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This isn't necessarily true. A good team builder can suck at battling, and a good battler can suck at team building. The skill in building a team is creating type coverage while covering your weaknesses. The skill in battling is knowing when to use what attacks. An example; if you were to hand...

Nice work, but I would just use Upper Deck Entertainment's MANTIS program. It is used for the World of Warcraft TCG and CMG and used to be used for Yugioh. Its a pretty in-depth program that allows for swiss rounds, cuts to top 8, and single/double elimination. It is very good for managing large...

Of course, I just wouldn't want you to go in thinking its a free win every round because its juniors. There are plenty of solid players in both Junior and Senior divisions, it just seems like most of the Senior winners come from Smogon. It'll be nice to have you representing Smogon in the Junior...

Dude, I wouldn't be so sure. The kid that won the whole thing in juniors last year was incredibly smart. He used a Bronzong with IMPRISON! That shut down pretty much all other Bronzong leads and made them worthless. I think if he were in the Senior division, he wouldve gotten into the final...

I mentioned this earlier in the thread and nobody paid any attention. We need to switch our standard metagame to the Showdown's metagame. Plain and simple. We lose Shoddy but we gain information and intelligence about double battles.

This is true, but let's say Shoddy doesn't get a double battle feature and summer rolls around again. While everyone's busy playing 6v6 Level 100 single battles, Japan is playing in their leagues and playtesting with other top competitors. Over here in America, are we all going to be secretive...

Even if you do run an out-of-the-ordinary team, how many people are going to change their strategies just to deal with one surprise team? It's absurd to think that once your log goes public, everyone is going to pack counters against your team.

Even though its a year away, is anyone planning for next year so the good ol' US of A doesn't get smoked in the first round again? Are we going to be more open about our strategies like the Japanese players were so we have a better knowledge of the metagame and be able to make the strongest...