Hello everyone, I wish to address some issues with how PokeMMO's official tournament prize system works, as it is the prizes are severely lacklustre.
Current problems with official prizes:
Nobody wants competitive gift Pokemon (to some extent they do but these prizes are horrible and give no hype).
If we must have these shitty gift competitive Pokemon at least make them 6x31 now because we can give them a hidden power of choice and leave them as prizes for community combat events.
Fix the IV selection system to allow us to have an iv range of 0-31, this is important because it lets us take less damage from confusion on Pokemon which don't use the attack stat and lets slow Pokemon use gyro ball and trick room. In some rare cases an iv somewhere between 0 and 31 is needed to hit a specific stat, a good example is reducing life orb recoil.
>Cash prizes for official events are so small, with the amount you win from first you can make one or maybe two competitive Pokemon. Hardly worth the investment you put in for the tournament. I know you get to keep the Pokemon you have made but each Pokemon has varying levels of viability and you may need a lot of them to build specific teams, overall the workload is huge.
Shiny prizes should be competitive. There is no reason, legit none to keep these as useless trophies. You should be able to take pride in using your trophy in a competitive battle. There are only two reasons anyone would use them in a competitive environment 1) They are being used as a meme 2) The owner does not have one with better iv's (maybe because the cash payoffs from tournaments are low?)
Seasonal events should be the pinnacle of competitive play, to be fair the most recent one does have OK prizes but they do not reflect what should be given out. Again, 4x25 is a joke for any of these prizes and Dragonite/Salamence should have been options for 2nd place, 1st place should be reserved for something special like a shiny Volcarona/starter/Eevee. If 1st place doesn't get to earn that shiny through hard work then that is beyond fucked up when some random player gets one from pure RNG. I get that you want these shinies to be special, these events are the perfect place to give them out.
In conclusion, prizes need to be heavily buffed. I doubt you understand how difficult it is to win an official, let alone a seasonal in which you are up against the best players match after match. To be frank here, people only play official events because they are the only events being hosted (that are worth anything, even if it is of little worth). Look at the turn out for community combats and a lot of the higher profile names will have decided not to partake because it simply isn't worth the effort.
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