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ORAS Monotype has banned luck based items (King's Rock, Bright Powder, Lax Incense, Quick Claw, Razor Fang and Focus Band), changed the philosopy to reflect SM Monotype and unbanned Mega Charizard-X
smeargle’s studio has introduced a new artfight-esque event called smogfight; join with 2 friends and compete with the artists of smogon over the course of one month. signups end on October 17th
we're doing more latias stuff weeeeeee
(quickbanned into immediate retest to avoid it being usable in tours; maybe just call it a suspect test in social media if that's easier to explain since it's not a typical quickban?)
if you're looking for VGC coverage, 6 VGC regionals have been announced for North America running March-June. Additionally, International Championships were announced for Europe and North America.