Approved by nui
We are pleased to announce the creation of the Battle Minigames private room, and with it an inaugural game of congress. What is "congress," you may ask? (Besides being a boring place in Washington full of boring people, of course.) Congress is a teambuilding game that changes every time it’s played. Players take turns submitting “laws” (the laws are various clauses/bans/other restrictions like STABmons Move Legality or a BST cap) that change what each player is allowed to bring. After a predetermined team building time, a tournament is held where players show off their teams. This means there is no “average” game of Congress. In the law-proposing phase, what might normally be a placid set of rules could quickly turn crazy when someone decides to make everyone play in Sketchmons. The typical game of congress has 6 rules that all must be adhered to, or else your team will be disqualified.
Example Congress:
The default rules are the typical Gen 8 OU, though at the congress hosts’ (my) discretion, we may decide to play in Gen 8 National Dex OU if Pokemon are otherwise too restricted. Rules proposals will often change the format played in, sometimes to Custom Game if needed. Any illegal teams will result in instant disqualification. Congress is a silly minigame and there’s no reason to cheat when the only prize is honor. If you make a small mistake, its up to your opponent to allow your match to continue, but if they grant you this leniency you should take care to fix the problem before your next match. This tournament will have ghosting banned.
There is no need to formally register, but be advised you will need to have your team made ahead of time. Oh, and it’s customary to give the mons on a congress team silly nicknames.
From the time of this post, we will have 5 days of time where users can propose rules. On Thursday, May 21st, we will post a list of the 6 accepted rules. You will have until this Saturday, May 23rd at 3:00 PM CST/GMT-5 to make your team in accordance with those restrictions. We will host a tournament in the battle minigames private room at that time, also accessible through <<congress>> or <battleminigames>> ps.
We are pleased to announce the creation of the Battle Minigames private room, and with it an inaugural game of congress. What is "congress," you may ask? (Besides being a boring place in Washington full of boring people, of course.) Congress is a teambuilding game that changes every time it’s played. Players take turns submitting “laws” (the laws are various clauses/bans/other restrictions like STABmons Move Legality or a BST cap) that change what each player is allowed to bring. After a predetermined team building time, a tournament is held where players show off their teams. This means there is no “average” game of Congress. In the law-proposing phase, what might normally be a placid set of rules could quickly turn crazy when someone decides to make everyone play in Sketchmons. The typical game of congress has 6 rules that all must be adhered to, or else your team will be disqualified.
Example Congress:
- The lawmaking phase begins.
- User “not a racist” proposes that no pokemon may have higher than a base 80 in an attacking stat
- User “platinumCheesecake” proposes that a Pokemon may hold a Plate item to gain the ability to use any one move of that type.
- User “Cake” proposes that no pokemon may have the letter ‘e’ in its name, typing, or ability.
- The room collectively agrees that user “Cake’s” rule is too restrictive and votes to veto the rule.
- User “Cake” amends their rule to only limit Pokemon and items.
- Once a desired number of rules have been reached, a timer may be optionally set to encourage that games move along quickly. Users have this long to make their teams.
- A tournament is held, usually round-robin for smaller games or double elimination for larger games.
- Users play on the honor system, understanding that they can be disqualified for a noncompliant team.
The default rules are the typical Gen 8 OU, though at the congress hosts’ (my) discretion, we may decide to play in Gen 8 National Dex OU if Pokemon are otherwise too restricted. Rules proposals will often change the format played in, sometimes to Custom Game if needed. Any illegal teams will result in instant disqualification. Congress is a silly minigame and there’s no reason to cheat when the only prize is honor. If you make a small mistake, its up to your opponent to allow your match to continue, but if they grant you this leniency you should take care to fix the problem before your next match. This tournament will have ghosting banned.
There is no need to formally register, but be advised you will need to have your team made ahead of time. Oh, and it’s customary to give the mons on a congress team silly nicknames.
From the time of this post, we will have 5 days of time where users can propose rules. On Thursday, May 21st, we will post a list of the 6 accepted rules. You will have until this Saturday, May 23rd at 3:00 PM CST/GMT-5 to make your team in accordance with those restrictions. We will host a tournament in the battle minigames private room at that time, also accessible through <<congress>> or <battleminigames>> ps.
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