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Tournament CAP Metagame Forum Tournament Queue and Tournament Approval Thread
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Tournament Name: CAP One Move Tournament
Tournament Host(s): Me and probably some other person since this is my first time hosting ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
Tournament Timeline: Signups 1 week after approval. Tour will last 2 weeks after end of signups.
Host Experience: As I said, this is my first time hosting.
Tournament Description: A team tour, where each team must share at least one move between them.
Tournament Style: BO3.
Tournament Banlist: No megas or dynamax/gigantamax.
Tournament Justification: I just kinda want to see what it would be like to host a tour ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
Tournament Host(s): Me and probably some other person since this is my first time hosting ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
Tournament Timeline: Signups 1 week after approval. Tour will last 2 weeks after end of signups.
Host Experience: As I said, this is my first time hosting.
Tournament Description: A team tour, where each team must share at least one move between them.
Tournament Style: BO3.
Tournament Banlist: No megas or dynamax/gigantamax.
Tournament Justification: I just kinda want to see what it would be like to host a tour ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
Tournament Name: SS CAP Ghosting Tournament
Tournament Host(s): Me!
Tournament Timeline: Ideally, I see this tour starting up around when CAP 30 Playtest ends.
Host Experience: I am currently hosting the CAP Ladder Tournament, which (in my humble opinion), has been a great success!
Tournament Discription: Participants will sign up in teams of two. They will then together play a singular Bo3 against another team. Teammates "Ghosting" or communicating with each other during the game is not only allowed, but encouraged!
Tournament Style: SS CAP Bo3, Double Elimination.
Tournament Banlist: Standard SS CAP Banlist.
Tournament Justification: The Ladder tournament has opened my eyes to how fun playing the game is while you're in call with your friends, so this tournament attempts to play off that a bit. I realize it's sort of an odd way of playing a tournament, but laddering with a friend is a really fun way of playing the game, so I hope to emulate that in a tournament setting!
Tournament Host(s): Me!
Tournament Timeline: Ideally, I see this tour starting up around when CAP 30 Playtest ends.
Host Experience: I am currently hosting the CAP Ladder Tournament, which (in my humble opinion), has been a great success!
Tournament Discription: Participants will sign up in teams of two. They will then together play a singular Bo3 against another team. Teammates "Ghosting" or communicating with each other during the game is not only allowed, but encouraged!
Tournament Style: SS CAP Bo3, Double Elimination.
Tournament Banlist: Standard SS CAP Banlist.
Tournament Justification: The Ladder tournament has opened my eyes to how fun playing the game is while you're in call with your friends, so this tournament attempts to play off that a bit. I realize it's sort of an odd way of playing a tournament, but laddering with a friend is a really fun way of playing the game, so I hope to emulate that in a tournament setting!
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Tournament Name: National Dex CAP Startup tournament
Tournament Host(s): Me and Aurodian
Tournament Time Frame: Whenever the schedules clear, as for round lengths, probably just standard week-long rounds, the amount of rounds would depend on how many signups there are.
Host experience: i have minimal hosting experience, however, Auro has hosted a handful of tournaments in the National Dex, OU, and RoA Forums.
Tournament Description:
Tournament Style: Bo3, Single elimination
Tournament Banlist: National Dex OU Banlist (-caps)
Tournament Justification: We think that, as people who are part of both the NatDex and CAP communities, playing with CAPs in a national dex setting would be very fun, not only allowing experimentation with generation 8 caps using Z-moves, but also allowing old ones to revisit sets they've used in prior generations in a setting more akin to ss. Ive also talked to a handful of people both in the nd and in the cap communities and the general consensus was that it sounded like a fun tour.
Tournament Host(s): Me and Aurodian
Tournament Time Frame: Whenever the schedules clear, as for round lengths, probably just standard week-long rounds, the amount of rounds would depend on how many signups there are.
Host experience: i have minimal hosting experience, however, Auro has hosted a handful of tournaments in the National Dex, OU, and RoA Forums.
Tournament Description:
Tournament Style: Bo3, Single elimination
Tournament Banlist: National Dex OU Banlist (-caps)
Tournament Justification: We think that, as people who are part of both the NatDex and CAP communities, playing with CAPs in a national dex setting would be very fun, not only allowing experimentation with generation 8 caps using Z-moves, but also allowing old ones to revisit sets they've used in prior generations in a setting more akin to ss. Ive also talked to a handful of people both in the nd and in the cap communities and the general consensus was that it sounded like a fun tour.
Tournament Name: SS CAP Cyclohm Cup II
Tournament Host: Me
Tournament Time Frame: Signups open September 5th, having the first week coincide with finals for the ladder tour. This tour should last somewhere around two months.
