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This is the Administrative Decisions and Commencement thread for GSC PL IV. This thread will handle all the information that players and teams would need for the tournament. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact either one of the hosts. The reward for winning this tournament is a custom avatar to be used on Pokemon Showdown.
There will be 8 teams in this tournament. Each team will have a manager and a co-manager. There are six slots for each team every week, and each team must have at least 8 players picked from the auction, which will be held in the GSCPL groupchat on Pokemon Showdown. The live auction will be in Snake order in regards to how teams nominate players. Each team will be given 80,000 credits with which to conduct their auction. The auction will be held when there can be representative from every team present. The Player Signups thread will be locked 24 hours before the auction.
Reminder that following this decision, each team will be allowed up to two manager self buys, with the first self buy having a price of 15k and the second self buy having a price of 30k. Managers must let us know if they plan to buy themselves before the Players Signups close!
There is no retains since we have two more teams than last year!
Every team will be playing every other team for the first 7 weeks of the tournament. For each win, a team is awarded two points. For each tie, a team is awarded one point. For each loss, a team is awarded no points. The top 4 teams after 7 weeks will move onto the playoffs.
Managers should DM one of the hosts (which host will be made clear before the deadline) to submit their lineups each week. The deadline to DM hosts with a lineup will be at the same time as the deadline for the previous round. However, DMing a host early is allowed and encouraged; the earlier the hosts get all the lineups in, the earlier they can release the next round!
At any point in the week, a team can substitute out a player from a game if they are inactive or cannot play the game due to IRL issues or a schedule that does not match up at all with their opponent. In order to make a substitution, the manager must post the substitution in the week thread, tagging the hosts, the opposing managers, and the opposing player, stating which player is being subbed out and who the substituting player is. However, a player who has been substituted out for a week cannot be substituted back into a slot in the same week. In addition, the hosts can veto any substitution if they believe the reason for substitution is to gain a 'favourable' player matchup in the OU slots, where player order matters.
There will be no trades allowed. If a bought player is inactive/cancers, they can be reported and replaced with a player from the undrafted pool of players. Hosts will have final discretion on what constitutes inactivity or cancering, and all situations will be treated on a case-by-case basis. After week 3 of the tournament, managers can still report inactive or cancering players, but they will not be allowed to pick a replacement player.
Reminder that following this decision, each team will be allowed up to two manager self buys, with the first self buy having a price of 15k and the second self buy having a price of 30k. Managers must let us know if they plan to buy themselves before the Players Signups close!
There is no retains since we have two more teams than last year!
Every team will be playing every other team for the first 7 weeks of the tournament. For each win, a team is awarded two points. For each tie, a team is awarded one point. For each loss, a team is awarded no points. The top 4 teams after 7 weeks will move onto the playoffs.
Managers should DM one of the hosts (which host will be made clear before the deadline) to submit their lineups each week. The deadline to DM hosts with a lineup will be at the same time as the deadline for the previous round. However, DMing a host early is allowed and encouraged; the earlier the hosts get all the lineups in, the earlier they can release the next round!
At any point in the week, a team can substitute out a player from a game if they are inactive or cannot play the game due to IRL issues or a schedule that does not match up at all with their opponent. In order to make a substitution, the manager must post the substitution in the week thread, tagging the hosts, the opposing managers, and the opposing player, stating which player is being subbed out and who the substituting player is. However, a player who has been substituted out for a week cannot be substituted back into a slot in the same week. In addition, the hosts can veto any substitution if they believe the reason for substitution is to gain a 'favourable' player matchup in the OU slots, where player order matters.
There will be no trades allowed. If a bought player is inactive/cancers, they can be reported and replaced with a player from the undrafted pool of players. Hosts will have final discretion on what constitutes inactivity or cancering, and all situations will be treated on a case-by-case basis. After week 3 of the tournament, managers can still report inactive or cancering players, but they will not be allowed to pick a replacement player.
Reminder that following this decision, each team is allowed up to two manager self buys, with the first self buy having a price of 15k and the second self buy having a price of 30k. Managers must let us know if they plan to buy themselves before the Players Signups close!
