Rejected Tagging in team tournaments should be done on a public channel

[Eledyr]

While we've reduced the grace period recently, while running into team tournaments hosting, I've faced this issue several times: the rules says to "notify their opponent's team".

However, this rule is not clear enough. Players can contest it if their managers were pinged onto the managers's channel, and absent at the time they were tagged, which can happen quite a lot in PLs and equivalents.

My proposal is: notifying the opposing team must be always done on a public channel of the Discord server associated with the said tournaments (Smogon Tours for officials, Tiers cord for unofficial PLs, etc.).

This is a very basic change, but one that'd remove all possibility of dispute if it happens that managers are away by the time the ping is made, allowing players for players of the rest of the team to be there and offer a possible sub in time.

My experience for officials is basically null, but this rule would help a lot for unofficials at least, and it's not really restrictive.

Feel free to comment this proposal. An issue I could see is that public channel can sometimes be clogged up by standard activity, so maybe making a dedicated tournament channel only open to players could be added to this rule?

 

[Vertigo]

this rule would help a lot for unofficials at least

Reminder that Tournament Policy is only binding for official tournaments, and the rule you describe is already in effect for official team tournaments (see the Tournament Rules and General Guidelines):

Notice must be made via a teamwide Smogon Tournaments Discord tag; Smogon VMs/PMs and Showdown PMs may not be recognized as legitimate.

So, as far as official tournaments are concerned, this thread does not raise a point that needs to be addressed.
For unofficial tournaments, the staff of each subforum decides what rules they want to implement. While we encourage following official policy where possible, we do not enforce anything.

 

[Lhions]

i think he is proposing to force the ping onto a public channel and not onto managers channnel

 

[a fairy]

Again, that's already true for trophy team tours. And we can't force anything onto non-trophy team tours.

 

[UT]

This is already the policy for all official team tours; if you would like to see this policy added to other team tours, you will need to bring this up with the relevant moderation team.