Cohosted by bobomania and Wubben. Approved by sharpclaw.
Welcome to the first ever
Random Battles Extension League, a tournament designed to help even more people play in a randbats team-tour setting! In RBEL, six teams battle it out to prove their skills in randomized formats.
Tournament Formats
Each team will play ten matchups per week, with all formats played as best of three. The formats are:
Gen 9 Random Battle
Gen 8 Random Battle
Gen 7 Random Battle
Gen 6 Random Battle
Gen 5 Random Battle
Gen 4 Random Battle
Gen 3 Random Battle
Gen 1 Random Battle
Gen 9 Random Doubles
Mystery Box
(Note: do not list "Mystery Box" in your signups.)
What is Mystery Box?
Mystery Box is a weekly slot that enables RBEL to remain as format-inclusive as possible while also giving drafted subs a more pivotal role. Each week, the format in the Mystery Box slot will change to a random selection from the pool below. In the round-robin phase of the tournament, a format will be randomly chosen from the Mystery Box each week, with repeats; thereafter, Mystery Box converts to a multi-format bo3 slot wherein Game 1 will always be Gen 9 Random Battle, and the following game(s) are loser-choose from any extant Mystery Box format. Tiebreakers will also follow this structure.
The Mystery Box formats are:
Code:
Gen 8 Battle Factory
Gen 8 BSS Factory
Gen 9 Hackmons Cup
Gen 2 Random Battle
Participation
The Extension League has been created to give those who were undrafted in RBTT a chance to participate in a team tour. As such, users currently participating in RBTT are unable to play in this tournament.
Teams and Managers
Each team will have ten starter slots and two substitute slots, and will be drafted via snake draft format on
either Saturday January 27 or Sunday January 28, pending manager availability (see below). Each team, in a randomized order, will select 1 player each round, with draft order reversal at the end of each round (i.e. teams will draft in the following order: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, repeat).
As this is the inaugural RBEL, the participating teams and their managers are yet to be determined. To sign up for the tournament as a player, fill out the form below. To sign up as a manager, click
here.
Signups
Signups will close on Friday January 26. The tournament will begin on Monday January 29, and the regular season is expected to run the following five weeks, with two weeks of playoffs immediately afterwards and tiebreaker weeks inserted when necessary. Please state any potential inactivity during this timeframe when signing up. Please copy and paste the form below.
Note: If you are currently playing in RBTT, you cannot sign up for RBEL. Neither banned nor blacklisted users are eligible to play in RBEL.
You may list individual formats in the Mystery Box in your preferences, but please also put at least one of the tournament's primary formats in your signup if you actually want to be drafted. Do not just sign up for "Mystery Box."
Code:
Smogon Username: TheOnePieceIsReal42
PS Username: WHITEBEARDVSROGER
Preferred Formats: gen7randombattle
Timezone: est
Foreseeable Inactivity:
ehhhh yeah
If you have any questions, feel free to ask the hosts, or check in with the Random Battles staff members in our
PS Room. Good luck to everyone signing up, and have fun!