Host Experience: You know me by now.
Tournament Description: Users sign up in teams of three in order to battle other groups. After each team plays each other the two with the most wins move on to the finals. If there's a higher than expected number of signups there may be room for a semifinal round.
Tournament Style: Team-based round robin with single elimination playoffs. Individual matches are best of one.
Tournament Banlist: Standard SS CAP banlist
Tournament Justification: Team tours are fun. Smaller groups allow for the tour to be run more expediently, simpler communication among teammates, and closer bonds of true friendship. Round robin ensures a higher level of interaction between teams, however if there's a significant number of signups this can be changed to single or double elim.
Tournament Host: Me
Tournament Time Frame: Signups open September 5th, having the first week coincide with finals for the ladder tour. This tour should last somewhere around two months.
Host Experience: You know me by now.
Tournament Description: Users sign up in teams of three in order to battle other groups. After each team plays each other the two with the most wins move on to the finals. If there's a higher than expected number of signups there may be room for a semifinal round.
Tournament Style: Team-based round robin with single elimination playoffs. Individual matches are best of one.
Tournament Banlist: Standard SS CAP banlist
Tournament Justification: Team tours are fun. Smaller groups allow for the tour to be run more expediently, simpler communication among teammates, and closer bonds of true friendship. Round robin ensures a higher level of interaction between teams, however if there's a significant number of signups this can be changed to single or double elim.
Tournament Name: BW CAP Revival Tour
Tournament Host(s): me and Tadasuke
Tournament Time Frame: Planning to start as soon as swiss ends, so signups would go up during playoffs. This tournament should last around a month and a half.
Host experience: I don't have any tour hosting experience myself, but the esteemed tadasuke will be helping!
Tournament Description:
Tournament Style: Swiss style bracket, best of three. Swiss rather than single elimination means that many more games will played, which is exactly what an underdeveloped metagame needs.
Tournament Banlist: Standard BW OU banlist, but with all CAPmons from gens 4 and 5 included.
Tournament Justification: This tournament will serve to jumpstart the revival of a lost metagame much like what was done with the ORAS CAP revival tour. The BW CAP meta has been dead since gen 5 ended, with no real resources or even it's own challenge format for people to play on, however over the course of this year it's had enough interest for gradual development, leading what is now a pretty solid foundation of resources that new players can use to get started. These resources will be available in the form of a BW CAP hub by the time this tournament starts.
Tournament Host(s): me and Tadasuke
Tournament Time Frame: Planning to start as soon as swiss ends, so signups would go up during playoffs. This tournament should last around a month and a half.
Host experience: I don't have any tour hosting experience myself, but the esteemed tadasuke will be helping!
Tournament Description:
Tournament Style: Swiss style bracket, best of three. Swiss rather than single elimination means that many more games will played, which is exactly what an underdeveloped metagame needs.
Tournament Banlist: Standard BW OU banlist, but with all CAPmons from gens 4 and 5 included.
Tournament Justification: This tournament will serve to jumpstart the revival of a lost metagame much like what was done with the ORAS CAP revival tour. The BW CAP meta has been dead since gen 5 ended, with no real resources or even it's own challenge format for people to play on, however over the course of this year it's had enough interest for gradual development, leading what is now a pretty solid foundation of resources that new players can use to get started. These resources will be available in the form of a BW CAP hub by the time this tournament starts.
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approved via nepotism and mod corruption
For both the NatDex and BW tours, I'd like to see resources published before officially approving anything. I'll update you on timing once they're put together, but this will be done on a first come first serve basis.
Tournament Name: CAP LC Revival Tournament
Tournament Host(s): Myself and Da Pizza Man
Tournament Time Frame: The signups will begin the Sunday after this tour is approved. Signups will run for one week, then every round will run for one week.
Host experience: I do not have any forum tour hosting experience, but I have been a participant in all tours in the 2021 CAP Tournament Circuit so far, and I've also been a regular host of roomtours in the Showdown CAP room as a room driver. Da Pizza Man has some experience from hosting The Gauntlet III, an unofficial forum tournament from ORAS, as well as participation in both older forum tours and current tours such as the CAP29 Playtest and the Summer Seasonal.
Tournament Description: This is a standard SS LC single elimination Bo3 tour, with all LC-eligible CAP pre-evolutions added.
Tournament Style: Single Elimination Bo3, SS LC with CAP LC prevos.
Tournament Banlist: Standard SS LC banlist. Note that Cawdet is unbanned, despite being banned in versions of CAP LC from previous generations, due to the problematic Belly Drum being completely removed from its movepool.
