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Part 2 of the movepool extravaganza! After this we vote on the 3D model stuff and then it's the Final Product! We're getting there! ---- Important!: All competitive polls consist of two rounds of ranked voting (24 hours each). In the first round, the preliminary ranking of candidates by PBV...

Welcome to the final name poll for CAP 20! This is it, CAP boat dinosaur thingy! Everyone is welcome to vote in this poll, but you must create a legal ballot based on your own preferences. Poll manipulation through techniques such as coordinated voting or multiple account creation is disallowed...

It's the naming stage! I love this stage because it means we finally get to stop referring to the thing we're making as CAP 20 or CAP20 or CAP or some such. If you are inspired by the winning art design and have come up with a good and unique name you'd like the CAP to be known by, please...

Now that we have CAP 20's stat spread, we're back to abilities! Our Ability Leader, trc, will again be leading this discussion to determine a slate of options for this Pokemon's secondary ability. Some general rules for this discussion: Custom abilities are banned. No exceptions. Posts...

Welcome to the stat spread submission thread for our 20th official Create-a-Pokemon Project creation! Submit your own spread and/or trash-talk about comment on others'! When this thread ends, Stats Leader HeaLnDeaL will make a list of accepted submissions for voting based on intelligent...

The moment you've all been salivating and screaming like teenage girls at a boy band concert for: (probably) the last competitive poll for CAP in XY (before ORAS)! Let's do it! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This will be a...

More movepool discussion, huzzah! Again, our Movepool Leader, alexwolf, will guide us through this thread and present a finalized list of moves that users will be allowed to include in their movepool submissions. This time, we're dealing with non-attacking moves. When posting in this thread, be...

Welcome to the FINAL SHOWDOWN of the Art Polls for CAP 19. The contestants are a Mantine on steroids, an oil spill fish thing, and a creepy worm. Go vote! DO IT NOW! This will be an Instant Runoff Vote (IRV), the details of which are outlined here. This is a ranked vote: order does matter! You...

The last poll ended in a one-IRV-round, three-way tie. Truly, this showdown will be one to watch. Which ability will CAP 19 have alongside Storm Drain? Will it be either of the competitive abilities up for the vote, or will No Competitive Ability win the day? This will be an Instant Runoff Vote...

In this poll, eight valiant stat nerds chosen by Deck Knight battle it out to see who will become the nerd champion of CAP 19's stat spread stage. Read our long arguments and bask in the glory of our damage calculations. Seriously, though, PLEASE UNDERSTAND what you're voting for! This is...

This next stage is Stat Limits, and it's very important! Our Stats Leader, who will be leading this stage, is Deck Knight, so make sure that your posts are generally directed towards him and the questions he asks. Deck Knight will be deciding the stat limits for CAP 19 at the conclusion of this...

Time to type about typing! For CAP 19's typing discussion, your Section Guide for typing is none other than the man of the 1214 Slaps himself, srk1214! This thread will be open once srk1214 is ready to make his opening statements. Be sure to pay attention to what he says because he is...

Contentment is a pretty common topic on the internet. Someone asks what others do to achieve contentment and/or a sense of fulfillment, and the responses are fun stories about hobbies and relaxing and going to places. However, sometimes the notion of contentment is abused. There's a rather...

Seven have advanced. Neither Mexico nor Greece is among them. ------------- This will be a Preferential Block Vote (PBV) (a form of Instant Runoff Voting which re-runs the counting, each time removing the previously top-ranked candidate in order to determine the 2nd most preferred, 3rd most...

So I came across a juvenile, fallacy-ridden article today that nonetheless got me thinking. Is philosophy still relevant to humanity and its pursuit of... whatever it's pursuing? If so, in what ways is it relevant, and in what ways do people believe it's relevant when it's not? I don't want to...

Sorry about the long wait. The last couple of weeks were... weird... and I spent a while trying to think of what to say for this Final Product thread thing. It's been a bit over four months since the TL nomination thread for this project was posted, and while the actual passing of the four-month...

Maybe I'll actually read the replies to this thread for once... Anyway, I ran into this thought experiment a few times, and I've been thinking, might as well see what happens when I unleash it on Smogon. You have two choices: Specks: 1 googolplex people get dust specks in their eyes. OR...

I've been meaning to suggest this for a while, but I kept putting it off and prioritizing other things. Apparently aldaron is also discussing the rating system with Zarel and that's what reminded me to do this, so I'm sorry if I'm stepping on people's toes with this. It's just not the kind of...

This essay... I just had to share it (´･ω･`) The responses in that thread have worried me and they're the main reason for any second thoughts I have posting this. So I'd like to clarify something. I believe all the anecdotes given. I don't see a reason to doubt them. I don't see a reason to...

This thread probably would have been obligatory if not for... y'know... but I suppose people still have something to say about all the stuff that's happened with the U.S. Supreme Court. Something about Cyan's homeland... and voting rights... Anyway, the real reason I'm making this thread is to...