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Randbats Spotlight Ladder!
The Randbats Spotlight Ladder's purpose is simple: to give formats that would not otherwise have a chance to be played on a wider scale. Each other month, four options will be given, and the winner after a week of voting will have its own ladder for a period of two months!
As usual, this Randbats Spotlight will feature a SMOGON TOURNAMENT related to it. More details about this tournament are included in this thread, so keep reading!
YOU MAY VOTE FOR MULTIPLE FORMATS!
What are all these formats and mods?
Gen 9 Battle Factory Bring 12 Pick 6: Battle Factory is the metaphorical bridge between random battles and tiers, where teams are still randomly generated but the sets are taken directly from the most common ones in tiered metagames. Bring-pick gives new life to this format, allowing you to have more options to build your team with in order to counter what you see in front of you
Gen 7 Chimera 1v1: Type, Item, Ability, Stats, Moves 1-2 and Moves 3-4 is the order you need to remember whenever you are going to select the pokemon that are going to combine into one powerful "chimera", to use in a 1v1 battle. This variant of Chimera will be the first one to be applied outside of gen 9, so plenty of new (old?) pokemon are available to be combined into one.
Note: Shedinja will be removed from the format
Gen 5 Apex Abilities: Apex Abilities is back and this time you can try it out in Gen 5! This mod entails that the pokemon will get only strong abilities, randomly selected from a restricted pool created by us. If you have ever dreamed of getting Huge Power Bibarel or Tinted Lens Sunflora and plow through the competition, this might be the perfect Spotlight for you!
Gen 4 Hyperblitz Timeout Auto Choose: In Hyperblitz, you'll have only 10 seconds to pick a move, but fear not! Losing due to inactivity is made impossible by the "Timeout Auto Choose" rule, which makes the game automatically select the first move in your moveset once the timer hits 0. So yes, there is a scenario where you can actually win games by doing... absolutely nothing. Have you gotten accustomed to rockless Gen 4 rands? This might be a perfect opportunity to prove it by clicking without having much time to think...
!IMPORTANT! Tournament information
This month's Randbats Spotlight is going to include a SMOGON TOURNAMENT. The format of this tournament will be the format chosen as the Randbats Spotlight. The length of this tournament will be 2 months, which will determine the pace of the tournament. The prize of the tournament will be 1 month of RPW (Room Prize Winner) and the possibility to pick a format for the next Randbats Spotlight poll!
How do I sign up?
Please do not sign up in this thread, a new thread will be open for the tournament itself.
Rules and additional details:
- When selecting a format to vote on as the winner, you will have a wide array of options, from modded variants of ladders that already exist, to formats that are challenge-only, to formats that don't exist at all! However, these are subject to coding limitations, and formats that have recently been a bimonthly spotlight cannot be voted on again for several months.
- This thread is open for discussion. Stay cordial, follow all site rules.
- Only votes in the poll above will count. Please do not type your vote out in a reply.
Thanks to nemoauditur for the banner!
Randbats Spotlight Ladder!
The Randbats Spotlight Ladder's purpose is simple: to give formats that would not otherwise have a chance to be played on a wider scale. Each other month, four options will be given, and the winner after a week of voting will have its own ladder for a period of two months!
As usual, this Randbats Spotlight will feature a SMOGON TOURNAMENT related to it. More details about this tournament are included in this thread, so keep reading!
YOU MAY VOTE FOR MULTIPLE FORMATS!
What are all these formats and mods?
Gen 9 Battle Factory Bring 12 Pick 6: Battle Factory is the metaphorical bridge between random battles and tiers, where teams are still randomly generated but the sets are taken directly from the most common ones in tiered metagames. Bring-pick gives new life to this format, allowing you to have more options to build your team with in order to counter what you see in front of you
Gen 7 Chimera 1v1: Type, Item, Ability, Stats, Moves 1-2 and Moves 3-4 is the order you need to remember whenever you are going to select the pokemon that are going to combine into one powerful "chimera", to use in a 1v1 battle. This variant of Chimera will be the first one to be applied outside of gen 9, so plenty of new (old?) pokemon are available to be combined into one.
Note: Shedinja will be removed from the format
Gen 5 Apex Abilities: Apex Abilities is back and this time you can try it out in Gen 5! This mod entails that the pokemon will get only strong abilities, randomly selected from a restricted pool created by us. If you have ever dreamed of getting Huge Power Bibarel or Tinted Lens Sunflora and plow through the competition, this might be the perfect Spotlight for you!
Gen 4 Hyperblitz Timeout Auto Choose: In Hyperblitz, you'll have only 10 seconds to pick a move, but fear not! Losing due to inactivity is made impossible by the "Timeout Auto Choose" rule, which makes the game automatically select the first move in your moveset once the timer hits 0. So yes, there is a scenario where you can actually win games by doing... absolutely nothing. Have you gotten accustomed to rockless Gen 4 rands? This might be a perfect opportunity to prove it by clicking without having much time to think...
!IMPORTANT! Tournament information
This month's Randbats Spotlight is going to include a SMOGON TOURNAMENT. The format of this tournament will be the format chosen as the Randbats Spotlight. The length of this tournament will be 2 months, which will determine the pace of the tournament. The prize of the tournament will be 1 month of RPW (Room Prize Winner) and the possibility to pick a format for the next Randbats Spotlight poll!
How do I sign up?
Please do not sign up in this thread, a new thread will be open for the tournament itself.
Rules and additional details:
- When selecting a format to vote on as the winner, you will have a wide array of options, from modded variants of ladders that already exist, to formats that are challenge-only, to formats that don't exist at all! However, these are subject to coding limitations, and formats that have recently been a bimonthly spotlight cannot be voted on again for several months.
- This thread is open for discussion. Stay cordial, follow all site rules.
- Only votes in the poll above will count. Please do not type your vote out in a reply.
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