Tournament Justification: For one, this is the first time all generation that CAP LC has been in a playable state, thanks to the pre-evolution updates that were recently completed. There is already a small but dedicated playerbase with interest in the metagame, and a forum tour seems like a good way to help keep the metagame developing. For another, there has been some interest in getting CAP LC into CAP Snake Draft, so this tour is intended to help identify any issues so they can be properly resolved before Snake Draft tiers are decided.
Tournament Host(s): Myself and Da Pizza Man
Tournament Time Frame: The signups will begin the Sunday after this tour is approved. Signups will run for one week, then every round will run for one week.
Host experience: I do not have any forum tour hosting experience, but I have been a participant in all tours in the 2021 CAP Tournament Circuit so far, and I've also been a regular host of roomtours in the Showdown CAP room as a room driver. Da Pizza Man has some experience from hosting The Gauntlet III, an unofficial forum tournament from ORAS, as well as participation in both older forum tours and current tours such as the CAP29 Playtest and the Summer Seasonal.
Tournament Description: This is a standard SS LC single elimination Bo3 tour, with all LC-eligible CAP pre-evolutions added.
Tournament Style: Single Elimination Bo3, SS LC with CAP LC prevos.
Tournament Banlist: Standard SS LC banlist. Note that Cawdet is unbanned, despite being banned in versions of CAP LC from previous generations, due to the problematic Belly Drum being completely removed from its movepool.
Tournament Justification: For one, this is the first time all generation that CAP LC has been in a playable state, thanks to the pre-evolution updates that were recently completed. There is already a small but dedicated playerbase with interest in the metagame, and a forum tour seems like a good way to help keep the metagame developing. For another, there has been some interest in getting CAP LC into CAP Snake Draft, so this tour is intended to help identify any issues so they can be properly resolved before Snake Draft tiers are decided.
Tournament Name: STour CAP Edition
Tournament Host(s): Myself
Tournament Time Frame: Sunday closest to when and if this tour is approved, signup stage would be one week, while all rounds will be one week along excluding extensions. Any future free slot works for this really.
Host experience: Longass list, hosted SM Cup, SM SSNL, multiple RoA and Smogon Tour Livetours, couple of RoA Spotlights, Natdex Monotype PL and NFE PL, currently hosting RoA Team Trials, Natdex Fall SSNL and RoAST. I've also hosted some forum tours like OU Bootless tour, Natdex ghosting tour and economy tour.
Tournament Description: Bo3 Tournament featuring SS Cap, SM Cap, and Oras Cap as the tiers, first tier is SS Cap, loser picks the next tier, basically mimicing Stour but the Cap version.
Tournament Style: Single Elimination Bo3, SS Cap, SM Cap, Oras Cap,
Tournament Banlist: No Banlist changes for the three aforementioned metagames.
Tournament Justification: Oras Cap and SM Cap are beginning their "revival phase" so to speak, ie both metagames have gotten remembrance tours of some kind in the past, (Oras Cap revival tournament, Nostalgia for SM Cap revival Tournament), along with old gen analyses being rebooted and i think presenting these metas being playable once more in the form of a stour styled tournament would be a great way to present them even more. STour using CG + past two closest old gens has always been a nice grasp for players and can see the similar effect here in CAP.
Tournament Host(s): Myself
Tournament Time Frame: Sunday closest to when and if this tour is approved, signup stage would be one week, while all rounds will be one week along excluding extensions. Any future free slot works for this really.
Host experience: Longass list, hosted SM Cup, SM SSNL, multiple RoA and Smogon Tour Livetours, couple of RoA Spotlights, Natdex Monotype PL and NFE PL, currently hosting RoA Team Trials, Natdex Fall SSNL and RoAST. I've also hosted some forum tours like OU Bootless tour, Natdex ghosting tour and economy tour.
Tournament Description: Bo3 Tournament featuring SS Cap, SM Cap, and Oras Cap as the tiers, first tier is SS Cap, loser picks the next tier, basically mimicing Stour but the Cap version.
Tournament Style: Single Elimination Bo3, SS Cap, SM Cap, Oras Cap,
Tournament Banlist: No Banlist changes for the three aforementioned metagames.
Tournament Justification: Oras Cap and SM Cap are beginning their "revival phase" so to speak, ie both metagames have gotten remembrance tours of some kind in the past, (Oras Cap revival tournament, Nostalgia for SM Cap revival Tournament), along with old gen analyses being rebooted and i think presenting these metas being playable once more in the form of a stour styled tournament would be a great way to present them even more. STour using CG + past two closest old gens has always been a nice grasp for players and can see the similar effect here in CAP.
