Smogon Simple Questions Thread

Hey, I got a simple question.

If I wanted to host a JAA (Journey Across America) tournament, how would I go about it? I've been thinking about the format a lot lately, and as well with Blisy's recent YouTube vid about re-creating the JAA champion's team on cart, I got really curious about it.

From what I found on Showdown, the JAA format isn't supported, although it's still on Pokemon-Online if we'd have to resort to using that instead of Showdown.

I know there's a tourney application forum, but I don't really know the culture of how Smogon tourneys are ran, so I don't wanna put in some crappy application just for it to get rejected.

So yeah, what would I need to know to host/seed/advertise/etc a JAA format tourney? I possibly plan on making it a circuit with points where the top X in points qualify for a championship tourney. Possibly have pot bonuses for all tourneys, even just the qualifiers. I have experience in TOing Brawl, and even some Gen 5 OU tourneys (albeit on a different small community forum, not Smogon).

If I wanted to go about hosting a JAA format tourney, possibly even a circuit, what would I need to know? Thank you!
 
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Howdy! I've been using showdown since as far back as 2010. Awesome service, couldn't ask for a better battle sim. I have one suggestion for a feature I think would really improve the site for teambuilders! I think it would be really cool to add a "Notes" feature for each pokemon on a team. This section would be collapsible so as to not hurt the ui for mobile users, it maybe you could even have users opt-in as a setting or something. This would be cool for a number of reasons including setting reminders of benchmarks for ev/iv spreads, reasoning for alternate items/moves, or just whatever really. Anyways, keep up the great work!
 
Venestra said:
Howdy! I've been using showdown since as far back as 2010. Awesome service, couldn't ask for a better battle sim. I have one suggestion for a feature I think would really improve the site for teambuilders! I think it would be really cool to add a "Notes" feature for each pokemon on a team. This section would be collapsible so as to not hurt the ui for mobile users, it maybe you could even have users opt-in as a setting or something. This would be cool for a number of reasons including setting reminders of benchmarks for ev/iv spreads, reasoning for alternate items/moves, or just whatever really. Anyways, keep up the great work!
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Hiya, super glad you've been enjoying PS!

Suggestions for the simulator should go in the PS! Suggestions forum. This is actually an approved suggestion that is waiting on one of our developers to have the time to implement it.
 
How does the RBY simulator handle divide by 0 errors in damage calculation? I heard there's a couple ways to get a Defense stat to be handled as 0 in RBY and these errors crash the game

- Overflowing the Defense to be too high by using Withdraw and Reflect on Cloyster to get 0 Defense

- Using Screech on a low level Pokemon 3 times and using Explosion
 
BIG ASHLEY said:
that doesn't really help me tbh
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The "simple answer" is that it's just a system two computer, softwares or otherwise different systems use to communicate with each other.
The user earlier was basically asking if there are ways to get / send data to and from smogon forums from a external software.
 
BIG ASHLEY said:
that doesn't really help me tbh
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API stands for Application Programming Interface. In the context of APIs, the word Application refers to any software with a distinct function. Interface can be thought of as a contract of service between two applications. This contract defines how the two communicate with each other using requests and responses.

Quite Quiet said:
There is an API, but only the site owner has access to actually generate those for Smogon because it's not exactly something we use. Functionally it means there's no API for public use that is available for you. See https://xenforo.com/docs/dev/rest-api/.
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I checked that site

Worldie said:
The "simple answer" is that it's just a system two computer, softwares or otherwise different systems use to communicate with each other.
The user earlier was basically asking if there are ways to get / send data to and from smogon forums from a external software.
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true

Quite Quiet said:
There is an API, but only the site owner has access to actually generate those for Smogon because it's not exactly something we use. Functionally it means there's no API for public use that is available for you. See https://xenforo.com/docs/dev/rest-api/.
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Probably it is for the site owners

Sijih said:
there is not currently an API for Smogon or for Xenforo
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There is a api for xenforo, but it is for the forum owners, unless it's made public
 
Hey gang! Want to get into trading events, but am having trouble finding the right section of the forums to do it. I understand it's somewhere in WiFi, but I'm just not seeing it! Anyone point me in the right direction?

sf edit: answered in wifi
 
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Bug Maniac Aydon said:
Is there much degeneracy in VGC in the absence of these bans?
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considering they balance the game around this format, typically no. Whenever there is its usually addressed in future games, such as nerfing Dark Void, nerfing Mega Kangaskhan and -ate Abilities like Mega Salamence's and Sylveon's, and restricting the distribution of Ally Switch.
 
I think it would be helpful if all of the tier pages on the Smogon Dex linked to resources like VRs and Sample Teams for the tier. At the moment only about half of the OU tiers have this as GSC, ADV, DPP, and BW do not. Lower tiers are, understandably, much more inconsistent with how the pages are formatted.

In case I poorly explained something, I am talking about these pages:
https://www.smogon.com/dex/rb/formats/ou/ - Has resources linked
https://www.smogon.com/dex/bw/formats/ou/ - Does not

Also the SV OU page still has the old Viability List linked instead of the Viability Rankings
 
WilhelmTheOkay said:
I think it would be helpful if all of the tier pages on the Smogon Dex linked to resources like VRs and Sample Teams for the tier. At the moment only about half of the OU tiers have this as GSC, ADV, DPP, and BW do not. Lower tiers are, understandably, much more inconsistent with how the pages are formatted.

In case I poorly explained something, I am talking about these pages:
https://www.smogon.com/dex/rb/formats/ou/ - Has resources linked
https://www.smogon.com/dex/bw/formats/ou/ - Does not

Also the SV OU page still has the old Viability List linked instead of the Viability Rankings
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Hiya! I've added the relevant resources to the GSC, ADV, DPP, and BW OU pages, as well as removed or updated the outdated links on the ORAS, SM, and SS OU pages. I've also contacted the RoA Leaders regarding any resources that are missing or outdated with no current version. I didn't touch the SV page since 1) I don't generally touch current gen stuff and 2) We're expecting HOME to come out any day now, so it'll just be outdated again soon anyways.

Thanks for bringing it to our attention!
 
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