Hello!
With the first roomtour of Cycle 2 beginning tomorrow at 3 PM EST, we had to just get one more thing into place before we can start.
As I mentioned earlier, someone proposed in the survey that Moves and Items should cost more points to ban as they have an extremely powerful effect, more so than Pokemon bans. After some discussions with others on the Banhammers Discord, we've made a decision!
For Cycle 2:
- Banning a Pokemon will cost 1 point, like last time
- Banning a Move or Ability will cost 2 points
- Banning an Item will cost 3 points
- If you only gained a single point from the tournament (i.e. If you lost your one game in a single elimination bracket but you did finish the game), you are allowed to ban something that normally costs 2 points.
This new system does a couple of things, keeping the sheer number of bans down for easier teambuilding, adds more strategy to banning things, incentivizes getting far in tournaments so you're able to ban more things while keeping the gap between those who always lose early and those who always go far smaller, and more. I'm very interested to see how this system pans out over the course of Cycle 2, so I hope you'll join us for it!
As mentioned earlier, Cycle 2 begins tomorrow at 3 PM EST! As nothing's been banned yet, this tournament will be played using normal SV OU rules and it will be played on the main Pokemon Showdown server in the Pet Mods room! The Pet Mods room isn't public, so you either need to click the link in the last sentence or go on Showdown, go to the plus button where the chatroom are shown, scroll to the bottom, click "Join other room" and type "petmods". See you there!
With the first roomtour of Cycle 2 beginning tomorrow at 3 PM EST, we had to just get one more thing into place before we can start.
As I mentioned earlier, someone proposed in the survey that Moves and Items should cost more points to ban as they have an extremely powerful effect, more so than Pokemon bans. After some discussions with others on the Banhammers Discord, we've made a decision!
For Cycle 2:
- Banning a Pokemon will cost 1 point, like last time
- Banning a Move or Ability will cost 2 points
- Banning an Item will cost 3 points
- If you only gained a single point from the tournament (i.e. If you lost your one game in a single elimination bracket but you did finish the game), you are allowed to ban something that normally costs 2 points.
This new system does a couple of things, keeping the sheer number of bans down for easier teambuilding, adds more strategy to banning things, incentivizes getting far in tournaments so you're able to ban more things while keeping the gap between those who always lose early and those who always go far smaller, and more. I'm very interested to see how this system pans out over the course of Cycle 2, so I hope you'll join us for it!
As mentioned earlier, Cycle 2 begins tomorrow at 3 PM EST! As nothing's been banned yet, this tournament will be played using normal SV OU rules and it will be played on the main Pokemon Showdown server in the Pet Mods room! The Pet Mods room isn't public, so you either need to click the link in the last sentence or go on Showdown, go to the plus button where the chatroom are shown, scroll to the bottom, click "Join other room" and type "petmods". See you there!