Stole and edited from NUCL II
The PU moderation team has decided to replace PUBD with PUCL while incorporating the new flex format from NUCL. Manager signups for PUCL I will be going up within the next week or so, with Week 1 set to commence on mid-late January. The format will more or less be the same as NUCL with not much up to change. That being said, we have two discussion points in particular that we'd like to get some community input on, and would also like to give you all some time to familiarize yourselves with the new format in case youhave been living under a rock haven't been following NUCL.
PUCL Format (NOT UP TO CHANGE)
- The tier slots for PUCL will be the following:
As a reminder, Flex slots are 4 distinct tiers ranging from SS to RBY that are picked by each team every week. For example, Team A can select SS SM DPP GSC and Team B can select SM ORAS BW RBY; however, Team A can't pick SS SS ADV GSC.
- There will be no retains, retains carrying over from PUBD to PUCL makes no sense as the format change can heavily impact the perceived value of different players.
- Total budget will be 130k as usual.
DISCUSSION POINTS FOR THE COMMUNITY (POINTS THAT MAY OR MAY NOT BE IMPLEMENTED AND ARE UP TO DISCUSSION)
1) Manager Prices
2) SS PU [Suspect] Slot
This is the more contentious topic and the main reason for having this format discussion thread. We want to gauge how the community would feel about replacing the SS slot with an SS [Suspect] slot instead. The exact details of the suspect slot are not decided either but if we do go ahead with a suspect slot we strongly prefer the suspect slot have multiple unbans over one singular Pokemon. Some pokemon that have been brought up as unban candidates in talks regularly are;
These are just few of the options but if it goes through, we hope posts on this thread will help us better identify which exact Pokemon we want to unban for the suspect slot. This is obviously not a final decision by any means, we want to see how the community would feel about having a SS suspect slot to figure out if a metagame with unbans is better than the current SS PU metagame which is arguably our most disliked PU old generation right now.
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Thread will be open until the end of the week at least, potentially longer; we'll make a final decision depending on the responses in the thread. Get to posting, thank you!
The PU moderation team has decided to replace PUBD with PUCL while incorporating the new flex format from NUCL. Manager signups for PUCL I will be going up within the next week or so, with Week 1 set to commence on mid-late January. The format will more or less be the same as NUCL with not much up to change. That being said, we have two discussion points in particular that we'd like to get some community input on, and would also like to give you all some time to familiarize yourselves with the new format in case you
PUCL Format (NOT UP TO CHANGE)
- The tier slots for PUCL will be the following:
Code:
SV 1
SV 2
Flex A1
Flex A2
Flex A3
Flex A4
Flex B1
Flex B2
Flex B3
Flex B4- There will be no retains, retains carrying over from PUBD to PUCL makes no sense as the format change can heavily impact the perceived value of different players.
- Total budget will be 130k as usual.
DISCUSSION POINTS FOR THE COMMUNITY (POINTS THAT MAY OR MAY NOT BE IMPLEMENTED AND ARE UP TO DISCUSSION)
1) Manager Prices
- Should 2 manager buys be allowed or should we limit it to just one?
- If it's only one manager buy how much should it cost?
- If it's two manager buys how much should they cost? Different options were brought up on discord (15k/30k, 15k/35k, 20k/40k/ 17.5k/40k etc.)
2) SS PU [Suspect] Slot
This is the more contentious topic and the main reason for having this format discussion thread. We want to gauge how the community would feel about replacing the SS slot with an SS [Suspect] slot instead. The exact details of the suspect slot are not decided either but if we do go ahead with a suspect slot we strongly prefer the suspect slot have multiple unbans over one singular Pokemon. Some pokemon that have been brought up as unban candidates in talks regularly are;
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Thread will be open until the end of the week at least, potentially longer; we'll make a final decision depending on the responses in the thread. Get to posting, thank you!
