
Poison Gem - 1
RageCandyBar - 1
Rock Incense - 1
Starf Berry - 1
Sun Stone - 1
Water Stone - 1

Also, I find it amusing that Gale Wing Srock and Its_A_Random have Pokemon that are most popular i.e. Sylveon + Lanturn + Tangrowth + Musharna + 2 Pokemon used by 4 players...
Also Maxim has the least popular Pokemon... All of his Pokemon are used by 2 players or only by himself...

Black Heart said:

I don't get it...

For Place 1:

Rund 1 losers, Out...
Round 2 losers, enters Round 1 of Second Place...
Round 3 losers, Out...
Finals losers, enters Finals of Second Place...

Why does Round 3 losers don't get second chance while Round 2 losers get a second chance ?

Also, How is 3rd place winner decided ?

Click to expand...

That would be me making a mistake while making the brackets (I knew something seemed off...).

3rd place will be whoever defeated the other loser in their final match. If there are ties, they will be decided by hp %.

Gale Wing Srock said:

AOPSUser vs Mowtom
Mowtom is going to win this tournament. Look at his team man! Primeape! Primeape!
Since Mate didn't send his team, all of Mate and Steve's power are going to assist Mowtom in this tourney. We got no chance #_#

Click to expand...

That moment when the person who predicts you to win states that they're picking the ones they actually think will lose...

Mowtom they are not the same, Chin Up bro ^_^

Texas Cloverleaf vs. Leethoof
Leethoof needs to send out team in 10 hours he will get DQ'd. Speaking of DQ that is probably why I picked him to lose. That and because texas is better.

Gale Wing Srock vs. acidphoenix
Better experience in those tourneys go a long way.

FishShapedFish vs. Elevator Music
Oh dear. Considering Emma will probably get himself a legendary, Fish got the short end of the stick here.

YellowAdminSilver vs. waterwarrior
See answer for #2

Gerard vs. deadfox081
Items are nice for you, you know?

Canis Majoris vs Dogfish44
Unless he continues to play awfully, this should be a nice revenge.

Birkal vs S0L1D G0LD
I am in the process of biting my tongue in llama somewhat, so I better go with birkal this time.

Maxim vs Frosty
Choke and I will do nasty things.

Its_A_Random vs Rainman Legends
See #2

AOPSUser vs Mowtom
PRIMEAPE POWER GO GO GO. Erm....just a hunch.

zarator vs Ragnarokalex

iar said:

Every tournament zarator fizzles out. This tournament will be no exception.

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P2X7 vs Black Heart
...gastly? why? still P2X7 is the better player.

I'll flesh out/add the reasoning later.

Texas Cloverleaf vs. Leethoof
Sorry, leet, but I'm skeptical that you'll stay in the time constraints, let alone win this one.

Gale Wing Srock vs. acidphoenix
Gale has more experience, and a better track record. Could be close, though, I guess.

FishShapedFish vs. Elevator Music
Elevator Music is a very good player. I don't exactly know how much he likes being assumed to win nearly everything's he does, but (no offense to fish) I don't think that will likely be proven wrong here.

YellowAdminSilver vs. waterwarrior
ww has the skill and experience here to win.

Gerard vs. deadfox081
Gerard may have been out of the game for a while, but that doesn't seem to have affected him too badly afaik.

Canis Majoris vs Dogfish44

Birkal vs S0L1D G0LD
Caw

Maxim vs Frosty
Given the past, Maxim will most likely choke here, if nothing else.

Its_A_Random vs Rainman Legends

AOPSUser vs Mowtom
Yeah, no idea. I was tempted to give it to aops, but eh.

zarator vs Ragnarokalex
Curses are meant to be broken (well, not really, but eh).

P2X7 vs Black Heart
P2 is the better battler here, and brought NFEs, So that gets him my vote.

Frosty Birkal Black Heart acidphoenix Maxim S0L1D G0LD , please report who has not sent mons so we can kick them out :)

waterwarrior hasn't sent yet...

Also tavok, can you please tag the link of ongoing battles in OP ?

Gerard has not sent in.

Leethoof sent mons yesterday. Thread will go up real soon (depending on how things go here in my course).

zarator , as of now, has yet to send.

I sent my team in please don't kill me :<

Rainman Legends hasn't sent in yet. I believe he's on LOA though so I'll give him a little longer.

Why are we tagging people to send in rather than giving the spots to others :'(

Because we're all afraid of Psyduck and his army of 400HP mons

Gerard , zarator and Gale Wing Srock are being subbed by Matezoide, SubwayJ and Zekrom2525 . You have 24 hours to send me an acceptable team. If you don't, you'll be using the team of whoever you're subbing for this round, with you getting the chance to send me a team BEFORE this round ends. Who you are subbing for will be randomized after teams have been sent.

Shouldn't u give atleast 1 day for Gerard and zarator to send team ?

They had 5 days when it was supposed to be 3.

Mine have both sent in. Thread up tomorrow.