Tournament Name: Inaugural BDSP CAP Tournament
Tournament Host(s): Myself and Estronic
Tournament Time Frame: I would hope to get signups up on December 12, as we would like to have a tournament soon in order to test the metagame.
Host experience: Hosted the CAP Ladder Tournament (an absolute classic of a tournament) and I'm hosting the Ghosting Tournament which is coming up soon.
Tournament Description: Bo3 Tournament featuring the gen 4 CAPs alongside the BDSP OU mons. This will serve as a great way to see how the changes to the metagame and movepools of the mons have effected the 11 BDSP CAPs.
Tournament Style: Single Elimination Bo3
Tournament Banlist: BDSP OU Banlist
Tournament Justification: A number of us have been working hard to get the gen 4 CAPs ready for BDSP CAP, and movepools are finally done for them! The best way to test the new tier would be to have a tournament with them all thrown into the BDSP OU mix. We hope that the tournament can be informative of how certain CAPs benefitted or were hurt by the BDSP dex and move cuts. Namely, Krilowatt and Voodoom look particularly strong, while Kitsunoh seems to have lost some of its previous oomph. Additionally, the meta has been super fun and fast-paced in the few test games that have happened, so I think now is a great opportunity to open it up for everyone to play around with!
Tournament Host(s): Myself and Estronic
Tournament Time Frame: I would hope to get signups up on December 12, as we would like to have a tournament soon in order to test the metagame.
Host experience: Hosted the CAP Ladder Tournament (an absolute classic of a tournament) and I'm hosting the Ghosting Tournament which is coming up soon.
Tournament Description: Bo3 Tournament featuring the gen 4 CAPs alongside the BDSP OU mons. This will serve as a great way to see how the changes to the metagame and movepools of the mons have effected the 11 BDSP CAPs.
Tournament Style: Single Elimination Bo3
Tournament Banlist: BDSP OU Banlist
Tournament Justification: A number of us have been working hard to get the gen 4 CAPs ready for BDSP CAP, and movepools are finally done for them! The best way to test the new tier would be to have a tournament with them all thrown into the BDSP OU mix. We hope that the tournament can be informative of how certain CAPs benefitted or were hurt by the BDSP dex and move cuts. Namely, Krilowatt and Voodoom look particularly strong, while Kitsunoh seems to have lost some of its previous oomph. Additionally, the meta has been super fun and fast-paced in the few test games that have happened, so I think now is a great opportunity to open it up for everyone to play around with!
Approving this to start signups on Sunday. Would definitely be worthwhile to learn a good bit about this meta before the winter tour gets into full swing.
Approved, but I'd like to delay opening signups until the winter tour starts winding down just to avoid too much overlap and player burnout.
Tournament Name: CAP LC Winter Tour
Tournament Host(s): Myself
Tournament Time Frame: Sign-ups from January 3rd through January 16th, tour starting on January 17th.
Host experience: None
Tournament Description: Bo3 CAP LC Tournament. Cawdet is now banned from CAP LC.
Tournament Style: Single Elimination Bo3
Tournament Banlist: Standard CAP LC Banlist
Tournament Justification: The CAP LC playerbase has been itching for another tour following the Cawdet ban. The CAP LC Council believes another tournament is an ideal testing space to develop and assess the new metagame. Additionally, this tournament would serve as a chance to evaluate Solotl's impact on the meta, as it and Cawdet were determined to be the two most overbearing and centralizing forces in the CAP LC Revival meta.
Tournament Host(s): Myself
Tournament Time Frame: Sign-ups from January 3rd through January 16th, tour starting on January 17th.
Host experience: None
Tournament Description: Bo3 CAP LC Tournament. Cawdet is now banned from CAP LC.
Tournament Style: Single Elimination Bo3
Tournament Banlist: Standard CAP LC Banlist
Tournament Justification: The CAP LC playerbase has been itching for another tour following the Cawdet ban. The CAP LC Council believes another tournament is an ideal testing space to develop and assess the new metagame. Additionally, this tournament would serve as a chance to evaluate Solotl's impact on the meta, as it and Cawdet were determined to be the two most overbearing and centralizing forces in the CAP LC Revival meta.
go for it, consider this approved. Try to get signups posted today to keep things set to Sunday deadlines.
Tournament Name: Super STABmons CAP Tournament
Tournament Host(s): Myself
Tournament Time Frame: Sign-ups from February 14th through 20th, tour starting immediately afterwards.
Host experience: None, but I will be hosting CAP LC Tour around that time
Tournament Description: Bo3 STABmons + CAPs. Follows the STABmons banlist; as of right now nothing is slated for being banned in addition.
