Suggestion: Bring Back Server Tourneys {Update}

Question

Hey guys, there has recently been talk of ways to bring new life to the PokemonDB server. One suggestion that arose was bringing back community tournaments. However, unlike most suggestions, this is not specifically for Pokemaster or mods. This is for all of you, the rest of the DB community. If any of you would be interested in participating in a tournament against other DB members hosted on the server, please leave a comment showing your support or suggesting a tier. Commenting does not mean you're obligated to participate in any possible future tourneys, just a way of judging whether or not this would be successful. Thanks!

Update:
The first tournament will begin after all the bugs on the server have been exterminated, and a new bot has been implemented. Please vote for your preferred choice here, and follow what is stated in the poll. Multiple votes are allowed in case you want to support another option as well.

Please do not vote unless you plan on participating in any tournaments. It ruins the purpose of the poll.

Comments

I want it

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good idea

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10/10 would tourney again (or for the first time).

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Great idea! Suggesting OU tier or VGC

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^ Can we also have other formats? Like Random Battle or Battle Factory.

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It's the choice of the voters, so nor ally yes if people request it.

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Can we have alternating formats for each tournament, and we vote for the format each time?

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Yeah that'd be what would happen each time. The only thing is these tours will be on the DB Server, not over WiFi on the 3ds.

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I know. I don't have a 3ds.

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I'm all for this, but, and this is a big stinking but, we need to keep them smaller but more frequent. The great downfall of the last tournament was that they were far to big, meaning huge dropouts or to few matches being played. Couple that with them being to infrequent to grab people in we need to keep them small but have many.

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I totally agree, Flaf.

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And start with something simple so we can get everyone to join

Like random battles or even metronome

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I was thinking just a straight up tier,,, like OU

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^ OU is kinda bland though (no offense to anyone). What I mean is that you can easily find Tourneys  for OU in the OU Chat Room  or the Tournaments Chat Room on Pokemon Showdown.

We can still have them, but it would be much easier to find a larger OU tourney on the normal Pokemon Showdown.

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Like I said, why can't we vote on the formats for every tournament?

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We probably will be voting on the formats; no one is saying that we shouldn't.

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Good. I don't like OU.

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o3o tourneys would really liven up teh place

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Guess we should start the first tournament soon ^~^

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Bring back mono color :]

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I stand alone in my vote for VGC. You may take my majority, but you will never take… MY FREEDOMMMMMM!!!

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Doubles has always been too fast paced for me. LONG LIVE NU!!!

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You guys think we can do at least two tours per month?

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It depends on how many people are going to be participating, but if there are enough participants, two per month isn't unrealistic especially if at least one is a straight up tier like OU or something because most people already have teams for those tiers.

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Bring back gen 5 tourneys or I'll ask my dad (his name is Zarel btw) to ddos such an incompetent server.

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OU would be great