Tournament CAP Metagame Forum Tournament Queue and Tournament Approval Thread

Tournament Name: SV CAP LC 2023 Tour

Tournament Host(s):
it's ya boi

Tournament Time Frame: Sign-ups May 22nd through the 28th

Host experience: I did a CAP LC Tour before, and I will do it again or so help me (actually please help me)

Tournament Description: It's SV LC, with CAPs. Cawdet will be unbanned for this. Expect shenanigans, the CAP LC Pokemon are way above the power curve this time around. Also, first CAP LC tournament with Saharascal!

Tournament Style: Single Elimination Bo3, replays required
Tournament Banlist: Standard LC Banlist
Tournament Justification: Solotl's design is the only thing that gives me dopamine these days. This is the lukewarm revival of everyone's favorite CAP OM. If you wanted to play LC but with good spinners and Defoggers, here you finally go.

Challenge Code:
/challenge LC@@@ +Brattler +Breezi +Cawdet +Cupra +Dorsoil +Embirch +Fawnifer +Floatoy +Justyke +Miasmite +Monohm +Mumbao +Necturine +Nohface +Pluffle +Privatyke +Protowatt +Rebble +Saharascal +Scratchet +Smogecko +Snugglow +Solotl +Swirlpool +Syclar +Volkritter +Voodoll
 
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Tournament Name: STour CAP II

Tournament Host(s): moi

Tournament Time Frame: Probably when its close to poffs or after for CAPPL as everyone will be busy prepping for the tour.

Host experience: CAP Winter SSNL, BWPL, BW SSNL, SM Cup, BW Cup, RoA side tours and GCs, STours, and so on.

Tournament Description: Bo3 Tournament featuring SV Cap, SS Cap, and SM Cap as the tiers, first tier is SV Cap, loser picks the next tier, similar to STours rules.

Tournament Style: Single Elimination Bo3, SV Cap, SS Cap, SM Cap,

Tournament Banlist: No Banlist changes for the three aforementioned metagames (unless more bans happen for SV then it will be announced).

Tournament Justification: With SV CAP and SV OU being a newer gen everyone wants to go ahead and gain more experience in the tier as much as possible. As for SS and SM CAP, I believe those gens are the more played formats and the more popular among all players. Each of these gens are a solid bo3 format to play in as a lot players for the most part have all started from SM era to current gen.
 
Tournament Name: STour CAP II

Tournament Host(s): moi

Tournament Time Frame: Probably when its close to poffs or after for CAPPL as everyone will be busy prepping for the tour.

Host experience: CAP Winter SSNL, BWPL, BW SSNL, SM Cup, BW Cup, RoA side tours and GCs, STours, and so on.

Tournament Description: Bo3 Tournament featuring SV Cap, SS Cap, and SM Cap as the tiers, first tier is SV Cap, loser picks the next tier, similar to STours rules.

Tournament Style: Single Elimination Bo3, SV Cap, SS Cap, SM Cap,

Tournament Banlist: No Banlist changes for the three aforementioned metagames (unless more bans happen for SV then it will be announced).

Tournament Justification: With SV CAP and SV OU being a newer gen everyone wants to go ahead and gain more experience in the tier as much as possible. As for SS and SM CAP, I believe those gens are the more played formats and the more popular among all players. Each of these gens are a solid bo3 format to play in as a lot players for the most part have all started from SM era to current gen.
Since there's a stour tour already in our circuit (retro cup) I'm just approving you to host that, we forecasted it to start in august but it might end up being a tad later. we will sort out timeline details

Tournament Name: SV CAP LC 2023 Tour

Tournament Host(s):
it's ya boi

Tournament Time Frame: Sign-ups May 22nd through the 28th

Host experience: I did a CAP LC Tour before, and I will do it again or so help me (actually please help me)

Tournament Description: It's SV LC, with CAPs. Cawdet will be unbanned for this. Expect shenanigans, the CAP LC Pokemon are way above the power curve this time around. Also, first CAP LC tournament with Saharascal!

Tournament Style: Single Elimination Bo3, replays required
Tournament Banlist: Standard LC Banlist
Tournament Justification: Solotl's design is the only thing that gives me dopamine these days. This is the lukewarm revival of everyone's favorite CAP OM. If you wanted to play LC but with good spinners and Defoggers, here you finally go.

Challenge Code:
/challenge LC@@@ +Brattler +Breezi +Cawdet +Cupra +Dorsoil +Embirch +Fawnifer +Floatoy +Justyke +Miasmite +Monohm +Mumbao +Necturine +Nohface +Pluffle +Privatyke +Protowatt +Rebble +Saharascal +Scratchet +Smogecko +Snugglow +Solotl +Swirlpool +Syclar +Volkritter +Voodoll
Approving this to start at some point after cappl. the end of the year might be pretty crowded with tours but we'll let you know a good time to squeeze this in
 
Tournament Name: National Dex CAP Tournament

Tournament Hosts: Myself

Host Experience:
  • DPP CAP Tour I’m not using challonge this time
Timeframe: Whenever given permission to host, I understand that there are a few other tournaments in the queue and with the ending of CAPPL soon there’s no reason to rush.

