It's the time (or soon to be) of the year where we all forget that we fought against eachother in PL and get into the same page as one country (continent!). World cup is around the corner and we will be dividing it into 2 parts; Pre-World Cup, and World Cup. The former will be divided into 3 stages: discussion, managers signups, and players signups so we can run things as smoothly as we can.
Discussion stage [19 June 2019 - TBD]
Managers signups [14 July 2019 - 21 July 2019]
Players signups [22 July 2019 - TBD, somewhere around second week of August]
This is stage number one where we will discuss with the community our intentions and what we have changed / or expect to change in this year's World Cup. There's 3 main points that I'm going to touch, the first being metagames included, second being regions and third eligibility That's why I'm asking you to read everything carefully before making your post.
On metagames;
We have studied previous tournaments and have decided that this year's format will have;
USUM 1v1 Bo5
USUM 1v1 Bo5
USUM 1v1 Bo5
USUM 1v1 Bo5
ORAS 1v1 Bo5
ORAS 1v1 Bo5
BW 1v1 Bo5
DPP 1v1 Bo5
We have kept the four (4) USUM for World Cup as we feel that adding more spots to old generations would be, let's say, bad in a competitive vision as BW and DPP aren't ready to welcome a second slot and ORAS already has two and a third wouldn't give us a lot of awaited games. We have decided to remove 2v2 from World Cup as it isn't a metagame that we want to endorse in all 1v1 tournaments, we have added it in 1v1 Premier League so we can remove it from World Cup. 2v2 Doubles had average games this PL and last WC they were worse. This indicates that the play level of 2v2 Doubles is increasing but it isn't enough for us to justify it being used in both of our team tournaments, it is also a 1v1 "OM" and shouldn't follow us in all tournaments. DPP was added as it is an old gen of 1v1 and our objective was to develop more and more old gens, DPP was in Classic and PL and I'm sure it found it place in future 1v1 tournaments unlike ADV which is still struggling into getting a bigger playerbase or get represented somewhere other than Classic. Keep in mind that this selection isn't finalized and we might change it to revert changes, add a second BW slot or add an ADV slot if deemed necessary instead of any present metagame. This is why we have this discussion thread.
On region;
The mainevent of last 1v1 World Cup was the "amazing" Europe split that gave us 3 Europes. One Europe went on winning the WC (Coastal), one was so bad it ended up being last (North), and one was middle tier (South). This year we have 3 options that I'd like to propose.
Option A: Utilize last year's US and Europe map,
Europe Map HERE, USA Map HERE
That Map split gives us 8 teams: Asia, Canada+OCE, Coastal, South+Africa, and North Europe, Central+Latin, West, and East US.
Option B: To balance things out we can split Europe into 2 instead of 3 parts first being Germany+Netherlands and second being Rest of Europe this way we can keep the high playerbase of Coastal but give Europe a little needed boost. This will make us follow Smogon's US map:
Now we have: Asia, Germany+Netherlands, Canada+OCE, Europe, West, Midwest, south and Northeast US. Keep in mind that we still have Latin America and Africa which we can add to any lackluster team, PLUS we can put Canada with any US part that seems lacking.
Option C: Your turn to split the regions! Make it smart though.
On eligibility;
We will be using Smogon's eligibility: Players may only play for the regions associated with their forum IPs. You can be grandfathered from that rule IF YOU PLAYED LAST World Cup. A player that has played last year for Asia but now reside in Europe may either pick their last year's team (here being Asia) OR their IP team (being Europe here). Choose wisely cause YOU WILL BE TEAM LOCKED FOR FUTURE WORLD CUPS unless your team gets deleted or split in future editions.
Your turn,
Now it's your turn to give us your opinion! Which region splits would you rather have? If none works for you, which region split do u think will suit us better
Are the metas satisfying? Or is there 2 much SM, would you rather see one more Bw slot or an ADV slot instead? Should we add more to the eligibility rule or it is fine as it is? Please only reply with legit arguments and not cause it would favor your regions. We will be reading carefully your comments and apply necessary changes if needed.
