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    Implemented post-team tournament manager surveys

    this would provide a concrete way of polling thoughts players had ab their managers to use for the next years’ tournament to give the community a bit more voice in the manager selection process. we have seen bad / inactive managers fall thru the cracks at times and having a place for players to...
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    Proposal Tournaments are not tenable without cash prizes. This section will die.

    This is going to kill our competition. It has been killing it. We need to fix this. For the decade I've participated on this website, there has always been equivocations, excuses, and pushback against cash tournaments. In my younger years, before it became more normalized in other communities...
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    Implemented please ban alts in team tours

    there is enough creative expression in nicknaming your pokemon. it makes the game less enjoyable when i do not know who is playing and have to hunt for the battlers. standardizing alts benefits spectators, prevents players from being goofy, keeps the chat from being clogged with the same...
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    Pending can we get date stamps on PS teams?

    title. would be a nice way to see developments over time and categorize, etc.
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    OU Teambuilding heuristics

    I believe that detailing the general principles of your teambuilding is beneficial for veterans and new players alike. In a tier like ADV, where the metagame has a healthy amount of threats and defined styles, I find this topic to be of more interest than for other generations. Though there...
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    On SmogTours challenging

    Over the past few months, we have had a few instances of banned users and trolls (read: Sogeking) posing as players with similar alts and challenging their opponents. While there are ways to double-check, this is still hugely annoying and really shouldn't be a worry before a tournament game...
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    BW is a crummy metagame

    And I don't think I'm alone in this thinking. During SPL, the playerbase made an intentional effort of pushing the boundaries, and we saw a smattering of different playstyles. Smurf.'s age old hyper offensive team became prevalent with slight updates, and this brought forth a wave of metagame...
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    BW Sleep Revote [SLEEP MOVES REMAIN BANNED; SLEEP CLAUSE LIFTED]

    Hi friends! We're back, once again, with the revote to decide the final result of BW Sleep. After months of testing, play, and SPL, we now have a better understanding of the metagame implications that the revised sleep-move ban provides. We will be using the same voting pool as last time...
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    what essays do you keep finding yourself returning to?

    here are a couple of my favorites. https://www.vogue.co.uk/article/florence-welch-on-addiction-and-sobriety the candid discussion of suicidality, coping mechanisms, diet culture, alcoholism, youth.. i really love florence anyway but i found her words particularly poignant in this piece...
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    let's brainstorm snake replacements!

    snake sucks! we all know this! help me draft some new ideas. results so far: *mini team tournament! 15-20 teams of smaller sizes, 5-7 ppl each, perhaps with some sneak level individual/team mechanics? idk but a small team situation seems kinda fun imo *help plz spitball any idea
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    the elephant in the SPL room

    https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/spl-xi-official-trade-and-retention-announcements.3657086/#post-8319746 okay, let's be clear: there has to be a mechanism to pushback against such silliness. do i really have to point out why shit like this is ridiculous? i'm not going to promote any...
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    let's rework bw sleep clause [SLEEP MOVES NOW BANNED, SLEEP CLAUSE LIFTED, POST#40]

    (this is me speaking, not the council) a few weeks ago, Ojama brought forth the idea of banning bw sleep. after ruminating a bit, i wholeheartedly agree with this push moving forward. if you're unfamiliar with bw building, one of the mandatory additions to any team is an anti-sleep mon. in...
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    BW OU's future: Shadow Tag vote and upcoming changes [SHADOW TAG BANNED]

    The BW Council has collected and reviewed the survey sent out a few weeks ago; responses are publicized here for transparency. The trouble with generalizing the results is due to the drastically differing replies. Comments ran the gamut from stating Gothitelle's Obvious Brokenness to its...
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    swagger ban

    i'm wondering what the purpose of the swagger ban carrying over from gen6 is? it was already a contentious ban originally, and since then thunder wave has been nerfed which effectively hampers the legitimacy of swagplay strats. it just seems like a very unnecessary clause in our metagame, and...
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    Season 21 (Week 8 [BW OU #1]) Won by SoulWind

    Post "in" to participate. Be aware that you can only join two tours this week! - This tournament will be held on the official Smogon Tournament server at http://smogtours.psim.us/. - Send a PM to "dice" on Smogtours ONLY when you win your match. Do NOT PM the host if you lost. - **ONLY PM ME ON...
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    Season 21 (Week 5 [BW OU #1]) Won by FLCL

    Post "in" to participate. Be aware that you can only join two tours this week! - This tournament will be held on the official Smogon Tournament server at http://smogtours.psim.us/. - Send a PM to "Dice" on SmogTours only when you win your match. Do NOT PM the host if you lost. Additionally...
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    Gen 6 thought exercise

    how would u go about building a kyurem-white team? plz explain ur thought process and how ur team makes kyurem-white not outclassed by another mon. i wanna see how other ppl go about it similarly/different 2 me and i'll post at end
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    ORAS UU dismaland

    =)
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    re: initial ou tiering

    why does ou begin with such an arbitrary ban list? this has always irked me and i don't consider it effective. pokemon with certain parameters are always given ubers status from the start of a generation. but why? although it's solely anecdotal, i believe current ubers could achieve greater...
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    Gen 6 ubers spl dump

    obligatory thread since every other subforum is doing it. any cool sets / ideas / teams you used? post some explanations / descriptions with it as well as this could help develop the metagame if others haven't caught on aim Sweep PROBLEMS Edgar steelphoenix Jibaku Melee Mewtwo Steve Angello...
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