Tournament Description: Standard Double
Elimination in the National Dex format with CAP Pokémon allowed. Replays will be required. Challenge code will be in the OP.

Justification: To guage interest in and potentially develop a metagame that has been unexplored and to my knowledge has had 0 games.



Tournament Name: BW CAP Tournament

Tournament Hosts: Myself

Host Experience:
  • DPP CAP Tour I’m not using challonge this time
Timeframe: Whenever given permission to host, I understand that there are a few other tournaments in the queue and with the ending of CAPPL soon there’s no reason to rush.

Tournament Description: Standard Double
Elimination in the BW CAP format. Replays will be required.

Justification: Justification: Multiple people have shown interest in the tier in the discord and signing up to CAPPL. With CAPPL coming to a close soon it will be a good opportunity for more players to be introduced and gain practice in the tier for future tournaments.
 
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Tournament Name: SV CAP AAA Tour

Tournament Host(s): Just me unless someone wants to help (which I probably need it)

Tournament Time Frame: Probably early April to early May, depending on the amount who join.

Host experience: None on this site, but I hosted one on the Pokémon DB

Tournament Description: Double Elimination bo3 featuring SV CAP AAA.

Tournament Style: Double Elimination bo3 featuring SV CAP AAA.

Tournament Banlist: Same as AAA and any additional ones from CAP AAA (By the way is there a format for it or do I need to make a custom challenge code, which I will definitely need help with then?)

Tournament Justification: There has been a good amount of interest in CAP AAA in CAP chat as of late. It would be fun. And there also aren’t too many CAP events happening besides official tours too.
 
Tournament Name: SM CAP Tournament

Tournament Hosts: Myself

Host Experience:
  • DPP and BW CAP
Timeframe: Whenever given permission to host. CL just ended so there’s no reason to rush, it gives people time to derust and enjoy their favorite metagame. :Jumbao:

Tournament Description: Standard Double
Elimination in the SM CAP format. Replays will be required.

Justification: It was excluded from CL and is viewed by a large portion of the community as the best CAP generation.


Tournament Name: CAP Homefield Advantage

Tournament Hosts: Myself

Host Experience:
  • DPP and BW CAP
Timeframe: Whenever given permission to host. CL just ended so there’s no reason to rush, and it gives players more time to enjoy older metagames.

Tournament Description: Standard Double
Elimination starting in the SV CAP format. Then playing whatever generation the losing player signed up with. Replays will be required.

Justification: Gives an opportunity for players interested in playing previous generations but weren’t given the opportunity to be drafted for CAPCL. It also gives the players who did play in CL the advantage of keeping their edge in their preferred format for longer.
 
Tournament Name: CAP Monothreat Tournament

Tournament Host(s): Earthflax

Tournament Time Frame: Close to immediately post-CAPPL, which should mean beginning in late August/early September.

Host experience: Nada. Contributor in CAP process/metagame, been in a good few tours.

Tournament Description:

Tournament Style:
SV Monothreat tournament including CAPs. Double elimination; each week one type will be selected randomly for winners and losers bracket separately.
Tournament Banlist: Monothreat follows the Monotype banlist. Relative to SV CAP, notable changes include bans: Blaziken, Booster Energy, Damp/Smooth Rock, Tera. unbans: Archaludon, Flutter Mane, Landorus-Incarnate, Ogerpon-Hearthflame, Spectrier, Regieleki, Sneasler, Terapagos, Urshifu-Rapid-Strike, Volcarona. The CAPMono banlist can/will also be utilized, which would mean that Fidgit, Cawmodore, and Heat Rock would be banned (though I'm not sure how important it is to preserve that specific BL when same-type matchups are forced.)
Tournament Justification: Monothreat is a fun tier and CAP has some very interesting tools for every typing. Nice chill little post-CAPPL tourney. mostly for the hahas. Will be cool to see how things shape up in an experimental version of an already very volatile format.
 
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Tournament Name: STOUR CAP III

Tournament Host(s): me

Tournament Time Frame: July 22nd - September depending on signups

Host experience: probably

Tournament Description: Provide a general description for your tournament that includes:

Tournament Style: Single Elimination Bo3, SV Cap, SS Cap, SM Cap
Tournament Banlist: Standard stuff
Tournament Justification: STOUR is epic
 
Tournament Name: EPIC CAP DOUBLES TOURNAMENT

Tournament Host(s):
Me + whoever is willing to co-host

Tournament Time Frame: Will run it as soon as the current indiv tour schedule allows

Host experience: yeah

Tournament Description: gen9 doubles ou with caps allowed

Tournament Style: probably just single elim to test the waters and keep it concise
Tournament Banlist: see above
Tournament Justification: in gen 9 doubles is objectively better than singles so I want to have a cap doubles tournament
 
Tournament Name: STOUR CAP III

Tournament Host(s): me

Tournament Time Frame: July 22nd - September depending on signups

Host experience: probably

Tournament Description: Provide a general description for your tournament that includes:

