Smogon Premier League VIII - Midseason Auction (read post #13 and #20)

Status
Not open for further replies.
NOTE: THIS THREAD IS ONLY TO BE POSTED IN BY MANAGERS. ANYONE THAT IS NOT A MANAGER WILL HAVE THEIR POST DELETED AND POSSIBLY INFRACTED.

Okay, so this is how it's going to work: Managers will use this thread to bid on players, rather than PMing me. In your post, simply mention how much you wish to bid on a player. Assuming you have enough credits in your credit pool, and you're the highest bidder twelve hours after your bid, you own that player.

The format for which bids should be done is the following:

Current Assets:

Still Top Bids:

New Bids:

Current Assets after new bids:
A PLAYER HAS 12 HOURS FROM THE TIME THEY WERE BID ON TO BE UPBID BY A TEAM, OTHERWISE BIDDING IS CLOSED AND THAT PLAYER IS SOLD.

A note: ONLY CREDITS LEFTOVER FROM THE ORIGINAL AUCTION MAY BE USED AT THIS TIME. Once all of the leftover credits from the original auction are used up, then you can start bidding with sellback credits. If, at 6 PM EST, GMT-5, on February 9, there are still credits from the original auction remaining, then people may start making bids with either type of credit, but any bids outstanding from the original period may not be raised with sellback credits.

Once a bid is made in the midseason auction, you are committed to that bid. You can't backtrack during the live auction, and for all intents and purposes the midseason auction is also live, just at a significantly slower pace.

--------------------------------------------------

Here are the auction credit totals as of now:

the Firebot Falcons: 31000
the Stark Sharks: 25000
the Congregation of the Classiest: 19000
the Alpha Ruiners: 9000
the Wifi Wolfpack: 7500
the Team Raiders: 5000
the Ever Grande BIGS: 4500
the Circus Maximus Tigers: 3000
the Indie Scooters: 1500
the Cryonicles: 0

==
the Alpha Ruiners: 500
the Ever Grande BIGS: 0
the Congregation of the Classiest: 0
the Cryonicles: 0
the Firebot Falcons: 0
the Team Raiders: 0
the Indie Scooters: 0
the Stark Sharks: 0
the Circus Maximus Tigers: 0
the Wifi Wolfpack: 0

Please let us know if anything is incorrect with the above credit totals.

Here is the player signups spreadsheet
 
The TD team and the SPL hosts have decided upon a rules patch that was previously considered and decided upon, but not publicly carried out into words.

Once a player has been nominated, he can only be bid on with credits available at the time of the nomination. This means you will not be able to trade for credits and use them to bid on a player that has already been nominated.

EDIT:
We stand by the rule change and implemented it like this because we 1) assumed it had already been common knowledge and simply not been written into the rules correctly and 2) did not anticipate the effect it would have on the auction at this point in time. However, given the overwhelmingly negative reaction and the fact it it's our fault for not noticing that it had been missing, we are reversing it and the auction will proceed according to the original rules.

However, the reversed rule will be strongly considered to be added in SPL 9.
 
Last edited:
Status
Not open for further replies.

Users Who Are Viewing This Thread (Users: 1, Guests: 0)

Top