Elo World REDUX: Scientifically Ranking the Pokémon Red Trainers AGAIN - Level 50 AI Tournament

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Published on October 11, 2021 11:30:29 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=247qD1qulSQ

Game:

Pokémon Red and Blue (1996)

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Tutorial

Duration: 52:47

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In this video, I fix some of the issues with my original "Ranking the Pokémon Red Trainers" video, and run a brand new tournament with those changes. Most notably, I flatten all the Pokémon to level 50, the way competitive Pokémon tournaments are run.

Some links that might be of interest:
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The original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yUPhRJtNJM
The instructions on how to run battles from Hash IDs: (this was broken before, should be working now, grab the latest) https://github.com/jsettlem/elo_world_pokemon_red/blob/master/tutorial.md
Nic Dobson's blog post: https://nicidob.github.io/nba_elo/
It would be rude to steal @tom7's title again without linking his excellent video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpXy041BIlA
My Twitter: https://twitter.com/pimanrules

Music credits:
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Pokémon remixes by @DJMykah. I commissioned the "Hall of Fame" remix from them, and as you can hear, it turned out great. Check out their channel here: https://www.youtube.com/c/DJMykah
"Heartbeat" from "The Music of 3Blue1Brown" by Vincent Rubinetti. Licensed with permission. Check out the album here: https://vincerubinetti.bandcamp.com/album/the-music-of-3blue1brown

Convenient timestamps:
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0:00 Intro
2:11 The plan
2:52 Bug squashing
8:02 WONTFIX
11:03 Tournament enhancements
16:05 Elo system enhancements
18:33 How Elo works
24:11 Changes to orchestrating battles
26:13 Ranking of trainers
38:32 "Before we get to the top 16..."
39:30 Sweet 16
48:33 Grand finals
50:01 Trainers in game order
50:39 Frequently asked questions
52:12 Outro

Corrections:
15:27 - This process of fixing the moves went wrong for some trainers, specifically when they're in the enemy position, resulting in them actually having the moves they would have at level 50. This is what some people wanted anyway so I'm gonna try not to beat myself up over it (but uuuuugggghhhhh)
16:50 - That is so obviously not the sound ə makes. That's like the one IPA symbol everyone learns in elementary school. My excuse was that my brain was on total autopilot--I just copied the phonetic transcription of "hello," not realizing that "hello" is really pronounced more like "hullo" in most cases
33:17 - I say Wrap does "basically no damage." Of course, it's actually doing no damage because Gastly is Ghost type, but the effect still triggers because Gen I.
50:51 - Obviously I meant EVs instead of IVs

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