Welcome to the tenth iteration of Showdown's biggest team tournament: Pokémon Showdown Premier League! PSPL X will see the various rooms from PS! duking it out in a team tournament with teams composed of ranked users from each room.
Tournament Format
The tournament will begin with a round-robin group stage. Each group contains four teams. The top two teams from each group in the group stage will move on to a single elimination, bracket-style tournament to decide the champion of PSPL! Any additional rules and explanations will be listed when Week 1 is posted.
If you're a little confused, here's a sample match with the finalised tiers (these tiers were decided by popularity as well as by voting from PS! room staff):
Who can play?
Each room must play eight players each week, all of which are the starting slots. Six of those slots must be room voices and up, while the other two slots do not have to be ranked users. However, if room auth want to play, they should get priority over room regulars. As for non-ranked users, each team is entitled to two globally ranked users (global voice and up), as well as two regular users (no global rank) for the entire tournament. This means that you can't field more than four different non-auths across all weeks (global ranked users that are also room auth count for the room auth number, not the global ranked users number).
We have a list of roomauth in each room, which is essentially the roster for the "must be a ranked user" slots. If you're using someone not on your /roomauth list as a ranked user, you as an owner will need to seek special permission for whatever reason it may be. Do not try and game the system, or you will be laughed at and punished for being unable to compete in a fun community tournament without cheating...
No one can play for multiple rooms. This also applies to managers. However, if you own a room you're not playing for, you may be an "involved Owner" in a different room so we can keep things running smoothly.
Lineup Submission / When does the tour start?
Managers must have their week one lineup submitted by April 24th and before the deadline of each subsequent week (11:59PM EST (GMT-4) of Sundays). We'll post matchups on the Monday of each week and you'll have one week to complete the matches. Week one starts April 25th.
Managers, when submitting your lineup please send a forum PM to me Teclis, Kalalokki, and Mitsuki. Within your PM, you should include:
Rinse and repeat throughout the later weeks (use that same forum PM as well -- it's much easier to keep up with exactly 32 convos throughout this tournament rather than 321 convos).
Please make sure to tag your players' Smogon accounts as well, especially if they are different from their username on PS!, as this will save us a lot of time when posting the weeks and tagging players.
e.g.
SS Random Battle: @SmogonName (PS! username)]
SS OU: @SmogonName (PS! username)] - non-auth
Prizes:
The winning team's players and managers will be entitled access to a team custom avatar of their choosing on Pokémon Showdown! for all to see! (actual avi subject to approval by Zarel) and will be pinned on top of the rooms' list.
What rooms are playing?
32 rooms have signed up for this tournament and the field is set! See below for the groups and Week 1 matchups.
You'll be playing the team directly above/beneath you in your group for Week 2, and the remaining team for Week 3. For example, in the Galar group, Japanese will play Français + Arcade Week 2, while Video Games will play Sports.
If I screwed up somewhere or if you have any questions you'd like to clarify, don't hesitate to hit me up on PS! or post in this thread. Good luck and have fun everyone!
Tournament Format
The tournament will begin with a round-robin group stage. Each group contains four teams. The top two teams from each group in the group stage will move on to a single elimination, bracket-style tournament to decide the champion of PSPL! Any additional rules and explanations will be listed when Week 1 is posted.
If you're a little confused, here's a sample match with the finalised tiers (these tiers were decided by popularity as well as by voting from PS! room staff):
Team A (5) vs. Team B (3)
SS Random Battle: Player 1 vs Player 2
SS OU: Player 3 vs Player 4
SS Ubers: Player 5 vs Player 6
SS UU: Player 7 vs Player 8
SS RU: Player 9 vs Player 10
SS LC: Player 11 vs Player 12
SS Monotype: Player 15 vs Player 16
SS 1v1: Player 17 vs Player 18
SS Random Battle: Player 1 vs Player 2
SS OU: Player 3 vs Player 4
SS Ubers: Player 5 vs Player 6
SS UU: Player 7 vs Player 8
SS RU: Player 9 vs Player 10
SS LC: Player 11 vs Player 12
SS Monotype: Player 15 vs Player 16
SS 1v1: Player 17 vs Player 18
Who can play?
Each room must play eight players each week, all of which are the starting slots. Six of those slots must be room voices and up, while the other two slots do not have to be ranked users. However, if room auth want to play, they should get priority over room regulars. As for non-ranked users, each team is entitled to two globally ranked users (global voice and up), as well as two regular users (no global rank) for the entire tournament. This means that you can't field more than four different non-auths across all weeks (global ranked users that are also room auth count for the room auth number, not the global ranked users number).
