WorldCupMMO

Updated donations: -Up to 76.1M Captain selection is over: Madagascar didn't put forth a team captain and will be absorbed by upcoming "Rest of" teams. Next steps: 2 days left for team captains to submit team roster, minimuum 6, maximum 18. After that we'll see who is left and create whatever teams we can with whoever is left. Once this is complete the Captain's Meeting will take place. Following that we'll have the group seeding. 22 days to start of the World Cup

Captain's vote is over! What is coming next!? Translating @Makarovsinterview to english. New donations.

As of now these are the confirmed captains for each team: If any of this information is incorrect please let me know ASAP. As of now we are missing captains for: Chile Madagascar Paraguay Peru South Korea USA

Interview with the Brazilian captain @Makarovs by @ReaYCuccoProductions in Portuguese (subtitles coming soon)

Any players that signed up but whose country didn't have enough players will have to wait for the team selection process to be completed so that we can then see what teams can be created with all of the leftover players that signed up and weren't selected for their country/region team.

With the sign ups complete and validated you can all check the 380 registed players in: https://bit.ly/3PtbKZk The following 23 teams registered enough players to participate: -Argentina: 20 players -Belgium: 13 players -Brasil: 20 players -Canada: 10 players -Chile: 16 players -China: 17 players -Colombia: 8 players -Cuba: 32 players -France: 23 players -Germany: 7 players -Madagascar: 8 players -Mexico: 21 players -Netherlands: 9 players -Paraguay: 9 players -Peru: 16 players -Philippines: 9 players -Portugal: 8 players -South Korea: 9 players -Spain: 20 players -Taiwan: 15 players -UK: 6 players -USA: 15 players -Venezuela: 34 players Each team will have until the 18/08/2022 to select their team captain who will then have until the 22/08/2022 to submit their team roster.

Updated donations: -Up to 70.1M Unlocked All Star Match and Welcome to Hollywood Sign ups closed! Next steps: -Validating sign ups. (On going) -Captain selection will be here on the forums -Team selection by the captains -Creation of "Rest of" teams -Captains meeting

Stream 4: Sign ups closing soon, next steps, new tease, more donations.

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Stream today, World Cup updates, New Donations Opening, at 23h00 Tokyo Time, 15h00 GMT, 08:00 PST on https://www.twitch.tv/pokemmoworldcup

World Cup overview by our Portuguese Media Partner, @ReaYCuccoProductions

Updated original post: -Added @Yoxihnand @JhowCrazyas Portuguese Commentators -Added @Zoell and @f57332asdas Chinese Commentators Added Media Partners: - @awaLLz - @ReaYCuccoProductions Updated donations post: -Updated donations On the latest stream we talked about the various levels and rewards available in the Donation Reward Ladder: Level 1 - 50 Million - All Star Match Level 2 - 70 Million - Welcome to Hollywood Level 3 - 90 Million - Picasso's Tear Level 4 - 110 Million - Triple Threat Level 5 - 130 Million - Mad Scientist (Surprise VIP) Level 6 - 150 Million - Final Boss (Surprise VIP) We will do a break down of each event shortly so stay tuned. Also announced new match coverage teams as well as media partners who will be doing some World Cup coverage soon. We hope to have the coordination with these partners complete this week. Stay tuned, stay hyped!!

2 Weeks left for sign ups. If you've been tagged and haven't corrected your sign up please be aware you are not signed up yet. Total Sign Ups so far: 320 Country/Region distribution so far: Algeria: 2 Argentina: 18 Australia: 1 Bangladesh: 1 Belgium: 12 Bolivia: 1 Brasil: 15 Canada: 10 Chile: 8 China: 17 Colombia: 7 Cuba: 29 Ecuador: 1 Egypt: 1 France: 23 Germany: 7 Ghana: 1 Ireland: 1 Italy: 2 Korea: 3 Madagascar: 8 Mexico: 21 Morocco: 2 Netherlands: 9 Peru: 14 Philippines: 8 Poland: 1 Portugal: 5 South Africa: 1 Spain: 18 Sri Lanka: 1 Sudan: 1 Switzerland: 1 Taiwan: 12 Tunisia: 3 Turkey: 1 UK: 6 Uruguay: 3 USA: 10 Venezuela: 32 Vietnam: 3 Countries/Regions with enough players to participate so far: 20 Tier Distribution so far: OU: 234 UU: 197 NU: 198 DUBS: 141 LC: 77

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Stream 3: New Updates; Donation Ladder Rewards; Media Partners, Match Coverage

Stream going live at 23:00 Tokyo Time, 15:00 GMT, 8:00 AM PST Talking about Donation Reward Ladder; Media Partners and Coverage and Opening Donations, see you all there 😉

