Welcome to the eighth iteration of Showdown's biggest team tournament: Pokemon Showdown Premier League! PSPL VIII will see the various rooms from PS! duking it out in a team tournament with teams composed of ranked users from each room. 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; the sample is not representative of any actual lineup):
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.
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 May 10th 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 May 11th.
Managers, when submitting your lineup please send a forum PM to me (nui), Kalalokki, and Teclis. 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 it's different from their username on PS!, as this will save us a lot of time when posting the weeks and tagging players.
e.g.
SM Ubers: @SmogonName (PS! username)]
SM 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 Pokemon Showdown! for all to see! (actual avi subject to approval by Zarel) and will be pinned on top of the room lists.
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 Team Matchups.
You'll be playing the team directly above/beneath you in your group for week 2, and the remaining team for week 3. e.g. Ubers will play Scavengers+Survivor week 2, while ZU plays Espanol.
If I screwed up somewhere or if you have any questions you'd like to clarify, hit me up on PS! or post in this thread. Good luck, and have fun!
Team A (5) vs. Team B (3)
SM Random Battle: Player 1 vs Player 2
SM OU: Player 3 vs Player 4
SM UU: Player 5 vs Player 6
SM RU: Player 7 vs Player 8
SM NU: Player 9 vs Player 10
SM LC: Player 11 vs Player 12
SM Ubers: Player 13 vs Player 14
SM Monotype: Player 15 vs Player 16
SM Random Battle: Player 1 vs Player 2
SM OU: Player 3 vs Player 4
SM UU: Player 5 vs Player 6
SM RU: Player 7 vs Player 8
SM NU: Player 9 vs Player 10
SM LC: Player 11 vs Player 12
SM Ubers: Player 13 vs Player 14
SM Monotype: Player 15 vs Player 16
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.
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 May 10th 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 May 11th.
Managers, when submitting your lineup please send a forum PM to me (nui), Kalalokki, and Teclis. Within your PM, you should include
- Your room 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 Ubers
SS OU
SS UU
SS RU
SS NU
SS Monotype
SS Random Battle
SS 1v1
SS OU
SS UU
SS RU
SS NU
SS Monotype
SS Random Battle
SS 1v1
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 it's different from their username on PS!, as this will save us a lot of time when posting the weeks and tagging players.
e.g.
SM Ubers: @SmogonName (PS! username)]
SM 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 Pokemon Showdown! for all to see! (actual avi subject to approval by Zarel) and will be pinned on top of the room lists.
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 Team Matchups.
Kanto Group
Ubers (dream Pohjis SparksBlade) vs. ZeroUsed (5gen DurzaOffTopic)
Scavengers+Survivor (Meicoo Zyg) vs. Espanol (KingSwordYT Caspell)
Johto Group
Cap+OMs+Natl Dex (Jho Ransei) vs. Portugues (woolf Justrandomnick)
Sports (Arsenal biggie) vs. Nederlands (Kipkluif kingbaruk)
Hoeen Group
PU (Megazard Akir 2xTheTap) vs. Mafia (Sir Mister Schiavetto)
Lobby (fart grimAuxiliatrix) vs. UnderUsed (Accelgor Juuno)
Sinnoh Group
Little Cup (Coconut Serene Grace) vs. NFE (vooper SBPC)
Help+Scholastic (Robyn GMars SteelEdges) vs. Monotype (Decem Perish Song)
Unova Group
Tournaments (Roseybear GXS) vs. Game Corner (Elgino10 ptoad)
Anything Goes (Pigeons pichus) vs. Italiano (Aethernum Alpha)
Kalos Group
Hindi (Aelita PrAiSe GrOuDoNiSm) vs. Deutsche (Tobste Emre Mor 9)
Ruins of Alph (FriendOfMrGolem120 kjdaas) vs. Anime and Manga (Peary Segmr)
Alola Group
Trivia (Seraphus Garrett16) vs. 1v1 (Rosa Boat (phiwings99))
Francais (Lionyx Dragonillis) vs. Video Games+Pokemon Games (Gweebis inactive)
Galar Group
The Studio+The Happy Place (Brandon Pirate Princess) vs. Random Battles (sagar0027 Rach)
Chinese (bobochan neycwang) vs. NeverUsed (Eternally Finchinator)
Ubers (dream Pohjis SparksBlade) vs. ZeroUsed (5gen DurzaOffTopic)
Scavengers+Survivor (Meicoo Zyg) vs. Espanol (KingSwordYT Caspell)
Johto Group
Cap+OMs+Natl Dex (Jho Ransei) vs. Portugues (woolf Justrandomnick)
Sports (Arsenal biggie) vs. Nederlands (Kipkluif kingbaruk)
Hoeen Group
PU (Megazard Akir 2xTheTap) vs. Mafia (Sir Mister Schiavetto)
Lobby (fart grimAuxiliatrix) vs. UnderUsed (Accelgor Juuno)
Sinnoh Group
Little Cup (Coconut Serene Grace) vs. NFE (vooper SBPC)
Help+Scholastic (Robyn GMars SteelEdges) vs. Monotype (Decem Perish Song)
Unova Group
Tournaments (Roseybear GXS) vs. Game Corner (Elgino10 ptoad)
Anything Goes (Pigeons pichus) vs. Italiano (Aethernum Alpha)
Kalos Group
Hindi (Aelita PrAiSe GrOuDoNiSm) vs. Deutsche (Tobste Emre Mor 9)
Ruins of Alph (FriendOfMrGolem120 kjdaas) vs. Anime and Manga (Peary Segmr)
Alola Group
Trivia (Seraphus Garrett16) vs. 1v1 (Rosa Boat (phiwings99))
Francais (Lionyx Dragonillis) vs. Video Games+Pokemon Games (Gweebis inactive)
Galar Group
The Studio+The Happy Place (Brandon Pirate Princess) vs. Random Battles (sagar0027 Rach)
Chinese (bobochan neycwang) vs. NeverUsed (Eternally Finchinator)
You'll be playing the team directly above/beneath you in your group for week 2, and the remaining team for week 3. e.g. Ubers will play Scavengers+Survivor week 2, while ZU plays Espanol.
If I screwed up somewhere or if you have any questions you'd like to clarify, hit me up on PS! or post in this thread. Good luck, and have fun!
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