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How this works
Tiebreaker
Substitutes
Trades
There are 8 teams this year. Each team will have have 6 players and at least 2 subs. The players are bought using the 80k credits that managers receive during the auction. Managers will be allowed to purchase themselves as players for their team at a fixed price of 16k but must assign one assistant manager from their drafted players. This may be done either during the auction or after it. Teams can win their matchup every week by winning 4 of the 6 matches that their players have to play.
The tier lineup this year is as follows:
- SS Almost Any Ability
- SS Balanced Hackmons
- SS Camomons
- SS Mix and Mega
- SS NFE
- SS STABmons
All games will be played on the Pokemon Showdown main server or SmogTours in the most current version of the format corresponding to those listed above. The result between players may be decided in a best-of-one or best-of-three at the discretion of both players involved. If there is no agreement, the result will decided in a Bo1 by default.
Winning a round rewards a team with 2 points, drawing 1 point, and losing zero points. In addition, the manner in which the round has been won will also be recorded i.e. the difference between a team's wins and losses in a specific week's round (referred to as "Win Differential").
Playoffs:
Each team will play one another for seven weeks. Based on the final standings, the top 4 teams will enter a Playoffs Round to determine the teams appearing in the finals.
Tiebreaker
In the event of two teams being tied for a spot in the finals based on points and win differential, or a tie in the final round itself, we will have a tiebreaker round(s).
Tiebreaker Rules: The most played meta from usage stats plus one metagame picked by each manager will give a best-of-three game between the tied teams, ultimately deciding who goes onto finals. The three games must be different formats, i.e. the remaining two games cannot be the same as the most played metagame, and must be from the list above. Since SS Balanced Hackmons is most likely to be chosen by usage, the decision to play Bo3 or Bo1 is still left upto the players' discretion and bo1 remains by default.
Substitutes
Substitutes are to be used in the case of "extenuating circumstances" which are unavoidable, whether on the first day of the week, or the last. Moreover, they should generally not be used with a tactical purpose of creating confusion in an opponent's team. At the same time, players should be relatively well-aware of who all are available to play in the opponent's camp. If last minute substitutes are being frequently used or abused and the hosts find explanations unsatisfactory, the hosts still reserve the right to veto them.
Trades
If teams wish to conduct a trade, both managers (or assistant managers if the manager is not present) MUST PM Ransei and SectoniaServant on the FORUMS to have the trade be official. No trades may occur after the conclusion of week 2. A traded player may only feature in the round after they have been traded.
Scheduling
Scheduling should be done on VM walls, plain and simple:
- If there is no communication on VM walls and a game goes undone, it will be left to the RNG to decide the winner
- If there is communication on only one user's behalf, the win will go to them. Feel free to call activity in this thread beforehand
- If there is a very healthy back and forth regarding potential times and one user is a no-show, a manager may take the opportunity to sub out the no-show competitor; if this is not done, the user that showed up responsibly will be awarded the win.
TL;DR: VM your opponents, schedule your matches, and be reliable. If you're not reliable, let your manager know so they can sub you out ASAP.
Use these VM's to initiate discussion about bo1 or bo3 as well!
Sportsmanship
Exhibitions of unsportsmanlike conduct with regards to Other Metagame Premier League will be met with an infraction at the discretion of the OMPL host/OM mods. This is unlikely to include interactions within a team's private chat unless there is reason found to make an exception. This rule is meant to protect other users from being publicly flamed/bashed/provoked by another competitor for the duration of and following the tournament.
All players must complete their matches by the given deadline. Any incomplete matches by that time will be subject to activity decision (MAKE SURE YOU POST ON YOUR OPPONENT'S VM WALL); otherwise, they will be decided via !pick publicly in the OM Room. All matches should ideally be done on your most notable alt (the one you registered for OMPL with) to avoid confusion and the replay must be saved and posted in this thread. The replays will be archived in a separate thread, and will be used to calculate usage stats.
Substitutions & Lineups
Managers, if you wish to make any substitutions, you must post here tagging both the player you're subbing out, the player you're subbing in, the manager and assistant manager of the opposing team, the substitute's opponent, and myself. This is to assure that everyone is in-the-loop and that the OP is updated accordingly to reflect the new match-up.
Managers, when you send in lineups, please send it in with the tier and Smogon username of each player fully written out for ease of transcription, in exactly the same order as laid out above. I will post instructions about sending the lineup for next week later this week.
Matchups
SS Balanced Hackmons: PinkDragonTamer vs MAMP
SS Mix and Mega: xavgb vs Andyboy
SS NFE: King Leo V vs Thimo
These matchups are fire fwiw.
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11:59 PM (UTC -4) on June 10th, 2020
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which explains Sabella bringing his w1 team (still a very good and cool team). Tony's team looks pretty straightforward - a quick defensive core, a stack of threats (bish/noivern/zolt), and a very likely magnet pull rotomh that isnt actually magnet pull. On Tony's side, scarf mixed zolt and rotomh look very threatening, while he has to work very hard to stop noivern from picking every time it comes in. Sabella plays very carefully toward the start while Tony makes double after double and his gameplan is very clear - get bish in on rachi and keep chipping kommoo till bish breaks. By turn 13, kommo-o is at 50. Sabella is panicking. There's blood in the water. The next turn Tony makes an absurd callout and knocks a predicted double to noivern. OM community goes crazy. The headlines are made. In all seriousness, though, at another glance, this is a very questionable play on sabella's end and a phenomenal one on tony's end. Tony's Bisharp is walled by mandi anyway, and if kommoo clicks anything but body press bisharp kills next turn, and either way, any chip sets up for a bolt beak sweep. On top of that, knock gets mandi's boots and also catches a potential noivern, which Tony has conditioned by now. Sab goes hard into his wincon and pays the price, and desolate land rotom-h, a cool tech by rozes, nicely cleans up the rest in the ending (ft the classic non-aaa player-losing-a-random-mon-to-triage moment). Was very impressive how Tony managed to not lose a single mon to specs vern despite having almost no counterplay.
). This game highlighter brings a lot of sets that make no fuckin sense like DD galv boomburst kommo-o and SD steel beam lucario. Think gets completely and absolutely fucked, first by the kommo-o, then by the luke (with some unironically great conditioning from highlighter). It appears that all of highlighter's mons are named after fruit (although im not too sure what fruit COCAINE is), which I can't fully understand but I'm also pea-brained. Think does have a cool team in concept though with corrosion mew + merciless spam, although I think this game showcases why corrosion is still a very limited ability - magic bounce just makes it unviable often times, as we saw with mbounce corvi here. Merciless chand is actually a really cool set too that I want to highlight - I think it ohkos ph prima and 2hkos unsuspecting lax so yeah very cool techs on both sides.
