Tournaments ADV PL II - Announcements and Administrative Decisions

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Host Team: Arai, Nol, susciety
Tournaments Rules and General Guidelines
Spreadsheet (Thank you Ticken!)

How does ADVPL work?

There will be 6 teams, each with their own manager and assistant manager. Management duos will do a SPL-style auction on Pokemon Showdown!, where they will take turns nominating and bidding in an auction for players who signed up to assemble their teams with limited credits available. The teams will then play one another for 5 weeks, with a new opponent each week. This will culminate with a Playoffs week consisting of the Top 3 teams overall from the 5-week main season.

How does one signup as a player?

Player signups are projected to begin Sunday March 13th and will be open until 24 hours before the auction (see below; about two weeks). You should include your name, timezone, metagames you are willing to play, and any expected inactivity. Do not sign up if you cannot commit to the entire tournament. ADVPL II is expected to run from the end of March to the middle of May.

If I am selected as a captain, can I still play for my team?

Each team will be allowed to retain at most 3 players from their retain pool and self-purchasing managers (so if you choose to self purchase 1 manager you only get 2 retains etc.). Teams must notify the host team of any retains prior to the player auction.

When is the ADVPL II Auction?

The auction date will occur during March 25th / 26th / 27th when at least one representative of each team will be available.

When does ADVPL II Week 1 start?

Monday March 28th.

The General Manager of a team is essentially the boss of a team. The GM is the final word in all decisions (barring the hosts) regarding their team. The GM decides which players play on the team, who plays in what position, and even handles the team finances. Managers also make sure that the team keeps running on a day to day basis. If a team fails to complete their matches by the end of the allotted time, the onus is on the manager to inform the hosts as to what happened in order to make sure that proper activity calls are made.

Because of these responsibilities, The General Manager is probably the most important part of the team. As such, the position of GM is not one to be taken lightly.

• General Managers are chosen largely on a subjective opinion of the hosts as well as ADV Moderation Team as to who they believe would be fit for the position. Being fit for the position includes the knowledge of excellent battlers in the community (for fielding a competent team), having above average activity on the forums, Pokémon Showdown and/or Discord (in order to ensure that you don’t abandon your team), as well as possessing a necessary amount of “gravitas” (If you can’t make a player do what you tell them to, such as play an undesirable metagame, you’re not going to make a good manager).

General Managers are required to acquire one Assistant Manager. The General Manager gets full sovereignty in choosing their assistant manager. The assistant manager is essentially the second in command for the team. They have all of the functions and roles as the General Manager does, the GM just trumps them in head-to-head decisions.

Lastly, the General Manager has the following duties:

• They shall choose one Assistant Manager.
• They shall make the hosts aware of any player retentions by the time player signups close.
• They shall be present at the live auction, or appoint someone (the Assistant Manager) to participate in the live auction in their stead.
• They shall send the hosts weekly rosters.
• They shall ensure to the best of their abilities that their battlers complete their matches on time.
• In the event that a match fails to be completed, they shall inform the hosts as to why the match failed to be completed, and what their battler did in order to finish the match.
• They shall communicate any grievances with the hosts.

Total money for teams is 100,000 credits.

In the weeks preceding the Live Auction, a time will be chosen where at least 1 Manager or Assistant Manager from each team can meet and perform a live auction in order to choose players. The Manager and/or Assistant Manager present will be expected to remain at the auction for the entire duration, which should take approximately 2 hours.

Once a time is set, all attending Managers + Hosts will enter the place where the auction will be held - most likely a group chat for the auction. Spectators are allowed to join in to watch the auction, but will not be able to speak. Discussion on the bidding should be relegated to the ADV Discord.

The hosts will first ask a team to nominate a player. The order by which teams will nominate players will go in a randomized snaking pattern from the first chosen team to the last chosen team, then the last chosen team to the first chosen team. Details of said player will be displayed and bidding will commence, starting at 3000 credits, with the nominating team automatically placing the first bid. The auction will then be in real time. Managers will simply put in their bids in the chat, raising a minimum of 500 credits. If after 15 seconds there are no new bids, the player is sold to the highest bid in the channel. Updated credit totals will be displayed and then the next manager in the rotation will be prompted to nominate a player.

Managers: it is necessary for you to field a roster of 8 starters and a minimum of 2 substitutes. Playing Managers and retains are included in the roster number. Players will be locked into playing only the tiers they signed up for for the first two weeks of ADVPL II. This does not apply to players who go for 3k.

There is no midseason this year. Therefore, it is highly recommended that all teams spend all of their credits in the auction, as there is no use for them afterwards.

The league stages consist of a Round Robin tournament. Every team will face every other team once through 5 weeks of play. Each manager will submit to the hosts a roster no later than the deadline of the previous week. This roster will list the starting players and what metagames they will play.

