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Blast Off At The Speed Of Light! That's Right!
At the conclusion of the most recent policy review thread it was determined we would update old CAP Pokemon during each new generation. The process we decided to use was a modified version of the TL / TLT system.
Therefore, we are asking for applications for Generation Leaders and Update Leaders to serve as our leaders for updating CAP Pokemon for the 7th Generation CAP Metagame.
All nominees are expected to follow these principles for updating CAPs:
1. Justification: GameFreak updates its "face of the franchise" (competitively) Pokemon at regular intervals in competitively significant ways. CAP should do the same with our "face of the franchise," our CAP Pokemon.
2. Definition: An Update is defined as an addition or removal to a Pokemon's Movepool, or a change in their Ability. Base Statistics Updates will not be considered. Abilities are to be replaced, not removed, consistent with in-game precedent.
3. Frequency: Movepool Updates should be conducted upon each new game release, Ability Updates should be considered upon each new generation's release.
4. Continuity: All Updates should adhere to a CAP's Concept and Established Identity (Metagame Role, "CAP-iness" of the CAP.)
5. Coherence: All Updates should have sound competitive reasoning and /or in-game precedent (ex. From BW2 Tutors Electric and most Bug types getting ElectroWeb).
6. Appearance: All Updates should consider the overall optics of that revision and how it will impact perception of the CAP Community.
7. Acclimation: All Updates should acclimate the CAP to baseline competitive play in that release's OU (or equivalent) environment.
8. Conservation: All Updates should be as conservative as possible in acclimating the CAPs to the new release's environment.
This is the thread for people to announce their desire to become either the Generational Leader (GL) or an Update Leader (UL) for the Sun/Moon Initial Metagame Release (Gen 7 SM). Do not suggest other users. If someone wants to become the GL or a UL, they will post on their own, and if they don't have a strong urge to be it then they shouldn't be signing up anyway. The CAP project requires the utmost dedication and a substantial amount of free time, especially to lead, meaning that only those who have carefully considered the magnitude of their application will apply at all. If you are not prepared to fulfill all of the responsibilities to the very end, then do not throw your hat into the ring.
We are looking to fill the following three positions to help us lead the creation of this new Pokemon:
When making your application, please indicate which position(s) you are applying for. You must identify whether you're applying for GL or UL (you are allowed to apply for both). GLs and ULs should have the following qualifications:
Once these Updates start, the Generational Leaders and Update Leaders will be the most important, most visible members of the CAP community, and they are expected to be a strong guiding force throughout the update process. If you are selected for any of these positions, you will have a great deal of power to influence updates. But you also have a responsibility to stay on top of things. You will have forum moderators to help you, but you need to be regularly active on each update until all are complete. All potential candidates should look through both the Topic Leadership Guide onsite and the CAP Process Archive subforum, to get an idea of what will be expected of you, if you are selected to be the (Gen 7 SM) Generational Leader or Update Leader.
This thread is strictly for candidacy posts and posts supporting those candidates. Please stay on topic. Below are the guidelines for posting in this thread:
If these rules are not followed, the offending user will be subject to moderation.
Therefore, we are asking for applications for Generation Leaders and Update Leaders to serve as our leaders for updating CAP Pokemon for the 7th Generation CAP Metagame.
All nominees are expected to follow these principles for updating CAPs:
Principles
1. Justification: GameFreak updates its "face of the franchise" (competitively) Pokemon at regular intervals in competitively significant ways. CAP should do the same with our "face of the franchise," our CAP Pokemon.
2. Definition: An Update is defined as an addition or removal to a Pokemon's Movepool, or a change in their Ability. Base Statistics Updates will not be considered. Abilities are to be replaced, not removed, consistent with in-game precedent.
3. Frequency: Movepool Updates should be conducted upon each new game release, Ability Updates should be considered upon each new generation's release.
4. Continuity: All Updates should adhere to a CAP's Concept and Established Identity (Metagame Role, "CAP-iness" of the CAP.)
5. Coherence: All Updates should have sound competitive reasoning and /or in-game precedent (ex. From BW2 Tutors Electric and most Bug types getting ElectroWeb).
6. Appearance: All Updates should consider the overall optics of that revision and how it will impact perception of the CAP Community.
