Jio
God is Good
What is this?
Some of you may remember that Smogon VGC hosted several weekly live tournaments in the past. In order to further promote VGC on Smogon as well as giving our users a laid back environment to practice for live events. This thread, in particular, is to raise awareness and promote discussion on how we can get these tournaments to work best for everyone.
How will this work?
Lives will be played out on Pokemon Showdown in the VGC room with the bracket generated by Battlefy. There will be a number of rounds determined by how many entrants are available and then the top performing players will move on to Top Cut. Threads will be put up ahead of time to remind players of Live tourneys and encourage them to check in on time.
At the end of the month, I want to try to give Friendly Competitions on PGL a try. I’m sure most of you know about them by now, but keep in mind that we need at least 20 entrants for them to actually be functional. I can’t imagine consistently getting 20 people to sign up in-game each week which is why I'm reserving it to once a month. Not just Friendly Competitions, but we’ll try to throw in other custom tournament ideas such as VGC Ubers, VGC LC, past formats, and etc to keep this interesting.
Rules
This is the difficult part since it will be somewhat difficult to accommodate for each time zone. As of right now, I plan on hosting lives at least 2-3 times a week.
Option A: Friday @ 9:00PM EST and Saturday @ 2:00PM EST
Option B: Wednesday @ 2:00PM EST and Sunday @ 4:00PM EST
Option C: Sunday @ 2:00PM EST
Option D: Another time discussed in the thread.
Keep in mind that SmogonVGC live tournaments have no real incentive behind them other than to encourage comradery and practice. With the Official Smogon VGC Tournament going on at the same time there’s hardly a need for an invitational, so look at these as fun hangouts than a high-stakes competition. We may give away Pokemon for participants in Lives, but that's up to general interest.
Some of you may remember that Smogon VGC hosted several weekly live tournaments in the past. In order to further promote VGC on Smogon as well as giving our users a laid back environment to practice for live events. This thread, in particular, is to raise awareness and promote discussion on how we can get these tournaments to work best for everyone.
How will this work?
Lives will be played out on Pokemon Showdown in the VGC room with the bracket generated by Battlefy. There will be a number of rounds determined by how many entrants are available and then the top performing players will move on to Top Cut. Threads will be put up ahead of time to remind players of Live tourneys and encourage them to check in on time.
At the end of the month, I want to try to give Friendly Competitions on PGL a try. I’m sure most of you know about them by now, but keep in mind that we need at least 20 entrants for them to actually be functional. I can’t imagine consistently getting 20 people to sign up in-game each week which is why I'm reserving it to once a month. Not just Friendly Competitions, but we’ll try to throw in other custom tournament ideas such as VGC Ubers, VGC LC, past formats, and etc to keep this interesting.
Rules
- Flat Doubles, Black Clover Pokemon ONLY. If it's not allowed on Sun Moon Battle Spot, it isn't allowed here.
- For the purpose of having the tournament run on time, strategies such as Minimize are STRONGLY discouraged. Please keep this tournament fun and fast; these strategies are neither. If time is called and you are using such a strategy, you will likely take the loss.
- Each round will last a maximum of 50 minutes. If the match is not completed within the timeframe, it will be up to the host to decide who wins or who loses.
- Since this is a non-weighted practice tournament and we have little control over this, you may change your team between rounds but not during a best of three series. However, it might be better practice for you not to do so.
This is the difficult part since it will be somewhat difficult to accommodate for each time zone. As of right now, I plan on hosting lives at least 2-3 times a week.
Option A: Friday @ 9:00PM EST and Saturday @ 2:00PM EST
Option B: Wednesday @ 2:00PM EST and Sunday @ 4:00PM EST
Option C: Sunday @ 2:00PM EST
Option D: Another time discussed in the thread.
Keep in mind that SmogonVGC live tournaments have no real incentive behind them other than to encourage comradery and practice. With the Official Smogon VGC Tournament going on at the same time there’s hardly a need for an invitational, so look at these as fun hangouts than a high-stakes competition. We may give away Pokemon for participants in Lives, but that's up to general interest.