RMT of the Week V5: Week 19

[IronBullet]

RMT of the Week
co-hosted by Team Pokepals and Snowy.​

Ever wanted your team rated and noticed by a lot of people? Do you want all the efforts you put into testing your team, editing it and finalizing it to count? This is where RMT of the Week comes in! The aim of this project is to give people who put effort into making quality RMTs the attention they deserve. There are a lot of teams out there that are well-built and presented, but often left in the dark. Not anymore!

The concept is fairly simple:

• Every week, we will nominate a few teams as candidates for the RMT of the Week.
• These teams are put in a poll. Everyone can vote for the team they think is most deserving of the award.
• At the end of the week, the winner will be the team that receives the most votes.

So what's in it for the winners? Well, the winning team will be announced on social media. It will also be recorded in the Hall of Fame, which will be posted in the OP for each week, and people are encouraged to rate it. Winning the RMT of the Week also increases the chance of having your RMT added to Team Showcase, subject to review, since it brings it to the notice of the staff. Finally, the winner will have an opportunity to give a brief interview.

Now you're probably thinking, "Why would people rate this team in particular? After all, it's no different from any other team." Yeah, maybe. But this is the perfect opportunity for all you unbadged raters to draw attention to yourselves. If you post good rates for the RMT of the Week, something that most of the staff is going to look at, you increase your chances of earning the Team Rater

badge.

If you are interested in getting your team shortlisted, here are some things that you can do to increase your chances:

• Make sure your team is viable and effective: This one is self-explanatory. If your team doesn't fit into its tier or metagame, or lacks any kind of success, it won't have a high chance of being selected. It doesn't have to be archive worthy though, and it doesn't have to have peaked at #1; a moderately successful team can make it, but it has to work.
• Your team should be well-presented: Wouldn't you enjoy posting in a thread more if it was visually appealing? If you put effort into presenting your team attractively, people will be more willing to rate it. We appreciate it when you take time to improve the quality of your RMTs, as it enhances the quality of the forum.
• Be nice and receptive to people's opinions: No one likes to rate the team of a close-minded person!

For those whose teams are selected, don't ask anyone, be it friends or anyone else, on the forums or on PS! to vote for you. For friends of the people whose teams get selected, the same goes for you as well: please don't post the link in chat rooms to try and get people to vote.

The first time someone is caught cheating, their team will be disqualified and removed from the ongoing week. If someone is caught cheating for a second time, they will be permanently banned from the project.

Hall of Fame

Week 1:

[OU] Tripple Weather Is Stronk - Bluwing

Week 2:

[OU] Fight to the Finish - Team Pokepals

Week 3:

[UU] Rock 'N Roll Suicide - Hogg

Week 4:

[OU] Lord Cobalion and cute Mew - Costi

Week 5:

[UU] Real Friends - Shiba

Week 6:

[RU] Dance All Night - Feliburn

Week 7:

[AG] Philophobia - Dream Eater Gengar

Week 8:

[PU] 3005 - Dundies

Week 9:

[OU] Mexican Cena - Darkreaper215

Week 10:

[NU] i still play bp lol - iplaytennislol

Week 11:

[Ubers] Mega Mence is disgusting - Sweep

Week 12:

[PU] Ice Ice Baby - Paraplegic

Week 13:

[RBY] Memento /cpg/ - Bedschibaer

Week 14:

[UU] UU Stall - dodmen & hilarious

Week 15:

[UU] Handwritten - Mazz

Week 16:

[OU] demons - p2

Week 17:

[Ubers] Exceeded Darkness - Lacus Clyne

Week 18:

[RU] 'rco dio mi sculano - fran17

Week 19 Nominees:

1. [OU] Art of War - Clone.

2. [OU] Banded Flinch Please - Darkreaper

3. [OU] The Night Circus - Futatsuiwa of Sado

4. [UU] Xatu Hyper Offense - Finding True Love

5. [NU] Cheer Up - Shadowtags

6. [NU] Oxymoron - carcy

7. [Ubers] As Cold As Ice - BrandonBeast

8. [PU] Athletic - Megazard

9. [Monotype] Low Life - iVid

10. [VGC] The Dark Side of the Sun - Draconid997

11. [VGC] Zanza's Shadow - Steven Stone

 

[IronBullet]

Caught up with last week's winner fran17 to ask him a few questions about his RU RMT, [URL='http://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/rco-dio-mi-sculano.3571097/']'rco dio mi sculano[/URL].

1. Can you give a brief description of your team? What do you think is the reason behind its success?

The reason I built the team is because I really liked the Tauros/Drapion core and it reminded me of the old galbia team which inspired me a lot when I started playing RU. The reason of its success is, I think, its ability to play well against many playstyles, though someone told me my team doesn't have ways to break Alomomola, which isn't really true.

2. Have you received any useful feedback for your team?

Chakra's suggestion helped me a lot because Togetic works quite well on the team and didn't change too much. Also with him on the team I could drop Defog on Flygon and go for Toxic to lure Alomomola, Granbull, and some other random stuff!

3. Is there any advice you'd like to give to future RMT posters?

Well if you want to make a really good RMT you should find a team that is good, and use a cool design! Also the title is really important, because an RMT named "drapion balance peaked 1500" isn't really appealing :(

Thanks for taking the time to do this man and congrats again!

 

[IronBullet]

Megazard wins with his PU RMT Athletic, congrats man! Scheduled a tweet, give his team a like and rate it if possible :)