Tournament AAAPL I - Information and Administrative Decisions

Isaiah · Jul 12, 2023

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Welcome to the first ever Almost Any Ability Premier League!
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Overview

Teams - Managers

:honchkrow:

The Head Honchkrows managed by LordBox and Career Ended
:Salamence:

The Smashing Salamences managed by Natcrozma and Lady Salamence
:Corviknight:

The Well-Baked Corviknights managed by Hiusi guy and sundays
:Ceruledge:

The Cherry Pit Ceruledges managed by OM and Potatochan
:Charizard:

The Charming Charizzards managed by Atha and The Number Man
:Psyduck:

Psycho Psyducks managed by SpaceSpeakers and zastra

How this works

There are TBD teams this year. Each team will have 6 players and at least 2 subs. The players are bought using the 80k credits that managers receive during the auction. Managers and co-managers will be allowed to purchase themselves as players for their team at a fixed price of 10k. The managers must inform the host (Isaiah) of all self purchases before the beginning of the auction. Teams can win their matchup every week by winning 4 of the 6 matches that their players have to play.

The tier lineup this year is as follows: SV Almost Any Ability (3 slots, one is 2AC), SS Almost Any Ability, SM Almost Any Ability, ORAS Almost Any Ability

It is recommended to play all games on SmogTours in the most current version of the format corresponding to those listed above. Games can be played on the Pokemon Showdown main server, but run higher risk of interference from server restarts/crashes. The result between players may be decided in a best-of-one or best-of-three at the discretion of both players involved. If there is no agreement, the result will decided in a Bo1 by default.

Winning a round rewards a team with 2 points, drawing 1 point, and losing zero points. In addition, the manner in which the round has been won will also be recorded i.e. the difference between a team's wins and losses in a specific week's round (referred to as "Win Differential").

Playoffs:

Each team will play one another for five weeks. Based on the final standings, the top 4 teams will enter a Playoffs Round to determine the teams appearing in the finals.

Tiebreaker

In the event of two teams being tied for a spot in the finals based on points and win differential, or a tie in the final round itself, we will have a tiebreaker round(s).

Tiebreaker Rules: https://www.smogon.com/forums/threa...administrative-decisions.3724460/post-9757610

Substitutes

Substitutes are to be used in the case of extenuating circumstances, whether on the first day of the week, or the last. At the same time, players should be relatively well-aware of who all are available to play in the opponent's camp. If last minute substitutes are being frequently used or abused and the hosts find explanations unsatisfactory, the hosts still reserve the right to veto them. In order to further prevent this being the case, teams are only granted a maximum of two substitutes per week. Any substitutions after the second will be vetoed.

Trades

The hosts have decided to not include trades this year due to reasons outlined in this thread - all roster decisions will be final, so draft carefully!

Miscellaneous

Isaiah · Jul 12, 2023

Roster

Isaiah · Jul 12, 2023

Schedule

Week 1 - August 13
Cherry Pit Ceruledges vs Charming Charizzards
Psycho Psyducks vs Head Honchkrows
Smashing Salamences vs Well-Baked Corviknights

Week 2 - August 20
Smashing Salamences vs Cherry Pit Ceruledges
Charming Charizzards vs Head Honchkrows
Well-Baked Corviknights vs Psycho Psyducks

Week 3 - August 27
Head Honchkrows vs Smashing Salamences
Cherry Pit Ceruledges vs Well-Baked Corviknights
Psycho Psyducks vs Charming Charizzards

Week 4 - September 3
Cherry Pit Ceruledges vs Psycho Psyducks
Well-Baked Corviknights vs Head Honchkrows
Smashing Salamences vs Charming Charizzards

Week 5 - September 10
Charming Charizzards vs Well-Baked Corviknights
Head Honchkrows vs Cherry Pit Ceruledges
Psycho Psyducks vs Smashing Salamences

Week 6 - Semifinals - September 17

Charming Charizzards vs Psycho Psyducks
Smashing Salamences vs Cherry Pit Ceruledges

Week 7 - Finals - September 24

TBD vs. TBD

Isaiah · Jul 26, 2023

To help people find inspiration for old gen teams, I compiled some replays from some big AAA tournaments of the past! Obviously not everything in these replays is legal anymore (make sure to check out the old gen hub for the banlists we will use for this AAAPL), but I figured that at the very least, having something to watch and get ideas from while you're trying to figure out, "What the heck do we bring this week?!" should help the process along :]

> The names in parentheses indicate a name change.
> If games weren't linked in the tour thread, I didn't bother trying to find them.

Gen 6

Gen 7

Gen 8

Isaiah · Aug 4, 2023

Now that the managers have been picked, auction moccs are possible.

