RMT of the Week V5: Week 3

[IronBullet]

RMT of the Week
co-hosted by Yagura, Team Pokepals and Snowy.
approved by IronBullet and Jirachee​

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! This 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 that aren't exactly archive worthy but are extremely well-built and presented, and often left in the dark. Not anymore!

The concept is fairly simple:

• Every week, we will nominate a few teams to be candidates for the RMT of the Week.
• These teams are put in a poll. Everyone can vote for the team they think is the 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.

What sort of teams are going to be selected for this award? 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? Yeah, me too. If you put effort into presenting your team attractively, more people will be happy to rate it. We appreciate when you take time to improve the quality of their RMTs, as it enhances the quality of the forum.
• Be nice and receptive to people's opinions: No one likes to rate a close-minded person's team!

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

 

[IronBullet]

1. [OU] Nate's Dogshit Offense - Hector Hard Mode

2. [UU] Dark Magic - ManOfMany

3. [UU] Cut The Cord - Nightingales

4. [UU] Rock 'N Roll Suicide - Hogg

5. [RU] Let it all Go! - EonX

6. [NU] rate my meme - Raseri

7. [Ubers] Lando-T Devestation - PoMMan

8. [Doubles] Scary Monsters and a Nice Sprite - MainEvent

9. [PU] Monkeys, Dogs and Pigs - SpecsMegaBeedrill

 

[Catholic Rabbits]

This is a hard vote. Too many bad ass people with bad ass teams..

 

[AM]

Man I don't really like this part right here.

• The winner of the RMT of the Week will have their team added to Team Showcase if it is not already in there.

When Raseris team is literally a joke team to cough up a 5k and the majority of teams regardless if you rate them are pretty mediocre for their respective tiers anyways, barring the exception of like Hoggs team just as one example. I understand you like to give credit and recognition to some degree but honestly being recognized here I think is enough. If the team has legitimate merits then it should go in team showcase regardless of the results but seeing as how Raseris team has votes just off his name alone (and a contender for winning) that kind of defeats the purpose of team showcase where people will normally go to find relatively good teams, not memes in the manifestation of a build lol.

 

[IronBullet]

AM yeah that's a fair point. But there are some teams that do actually have good enough presentation and success to be showcased, even if they haven't been added initially. We have borderline cases sometimes, and there's also the possibility that teams are simply missed out on. So removing the feature entirely can result in deserving teams not being added.

Like you said though we do want to avoid adding mediocre / non-serious teams to Showcase, so we've adjusted it to "Winning the RMT of the Week increases the chance of having your RMT added to Team Showcase, subject to review, since it brings it to the notice of the staff." Thanks for bringing it up!

 

[IronBullet]

Hogg wins with his RMT Rock 'N Roll Suicide, grats man! Tweeted, give his team a like and rate it if possible