But the fact the name disappeared like this feels a little strange.

Trainers locked in battle! Kicking the earth and dancing in the air alongside their Pokémon! They storm through this field! Behold! This is the newest and greatest evolution of battling! ACTION DUEL!

Can you feel the power?

I am quite flexible with my schedule; if this turns out not to jive for you, just give me a shout and we can reconvene.

Heh, I never thought I'd get this far. Now that I know I've got a guaranteed trophy, I'll be 100% focused on having a blast for these final few matches. I don't mind losing-- I just want a good, clean game. Or two.

Here's the new match location:

http://play.pokemonshowdown.com/battle-monotype-360574879

I'm free most evenings so that's good. I'll try and be on around 9PM tonight (for me). My name on Showdown is Ihavenoinsurance.

I'm busy. How does Friday, 6:00 pacific sound?

Also, yeah, I knew I saw that somewhere before!
If I don't have a chance to tell you before the fight, good luck, and have fun.

My schedule's pretty free, aside from a few hours Wednesday-Thursday, but you Americans are asleep then anyway.

That was the most surprising battle I've seen so far! Good luck to you both in future rounds!

That decision being to get out of bloody bed this morning because it clearly wasn't going to be worth it.

Why yes, I am salty as all hell. =]

Good match, though, and good luck against Hardric or whoever. =]

The semifinal is by definition the last match of the Winners' Bracket. That means its loser drops into the last entry slot in the Loser's Bracket - L33. So if you:

-Win the semi: you go into the final and are guaranteed silver or gold.
-Lose the semi: you drop into L33, and take part in the Losers' Semi, where if you:
--Win: you go into the final and are guaranteed silver or gold.
--Lose: you get the bronze.

SeaTurtle is guaranteed a trophy, as is whoever faces him in battle from this point on.

hS

...so that my team will ride eternal, shiny and chrome.

I'd slipped back into thinking that your slot in the loser's bracket was determined by what battle you lost, not by when you lost it. (Does... does this mean that if the tournament had gone fast enough, someone could have lost their first battle and jumped straight to the finals? It does, doesn't it?)

hS

Odd. I got on around 7 pm my time, and waited for several hours as well, and not only did I not see an "ihavenoinsurace", the people in the writing and tournament channels said you'd been in but left earlier, so maybe our timing was off.

I can do today any time, or literally any Wednesday after 11 PM GMT. I'm Junkieofdata on Showdown.

Good luck in the winner's bracket!

Since I'm now out I get the Pewter Trophy, right?!?, I figure it's not inappropriate to share my team-makeup + battle-planning document. Should be good for a laugh, right?

The Ring of Fire

hS