Discussion stage [19 June 2019 - TBD]
Managers signups [14 July 2019 - 21 July 2019]
Players signups [22 July 2019 - TBD, somewhere around second week of August]
This is stage number one where we will discuss with the community our intentions and what we have changed / or expect to change in this year's World Cup. There's 3 main points that I'm going to touch, the first being metagames included, second being regions and third eligibility That's why I'm asking you to read everything carefully before making your post.
On metagames;
We have studied previous tournaments and have decided that this year's format will have;
USUM 1v1 Bo5
USUM 1v1 Bo5
USUM 1v1 Bo5
USUM 1v1 Bo5
ORAS 1v1 Bo5
ORAS 1v1 Bo5
BW 1v1 Bo5
DPP 1v1 Bo5
We have kept the four (4) USUM for World Cup as we feel that adding more spots to old generations would be, let's say, bad in a competitive vision as BW and DPP aren't ready to welcome a second slot and ORAS already has two and a third wouldn't give us a lot of awaited games. We have decided to remove 2v2 from World Cup as it isn't a metagame that we want to endorse in all 1v1 tournaments, we have added it in 1v1 Premier League so we can remove it from World Cup. 2v2 Doubles had average games this PL and last WC they were worse. This indicates that the play level of 2v2 Doubles is increasing but it isn't enough for us to justify it being used in both of our team tournaments, it is also a 1v1 "OM" and shouldn't follow us in all tournaments. DPP was added as it is an old gen of 1v1 and our objective was to develop more and more old gens, DPP was in Classic and PL and I'm sure it found it place in future 1v1 tournaments unlike ADV which is still struggling into getting a bigger playerbase or get represented somewhere other than Classic. Keep in mind that this selection isn't finalized and we might change it to revert changes, add a second BW slot or add an ADV slot if deemed necessary instead of any present metagame. This is why we have this discussion thread.
On region;
The mainevent of last 1v1 World Cup was the "amazing" Europe split that gave us 3 Europes. One Europe went on winning the WC (Coastal), one was so bad it ended up being last (North), and one was middle tier (South). This year we have 3 options that I'd like to propose.
Option A: Utilize last year's US and Europe map,
Europe Map HERE, USA Map HERE
That Map split gives us 8 teams: Asia, Canada+OCE, Coastal, South+Africa, and North Europe, Central+Latin, West, and East US.
Option B: To balance things out we can split Europe into 2 instead of 3 parts first being Germany+Netherlands and second being Rest of Europe this way we can keep the high playerbase of Coastal but give Europe a little needed boost. This will make us follow Smogon's US map:
Now we have: Asia, Germany+Netherlands, Canada+OCE, Europe, West, Midwest, south and Northeast US. Keep in mind that we still have Latin America and Africa which we can add to any lackluster team, PLUS we can put Canada with any US part that seems lacking.
Option C: Your turn to split the regions! Make it smart though.
On eligibility;
We will be using Smogon's eligibility: Players may only play for the regions associated with their forum IPs. You can be grandfathered from that rule IF YOU PLAYED LAST World Cup. A player that has played last year for Asia but now reside in Europe may either pick their last year's team (here being Asia) OR their IP team (being Europe here). Choose wisely cause YOU WILL BE TEAM LOCKED FOR FUTURE WORLD CUPS unless your team gets deleted or split in future editions.
Your turn,
Now it's your turn to give us your opinion! Which region splits would you rather have? If none works for you, which region split do u think will suit us better
Are the metas satisfying? Or is there 2 much SM, would you rather see one more Bw slot or an ADV slot instead? Should we add more to the eligibility rule or it is fine as it is? Please only reply with legit arguments and not cause it would favor your regions. We will be reading carefully your comments and apply necessary changes if needed.
