First thing's first: Before doing anything else, please fill out this google form: https://forms.gle/3STWiadH4AdBNaij8
here's a map of us regions in case u are confused
Now that we're past that, I'd like to quickly say hi! TylerTheMilotic and myself will be hosting this year's iteration of National Dex World Cup. Before we start manager signups and stuff, there's a few elements of the tournament that we need to work out.
Firstly, the tiers. There's been discussion of going with all NatDex OU or making the tour more NatDex OU-centric; however, we want to hear everyone's input. As a baseline, We are going to put a hard minimum to 3 NatDex OU. Ideally, we are going to have 8 slots per team this year, but that is also open to discussion. Here is what we had last year:
We believe the community has grown to a point where we can have 8 slots. Thus, we are proposing the following for this year:
Now that we've gone over the tiers, we'd like to address the format of the tournament itself. Last year, we used a two-sided format with mini round robins in each side. This format works on paper, but it's not very exciting (imo at least). Thus, I'd like to propose that we move forward with a similar two-sided format, but instead of running mini round robins in both sides, we have a pools stage. A good example of this in action can be seen with OMWC IV. Basically, an advantage of this means we can have 8/10/12/any even number of regions (in moderation ofc) participate in the first part of NDWC II. I also believe that a pools stage makes the first half of the tournament more proactive, but that might just me. Anyway, feel free to comment on this as well.
here's a map of us regions in case u are confused
Now that we're past that, I'd like to quickly say hi! TylerTheMilotic and myself will be hosting this year's iteration of National Dex World Cup. Before we start manager signups and stuff, there's a few elements of the tournament that we need to work out.
Firstly, the tiers. There's been discussion of going with all NatDex OU or making the tour more NatDex OU-centric; however, we want to hear everyone's input. As a baseline, We are going to put a hard minimum to 3 NatDex OU. Ideally, we are going to have 8 slots per team this year, but that is also open to discussion. Here is what we had last year:
National Dex OU
National Dex OU
National Dex UU
National Dex AG
National Dex Monotype
Best of 3 [OU / UU / AG] [Game 1 will be OU, loser picks G2]
National Dex OU
National Dex UU
National Dex AG
National Dex Monotype
Best of 3 [OU / UU / AG] [Game 1 will be OU, loser picks G2]
- National Dex OU #1
- National Dex OU #2
- National Dex OU #3
- National Dex OU #4
- National Dex UU
- National Dex AG
- National Dex Monotype
- Bo3 [OU / UU / AG / Monotype] [Game 1 will be OU, loser picks G2] -- this is still a Bo3; however, now people can opt into picking Monotype instead of AG or UU, for example.
Now that we've gone over the tiers, we'd like to address the format of the tournament itself. Last year, we used a two-sided format with mini round robins in each side. This format works on paper, but it's not very exciting (imo at least). Thus, I'd like to propose that we move forward with a similar two-sided format, but instead of running mini round robins in both sides, we have a pools stage. A good example of this in action can be seen with OMWC IV. Basically, an advantage of this means we can have 8/10/12/any even number of regions (in moderation ofc) participate in the first part of NDWC II. I also believe that a pools stage makes the first half of the tournament more proactive, but that might just me. Anyway, feel free to comment on this as well.
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