Announcement The Smogon Discord would like you to become a rater!

[slug]

Your discord name: slug (o_oslug)
The meta you'd like to rate: vgc
A brief summary of your experience in that meta: became a somewhat established player in my country since the release of champions
Ways you've demonstrated knowledge of the metagame: consistently topping locals since late m-a playing against regular day 2ers and worlds qualifiers, have helped built teams for teammates that have also topped locals and online tours. been consistently helping in vgc rates and with any vgc related topics in compgen + rating in vgccord. swordisbored can vouch <3

 

[deepseazapdos]

Your discord name: deepseazapdos_smogonuni

The meta you'd like to rate: Battle Stadium

A brief summary of your experience in that meta: I play my competitive pocket monsters on console! Heavily engaged with restricted formats (Regulation I + J) during the Scarlet/Violet era and currently studying + playing with each weather archetype in the Global Battle Union metagame (Black 2/White 2) to understand the format better while archiving and documenting its aspects as much as I can. My current focus is oldgens but I always try to give Champions advice whenever I can.

Ways you've demonstrated knowledge of the metagame:
- Community:

• Invited to the VR and QC team September last year and have been since helping with forum resources (misc. forum resources, viability discussion, curating sample teams, sample sets for analyses and writing a few of them, as well as checking and giving QC input for other regular members who work on Battle Stadium analyses.)

- Recent tournaments:

• Won my first teamtour 3-3 BSSPL XI Magic Meowscaradas playing SV Regulation I: my team dump replays
• (Not a Smogon tour) played on a GBU 9-player cartridge tournament (6-2 on BO1 round robin, placed 3rd) RMT

I'm always around the Battle Stadium Discord and occasionally stick around the main Smogon Discord. DerpySuX is vouching for me

 

[OrnLatios]

Your discord name:
Ornlatias

The meta you'd like to rate:
Draft

A brief summary of your experience in that meta:
I've been playing the draft format extensively since June 2020, long before it was played on the smogon scene, got to know a lot of people through the draft community and helped a lot of people get started and improve at the format when it got popularized through smogon as well as youtube leagues from pokeaim, wolfe and such.

Ways you've demonstrated knowledge of the metagame + people in the space who can vouch for me:
I've played almost every draft format to ever exist on the site over my 6+ years of playing and I have multiple solid individual tournament finishes in pretty much all of them (this includes standard draft formats of generations 6-9 as well as lesser played formats such as Ubers and AAA draft), I've also won a large number of smaller scale draft league championships across the discord draft community.

I also played in a few team tournaments including DPL (known as the most competitive draft team tournament) where I finished with a 2-2 record, and more recently AAAPL which had a draft slot for the first time, I had a record of 4-1, and DCL which concluded recently where admittedly my showing wasn't great, most of my contribution there went to team support.

Aleksanteri can vouch for my skill level, he's the person who suggested me to try out for rating, pretty much anyone within the general draft space can vouch as well.