Tournament NDPL I - Information and Administrative Decisions

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Official decisions regarding National Dex Premier League I will be posted here as they happen. The schedule and draft results will also be posted here. If you're participating in this tournament, you should watch this thread to keep yourself updated.

Good luck to everyone!

The teams and managers are as follows:
Sevelon and the Chicago Krookodile
SputnikGT and the Stalwart Skarmories
Ainzcrad and the Slateport Absols
velvet and the Freedom Farfetch'd
Jho and the Pogging Pexes
Micaiah and The Pleasednuts

The following is the format for NDPL I:

• National Dex OU
• National Dex OU
• National Dex OU
• National Dex UU
• National Dex UU
• National Dex AG
• Best-of-3 National Dex OU/UU/AG (Game 1 is OU, loser picks G2)

Spreadsheet (coming soon)

 

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Re: Draft

• Every team will start with 100,000 credits.
• Every team is required to buy 9 players at minimum (all starting slots + at least 2 sub slots).
• Managers will cost 15,000 credits.
• The draft will start roughly around 4:30 PM UTC-4 (8:30 PM UTC+0, 10:30 PM UTC+2) on Sunday, September 13th.

If you would like to start running mock drafts, feel free to join the NDPL room and either PM an online RO or PM any of the forum mods (listed at the top of the forum or in /roomauth).

 

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Heres the schedule for NDPL I:

Week 1
Stalwart Skarmories vs Slateport Absols
Freedom Farfetch'd vs The Pleasednuts
Pogging Pexes vs Chicago Krookodile

Week 2
Stalwart Skarmories vs Chicago Krookodile
The Pleasednuts vs Pogging Pexes
Slateport Absols vs Freedom Farfetch'd

Week 3
Stalwart Skarmories vs Freedom Farfetch'd
Pogging Pexes vs Slateport Absols
Chicago Crookodile vs The Pleasednuts

Week 4
Stalwart Skarmories vs Pogging Pexes
Chicago Krookodile vs Freedom Farfetch'd
The Pleasednuts vs Slateport Absols

Week 5
Stalwart Skarmories vs The Pleasednuts
Slateport Absols vs Chicago Krookodile
Freedom Farfetch'd vs Pogging Pexes

(#indicates where the team finished the regular season in the standings) barring any tiebreakers, playoffs will look like this:
Week 6
#2 vs #3

Week 7
(Winner of #2 vs #3) vs #1

Manager tags

Micaiah
Sevelon
velvet
SputnikGT
Ainzcrad
Jho

 

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All week 1 lineups will be due by Monday, September 14 at 11:59 AM UTC-4.

 

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Here are your rosters for NDPL I:

Freedom Farfetch'd (velvet, PinkDragonTamer):
Finchinator, devin, 52Gambit, PinkDragonTamer, Skysolo, Colonel M, Monsareeasy, perfect minun, Splash, Skoun, maroon, GreenGogoatttt, 64 Squares, m00la

Slateport Absols (Ainzcrad, Shadowmonstr7):
Chazm, BaconEatinAssassin, Niadev, Vaboh, arifgoku, Trade, Nevelle, RaJ.Shoot, Roginald, Shadowmonstr7, TacticalFacepalms

Chicago Krookodile (Sevelon, !!11!1!!):
Sevelon, Maki, Sabella, !!11!1!!, martha, Unicorns, Djokra, Avaritia GC, Yami, Kaitlyn, Aurodian, Airwind, Stareal, DerpyBoi, NuttyRabbit

The Pleasednuts (Micaiah, Averardo):
Micaiah, DNNP, Fardin, PA, LuckOverSkill, Niko, Geysers, zugubu royale, umbreon098, Averardo, H.M.N.I.P, Renny

Stalwart Skarmories (SputnikGT, N_Mareanie):
SputnikGT, faded love, HoodedZack, N_Mareanie, trace, temp, Solaros & Lunaris, Bread Sandwich, Maple, EviGaro, Sagisolar, pileosand, Ho3nConfirm3d

Pogging Pexes (Jho, Jordy):
Chloe, xavgb, Zneon, Jordy, Lilburr, Drud, Ruft, SHSP, WSun1, Saladae, I Eat Snoms, ShionShadows

These rosters are slightly different from what was on the draft because:

• The Pleasednuts have traded maroon for umbreon098 from Freedom Farfetch'd.
• The Pleasednuts have traded 64 Squares for Niko from Freedom Farfetch'd.
• Pogging Pexes have traded trace and Ho3nConfirm3d for Ruft from Stalwart Skarmories.

