ASB Reffing Tower

[Kumori]

Has been a month... Anyone home?

[Oslo]

Just in case you didn't know, folks are allowed to ref without Reffing Tower approval. It just means you're not eligible for the reffing rewards until you're cleared. Just thought I'd share that in case that's something you want to do while waiting for the mods to approve your mock reffing. :3

[Kumori]

Just in case you didn't know, folks are allowed to ref without Reffing Tower approval. It just means you're not eligible for the reffing rewards until you're cleared. Just thought I'd share that in case that's something you want to do while waiting for the mods to approve your mock reffing. :3

What if I want my ref rewards? :<

[Oslo]

But reffing is its own reward! 8D

Srsly, though, I'm sure if you were to ref a battle and one of the mods approve you before that battle ends, it would still be eligible. I think. But it's up to you!

[Kumori]

Oh sounds fun... I think. I guess I'll try that.

[DarkestLight]

First thing when I get home, im grading your reffing and starting Insanity. So just a few more hours

[Kumori]

First thing when I get home, im grading your reffing and starting Insanity. So just a few more hours

I gotta go to bed XD I'll get it in the morning, though. GMT timezone.

[DarkestLight]

Kumori:

Aesthetically its a very clean reffing. I think your damage for an SE attack is a little low (Grass Knot on Water type, even though weight is low....but that can be just me.) Otherwise you noted the weather effect, which luckily didn't come into play here.

I don't see why we can't start you at a beginning Ref level Now go and snag up all the reffings you can handle!

[Kumori]

Yay! Pessimistic me was expecting myself to have made every mistake in the book, but I guess not.

Now it's time to shock the ASBL with ~colours~

[RaZoR LeAf]

Can I get a sub-ref for this battle:
http://www.pokemasters.net/forums/sh...t=25381&page=2

Since Perfect Chaos is absent for two months, and it's already been stalled for a month..

And anyone willing to ref this short 3 on 3
http://www.pokemasters.net/forums/sh...ad.php?t=25841

[Edretah]

I would like to be a Safari Zone ref, but not a regular battle ref. should i still do a mock battle?

[BTPoke]

These are the 3 battles I will be giving up, for those who want to take 'em:

Xiaolin Showdown (not really anymore. Now it's pretty much a normal battle)! Ash0011 vs. Emerald Gen.3

Battle Factory Showdown! Cynder Vs. Darkestlight

Testing Room: Legendary Hologram Battle! Rossymore vs. Edretah

[DarkestLight]

o.o How far along are these battles? *at work, can't check links, but may pick the two he can up*

[Perfect Chaos]

Hey yo, I'm finally back from India and the craziness has been sorted for a bit, so I'll try and get back into whatever reffings that I've been missing for the past couple of months now.

Just gimme a day to get back into the routine, jet lag's a bitch >_>

[BTPoke]

well with the testing room one, it's 3 points wins, and the score is currently 2-1


as for the xiaolin showdown one, long story short, we pretty much started over and it's at the second round right now :l

[Kumori]

Need some kind of sub-ref until I decide what I'm doing with reffing. It's likely I'll either have to take a pretty long break or retire altogether.

Kabomb vs Rossymore (Several Pokés on recall, I think. I'd say just check through the reffing.)

someone versus someone (There are two people, but I can't remember who's battling. Yeah. I don't think any rounds have been written yet .-.)

[DarkestLight]

Picked up the Testing room. Will try to pick up another.

[Kumori]

Need some kind of sub-ref until I decide what I'm doing with reffing. It's likely I'll either have to take a pretty long break or retire altogether.

Kabomb vs Rossymore (Several Pokés on recall, I think. I'd say just check through the reffing.)

someone versus someone (There are two people, but I can't remember who's battling. Yeah. I don't think any rounds have been written yet .-.)

Retiring from being a referee, so someone please pick up these matces.

