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CAP Winter Team Tournament Policy Discussion
Alright pals, given the widespread desire to begin discussion on our winter team tournament, I've decided to open up this thread so we can get everything settled in the next few weeks before starting. As per decisions made in this thread, we will be opting to remove CAP Snake Draft as a format and instead replace it with a second annual auction-based draft tournament. There's a lot of ground to cover here with regards to logistics, so I'd like to dive straight into it.
First and foremost, this tournament is going to need a name. While it's very easy to play it safe by following Smogon's team tournament scene and name it CAP Champions League, I'm more than open to alternative name suggestions if we feel like giving this tournament an identity singular to CAP. With this in mind, I'd like to pose this first discussion question, what should our winter team tournament be named? Please keep submissions tame and reasonable. In the interest of expediency, there will be no voting on this matter; I'll simply pick the most reasonable name with the widest community support.
The next topic, which will probably comprise the bulk of the discussion here, is the matter of which tiers we'd like to see represented in our weekly lineups. As of now, my plan is to maintain the tradition of having at least 3 slots for current gen CAP, while leaving the other three slots open for debate. As was discussed in this thread, many people would like to use our winter team tournament to showcase CAP OMs, while using CAPPL to promote activity in CAP Old Gens. Given that since CAPPL VII we've had tournaments for both CAP LC and BW CAP, both seem like solid contenders for this iteration of the CAP winter team tour. However, I don't want to use this as a basis to exclude any other formats which might garner support. As of now, I'd like to open up discussion on whether or not the following formats might merit inclusion in the tour:
- CAP Monotype
- CAP Little Cup
- SM CAP
- ORAS CAP
- BW CAP
- BDSP CAP
Something that's presented itself as a logistical difficulty in recent team tours has been policy surrounding assistant managers and manager pricing. At this point I want to be explicit in saying that we will forego discussion on the necessity of assistant managers, and instead focus more closely on how manager and assistant manager prices are decided. A wide variety of methods are available to us, however I feel that many of them are suboptimal for this specific tournament setting, while others are prone to abuse. With this in mind I'd like to open discussion now on what specific method might be the most fair for assigning prices to managers and assistant managers.
I plan to add more questions regarding our formats once a consensus has been reached in the initial discussion.