art by ShawnnL

 

Hello all & welcome to Steven's Big Steel Doubles Invitational!

 

This is a Doubles Invitational Series where players will be able to earn their invite to the final tournament through a series of automated tournaments over 8 weeks.

 

Hosted by Parke & Elizn

 

Live Leaderboards are here:

 

All qualifier tournaments will take place as automated tournaments, with the following format : Automated Tournament | Double Battle | 64 Players | 6v6 Doubles

 

SCHEDULE:

Week #1 - Friday 22nd December

Tournament 1 - 13:00 UTC | 08:00 EST | 10:00 BRT | 21:00 CST | Time Zone Converter

Tournament 2 - 21:00 UTC | 16:00 EST | 18:00 BRT | 05:00 CST (Saturday, 23rd) | Time Zone Converter

 

Week #2 - Friday 29th December

Tournament 1 - 13:00 UTC | 08:00 EST | 10:00 BRT | 21:00 CST | Time Zone Converter

Tournament 2 - 21:00 UTC | 16:00 EST | 18:00 BRT | 05:00 CST (Saturday, 30th) | Time Zone Converter

 

Week #3 - Sunday 7th January

Tournament 1 - 13:00 UTC | 08:00 EST | 10:00 BRT | 21:00 CST | Time Zone Converter

Tournament 2 - 21:00 UTC | 16:00 EST | 18:00 BRT | 05:00 CST (Monday, 8th) | Time Zone Converter

 

Week #4 - Saturday 13th January

Tournament 1 - 13:00 UTC | 08:00 EST | 10:00 BRT | 21:00 CST | Time Zone Converter

Tournament 2 - 21:00 UTC | 16:00 EST | 18:00 BRT | 05:00 CST (Sunday, 14th) | Time Zone Converter

 

Week #5 - Sunday 21st January

Tournament 1 - 13:00 UTC | 08:00 EST | 10:00 BRT | 21:00 CST | Time Zone Converter

Tournament 2 - 21:00 UTC | 16:00 EST | 18:00 BRT | 05:00 CST (Monday, 22nd) | Time Zone Converter

 

Week #6 - Friday 26th January

Tournament 1 - 13:00 UTC | 08:00 EST | 10:00 BRT | 21:00 CST | Time Zone Converter

Tournament 2 - 21:00 UTC | 16:00 EST | 18:00 BRT | 05:00 CST (Saturday, 27th) | Time Zone Converter

 

Week #7 - Friday 2nd February

Tournament 1 - 13:00 UTC | 08:00 EST | 10:00 BRT | 21:00 CST | Time Zone Converter

Tournament 2 - 21:00 UTC | 16:00 EST | 18:00 BRT | 05:00 CST (Saturday, 3rd) | Time Zone Converter

 

Week #8 - Saturday 10th February

Tournament 1 - 13:00 UTC | 08:00 EST | 10:00 BRT | 21:00 CST | Time Zone Converter

Tournament 2 - 21:00 UTC | 16:00 EST | 18:00 BRT | 05:00 CST (Sunday, 11th) | Time Zone Converter

 

Finals - Saturday 9th March | 20:00 UTC | 15:00 EST | 17:00 BRT | 04:00 CST (Sunday 10th March) | Time Zone Converter

 

Leaderboard scoring breakdown:

1st place in qualifier tournament = 10 points

2nd place in qualifier tournament = 5 points

3-4th place in qualifier tournament = 2 points

5-8th place in qualifier tournament = 1 point

 

Obtaining 10 points overall will secure your spot for the final tournament on Saturday 17th February 2024. Remaining seats will be decided by point totals + participation across the qualifying events.

 

RULES:

• Leaderboard points are obtained from automated tournaments only. There will be 2 tournaments per week, both at different times to make it as fair as possible.
• The final tournament will have seeded seats based on your leaderboard score through the 8 qualification weeks. The higher your leaderboard position, the stronger your seed in the final (for example, seed #1 will play seed #32, #2 will play seed #31 etc. etc.) 
• Players will be informed via in-game mail whenever they obtain enough points to be eligible for the final tournament.
• Only one character per player is eligible to be invited to the final tournament.

 

FINALS:

Details

Staff Run - Silph Co Ch.4 | Invite Only | Double Battle | Single Elimination | Doubles Format - 32 Players - 6V6 Doubles 

 

Date & Time

Saturday 9th March | 20:00 UTC | 15:00 EST | 17:00 BRT | 04:00 CST (Sunday 10th March) | Time Zone Converter

 

Clauses

Evasion / Sleep / OHKO / Unique Species / Self-KO 

Tournament Clauses Explained

 

Doubles Ban List

Pokemon in the OverUsed, UnderUsed, NeverUsed, and Untiered tiers are valid.

Pokemon in the Ubers tier are also valid with the exception of legendaries and mythicals as they cannot be used in PvP.

The in-game Pokedex contains filters for competitive tiers. You can view any additional bans by opening the PvP menu -> Matchmaking Signup -> Bans.

