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I've seen the concerns expressed a few times, I don't have a response right now but I did want to respond to indicate I've seen it and I'll make sure its seen by the other administrators. I make no promises at this time as I don't want to promise something I can't make good on.
On top of that "merged" just means its merged into the main repository, we still have to pull it onto the actual server and hotpatch it or restart it to apply the changes. Regardless, review sent.
Exact ratings at the time of posting are:
mrfulletfunoill: 1929.1301834278054
sillor: 1928.9134989533463
Rounding was in play in the display, regardless they are in the correct order. Therefore, this is not really a bug nor is there any sort of tie break related issue.
Respectfully, how exactly would a complete ground up rewrite solve the problem? Bots are not a showdown specific issue, its an issue pretty much everything faces on the internet (different kinds and goals depending on the website/app/game/whatever). In fact, showdown has been lucky in the past...
This has nothing to do with sample teams, that error occurs when your client fails to send the server your team when queuing for a battle. I'm not sure why thats happening.
Do you have any other context on how you got and added the team to your teambuilder? We don't have enough information to...
The link is valid (its a permanent, special invite link), if its not working for you it probably means your account (either directly, or indirectly via IP address) is banned from the official smogon discord server. You can try appealing here (even if it was an indirect, unintentional ban)...