RLotus Posted April 19, 2019 Share Posted April 19, 2019 3 minutes ago, DaftCoolio said: The main reasoning behind a snake is to make the tournament more competitive with more even teams. If you want more even teams then the managers shouldn't get to play. A team with a top tier player as their manager is at a huge advantage to a team with someone who isn't as strong. If you want to do a snake tournament then call it a snake tournament, this isn't really what psl is. How the team is chosen is the whole gimmick of these kinds of tournaments. Suneet and amanisnoone 2 Link to comment
gbwead Posted April 19, 2019 Share Posted April 19, 2019 13 minutes ago, Gunthug said: Most of this community does want or care for showdown tiers. See? I too can make baseless statements incapable of being proven wrong I don't have to prove anything if the only person that bothers disagreeing with me is an inactive player. Find active MMO players that want to play the same showdown tier over an MMO tier and then we'll talk. Link to comment
KaynineXL Posted April 19, 2019 Share Posted April 19, 2019 5 minutes ago, gbwead said: I don't have to prove anything if the only person that bothers disagreeing with me is an inactive player. Find active MMO players that want to play the same showdown tier over an MMO tier and then we'll talk. yeh but your opinion was still based on nothing though and your comment was posted 46mins ago, you act like it's been there for a week and nobody disagreed. historically, there's been plenty of players who were active and still played showdown tiers, im sure you don't need to be look back and give you a list, you have a decent memory. Zehkar, DoubleJ, IndicaBabu and 1 other 4 Link to comment
DoubleJ Posted April 19, 2019 Share Posted April 19, 2019 ::hiss hiss:: IndicaBabu and DaftCoolio 2 Link to comment
BurntZebra Posted April 19, 2019 Share Posted April 19, 2019 1 minute ago, RLotus said: If you want more even teams then the managers shouldn't get to play. A team with a top tier player as their manager is at a huge advantage to a team with someone who isn't as strong. If you want to do a snake tournament then call it a snake tournament, this isn't really what psl is. How the team is chosen is the whole gimmick of these kinds of tournaments. I'm not really sure if I agree with your arguments here. I agree that if the managers are selected, and 7 of the 8 are top tier players and 1 is terrible, then yeah, that one manager is probably at a disadvantage, but at the same time, not allowing managers to play either decreases the pool of good managers to choose from, or it decreases from the quality of the player pool, both of which we have seen in the past seasons. One potential option if this were an auction format is to have managers price each other and decide if they want to purchase themselves to play, the caveat being that they can play in any tier, not just a manager vs manager tier. This option is typically seen in the lower level smogon leagues that have a smaller playerbase, where if the managers didn't play, there would be a severe skill gap in the player pool. I'm not sure if this is really feasible in a snake format since each manager pick is essentially the same value, unlike the auction where one manager could be valued 5k more than another manager. Ultimately, allowing managers to play allows for the greatest selection of managers to choose from, since you no longer need to decide between getting to play or just managing, especially considering having 8 top players not being able to play can dramatically affect the overall skill level of a certain tier or just general skill level overall. As for the Snake vs auction discussion, I think it's sort of silly to pretend that the unique thing about PSL is the auction. At the end of the day, SPL and Snake Draft are not terribly different outside of having different tiers to play. PSL in PokeMMO is unique because it is one of the only long-term team-based tournaments and is probably the only truly competitive one, seeing as World Cup had a myriad of problems that made it not competitive. The difference between auction and snake is usually the auction allows for a larger variation in the skill levels of players, e.g. buying 2 players for 30k each and then buying 8 players for 2-4k each, while snake *should* have a steady decline in the skill levels of players as rounds progress of the draft. Snake is also typically a tad bit more exclusive, but that really depends on what the rules are that Coolio comes up with. We have also had a snake draft in the past (season 7/8 I believe) for the first 2 rounds, and then had auction for the rest, so there is some precedent for a draft already. I haven't read the OP since reading rules is for chumps. DoubleJ, DaftCoolio, LKrenz and 2 others 5 Link to comment
gbwead Posted April 19, 2019 Share Posted April 19, 2019 (edited) 18 minutes ago, KaynineXL said: yeh but your opinion was still based on nothing though and your comment was posted 46mins ago, you act like it's been there for a week and nobody disagreed. historically, there's been plenty of players who were active and still played showdown tiers, im sure you don't need to be look back and give you a list, you have a decent memory. Oh please do provide a list of active players that want to play the same showdown tier over all pokemmo tiers. Until then, what I said about the community not wanting showdown tiers will remain true. edit: My comment has been posted less than 1 hour ago, but let's not pretend that people haven't complained for a very long time about showdown tiers in PSL. Perhaps, you were too inactive to notice. edit2: From PSL 10 Week 7 thread DPP OU: Kamimiii Dead Player vs SweeTforU Dead Player DPP OU: XPLOZ Dead Player vs Linken Dead Player DPP OU: NikhilR Dead Player vs Elcoolio Dead Player DPP OU: LeJovi Dead Player vs gunthug Dead Player PSL is a competition for the community, so it's not okay for MMO players to get benched in order for dead players to feel relevant. Edited April 20, 2019 by gbwead IndicaBabu 1 Link to comment
