Tournament LCPL XV - Manager Signups

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Little Cup Premier League XV
Hosted by ARTYMASION, reggg, and Murphy Lawden.
Hello, everyone! Welcome to the fifteenth iteration of Little Cup Premier League. This tournament will have 8 teams, each with their own manager and two assistant managers. Managers will do a SPL-style auction on Pokemon Showdown!, where they will take turns nominating and bidding in an auction for players who signed up to assemble their teams with limited credits available. The teams will then play one another for 7 weeks, with a new opponent each week. This will culminate with a Playoffs week consisting of the Top 4 teams overall from the 7-week main season. This puts the estimated end of the tournament in end-July to early-August, so make sure you can be active until then if you wish to participate!

The following tiers will make up the 10 slots for each team in :
  • SV LC
  • SV LC
  • SV LC
  • SV Doubles LC
  • SS LC
  • USUM LC
  • ORAS LC
  • BW LC
  • DPP LC
  • ADV LC

Other details
- Team managers may elect up to to 2 co-managers.
- Teams must have a minimum of 12 players (10 starters and 2 substitutes).
- Each team has a 120,000 credits budget.
- ONLY 2 Managers may self-purchase prior to the auction, with dynamic prices that will determined later.
- The winning team will receive a Custom Avatar!


We shall start by selecting the team managers, which have important responsibilities such as drafting a team, submitting weekly lineups, and making sure their players are prepared and scheduling games. As mentioned above, managers are recommended to have one or two co-managers; you may decide on them after you have signed up, or if you cannot find a co-manager before the auction begins, you may select one from from the pool of players you draft. The manager selection process is mostly subjective. The hosts alongside the rest of the moderation team will select the managers we feel are most strongly suited for the tournament. No joke signups or unrelated posts. Your post will be deleted if you do not meet these requirements. Only post in this thread if you are serious about managing, and do so in the following format:

HTML:
Manager name:
Assistant manager(s): (if there's any)
Team name:
Your accomplishments:
Why would you make a good manager?:

MANAGERS WILL BE SELECTED AROUND Sunday, May 17th, 2026, 11:59 PM -5 but may be chosen beforehand if we determine we have adequate signups. Good luck and have fun, everyone!
 
Manager Name: Winterbub
Assistant manager(s): Fantos13 vooper
Team Name: The Panchampions
Your accomplishments:
Fantos - Managed BWPL, GSCPL, Ubers Worlds 2020 & 2025, Multiple NPLs, and UMPL.
Vooper - Managed LCWC
Winterchud - Managed LCCL and have played in LCPL, LCWC, and various LC individuals and team tours.
Why would you make a good manager?:
I would make a good manager because of my experience in LCCL. I learned a lot about managing in this team tournament. I learned to be more confident and assertive in my ideas. I learned how to step up and fix issues my team was having. An example of this is one of our SV slots wasn’t being supported by players that I viewed as better than me (not their fault, they did not sign up to support). However I am bringing this up to say that I had to get over my fear of sending a bad team and lock in to make sure our SV slot had something solid for the matchup. After I took up this role they were able to turn their record around and go from 0-2 to 3-2. I would be very grateful for a chance to redeem myself as a manger with everything I have learned.

Fantos and Vooper are long time members of the Little Cup community and deserve a chance to manage LCPL as well.

Regardless of who gets picked, I’m very excited for this season and excited to see DLC included this year!


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Managers: Trawkan, HSBT and Eviolite Bisharp
Team: Bolivian Basculins/ La Matanza Mienfoos( yet to settle)
Accomplishment: I managed the best team ever in LC with the Brazilian scrubs ( if you dont know it ask the old heads) Balto and Pachi have experience in the streets of La Matanza Argentina. So yeah.
 
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Manager Name: Winterbub
Assistant manager(s): Fantos13 vooper
Team Name: The Panchampions
Your accomplishments:
Fantos - Managed BWPL, GSCPL, Ubers Worlds 2020 & 2025, Multiple NPLs, and UMPL.
Vooper - Managed LCWC
Winterchud - Managed LCCL and have played in LCPL, LCWC, and various LC individuals and team tours.
Why would you make a good manager?:
I would make a good manager because of my experience in LCCL. I learned a lot about managing in this team tournament. I learned to be more confident and assertive in my ideas. I learned how to step up and fix issues my team was having. An example of this is one of our SV slots wasn’t being supported by players that I viewed as better than me (not their fault, they did not sign up to support). However I am bringing this up to say that I had to get over my fear of sending a bad team and lock in to make sure our SV slot had something solid for the matchup. After I took up this role they were able to turn their record around and go from 0-2 to 3-2. I would be very grateful for a chance to redeem myself as a manger with everything I have learned.

Fantos and Vooper are long time members of the Little Cup community and deserve a chance to manage LCPL as well.

Regardless of who gets picked, I’m very excited for this season and excited to see DLC included this year!


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Confirming.

Also saying that I'll beat Fille in a drinking contest any day of the week
 
Manager Name: Red Haired Howkings
Assistant manager(s): kythr Zcarlett
Team Name: Swooping Rufflets
Your accomplishments: Recently broke the infamous Howkings curse with the power of friendship. Never missed playoffs on auction formats!
Why would you make a good manager?: A captain without his crew, is only a man. A captain with his crew, can turn the impossible into possible.

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Confirming!
 
Manager Name: Kingler
Assistant manager(s): Wesleyy RosebloomNixie
Team Name: Krusty Krabbys
Your accomplishments: In my past 5 seasons that I have managed LCPL I have made playoffs every single time. I have one of the highest winrates of all time on the LCPL sheet. I have managed a season of SPL and SCL and have also managed LCBC and LCWC (i won ekans as a manager in 2019 if that counts lol)

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Confirm, adding Kingler and I made playoffs last year together as managers and won the year before that as players so we got some pedigree in this tour.
 
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