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Stream 2: Decision Making

Updated original post: -Added @Quinn010and @xJoseeeas English Commentators -Added @MadaraSixSixand @gbweadas French Commentators Updated donations post: -Updated donations -Added Donator Status Information Extra stream resume: This stream's goal was to explain the breakdown of our decision making process and explain our reasoning regarding the sign up policy/tier format. In the end we also addressed the issue regarding the lack of respect that took place in the discord in the previous days as well as open new donations. Now regarding the main issues... Sign Up Policy: -The eligility parameters as mentioned in the https://forums.pokemmo.com/index.php?/topic/147860-pokemmo-world-cup-5th-edition-sign-ups/ are what everyone should use to see what countries they may or may not sign up for. However this can't really be verified or enforced by the World Cup hosts seeing as how we are hosting an Unofficial Tournament and have no authority whatsoever to ask for an ID, do an IP check of any sort or anything at all to be true. Therefore the only real piece of reliable that that we have at our disposable is the World Cup Master file that was compiled will all of the previous years World Cup registrations plus this years. Going forward we will be passing forth the torch of the World Cup and this file as well to help guide the World Cup hosts and help them enforce the main rule as described in the VG 2022 rules. Moving forward and starting this year if a player wishes to play in the World Cup he can only play for the country he played in the previous year. If he did not play in the previous year he is free to sign up to whatever country he sees fit according to the above criteria. If a player played in the previous World Cup for a country and wishes to represent a different country he will have to skip the current World Cup and will only be able to represent a different country in the following year. This may seem weird but we are trying to lay down the foundations for a more stable and easier to organize World Cup event going forward and who knows...with less drama (here is hoping...) Tier Format: 6 Tiers: OU UU NU DUBS 2x Captains Choice Why 6? Less maximum tiers= more teams = more national teams= more national hype = more future competitive players = more world wide attention to the World Cup events But why 6 and not 4 for example? We want to make this interesting and have a minimum of strategy involved, we're using the 4 official formats plus 2 captains choice thus giving both the possibility of a 3-3 tier as well as more captain interaction and relevance. Why not 8? Again, we're trying to make the ammount of country represented grow. This doesn't mean that in the future this number can't grow. We are going off of the information on previous years World Cup. If we get to a point where we see that we most all of the teams are capable of supporting a 8 tier format then yes we'll push forward with it but as we are it's not a good idea for the event to force it. If last year there were 6 tiers instead of 8 there would have been an Indonesia, Netherlands, Poland, Taiwan and Vietnam team. That is an additional 5 teams which would also allow other people to play more actively in the "rest of" teams. This year we already have various national teams that so far hadn't been having a national/regional representation. We consider this a win. Little Cup Again we are looking at the data we have available. Last year there were teams literally going into a match losing 1-0. Is this competitive? No. Is this interesting for either sides? No. Was this avoidable? Yes. Remove LC as mandatory format. Reasoning? Not an official format, comparetively low playerbase (according to not only our data but PokeMMO offical data), hurting more then helping the event. Do we want to get rid of LC? Absolutely not!! LC has a strong following in the PvP community, we can see that from the ammount of tournaments and love for the format. What can we do? We can and will have side events with LC, we have LC as a captain's choice for all countries that choose to have it as long as they are facing other LC compatible teams. This was the best compromise that we could reach for the good of the event (which is our main focus) and accomodating the LC format. So this is why we made the decisions that we did. How did we reach them?! Decision Making Process: Before even pushing forward with my hosting of the World Cup I reached out to previous WC hosts such as OrangeManiac, Limbow, and other hosts such as Gbwead, RDL among others to ask for advice and opinion on the hosting process all the while introducing myself and explaining both my experience as a host outside of PokeMMO and my goals if I were to go forward as a host as well as what I might need in terms of support. After solidifying some support I decided to move forward. All the while I was debating with the immediately established council on what problems to avoid, how better to handle things. A common denominator was that the poll used to decided the format in the previous WC was a horrible thing in terms of event organization. After much debate we decided that going forward with a smaller format would be better for the event as a whole. Why not make a poll? Problems with polls is that they are biased, easily manipulated and will not necessarily reflect what is best for the event/community. In this forum there are fake accounts which can be used to manipulate polls. But let's take that aside. If the majority of the population decides something is that what is best for the overall of the population? If we entertain the notion that China + India together represent 34% of the World population would we agree that they should decide for the remainer of the population? Obviously not. But that is not a majority...7 is the ammount of countries required to represent over 50% of the World Population: China, India, USA, Indonesia, Pakistan, Nigeria, Brasil. These 7 countries alone represent 50.8% of the World Population. Now what does all of this have to do with PokeMMO and the World Cup decision making, everything! Polls are just not the best way to make decisions. Not in a public forum. Someone suggested we do a Captain's vote to make decisions, fair enough...however before we can have Captain's vote on anything we need to have captains, and we're only going to have that after sign ups are complete and we need to announce quite a bit of information before people choose wether or not to sign up for a tournament and therefore based on previous years experienced and informed debate among a lot of community veteran hosts and myself we came up to the decisions made so far. We will however have a captain's meeting after the completion of team formation to have every captain's input as well as debate the LC situation. Are these the best decisions? I don't know, we hope so! Time will tell. The hosts and the council as well as other community members are working hard to bring you the best World Cup event ever, I hope you all enjoy it either as a participant or a viewer. This is a tournament by the community for the community!!!

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