Tournament Style: Single Elimination Bo3
Tournament Banlist: Standard STABmons Banlist
Tournament Justification: Movepool is a critical component of the CAP process to ensure our end product is fair and balanced. This tournament throws that out the window. Bonemerang Fire Lash Smokomodo? Sure thing. Dragon Dance Spectral Thief Pajantom? Why not. Spikes Shore Up Equilibra? Sounds like a good time. Let's see who can produce the most devastating teams for what I expect to be a clown fiesta of a metagame.
This is a challenge only format; use the challenge code below.
/challenge STABmons@@@ +Argalis, +Arghonaut, +Astrolotl, +Aurumoth, +Brattler, +Breezi, +Caimanoe, +Caribolt, +Cawdet, +Cawmodore, +Chromera, +Coribalis, +Colossoil, +Crucibelle, +Cupra, +Cyclohm, +Dorsoil, +Duohm, +Electrelk, +Embirch, +Equilibra, +Fawnifer, +Fidgit, +Flarelm, +Floatoy, +Jumbao, +Justyke, +Kerfluffle, +Kitsunoh, +Krilowatt, +Malaconda, +Miasmaw, +Mollux, +Mountaineer, +Mumbao, +Naviathan, +Necturine, +Necturna, +Nohface, +Pajantom, +Paleo Wave, +Persistent, +Plasmanta, +Privatyke, +Protowatt, +Pyroak, +Rebble, +Rebound, +Revenankh, +Scratchet, +Shadow Strike, +Smogecko, +Smoguana, +Smokomodo, +Snaelstrom, +Snugglow, +Solotl, +Stratagem, +Swirlpool, +Syclant, +Syclar, +Tactite, +Tomohawk, +Venomicon, +Venomicon-Epilogue, +Vile Vial, +Volkraken, +Volkritter, +Voodoll, +Voodoom
Tournament Host(s): Myself
Tournament Time Frame: Sign-ups from February 14th through 20th, tour starting immediately afterwards.
Host experience: None, but I will be hosting CAP LC Tour around that time
Tournament Description: Bo3 STABmons + CAPs. Follows the STABmons banlist; as of right now nothing is slated for being banned in addition.
Tournament Style: Single Elimination Bo3
Tournament Banlist: Standard STABmons Banlist
Tournament Justification: Movepool is a critical component of the CAP process to ensure our end product is fair and balanced. This tournament throws that out the window. Bonemerang Fire Lash Smokomodo? Sure thing. Dragon Dance Spectral Thief Pajantom? Why not. Spikes Shore Up Equilibra? Sounds like a good time. Let's see who can produce the most devastating teams for what I expect to be a clown fiesta of a metagame.
This is a challenge only format; use the challenge code below.
/challenge STABmons@@@ +Argalis, +Arghonaut, +Astrolotl, +Aurumoth, +Brattler, +Breezi, +Caimanoe, +Caribolt, +Cawdet, +Cawmodore, +Chromera, +Coribalis, +Colossoil, +Crucibelle, +Cupra, +Cyclohm, +Dorsoil, +Duohm, +Electrelk, +Embirch, +Equilibra, +Fawnifer, +Fidgit, +Flarelm, +Floatoy, +Jumbao, +Justyke, +Kerfluffle, +Kitsunoh, +Krilowatt, +Malaconda, +Miasmaw, +Mollux, +Mountaineer, +Mumbao, +Naviathan, +Necturine, +Necturna, +Nohface, +Pajantom, +Paleo Wave, +Persistent, +Plasmanta, +Privatyke, +Protowatt, +Pyroak, +Rebble, +Rebound, +Revenankh, +Scratchet, +Shadow Strike, +Smogecko, +Smoguana, +Smokomodo, +Snaelstrom, +Snugglow, +Solotl, +Stratagem, +Swirlpool, +Syclant, +Syclar, +Tactite, +Tomohawk, +Venomicon, +Venomicon-Epilogue, +Vile Vial, +Volkraken, +Volkritter, +Voodoll, +Voodoom
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Tournament Name: SS CAP Ladder Tournament II
Tournament Host(s): Me!
Tournament Timeline: Signups for this tour will open once Kaede's CAP STour hits semis.
Host Experience: CAP Ladder Tournament, Inaugural BDSP CAP Tournament, CAP Ghosting Tournament
Tournament Discription: Participants will make an alt to compete in the tour. Each participant will only be allowed one alt per cycle, and they must declare their alt during signup with the correct prefix. There will be 4 one week cycles, in which the top 4 players from each cycle will qualify for the tournament. The tournament itself will be Bo3 single elimination.
