Tournaments RBYPL II - Commencement & Admin Decisions Thread

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op adapted from scl 1 commencement thread

How does RBY PL work?

There will be 6 teams, each with their own manager and assistant manager. Management duos will do a Snake Draft on Pokemon Showdown!, where they will take turns nominating and bidding in an auction for players who signed up to assemble their teams with limited credits available. The teams will then play one another for 5 weeks, with a new opponent each week. This will culminate with a Playoffs week consisting of the Top 3 teams overall from the 5-week main season.

How does one signup as a player?

Player signups are projected to begin Sunday September 19th and will be open until 24 hours before the auction (see below). You should include your name, timezone, metagames you are willing to play, and any expected inactivity. Do not sign up if you cannot commit to the entire tournament. RBY PL II is expected to run from the beginning of October to the middle of November.

If I am selected as a captain, can I still play for my team?

Yes, managers and assistant managers will be given the option to draft themselves for a set price of 15k credits. You do not have to buy yourself if you don't want to.

When is the RBY PL Auction?

The auction date will occur during October 1st / 2nd / 3rd when at least one representative of each team will be available.

When does RBY PL Week 1 start?

Monday October 4th.

The General Manager of a team is essentially the boss of a team. The GM is the final word in all decisions (barring the hosts) regarding their team. The GM decides which players play on the team, who plays in what position, and even handles the team finances. Managers also make sure that the team keeps running on a day to day basis. If a team fails to complete their matches by the end of the allotted time, the onus is on the manager to inform the hosts as to what happened in order to make sure that proper activity calls are made.

Because of these responsibilities, The General Manager is probably the most important part of the team. As such, the position of GM is not one to be taken lightly.

• General Managers are chosen largely on a subjective opinion of the hosts as well as RBY Moderation Team as to who they believe would be fit for the position. Being fit for the position includes the knowledge of excellent battlers in the community (for fielding a competent team), having above average activity on the forums, Pokémon Showdown and/or Discord (in order to ensure that you don’t abandon your team), as well as possessing a necessary amount of “gravitas” (If you can’t make a player do what you tell them to, such as play an undesirable metagame, you’re not going to make a good manager).

General Managers are required to acquire one Assistant Manager. The General Manager gets full sovereignty in choosing their assistant manager. The assistant manager is essentially the second in command for the team. They have all of the functions and roles as the General Manager does, the GM just trumps them in head-to-head decisions.

Lastly, the General Manager has the following duties:

• They shall choose one Assistant Manager.
• They shall make the hosts aware of any player retentions by the time player signups close.
• They shall be present at the live auction, or appoint someone (the Assistant Manager) to participate in the live auction in their stead.
• They shall send the hosts weekly rosters.
• They shall ensure to the best of their abilities that their battlers complete their matches on time.
• In the event that a match fails to be completed, they shall inform the hosts as to why the match failed to be completed, and what their battler did in order to finish the match.
• They shall communicate any grievances with the hosts.

Total money for teams is 80,000 credits.

In the weeks preceding the Live Auction, a time will be chosen where at least 1 Manager or Assistant Manager from each team can meet and perform a live auction in order to choose players. The Manager and/or Assistant Manager present will be expected to remain at the auction for the entire duration, which should take approximately 2 hours.

Once a time is set, all attending Managers + Hosts will enter the place where the auction will be held - most likely a group chat for the auction. Spectators are allowed to join in to watch the auction, but will not be able to speak. Discussion on the bidding should be relegated to the RBY PS! Room, RBY Discord, or any other appropriate chat outlet.

The hosts will first ask a team to nominate a player. The order by which teams will nominate players will go in a randomized snaking pattern from the first chosen team to the last chosen team, then the last chosen team to the first chosen team. Details of said player will be displayed and bidding will commence, starting at 3000 credits, with the nominating team automatically placing the first bid. The auction will then be in real time. Managers will simply put in their bids in the chat, raising a minimum of 500 credits. If after 15 seconds there are no new bids, the player is sold to the highest bid in the channel. Updated credit totals will be displayed and then the next manager in the rotation will be prompted to nominate a player.

