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Tournament NDWC VI - Format Discussion

SS TL here to say that we no longer need 2 SS slots in this tour. SS has good representation across SSNDPL, NDPL, and a soon to be announced SS Grand Slam, in addition to all the circuit tours.

I’m in favor of bringing it down to one or completely dropping it from consideration. Don’t care what it ends up being between the two but the inclusion of other tiers in the current gen is a far greater priority.
 
Probably not taking part in this wc unless midwest is dire for signups, but here to echo jscurf's post a bit. Draft in NDCL was a great success, seeing record number of signups for a ND team tour. The draft community is consistently showing up for tours that it is included in, and if draft is included you can expect to see a lot of signups from both the nd mainer community and outside nd for it. Pretty against having a 7 week long wc, as hex mentioned this is super taxing on the managers when wc is typically a lot of pilots and nonmainers starting compared to stuff like PL and CL. Pools format could be an option, similar to doubles wc.

Format wise, I would suggest something like this:
SV OU x3
SS OU
SV Ubers
SV DOU
SV Draft
SV Mono/SV OU 4

Most regions struggle to field a mono slot, so this could be cut in favor of SV OU x4, but I think keeping the same format with Draft > SS OU 2 and SV Ubers > SV OU 4 is an upgrade to the current format and plays on the strength of some of the regions that may be more stretched for OU mainers.

On Midwest + West merger I don't think format discussion is the place to decide this and it should be left to the hosts after signup period is underway. I personally don't think midwest will have enough signups to form a team, but ya never know ig.

On Africa same as above, I think waiting for signups is best but you can survey the players it affects to see what their preferences are for a potential merger, not a fan of just springing them onto a random team without their input.
 
I’ve heard a lot of people saying they enjoyed learning and playing the UU/RU tiers, and I believe that most regions would have a much easier time finding people for these tiers than 2 SSOU or Mono.

The format could drop these to leave room for combinations like [UU+RU], [UU + Draft], or [Ubers + Bo3]. I don’t believe it would be the consensus, but Bo3 could replace an SV OU slot since it includes OU already. It’s a lot to prep for, but it’s a fun slot that many people including myself find refreshing to watch and play.

Regardless, the inclusion of additional metagames allows for more variety and better representation of the LT community as well as the NatDex community as a whole rather than just finding the best clickers from your region.
 
So After some thoughts, I came to a conclusion. Just as NDCL, I would appreciate that there were 10 slots. The other question is WHICH tiers are gonna be in that slot?

Here‘s my answer for that answer:

1) SV NDUbers
2) SV NDOU
3) SV NDOU
4) SV NDOU
5) SV NDUU
6) SV NDRU
7) SV NDBo3 (NDOU, NDUU, NDRU)
8) SV NDMonotype
9) SV NDDOU
10) SV NDDraft

This distribution make the tournament more variable for players and that becomes more fun and challenging at the same time.

SS TL here to say that we no longer need 2 SS slots in this tour. SS has good representation across SSNDPL, NDPL, and a soon to be announced SS Grand Slam, in addition to all the circuit tours.

I’m in favor of bringing it down to one or completely dropping it from consideration. Don’t care what it ends up being between the two but the inclusion of other tiers in the current gen is a far greater priority.
I agree with Boomerheimer! While I see why people want to have SwSh NDOU, that Tier has already many tournaments which is more focused on, just like Boomerheimer listed. Therefore it’s be more fun to have tiers (playstyles) for this generation‘s National Dex.

BUT in case SwSh NDOU WERE do be favoured, I‘d go like this:

1) SV NDUbers
2) SV NDOU
3) SV NDOU
4) SS NDOU
5) SV NDUU
6) SV NDRU
7) SV NDBo3 (NDOU, NDUU, NDRU)
8) SV NDMonotype
9) SV NDDOU
10) SV NDDraft

And just like that, I added SS NDOU while keeping the big variety of the pool (at the cost of one SV NDOU slot).

So here‘s my opinion on the slots. I can‘t wait to be Part of this tornament for the first time!
 
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