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Tournament S.I.T.R.U.S Team Circuit V - Format Discussion

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With the addition and development of Pokemon Champions, the VGC draft moderation team is looking for feedback on a new STC format as we prepare for the upcoming tour.

3x SV Reg F Draft
2x SS VGC 21 Draft
2x USUM VGC 18 Draft
1x Flex Slot

From last year's format, 3 drafts for oldgens and 2 slots was not very well received, so we are looking to take that into account this year with the new format.

Proposed Format
3x Champions Reg M-C Draft
2x SV Regulation F Draft
1x SS VGC 21 Draft
1x USUM VGC 18 Draft
-One of SV DOU Draft, a 4th slot of Champions, a second slot of SS, or a 3rd slot of SV.

Tour Timeline:
Manager and Player Signups - November 1
Managers Announced - November 8
Auction Weekend - Weekend of November 14
Drafting Week - November 16
Week 1 - November 23

Regulation M-C is slated to end December 2nd, would we be better off waiting for M-D?

Main Points of Discussion:
-Last Format Slot
-Team Tour Timeline (M-D?)
-2 Managers vs 3 Managers per team
-Manager Selfbuy Pricing (Last year each team got 1 playing slot for free, with the second costing 25k - keep or adopt DCL pricing?)
-There will be no retains this season, but would people be interested in it for STC VI?

We are looking foward to new feedback regarding the proposed formats or new ideas the community might have for the first STC since release of Pokemon Champions and its first on the forums. Comments that are off-topic or not relevant at all to STC discussion will be deleted.
 
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Last format: The one I'd be most curious about is DOU draft. I know doucord has done a few tours now, some of which I've played, and the format seems quite fun and would fit the tour pretty well. I'd be least interested in seeing 4x champs because half the tour being a single tier feels awful imo. Everything else falls somewhere in-between and I don't see great reasons to differentiate them aside from personal bias so I'll refrain.

Timeline the only question would be whether we want M-D in the tour (assuming staff can get everything ready in time for the earlier timeframe, as it's the one in the initial post). To be honest, we could go either way on this. It's definitely annoying to pull up an old format especially if a challenge code is needed, but on the other hand, the board will be better if we start earlier and use a known format. I think I lean later start being better since we aren't actually getting that many new mons introduced, and it gives more time for the whole process, but I really wouldn't be too fussed about the initial timeline personally, from a conceptual standpoint.

2 vs 3 managers really depends on interest. I'd suggest staff ask around and figure out roughly what people want. I don't know if there's going to be enough strong cores to warrant 3 captains being okay, but if there are it's probably good. I don't know where I stand since I don't have that information.

I think adopting the DCL cap buy-in policy is probably best. It keeps things more consistent with other tours and more accurately reflects the cost of buying in. It also lets cores with no buy ins be more viable and entirely opens the option up. Only deviation is that you can maybe tweak the numbers if you want, but I don't find that necessary.

No retains.

Looking forward to STC! It's a very enjoyable tour, can definitely recommend!
 
dou > 4 SV > flex
dou cuz what cookie said above

waiting for M-D would be best bet and move drafting week to first week of December (idk if it overlap with any other tours)

2 caps core for sure we don't have 3 quality caps for 8 teams

dcl pricing is way better

I would love to see franchises and story lines so I support retains

LBG
 
Thank you everyone for the feedback, after internal discussion, we will be moving with the format below:

3x Champions Reg M-C Draft
2x SV Regulation F Draft
1x SS VGC 21 Draft
1x USUM VGC 18 Draft
1x SV DOU Draft

2 Managers per team, with option to buy none, one, or two managers for 14k each.

We will plan on no retains next year (or this year)

The following tour timeline will be kept:
Manager and Player Signups - November 1
Managers Announced - November 8
Auction Weekend - Weekend of November 14
Drafting Week - November 16
Week 1 - November 23

Be on the lookout for signups soon!
 
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