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I think Pokemon Showdown would be a lot less chaotic if we had a Lobby 2. The Lobby has lots of people chatting so its hard to get people to notice what you say, with the Lobby 2 that would change. With Lobby 2 the chaos in Lobby would be gone and more people could speak.