PJT ’14 – Last Minute Changes & Alterations

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It’s no lie that we’ve been working towards launching our tournament for a while now. We’ve carefully considered formats and rules to make the best experience we could and we’ve made several changes over the last few months to get the tournament to exactly how we want it. However, we’ve decided to make some fairly substantial last minute changes.

Groups Stage Changes

Last week we announced the listings for each individual group within the tournament. these groups each contain 5 people who will all battle one another in an attempt to gain the most points and proceed to the elimination round. Alongside these group listings we announced the dates slots each group would need to compete in order to have their scores counted.

We realised it was perhaps a little unfair that some competitors would have longer to work on their teams as their group didn’t need to compete until later in the month. As such, we’ve now decided that all groups will battle in the same period. From July 24 until August 7 every competitor in each group much complete all necessary battles to have their points count. A reminder of your group can be found below.

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Group Listings

Lavender Group

FrostByte, Gangplank Olaf, Chandelure16, MenacingCascoon, RocketClauncher

Driftveil Group

LoarkHD, ShinyTrapinch, Yveltal’s Minion, Chicolombia, regidudeam 

 

Canalave Group

DefensiveBastiodon, MissMilotic, Chaos, Roksyth, primalwulf

Fallarbor Group

premiertrainer, Lasgorndalf, Miniryu-Ninja, rawbread, Rheneas 

 

Sunyshore Group

LaserDragonX, Marko XY, EarthenWarrior, jotawonka, Jordinite

Ecruteak Group

Gentleman of Sinnoh, Maple, AliceXVI, Spetsnaz, Zeromyraid

 

Undella Group

UmbreonLifts, simkenno, HeavyMetalFairy, Edgaroth, RIOspeedwagon

Lumiose Group

Themightywyvern, SilverRioluALPHA, ShinyLickitung, Sexystarbits, SlipperySceptile [/spoiler]

Team Submissions

We’ve always known that we would require all participants to submit their teams before competing. Now is the time to do that. Below is a form asking participants to submit details of their team before competing. It’s important all competitors do this before beginning battles so we can store the information and us it should any disagreements or claims of cheating occur. No one other than selected staff members has access to this information.

Submissions for teams must be submitted by the 24th of July CST. The tournament will officially start later that day, or earlier if all competitors submit before the soft deadline. Any delays in submitting your team will simply mean you lose the maximum amount of time to compete you battles within.

Rules

As one more reminder to our readers, the rules for the tournament can be found below. Failure to follow these rules will result in disqualification. Disqualification will also occur if we find any competitors actively being deceitful or lying to others, cheating in any way, deliberate disconnecting or any other nefarious behaviour – including in the site comments and chat. Rules breakers will lose the match and will be disqualified completely.

Pokémon

When choosing Pokémon to take part in the PokéJungle Tournament, it’s important they all conform to our rules for entry, as seen below.

  • All Pokémon must be legitimately obtainable in Pokémon X & Y. We are allowing transferring of Pokémon from older games through Poké Transporter
  • The following Pokémon are banned: Mewtwo, Mew, Lugia, Ho-Oh, Celebi, Kyogre, Groudon, Rayquaza, Jirachi, Deoxys, Dialga, Palkia, Giratina, Phione, Manaphy, Darkrai, Shaymin, Arceus, Victini, Reshiram, Zekrom, Kyurem, Keldeo, Meloetta, Genesect, Xerneas, Yveltal, Zygarde, Diancie, Hoopa and Volcanion. Mega Latias and Mega Latios are also banned.
  • Species Clause: No two Pokémon can share the same Pokédex number
  • Two or more Pokémon cannot have the same nickname in a team
  • Pokémon cannot be nicknamed using the name of another Pokémon. (For example naming a Sewaddle “Snover”)
  • Pokémon able to Mega Evolve are allowed to do so
  • Any Pokémon used by players that are above Level 50 will be lowered to Level 50. Pokémon below Level 50 will be raised to Level 50.
  • Players will be required to use 6 Pokémon throughout the tournament. These Pokémon will remain the same through the entire tournament and cannot be changed.

General

  • All matches will be played in the Singles, 6 VS. 6 format
  • Item Clause: No two Pokémon can hold the same held item
  • Your Pokémon team must remain the same through the entirety of the tournament. No changes are allowed unless we state otherwise
  • An intentional disconnection from the battle will result in an automatic forfeit

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We’re now incredibly close to the tournament starting and we hope that all our competitors are ready, or almost there. We will provide an launch post on the 24th with details on how to arrange battles and kicking off the tournament.

Finally, as we always like to do, we want to ask our readers to submit any questions they may have about the tournament; or raise any problems or issues they may have. Don’t forget to Like us on Facebook and Follow us on Twitter where you can contact us and get the latest Pokémon news and updates!