[DarkestLight]

got the fp vs rossy one

[Emerald_Gen.3]

just making a ref reward thing

Emerald_Gen.3
Rank: Beginner Ref

Current Battles
None

Completed Battles
Edretah vs Kumori : Edretah : Round 10 : Updated 4-21-2013 [Link]
Darkestlight vs RaZoR LeAf : Darkestlight : Round 10 : Updated 4-29-2013[Link]
Kumori vs Darth_Jack : Darth_Jack : Round 5 : Updated 8-9-2013[Link]

Redeemable Battles
Edretah vs Kumori : Edretah : Round 10 : Updated 4-21-2013 [Link]
Darkestlight vs RaZoR LeAf : Darkestlight : Round 10 : Updated 4-29-2013[Link]
Kumori vs Darth_Jack : Darth_Jack : Round 5 : Updated 8-9-2013Link]

Updated: 8-9-2013
[Gym] [Incomplete] [DQ/Forfeit] [Complete] [Tournament]

[Puma]

TEAM
iHazNoName vs. YuNonameus
These two charming combatants duke it out under the following conditions! You might want to read them, people are rumoring they contain helpful information!

♦Arena♦
=> Victory Road
[Accuracy takes quite a hit! Both Pokémon are on -2 Accuracy until someone decides to use the move flash.]

♦DQ Time♦
=> Since it's not specified, we'll stick with 1 week! Plenty of time!

♦Rules♦
=> The battle is over when the Pokémon of a trainer fainted.
=> Damage Cap is set to 45% default.
=> DQ Time only starts to apply when one of the combatants call it.

♦Additions♦
=> With darkness surrounding the Pokémon, everything seems a bit eerie. Still, none of the two seems to have a major advantage regarding the battlefield.

...Preparations...

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Let's get cooking!
♣ROUND 6♣

Let's get back to watching this action packed battle! Well, as long as you call this everything consuming darkness "seeing". This might also explain the poor Pokemon just stumbling around, in search of their opponent. POPSTAR seems to make out his enemy first, leaping at the still eagerly searching PARCOUR and executing a bite that had to hurt a lot! Hm, as long as a lot is defined as scratching it a tiny bit, due to it's reduced attack power. The poor victim of this reckless attack started to deliver a draining blow, but with the all-caps-POPSTAR just jumping around willy-nilly in the dark, missing the punch was unavoidable. POPSTAR doesn't seem to land another hit with his superb jumping tactics too. Screw darkness.
[ PARCOUR | -3 HP |-3 EP | ~ ] - [ POPSTAR | -0 HP | -9 EP | ~]

PARCOUR doesn't even try to look for his opponent this time. His fist starts glowing while he is focussing on a punch of enormous power. POPSTAR, seeing his chance to strike whips his tail in the direction of the charging Medicham, missing completely though. Unfortunate timing, because PARCOUR just finished concentrating and delivered the fatal blow into POPSTAR's guts. I'd start spamming all-caps too if I got hit by that. Ouch.
Either way, POPSTAR seems to be powering up a bit. Is this a possible advantage I see there?
[ PARCOUR | -0 HP |-15 EP | ~ ] - [ POPSTAR | -16 HP | -5 EP | Torrent in effect ]

POPSTAR, sick of the last punch, doesn't feel like doing anything now. Or he just doesn't have anymore orders, that could also be a reason. Not betting on that one though. While sitting down, the SimiPOOR tripped over a little grass stain on the floor. How the hell are you even able to trip over a little piece of grass? POPSTAR does seem to be bothered though, getting hit by it's nemesis, the dangerous grass type is something you don't just take. At least it doesn't seem to be in PARCOUR's regular repertoire to start casting grass around, so the damage was bearable.
[ PARCOUR |-0 HP |-4 EP | ~ ] - [ POPSTAR | -9 HP | -0 EP | ~]

Also, fresh water drops on POPSTAR, regenerating a tiny bit of HP.
[ POPSTAR | +3 HP Aqua Ring ]

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...Afterwards...

