Should we have an E4 team followed by Gym Leaders?

Question

We have some pretty good battlers after all and some users are pretty active (like me) so for instance since I'm not the best I could be 4th or 5th Gym Leader?
Say Flaf could be Champion? I don't know where to place this idea but it seems like a nice one and I just felt that I should suggest before I forget about it.

Comments

Money on 5th leader if this is aprover.Also, if you get better at competitive would you move up.

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Well people come along and edit. Is this a good suggestion?

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I'm flattered by the offer, but we have already had 2 different Leagues over the last 1 and a half year and both ebbed out pretty quickly. Doc Flame was in charge last time and did a great job, and it won't get any easier this time. If someone or several people show interest to keep it alive I'd love this idea, just bare in mind it's a lot of work (but I'm seriously not good enough for Champ xp)

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I'm impressed you summed up the DB League without mentioning the word 'league'.

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I have a gift of speech.

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Sure, let's go with that theory.

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This will never work because the gap between the battle skills of the League members and the challengers has always been too big, and if we would say "then we swap the roles", the challengers would rek the Gym Leaders. A league has proven to be impossible for the db to handle so I don't think it will ever happen again.

Answer 1

As stated in the comments, this won't happen again in the future :\

Comments

I think it's feesable if done properly since we have the use of the server.

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No we don't have the people to continue a league.

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Maybe a bit further down the track
ie. when the forums are up
ie. never

Just kidding, but seriously we could in like another year or two, considering the growth of the server

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I doubt it's in the growth of the server or site. We'd actually have to have a shift in focus of the site in general, from mostly in-game knowledge and some competitive questions to a good solid base of ladderers, good teams, a sophisticated RMT and an actual competitive side to the site which is almost entirely nonexistent at the moment. It could show up at some point, but only if in the next few years you get a lot of users who actually have the drive to become competitive and stay on the DB. JCM and Spoink moved to Smogon. I moved to Smogon for the competitive. So altogether it's unlikely that we'll see a true shift to competitive on the DB.

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DB has a bad rep among Smogonites who even know what it is.