Mike

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Can I screenshot this and laugh at you in like 5 years?

Mike's random fact of the day™
 
Did you know snakes are “solar-powered” and rely fully on external heat or light sources.
 
Reptiles sometimes get labelled ‘cold-blooded’ but this is incorrect as their blood isn’t actually cold. The accurate term is ectothermic, meaning their body temperature is variable and regulated by external sources. Unlike mammals and birds that are able to internally regulate their body temperature, reptiles need to use sources of heat, like the sun, to warm up.
 
Wow very cool!!!!! I learned so much today. Come back again tomorrow™ for another interesting fun wacky fact.
 
@Oltan is the biggest snake though, hate that guy 

Mike's random fact of the day™
 
Did you know snakes are “solar-powered” and rely fully on external heat or light sources.
 
Reptiles sometimes get labelled ‘cold-blooded’ but this is incorrect as their blood isn’t actually cold. The accurate term is ectothermic, meaning their body temperature is variable and regulated by external sources. Unlike mammals and birds that are able to internally regulate their body temperature, reptiles need to use sources of heat, like the sun, to warm up.
 
Wow very cool!!!!! I learned so much today. Come back again tomorrow™ for another interesting fun wacky fact.
 
@Oltan is the biggest snake though, hate that guy 

We are so fucking back

Well everyone, ladies, gentlemen and cheating firedogs. This is it for me as a PSL manager and Beedrills this season. I just want to thank a few people as we bow out.
 
KaynineXL: Pathetic season from u tbh, you begged and begged me to sign up as a manager to make your season interesting, and then when I try to make it interesting you get butthurt and ignore me for 6 weeks. Nobody gives a fuck about your dumb excel spreadsheet, nobody used it and it was a dumb idea, but you got all butthurt until I gave you a fake email. For real the most boring host. I carried the drama this PSL, if you host again I hope you do better. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_68_C8AOGJY
 
Pablobacas: Cheating firedog. The most pathetic cheater manager I have ever seen in the 10+ seasons I have played. I hope you know you are only in playoffs because you cheated a weak system. I look forward to you being eliminated in playoffs, fkin clown ass team that lucked and cheated their way to the playoffs.
 
Quinn: Admittedly, you won the draft. We had a lot of the same targets but I backed out because I knew the NORE clowns wouldn't give AF if they played for me. One of the few managers I respect for playing the draft well and having a solid season.
 
Cristi: You ghosted me on discord and the forums, but fair play... glad someone was bad enough to finish below my team of clowns
 
All the other managers: Well played, you're all uguuheads for not trading with me to fix my admittedly stupid ass draft.
 
Nagahex: For an ass player you talk an awful lot of shit, when you're ready to stop being a clown and put your money where your mouth is im ready to fight. 5m wager me vs you
 
Brann: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgJ_1WuhUig
 
RDL: You aren't a real devil, you aren't a real legend. You're a clown ass Spanish kid who thinks he is good with a name that sounds like it was thought up by a toddler. Cringe
 
Rest of the firedogs: Cant wait for you clowns to play an extra week for nothing, nobody remembers the losers only the winner. And as a 5 TIME PSL WINNER I will always be better than you.
 
 
Now time to shit talk my players
 
PoseidonWrath: You talk a big game for someone that helped me make some clown ass decisions in the draft. I know full well I had no fkin clue who most of the players were and my draft was shite, but your suggestions to get you some teammates were just ass. Godxebec rofl, Behemoth clowned hard during the 1 game he got for me too... then u tried arguing because he is top of UU ladder with a 55% win rate he should play. Like buddy dont ever manage. Also I definitely overpayed for a guy who can potentially go 4-3
 
Sargeste: I'll be honest, I thought you were gonna do well. Slap you in UU and NU and watch you shred people as a beginner in PSL. Boy was I wrong. You played like a fkin clown most weeks. My biggest mistake this PSL
 
Aerun: 2 credits, 3-3 record... honestly not bad. One of very few shining lights for me this PSL... you had some clown ass throws that cost us a playoff spot though
 
Mathew: We all know you got coached in your LC win, otherwise thank you for being a willing bench player, keeping wrath on a leash and general memery.
 
Minaccia: I should have let quinn get you, the writing was on the wall when I, a predominantly doubles player slapped you around before the draft in DPP over multiple games. I dont know where you get off calling yourself a good DPP player, because you got lucky with your wins and destroyed with your losses, some of the dumbest plays I've ever seen.
 
GodXebec: I admit, I wasn't going to sign you. The plan was to draft myself at the end but wrath insisted you were good. Well well well clownxebec you can't blame RNG for your horrific record. Your team builds are a joke. Your winrate is a joke. And as a doubles PSL manager I should have just signed myself, we would be in playoffs if I had.
 