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Referee Notes

• Speed advantages are completely out of effect, since the battlers need to make each other out in the dark first before they can attack. However, accuracy now affects the speed of an action.
• Everything that was not stated in the mock battle exactly, like gender, DQ Times and Damage Cap/Rule stuff is completely made up by me, according to my going-to-be standarts.
• The "addition" tab usually lists advantages some Pokémon might get regarding the terrain or the arena itself.
• Any minor grammar mistakes might occured because it's 2:30 AM here (:
• If the damage and accuracy seems random, I actually did a lot of research and calculating before deciding these things, so yeah.

I was kinda aiming for the [Intermediate] Referee rank, though looking at all the other mock battles (after I made that one of course, come on) it doesn't seem like an option :'D

[Emerald_Gen.3]

Sub-ref here please

[Oslo]

Actually, Em, so long as Grey is willing to stay on as ref I'd rather not bother with a sub. I'm sure he'll get around to it eventually.

[Emerald_Gen.3]

Just wondering if these are viable for ref rewards

Gym Battle(DL vs RL) 3 vs 3

(Edretah vs Kumori) 4 vs 4 (DQ but viable)

[Puma]

It's been a week, so I might as well just bump this thing up! °^°
I really want to start reffing, it'd be nice if you take a look at it. It's not that much of a scroll, but here's the link to the mock battle none the less: http://www.pokemasters.net/forums/as...tml#post590520

[Oslo]

If I started out as an Experienced Judge, does that mean I immediately have access to the Beginner Judge rewards? Also, how many Contests do I need to judge in order to access the Experienced Judge rewards?

[DarkestLight]

Ok let's answer all these damned questions!

1) Yes, if you began reffing as an unapproved ref, and then were approved while reffing a battle, that battle would count.

2) Puma: Nice, you did consider accuracy in the reffing. No real mixups, and your energy parameters made sense to me. Others might think them a tad high, but that's once again, only in comparison to other folks formulas. Yours is your own and its within an acceptable range. If you can keep that level of reffing style up, I see no reason why you won't fly up the ranks in no time.

I'm gonna start you at Intermediate, but I'll be watching to ensure you don't fall back in a rut after just doing a mock battle.

As for the ref rewards, yes any finished battle is viable, so my battle finished, as I beat RL 3 on 2.

3) Contests rewards. Those happen after every completed contest reffing. So If a contest goes from start to finish, you as the Coordinator are now eligible for the reward group. As for access to the lower ranking prizes...why would you do that?

Also, edited a few things...

[Oslo]

Ohhhhh, okay, I wasn't reading that properly. I didn't realize I get a free catch for every Contest I judge. >D That is awesome.

[Turtleshotz]

I'm submitting this reffing application assuming that I will be approved in the Approval Tower long before this is approved. If I'm not approved in the Approval Tower then feel free to ignore this post haha.

Team Medicham Vs Team Simipour

Pre-Round
Round X
The battle rages on in the dark cave of Victory Road, both Pokemon square off against at each other (or at least they think they are, its pretty stinkin' dark!!). The two trainers rattle off their commands to their Pokemon, their voices echoing around in the dark cave. The two Pokemon search around in the darkness, and brace themselves for the incoming attacks.


Post-Round

Referee Notes
All damage numbers and EP costs were determined with the help of a random number generator with all stats and conditions taken into account.
X to command next

[Aerbrodactyl]

Mock Reffing Round
The Revenge at Victory Road

Pre-Round Statistics

Battler 1

Medicham "Parkour" ♂ Pure Power
HP: 68%
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ENG: 74%
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+1 ATK
Aw yeah
Drain Punch ~ Focus Punch ~ Grass Knot

Battler b

Simipour "Popstar" ? Torrent
HP: 45%
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ENG: 39%
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+2 DEF, -3 ATK, AQUA RING
Heh, I'm feelin' like Milli Vanilli
Crunch + Acrobatics ~ Aqua Tail

Round Mock

Drip... Drip...

The two Pokémon stood in anticipation of what the other one would do. Parkour, the Medicham, lived up to his PokéDex entry, his eyes closed tight as he mapped a sensory image of the arena. The slightest movement, noise, electrical signal, helped him with his picturing of the cave. He took the lightest step forward, pulling his fist back, he kept his eyes closed as he concentrated some form of energy to the fist, letting it glow with a slight, blue hue. He dashed forward, his eyes still closed, using his mental image to navigate around the cave. Rushing towards Popstar, he punched the unknown gendered Pokémon right in the snout, absorbing some of its life force.

