calidubstep Posted August 19, 2021 Share Posted August 19, 2021 (edited) Welcome to PokeMMO's first Little Cup Premier League!! LCPL is a team-based event, and these teams are formed by managers. Managers are selected by the hosts of the event. Players can sign up to be put on the auction list that managers use to bid on players to fill their teams. Once the auction is over, the competition starts! Every week the seven LCPL teams face off against each other in a Round Robin style. The 4 best performing teams then face off in the Playoffs for a chance to take the grand prize. Current LCPL Staff: Spoiler Cali YettoDie Mkns Gbwead BurntZebra PoseidonWrath Rules (the same as any other team tournament. robbed from PSL and hashed out in this spoiler): Spoiler Tiers: Format - Doubles LC - OULC x3 – UULC – Gen 8 LC (Showdown) Managers ARE allowed to play. The "Scrubs": This is long overdue in player selection events imo, but players that are not selected in the player auction will still have the opportunity to play in this event as a collective group: The "Scrubs" (or however they'd like to call themselves). They will compete against the rest of the "selected players'" teams and have the opportunity to take names and prove people wrong. The team will be run by myself and gbwead, with the emphasis on the player development and learning the tier. Regular Season: #1-#6 will advance to the playoffs Playoffs: Seeds 3-6 will face each other in the quarterfinals (1-2 have get a bye and 7th has a bye) The remaining 4 teams face each other in semifinals -> finals -> winner There is a match for 3rd place. No ties are possible in semis. Instead, 5 tiers will be played: OULC x2, UULC, Doubles LC, and Gen 8 LC About scheduling matches: Players have 4 days to schedule their battles. If one of the parties fail to respond in that timeframe, proof must be given to the hosts until the end of Saturday. The team of the player who failed to schedule either tries to get the match done, or they are enforced a sub who is able to play at the requested times. If no sub is able to play at those times, the other team gets an activity win. If a sub is able to play at those times, they both must attend the match. Extensions can be given only once. Players need to provide at least 3 different times. If no player attempted to schedule a match until the end of Saturday AND if they don't show up to play at the end of the week (Wednesday). Both teams are forced to sub, and an extension is given to the new players. After this sub, any rule stated previously still applies. About usage: Because Little Cup has no automated usage gathering system, each match played IN GAME will need to be accompanied by a screenshot of the Team Preview. Showdown replays are sufficient and won't need said screen. This gives us a small but better than nothing sample size for future tiering decisions and LCPLs. About disconnections: No #rematches are enforced, unless: The player disconnected before the 3 turn mark. In which case the disconnected player MUST send their team to the hosts up to 30 seconds after they log back OR send their teams via discord/forums before they log back (preferable). In the instance no host/small council is present at the time, the disconnected player has to send their team to another player of the opposing team (Team means pokes + items + moves + spreads) Otherwise, opposing team is granted the win. Note: The first # turns must be played the same. It’s up to the hosts to declare whether this disconnection is valid or not About coaching: Whoever is caught coaching is suspended for 3 weeks (Banned if caught twice), and the opposing team is granted an extra win. (TLDR; don't coach) Coaching; an often more capable player that informs another player of what moves to make. It’s a practice we heavily discourage. In our mind, there is only one way to coach correctly. Before and after the matches. If you really care about your teammates winning, make an actual effort to make them a better player. Discuss strategies, teams or even counter teams with them. Make them capable and independent. This is how we create a stronger competitive environment. Pokémon is like a game of chess, do you see chess coaches whisper moves into their students’ ears during a tournament? No, they put effort into coaching before and after matches. The same applies to Pokémon. Auction: The auction will take place one week before the competition in a short and happy auction. The auction will be done in the corresponding Discord. Bids are declared by managers