Amaranth
Moderator
Our (OU) circuit currently is comprised of:
Inviduals
Four traditional 'main' tournaments, in the form of Winter Seasonal -> Global Championship -> Cup -> Summer Seasonal
One 'extra' tournament, tried for the first time last year in the form of RBY Majors
Team
One official (SPL)
Two all-gen tours from RoA (RCoP + RoAPL)
Two full-RBY tours (RBYWC + RBYPL)
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There's a big discussion point ahead of 2024 that I want to get people's opinions on, and it's the Majors Slot.
Majors was tried, and it was honestly a lot of effort from a hosting perspective. I don't think we're ever going to see the screwups that other gens had when trying to run this format, however it's the smallest tournament in our circuit, so it doesn't really feel worth it from an effort perspective.
If you feel strongly in any of the following ways:
A- Keep Majors, it was very good and definitely worth the effort
B- Replace Majors with a big Swiss tournament (same format as OSDT/Smogon Masters, for reference)
C- Replace Majors with some other format (please specify which)
D- Axe Majors, give players some breaks, four huge tours a year (x2 seasonals + x1 GC + x1 Cup) is enough
then please share your opinions in this thread.
Other thoughts on the individuals would be welcome too, but the four Big Ones that we have currently seem to be well-liked as is, so unless people strongly want something different it all seems good to me. I could see an argument for replacing one of the Seasonals with a Swiss, too, so if that's something you'd like to see that would also be a worthwhile opinion to share.
A minor sidenote about teamtour timings:
It's something for the boring bureaucrats (ie me) to decide moreso than the community, but I want to sort of pre-announce that RoAPL and RCoP will be moving a bit. The final schedule will be something like SPL->RBYWC->RoAPL->RCoP->RBYPL. We're going to make sure there's minimal to no overlap between these tournaments, while keeping RBYWC and RBYPL to the familiar timings, but if you strongly disagree with this for one reason or another, by all means voice it here.
Inviduals
Four traditional 'main' tournaments, in the form of Winter Seasonal -> Global Championship -> Cup -> Summer Seasonal
One 'extra' tournament, tried for the first time last year in the form of RBY Majors
Team
One official (SPL)
Two all-gen tours from RoA (RCoP + RoAPL)
Two full-RBY tours (RBYWC + RBYPL)
---
There's a big discussion point ahead of 2024 that I want to get people's opinions on, and it's the Majors Slot.
Majors was tried, and it was honestly a lot of effort from a hosting perspective. I don't think we're ever going to see the screwups that other gens had when trying to run this format, however it's the smallest tournament in our circuit, so it doesn't really feel worth it from an effort perspective.
If you feel strongly in any of the following ways:
A- Keep Majors, it was very good and definitely worth the effort
B- Replace Majors with a big Swiss tournament (same format as OSDT/Smogon Masters, for reference)
C- Replace Majors with some other format (please specify which)
D- Axe Majors, give players some breaks, four huge tours a year (x2 seasonals + x1 GC + x1 Cup) is enough
then please share your opinions in this thread.
Other thoughts on the individuals would be welcome too, but the four Big Ones that we have currently seem to be well-liked as is, so unless people strongly want something different it all seems good to me. I could see an argument for replacing one of the Seasonals with a Swiss, too, so if that's something you'd like to see that would also be a worthwhile opinion to share.
A minor sidenote about teamtour timings:
It's something for the boring bureaucrats (ie me) to decide moreso than the community, but I want to sort of pre-announce that RoAPL and RCoP will be moving a bit. The final schedule will be something like SPL->RBYWC->RoAPL->RCoP->RBYPL. We're going to make sure there's minimal to no overlap between these tournaments, while keeping RBYWC and RBYPL to the familiar timings, but if you strongly disagree with this for one reason or another, by all means voice it here.
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