 

 

 1st Place Prize

   SHINY GIFT Metagross 

Your choice of nature, 2 moves, with 3 selectable IVs + 3x28 IVs
&

1250 Reward Points

 

 2nd Place Prize

   SHINY GIFT Dusclops 

Your choice of gender, nature, 2 moves, with 3 selectable IVs + 3x28 IVs
&

1000 Reward Points

 

 3rd Place Prize

    SHINY GIFT Ludicolo

Your choice of gender, nature, 2 moves, with 3 selectable IVs + 3x28 IVs
&

750 Reward Points

 

Rewards will be sent as their lowest evolution at Lv. 1

Rewards will be sent to the winners a few days after the Final tournament

Outrageous

2 minutes ago, gbwead said:

Outrageous

Pretty great event for a tier thats not even real, right? Better dust off those doubles comps!

Second place prize is sexy af

Hawt.

Tremendously interesting

Where can I register for the tournament? D:

Just now, Aneri said:

Where can I register for the tournament? D:

All qualifier tournaments will take place as automated tournaments, with the following format : Automated Tournament | Double Battle | 64 Players | 6v6 Doubles

lf free dubs comps :v

hello, community leader, I saw in the tournament, a double battle called "keep it sample". Is it this activity?

1 hour ago, 6488139 said:

hello, community leader, I saw in the tournament, a double battle called "keep it sample". Is it this activity?

Hello! No no. Keep it simple is a different event than this one. You can find information relating to that one here.

 

 

Congratulations to OU & Axellgor for winning the first 2 invites!

 

Embedded leaderboards are also live at the top of the thread now.

Week 2 is behind us now!

 

Congrats to YJos & LoveSiNiLe for winning invites this week.

 

 

I want to confirm something, once i qualify i can't play the other tournaments? In other invitational editions the host explicitly said that you couldn't play once you qualified, but this is not the case, i don't see that rule anywhere @Parke

15 minutes ago, YJos said:

I want to confirm something, once i qualify i can't play the other tournaments? In other invitational editions the host explicitly said that you couldn't play once you qualified, but this is not the case, i don't see that rule anywhere @Parke

Correct. It's encouraged that you play the other tournaments after you qualify as you get points still which go towards your seat position in the final tournament.

17 minutes ago, Parke said:

Correcto. Se recomienda que juegues otros torneos después de clasificarte, ya que aún obtendrás puntos que te servirán para conseguir tu asiento en el torneo final.

Then i can continue playing for a chance to face someone who is lower on the leaderboard, is that correct?

2 minutes ago, YJos said:

Then i can continue playing for a chance to face someone who is lower on the leaderboard, is that correct?

Exactly 🙂

Those who already won tournaments don't need to prove their skills nor to win points to play against lower in ladder, théy are already skilled and talented

As well 700rp won't make any real différence

Don't be greedy and let noobs win some invites 😁😏

5 hours ago, Jgaw said:

Those who already won tournaments don't need to prove their skills nor to win points to play against lower in ladder, théy are already skilled and talented

As well 700rp won't make any real différence

Don't be greedy and let noobs win some invites 😁😏

Definitely not. The whole reason I made it this way is because I want the best of the best players in the format to play in the final tournament, banning those players from playing takes that away and adds some "free wins" to the final bracket which I dont like. I want it to be competitive. It's still possible to qualify even if youre making it to round 3/4 most weeks.

Week 3 is behind us now! Congrats to @OrangeManiac for winning your invite this week.

 

There's a few guys on 6/7 points now, so I'm expecting we could see a few people secure their spots next week also!

 

Live leaderboard is also updated on the original post.

 

 

Do I only qualify if I get to 10 points or can I qualify based on where my points position me at the end of all the weeks?

4 hours ago, Parke said:

Definitely not. The whole reason I made it this way is because I want the best of the best players in the format to play in the final tournament, banning those players from playing takes that away and adds some "free wins" to the final bracket which I dont like. I want it to be competitive. It's still possible to qualify even if youre making it to round 3/4 most weeks.

Believe me every DuBz player in the game is very talented, i played against em all

All players Who always play are great

It s all about match up and rng

Good luck all

13 hours ago, PrinceAdjahni said:

Do I only qualify if I get to 10 points or can I qualify based on where my points position me at the end of all the weeks?

Correct, you only qualify if you get 10 points. There's 5 weeks of qualifiers left.

 

9 hours ago, Jgaw said:

Believe me every DuBz player in the game is very talented, i played against em all

All players Who always play are great

It s all about match up and rng

Good luck all

I'm aware. I've got a long long period of experience myself, I know theres lots of great players. But you only need 1-2 good runs from 16 tours essentially really to guarentee qualification. That's not alot at all.

 

I'm gonna have to somehow pull off a magical masterclass to get to 10 points ☠️

11 hours ago, PrinceAdjahni said:

I'm gonna have to somehow pull off a magical masterclass to get to 10 points ☠️

Not at all, a couple decent runs will get you there. 🙂 it's doable