Here is the pricelist:

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PinkDragonTamer	19500
BaconEatinAssassin	16000
Chazm	15500
Averardo	13000
xavgb	13000
Lilburr	13000
RaJ.Shoot	12500
Jordy	12500
Fardin	12000
Stareal	12000
Finchinator	12000
Skysolo	12000
!!11!1!!	11500
Chloe	11000
Ruft	10500
Bread Sandwich	10500
martha	10000
faded love	10000
N_Mareanie	10000
Vaboh	10000
Geysers	9500
EviGaro	9500
52Gambit	9500
WSun1	9500
DNNP	9000
64 Squares	9000
Djokra	9000
temp	9000
Nevelle	9000
LuckOverSkill	8500
Sabella	8500
devin	8500
Zneon	8500
HoodedZack	8000
Splash	8000
Solaros & Lunaris	7500
Niadev	7500
trace	7500
H.M.N.I.P	7000
Roginald	7000
Drud	7000
Renny	6000
Maki	6000
Trade	6000
GreenGogoatttt	5500
Avaritia GC	5000
perfect minun	5000
Shadowmonstr7	5000
TacticalFacepalms	5000
PA	4500
Aurodian	4500
Skoun	4500
arifgoku	4500
Colonel M	4000
Ho3nConfirm3d	4000
Saladae	4000
Airwind	3500
zugubu royale	3000
maroon	3000
Unicorns	3000
Yami	3000
Kaitlyn	3000
DerpyBoi	3000
NuttyRabbit	3000
Maple	3000
Sagisolar	3000
pileosand	3000
Monsareeasy	3000
umbreon098	3000
Niko	3000
m00la	3000
SHSP	3000
I Eat Snoms	3000
ShionShadows	3000

 

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Slateport Absols have traded Splash for Trade from Freedom Farfetch'd.

 

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RE: Slowbro-Galar @ Slowbronite

It was recently made publicly known that Slowbro-Galar is able to mega evolve when holding Slowbronite. While it's still being discussed whether or not this should be allowed as a mechanic, there is currently no consensus. As a result, Slowbro-Galar @ Slowbronite is perfectly legal in UU, OU, and AG.

 

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RE: October shifts

The October tier shifts will not go into effect until the start of next week. Luckily, the only Pokemon that changed tier was Skarmory, so this should be easy to avoid. :]

 

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RE: faded love vs PinkDragonTamer

faded love and PinkDragonTamer agreed to a dead game because the Freedom Farfetch'd had already won the week.

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RE: SHSP vs Vaboh

SHSP and Vaboh also mutually agreed to a dead game because the Pogging Pexs had already won the week.

 

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RE: Crowned Tundra DLC

We had originally made the tiers an odd number on purpose to remove tiebreakers to fast-track this tournament to end before DLC2. However, DLC2 will be coming out before this tournament ends still. As a result, all formats will be locked to their pre-DLC2 variants, even after the second DLC is released. This also means no post-DLC2 moves will be legal, such as Scald Raikou, Close Combat Tapu Koko, etc. as well.

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RE: Diggersby, Gyarados, Gyaradosite, Venusaurite, and Xurkitree

Diggersby, Gyarados, Gyaradosite, Venusaurite, and Xurkitree's bans will apply to National Dex UU for Week 4 and beyond of this tournament.

 

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RE: Pogging Pexs

They have finally renamed to Pogging Pexes. Thank god.

 

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RE: Dracovish

Dracovish was banned from National Dex last week. Therefore, it will only be usable in National Dex AG games.

 

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RE: DNNP vs Roginald

DNNP and Roginald mutually agreed to a dead game because The Pleasednuts had already won the week.

 

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RE: Aurodian vs Splash and Djokra vs Splash

Aurodian and Splash had originally scheduled to play October 10th at 10 PM (GMT-4), but Splash missed the scheduled time. As a result, the Chicago Krookodile subbed Djokra in for Aurodian in hopes of getting the game done last-minute. When Djokra tried contacting Splash to play their game, Splash did not respond. As a result, Djokra is granted the activity win against Splash.