Welcome to the fourteenth iteration of Showdown's biggest team tournament: Pokémon Showdown Premier League!!
PSPL XIV will see 29 rooms from PS! duking it out in a team tournament with teams composed of ranked users from each room.
What’s New This Year?
This year, we’ve decided to create a Discord server to communicate more easily with managers and players. It is mandatory for managers and will be used as a hub for questions and lineup submissions. Having your players join the Discord is strongly recommended.
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 XIV! 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 finalized tiers (these tiers were decided by popularity as well as by voting from PS! room staff):
Team A (5) vs. Team B (3)
SV Random Battle: Player 1 vs Player 2
SV OU: Player 3 vs Player 4
SV Ubers: Player 5 vs Player 6
SV UU: Player 7 vs Player 8
SV RU: Player 9 vs Player 10
SV LC: Player 11 vs Player 12
SV Monotype: Player 15 vs Player 16
SV Doubles OU: Player 17 vs Player 18
SV Random Battle: Player 1 vs Player 2
SV OU: Player 3 vs Player 4
SV Ubers: Player 5 vs Player 6
SV UU: Player 7 vs Player 8
SV RU: Player 9 vs Player 10
SV LC: Player 11 vs Player 12
SV Monotype: Player 15 vs Player 16
SV Doubles OU: Player 17 vs Player 18
Who can play?
Each room must put forward eight players each week, all of which will constitute 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 Sunday, May 17 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 18th.
Managers, when submitting your lineup, please send it on Discord PSPL Server. Within your message, you should include:
- 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).
SV Random Battle - SmogonUsername
SV OU - SmogonUsername
SV Ubers - SmogonUsername
SV UU - SmogonUsername
SV RU - SmogonUsername
SV LC - SmogonUsername
SV Monotype - SmogonUsername
SV Doubles OU - SmogonUsername
SV OU - SmogonUsername
SV Ubers - SmogonUsername
SV UU - SmogonUsername
SV RU - SmogonUsername
SV LC - SmogonUsername
SV Monotype - SmogonUsername
SV Doubles OU - SmogonUsername
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! (subject to the usual vetting process) and will be pinned on top of the rooms' list.
What rooms are playing?
29 rooms have signed up for this tournament and the field is set! See below for the groups and Week 1 matchups.
UnderUsed (sky , Estarossa ) VS Português (Grillo , Mattz_ ) 
Mafia (Snaquaza , Alexander489 ) VS Anything Goes (Rose , RL ) 
Monotype (style.css , boomp ) VS Battle Stadium + The Studio (DerpySuX , calmvibes ) 
Anime and Manga (Mistrals , malahuju ) VS Scavengers + Game Corner + Help (aQrator , WarriorGallade , DrThop ) 
Deutsche (Sacred , Siegfried ) VS Français + Arcade (Lyna , Clem ) 
Draft (Thomas18 , ComputerWhiz ) VS Random Battles (IcyPenguin2 , Fragments ) 
Survivor + Videogames (inactive , epicsnorlax ) VS OverUsed (pastagirl , Fusien ) 
Board Games + Battle Dome (Magic Mayhem Maiden , PartMan ) VS Tournaments (trace , Frixel ) 
Trivia (Notater , yeet dab xd ) VS ZeroUsed (sleid , diegoyuhhi ) 
National Dex OU (ElectraineHeart , sealoo ) VS Unofficial Metagames (a fairy , Celeste ) 
Ruins of Alph + PU (Tbolt , leoperi ) VS Chinese (neycwang , hi.naming is hard ) 
Italiano + Little Cup (Howkings , tazz , Mada ) 
CAP + Ubers (spoo , Lasen ) VS Wi-Fi (Malasada, Gardevoir-Gallade ) 
Hindi (Arsenal , sundays )
Trick House (Nonexistent_0 , yestrday ) VS Pet Mods (woo , pecha nerd ) 
Español + Eventos (TheJesucristoOsAma , Elian ) Trivia will play National Dex OU in Week 2, while ZeroUsed will play Unofficial Metagames.
For the three groups of 3 rooms (the work around we'll use for the 29 team signups), you will alternate and play each other, and one team will have a bye. I'll tell you what to play each week to make it easy and avoid confusion:
Marsh Group:
Week 1: Ruins of Alph + PU vs Chinese
Week 2: Italiano + Little Cup vs Ruins of Alph + PU
Week 3: Italiano vs Chinese
Volcano Group:
Week 1: CAP + Ubers vs Wi-Fi
Week 2: Hindi vs CAP + Ubers
Week 3: Hindi vs Wi-Fi
Earth Group:
Week 1: Trick House vs Pet Mods
Week 2: Español + Eventos vs Trick House
Week 3: Español + Eventos vs Pet Mods
If I screwed up somewhere or if you have any questions you'd like to clarify, don't hesitate to contact a host on Discord or Smogon. Good luck and have fun everyone!
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