7. Acclimation: All Updates should acclimate the CAP to baseline competitive play in that release's OU (or equivalent) environment.
8. Conservation: All Updates should be as conservative as possible in acclimating the CAPs to the new release's environment.
Additional Expectations:
This is the thread for people to announce their desire to become either the Generational Leader (GL) or an Update Leader (UL) for the Sun/Moon Initial Metagame Release (Gen 7 SM). Do not suggest other users. If someone wants to become the GL or a UL, they will post on their own, and if they don't have a strong urge to be it then they shouldn't be signing up anyway. The CAP project requires the utmost dedication and a substantial amount of free time, especially to lead, meaning that only those who have carefully considered the magnitude of their application will apply at all. If you are not prepared to fulfill all of the responsibilities to the very end, then do not throw your hat into the ring.
We are looking to fill the following three positions to help us lead the creation of this new Pokemon:
- Generational Leader: In the public's eyes, this is the leader of the generation of Pokemon they will be updating. They will balance out the Update Leaders in the threads for Pokemon of that generation, excercise quality control over slates and discussions, and work with moderator staff to ensure our CAP Update principles are adhered to. There will one Generational Leader for each prior generation of Pokemon (Gen 4 GL, Gen 5 GL, Gen 6 GL)
- Update Leaders: ULs will be leading the four major competitive aspects of updating past CAP Creations. They will make slates for their respective threads and provide meaningful discussion points to each specific area of the update. ULs may be responsible for any and all of the discussions below, depending on intelligent community consensus for what a specific CAP update needs:
- Ability Discussion
- Competitive Movepool Discussion
- Flavor Movepool Discussion
When making your application, please indicate which position(s) you are applying for. You must identify whether you're applying for GL or UL (you are allowed to apply for both). GLs and ULs should have the following qualifications:
- Timeliness; each leader must be able to commit the time to active leadership
- Deep knowledge of the game of Pokemon
- Specific knowledge of the Gen 7 SM CAP Metagame and the Pokemon/Strategies/Threats within it.
- Familiarity with competitive Pokemon concepts, strategy and philosophy, as practiced within Smogon
- Willing to voice opinions and lead others
- Open-minded to new ideas
- Creative, "outside-of-the-box" thinker
- Good writing skills
- Level-headed when resolving disputes
- Liked and respected by the CAP community
- Be willing to work with their chosen role and partners
Once these Updates start, the Generational Leaders and Update Leaders will be the most important, most visible members of the CAP community, and they are expected to be a strong guiding force throughout the update process. If you are selected for any of these positions, you will have a great deal of power to influence updates. But you also have a responsibility to stay on top of things. You will have forum moderators to help you, but you need to be regularly active on each update until all are complete. All potential candidates should look through both the Topic Leadership Guide onsite and the CAP Process Archive subforum, to get an idea of what will be expected of you, if you are selected to be the (Gen 7 SM) Generational Leader or Update Leader.
This thread is strictly for candidacy posts and posts supporting those candidates. Please stay on topic. Below are the guidelines for posting in this thread:
- Candidates must have been actively involved in recent CAP projects or the CAP Metagame. Involvement in multiple CAP projects is strongly preferred.
- Do not suggest other people. If you want you encourage someone else to run, then send them a PM or talk to them on IRC.
- If you are new to the CAP project, do not sign up in this thread. Instead, spend a project or two lurking, learning, and participating first.
- Include a summary of your involvement in the CAP project and specifically the CAP Metagame.
- Make a pitch for why you should be selected. If you can't present and defend yourself, then you can't expect to lead a project whose primary function is discussion and debate. Convince us that you are a good choice.
- Poor spelling, punctuation, and grammar are great ways to look as though you don't know what you're talking about. A thoughtful and intelligent community leader should be capable of typing at a level above typical internet banter.
- Even if you don't think you are better qualified than certain other candidates, you still should consider posting your application. Candidates not selected as GL or UL for this update will be on the watch list for next time around. Don't post your name if you don't intend to be active in the project, even if you are not selected, since people will be scrutinizing your involvement more closely.
- Do not post disparaging remarks about any candidates.
If these rules are not followed, the offending user will be subject to moderation.
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