Brumoso: Great record m8, definitely a value for money player. I look forward to seeing more of you in future tournaments
 
xSparkie: Nice of you to show up towards the end of PSL, you turned it around after a few close losses at the start of the season. Just a shame you started winning when Minaccia started losing, so you two clowns cancel each other out
 
Wolfangt: For a 15 credit player, you weren't value for money. You had a few good wins but just generally got outclassed by other players, nearly had you traded before the other managers wised up early on. Lovely guy tho
 
xXBehemothBladeX: Fuck me that was the worst OU game I have ever seen, you weren't up to standard in PSL and wrath being upset I traded you says more about how shit the rest of the team was tbh
 
Aldahirririririririamez: Honestly the worst trade I made this season
 
If I missed anyone, its because you weren't memorable. Clown ass season, getting banned by gbwead for no fkin reason last season was a blessing in disguise. I look forward to never doing this again

How it works:
PokeMMO's 'Grandmasters Invitational' series will give players the chance to accumulate points from regular automated tournaments over the duration of 3 months.
 
A leaderboard has been created where the top 16 point earners will be granted invites to the finals tournament. 

 
 

 
More Detailed Spreadsheet
 
Leaderboard scoring values:
128 Seat 1st Place: 4
128 Seat 2nd Place: 2
Official Tournament 1st place(shiny reward)*: 3
Official Tournament 2nd place(shiny reward)*: 2
Official Tournament 1st Place: 2
Official Tournament 2nd Place: 1
Community Combat 1st Place: 1
 
*Includes Crown rewards
 
The Leaderboard point collecting period will start on the 1st of February and end on the 30th of April.
Rules
Leaderboard points are obtained from automated tournaments only. This includes OU, UU, NU, Doubles, Community Combats and the leaderboard finale west/east tournaments. No points are gained from staff-run tournaments & player made automated tournaments. The higher your leaderboard position, the stronger your seed in the final (for example, seed #1 will play seed #16). Places 17-32 will be used for reserves, and again, the higher your position, the stronger your chance to be selected. Multiple accounts/characters can claim a spot on the leaderboard but only one character will be invited. Players will be informed via in-game mail when they obtain points and if they manage to get an invitation. In the event that there is a points tie to an invitational spot, the player(s) who secured the points first would claim the spot.  
 
Finals
 
Details
Staff Run - Silph Co Ch.4 | Invite Only | Single Battle | Double Elimination | 16 Players | 6v6 OU 
 
Date & Time
Sunday, 7th May 2023
2PM UTC | 4PM CEST | 10AM ET | 11AM BRT | 10PM CST | Timezone Converter
 
Clauses
Evasion / Sleep / OHKO / Unique Species / Self-KO 
Tournament Clauses Explained
 
OU:
Pokemon in the OverUsed, UnderUsed, NeverUsed, and Untiered tiers are valid. Pokemon in the Ubers tier cannot be used.
The in-game Pokedex contains filters for competitive tiers. You can view any additional bans by opening the PvP menu -> Matchmaking Signup -> Bans.
 
 
 1st Place Prize

SHINY GIFT Volcarona
Your choice of nature, 2 moves, with 3 selectable IVs + 3x28 IVs
&
1250 Reward Points


 
 2nd Place Prize 

SHINY GIFT Starmie
Your choice of nature, 2 moves, with 3 selectable IVs + 3x28 IVs
&
1000 Reward Points
 
 
 3rd Place Prize 

SHINY GIFT Cofagrigus
Your choice of nature, 2 moves, with 3 selectable IVs + 3x28 IVs
&
750 Reward Points
 
Rewards will be sent as their lowest evolution at Lv. 1
Rewards will be sent to the winners a few days after the Final tournament
 
 
 
Host: KaynineXL
Refs: Cosmooth
 
Credits to @Tear for the poster and @Requi for the title signatures!

Did you know that the highest mountain in Ireland is Carrauntoohil?

I sure didn't because why the fuck would I care about some UK rejects. 

See you next year for another random facts of the whatever time frame you prefer™

garyyyyyyy

IGN: Dontea
Tiers: Randoms
Discord: Dontea#5511
 
One of the best to ever do it.

IGN: iMat
Country/Region: Belgium
Tiers: OU, UU, NU, Dubs, AFK, Bench, Mid and Top Yone, 
Discord tag: mat#5831
Personal note: wAllah i'm Belgian
 

IGN: KaynineXL
 
Fluff:
Joint all time leader in most regular PSL seasons managed. I have a point to prove. The last PSL season tainted my fairly successful PSL managing "career" and I will now look to fix that. Managed to win regular PSL as captain. I'm a good boi  
Discord: Kaynine#3078

Wow. Those are some extremely compelling arguments, but you already do play in a "clown meta", and always will, because we've backported skills and abilities from generations which aren't gen 5, and you will never have access to the most powerful legendaries because they just break the game.
 