Managers are asked to please have a predetermined list of players you intend to nominate as well as potential bid caps, in order to make the process go as quickly and seamlessly as possible.

Managers: it is necessary for you to field a roster of 6 starters and a minimum of 2 substitutes. Playing Managers and Assistant Managers are included in the roster number. Therefore, you need to buy at least 6 players if both Managers are playing, 7 if only one is, and 8 if neither are playing. This creates a soft cap of 59,000 credits on any particular bid - that is, the maximum amount of money you can spend on any one player and still have enough money left over to pay at least 3000 credits a piece on 7 more players. In addition, you cannot buy more than 18 players, including playing Managers.

There is no midseason this year. Therefore, it is highly recommended that all teams spend all of their credits in the auction, as there is no use for them afterwards.

The league stages consist of a Round Robin tournament. Every team will face every other team once through 5 weeks of play. Each manager will submit to the hosts a roster no later than the deadline of the previous week. This roster will list the starting players and what metagames they will play.

When the week starts, teams' players will face off in their respective metagames / tiers. The RBY OU 1 from Team A will face the RBY OU 1 from team B, RBY OU 2 will face RBY OU 2, and so on. Whichever team wins the most battles will be declared the victor for the week. Rather than score based on how many individual battles a team wins, the primary thing that matters is who beat the most teams. As such, points are awarded based only on wins and losses versus teams as a whole, not individual players. Beating a team in a week’s matchups is worth two points, tying with a team is worth one point, and losing is worth none, simple as that. At the end of the round robin, the top three teams in the points proceed to the playoffs. Semifinals will see #2 vs. #3, Finals will be #1 vs. winner of #2 vs. #3.

There are a few regulatory things during the league stages that need to be outlined.

1. Substitutes – At any point in time during the week, a team may make a substitution for a currently slotted player. In order to do this a manager must post in the thread, tagging the hosts, the opposing managers and the opposing player stating which player is substituting out, and which player is substituting in. A player that has substituted out for a week cannot be substituted back in. In addition, in order to catch any attempts at garnering favorable matchups in RBY OU (where the lineup you choose affects pairings), all substitutions are subject to veto by the hosts if the substitution is suspected to be attempting to “game” the system.

2. There will be no trades allowed at any point during RBY PL.

3. Activity decisions – There are inevitably times where two players simply fail to complete a match; however, the nature of the tournament system sometimes makes it advantageous to purposely fail to play (such as when a team is up 3-2 in a week). Because of this, it is necessary to make activity decisions on matches. Hosts are required to make thorough investigations regarding each and every potential failed match during a week. If both parties are deemed to be equally apathetic or enthusiastic about getting the match done, but just have not had the opportunity to make it happen, the match will result in a no contest. However, if it is deemed that one party made significantly more effort than the other in attempting to get the match done, then a win will be awarded to that player. Things that will make it very likely that you will lose via activity include: failing to VM your opponent immediately upon the week’s start, scheduling a match and being documented as missing the match time, failing to provide any concrete times for which you can be reached, failing to respond to an opponent’s VM at all. Note that this is a tournament that requires a very high level of activity and diligence, if you don’t think you can get your matches done, quite simply don’t sign up.

4. Rule Breaking – There is no excuse for breaking any of the predetermined rules. If you are caught breaking a rule, you will lose your match. There is no lenience with regards to this. Break a rule, you lose. Period.

5. Reversing Rulings - No ruling will be retroactively overturned once the week following the week that the ruling has been made has ended. This includes: activity rulings / rulings based on rule breaking / anything else under the sun. I'm not going back in time to reevaluate every single decision I've made throughout the tournament on Week 9 because you think you were gypped 1-2 wins along the way and now they're the difference between you and a playoff spot. Any appeals to a ruling must be made during the week that the ruling is made; beyond that, all rulings are final once the week ends.

