Tournament NDWC III - Administrative Decisions

[Irpachuza]

Hosted by Irpachuza, ken, and TheSorcer3r

This thread will contain the administrative decisions made for NDWC III. If you're participating in the tournament then it's recommended that you keep yourself updated on this thread.

Relevant threads:
Player Signups
Manager Signups

General tournament rules can be found here if you don't know them.

Please contact a host for any situation or queries.

 

[Irpachuza]

In consultation with Forum Mods, taking on account number and investment of current signups, and with the intention of expanding the involvement of the general community on ND, it has been decided that for the first time, NDWC will host 12 teams. These will consist of the following countries/regions:

Asia + Oceania
Brazil
China
France
Europe
India
Latin America & Caribbean
Spain
UK
USA Northeast + Canada
USA Midwest + USA West
USA South

The current regions may still be altered due to inadequate signups; if you have any questions or concerns regarding this, feel free to PM us and we will address them.

 

[Irpachuza]

The 12 manager pairs of NDWC III will be:

Asia + Oceania - vstra and anique
Brazil - KeldeoCrowned and Mateeus
China - AL and hi.naming is hard
France - Ryuji and Clementine
Europe - AtraX Madara and Mihowk
India - Piyush25 and Dj Breloominati♬
Latin America - One Last Kiss and Athena's Myth
Spain - Dorron and Mandibuladel5555
UK - Milo and Jho
USA Northeast + Canada - Isza and Spellcaster
USA Midwest + USA West - sasha and avarice
USA South - Sulo and style.css

Furthemore, the hosting team has decided that France needs to appoint a co-captain in case the captain is unreachable on a situation where time is tight.

Managers will have until player signups close to send their rosters: April 23rd @ 11:59pm GMT-4.

 

[ken]

The format for NDWC III will consist of 2 randomly shuffled pools of 6 teams each. From each pool, the 2 teams with the most points at the end of the regular season will advance to playoffs with the lower seed from each playing the higher seed from the opposite in the semifinals. The pools, teams comprising them, and schedules are as follows:

Scarlet Pool

China
France
India
Latin America
USA Northeast + Canada
USA South

Season Schedule

Week One
USA Northeast + Canada vs India
China vs Latin America
France vs USA South

Week Two
USA Northeast + Canada vs China
France vs India
Latin America vs USA South

Week Three
USA Northeast + Canada vs France
China vs USA South
India vs Latin America

Week Four
USA Northeast + Canada vs USA South
China va India
France vs Latin America

Week Five
USA Northeast + Canada vs Latin America
China vs France
India vs USA South

Violet Pool

Asia + Oceania
Brazil
Europe
Spain
UK
USA Midwest + USA West

Season Schedule

Week One
Asia + Oceania vs Spain
Brazil vs UK
Europe vs USA Midwest + USA West

Week Two
Asia + Oceania vs Brazil
Europe vs Spain
UK vs USA Midwest + USA West

Week Three
Asia + Oceania vs Europe
Brazil vs USA Midwest + USA West
UK vs Spain

Week Four
Asia + Oceania vs USA Midwest + USA West
Brazil vs Spain
Europe vs UK

Week Five
Asia + Oceania vs UK
Brazil vs Europe
Spain vs USA Midwest + USA West

 

[ken]

Due to the PS outage, the deadline for Week 2 games has been pushed back to May 14th @ 11:59pm GMT-4.

 

[ken]

Blaziken, Espathra, and Kingambit have been banned from National Dex Monotype, making them illegal to use starting in Week 3.

 

[ken]

Re: a2ul

a2ul was tournament banned for reasons unrelated to NDWC III and Latin America has been allowed to choose a replacement. One Last Kiss will sub themself onto the roster.

 

[Irpachuza]

Re: skimmythegod vs Ikaishi

Ikaishi suggested a time, which skimmy agreed to. Skimmy wrote on Ikaishi's profile 10 minutes before the accorded time, but Ikaishi did not appear. 36 minutes later, the Team Latam managers were pinged, but they also failed to respond for about an hour to provide a sub. While there were some allegations about confusing timezones, those are beyond a reasonable excuse for missing a scheduled team tour match. Team India gets the activity win.

Re: SOMALIA vs Sheik :
As it won't change the outcome of the week, the managers agreed on deadgaming. Dead game.

 

[Irpachuza]

Re: Home compatibility.

Since Home compatibility is being estimated to happen on May 30th per official Pokemon sources, the hosting team has discussed with tier leaders and a head TD, and are taking on account that:
- This will effectively free Hisui exclusive Pokemon and formes on SV ND.
- This will free only very few movepool additions.
- This will happen once Week 5, the last week of regular season, has started already.
- Tier leaders don't believe that any of these metagame changes will require extreme tiering action like quickbans.
- We have already got a week of delay because of PS outage a few weeks ago.
- TDs suggest playing on current metagames if these aren't extremely chaotic due to massive changes.
- TDs suggests not delaying week's start to wait for midweek metagame changes.

With all this in mind, the hosting team has ruled that Week 5 of SV ND formats will be played on a pre-home metagame, while playoffs will be played on the Home metagame if it's effectively implemented on PS during this upcoming week.

 

[ken]

Re: SeraphZ vs Docutel Irene-2002

The game was scheduled for 7pm GMT+2, at which Spain became aware their own player was not online. 11 minutes after the scheduled time, Docutel was subbed in for Irene-2002 and the Spanish managers asked for Brazil for a substitute when seeing Seraphz was not online. Because a substitute was not provided within 30 minutes, Spain is granted an activity win for this matchup.

Re: Thiago Nunes vs Dasmer03

While it appears the game may have been played from VMs between the players, no replay or win post was made, and managers for Brazil and Spain did not reply when asked about the outcome. As the game does not change the outcome of the week due to the above activity win, the match has been ruled a dead game.

Re: baconeatinassassin vs FatFighter2

Both managers agreed to dead game.

 

[ken]

Re: Week 5 activity calls

SV: Beraldo vs entrocefalo
Brazil yielded the win to entrocefalo for this match.

SV: siras vs Aera
Siras missed the scheduled time, admitted as such, and despite no notification attempts being made to Brazil's managers at the time, no response was given when I contacted them after the activity call was posted. The activity win is awarded to Aera.

Monotype: Raceding vs Cherbou
Cherbou missed the scheduled time and responded more than 1 hour later admitting such. Despite no notification to the opposing managers, they did not refute the call after it had been posted in the week's thread. Thus, the activity win is awarded to Raceding.

Re: Week 5 dead games

The following games were not played and neither side called for an activity win, and as they do not affect the outcome of the week, they have been ruled dead games.

SV: DugZa vs Jho
SV: vstra vs SwordIsBored
SV: KeldeoCrowned vs Lily
SS: kaifengyyds vs Clementine
SS: adem vs Milo
SS: mateospulario vs Stareal
Ubers: Ampha vs Guard

Re: Ursaluna ban

Ursaluna has been banned from Gen 9 NatDex OU and therefore will only be usable in National Dex Ubers and National Dex Monotype slots moving forward.