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All administrative decisions pertaining to the sixth edition of the Smogon Champions League will go here, with relevant precedents from previous tournaments linked below. As always, the general tournament rules and guidelines are in effect for SCL as well.
The midseason auction is officially no more. There will not be a midseason signup this year.
Instead, we will allow for reports of inactivity from managers about their players. After an investigation, and assuming the report is substantiated, the players will be allowed to be sold back and a single replacement player may be chosen immediately from the undrafted pool.
Do note our rules on manager responsibility for making sure their players are active won't change; we expect managers to be engaging their players and making sure they are contributing. Submitting a report where a player has been inactive but managers haven't taken steps to engage that player in their teamcord (especially for benched players) will most likely be denied. If you need a host opinion on a case, feel free to ask beforehand!
Some additional notes/rules:
This will also apply to any banned players.
This will also apply to team cancers/players who quit the tournament.
The deadline for submitting an inactivity report to the hosts will be the Week 5 deadline.
All replacement players will only be eligible to play the week after they are picked up (for example, if a report is submitted at the end of Week 4, and a replacement player is issued Week 5, that player can play from Week 6 onwards).
Replacement players will be 1:1, no matter how much the replaced player cost.
In the case of multiple teams being able to pick replacement players (e.g. a ban wave), those teams will be able to pick their replacements first according to cost of the player, or in the case of a tie, in reverse current standings order.
Replacement picks may be delayed until the end of Week 6 if desired, but in the case of multiple being available will follow the above replacement order (price then reverse current standings) so we recommend getting picks in ASAP.
The auction date has been decided as <t:1787508900:F>! As such, both player signups and retains will close at <t:1787336100:F> (48 hours before auction).
After the auction, babyboyblues notified his new captains he had no intention of participating in this season of SCL. The Orange Islanders have been granted a sellback, and have selected Greedy_eb as his replacement. babyboyblues has received a standard 3 month tourban and 1 year Team tourban.
This is a reminder to all players that you MUST play your games on a voiced alt on the Smogtours server, per this decision here.
Going forward, we will infract for violations as usual. Reminder that names containing the full forum name do NOT count for this anymore, per the same thread.
If anyone needs their main account voiced, they can message any TD or Smogtours mod. Reminder that new voiced alts must closely match forum usernames.
The hosts have received evidence that Suzuya quit on their team and has not participated in the majority of the tournament. As a result, they have been removed from the roster, tour banned for three months, and will be barred from participating in team tours for a year.
Studio Gible has selected Hoennseptile as their replacement.
