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Rejected DELAY UPCOMING SPL UNTIL GEN 10 RELEASE

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is a Community Contributor Alumnusis a defending SPL Championis a Past WCoP Champion
And consider doing the same for WCoP and SCL unless “Champions OU” is a real thing.

We have had FOUR tournaments in a row with SV as the CG OU. It is getting stale. The hype is at an all time low. The playerbase is dying. The pool of players has dramatically declined in quality. I would much rather we take a year off of SPL or delay the tournament by a few months (depending on release date) and adjust the rest of the tournament schedule accordingly to build up more hype for the first ever Gen 10 SPL than continue playing Weekend At Bernie’s with our beloved tournament.

PLEASE USE COMMON SENSE AND SAVE SPL!!! THANK YOU VERY MUCH REIGNING CHAMPION AND LEADER OF THE CONGREGATION OF THE CLASSIEST BLANK.
 
Alternative suggestion for all the trophyless/undrafted people who insist a 5th SV OU SPL is “fine” because they know an unhype tournament with none of the good players is the only way they will get drafted:

All tournaments after the current SPL and before the release of Gen 10 are RIBBON TOURNAMENTS.
 
Manager whose team is going to miss the playoffs because they spent 38500 credits on a bad SV core: "guys the pool of players is really bad now why is no one else seeing this"

It really seems counterintuitive to restore interest in tournaments by postponing the flagship tour indefinitely because you think the flagship tier's too lame. That's not exactly a real vote of faith that these are worth watching and playing in. Besides, even if the games are like a February release (and that's just an optimistic guess), you'll be choosing between running SPL with day one gen 10 with whatever new "Unburden but it's a Quiver Dance boost" or "Toxic Debris but it sets Sticky Web" or "Ceaseless Edge but with 120 bp" Game Freak cooks up and delaying the start of the new tournament schedule into the summer, and then, what, you just skip WCOP for 2027, I guess?

If Champions OU is a real format (and if it's a functional battle sim for VGC 2026 that sure seems possible) then none of this is an issue. And if it's not, then you have all sorts of ways you can adjust the tournament with a whole year to plan (10 slots 2 SV? 12 slots 3 SV 1 Classic Bo5? 12 slots 2 SV 1 Classic Bo5 1 Masters Bo3?). If the actual issue is that tournaments are dying for reasons that are much bigger than a delayed gen 10, then surely there are another ten threads to brainstorm actual solutions (like this one from Luigi a month ago). Regardless, making it so that winter 2026/2027 has nothing but Masters playoffs, OSDT Swiss, and OST (unless that gets postponed until the new generation too) sure seems like it would just kill interest in tournaments further.
 
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