[POCL] Pokemon Online Champions League Format

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  1. IFM

    IFM HODOR HODOR HODOR

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    Welcome everyone to the first edition of the Pokemon Online Champions League. This tournament is substantially more ambitious than anything else attempted on Pokemon Online before. This tournament will be based on the Champions League from Football (Soccer) that I am sure you are all at least a little familiar with, if you aren't then take a look at this page. We will be utilizing all aspects of the server and forums to create an all encompassing experience.

    Weekly Schedule
    • Manager Sign Ups: Friday, September 30th
    • Player Sign Ups: Monday, October 3rd
    • Auction and Draft: Saturday, October 15th
    • Week One: Monday, October 17th
    • Week Two: Monday, October 24th
    • Week Three: Monday, October 31th
    • Week Four: Monday, November 7th
    • All Star Week and Mid Season Pick Ups: Monday November 14th
    • Week Five: Monday, November 21th
    • Week Six: Monday, November 28st
    • Week Seven: Monday, December 5th
    • Playoff Semi-Finals: Monday, December 12th
    • Playoff Finals: Monday, December 19th

    And now the point you probably all scrolled down to look at anyway, the tiers being played:
    Wifi Ubers, 3 Wifi OU, Wifi UU, Wifi LU, Wifi NU, DPP OU, ADV OU

    Each team will have a Manager, an Assistant Manager, Nine Starters, and Substitutes (as many as you can afford).

    Fixtures
    Managers and Assistant Managers' Goal
    Players' Goal
    Auction Details
    Supplemental Draft Details
    Links to Relevant Threads
    Rules and Guidelines for Hosting, Joining and Participating in a Tournament
    Manager Sign Up Thread
    Player Sign Up Thread
    Player Data
    Players List, Auctioned List and Drafted List
    Team Rosters
    All Star Week
    Mid Season Pick Ups
    Statistics
    Standings

    Rounds
    Week 1
    Week 2
    Week 3
    Week 4 - Thread was deleted, all we have is this
    All Star Week
    Week 5
    Week 6
    Week 7
    Semi Finals
    Finals
     
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  2. Roku

    Roku sup nerds

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    So are the managers excluded from battling?
     
  3. IFM

    IFM HODOR HODOR HODOR

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    They are able to play, but must use their first draft pick on themselves. All the details are in the manager sign up thread.
     
  4. Bamarah

    Bamarah "Baton Pass Elite"

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    Nice format, it seems very well organized. I have applied for the Manager position so I hope it goes well for everyone.
     
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  5. Groudon Ramsay

    Groudon Ramsay Active Member

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    FUCK YEAH KOKO LEAGUE TIME SON LET US ACQUIRE IT

    Also since this is basically the exact format I suggested I demand this thing's name to be changed back to the "koko league"

    That is all.
     
  6. Halsey

    Halsey Wildstar

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    Playing Pokemon again just for this thing, I have way too much time waiting for this tour and I'm not gonna miss it.
     
  7. Mattstah

    Mattstah Emotional Sickness

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    This should be fun.


    inb4no1picksmeforubers[/HIDE]
     
  8. Arctic Eclipse

    Arctic Eclipse Stay Winning

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    Sounds like an awesome tour. I had suggested this type of tournament a long time ago :'( but its nice to have this thing going soon :D
     
  9. Tears of tomorrow

    Tears of tomorrow In the dead of days

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    I love this idea, I will try and make myself useful somehow... Maybe as assistant manager? I am a total noob in many of the listed tiers, so I could never be a manager... ;_;
     
  10. IFM

    IFM HODOR HODOR HODOR

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    Just a heads up, VGC 2012 is being dropped.
     
  11. IFM

    IFM HODOR HODOR HODOR

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    One update, Assistant Managers are now like regular players, expect that they can update line up and do subs as needed. None of that not being able to play BS.
     
  12. Ginku

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    If they're like normal players, how are they selected? Like, do you pick one out of your existing team?

    This tournament is confusing me

    Also bs I don't want to play
     
  13. IFM

    IFM HODOR HODOR HODOR

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    Managers select them.
     
  14. Rigas

    Rigas Active Member

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    No LC?

    No 1v1?

    :(
     
  15. Fate/Dracoflare

    Fate/Dracoflare Kayneth Fried Circuits

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    Well 1v1 is silly but LC is a good tier:x
    No dw tiers.......dw is unofficially unofficial:x but officially official:p
     
  16. Amarillo Caballero

    Amarillo Caballero Member

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    I see you had VGC 12 then decided to dump the only official tier you had :/

    Well, that makes my decision on whether or not to use a draft pick on myself easier...
     
  17. IFM

    IFM HODOR HODOR HODOR

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    Due to many managers calling for an auction instead of the draft we had planned, we are going to be switching over to the other system. Due to the nature of an auction being much more exciting than a draft and the higher level of skill needed to balance the credits provided we believe that this will lead to a much more exciting showcase.

    The draft will work as follows:
    • All the managers will join the appointed channel at the time of the draft with their allotted amount of credits – The base is 120,000 credits, but either the manager of assistant manager wants to play they will be forced to spend 20,000 credits on themselves and if they both decide to play they will have to spend 35,000 credits total on themselves – to begin the draft.
    • We will randomly generate the order of the auction, using the 1 -> 8 then 8 -> 1 system. This means that the managers will take turns nominating players to go up for the auction. When it reaches the last manager the system reverses and they will select first for the next round.
    • We will have a bot set up to handle the bidding. All players will start at the baseline of 3,000 credits. Managers can then use the command “/bid *amount*” to bid on the player. If no bids are submitted in a certain amount of time the auction for that player will stop and the credits will be subtracted from the total of the winning manager.
    • This system will continue until each manager has 11 players on his team (including himself or assistant manager if either decides to play).
    • If a player isn’t selected they still have a chance to be selected in the supplemental draft. After the auction the remaining players will all be added in to the draft and the managers will pick them using the 1 -> 8, 8 -> 1 format until all are selected. These players will act as extra subs for the teams making sure that they always have people waiting in the wings to play matches if needed and to help people test. This ensures that everyone who wants to can participate in this tournament.
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  18. Fate/Dracoflare

    Fate/Dracoflare Kayneth Fried Circuits

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    Wow that is actually a cool idea.Also.........inb4 no one bids for me:x
     
  19. Amarillo Caballero

    Amarillo Caballero Member

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    For the bot, I assume it will add 10 seconds to the timer after each bid or something?