We have a list of roomauth in each room, which is essentially the roster for the "must be a ranked user" slots. If you're using someone not on your /roomauth list as a ranked user, you as an owner will need to seek special permission for whatever reason it may be. Do not try and game the system, or you will be laughed at and punished for being unable to compete in a fun community tournament without cheating...
No one can play for multiple rooms. This also applies to managers. However, if you own a room you're not playing for, you may be an "involved Owner" in a different room so we can keep things running smoothly.
Lineup Submission / When does the tour start?
Managers must have their week one lineup submitted by April 24th and before the deadline of each subsequent week (11:59PM EST (GMT-4) of Sundays). We'll post matchups on the Monday of each week and you'll have one week to complete the matches. Week one starts April 25th.
Managers, when submitting your lineup please send a forum PM to me Teclis, Kalalokki, and Mitsuki. Within your PM, you should include:
- Your room(s) name
- The list of players that will be playing that week, with an indication of which player is supposed to be slotted in which tier, as well as which are the non-auths (for verification, as we'll also be keeping a record of this and cross referencing each time).
SS Random Battle - SmogonUsername
SS OU - SmogonUsername
SS Ubers - SmogonUsername
SS UU - SmogonUsername
SS RU - SmogonUsername
SS LC - SmogonUsername
SS Monotype - SmogonUsername
SS 1v1 - SmogonUsername
SS OU - SmogonUsername
SS Ubers - SmogonUsername
SS UU - SmogonUsername
SS RU - SmogonUsername
SS LC - SmogonUsername
SS Monotype - SmogonUsername
SS 1v1 - SmogonUsername
Rinse and repeat throughout the later weeks (use that same forum PM as well -- it's much easier to keep up with exactly 32 convos throughout this tournament rather than 321 convos).
Please make sure to tag your players' Smogon accounts as well, especially if they are different from their username on PS!, as this will save us a lot of time when posting the weeks and tagging players.
e.g.
SS Random Battle: @SmogonName (PS! username)]
SS OU: @SmogonName (PS! username)] - non-auth
Prizes:
The winning team's players and managers will be entitled access to a team custom avatar of their choosing on Pokémon Showdown! for all to see! (actual avi subject to approval by Zarel) and will be pinned on top of the rooms' list.
What rooms are playing?
32 rooms have signed up for this tournament and the field is set! See below for the groups and Week 1 matchups.
Kanto Group
RarelyUsed (EviGaro Feliburn) vs. Español + Eventos (KingSwordYT Elian)
Nederlands (kingbaruk Kipkluif) vs. Trainer Academy (ErPeris Waves)
Johto Group
Random Battles (RSB sharpclaw) vs. Anything Goes (cromagnet Seldanna)
UnderUsed (Estarossa Juno) vs. Board Games (PartMan Clefable)
Hoenn Group
OverUsed (pastagirl Archer Kirby) vs. The Happy Place + TV & Films (Alore Goro Yagami)
Little Cup (Coconut Corporal Levi) vs. Other Metagames + National Dex (in the hills Kaede)
Sinnoh Group
Arts & Culture + The Studio (tiki za) vs. Ruins of Alph (susciety Links)
Monotype (Bondie Attribute) vs. Trivia (Notater chunko)
Unova Group
Hindi (Arsenal Crow Music) vs. ZeroUsed (Tuthur Toto)
Deutsche (Emre Mor 9 SacredKunoCV) vs. Game Corner + Scavengers (Monkey aQrator)
Kalos Group
Ubers (keys Fc) vs. Italiano + BDSP Metagames (Pissog Lalaya -Howkings)
Tournaments (trace Daki) vs. PU (chlo Vulpix03)
Alola Group
Português (Repu Natan) vs. 1v1 + CAP Project (smely socks Tadasuke Boat)
Wi-Fi (Swiffix Nol) vs. Anime and Manga (Peary Gota Love Yaoi)
Galar Group
Japanese (udongirl twincell) vs. Video Games (Bidoof Princess inactive)
Français + Arcade (ironwater Clementine) vs. Sports (Jayi Kennedy)
Johto Group
Hoenn Group
Sinnoh Group
Unova Group
Kalos Group
Alola Group
Galar Group
You'll be playing the team directly above/beneath you in your group for Week 2, and the remaining team for Week 3. For example, in the Galar group, Japanese will play Français + Arcade Week 2, while Video Games will play Sports.
If I screwed up somewhere or if you have any questions you'd like to clarify, don't hesitate to hit me up on PS! or post in this thread. Good luck and have fun everyone!
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