Proposal Removing Non-Tour Games from Smogtours Lobby

[Stories]

Not here to point fingers or anything but

this is a bit ridiculous, sometimes it lasts for hours on important gamedays and it makes it really annoying as a spectator, especially as someone that usually isn't in the stours discord. If CC1v1 games could just be removed from lobby that would be awesome but flooding the lobby with non-tour games is a negative for spectators imo. I understand there's a difficult line to be drawn for what constitutes as a "non-tour game" because some tournaments aren't even hosted on smogon but I think that outlier is small enough that there is room for some kind of smogtours change or rule creation.

I'm not super married to this but I know myself and some others find the flooding pretty annoying '-'

 

[watashi]

https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen9challengecup1v1-875653

 

[Star]

our cc1v1 games are arguably more exciting than 50% of tour games.

on a more serious note though I’d probably say it’d be cool if we removed them from showing up in game discussion? Lobby would still be a place to find them and it keeps game disc more curated as the place for “real” tour games + incentivizes going there a bit. Could also consider maybe not kicking ppl playing shit like cc1v1 out of game disc ig but that’s less important.

 

[goldmason]

Came to make the exact same post as the OP, I was doing a (admittedly non-smogon) stream and finding games was incredibly annoying compared to the usual experience. Would be cool if these games weren't broadcast at all.

 

[toshimelonhead]

Probably the best solution is a user side filter of tiers worth mentioning for a battle that the user can uncheck for any annoying tier they don't care about.

 

[Larry]

Could also consider maybe not kicking ppl playing shit like cc1v1 out of game disc ig but that’s less important.

why is this not a thing yet

I think a button along the lines of 'hide random formats' that stops these, as well as all other formats with randomly generated teams, from showing up would be ideal.

anyone wanna bo100 cc2v2?