in a special channel in this Discord Manager's will have 100 credits, and bids will start at 2 credits The bid timer is 20 seconds, after which the player joins the team of the manager that bid the last (prompts for 20s, 10s, 5s). Managers are allowed to bid on as many players as they would like, but each team MUST have at least 6 members. Bids that are impossible due to credit restrictions and bids that haven’t been declared on the Discord channel, will be voided. A public Excel sheet will be used to keep track of every bid. Managers will receive instructions on how to update their bids on the sheet, ensuring an updated and accessible sheet at all times. Punishments: Players can be fined for misconduct this season. Small infractions are punished with a yellow card. 2 yellow cards warrant a red card. Yellow card encompasses: Harassment, unresponsiveness, lack of effort to schedule matches, showing up late for matches without notice, not announcing matches soon enough or disrespecting teammates. Red carded players are also suspended for 1-2 weeks. The format for LCPL is as follows (ban list for each MMO tier in the spoiler): Doubles: Bringing back the meta of Arena Trapping, Scraggy boosting, and Murkrow and Misdreavus sweeping. But in a doubles format :pikagasp: Spoiler Doubles Ban List: Gligar Meditite Murkrow Sneasel Scyther Tangela Yanma Misdreavus OU: Our current metagame, for better or worse. Spoiler OU Ban List: Arena Trap (Diglett and Trapinch may still be used, but cannot have Arena Trap) Gligar Meditite Misdreavus Murkrow Porygon's Download Ability (Trace may still be used) Scraggy Scyther Sneasel Tangela Yanma UU: Tired of seeing the same mons every duel? Welcome to uncharted territories for us all. Spoiler UU Ban List: OU Bans + Abra Axew Bronzor Budew Clamperl Chinchou Cottonee Cranidos Croagunk Drifloon Drilbur Dwebble Elekid Ferroseed Frillish Gastly Grimer Hippopotas Larvesta Magby Magnemite Mienfoo Munchlax Onix Pawniard Ponyta Porygon Rufflett Shellder Snivy Staryu Stunky Taillow Tentacool Timburr Tirtouga Trubbish Vullaby Yamask Gen 8 LC (Showdown): Hidden abilities?? Buffed knock off?? Coming to MMO in 2035! Or we can just sim the current generation right now on showdown. Spoiler Gen 8 Resources: https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/swsh-lc-viability-rankings-outdated-for-now.3657374/ https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/ss-lc-sample-teams.3661419/ https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/swsh-lc-speed-tiers-post-dlc.3667056/ This will be the season schedule (subject to change): August 23rd-August 30th: Manager Signups August 26th-September 6th: Player Signups September 6th-13th (sometime between then): Player Auction September 13th-October 24th: Week 1-6 (League Stages) October 25th-November 1st: Money Farming break for PSL donations (assuming Halloween event happens) November 1st-November 8th: Week 7 November 8th-November 29th: Playoffs (Quarters, Semis and Finals) Prizes (Placing | Prize) [This is subject to change] 1st Place will get 70% of the prize pool & the title of LCPL Champion. 2nd Place will get 10% of the prize pool. 3rd Place will get 5% of the prize pool. Individual prizes will take 10% of the prize pool. Individuals who record matches will take 5% (Individual recorded matches/Total recorded matches) as payout We are now accepting donations! Please send all your donations to "CaliNotFornia" in game, or PM myself if you have any questions. Current Donation Counter: 250M Donators: ProfesorEinstein- 50M YettoDie-50M MonkeyDMathew- 20M Revz- 20M PizzaConewe- 5M SomeRichPerson- 105M **Note: tiering and formatting are subject to change, but we'll be sure to have it ready by the 30th for player signups** Feel free to join our discord for updates: https://discord.gg/KVtykq5AAh Edited October 24, 2021 by calidubstep Retremos, Tear, xSparkie and 26 others 28 1 Link to comment
MendeeZ Posted August 19, 2021 Share Posted August 19, 2021 thank you for contributing to lc ,hypee calidubstep, Retremos and camilo7 2 1 Link to comment
EEdays Posted August 19, 2021 Share Posted August 19, 2021 Cool Cali, want to play LC and have fun.. wait for sign up open. calidubstep, MathewMat and DrakeHope 2 1 Link to comment
calidubstep Posted August 19, 2021 Author Share Posted August 19, 2021 A lot of questions have come up about the amount of teams and players. We decided 6 teams and 4 tiers would be a safe starting point, but if we get blown away by signups (30+ joined the discord in the first hour), definitely will look into expanding to an 8 team and or 5 tier format (likely adding another lc ou) MrMalz and MendeeZ 2 Link to comment
