Hello and welcome to the 1v1 Core Laddering Challenge (CLC for short). This is a challenge where you're required to climb the heights of the 1v1 ladder with one or more designated Pokémon. At the end of each cycle, which usually lasts for two weeks, whoever has reached the highest ELO will be crowned champion for that cycle, and put in the Hall of Fame. The CLC puts your teambuilding and laddering skills to the test in a unique way, but it also teaches you about Pokémon you may have never thought about. Of course, these put a constraint on your teambuilding and forces you to think creatively. But worry not, although the Pokémon you can use are dictated by the rules, the sets you use are not! So go ahead and have some fun, or try your hardest at being added to the Hall of Fame.
Rules
Achievements
Q&A
Q: When laddering, do I need to ladder with the same team? Can I make changes?
A: Yes, you can change your team, as long as you keep the assigned Pokemon. If you are caught laddering on your CLC alt without the assigned core, your entry will be considered invalid.
Q: When can I start laddering?
A: As soon as you post your registration post (see format above).
Q: Can I participate in past challenges?
A: You can always ladder with the cores from previous weeks for fun or your own satisfaction, but you will no longer eligible for the Hall of Fame for that challenge.
Q: Do I need to save replays?
A: No, but you can save them to be featured in Hall of Fame if you win.
Q: These cores are bad, too easy, too hard, or just unviable.
A: New challenges will be up every two weeks. If you have a suggestion, feel free to post it here.
Q: Can I discuss the assigned Pokémon in this thread? How good the Pokémon is, what roles it can do, what movepool it gets, etc.
A: Yes you can. This thread is not limited just for registration and achievement posts. In fact here's a week of downtime between CLC cores and I suggest you use that time to talk about the prior week's core.
Rules
- Every 2 weeks, a new challenge is posted at Sunday night (GMT).
- Challenges consist of 1 to 3 cores (labeled Core A, Core B, and Core C). These cores consist of 1 or 2 Pokémon.
- To participate in the challenge, reply to this thread to sign up.
- "In as [name of your laddering alt(s) in bold]"
- Your laddering alt must start with 1vCLC followed by the number of the cycle you're signing up for and the letter for the core you're signing up for.
- There must be at most one alt per core. You don't have to sign up for all cores, you may later post again to sign up for another core.
- Example:
- Challenges end Monday morning at 6am GMT a week after they're posted.
- Every other challenge will count towards the 1v1 Project Cycle, you can check out the cycle thread to learn more.
- In the event of more than 1 core, only core A will count towards the Project Cycle.
- Your team MUST have ALL of the assigned Pokémon from the selected core on it.
- While laddering on a CLC alt, if you're caught using a team that doesn't match your username's challenge (even if you use core A on your 1vCLC 1b alt), your challenge will be considered invalid.
- Please do not ask your opponent for a free win or forfeits. If you're caught doing this, you'll be banned from participating in CLC.
- If you were caught doing this for a challenge that was part of the 1v1 Project Cycle, you'll be banned from participation there too.
Achievements
- There are four possible achievements: Bronze, Silver, Gold, and Platinum.
- The ELO required for each achievement will be announced as part of each week, but the defaults are as follows
Code:Bronze: 1300 Silver: 1425 Gold: 1550 Platinum: 1700
- The ELO required for each achievement will be announced as part of each week, but the defaults are as follows
- To claim a medal, reply to the thread with a screenshot proving your achievement.
- You must sign up before claiming achievements.
- Achievements are given for each core individually, if you achieve a Gold medal for Core A, that doesn't give you a Gold medal for Core B.
- In addition to the medals, at the end of every cycle the highest ranked player for each core is given a special highlight in the hall of fame.
- Any players who got a Platinum medal or ranked on top are asked for a copy of one of their used teams, which will be put in the Hall of Fame.
Q&A
A: Yes, you can change your team, as long as you keep the assigned Pokemon. If you are caught laddering on your CLC alt without the assigned core, your entry will be considered invalid.
Q: When can I start laddering?
A: As soon as you post your registration post (see format above).
Q: Can I participate in past challenges?
A: You can always ladder with the cores from previous weeks for fun or your own satisfaction, but you will no longer eligible for the Hall of Fame for that challenge.
Q: Do I need to save replays?
A: No, but you can save them to be featured in Hall of Fame if you win.
Q: These cores are bad, too easy, too hard, or just unviable.
A: New challenges will be up every two weeks. If you have a suggestion, feel free to post it here.
Q: Can I discuss the assigned Pokémon in this thread? How good the Pokémon is, what roles it can do, what movepool it gets, etc.
A: Yes you can. This thread is not limited just for registration and achievement posts. In fact here's a week of downtime between CLC cores and I suggest you use that time to talk about the prior week's core.
Bronze achieved