Tournament Style: Single Elimination Bo3, SV Cap, SS Cap, SM Cap
Tournament Banlist: Standard stuff
Tournament Justification: STOUR is epic
already talked over dms but posting for visibility, this is approved, signups can go up monday
 
Tournament Name: CAP UU Tournament

Tournament Host(s):
Me + kenn

Tournament Time Frame: January or later (kenn is busy in December)

Host experience: CAP Summer Seasonals

Tournament Description: Gen9 UU with underused CAPs allowed

Tournament Style: Single Elim
Tournament Banlist: Standard UU Banlist + High usage CAPs (>4.52% usage in major tour)
Hard to say for sure right now since tier is developing.
Tournament Justification: Want to develop the CAP UU metagame, and gather data to better understand what tiering decisions need to be made.
 
If I can also manage, I can host World CAP. It is time. If someone else is interested in hosting, that would obviously be preferable. Usually this would not be ok but I have also proven to be an extraordinarily trustworthy tour host in the past with my experience with the many money tours (4).
 
Tournament Name: CAPOM Team Tour

Tournament Host(s): Me + someone, I should be able to find one if this looks possible.

Tournament Time Frame: Earliest start of December but preferably start early January or later to dodge holidays and OMs championships playoffs. Latest start preferably start of February to give some time before Opens and OMPL. Ideal timeframe would be something like signups open early Jan for 2 weeks, 5-7+ reg season + 2 weeks playoffs ending mid March.
Edit: Due to conflict with CAPCL proposing starting signups late February, week 1 early March, ending around Late April Early May, just in between CAPCL and OMPL, with the actual schedule + style of the tour adjusted depending on timeframe requirements and signups.

Host experience: BH Money Tour, Inheritour 2

Tournament Description: 6 tier team tour featuring main OMs + CAPs (AAA, MnM, STAB, GG, PiC, Inh, basically OMPL tiers minus BH and Bo3 since BH doesn't get affected much)

Tournament Style: Premier League style, 6 starters + min 2 subs, auction draft, number of teams dependent on manager + player sign ups.
Tournament Banlist: Base banlist for each OM + CAP + any additional standout bans/unbans, will check with the council of each meta probably around signups to determine banlist adjustments. Will provide challenge codes.
Tournament Justification: Can potentially instigate development for the respective OMs. CAPs are a nice shakeup to the included OMs with many desirable assets, providing a fresh meta to explore and innovate in. Should also attract players from both OMs and CAP communities, provided it doesn't conflict with anything on CAP side, so signup number hopefully won't be an issue. Multiple players have expressed interest from OM side.
 
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Early January is going to conflict with expected times for CAP Champions League IV. Potentially we could look to get CAPCL moving sooner than later so that by the time it's wrapping up CAPOMTT will begin, but we wouldn't want to mess with a major tour schedule for a side one. I think the timing window becomes a lot easier if you lock-in 4 teams max so you can minimize overlap with CAPCL while still wrapping up in time for OM related tours. If there's no good timing this might end up on the backburner for a while unfortunately...
 
I’m bad and didn’t check schedules for the major cap team tours oops. Thanks for the feedback.
Checking schedules for both sides there is technically a window from around when CAPCL is ending to the start of OMPL (Early March to Late May) which is upwards of 12 weeks, enough for even 8 team + playoffs + leeway for tbs. Fewer teams is possible too though while I’m ok with 4 teams if necessary I would personally prefer 6 min for more games overall. With 4 also depending on signup numbers can consider doubling up on more popular slots. There’s also an alternative if teams hits 8+ to split to two groups and run internal RRs similar to how OMWC works which reduces duration without reducing teams (8 team becomes 5+ weeks instead of 9, 10 would be 6+).
Idk if there are any other tours CAP side has but OMs side Opens are single elim and solo tours so shouldn’t be too big of a deal for this timeframe, there might be something that is planned to move to before ompl as well but there hasn’t been exact details or confirmation on that. If the timeframe doesn’t work well shelving until both PLs end around mid August is fine too if interest is still there.
 
Tournament Name: CAP UU Tournament

Tournament Host(s):
Me + kenn

Tournament Time Frame: January or later (kenn is busy in December)

Host experience: CAP Summer Seasonals

Tournament Description: Gen9 UU with underused CAPs allowed

Tournament Style: Single Elim
Tournament Banlist: Standard UU Banlist + High usage CAPs (>4.52% usage in major tour)
Hard to say for sure right now since tier is developing.
Tournament Justification: Want to develop the CAP UU metagame, and gather data to better understand what tiering decisions need to be made.

It would be cool to have CAP UU as a slot CAPCL, so I would like to request this tour be moved up so we have a few rounds before CAPCL IV starts to develop the CAP UU meta.

kenn will likely not be able to co-host, but Anchor9 has offered to co-host if we reschedule the tournament.

Let me know if anything is needed on my end. CAP UU resources are being worked on and I can try to get them out in 1-2 weeks if needed.
 
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