Step 1: Go to the OM discord and react in #read-me to get the mocc role
Step 2: Join the AAAPL Room on PS because that's where moccs (and the actual auction) will happen :P

Isaiah · Aug 8, 2023

RE: Managers
Due to some scheduling issues, the Terrific Talonflames have been replaced by the Psycho Psyducks (managed by SpaceSpeakers and zastra)

RE: Auction
The auction will take place on Saturday, August 12th @ 4 PM GMT -6.

Isaiah · Aug 13, 2023

Submitting player lineups

Since everyone now has their players, here's how to submit lineups to be used for AAAPL weeks.

A week will last from Monday morning to Sunday night, so the deadline for submitting lineups will be at Sunday at 10:00 PM GMT -4, and failure to do so will result into randomization of your lineup for week one, or reuse of your previous week's lineup. Any illegal lineups will result in randomization or reuse of lineups. Any changes to said lineup afterwards will have to be done by using your two substitutes. Reminders will be sent out when appropriate.

When submitting your lineups, it is highly preferred that you send them via Smogon DM. Submissions by PS pms will NOT be accepted.

Here's the preferred process for lineup submission:

In Smogon DMs, make a conversation with the host (Isaiah) and your co-manager with the title "AAAPL Lineup Submissions" and include your lineup in the conversation. Submit the lineup exactly as in the formatting below (Code formatting (you can access this by clicking the insert option when making a post), and must include the @)

Code:

SV Almost Any Ability 1 - @PlayerName
SV Almost Any Ability 2  - @PlayerName
SV Almost Any Ability (2 Ability Clause) - @PlayerName
SS Almost Any Ability - @PlayerName
SM Almost Any Ability - @PlayerName
ORAS Almost Any Ability - @PlayerName

Note: Every week's lineup can be submitted in the same conversation, but each week must be in a new message, so you may not edit a prior message in the conversation with your new lineup.
Changes in lineups may happen freely before the deadline, after which substitutes will have to be used. Be sure to notify the host of each change.

Week 1 will start by Monday, August 14th, so get the lineups to me by Sunday, August 13th at 11:00 PM GMT-4.

LordBox Career Ended Atha The Number Man Natcrozma Lady Salamence Hiusi guy sundays SpaceSpeakers zastra OM Potatochan

Isaiah · Aug 15, 2023

Polled the managers and players:

AAAPL will immediately move to post-DLC metagame in SV AAA (including 2AC) once DLC 1 is released. This will affect Semifinals and Grand Finals (i.e. Weeks 1-5 will all be pre-DLC).

Isaiah · Aug 28, 2023

Tiebreaker format change

Since it's an AAA tour anyway and I subjectively rate current gen as the most important metagame to pay attention to, the tiebreak format has been changed to be as follows:

There will be three metagames played in total:
Slot 1 = SV Almost Any Ability
Slot 2 = Picked by managers of first tiebreak team
Slot 3 = Picked by managers of second tiebreak team

Since SV AAA has multiple slots in this tour already anyway, I don't mind if there are repeats (so yes, all three slots could end up being SV AAA in the event of a tiebreak). If the managers have the same conclusion and it's any other meta (2AC, SS, SM, ORAS), I'll use !pick to decide slot 3.

Isaiah · Sep 12, 2023

If your curiosity is burning like mine and you want to learn some stuff before PS updates, there's a doc getting updated with DLC info. Happy teambuilding!

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet...9q1JA_M9szifAt06DPDwww/htmlview#gid=659525520

Isaiah · Sep 17, 2023

Playoffs Tiebreaker

The Head Honchkrows and Psycho Psyducks have tied in their playoff series. As a result, we will have a tiebreaker. Managers (LordBox Career Ended zastra SpaceSpeakers), please submit your picks for the tiebreaker metas to me through a Smogon DM by tomorrow, September 18th at 2:00 PM GMT -5 using the following format:

Code:

Meta we want to play: [meta]

Tiebreaker rules are below as a refresher:

Isaiah said:
There will be three metagames played in total:
Slot 1 = SV Almost Any Ability
Slot 2 = Picked by managers of first tiebreak team
Slot 3 = Picked by managers of second tiebreak team

Since SV AAA has multiple slots in this tour already anyway, I don't mind if there are repeats (so yes, all three slots could end up being SV AAA in the event of a tiebreak). If the managers have the same conclusion and it's any other meta (2AC, SS, SM, ORAS), I'll use !pick to decide slot 3.

*Extra reminder: SV metas in the tiebreak will be Pre-DLC.

Also, congratulations to the Charming Charizzards, Smashing Salamences, and Cherry Pit Ceruledges for making it to playoffs!

Isaiah · Sep 18, 2023

The tiebreak metagames will be:

SV
2AC
SS

LordBox Career Ended SpaceSpeakers zastra Please send me lineups by tonight (September 18) @ 10 PM GMT -5.

Isaiah · Oct 8, 2023

Congratulations to the Charming Charizzards for coming out on top! Hopefully we can run this tour back next year so it becomes an annual thing :]

(maybe without as many oldgens though...)

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