Tournament Style: Ladder Tournament Single Elimination Bo3.
Tournament Banlist: Standard SS CAP Banlist.
Tournament Justification: The first ladder tour was surprisingly fun, and it attracted not only CAP mains, but ladder mains and players from other tiers to it as well. Due to how unique the CAP ladder is, a CAP ladder tournament is a weird, wacky tournament that brings together players from all over. There is proven success with this format in its first iteration, and I cannot wait to get players back on the ladder! I am expanding the number of cycles to 4, as I believe the CAP metagame has grown noticeably, and there should be a decent amount of signups from outside of CAP.
Tournament Host(s): Me!
Tournament Timeline: Signups for this tour will open once Kaede's CAP STour hits semis.
Host Experience: CAP Ladder Tournament, Inaugural BDSP CAP Tournament, CAP Ghosting Tournament
Tournament Discription: Participants will make an alt to compete in the tour. Each participant will only be allowed one alt per cycle, and they must declare their alt during signup with the correct prefix. There will be 4 one week cycles, in which the top 4 players from each cycle will qualify for the tournament. The tournament itself will be Bo3 single elimination.
Tournament Style: Ladder Tournament Single Elimination Bo3.
Tournament Banlist: Standard SS CAP Banlist.
Tournament Justification: The first ladder tour was surprisingly fun, and it attracted not only CAP mains, but ladder mains and players from other tiers to it as well. Due to how unique the CAP ladder is, a CAP ladder tournament is a weird, wacky tournament that brings together players from all over. There is proven success with this format in its first iteration, and I cannot wait to get players back on the ladder! I am expanding the number of cycles to 4, as I believe the CAP metagame has grown noticeably, and there should be a decent amount of signups from outside of CAP.
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Tournament Name: SS CAP Ban Happy Tournament
Tournament Host(s): Me
Tournament Time Frame: Preferably, I would like for Sign-Ups to be up for February 27th through March 6th and start the tournament immediately afterwards. However, given that there are already a fair number of tournaments in the queue, I wouldn't mind having to wait until later into March or even into early April to start the tournament.
Host experience: Hosted The Gauntlet III back in 2014 and served as kjnjkmjk1's co-host for the CAP LC Revival Tournament.
Tournament Description: During Sign-Ups, participants will choose two Pokemon/Moves/Items to ban from any match they are playing in. After winning a round, participants will choose to ban two additional Pokemon/Moves/Items, and so on until the end of the tournament (Round 1 each user has 2 total bans, Round 2 each user has 4 total bans, and so on). Participants have until the end of Sign-Ups / the current round to finalize their bans, and afterwards they cannot be changed. Participants must submit their bans by the end of Sign-Ups/the Current Round, and should they fail to do so, I will randomly choose a Pokemon(s) ranked B- or higher on the Viability List to assign as their ban(s). This system is pretty much exact same system that was used for the Anything Goes Ban Happy Tournament, but I decided to up the ante to make things more interesting.
Tournament Style: Single Elimination Bo3
Tournament Banlist: Standard SS CAP Banlist + participants must follow the banlists of themselves and their opponents during each match.
Tournament Justification: The primary reason I decided to hold this tournament is that lately, I've seen a fair number of complaints regarding the current state of the metagame, in particular to how Cawmodore and the two Venomicon forms are negatively influencing it. I figured hosting a tournament that allows players to remove any elements they find to be problematic in the current metagame to be an interesting method to allow players to play games that they are more likely to find enjoyment out of. I also think that it would help encourage more creative and interesting team building, as the nature of the tournament would likely force users to think more outside the box when it comes to building teams for the tournament.
Tournament Host(s): Me
Tournament Time Frame: Preferably, I would like for Sign-Ups to be up for February 27th through March 6th and start the tournament immediately afterwards. However, given that there are already a fair number of tournaments in the queue, I wouldn't mind having to wait until later into March or even into early April to start the tournament.
Host experience: Hosted The Gauntlet III back in 2014 and served as kjnjkmjk1's co-host for the CAP LC Revival Tournament.
Tournament Description: During Sign-Ups, participants will choose two Pokemon/Moves/Items to ban from any match they are playing in. After winning a round, participants will choose to ban two additional Pokemon/Moves/Items, and so on until the end of the tournament (Round 1 each user has 2 total bans, Round 2 each user has 4 total bans, and so on). Participants have until the end of Sign-Ups / the current round to finalize their bans, and afterwards they cannot be changed. Participants must submit their bans by the end of Sign-Ups/the Current Round, and should they fail to do so, I will randomly choose a Pokemon(s) ranked B- or higher on the Viability List to assign as their ban(s). This system is pretty much exact same system that was used for the Anything Goes Ban Happy Tournament, but I decided to up the ante to make things more interesting.
