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Welcome to the fourth iteration of the Almost Any Ability Premier League!
Roster | Schedule | Standings (Records) | Replays
Overview
Teams - Managers
The Eevee Volleys - adriancosmoem and porcupine21 
The Meowing Meowstics - GhastlyPixie and Lightniong 
The Slashing Leaves - damflame 3 and Treeko928 
The Stallmaxxing Cosmoggs - GlalieGoesBoom and LordBox 
The Charming Charizzards - ghostlike and Atha 
The Aerial Acrobatic Archeops - Betticus IV and SammyCe123 How this works
There are 6 teams this year. Each team will have 10 players and at least 4 subs. The players are bought using the 140k 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 13k. The managers must inform the hosts (Chessking and Rex) of all self purchases before the beginning of the auction. Teams can win their matchup every week by winning 6 of the 10 matches that their players have to play.
The tier lineup this year is as follows:
SV Almost Any Ability (3 slots)
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 0 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).
There will be three metagames played in total:
Slot 1 = SV Almost Any Ability
Slot 2 = Picked by managers of lower seed tiebreak team
Slot 3 = Picked by managers of higher seed tiebreak team
With no repeated slots (yes this includes SV Almost Any Ability it cannot be picked by either team)
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
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