When the week starts, teams' players will face off in their respective metagames / tiers. The ADV OU 1 from Team A will face the ADV OU 1 from team B, ADV OU 2 will face ADV OU 2, and so on. Whichever team wins the most battles will be declared the victor for the week. Rather than score based on how many individual battles a team wins, the primary thing that matters is who beat the most teams. As such, points are awarded based only on wins and losses versus teams as a whole, not individual players. Beating a team in a week’s matchups is worth two points, tying with a team is worth one point, and losing is worth none, simple as that. At the end of the round robin, the top three teams in the points proceed to the playoffs. Semifinals will see #2 vs. #3, Finals will be #1 vs. winner of #2 vs. #3.

There are a few regulatory things during the league stages that need to be outlined.

1. Substitutes – At any point in time during the week, a team may make a substitution for a currently slotted player. In order to do this a manager must post in the thread, tagging the hosts, the opposing managers and the opposing player stating which player is substituting out, and which player is substituting in. A player that has substituted out for a week cannot be substituted back in. In addition, in order to catch any attempts at garnering favorable matchups in RBY OU (where the lineup you choose affects pairings), all substitutions are subject to veto by the hosts if the substitution is suspected to be attempting to “game” the system.

2. Trades - Trades are allowed before the start of Week 1. Both managers must confirm with the host team to complete a trade. Hosts can veto a trade if it is deemed completed lopsided.

3. Activity decisions – There are inevitably times where two players simply fail to complete a match; however, the nature of the tournament system sometimes makes it advantageous to purposely fail to play (such as when a team is up 5-4 in a week). Because of this, it is necessary to make activity decisions on matches. Hosts are required to make thorough investigations regarding each and every potential failed match during a week. If both parties are deemed to be equally apathetic or enthusiastic about getting the match done, but just have not had the opportunity to make it happen, the match will result in a no contest. However, if it is deemed that one party made significantly more effort than the other in attempting to get the match done, then a win will be awarded to that player. Things that will make it very likely that you will lose via activity include: failing to VM your opponent immediately upon the week’s start, scheduling a match and being documented as missing the match time, failing to provide any concrete times for which you can be reached, failing to respond to an opponent’s VM at all. Note that this is a tournament that requires a very high level of activity and diligence, if you don’t think you can get your matches done, quite simply don’t sign up.

4. Rule Breaking – There is no excuse for breaking any of the predetermined rules. If you are caught breaking a rule, you will lose your match. There is no lenience with regards to this. Break a rule, you lose. Period.

5. Reversing Rulings - No ruling will be retroactively overturned once the week following the week that the ruling has been made has ended. This includes: activity rulings / rulings based on rule breaking / anything else under the sun. I'm not going back in time to reevaluate every single decision I've made throughout the tournament on Week 9 because you think you were gypped 1-2 wins along the way and now they're the difference between you and a playoff spot. Any appeals to a ruling must be made during the week that the ruling is made; beyond that, all rulings are final once the week ends.

Projected Schedule:
Sunday March 6th - Manager Signups
Sunday March 13th - Player Signups
Saturday March 26th / Sunday April 27th - Live Auction
Sunday March 27th - Week 1
Sunday April 3rd - Week 2
Sunday April 10th - Week 3
Sunday April 17th - Week 4
Sunday April 24th - Week 5
Sunday May 1st - Semifinals
Sunday May 8th - Finals
Sunday May 15th - Tournament End

Teams:
Banned Bannettes - Star and bruno
Fortree Forretress' - eden and ziloXX
Sky Pillar Salamences - Jirachee and Colteor
Sealed Chamber Guardians - watermess and mikmer
Pomeg Berry Jirachis - Gilbert arenas and Sadlysius
Aquacorde Anglerfish - SuperEpicAmpharos and Hclat

Retains and Self Manager Purchases:
The deadline for retains and manager self purchases is Friday, March 25th.

Reminders
  • Replays are required for all matches.
  • Slots: ADV OU x3 / ADV UU x2 / ADV Ubers x2 / ADV NU x 1. All slots are Bo1.
  • Each team will have minimum 10 players (8 starters + 2 substitutes). You will have 100k credits to work with.
 
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A few bits of information:

The auction will take place on Saturday, March 26th at 1 PM EDT (GMT -4).

The following retentions and self-purchases have already occurred:
The Banned Bannettes have self-purchased Star for 15k.

The Fortree Forretress' have self-purchased eden for 15k and retained Endill for 11k.

The Sky Pillar Salamences have retained Kerts for 10k and Siglut for 10k.

The Sealed Chamber Guardians have self-purchased mikmer for 15k.

The Pomeg Berry Jirachis have retained Aliss for 10k.

