Idea for a new format

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Didn't know where to put this, so I decided to just stick it in the miscellaneous forum.

Maybe someone's thought of this, and I'm just dumb, but have there ever been Limited events here? I don't know how many people remember/know me (I used to hang out in the Netbattle room a while ago), but I've been playing a lot of Magic recently, and I thought this would be a good idea for Pokemon as well.

Example:
-Players sit in a randomized "circle" to make passing of packs easier.
-Eight players open a "pack" of Pokemon which has 6 or 8 Pokemon in it (8 if we're "sideboarding") which have about half OU or half UU (it may work better with more or less OU Pokemon, but I can't determine that myself).
-Each player selects one of the Pokemon and the "pack" is passed to the left or right (now each player has a pack of 5 or 7), and a selection is made.
-Continue until all 6 or 8 Pokemon have been drafted.

Make your team, and battle, best 2 out of 3.
If 6 Pokemon were chosen as the pack size, that's that, and you battle normally, setting moves and EVs as you wish (or have the organizer preset those as well, if they want). If 8 were chosen, you play as normal, but after the first game, players get a chance to "sideboard", that is, swap Pokemon in or out as they wish (and optionally change moves and EVs, if the TO allows it).

It would be fun with more than eight people (say, a larger number like 64). Then you can divide up everyone into eight pods of eight players, and whoever wins the table makes the top 8. Then the top 8 have a new draft and play with those to determine the winner.

Anyway, that's my idea. Thoughts?
 
sorry if this is minimodding, but you should probably talk to one of the tournament directors about this. (it sounds pretty cool)
 
This sounds like a bit of a combo of a draft tourney (which we had before, but was unsucessful), and a sealed pack card tourney (really random, but lots of fun if you pull some good cards). This is an interesting topic indeed, but if this ever were to happen, a tournament director (or just someone that has hosted a complicated tourney bafore) should run it.

cool idea though, I'd play.
 
It's not really complicated. There's a program called NetDraft which lets people draft Magic cards. You'd just have to make a patch with names of Pokemon for it to work.

If people don't want to do that, then there's option of drafting through PMs.
The TO sends a PM to everyone with the initial pack. They PM him back with their pick. The TO sends out another round of PMs once everyone in a pod has made their selection.

There's also the third option of PM drafting without the TO. The TO would just send out the initial pack list with each PM telling the person who they're passing to. Each person makes their pick and sends the rest of the Pokemon over to the person they're passing to until all picks are finished. This one relies more on trust anyway, and as a TO I wouldn't want to try this third method, but it's an idea.

I like drafting better than sealed, because you can get screwed in sealed with a bad pool (unlucky). Drafting is more luck based than constructed, but it's also a little more skill based as well.
 
The thing is, a draft tournament is largely reliant on the host. We hosted ours on irc (I see it being no different if we choose to try it again), and it fell apart... pretty damn quickly. The host was having troubles getting everyone to make picks quickly, and thus the players got frustrated and began to leave. The players have to be willing to stay on for 1-2 hours to get the picks made. Knowing Smogonites, this shouldn't be a problem, but it would be a better idea to allow only seasoned players to enter. Random members involved in the mix could cause the entire tourney to fall apart if backups aren't prepared.

btw, we didn't use PMs. They just announced the selections in the main chat, but we kept the BLs/UUs they used a secret as to not reveal anybody's entire team.
 
Hmm, that's interesting. I would say:

Set a time limit on the picks (in Magic you have roughly a minute to make a pick from a 15 card booster). With online stuff, I'd say a minute is too short to make a selection, since you're not physically there. If someone doesn't make a pick in the allotted time, they should be assigned a random Pokemon from the pack, and the draft should continue.

I do see your point, though (I'm not really disagreeing, just trying to find a possible solution to idle players).
 
yeah, they were given a two minute time limit, Yet the tourney was only 16 players. The problem was largely in part of the host not keeping track of the picks very well and everyone was arguing about everything. Yet another reason to have a tournament director host this if it ever happens.
 
I'd love to beat olie in this kind of tournament so long as it's on shoddy

Edit: and beat everyone else too but it won't be as sweet
 
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