Popstar squealed as it was sent tumbling back. It blinked and rubbed its eyes, the light blue glow from Parkour's fist had dissipated already, but the Medicham hadn't moved much after punching the Geyser Pokémon. Frowning, the aqua monkey jumped to its feet. It stretched its limbs, preparing for its next set of moves. With its legs lithe enough, it sped forward, moving fast enough that, if it was more than just barely visible, you'd see an afterimage of it. After gaining enough speed, it lept forward, towards Parkour. In air, it opened its jaw wide, to reveal a set of would-be-sparkling pearly, white, razor-sharp teeth. As it got close enough to Parkour, it clamped its teeth down on his body, latching on for a second. It, then, performed a dexterous spin, its entire body flipping around, its jaws still sunk in the Meditate Pokémon. Its foot struck Parkour in the face, as it did, the jaws unclamped, letting Popstar land on its feet as Parkour was send falling to the floor.

A blue light shone briefly around Popstar, recovering energy.

Parkour:
-10 HP, +3 HP, -5 ENG

Popstar:
-7 HP, + 2 HP, -11 ENG, TORRENT

Parkour grunted as he pulled himself back on his feet. He rubbed over the punctured skin caused by that monkey's bite. He glared in Popstar's general direction, that androgynous beat was not going to get the better of him! He closed his eyes again, using his sixth sense to gain a mental picture of the arena. The monkey grinning tauntingly over at Parkour's direction, it took all of the Meditate Pokémon's willpower not to leap over and beat the genderless monkey half to death. Anyway, with less random filler and diversion, the Medicham pulled his fist back yet again, concentrating as he poured his physical prowess into that fist. This attack was going to pack a punch (No pun intended

...

Okay, pun intended). Popstar chittered to itself, Focus Punch!? Really!? Oh well, that dirty, old trick wasn't going to work on it. Using the water stored in its hair, Popstar began to send that water down towards its tail. Popstar swung its tail around around, water dripping from the end of the soggy thing. It chitter-chuckled to itself, letting the water absorbed in its hair continue to draw towards its tail, the speed of swinging increasing too, the tail's momentum massive as Popstar swung it towards Parkour.

... Splatting right on the floor, in front of the Meditate Pokémon. Popstar cursed to itself.

The Medicham grinned as he had finished concentrating, the monkey's antics having not affected Parkour this action. He punched his fist forward, striking Popstar in the snout again.

Popstar:
-15 HP, + 2 HP, -6 ENG

Parkour:
-12 ENG

Parkour was the last to move this action. The honour of having the first and final move was a rare thing, maybe. Victory Road, no matter what the region, involved a cave carved into a mountain. Most of the time, with foliage growing above the mountain. Well, this battle just happened to take place very close to the surface, yes. Parkour reached up, grabbing one root tip that was shyly poking through the roof of the arena. He pulled the root out, totally, the thing from end to end measured metres in length, a very long root! Tying a lasso in the end of it, he spun it around in the air, aiming towards the idle monkey...

..And it missed, the lasso tightening around a stalagmite.

Parkour:
-4 ENG

Popstar:
+2 HP

Post-Round Statistics

Battler 1

Medicham "Parkour" ♂ Pure Power
HP: 61%
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ENG: 50%
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+1 ATK
Aw yeah!

Battler b

Simipour "Popstar" ? Torrent
HP: 29%
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ENG: 22%
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+2 DEF, -3 ATK, AQUA RING, TORRENT
Vanilli, help!

Ref's Notes:

• Based on Medicham's Pokédex entry, sixth sense and all, I took it so that all of Medicham's moves had at least a 1/3 chance of missing. While Simipour's had at least a 1/2.
• Random.Org didn't like Popstar much.
• Pure Power seems cool.
• Er, hope this was good enough.

[DarkestLight]

TurtleShotz: Like your reffing style. Like the fact you keep it interesting and using Oslo's template is tricky. Good work. Now to the nitty gritty.

