Welcome to the ninth iteration of Showdown's biggest team tournament: Pokémon Showdown Premier League! PSPL IX will see the various rooms from PS! duking it out in a team tournament with teams composed of ranked users from each room.
Tournament Format
The tournament will begin with a round-robin group stage. Each group contains four teams. The top two teams from each group in the group stage will move on to a single elimination, bracket-style tournament to decide the champion of PSPL! Any additional rules and explanations will be listed when week 1 is posted.
If you're a little confused, here's a sample match with the finalised tiers (these tiers were decided by popularity as well as by voting from PS! room staff; the sample is not representative of any actual lineup):
Who can play?
Each room must play eight players each week, all of which are the starting slots. Six of those slots must be room voices and up, while the other two slots do not have to be ranked users. However, if room auth want to play, they should get priority over room regulars. As for non-ranked users, each team is entitled to two globally ranked users (global voice and up), as well as two regular users (no global rank) for the entire tournament. This means that you can't field more than four different non-auths across all weeks (global ranked users that are also room auth count for the room auth number, not the global ranked users number).
We have a list of roomauth in each room, which is essentially the roster for the "must be a ranked user" slots. If you're using someone not on your /roomauth list as a ranked user, you as an owner will need to seek special permission for whatever reason it may be. Do not try and game the system, or you will be laughed at and punished for being unable to compete in a fun community tournament without cheating...
No one can play for multiple rooms. This also applies to managers. However, if you own a room you're not playing for, you may be an "involved owner" in a different room so we can keep things running smoothly.
Lineup Submission / When does the tour start?
Managers must have their week one lineup submitted by April 25th and before the deadline of each subsequent week (11:59PM EST (GMT-4) of Sundays). We'll post matchups on the Monday of each week and you'll have one week to complete the matches. Week one starts April 26th.
Managers, when submitting your lineup please send a forum PM to me Teclis, Kalalokki, and Mitsuki. Within your PM, you should include
Rinse and repeat throughout the later weeks (use that same forum PM as well -- it's much easier to keep up with exactly 32 convos throughout this tournament rather than 321 convos).
Please make sure to tag your players' Smogon accounts as well, especially if it's different from their username on PS!, as this will save us a lot of time when posting the weeks and tagging players.
e.g.
SS Random Battle: @SmogonName (PS! username)]
SS OU: @SmogonName (PS! username)] - non-auth
Prizes:
The winning team's players and managers will be entitled access to a team custom avatar of their choosing on Pokémon Showdown! for all to see! (actual avi subject to approval by Zarel) and will be pinned on top of the room lists.
What rooms are playing?
32 rooms have signed up for this tournament and the field is set! See below for the groups and Week 1 Team Matchups.
You'll be playing the team directly above/beneath you in your group for Week 2, and the remaining team for Week 3. For example, in the Galar group, Scavengers + Survivor will play Lobby + THP week 2, while UnderUsed plays Deutsche.
If I screwed up somewhere or if you have any questions you'd like to clarify, don't hesitate to hit me up on PS! or post in this thread. Good luck and have fun everyone!
Tournament Format
The tournament will begin with a round-robin group stage. Each group contains four teams. The top two teams from each group in the group stage will move on to a single elimination, bracket-style tournament to decide the champion of PSPL! Any additional rules and explanations will be listed when week 1 is posted.
If you're a little confused, here's a sample match with the finalised tiers (these tiers were decided by popularity as well as by voting from PS! room staff; the sample is not representative of any actual lineup):
Team A (5) vs. Team B (3)
SS Random Battle: Player 1 vs Player 2
SS OU: Player 3 vs Player 4
SS UU: Player 5 vs Player 6
SS RU: Player 7 vs Player 8
SS LC: Player 9 vs Player 10
SS Monotype: Player 11 vs Player 12
SS National Dex: Player 13 vs Player 14
SS 1v1: Player 15 vs Player 16
SS Random Battle: Player 1 vs Player 2
SS OU: Player 3 vs Player 4
SS UU: Player 5 vs Player 6
SS RU: Player 7 vs Player 8
SS LC: Player 9 vs Player 10
SS Monotype: Player 11 vs Player 12
SS National Dex: Player 13 vs Player 14
SS 1v1: Player 15 vs Player 16
Who can play?
