shiloh
Tiering Lead
Hi its that time of the year, with NUPL right around the corner I want to bring up discussion on the format for this edition.
Currently the tiers I see as locked in are as follows:
Now the question is, how do we fill this out, and there are a few ways to go about it.
The way we did it last year was with a Bo3 slot, and it is my preference to do this once again as it has been a large part of NUPLs in the past, and is a great way to highlight the 3 most recent generations with some strong players. This would leave us at 8 slots, but I think there is also a fair discussion on bringing NUPL back up to 10 slots for this season.
If we do increase to 10 slots, the easy inclusions are a Bo3 and another SS NU, bringing the total number of slots up to 9. This last slot therefore could be either another SM NU or bringing back GSC NU. While there was not a lot of positive feedback from the last time GSC NU was included in the tour, since then there have been multiple tiering decisions made around it (spearheaded by Earthworm), as well as its inclusion in GSCPL where it had a very solid playerbase that highlighted the tier well.
Basically this thread is to get the communities viewpoint on a couple of things: First, should we stay at 8 slots, and if so should we fill that last slot with another SS or keep Bo3 in. Second, should we increase from 8 to 10, and how should we fill those last few slots.
Currently the tiers I see as locked in are as follows:
Code:
SS NU
SS NU
SM NU
ORAS NU
BW NU
DPP NU
ADV NU
The way we did it last year was with a Bo3 slot, and it is my preference to do this once again as it has been a large part of NUPLs in the past, and is a great way to highlight the 3 most recent generations with some strong players. This would leave us at 8 slots, but I think there is also a fair discussion on bringing NUPL back up to 10 slots for this season.
If we do increase to 10 slots, the easy inclusions are a Bo3 and another SS NU, bringing the total number of slots up to 9. This last slot therefore could be either another SM NU or bringing back GSC NU. While there was not a lot of positive feedback from the last time GSC NU was included in the tour, since then there have been multiple tiering decisions made around it (spearheaded by Earthworm), as well as its inclusion in GSCPL where it had a very solid playerbase that highlighted the tier well.
Basically this thread is to get the communities viewpoint on a couple of things: First, should we stay at 8 slots, and if so should we fill that last slot with another SS or keep Bo3 in. Second, should we increase from 8 to 10, and how should we fill those last few slots.