Welcome to Smogon! Take a moment to read the Introduction to Smogon for a run-down on everything Smogon, and make sure you take some time to read the global rules.
Congratulations to the Gold tribe for winning immunity! You guys are safe from tribal council. Unfortunately for the Silver tribe, you guys just barely came up short. You'll be going to tribal council, where one of the eight of you will become the first player voted out.
Before we get started with the next challenge, there's one person missing from the Silver tribe. That person is Nomark, who has become the first person voted out of the game.
Immunity is back up for grabs again. For today's challenge, your first task is to as a tribe come up with a ranking of your best battlers to worst. So you would rank your best battler 1 and worst battler 7.
Gold, since you guys have one extra member, you will be sitting someone out of today's challenge. Note that the same player cannot sit out two challenges in a row.
Let me or Jalmont know if you have any questions. You will have 48 hours to come up with your list (although really please try and do ASAP like no more than 24 hours). Once both tribes submit their lists, we will get started with the actual challenge!
Silver
1. OP
2. Steven Snype
3. Josh
4. DbW
5. Flyhn
6. adiass
7. Painter Oshawott
For this challenge, using the lists that both tribes provided, each pair in the rankings will match up against each other and battle. So TUO will face off against OP, Texas against Snype etc. The #1 seed battlers will play each other in SM OU. After that, the tier to be played for every matchup will be decided by one of the players, switching off every other battle. So for the #2 seed battle, the Silver tribe player will pick the tier that they will play. For the #3 seed battle, the Gold tribe player picks the tier he wants to play, continuing to switch off for the rest of the battles. I randomized to determine which tribe would get to pick their tiers for the even seeded players.
If that didn't make sense, here's the matchups and hopefully everything will be clear. If not, feel free to ask me to clarify.
Gold (4) vs. Silver (1)
SM OU: TUO vs. OP
DPP OU: Texas vs. Steven Snype
Sam-testings choice: Sam-testings vs. Josh
SM Ubers: superstarsrock vs. DbW
Oddish. choice: Oddish. vs. Flyhn
ORAS LC: Mikaav vs. adiass
CC 1v1: King_ vs. Painter Oshawott
Alfa610 is sitting out of this challenge for the Gold tribe.
Since it's the holidays, we'll be lenient with deadlines. Try and get your battle done by Jan 1! Please let your opponent (and us) know what tier you will be playing ASAP! You can go ahead and do that in this thread.
Alright everyone, it’s time for our next challenge. As everyone knows, the Silver tribe once again had to go to tribal council where DeathByWobbuffet was the second person voted out of the game.
Like last time, once again there will be a preliminary step before we proceed with the actual challenge. Each tribe will once again need to submit a ranked list of their tribe, only this time the list should be based on everyone’s tribe utility (with highest utility on top and lowest on bottom). You can interpret “tribe utility” to mean whatever you guys as a tribe want it to mean.
Please try to get this done as soon as possible but because it’s New Year’s, deadline will be max 48 hours
You may be wondering why you were ranking your members. Well, it’s because we’re gonna be switching things up. Drop your buffs, everyone!
Your new tribes are:
Gold
Steven Snype
Josh
Painter Oshawott
superstarsrock
Texas Cloverleaf
Oddish.
Alfa610
Silver
TUO
Mikaav
Sam-testings
King_
Flyhn
OP
adiass
Get to know your new tribemates. These will be the tribes for the foreseable future. Note that we will be making new Smogon conversations and discord channels for the new tribes. As a reminder please remember that you shouldn't be communicating with people who aren't currently on your tribe or in your old communication channels. Thanks!
OK, now it's time for the actual challenge. In this challenge, we’ll be testing your skill in the overused tier. For every generation!
Each tribe will need to submit someone to play for each generation of OU (SM, ORAS, BW, DPP, ADV, GSC, RBY). We’ll give you guys 48 hours to get acquainted with your new tribe members and submit lineups, but try and get them in quicker if you can.
