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Hosted by Murm, Zcarlett, and Akai
Tournaments Rules and General Guidelines
Player Signups
Spreadsheet
This is the thread for Administrative Decisions. This thread will handle all the information that players and teams would need for the tournament. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact any of the hosts. The reward for winning this tournament is a custom avatar to be used on Pokemon Showdown.
There will be 6 teams in this tournament. Each team will have a manager and a co-manager. There are eight slots for each team every week, and each team must have at least 10 players picked from the auction, which will be held in the GSCPL groupchat on Pokemon Showdown. The live auction will be in Snake order in regards to how teams nominate players. Each team will be given 100,000 credits with which to conduct their auction. The auction will be held when there can be representative from every team present. The Player Signups thread will be locked 24 hours before the auction.
Reminder that following this decision, each team will be only one manager self buy, costing 20k. Managers must let us know if they plan to buy themselves before the Players Signups close!
There is no retains!
This year we will be using the Belgian Pro League format. Every team will be playing every other team for the first 5 weeks of the tournament. For each win, a team is awarded two points. For each tie, a team is awarded one point. For each loss, a team is awarded no points. We will then have a three week round robin between the top four teams. Then the top two teams will move on to the finals.
Managers should DM one of the hosts (which host will be made clear before the deadline) to submit their lineups each week. The deadline to DM hosts with a lineup will be at the same time as the deadline for the previous round. However, DMing a host early is allowed and encouraged; the earlier the hosts get all the lineups in, the earlier they can release the next round!
At any point in the week, a team can substitute out a player from a game if they are inactive or cannot play the game due to IRL issues or a schedule that does not match up at all with their opponent. In order to make a substitution, the manager must post the substitution in the week thread, tagging the hosts, the opposing managers, and the opposing player, stating which player is being subbed out and who the substituting player is. However, a player who has been substituted out for a week cannot be substituted back into a slot in the same week. In addition, the hosts can veto any substitution if they believe the reason for substitution is to gain a 'favorable' player matchup in the OU slots, where player order matters.
There will be no trades allowed. If a bought player is inactive/cancers, they can be reported and replaced with a player from the undrafted pool of players. Hosts will have final discretion on what constitutes inactivity or cancering, and all situations will be treated on a case-by-case basis. After week 3 of the tournament, managers can still report inactive or cancering players, but they will not be allowed to pick a replacement player.
Reminder that following this decision, each team will be only one manager self buy, costing 20k. Managers must let us know if they plan to buy themselves before the Players Signups close!
There is no retains!
This year we will be using the Belgian Pro League format. Every team will be playing every other team for the first 5 weeks of the tournament. For each win, a team is awarded two points. For each tie, a team is awarded one point. For each loss, a team is awarded no points. We will then have a three week round robin between the top four teams. Then the top two teams will move on to the finals.
Managers should DM one of the hosts (which host will be made clear before the deadline) to submit their lineups each week. The deadline to DM hosts with a lineup will be at the same time as the deadline for the previous round. However, DMing a host early is allowed and encouraged; the earlier the hosts get all the lineups in, the earlier they can release the next round!
At any point in the week, a team can substitute out a player from a game if they are inactive or cannot play the game due to IRL issues or a schedule that does not match up at all with their opponent. In order to make a substitution, the manager must post the substitution in the week thread, tagging the hosts, the opposing managers, and the opposing player, stating which player is being subbed out and who the substituting player is. However, a player who has been substituted out for a week cannot be substituted back into a slot in the same week. In addition, the hosts can veto any substitution if they believe the reason for substitution is to gain a 'favorable' player matchup in the OU slots, where player order matters.
There will be no trades allowed. If a bought player is inactive/cancers, they can be reported and replaced with a player from the undrafted pool of players. Hosts will have final discretion on what constitutes inactivity or cancering, and all situations will be treated on a case-by-case basis. After week 3 of the tournament, managers can still report inactive or cancering players, but they will not be allowed to pick a replacement player.
Wobbuffet Village - 
Crooked Cloysters - 
Ladder-Bayleef Saints - 
Cursed Tyranitars - 
Shunko Jolteons - 
Royal Raikous - Currently undecided
GSC OU
GSC OU
GSC OU
GSC OU
GSC Ubers
GSC UU
GSC NU
GSC PU
GSC OU
GSC OU
GSC OU
GSC Ubers
GSC UU
GSC NU
GSC PU
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