I need to ask you something about your reffing. When you say you used a random number generator for damage, do you mean to say that you use a random generated number within a specified range, or do you arbitrarily attribute damage?

Secondly. Focus Punch would have failed, since Parkour was struck by Popstar. Not saying that's impossible to retain focus, but it's highly unlikely that he would have after a powerful attack like Aqua Tail.

Thirdly, and most importantly, the damage calcs for the last rounds. I'm not too keen on how HIGH the energy usage is for Focus Punch alone-and then the damage dealt is a bit excessive. I understand Pure Power is in effect, as well as stat uppers and downers for the battlers-but I just wonder what the damage would have been had there been no status modifiers. I'm gonna ask you to submit another application-and don't you worry. I'll have one up as I finish this reffing post. With some work we'll have you approved before you finish reffing that battle

Next!

Aerbrodactyl:

Alright Let's see here brah.

Well I will say I like the work that you put into descriptons. Very vivid, enjoyable for me to read. Now for the nitty gritty.

It's weird. I do appreciate the attention to detail-and that includes using a Psychic Pokemon's innate skills to manuvear in a dark area-and yet still miss. That was cool to witness. The calcs seemed fine, not to excessive in either direction. As long as you can justify your values while reffing, then you should be good to go.(this goes for you too Shotz)

I did feel Aqua ring recovery was kind of high, but again, if you can justify it healing that much, then you should be fine. Nothing else really stood out to me, so I can start you off as Beginner.

[DarkestLight]

Oh wait.

Shotz, did you combine Focus Punch and Grass Knot for the last action? It looks like you did and that would make alot more sense as to why that was so high. Focus Punch is a one turn move-so the carryover into the third action wouldn't be necessary. But you probably did that for descriptive purposes-I apologize for not seeing that until I finished me post.

Lemme know when you read these posts.

[Turtleshotz]

DarkestLight, thanks for the feedback I appreciate it.
I use a random number generator within a given set of parameters I don't just throw a number from a range of 1-50 on there or something
And yes for the third turn I combined focus punch and grass knot.
I was confused because the movelist said it was similar to hyper beam which is a two turn move, but now I know.

[DarkestLight]

Ok cool. With that explained, then I have no problem starting you off as a Beginner Ref. And now I'll go change the mock reffing. Have fun and thanks you two for helping out

[Aerbrodactyl]

It's weird. I do appreciate the attention to detail-and that includes using a Psychic Pokemon's innate skills to manuvear in a dark area-and yet still miss.

I worked it so that Medicham had a higher accuracy within the dark area, but not a perfect accuracy. Especially since things like random rocks and stalagmites and what not would not really generate any sound, light or electrical signature. I worked them into the missing just so it wasn't "and it missed."

I did feel Aqua ring recovery was kind of high, but again, if you can justify it healing that much, then you should be fine.

Originally, I did it the same way the games do it, where it heals 1/16th of your total health per round. Leaving a total of 6% healed. I then thought of increasing it by 1.5% with Torrent, which would have lead to 9% and be way too high. So, I'm working it so that Aqua Ring would have normally done 3 or 4% total in the round and that Torrent increased it to a total of 6~

Nothing else really stood out to me, so I can start you off as Beginner.

Woo! \o/

[Puma]

I would love to apply or become a safari ref. I read a lot of adventures, and thought it'd be interesting (: Is there really nothing I have to do except waiting for the PM?

Thanks in advance! : D

[DarkestLight]

Yeah. I don't have the safari zone paperwork fully compiled-it was online and that site crashed. :/

[Puma]

Oh, okay, I'll just wait then. (:
Take your time, it isn't urgent at all, it'd just be nice ^_^

[Emerald_Gen.3]

Yeah. I don't have the safari zone paperwork fully compiled-it was online and that site crashed. :/

Fix that shit I need points for the tree :/

[Oslo]

Yeah. I don't have the safari zone paperwork fully compiled-it was online and that site crashed. :/

Does the entire catch list have to be rewritten? That would suck.