SweeTforU Posted April 20, 2019 Share Posted April 20, 2019 Anyways unlike other seasons I'm not gonna argue about keeping DPP as a tier because, like gb said most of the DPP players are dead, tho the playerpool for SMou looks even worse so ye DPP is better bros Suneet, gbwead and IndicaBabu 3 Link to comment
DoubleJ Posted April 20, 2019 Share Posted April 20, 2019 Let Dead Players Live Again. #LDPLA gbwead 1 Link to comment
NikhilR Posted April 20, 2019 Share Posted April 20, 2019 Hey, my last log-in date was two days and I won BOTH my ranked matches. I'm still relevant, okay!!!!! LKrenz, DaftCoolio, Dibz and 7 others 10 Link to comment
DoubleJ Posted April 20, 2019 Share Posted April 20, 2019 12 minutes ago, NikhilR said: Hey, my last log-in date was two days and I won BOTH my ranked matches. I'm still relevant, okay!!!!! Poor Takens. LKrenz, TiToooo, amanisnoone and 1 other 4 Link to comment
Toast Posted April 20, 2019 Share Posted April 20, 2019 ah yes psl is defined by the auction not the battles DoubleJ 1 Link to comment
Imabetheverybest1 Posted April 20, 2019 Share Posted April 20, 2019 (edited) 5 minutes ago, Toast said: ah yes psl is defined by the auction not the battles its defined by how much money someone overpays 4 u Edited April 20, 2019 by Imabetheverybest1 Akshit, amanisnoone, Zehkar and 5 others 8 Link to comment
Nawe Posted April 20, 2019 Share Posted April 20, 2019 3 minutes ago, Toast said: ah yes psl is defined by the auction not the battles well, the auction is more enjoying than some matches, by some i mean a lot of them RLotus, amanisnoone and xSparkie 2 1 Link to comment
RLotus Posted April 20, 2019 Share Posted April 20, 2019 1 hour ago, BurntZebra said: One potential option if this were an auction format is to have managers price each other and decide if they want to purchase themselves to play, this is a good solution to that hopefully something like this is adjusted to snake format 1 hour ago, BurntZebra said: PSL in PokeMMO is unique because it is one of the only long-term team-based tournaments and is probably the only truly competitive one, seeing as World Cup had a myriad of problems that made it not competitive. I see your point here but I still feel like the auction is an integral part to psl's identity, but i guess that doesn't really matter. What matters is that many feel that the auction is one of the most exciting parts of psl and it would be a let down for it not to take place. Personally the auction is what i look forward to most, but if I'm off about what the rest of the community thinks or coolio just wants to try something new anyways, so be it. amanisnoone 1 Link to comment
fredrichnietze Posted April 20, 2019 Share Posted April 20, 2019 9 hours ago, DaftCoolio said: I, Elcoolio, will be your host i approve. also start date? also also get online i want to donate and every mail is money that could be in the pot DoubleJ 1 Link to comment
DoubleJ Posted April 20, 2019 Share Posted April 20, 2019 @RLotus I don't disagree that the action is a pretty exciting event for the PSL. There's a ton of strategy and there's a lot of laughs. Don't forget DoubleWead 2017. But, in support of the snake draft, teams will be more balanced as one of the downsides of an auction is that there is usually a couple truly booty teams just because their manager was bad. Second, we've done it before and it was just fine. Maybe even one of our better seasons. Heck we've even done a crazy hybrid system too (JJ Best Host). @Gunthug can probably tell you all about why a draft is dope. Link to comment
Gunthug Posted April 20, 2019 Share Posted April 20, 2019 If your favorite part of a several months long competition is the first three hours which is basically just an ego contest to see who gets bought for the most credits, then that’s kind of sad. Draft is just the golden standard, it’ll help with the actual competition which in my humble opinion, is the core component of psl pachima, SirAlbert, DoubleJ and 1 other 4 Link to comment
calidubstep Posted April 20, 2019 Share Posted April 20, 2019 Letting managers play puts honest and amazing people like @Bilburt at a disadvantage, which is sad since he has 100s of millions to donate to the pool DaftCoolio and Zehkar 2 Link to comment
xSparkie Posted April 20, 2019 Share Posted April 20, 2019 1 hour ago, calidubstep said: Letting managers play puts honest and amazing people like @Bilburt at a disadvantage, which is sad since he has 100s of millions to donate to the pool You haven't even seen his final form yet. @Bilburt show them how it's done m8 DaftCoolio and DoubleJ 2 Link to comment
DoubleJ Posted April 20, 2019 Share Posted April 20, 2019 1 hour ago, calidubstep said: Letting managers play puts honest and amazing people like @Bilburt at a disadvantage, which is sad since he has 100s of millions to donate to the pool Wow @Bilburt he's taking shots at you Link to comment
Dibz Posted April 20, 2019 Share Posted April 20, 2019 (edited) I have 0 opinions and I'm just excited to sign up for my first PSL and hope I get drafted :D Edited April 20, 2019 by Dibz DaftCoolio, LKrenz, RysPicz and 5 others 8 Link to comment
calidubstep Posted April 20, 2019 Share Posted April 20, 2019 3 hours ago, calidubstep said: Letting managers play puts honest and amazing people like @Bilburt at a disadvantage, which is sad since he has 100s of millions to donate to the pool My point was, he’s basically better than everyone in the game so he chooses not to play and just hoard money so he can watch us plebs fight for it. Isn’t that right @Bilburt Link to comment
pachima Posted April 20, 2019 Share Posted April 20, 2019 13 hours ago, DaftCoolio said: 1. Managers will be able to play for their teams. 2. The draft format will be a full snake draft instead of the typical auction. ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Also ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? DeadGorilla, RLotus, amanisnoone and 2 others 5 Link to comment
pachima Posted April 20, 2019 Share Posted April 20, 2019 Also, when I was manager last season, one of the most recordable moments in the whole thing were those few hours drafting players. I am sure I am not the only one who thinks this way. Link to comment
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