Tournament Style: Single Elimination Bo3
Tournament Banlist: Standard SS CAP Banlist + participants must follow the banlists of themselves and their opponents during each match.
Tournament Justification: The primary reason I decided to hold this tournament is that lately, I've seen a fair number of complaints regarding the current state of the metagame, in particular to how Cawmodore and the two Venomicon forms are negatively influencing it. I figured hosting a tournament that allows players to remove any elements they find to be problematic in the current metagame to be an interesting method to allow players to play games that they are more likely to find enjoyment out of. I also think that it would help encourage more creative and interesting team building, as the nature of the tournament would likely force users to think more outside the box when it comes to building teams for the tournament.
Tournament Name: SS CAP-Only Showdown
Tournament Host(s): Myself, others have expressed interest
Tournament Timeline: There are a lot of tournaments awaiting approval, so I'll venture to say Mid-March is the most likely
Host Experience: N/A but that's why I posted here to hopefully gain another person
Tournament Description: Participants sign up individually. Bring 6-Cap teams to each match that can be adjusted between any match.
Tournament Style: Bo1 Round robin then break to playoffs depending on tour size (finals, semis, quarters etc.)
Tournament Banlist: All non-CAP mons.
Tournament Justification: CAP exists complementary to the Gen 8 meta game (atm). However, the creativity of mons like Kriolowatt, or the obscurity of mons like Plasmanta mean that CAP doesn't always get to flex its own meta muscles. For the sake of creativity, fun, and a much more robust understanding of the CAP meta, I think this would be a fascinating/enjoyable idea.
Tournament Host(s): Myself, others have expressed interest
Tournament Timeline: There are a lot of tournaments awaiting approval, so I'll venture to say Mid-March is the most likely
Host Experience: N/A but that's why I posted here to hopefully gain another person
Tournament Description: Participants sign up individually. Bring 6-Cap teams to each match that can be adjusted between any match.
Tournament Style: Bo1 Round robin then break to playoffs depending on tour size (finals, semis, quarters etc.)
Tournament Banlist: All non-CAP mons.
Tournament Justification: CAP exists complementary to the Gen 8 meta game (atm). However, the creativity of mons like Kriolowatt, or the obscurity of mons like Plasmanta mean that CAP doesn't always get to flex its own meta muscles. For the sake of creativity, fun, and a much more robust understanding of the CAP meta, I think this would be a fascinating/enjoyable idea.
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If you can show a reasonable amount of support for it I'll approve this in the future, but for now let's hold off since the tour schedule is fairly packed at this point.
Same as above. Generally we want to know for a fact that 16-32 people are interested. I'd also prefer for you to find a cohost with experience hosting tournaments.
Hey, would you just like me to get 16 people to say they'd sign up?
Ask me about this again in late March please. Consider your tournament not approved for the time being. If you have any further questions please contact me on discord (Tadasuke#7826) as opposed to flooding the thread with single line questions.
Tournament Name: THE TODDVITATIONAL
Hosts: Myself
Time Frame: 2 weeks for group stage, worst case 8 weeks for bracket IF bracket resets (explained why below)
Host Experience: CAP metagame mod, hosted tours in the past (notably old seasonals), been involved in setting up/hosting most recent CAP team tours and circuit tours with users like Tadasuke and Quziel.
Description: An invitational tournament where I will invite 20 users to join composed of the best CAP has to offer, both in play and personality. The tournament format is heavily based off of the Smash World Tour and also takes inspiration from other esport events like the LCS playoffs. It begins with a group stage: the 20 players are broken down into groups of 5 and play a round robin of SS CAP Best of Ones. The top 2 players per group are slotted into the winners bracket; the next two players are slotted into losers; the last place player in each group is eliminated.
The tournament then begins the second phase, the actual bracket stage, where the winners bracket progresses like a normal tournament (can either be Best of One or Best of Three sets, will ask the invitees). The losers bracket begins with those 8 players slotted into losers playing against each other, with every other round playing someone who fell from winners.
This would be an event that hopefully not only shows off incredible SS CAP play, but also provides a really great time both for those viewing and for those watching. Invitationals are always hype, a group stage is a really fun watch, and I’ll be looking to 1- commentate as many games as I can, live or otherwise and 2- provide a bit of a cash incentive. It’s going to take a bit of time to get a list of competitors going proper but I’d like to have this conceptualized and out properly before I ask anyone, so here’s the post.