Sleepy Snorlaxes - BeeOrSomething and Mashing
Bone Crushers - FNH and Siatam
Ladder-Bayleef Saints - MrSoup and BigFatMantis
Amp Plains Zapdos - Staxi and Rubyblood
Royal Raikous - Fantos13 and Estarossa
Cursed Tyranitars - vani and Isa
Shunkō Jolteons - Raichy and ziloXX
Vaporized Vaporeons - Nalorium and Justamente
Sleepy Snorlaxes - BeeOrSomething and Mashing Bone Crushers - FNH and Siatam Ladder-Bayleef Saints - MrSoup and BigFatMantis Amp Plains Zapdos - Staxi and Rubyblood Royal Raikous - Fantos13 and Estarossa Cursed Tyranitars - vani and Isa Shunkō Jolteons - Raichy and ziloXX Vaporized Vaporeons - Nalorium and JustamenteWeek 1
Royal Raikous vs Bone Crushers
Shunkō Jolteons vs Amp Plains Zapdos
Sleepy Snorlaxes vs Ladder-Bayleef Saints
Cursed Tyranitars vs Vaporized Vaporeons
Week 2
Shunkō Jolteons vs Cursed Tyranitars
Bone Crushers vs Sleepy Snorlaxes
Vaporized Vaporeons vs Royal Raikous
Amp Plains Zapdos vs Ladder-Bayleef Saints
Week 3
Cursed Tyranitars vs Ladder-Bayleef Saints
Royal Raikous vs Shunkō Jolteons
Sleepy Snorlaxes vs Amp Plains Zapdos
Bone Crushers vs Vaporized Vaporeons
Week 4
Vaporized Vaporeons vs Sleepy Snorlaxes
Shunkō Jolteons vs Bone Crushers
Ladder-Bayleef Saints vs Royal Raikous
Amp Plains Zapdos vs Cursed Tyranitars
Week 5
Royal Raikous vs Amp Plains Zapdos
Vaporized Vaporeons vs Shunkō Jolteons
Bone Crushers vs Ladder-Bayleef Saints
Cursed Tyranitars vs Sleepy Snorlaxes
Week 6
Cursed Tyranitars vs Royal Raikous
Amp Plains Zapdos vs Bone Crushers
Sleepy Snorlaxes vs Shunkō Jolteons
Ladder-Bayleef Saints vs Vaporized Vaporeons
Week 7
Shunkō Jolteons vs Ladder-Bayleef Saints
Bone Crushers vs Cursed Tyranitars
Royal Raikous vs Sleepy Snorlaxes
Vaporized Vaporeons vs Amp Plains Zapdos
Royal Raikous vs Bone Crushers Shunkō Jolteons vs Amp Plains Zapdos Sleepy Snorlaxes vs Ladder-Bayleef Saints Cursed Tyranitars vs Vaporized Vaporeons Week 2
Shunkō Jolteons vs Cursed Tyranitars Bone Crushers vs Sleepy Snorlaxes Vaporized Vaporeons vs Royal Raikous Amp Plains Zapdos vs Ladder-Bayleef Saints Week 3
Cursed Tyranitars vs Ladder-Bayleef Saints Royal Raikous vs Shunkō Jolteons Sleepy Snorlaxes vs Amp Plains Zapdos Bone Crushers vs Vaporized Vaporeons Week 4
Vaporized Vaporeons vs Sleepy Snorlaxes Shunkō Jolteons vs Bone Crushers Ladder-Bayleef Saints vs Royal Raikous Amp Plains Zapdos vs Cursed Tyranitars Week 5
Royal Raikous vs Amp Plains Zapdos Vaporized Vaporeons vs Shunkō Jolteons Bone Crushers vs Ladder-Bayleef Saints Cursed Tyranitars vs Sleepy Snorlaxes Week 6
Cursed Tyranitars vs Royal Raikous Amp Plains Zapdos vs Bone Crushers Sleepy Snorlaxes vs Shunkō Jolteons Ladder-Bayleef Saints vs Vaporized Vaporeons Week 7
Shunkō Jolteons vs Ladder-Bayleef Saints Bone Crushers vs Cursed Tyranitars Royal Raikous vs Sleepy Snorlaxes Vaporized Vaporeons vs Amp Plains Zapdos GSC OU
GSC OU
GSC OU
GSC Ubers
GSC UU + Aero
GSC NU
GSC OU
GSC OU
GSC Ubers
GSC UU + Aero
GSC NU
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Bone Crushers: Siatam has assembled an OU squad so powerful that he didn't even need to slot himself into the lineup Week 1. Between GLFGNo, shiloh, and Chiles Habaneros they have a stupendous squad that has potential to rotate, allowing for optimal load management as the season progresses. Not much to say here, these boys are stacked.