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GROUPS BATTLE STAGE: JULY 24 — AUGUST 7  //  ELIMINATION ROUND AUGUST 8 ONWARDS

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1,758 thoughts on “PJT ’14 – Last Minute Changes & Alterations”

  2. Scored a Friend Ball Yanma and Dream Ball Torkoal on Showdown only just for one Defog Drifloon. I guess Defog Drifloon is beneficial to breed. 😀

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  5. Good to see the PJT will start soon, as the most common pokemon most of the people here doesnt use OU so i expect Arcanine. and who will win, obviously Rheneas and his POWER OF FRIENDSHIP. Oh and if someone needs to test his team i will gladly help:)

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  6. Hot Damn this is gonna be tough
    I just don’t know who to use!
    Do I use my all powerful Earthen Warriors?
    Or use different Pokemon I’m not too familiar with
    (Also its great to be back)

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  7. You ever just wanna throw your 3ds because radar chaining for a shiny hawlucha is a pain in the neck? Getting that feeling right about now…

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    • I have dropped my 3DS countless times.
      No breaks, scratches (then again most of the time it’s on carpet), and no frozen games. My 3DS is power.

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      • I have NEVER once my 3DS once
        ever since the time i dropped my original special edition Mario Kart D.S (The Red One) (On the tiled bathroom floor) and the hinge broke (I nearly fainted)
        So to this day i’ve trained my body to be the utmost careful when handling electronics

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        • I get clumsy.
          Plus, it’s not a matter of me dropping it, but placing it somewhere where one movement causes it to fall (like the edge of my desk)

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          • Dude i strongly urge you to watch Bobobo
            it is insanely funny and you’ll bust a gut ten times over

          • Let me some it up
            its a futuristic world under the oppressive reign of Czar baldy bald the 3rd, a crazed ruler who wants to shave everyone’s heads
            his massive empire has many districts and his infamous Big Four that lead Hair Hunts
            Now comes in our Hero and the man with the Golden Afro
            Bobobo Bo Bo-bobo
            a man wrapped in mystery and the last surviving member of his race, he fights for all this good, even though he’s violently unpredictable he will never back down

  9. I saw some confusion down below, so I’ll elaborate. The format for this battle will be Normal rules, because that is the only way one can do a 6v6 in the game. In Normal rules, all pokemon are auto-level 50. doesn’t matter if they’re level 1 or 49, they are level 50 for the battle(sorry if any of you wanted to use level 1 pokes).

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  16. Ug
    Chat’s not working for me ._.
    So just saying I have the same username
    And I think final two is Regis and Rio

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  18. I wanted to hear your answers:

    Q1. What was the first ever Pokémon you got (It might be when you played Pokemon Red/Blue/Yellow, D/P/PT, RSE, FRLG, BW, B2W2, X/Y, HGSS, GSC)? (Excluding starters)

    Q2. What is your favourite Pokemon of all time? If you can’t think of one, list your favourite 3.

    Q3. Top 5 Pokémon Music (Routes, Towns, Caves, Villainous Teams… etc.)

    Srry just really bored

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  19. I see we had another legendary debate. *sigh*
    Just play by the rules set out in the tournament and stop complaining. The rules are there for a reason and make it equal (or as equal as possible) for everyone.

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    • There’s nothing wrong about debating at all. Sure, rules are established but, maybe something important comes out of said debate. All great changes come from debating, just let it be. xD Unless it gets out of hand, of course. xD

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      • I know, but it’s same thing over and over again. If someone makes new points, then fair enough, there is scope for development. But it’s the same ‘they are OP’ argument again and again.

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      • all i care is fairness
        like i’d never use a Legend to win but it just ruffles me that other would
        I’m just putting it out there they’re called legends for a reason
        sure they’re mostly beatable but its the principle

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          • that’s all i need to say
            if you ban some you should ban all

            but it doesn’t matter whats done is done
            just stating my opinion

          • I can say that a bunch of the banned Pokemon are Psychic types, so all Psychic types should be banned.

        • The whole reason they are called legends is because they are one of a kind or have a rich backstory surrounding them. Nothing to do with Power Level in my opinion, other than the obvious 670+ BST ones, which are Blatantly overpowered.

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        • The thing is though… those Pokemon such as Landorus and the Latis are just as strong as Pseudos, and those aren’t banned.

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    • Yeah, for now our rules are set. This is our biggest tournament ever and though you guys don’t see much of it me and NL (and the other staff from time to time) spend ages discussing every silly little detail.

      We’re hoping that if things go well we can start hosting other tournaments, perhaps smaller ones every so often and a yearly one like this.

      It’s good to see support from both sides. Knowing you’re happy to play by the rules we set is good, but knowing people would like legends is good too!

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