IRBYT 2: Signups

[GGFan]

I am happy to be posting the topic of the second IRBYT. IRBYT is short for InternationalRBYTournament. I decided to make this tournament after being a regular battler in Pokemonexperte, a German and Austrian Pokemon community for a few months and there was a good amount of interest. The tournament was revolutionary as it was the first of it's kind where an American Pokemon community went up against a European Pokemon community.

The tournament was a big success and I've decided to try and make the sequel, the IRBYT 2. Here's how it will work.

10 people from THE Alternative/PLDH and 10 people from Pokemonexperte signup. In round one, the people who signup from their respective forums will play each other to earn the right to represent their forum in round two, in which the top four from each forum will play each other. The tournament will unravel from there.

In round one, everybody plays each other once, it's Swiss format but with eliminations when it's over. In round two, the opponents are matched up according to their record, in other words it's a seeding. After round two I decide what to do next with the remaining participants from THE Alternative/PLDH and Pokemonexperte.

If say, everybody from THE Alternative/PLDH or Pokemonexperte beat their opposing forum in round two, then the tournament obviously wouldn't go past round 2. The object is to be the last forum standing.

Here is the entire tournament from last year so you can get an idea on how this works:

Signup topic
lionheartggfan.proboards52.com/index.cgi?board=tournamentsareheldhere&action=display&thread=1161671632

Round one
lionheartggfan.proboards52.com/index.cgi?board=tournamentsareheldhere&action=display&thread=1163140058

Round two
lionheartggfan.proboards52.com/index.cgi?board=tournamentsareheldhere&action=display&thread=1164354285

Semi finals
lionheartggfan.proboards52.com/index.cgi?board=tournamentsareheldhere&action=display&thread=1165698605

Finals
lionheartggfan.proboards52.com/index.cgi?board=tournamentsareheldhere&action=display&thread=1165701154

THE Alternative/PLDH pool
1. GGFan
2. HcM
3. Slayer
4. Billtog
5. MikkelDemey
6. GBH17
7. AcePiGGy
8. nza sama
9. Jimmy Kudo
10. Cladenstine

Pokemonexperte pool
1. Raffael
2. cune
3. peter pan
4. Bizzey
5. Buster
6. GG
7. Jirachi268
8. Majin
9. Picollo

The topic on Pokemonexperte
www.pokemonexperte.de/forum/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=54761

The topic on PLDH
pldh.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=389&sid=d70742d1f7d0911f620f530bce39c68d

[HizardcoreMike]

In.

[Slayer]

Count me in.

[GGFan]

I am making it 10 people per division instead now. Also, in case you guys are wondering about the PLDH thing, since a lot of our members have disappeared lately I needed some aid.

[cladenstine123]

Ok...

[GGFan]

I'm tired of waiting for Pokemonexperte to get a 10th guy, making round one now.