Projected Schedule:
Monday August 30th - Format Discussion Thread
Sunday September 12th - Manager Signups
Sunday September 19th - Player Signups
Friday October 1st / Saturday October 2nd / Sunday October 3rd - Live Auction
Monday October 4th - Week 1
Monday October 11th - Week 2
Monday October 18th - Week 3
Monday October 25th - Week 4
Monday November 1st - Week 5
Monday November 8th - Semifinals
Monday November 15th - Finals

Teams:
Starship Starmies: Justamente & Nalorium
El Wrappo Dragonites: shiloh & Mako
Silph Co Snorlaxes: TeamCharm & FatFighter2
Hipster Hypnos: Amaranth & May
Viridian Victreebels: IoSonoNeon & SaDiSTiCNarwhal
Ding Dang Dewgongs: EB0LA & Serpi

Reminders
  • Replays are required for all matches.
  • RBY OU / RBY OU / RBY OU / RBY UU / RBY NU / RBY Ubers
  • All slots are Best of 3.
  • Each team will have minimum 8 players (6 starters + 2 substitutes).
 
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RE: Retains & Manager Self Purchases

El Wrappo Dragonites
have retained / self bought the following players:
Retains
Hayburner for 10k.
TonyFlygon for 18.5k.
64 Squares for 11k.
Manager Self Purchases
shiloh for 15k.
Mako for 15k.

Their total is now 80k - 10k - 18.5k - 11k - 15k - 15k = 10.5k

Ding Dang Dewgongs have retained / self bought the following players:
Retains
Gilbert arenas for 11k.
Mr.378 for 10k.
Manager Self Purchases
EB0LA for 15k.
Serpi for 15k.

Their total is now 80k - 11k - 10k - 15k - 15k = 29k

Starship Starmies have retained / self bought the following players:
Retain
Kenix for 16k.
Manager Self Purchase
Justamente for 15k.

Their total is now 80k - 16k - 15k = 49k

Hipster Hypnos have retained / self bought the following players:
Manager Self Purchase
Amaranth for 15k.

Their total is now 80k - 15k = 65k

Viridian Victreebels have retained / self bought the following players:
Retain
Oiseau Bleu for 10k.

Their total is now 80k - 10k = 70k

Current Team Auction Credits / Roster Size
El Wrappo Dragonites: 10.5k / 5 Players
Ding Dang Dewgongs: 29k / 4 Players
Starship Starmies: 49k / 2 Players
Hipster Hypnos: 65k / 1 Player
Viridian Victreebels: 70k / 1 Players
Silph Co Snorlaxes: 80k / 0 Players
 
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RE: Player Signups

Here is some important information I forgot to make explicitly clear regarding Player Signups.
  • All slots are Best of 3.
  • For the first two weeks of RBY PL, you may only play the tiers you signed up for. This does not apply to those with a 3k price tag.
  • Each team will have minimum 8 players (6 starters + 2 substitutes).
  • Replays are required for all matches.
 

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RE: Mock Draft I


Enigami25000
Shellnuts23500
eden20500
Volk20000
spies18500
Aliss18500
ziloXX18000
TC15000
Mr.37814500
chuva de perereca13000
Melanie uwu9000
phoopes7000
Khaetis7000
Mister Tim5500
SBPC5000
Ctown65000
pac5000
Frrf5000
Lusch5000
LTG4500
TopLel TopKek4000
S1nn0hC0nfirm3d4000
Holly4000
dnagerbdager4000
lax3500
Unowndragon3000
kjdaas3000
Ika Ika Musume3000
StitChuu3000
BreakthrU893000
Genesis73000
Prof_J3000
teal63000
lotiasite3000
mc565563000
LpZ3000
HSOWA3000
Estarossa3000
Lutra3000
Davy Green3000
Koalacance3000
 

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Hipster Hypnos
RBY OU: Amaranth (0k)
RBY OU: Genesis7 (3k)
RBY OU: teal6 (3k)
RBY UU: Shellnuts (23.5k)
RBY NU: Enigami (25k)
RBY Ubers: LTG (4.5k)
Subs: Prof_J, breakthru89 (3k)​

Got an incredible roster in the mock draft. Fantastic OU roster, and all the low tiers and subs support each other very effectively. Getting Genesis7, Prof_J, and teal6 for 3k a piece was an absolute steeeeaaaaaaal. Happy to have outbid everyone else to snag Enigami, for the real draft y'all gotta pick him up he's too worth. Breakthru89 is a sleeper pick, very motivated and with the right NU support he has the potential to do very well. Shellnuts + Enigami + LTG is a lower tier force to be RECKONED with.
 