Each room must play eight players each week, all of which are the starting slots. Six of those slots must be room voices and up, while the other two slots do not have to be ranked users. However, if room auth want to play, they should get priority over room regulars. As for non-ranked users, each team is entitled to two globally ranked users (global voice and up), as well as two regular users (no global rank) for the entire tournament. This means that you can't field more than four different non-auths across all weeks (global ranked users that are also room auth count for the room auth number, not the global ranked users number).
We have a list of roomauth in each room, which is essentially the roster for the "must be a ranked user" slots. If you're using someone not on your /roomauth list as a ranked user, you as an owner will need to seek special permission for whatever reason it may be. Do not try and game the system, or you will be laughed at and punished for being unable to compete in a fun community tournament without cheating...
No one can play for multiple rooms. This also applies to managers. However, if you own a room you're not playing for, you may be an "involved owner" in a different room so we can keep things running smoothly.
Lineup Submission / When does the tour start?
Managers must have their week one lineup submitted by April 25th and before the deadline of each subsequent week (11:59PM EST (GMT-4) of Sundays). We'll post matchups on the Monday of each week and you'll have one week to complete the matches. Week one starts April 26th.
Managers, when submitting your lineup please send a forum PM to me Teclis, Kalalokki, and Mitsuki. Within your PM, you should include
- Your room(s) name
- The list of players that will be playing that week, with an indication of which player is supposed to be slotted in which tier, as well as which are the non-auths (for verification, as we'll also be keeping a record of this and cross referencing each time).
SS Random Battle - SmogonUsername
SS OU - SmogonUsername
SS UU - SmogonUsername
SS RU - SmogonUsername
SS LC - SmogonUsername
SS Monotype - SmogonUsername
SS National Dex - SmogonUsername
SS 1v1 - SmogonUsername
SS OU - SmogonUsername
SS UU - SmogonUsername
SS RU - SmogonUsername
SS LC - SmogonUsername
SS Monotype - SmogonUsername
SS National Dex - SmogonUsername
SS 1v1 - SmogonUsername
Please make sure to tag your players' Smogon accounts as well, especially if it's different from their username on PS!, as this will save us a lot of time when posting the weeks and tagging players.
e.g.
SS Random Battle: @SmogonName (PS! username)]
SS OU: @SmogonName (PS! username)] - non-auth
Prizes:
The winning team's players and managers will be entitled access to a team custom avatar of their choosing on Pokémon Showdown! for all to see! (actual avi subject to approval by Zarel) and will be pinned on top of the room lists.
What rooms are playing?
32 rooms have signed up for this tournament and the field is set! See below for the groups and Week 1 Team Matchups.
Kanto Group
Anime and Manga (Peary Segmr Gota Love Yaoi) vs CAP Project + Other Metas (Tadasuke Ransei)
Little Cup (Coconut Nineage) vs Trivia + Scholastic (Notater SteelEdges)
Johto Group
Español + Eventos (KingSwordYT Caspell) vs Italiano (Aethernum Lartedipissog Milak)
Videogames (inactive Beowulf) vs Monotype (Decem Kev)
Hoenn Group
OverUsed (Ox the Fox brouha) vs Trainer Academy (ErPeris Nalorium)
Game Corner (sirDonovan awanderingcaelum Gray) vs Battle Dome (Krytocon Ocean)
Sinnoh Group
Tournaments (trace RaJ.Shoot) vs Português (woolf Natan)
Random Battle (frostyicelad Irpachuza) vs Ubers (dream steelskitty)
Unova Group
Français + Arcade (SFG Lionyx) vs 1v1 (Rosa Boat)
ZeroUsed 5gen S1nn0hC0nfirm3d) vs Sports (Kennedy Jayi)
Kalos Group
Wi-Fi (Duelmex Nol) vs Anything Goes (Guard cromagnet)
Ruins of Alph (FriendOfMrGolem120 kjdaas) vs Hindi (PartMan Aelita)
Alola Group
Nederlands (Kipkluif kingbaruk) vs National Dex (Kris Sevelon)
The Studio (wishes Brandon) vs PU (Specs tlenit)
Galar Group
Scavengers + Survivor (Shadecession aQrator) vs UnderUsed (Estarossa)
Lobby + The Happy Place (AuraLuna Tenshi) vs Deutsche (SacredKunoCV Emre Mor 9)
Johto Group
Hoenn Group
Sinnoh Group
Unova Group
Kalos Group
Alola Group
Galar Group
If I screwed up somewhere or if you have any questions you'd like to clarify, don't hesitate to hit me up on PS! or post in this thread. Good luck and have fun everyone!
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