The Aquacorde Anglerfish have retained dice for 10k and Heysup for 18.5k.
 

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Draft Results:

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McMeghan24000
Triangles22500
Heysup18500
Expulso16500
fatty16000
Shiba15500
JabbaTheGriffin15000
Star15000
eden15000
SuperEpicAmpharos15000
Pak14000
Abyssal Ruins13500
Jhonx~13000
Finchinator12500
Pak11000
robjr11000
Jisoo11000
RealJester11000
Kristyl11000
Raichy10500
The Strap10000
QWILY10000
Spl4sh10000
Kerts10000
Siglut10000
Aliss10000
Fc9500
Roseybear9500
Inspirited9500
Mead8500
Bushtush8000
0kay7500
pkThunderbolt7500
Make7000
crayon pop7000
ckw6500
TLTK6500
Ophion6000
airports6000
keys6000
A Hero's Destiny5500
Nalorium5500
nightcore5500
Elian5000
Excal5000
mncmt5000
Kenix5000
NEON_Voyager4500
mael4500
CyberOdin4500
Thor4500
Mushi Musha4500
Askov4000
BluBirD3500
innovamania3500
Zacpz3500
Beraldinho3500
Sakito3000
Ara3000
Goblin3000
Ron3000
Void3000
Xrn3000
HANTSUKI3000
crying3000
Raph3693000
MMII3000
BigFatMantis3000
Oathkeeper3000
gorex3000
BluesEnergy003000
ojr3000
Wamr3000
ArcticBreeze3000
Rampagewebber3000
Cousiin3000
mitana3000
Jimothy Cool3000
neomon3000
Star15000
Finchinator12500
robjr11000
Jisoo11000
QWILY10000
Bushtush8000
crayon pop7000
Excal5000
mncmt5000
Kenix5000
Askov4000
BluBirD3500
crying3000
eden15000
Pak14000
Endill11000
Raichy10500
Fc9500
Roseybear9500
ckw6500
Ophion6000
mael4500
CyberOdin4500
Void3000
Xrn3000
HANTSUKI3000
Triangles22500
Abyssal Ruins13500
Kerts10000
Siglut10000
Spl4sh10000
Inspirited9500
Mead8500
nightcore5500
Thor4500
Wamr3000
ArcticBreeze3000
McMeghan24000
JabbaTheGriffin15000
0kay7500
pkThunderbolt7500
TLTK6500
airports6000
Nalorium5500
innovamania3500
Zacpz3500
Raph3693000
MMII3000
BigFatMantis3000
Oathkeeper3000
gorex3000
BluesEnergy003000
ojr3000
Expulso16500
fatty16000
Jhonx~13000
The Strap10000
Aliss10000
Make7000
A Hero's Destiny5500
Elian5000
NEON_Voyager4500
Sakito3000
Ara3000
Goblin3000
Ron3000
Heysup18500
Shiba15500
SuperEpicAmpharos15000
RealJester11000
Kristyl11000
keys6000
Mushi Musha4500
Beraldinho3500
Rampagewebber3000
Cousiin3000
mitana3000
Jimothy Cool3000
neomon3000

Schedule:
Week One
Banned Bannettes vs Sealed Chamber Guardians
Fortree Forretress' vs Pomeg Berry Jirachis
Sky Pillar Salamences vs Aquacorde Anglerfish

Week Two
Banned Bannettes vs Fortree Forretress'
Sky Pillar Salamences vs Sealed Chamber Guardians
Aquacorde Anglerfish vs Pomeg Berry Jirachis

Week Three
Banned Bannettes vs Sky Pillar Salamences
Aquacorde Anglerfish vs Fortree Forretress'
Pomeg Berry Jirachis vs Sealed Chamber Guardians

Week Four
Banned Bannettes vs Aquacorde Anglerfish
Pomeg Berry Jirachis vs Sky Pillar Salamences
Sealed Chamber Guardians vs Fortree Forretress'

Week Five
Banned Bannettes vs Pomeg Berry Jirachis
Sealed Chamber Guardians vs Aquacorde Anglerfish
Fortree Forretress' vs Sky Pillar Salamences
 

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The ADV Council has banned Soundproof from ADV OU. Because this ban occurred after the start of the week, Soundproof will still be usable in OU for this week and banned starting next.

Additionally, airports left the Sealed Chamber Guardians' teamcord and expressed their intention not to join back. The Guardians were allowed to choose a replacement from the undrafted pool and have chosen pokology.
 

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re: Star vs mad dawg, mncmt vs fatty
No visible contact was made and no win was claimed, these are dead games.

re: Raichy vs Abyssal Ruins
Contact was made but a definite time was never agreed on and no win was claimed, dead game.

re: innovamania vs SuperEpicAmpharos
Both teams agreed to a dead game.
 
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