Announcement PU Classic VIII - Commencement Thread

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Hello and welcome to the eighth edition of PU's annual classic tournament. This tournament will celebrate PU's interesting history through the generations, culminating in a finals where players must play all generations to have a chance to write their names in the history of the tier! Like previous years, PU Classic will be the first part of the 2024 PU Circuit!

The format consists of EIGHT separate tournaments: The SS Cup, The SM Cup, The ORAS Cup, The BW Cup, The DPP Cup, The ADV Cup, The GSC Cup, and The RBY Cup. Each tournament is single elimination, best of three. Depending on your performance in a Cup, you will be awarded points. This tour will have a best finish limit of 5. What this means is that only your five best performances will contribute to your overall point tally.

When all the Cups have been finished, the sixteen players with the most points will advance to the playoffs. There they will battle in a best of five series that includes all generations until there is one undisputed PU Classic champion. We're handling playoffs slightly differently than last year, where the higher seed got to drop one tier of their choice. This year, the lower seed will get to lock one tier of their choice, then the higher seed will drop two tiers, and finally the lower seed will drop one tier, leaving five tiers remaining. SS will be the first generation played (unless this is the chosen drop, then SM will be first), and the loser of each match will choose the following generation played.

Signups for each Cup will be linked in the PU Circuit thread once posted in the circuit tournaments subforum. Make sure to watch that thread in order to not miss a tour. The cups are as follows:

  • The SS Cup - Hosted by Meri Berry - Signups: June 9th
  • The SM Cup - Hosted by Ampha - Signups: June 9th
  • The ORAS Cup - Hosted by asa - Signups: June 16th
  • The BW Cup - Hosted by SergioRules - Signups: June 16th
  • The DPP Cup - Hosted by gulch - Signups: June 23rd
  • The ADV Cup - Hosted by Akeras - Signups: June 23rd
  • The GSC Cup - Hosted by TBD - Signups: June 30th
  • The RBY Cup - Hosted by TBD - Signups: June 30th

Spreadsheet will be posted here when it's ready.

The scoring system for each cup is as follows:

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This change was essentially made to avoid ties. The classic, two years ago, was plagued by a seven way tiebreak that delayed the start of playoffs a decent amount, so hopefully we can avoid that this year!

If there are any questions, feel free to ask me (allstarapology) in the PU Discord.

Have fun and good luck to everyone competing!
 
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ORAS PU Cup signups are now live: https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/oras-pu-cup-signups.3766556/
BW PU Cup signups will be added here when they go up

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Unlocking this thread to ask the community for feedback on the changes to playoffs we're planning on making, which I mentioned in the OP:

We're handling playoffs slightly differently than last year, where the higher seed got to drop one tier of their choice. This year, the lower seed will get to lock one tier of their choice, then the higher seed will drop two tiers, and finally the lower seed will drop one tier, leaving five tiers remaining.

An alternative approach raised to us was having the lower seed lock 2 tiers and the higher seed lock 3 tiers. The main question we want to answer before playoffs commence is "Which option do people prefer?", so any feedback there would be greatly appreciated. Upon reviewing the discussion that takes places here/in the PU Discord, we will announce in this thread whether our playoffs approach will change, so stay tuned for that.

Thank you, and good luck to all competitors this year :)
 
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