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Hello everyone, welcome to the third iteration of Apex Premier League! AXPL is an A Place to Hangout discord server-based event. It is a team tournament with unique formats. Teams are formed through an auction where the chosen captains of each team buy the registered players that they desire. First, there will be a round robin between the eight teams for five or seven weeks to qualify for the playoffs, where the top four teams battle to determine who will be tournament's champion.
The main rules and structure of the tournament are as follows:
The Tiers for this iteration of AXPL are:
If you wish to manage a team in AXPL I, make a post using the below format. These are open sign-ups, meaning any pair of users is eligible to sign-up. These pairs will be vetted and chosen by the hosts along with APTH staff.
Welcome To AXPL III
Hello everyone, welcome to the third iteration of Apex Premier League! AXPL is an A Place to Hangout discord server-based event. It is a team tournament with unique formats. Teams are formed through an auction where the chosen captains of each team buy the registered players that they desire. First, there will be a round robin between the eight teams for five or seven weeks to qualify for the playoffs, where the top four teams battle to determine who will be tournament's champion.
The main rules and structure of the tournament are as follows:
- Each team shall ideally have 8 starting players and atleast 2 substitutes.
- The auction budget for each team is of 100k.
- Both Managers can self-buy. If only one manager self buys it'll cost 10k. If both decide to play it'll cost 25k.
- The top 2 players with the best win percentage from the teams that didn't qualify for playoffs will get drafted by the qualifying teams.
- Correspondingly, the playoffs will be played with 10 starters i.e. 10v10 playoffs.
- The general forum tournament rules will kinda be applicable to this tournament.
- It is heavily recommended for every participant to join the A Place to Hangout discord server for timely updates!
- Reminder that there is no CA prize to this tournament! Or any at all!
The Tiers for this iteration of AXPL are:
- Ban for Ban Random Battle: Unique Bring 10 Pick 6 Random Battles Best of 3 where from a players team one pokemon is randomly banned and one pokemon is manually banned by the opponent. Example Game.
- Auction: Draft of 8 Pokemon with one tera captain formed through Auction pre-tournament to be used throughout in 6v6 singles battles. (Format: SV National Dex)
- Limit Break: Battle in a new tier every week with teams needing to be formed under a given cumulative BST limit. More info.
- Same Solo: Best of 3 with three unique Pokemon in a Monopoke 1v1 style. (Tiers will change every week)
- Same SolOM: Best of 3 with three unique Pokemon in a Monopoke 1v1 style with the tiers being Almost Any Ability, Camomons and Alphabet Cup.
- Same Duo: Best of 3 with three unique pairs of Pokemon in a 2v2 doubles style. (There might be twists every week like diff tiers/rules).
- Same Six: Battle with same team of Pokemon in singles. (There might be twists every week like diff tiers/rules)
- Doubles Same Six: Battle with same team of Pokemon in doubles. (There might be twists every week like diff tiers/rules)
- Bonus Formats for Play-offs: Same Trio (triples 3v3) and SV OU Cloak And Dagger (protect given pokemon)
If you wish to manage a team in AXPL I, make a post using the below format. These are open sign-ups, meaning any pair of users is eligible to sign-up. These pairs will be vetted and chosen by the hosts along with APTH staff.
Code:
Team Name:
Manager:
Assistant Manager:
Why would you make a Good Manager?:Deadline to sign-up is coming Monday 6PM IST.
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