Our intention to stagger the release of HAs, as was mentioned in the status update you're referencing, is primarily to give us the opportunity to release things slowly and through multiple features. Alpha Swarms are one of them, but perhaps, maybe, we'd like the ability to be flexible, and give meaningful rewards for future features or to revisit rewards for past features as well. We don't think it's a particularly wrong approach to give you something to look forward to in the future, nor do we think it's wrong to occasionally throw a wrench in the metagame (and I'm sure players who have endured our stale PvP meta this past year can agree).
 
So, no thank you. We don't think your suggestion is a good approach for the game.

While only a handful of Hidden Abilities and later gen abilities were released recently, it is already clear that the impact they caused to all of the tiers is significant and will be in the future. The lower tiers are currently in an absolute chaos and that is an understatement. The idea of entire tier reset has been throwing around here and there but that discussion can be stopped because today Kyu dropped an absolute bombshell of an update saying new Hidden Abilities will be gradually introduced to the game little by little. While we cannot know the exact frequency how often this will happen, I would still argue this changes everything. PokeMMO's tiering was designed around expecting stability and supporting stability. The usage movements done every 3 months were done so that Pokemon near the cut-off point wouldn't be constantly moved between two tiers every month while people in the lower tiers had to constantly redesign their teams unsure if a Pokemon is going up or down a tier each month. Only exceptions were done monthly if something had suddenly over 6,7% usage in a month to raise a tier or 1,7% usage in a month to lower a tier because this indicated a high likelyhood a Pokemon would be moved in the next 3-month-cycle. This system provided competitive play and tiering needed stability.
 
That stability is gone. Not only does it take months for people to discover the full potential of released Pokemon, every new addition shakes everything even more. Because stability no longer is a reasonable goal for lower tiers in this game, the only reasonable option is to abandon that 3-month system altogether. The tiering moves have to happen monthly for now. It makes no sense people have to play lower tiers knowing that the Pokemon they have to prepare in lower tiers is going to be staple in the higher tiers but due to the 3-month-rule it may take up to 3 months of suffering with a Pokemon that you know you only need to temporarily prepare against. Also it simply leads to very weird looking tiers. You may have some old outdated relics in higher tier while having Pokemon that gained incredible boost with updates in lower tiers and you would have to wait for months for things to stabilize because you cannot really make an argument for a ban with the current tiering policies (looking at you UU Alakazam and "NU" Espeon). These kinds of things take away the whole point of tiering and makes the tiering system look incredibly chaotic and pointless to any competitive player with reasonable experience and also takes away the whole purpose tiers were designed. While we're in this chaotic time (meaning new things coming in constantly), you have to update at least OU tierlist monthly. This would at least start to formulate some kind of a shape to UU tier, which then could potentially create a playable NU tier. Also the amount of data OU matchmaking gives every month is by numbers reasonable enough to make decisions based off on monthly usage.
 
Other issue that needs to be addressed are quickbans. While before in the stable era of tiering, quickbans should be used sparingly because you had to get that certain level of certainty and evaluation of whether a threat is broken not only on paper but also in practice but now we simply don't have that stability to make those assessments. Rather, there are so many potentially broken threats in the metagame that it is almost impossible to create and evaluate a potential suspect test when people are preparing for tons of potentially banworthy things at once. In other words, you cannot tell if a metagame went better during a suspect test if all that was done during that suspect test was focusing some other broken threat more. This kind of a suspect test could indicate a metagame went worse during a suspect test due to more centralized usage, while in reality people were just using more resources to focus on another broken threat, which by looking at the usage would indicate a worse metagame than before. What this all means is that suspect tests during a chaotic period of a metagame can be useless or even counter-productive to the true evaluation of whether a tier has improved due to a ban or not.
 
The solution to this is simply that Tier Council makes difficult decisions they think are right, even if they are made too quickly. If a Pokemon seems too strong for the community and for the Tier Council, it is better to let it go. This all can be revised when a certain level of stability has been reached. But currently we cannot get overly diplomatic about every single Pokemon - if it seems too strong it deserves to be gone. The point of Tier Council is to be competitive experts and to analyze if a Pokemon is too strong for the metagame and can it be reasonably handled, it is not to point out that every 3 months usage will do the work for us. Difficult decisions must be made but in the current state of the game it's better to make a couple of hasty decisions than doing nothing because otherwise the lower tiers will remain in a constant unplayable chaos state.
 

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obligatory bump to keep this mess of a thread somewhat relevant.
 
sweet best boss. oltan sucks. 

The Round Table used to be the forum section where team threads were being used. Ever since our forums has gotten the Clubs feature this forum section got removed and it was all moved to Clubs if you wanted your team thread to be moved there. So the round table doesn't exist anymore.