(poorly formatted bracket concept below, bear with me)
Hosts: Myself
Time Frame: 2 weeks for group stage, worst case 8 weeks for bracket IF bracket resets (explained why below)
Host Experience: CAP metagame mod, hosted tours in the past (notably old seasonals), been involved in setting up/hosting most recent CAP team tours and circuit tours with users like Tadasuke and Quziel.
Description: An invitational tournament where I will invite 20 users to join composed of the best CAP has to offer, both in play and personality. The tournament format is heavily based off of the Smash World Tour and also takes inspiration from other esport events like the LCS playoffs. It begins with a group stage: the 20 players are broken down into groups of 5 and play a round robin of SS CAP Best of Ones. The top 2 players per group are slotted into the winners bracket; the next two players are slotted into losers; the last place player in each group is eliminated.
The tournament then begins the second phase, the actual bracket stage, where the winners bracket progresses like a normal tournament (can either be Best of One or Best of Three sets, will ask the invitees). The losers bracket begins with those 8 players slotted into losers playing against each other, with every other round playing someone who fell from winners.
This would be an event that hopefully not only shows off incredible SS CAP play, but also provides a really great time both for those viewing and for those watching. Invitationals are always hype, a group stage is a really fun watch, and I’ll be looking to 1- commentate as many games as I can, live or otherwise and 2- provide a bit of a cash incentive. It’s going to take a bit of time to get a list of competitors going proper but I’d like to have this conceptualized and out properly before I ask anyone, so here’s the post.
(poorly formatted bracket concept below, bear with me)
Round 1 (Losers get 16-12th)
W vs W, W vs W, W vs W, W vs W
L vs L, L vs L, L vs L, L vs L
Round 2 (Losers Round 2, get 11th-8th)
WL vs LW, WL vs LW, WL vs LW, WL vs LW
Round 3 (Winners Semis, Loser’s 7ths)
WW vs WW, WW vs WW
LWW vs LWW, LWW vs LWW
Round 4 (Losers Quarters)
WWL vs LWWW, WWL vs LWWW
Round 5 (Winners Finals, Losers Semis)
WWW vs WWW
LWWWW vs LWWWW
Round 6 (Losers Finals)
LWWWWW vs WWWL
Round 7 (Grand Finals)
WWWW vs LWWWWWW
Round 8 (Grand Finals Reset)
WWWWL vs LWWWWWWW
W vs W, W vs W, W vs W, W vs W
L vs L, L vs L, L vs L, L vs L
Round 2 (Losers Round 2, get 11th-8th)
WL vs LW, WL vs LW, WL vs LW, WL vs LW
Round 3 (Winners Semis, Loser’s 7ths)
WW vs WW, WW vs WW
LWW vs LWW, LWW vs LWW
Round 4 (Losers Quarters)
WWL vs LWWW, WWL vs LWWW
Round 5 (Winners Finals, Losers Semis)
WWW vs WWW
LWWWW vs LWWWW
Round 6 (Losers Finals)
LWWWWW vs WWWL
Round 7 (Grand Finals)
WWWW vs LWWWWWW
Round 8 (Grand Finals Reset)
WWWWL vs LWWWWWWW
Tournament Name: CAP 1v1 No Johns Tournament
Tournament Host(s): I'd be fine with me alone; if this were to be conditionally accepted only if I got a co-host with more experience I'd approach some people if that helps.
Tournament Time Frame:
Tournament Description:
Tournament Host(s): I'd be fine with me alone; if this were to be conditionally accepted only if I got a co-host with more experience I'd approach some people if that helps.
Tournament Time Frame:
- Length of Each Round: 3-4 days, but I'm thinking 3 is more in spirit of No Johns
- Anticipating 4-6 rounds, this is under a month in total duration
Tournament Description:
- Tournament Style: Single Elimination every round playing at least a best of 5 in CAP 1v1, with future rounds being a higher odd number (I am thinking round K is best of 5 + 2(k-1), for example). Games are a literal minute long, so this is a fast-paced and fun way to spam the absolute hell out of Smogtours lobby chat for those that wish to.
- Tournament Banlist: Same banlist as what (SS) CAP 1v1 has.
- Tournament Justification: Realistically, people are lazy. This is the CAP analogue of a random battles tournament where the games are faster and more fresh to the uninitiated. Think of this as a comedic first impression for many first-timers to the CAP tier (those that want to play with real-ish to real CAP sets without building or trying it in something higher stakes).
toddproved
So you're gonna need to find a cohost with a badge in order to operate smogon's bracketmaker and successfully mass tag people in your weekly posts, but once you do that this is approved.
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