OP inspired by last year’s Secret Santa thread!
Happy Holidays everyone, and welcome to UU’s annual Secret Santa event! It’s similar to real-life Secret Santa exchanges, except grown adults won’t look at you funny for gifting them teams of Pokémon! In case you’ve never participated in a Secret Santa before, here’s how it works:
- Sign up to participate by Tuesday, December 7th 2021 @ 11:59PM GMT-5 (EST)!
- DM me, and provide a single Pokémon or small core of Pokémon you would like to have a team made with.
- Get anonymously paired with another user.
- Design a team for your partner around their chosen Pokémon or core before the submission deadline (Wednesday, December 22nd 2021 @ 11:59PM GMT-5 (EST)).
- On Christmas Day, receive your gifted team via DM from me!
- (Optional but recommended): Discuss your team/thank your Secret Santa in this thread!
- To sign up, post "in" in this thread (or otherwise make it obvious that you want to participate in your post).
- Please, only sign up if you can commit to building a team for your partner. I can help a little if needed but can’t build for everyone!
- This is a Secret Santa – don’t reveal what your request was or what request you received!
- DM me (on Discord @Celebiii#4540 or on Smogon Celebiii) with your requested Pokémon/core after signing up, but before the submission deadline. If you don’t send me a request before the deadline, your sign-up will unfortunately have to be disqualified! Don’t make me be a Grinch!
- Try to keep requests limited to UU-viable Pokémon. If you really want a team with an unranked Pokémon, you can request it, but the resulting team may not be as viable as you might hope!
- Requests of cores are preferable to requests of individual Pokémon (for example, Hydreigon + Sylveon, instead of just Hydreigon), unless one of the Pokémon is difficult to build with.
- It will make it much easier for your Secret Santa to build a team you like if you also include the style of team you would like built with your requested Pokémon/core (ex. bulky offense, balance, hyper offense, stall, sun, etc.)
- If you would like the Pokémon you request to have a specific set, please mention this in your request!
- If you don't want me to see the team you made, you can use https://cryptobin.co/. Make sure you provide me with the password to the paste so that your partner can see the finished team after you gift it to them!
- Feel free to join even if you are fairly new to teambuilding! I will help out where I can with teambuilding, but the joy of the event is in sending, building, and receiving teams from another person (and possibly guessing at who could have made yours!).
- You can change your request anytime before the sign-up deadline – just make sure you’re clear that you want it changed!
- Have fun!
Again, the all-important deadlines:
The sign-up deadline to participate in the project is: Tuesday, December 7th 2021 @ 11:59PM GMT-5 (EST)
The final team submission deadline is: Wednesday, December 22nd 2021 @ 11:59PM GMT-5 (EST)
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