    Also, since 8 tiers could lead to draws, depending on the number of signups, we could expand this to 9-11 tiers. That way some of the lower draft picks don't get left out.
     
  20. Django

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    Or what about just having tiebreaker matches?
     
  21. Amarillo Caballero

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    Meh, then someone will get to play twice when someone else on your team doesn't get to play. Also, how do you determine what tier the tiebreaker is in?
     
  22. Rigas

    Rigas Active Member

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    I agree with Amarillo, a few more tiers should be added so that people who can only play specific metas can shine. How about LC and GSC OU?
     
  23. Ginku

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    The problem with adding tiers is that getting good players for them is gonna be hard, since the tiers not available here don't exactly have a big playerbase. Or at least that's what I'd assume.
     
  24. IFM

    IFM HODOR HODOR HODOR

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    Their can be ties during the regular season. I'll put the full details for the point system up when round 1 is posted.
     
  25. Dr. Fomantis Toboggan

    Dr. Fomantis Toboggan man in the couch

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    Just to tell you, you say in the draft explanation that managers draft 3 subs, and it says there's 2 on the team. Is that a typo? Also this rocks.
    EDIT: Oh, sorry, I see your not using that anyway.
     
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  26. dhhaxmaster

    dhhaxmaster You've Been Haxed

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    Will the results of the auction/draft/whatever be posted in a separate thread or something?
     
  27. Groudon Ramsay

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    Of course, otherwise how will the teams be announced? lol
     
  28. IFM

    IFM HODOR HODOR HODOR

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    Just a heads up. Everything is being pushed back a week to allow for managers to evaluate players for a bit longer. The exact time of the draft hasn't been decided yet.
     
  29. Halsey

    Halsey Wildstar

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    Question, is the draft public? In my opinion it should be, I think there are people interested in watching it. However only managers, assistant managers and however runs the auction (I guess that is you) should be allowed to talk to avoid a shit fest.
     
  30. dhhaxmaster

    dhhaxmaster You've Been Haxed

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    Awesome now I can go on my vacation with nothing to worry about. Except for the usual homework but whatever.
    EDIT: /me high fives mestre
     
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  31. IFM

    IFM HODOR HODOR HODOR

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    That is the plan.
     
  32. Mestre Nando

    Mestre Nando Member

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    This will help me out as well. Now I can take my time, travel and don't have to worry much about being picked up and not able to battle. That's great new ^^'
     
  33. VuvuzelaΒzz

    VuvuzelaΒzz •Sage

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    >I'm allowed to speak
    >The shit fest will be avoided
    Good luck with that :3
     
  34. Jcpdragonx

    Jcpdragonx the business business

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    Due to Gtfo's computer breaking down, Django will be appointed as a new manager replacing Gtfo.
     
  35. YanMiga-Reborn

    YanMiga-Reborn I Liek Mudkipz

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    draft after my exam , #winning
     
  36. Groudon Ramsay

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    What's gonna happen with the formatting now that Vuvu can't be a manager?

    FREE VUVU
     
  37. VuvuzelaΒzz

    VuvuzelaΒzz •Sage

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    I've asked to be temporarily unbanned for the auction. Apparently my fate lies in Oak's hands.
     
  38. IFM

    IFM HODOR HODOR HODOR

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    Long post time.

    We are going to have to mix the format up a little bit. Instead of having 8 teams the number is being dropped down to 6. Unfortunately I didn't feel it was possible to manage a team without being able to go on the server and Professor Oak was willing to drop out to even the team numbers.
    • Barcelona Blaziken: Kokoloko
    • Milan Bisharps: Vaporeon
    • Sunderland Seakings: DarkDiglett
    • Chelsea Chatots: HSOWA
    • Bayern Braviarys: Django
    • Torino Typhlosion: Amarillo Caballero

    In order to allow the largest amount of players to play we are going to be adding one more Wifi OU slot to each team. Wifi OU has the largest player base so it won't be stretching the team too much to find three quality players for the tier. It also allows for each team to have nine starters which helps us avoid ties.

    In order to keep the schedule the same length we are going to be introducing divisions into this season. Each team will be assigned into one of two divisions. They will play each team in the their division twice and the teams in the other division once. This way each team still keeps the same amount of games. In addition, the All Star Game will now feature the All Star's from one division playing the All Star's from the other division.

    Playoff's will be decided based on division ranking. The top team from one division will play the second place team from the other division and the two winners will play in the final. In the case of ties for playoff position we will be utilizing this tiebreaker system:
    1. Head to Head
    2. Division Record
    3. Total Win/Loss
    4. Coin Flip

    The auction will be exactly one week from the time it was originally planned for. So 11 PM GMT on Saturday October 15th.

    Good Luck to all managers and players.
     
  39. Groudon Ramsay

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    KFC BARCA LETS GET IT

    And so my post isn't pointless, I'm letting you know I can make the auction. See you there sons.
     
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    Auction is fine.

    Braviary is cooler than Blaziken.
     
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