The BW Council has collected and reviewed the survey sent out a few weeks ago; responses are publicized here for transparency.
The trouble with generalizing the results is due to the drastically differing replies. Comments ran the gamut from stating Gothitelle's Obvious Brokenness to its Practical Uselessness, meaning, once again, the BW playerbase remains indeterminate about its tiering wants.
That being said, the council recognizes the pro-ban lean in the survey. Additionally, there is a plethora of precedent-based justifications and understandably wack past policy which informed many users' responses.
TDK referenced the ease-of-access to reqs having won minimal games, which we will keep on the radar moving forward too. We also would note that this was simply to garner information from solid BW players. The following votes will be more exclusive.
So, this is all to say that we will be conducting a vote on Shadow Tag in order to address our previous wrongs. We realize the uncertainty surrounding the Shadow Tag / Arena Trap logics and would be remiss to prevent this vote from occurring. In truth, BW has been the most experimental generation tiering-wise. The introduction of team preview, weather-based play / power spikes, and a new wave of subsequent tiering ideologies meant BW weathered (lol!) a maelstrom of unforeseen debates. In return, the tier also suffered from constant uncertainty, criticism, and asymmetrical tiering directions.
The BW Council has had to work from shambles, gluing together a rather hamfisted tier in the process. In order to finalize and ensure the best future for Gen 5, we will soon be making changes to our council by inviting more top BW players to shape our philosophies moving forward. We hope to gather consensus of the tier's issues and craft a unified vision that will 1) satisfy the playerbase and 2) ameliorate tensions surrounding BW tiering policy. More details of this will come in future weeks.
For now, we will be inviting the follow users to participate in the Shadow Tag BW OU vote. The voter pool will be slightly different from the survey, with 5 wins or more and a 50% SPL X win rate being needed instead of 3.
PM dice and Finchinator with your votes [Ban Shadow Tag, Do Not Ban Shadow Tag, or Abstain]. The deadline will be midnight ET (-4) on June 24th, with a 60% benchmark required to ban Shadow Tag.
Thank you!
The trouble with generalizing the results is due to the drastically differing replies. Comments ran the gamut from stating Gothitelle's Obvious Brokenness to its Practical Uselessness, meaning, once again, the BW playerbase remains indeterminate about its tiering wants.
That being said, the council recognizes the pro-ban lean in the survey. Additionally, there is a plethora of precedent-based justifications and understandably wack past policy which informed many users' responses.
TDK referenced the ease-of-access to reqs having won minimal games, which we will keep on the radar moving forward too. We also would note that this was simply to garner information from solid BW players. The following votes will be more exclusive.
So, this is all to say that we will be conducting a vote on Shadow Tag in order to address our previous wrongs. We realize the uncertainty surrounding the Shadow Tag / Arena Trap logics and would be remiss to prevent this vote from occurring. In truth, BW has been the most experimental generation tiering-wise. The introduction of team preview, weather-based play / power spikes, and a new wave of subsequent tiering ideologies meant BW weathered (lol!) a maelstrom of unforeseen debates. In return, the tier also suffered from constant uncertainty, criticism, and asymmetrical tiering directions.
The BW Council has had to work from shambles, gluing together a rather hamfisted tier in the process. In order to finalize and ensure the best future for Gen 5, we will soon be making changes to our council by inviting more top BW players to shape our philosophies moving forward. We hope to gather consensus of the tier's issues and craft a unified vision that will 1) satisfy the playerbase and 2) ameliorate tensions surrounding BW tiering policy. More details of this will come in future weeks.
For now, we will be inviting the follow users to participate in the Shadow Tag BW OU vote. The voter pool will be slightly different from the survey, with 5 wins or more and a 50% SPL X win rate being needed instead of 3.
BW Cup: dice, Twixtry, Raiza, Kingler12345. Roseybear, M Dragon. Zokuru, elodin
SPL (with 5 or more games and 50% or more wins): SoulWind, FLCL, We Three Kings, Ojama, Finchinator
STour (top 12 in BW points each s27 or 26)
st27: Finchinator, SoulWind, ima, McMeghan, Lavos, St. Tyrannus, Pohjis, Santu, Eternal Spirit, Luigi/Twixtry/Marshall.Law/Zorodark/dice all tied for 10th
st26: Bad Ass, Lavos, LL, FMG, Luigi, Finchinator, SoulWind, mael, Welli0u, Googly, nightcore, FLCL, z0mOG
WCOP (3 games with .500 or better): lax, Finchinator, Asuya, Ace-11, dice, Posho, Sand Castle, SoulWind, McMeghan
SPL (with 5 or more games and 50% or more wins): SoulWind, FLCL, We Three Kings, Ojama, Finchinator
STour (top 12 in BW points each s27 or 26)
st27: Finchinator, SoulWind, ima, McMeghan, Lavos, St. Tyrannus, Pohjis, Santu, Eternal Spirit, Luigi/Twixtry/Marshall.Law/Zorodark/dice all tied for 10th
st26: Bad Ass, Lavos, LL, FMG, Luigi, Finchinator, SoulWind, mael, Welli0u, Googly, nightcore, FLCL, z0mOG
WCOP (3 games with .500 or better): lax, Finchinator, Asuya, Ace-11, dice, Posho, Sand Castle, SoulWind, McMeghan
PM dice and Finchinator with your votes [Ban Shadow Tag, Do Not Ban Shadow Tag, or Abstain]. The deadline will be midnight ET (-4) on June 24th, with a 60% benchmark required to ban Shadow Tag.
Thank you!
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