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For what it's worth, the Olympics also decided back in 1996 that this wasn't a question they wanted to be legislating either, hence why they changed their rules to say that only independent states recognized by the UN would be allowed to field teams going forward. Every example of an Olympic...

Hall of Fame watch time! (also: forgive me for the fact that my letter p is broken on my keyboard, so every time I use a capital p for the rest of the post I'm copying it in from the last time I typed PDC) 22 players are looking for their first Smogon trophy with this tournament (same as SCL...

I unfortunately don't have a big post here, but I do have a few neat pieces of trivia. First, career individual playoff appearances (prior to this tour): ima (8 top 16s, 2 quarterfinals) Everyone else in the pool combined (7 top 16s, 5 quarterfinals, 3 semifinals, 1 final) DonSalvatore (3 top...

Realistically popular opinion seems to be in favour of the status quo, but I'll at least try to make the argument for anyone undecided. I don't dispute the bolded! And it does illustrate why I don't like the idea of manually seeding by host judgment, because that bias shouldn't be arbitrary...

I'm not Shake, but eulogies do seem fun. Let's give it a try. Ruiners: I will admit, I did not believe in this team, I saw them as a bottom-three team at best. I predicted them to put up 50 wins in the regular season, and while they can still technically meet that, they'd need to beat the Cryos...

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The award race: MVP: I'd be curious on what people would put if this was "best player this year." It's true that ultimately teams need wins more than they need dominance (if you're a manager and you're choosing between a slot that haxes their way to 9-0 and a slot that dominates their way to...

Cool lineup of matches on the doorstep of top 16; aside from lax and MDB, last week was a pretty clean one for the favourites. Predictposting is fun hope people make some too Pinecoishot  vs  elodin (both players have used a pretty wide variety of teams and looked good against mostly anonymous...

(note: I'm posting this a bit earlier than I planned in case it's early enough to implement for Slam in a month, if desired) As most people are probably aware, Smogon's trophy tours are only seeded in playoffs, using performance in that tournament's qualifying phase for data; this applies to...

No matter how you look at it, the next four teams that would qualify are probably going to be about the same level of quality, on average, as the current teams that make it out of qualifiers. The four teams that qualified last year averaged 12.5 wins in the qualifying stage, the next four teams...

Manager whose team is going to miss the playoffs because they spent 38500 credits on a bad SV core: "guys the pool of players is really bad now why is no one else seeing this" It really seems counterintuitive to restore interest in tournaments by postponing the flagship tour indefinitely...

You're fucking broke sire clod JackRG Listen if there are any challengers from other tiers that want to put money down on the match, I will gladly transfer to that tier for the week. Beating someone's scrub ass in SV is nothing to me Me playing this tournament is not just a way to assert my...

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Let's do another review. It's not perfectly aligned with the round of 64, because blunder and jb291 haven't yet played and Axzel already won for this round, but it's roughly correct, let's go with it. As a reminder, I made an experimental seeding before the tournament that incorporated as much...