Soul Cup

The Soul Cup was a Pokémon Tournament played through Pokémon Showdown during the Intermission, organized by Witchy (with the help of Evange). Its format was Little Cup, and used a selection of Dark, Ghost, Poison and Fairy type pokemon, as well as pre-evolutions without any of those types of pokemon that have those types. The Soul Cup was the final chapter in the DoopedyShmoople’s Soul Arc.

Creation of the tournament and inscriptions
After Witchy got hold of Doopedy’s soul and tongue, he started planning on how to use it in order to take advantage of the rowdys, seeing how they were so desperate to have it back. Finally, he decided to make a Pokemon Tournament of its own, where the winner would get ownership over the soul, that would have a specific format and selection of Pokemon, to better emphasize the nature of his Soul Cup, while establishing that the last and second place would lose their soul to him. The format chosen was Little Cup, and the selection was narrowed down to with the idea of “Mystical Pokémon” in mind.

The inscriptions, contrary to most RFCK Pokemon Tournaments, weren’t open: At first, the idea was to decide the participants by public vote, but Ben and Krak didn’t liked the idea, so Witchy decided to make a closed doors selection, taking into account “lore submissions” (the lore possibilities their character could offer in the cup) from the people that wished to participate. Paradox Crocs, Kanman, Bevan, THE BIG GAY, Hale, and RoboDobot were chosen to participate alongside DoopedyShmoople, who was allowed to play in the tournament as Witchy gave him “a chance to win his own soul back”.

The Tournament
The entirety of the tournament in detail can be seen in the RFCK’s Twitch channel. On the first round, Kanman, Crocs, Doop and RoboDobot won. Upon defeat, B-Evan split with its other half, A-Evan, leaving the latter to fight the rest of its tournament run.

Before the 2nd round started, Witchy challenged RoboDobot to a special battle, in order to demonstrate with his win that “Robots don’t have souls”, which he won. During the 2nd round, Robodobot defeated Doopedy and Kanman defeated Crocs.

On the 2nd round of the Loser’s bracket, Crocs defeated Hale, and using its “Trans Beam”, converted Hale into the female Young Hale. Crocs then lost on purpose, trying to evade fighting either Kanman or RoboDobot in the finals.

The winner finals, between Kanman and Robodobot, was won by the latter, and on losers finals, there was a big showdown to lose first, as they both competitors didn’t want to face RoboDobot and possibly lose their soul. Kanman managed to get his lat Pokemon killed by having having it poisoned.

Right before the Grand Finals, A-Evan and THE BIG GAY faced off to decide the last place of the cup. The Big Gay won, and A-Evan lost his soul to Witchy, who quickly destroyed after the tournament since he didn’t liked to have ownership over a robot.

Lastly, Robodobot won the cup, receiving the prize. He originally joined the tournament to “get a new best friend by force”, but finally decided to give Doopedy his soul back.