Vaporized Vaporeons: The Vaporeons had such a great OU draft plan that the managers didn't even need to be present at the draft to lock in the second overall rank here. Kenix and hellpowna are definitely two of the best that can beat anyone in the pool and easily are the best 1-2 punch overall. However their third slot is more questionable, with cherryb0ng filling in Week 1 and other options like Fakee playing other tiers for now. But all you need to do is win 2 out of 3 to have a good chance to take the win each week.
Sleepy Snorlaxes: The Snorlaxes may be sleepy, but RealJester is not as he plays probably 50 GSC OU ladder games per day and is a clear SPL level talent. Couple that with GSC Global Champ Susciety and you have an extremely strong OU core here. There's a bit of hodgepodge of talent for the third slot, but players like TLTK, TyCarter, Colteor, and LeftWingBo are all capable of putting up wins when needed.
Amp Plains Zapdos: For those that are unaware, Amp Plains is a dungeon in the Pokemon Mystery Dungeon series of spinoff games. Now that you have that information, prepare to enter the mysterious dungeons of BlazingDark who is coming off a very good recent string of tours and is in contention for one of the best in the OU pool. Add on to that Leru who is always solid, and Ombrarch who knows the tier well, and you have a top tier squad. And for fun we can add in Sunlight Laughs who has 1 Smogon post but is starting Week 1 - definitely a real terror that none know what to expect from. Oh yeah and btw Rubyblood is quite good for support.
Cursed Tyranitars: The TTars have some question marks for sure, but vani is not one of them as he is a top level GSC talent overall that keeps improving tour to tour and should put up a strong performance here. John Madden also knows the tier well, and phosphor/thepatatedouce are solid enough as starters. It certainly lacks big star power like the teams above them, but they are more than capable of getting wins in each slot.
Royal Raikous: This team is not very well stacked in OU. Their best option is likely Thor, who struggled a bit in RoA PL. After that they don't really have anyone that stands out. Inder is great at Ubers and UU but we haven't seen a lot of OU in big tours so this will be a bit of an experiment. Spellcaster probably knows how to play the tier fine, but likewise hasn't really seen any high level tour play here for OU. Celebiii and choolio can probably play GSC OU well enough, but to put up wins against the players on the teams above them is going to prove a real challenge. Not impossible though.
Shunko Jolteons: Truthfully, I had no idea who any of their OU slots were going to be, since Conflict was clearly going to play Ubers. As it turns out they went with Feaniix, agentkeval, and Piyush25. Piyush and Feaniix are good mons players for sure, with Piyush being able to pick up random wins in tiers you weren't sure they played or not, but neither is really a GSC OU name. You also have names like airfare and sadisticnarwhal who can play if necessary, but those players likewise probably don't have much GSC OU experience in tours. It will be interesting to see how it turns out - they are not bad players by any means but it's unquestionable a big question mark as to how they will perform.
Ladder-Bayleef Saints: Jhonx~ had a great recent GSC Cup run and is eager to make a splash in the GSC OU scene. But he is a raw talent that, hopefully for the Bayleefs, will mature into a top tier option as the season goes on. And with that, the rest is a giant leap of faith (no pun intended): Mizhume is a fantastic Doubles player but hasn't played GSC OU in probably several years. Chub is a great GSC player who knows the gen well, but typically plays lower tiers and not OU. Raahel likewise can play OU, but usually is seen in the lower tiers like UU and NU. Herv is a great overall mons player who wants to get into the tier, but, well, it better happen fast if the Bayleefs are going to have some magic here. But anything if possible if you believe...
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Thank you for reading! 