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RE: Draft Order
  1. Viridian Victreebels
  2. Ding Dang Dewgongs
  3. Hipster Hypnos
  4. Silph Co Snorlaxes
  5. Starship Starmies
  6. El Wrappo Dragonites
 

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RE: Season Schedule

Week 1 - Monday October 4th
Starship Starmies vs. Silph Co Snorlaxes
Ding Dang Dewgongs vs. El Wrappo Dragonites
Hipster Hypnos vs. Viridian Victreebels

Week 2 - Monday October 11th
Starship Starmies vs. El Wrappo Dragonites
Silph Co Snorlaxes vs. Hipster Hypnos
Ding Dang Dewgongs vs. Viridian Victreebels

Week 3 - Monday October 18th
Starship Starmies vs. Hipster Hypnos
El Wrappo Dragonites vs. Viridian Victreebels
Silph Co Snorlaxes vs. Ding Dang Dewgongs

Week 4 - Monday October 25th
Starship Starmies vs. Ding Dang Dewgongs
Hipster Hypnos vs. El Wrappo Dragonites
Silph Co Snorlaxes vs. Viridian Victreebels

Week 5 - Monday November 1st
Starship Starmies vs. Viridian Victreebels
Ding Dang Dewgongs vs. Hipster Hypnos
El Wrappo Dragonites vs. Silph Co Snorlaxes

Semifinals - Monday November 8th
#2 vs. #3

Finals - Monday November 15th
#1 vs. Winner of (#2 vs. #3)
 

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I got tired of clicking the link to the spreadsheet, so here is a repost of the pricelist with some extra information:


Draft Prices:

≥ 10000

Khaetis (VV) 17000
Frrf (HH) 15000
aliss (SCS) 15000
eden (VV) 14500
Lusch (VV) 11000
spies (3D) 10500
Shellnuts (HH) 10500
Enigami (HH) 10000
S1nn0hC0nfirm3d (SCS) 10000

≥ 5000
Volk (VV) 8000
Melanie uwu (SCS) 7000
Unowndragon (SCS) 7000
ACII (SS) 7000
Prof_J (HH) 6500
Sificon (SCS) 6500
chuva de perereca (3D) 6000
Mister Tim (SCS) 6000
kjdaas (3D) 5000
teal6 (HH) 5000
HSA (SCS) 5000
Mikon (SS) 5000
LpZ (SS) 5000
Koalacance (SS) 5000

≥ 3500
stunner047 (3D) 4500
Lutra (HH) 4500
lax (VV) 4500
BreakthrU89 (VV) 4500
phoopes (EWD) 4500
ziloXX (HH) 4000
zeefable (SCS) 4000
Holly (SCS) 4000
Sevi 7 (SS) 4000
pac (SS) 4000
Lord Thorx (VV) 4000
Quarante8 (HH) 3500
Trade (SCS) 3500
TC (VV) 3500

3000 Gang
Genesis7 (3D) 3000
Ctown6 (HH) 3000
LTG (HH) 3000
Oathkeeper (SCS) 3000
Surfy (SCS) 3000
Isza (SCS) 3000
HSOWA (SCS) 3000
Gastlies (SS) 3000
Monsareeasy (SS) 3000
Luirromen (SS) 3000
toytean (SS) 3000
Fakee (SS) 3000
El Cadaver (SS) 3000
Davy Green (VV) 3000
SBPC (EWD) 3000
HaaiL (EWD) 3000


Self Purchases and Retains:


TonyFlygon (EWD) 18500
Kenix (SS) 16000
shiloh (EWD) 15000
Mako (EWD) 15000
EB0LA (3D) 15000
Serpi (3D) 15000
Justamente (SS) 15000
Amaranth (HH) 15000
64 Squares (EWD) 11000
Gilbert arenas (3D) 11000
Hayburner (EWD) 10000
Mr.378 (3D) 10000
Oiseau Bleu (VV) 10000


Anyway, that was a waste of time. Let me know if I made any mistakes. Cheers!
 
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