Well, after PMing Groudon80 and rereading the Tournament Application thread, I can't host the BL/UU Tournament any time soon. The original idea for a Tournament such as this, spawned from Obi's
Suggestion of UU.
We could more easily determine the relative strength of BLs to UUs from usage statistics, battle logs and opinions from players competing in the Tournament. Instead of playing Theorymen and having circular arguments, a competitive Tournament could hopefully allow players to gain and access legitimitate evidence as to why a certain pokemon overpowers UU and is fit for BL.
If a pokemon, such as Pinsir, commonly agreed upon as Heracross-Lite is indeed worthy of BL, usage statistics (how many people opt to use Pinsir) and battle logs (how Pinsir affects UU Teams and Pokemon).
I understand where you're coming from though, with all of BL unleashed upon UU, who's to say that anyone will use UU. Definitely a viable point that will be put under consideration.
Perhaps a limit of 1 or 2 BLs a team? This will still allow for a fairly stabilised UU Metagame whilst testing BL Pokemon such as Pinsir, Shedinja and Zangoose.
If a player wishes to prove that a certain pokemon IS Borderline and unfit for UU play, they must simply add the pokemon to their team and win as many battles as they can. From a range of 64 participants and approximately 61 pokemon in the current BL Tier, we will probably see players gravitate to pokemon that most easily "break" UU.
Another idea, is to have a group of
6 or so BL pokemon to be unbanned prior to each round. From a randomised cluster of six, (Venusaur, Regigigas, Entei, Ambipom, Leafeon, Tauros) players will be able to choose 1 or 2 BL pokes to add to their team. We can see from this more concentrated group of pokemon which are the most used and which dominate the standard UU team. Another option is NOT to randomise this group and simply test a cluster of BLs (All sweepers, All Walls, 3 Sweepers + 3 Walls) where one could see the approximate power BL Sweepers have on UU Walls, UU Sweepers on BL Walls, or a combination of the two. I'm resisting the idea of unbanning only 1 BL pokemon at a time as this will cause players to "metagame" against it, packing their team with several counters to the lone poke.
However both of these ideas shatter the first objective, of seeing the viablitly of a BL Metagame and whether or not it is "balanced". Obviously more thought needs to go into this.
If neccessary, i'd seperate these two ideas into seperate Tournaments, hopefully with assisstance in hosting. The first objective simply executed through a Tournament where all BLs are unbanned at once, and the latter using one of the two ideas in this post.