Luke Posted August 19, 2021 Share Posted August 19, 2021 lc dubs when... I know @RLotus liked it hehe SuperiorHolmes 1 Link to comment
SuperiorHolmes Posted August 19, 2021 Share Posted August 19, 2021 5 minutes ago, Lvkee said: lc dubs when... I know @RLotus liked it hehe please Link to comment
calidubstep Posted August 19, 2021 Author Share Posted August 19, 2021 26 minutes ago, Lvkee said: lc dubs when... I know @RLotus liked it hehe well it was initially planned to be a small event but.. @YettoDiejust doubled the prize pool so get fucking hype we just might SuperiorHolmes 1 Link to comment
DrakeHope Posted August 19, 2021 Share Posted August 19, 2021 Thanks for doing such a big event, lc finally HYPE AGAIN Poufilou, calidubstep and MendeeZ 2 1 Link to comment
xSparkie Posted August 19, 2021 Share Posted August 19, 2021 (edited) Any reason why Clamperl isn't part of the UU ban list? (and maybe tirtouga) Edited August 19, 2021 by xSparkie Link to comment
Havsha Posted August 19, 2021 Share Posted August 19, 2021 Oooh this is fun! calidubstep 1 Link to comment
ItzGray Posted August 19, 2021 Share Posted August 19, 2021 Damn this looks hype af calidubstep 1 Link to comment
calidubstep Posted August 19, 2021 Author Share Posted August 19, 2021 6 hours ago, xSparkie said: Any reason why Clamperl isn't part of the UU ban list? (and maybe tirtouga) they should be. missed some stuff copying over. we'll have comprehensive figures ready per tier once we finalize tiering xSparkie 1 Link to comment
calidubstep Posted August 19, 2021 Author Share Posted August 19, 2021 Side note: thanks so much for the crazy donations guys!! Will do our best to make this event enjoyable for whoever's interested!!! MendeeZ 1 Link to comment
calidubstep Posted August 21, 2021 Author Share Posted August 21, 2021 big ty to Tear for making our banner! Poufilou, MathewMat, MrMalz and 4 others 7 Link to comment
ThinkNicer Posted August 21, 2021 Share Posted August 21, 2021 Forget world cup, lets play this in stead Poufilou 1 Link to comment
DaftCoolio Posted August 22, 2021 Share Posted August 22, 2021 Petition for the UU tier to be renamed to BM and Sunkern to be banned Poufilou, OrangeManiac and Bearminator 3 Link to comment
calidubstep Posted August 22, 2021 Author Share Posted August 22, 2021 (edited) current tiering we'll be rolling with (diglett and trapinch may not have arena trap, porygon may not have download) Edited August 22, 2021 by calidubstep Havsha and AwaXGoku 2 Link to comment
calidubstep Posted August 23, 2021 Author Share Posted August 23, 2021 Doubles will replace Ubers as a tier in LCPL AwaXGoku and Quinn010 2 Link to comment
calidubstep Posted August 26, 2021 Author Share Posted August 26, 2021 Few notes: - Some rich person boosted the prize pool to 250m - As a result, the amount of tiers per week will be expanded to 6, and the amount of teams will be expanded to 7 (extending regular season play by 1 week) - Misdreavus has been quick banned from doubles. Scraggy, Murkrow, Arena Trap, and Download are still available to be used Revz, Shadow, Axelgor and 2 others 5 Link to comment
xSparkie Posted August 26, 2021 Share Posted August 26, 2021 7 hours ago, calidubstep said: Few notes: - Some rich person boosted the prize pool to 250m - As a result, the amount of tiers per week will be expanded to 6, and the amount of teams will be expanded to 7 (extending regular season play by 1 week) - Misdreavus has been quick banned from doubles. Scraggy, Murkrow, Arena Trap, and Download are still available to be used What's the extra two tiers going to be? A duplicate of two other ones that's TBD? Link to comment
calidubstep Posted August 26, 2021 Author Share Posted August 26, 2021 59 minutes ago, xSparkie said: What's the extra two tiers going to be? A duplicate of two other ones that's TBD? 2 extra regular lc slots Link to comment
Quinn010 Posted August 26, 2021 Share Posted August 26, 2021 for the people that dont know i made a showdown server with the mmo meta (tiers/no fairy's/ knock off nerf/gem buff) where you can test teams or play for fun. im gonna host a few automated tours for fun if you want a tour hosted dm me on discord. Link: http://xdlc.herokuapp.com-80.psim.us/ Spoiler the teambuilder show gen 8 mons/moves you cant use them in battles i just fucked up with coding NagaX, Suneet, calidubstep and 2 others 4 1 Link to comment
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