Different mindset. Nowadys there's strict usage criteria defining what's OU and UU, and BL is purely a ban tier. The subjective "as far away from OU as possible" criterion for the tiers is not really used in these decisions, so BL is kept small. That's not the way it was seen in the RBY-thru-ADV years.
In the early days, BL was a place for things that were close to being OU, but not actually "OU". Basically, things thought to have OU power but not OU usage. UU was then set as "everything else" that was as far from OU as possible. A couple overpowered UUs were then sent to BL afterward.
Plus it doesn't help that Smogon's GSC UU and BL tier lists were mostly theorycraft to begin with, since UU wasn't a very highly-played tier.
Definitely. We changed the schedule a bit so it's monthly; sign-ups will be on the first Monday of the month, then challenges go up the following Friday and last for 2 weeks instead of 10 days. So, the round will keep going until tomorrow night, whenever I get home from work and figure out the scores~
sorry diana, can you let me know when you're on on Sunday? I've been super busy this week but I'll probably be available by around 4 pm your time on sunday so if you could shoot me a vm while you're online that would be super.
Reported your win in the thread. I am sure we will battle doubles again someday. I am trying to learn Smogon's Standard Doubles. I was busy through out most of Gen. 5 enjoying GBU Rules/VGC Rules Doubles, and GBU Rules Triples. I haven't had time to catch up to the Smogon meta for doubles with my flu near new years.
