#SDPL II - Commencement

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tawdry wigeon
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I think the issue is to select more competent managers

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Some of these management decisions related to draft and post draft have been undoubtedly questionable

iron gazelle
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i gotta look at the other potential duos in signup but this is still the best managers could've been

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bias aside

tawdry wigeon
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I didn’t look at manager alternatives ngl

neat dew
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i think there were 1 or 2 close ones

iron gazelle
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ok nvm there were definitely some really strong managers cores that weren't picked

neat dew
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idr exactly

iron gazelle
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a lot of those cores u have someone who have top cut / won multiple tours

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ala quinn

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Name : Oblivion Ambers
Managers : SpaceSpeakers and @irrorSaMa 

The Slugs
Taka and QuinnTeam 

Team Name: Hudson River Slowpokes
Managers: Slowpoke Fan + Toxinalpaca 
tawdry wigeon
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I see 4 pairs that I could see doing well

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That weren’t selected

iron gazelle
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although I do think that it would've been more balanced if this was altered

neat dew
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how would expanding help?

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balancing out all teams more?

tawdry wigeon
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Is there a way to see which people were regulars easily?

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I’m interested in seeeing the average winrate of regulars

neat dew
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i could give you the signups sheet

tawdry wigeon
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Also 2x manager self buys is a bit ridiculous if both are regulars

tawdry wigeon
neat dew
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names should be the same on both sheets so just a matter of cross referencing

tawdry wigeon
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Okay this looks like a pain to sort through I’ll see if I end up doing it later

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Actually not too bad just need to get to my computer

iron gazelle
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but maintains the emphasis on giving regulars a chance to play

sharp terrace
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sdpl would be better if i was in it

iron gazelle
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teams with a selfbuy seem to be doing considerably better than the teams that didnt

neat dew
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yea... cats are a p good example of that being broken

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i dont think we had the reg rule last year? probably needs finetuning

rare path
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you ran required regular starters last year iirc

placid olive
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Easy fix would be to do it the way adpl does it (or used to do it before they also got weird)

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Every team still needs a required number of regs, but they only have to play a specified number of times per season (ofc it can be more than that if you want)

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So every team has like 3 required regs and every one of them needs at least 2 games

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It makes the tour less reg dependent while still giving them representation

neat dew
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thats different from having 3 regs starting each week?

rare path
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over the course of the whole tour they are playing x games

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vs playing every week

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yes it is substantially different

neat dew
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guess im wondering what problem it solves and how

placid olive
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Flexibility

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And the fact that you don't have to use all 3 regs in a given week

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So it makes it much less of a determining factor

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Being able to strategically place johnnynuts123 in just 2 different games per season is much different from having to start him every week

neat dew
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but we want regs to be used

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i do get your point

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but think it needs a different direction

rare path
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the number could be tweaked from 2 obviously

placid olive
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Yes but I think the issue rn is balance, rn there might be too much of an emphasis

rare path
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I could see this being a valid direction to achieve the effect you want if its sufficiently high

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obviously the number of times one would have to be played would depend on the number of weeks the event is going to run, so you'd adjust accordingly

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I'd imagine even ensuring those regulars are run for 2/3 or 3/4 the event would be a pretty big difference in flexibility from the 100% it is now

placid olive
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mhm

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And that helps with price inflation as well

rare path
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and that's still a majority of game time

placid olive
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If more flexibility with regs is allowed, their price will also drop a bit

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Which then increases the price of the scl quality players

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So you achieve a much better balance between teams if people are actually going for their worth

low pagoda
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hey, that’s me

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btw where is the sheet for this tour

placid olive
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Admin channel

strong quarry
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problem was just bad drafting, our top 2 players combined are 10-1 and 9.5k combined

royal current
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removing line count/picking managers that don't talk here defeats the point of the smogcord circuit existing to begin with

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2x self buys with 2 regulars is definitely broken though

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adding a custom to this tour was probably a mistake

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which is sad because it was a cool idea

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also please never do discord usernames for auction again please please please

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definitely contributed a large part to the auction being a bit off

somber tusk
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Ye def needs to be forum names

royal current
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drafting a guy called 12472874818 but it's not that it's actually mirrorsama

placid olive
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The team doesn't look nearly the same without that

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And I mean that goes for us too

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That's the problem is it's kinda easy to say other people drafted bad (which to an extent is true) when you're on a team that started with a natural advantage

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Now many players were indeed underpays and that is in fact the fault of managers, but given the inherent lack of flexibility it just makes drafting insanely awkward

placid olive
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Blt is mainly for tour room regs and adpl is mainly for rookie players, but this is the system they still use to keep it balanced

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And I've found it works quite well at both creating more competitive teams while still holding true to the values of the tour

pallid iris
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People freaked out about regulars a bit

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I think it would be a better idea for a tour if more people that were regulars played the tiers listed

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But the entire early auction was insane 20k prices to snap up the ones that did regardless of actual level

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Double self buy not being extra expensive

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Was prob generous

placid olive
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Well there's always gonna be inflation when you say you need 3 of these guys in your lineup every week

pallid iris
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That’s what im saying yea

placid olive
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Ah yea the edit cleared that up

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Yet somehow we still live in a world where sealoo was 11.5k

pallid iris
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I think ideally pairs should be turbo active server person + experienced manager

placid olive
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Yea but that's rarely how they'll actually pan out

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You could also structure draft the way blt does it

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They have a pool of required players as well, it's called gpool (guaranteed pool)

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And every team needs 4 gpool players

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So draft occurs in 2 sections

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The first section is just gpool, everyone bids and gets their 4

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Then after everyone gets 4, you add all the other players to the draft list and it proceeds as normal

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That way you can at least account for the inflation upfront

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And you should see less massive underpays on good players because people don't need to conserve money like crazy for their regs

rare path
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There was (is?) a feedback thread he shared that you all could have put this various feedback in. Maybe that was just for auction though, idr

rare path
hushed portal
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i think the BLT idea is cool yeah

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we could maybe try something like, guaranteed pool players are drafted in a different auction from the regular ones, with a minimum of y guaranteed pool per team, and they need to have played more than x games by the end of the regular season?

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im not sure if draft would work if you want to include all the guaranteed pool players so maybe snake draft?

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and if we want all the players we need to increase the linecount requirement bc its just gonna be painful to manage a team with like, 20 people

velvet copper
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that coupled with some inexperienced managers and generally smaller pool sizes makes this tour bound to be unbalanced

astral grotto
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yeah I dont think that point was driven home enough we should say that 10 more times

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despite it already being addressed

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+1 to BLT format though I think that would fix a lot of issues

neat dew
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it focuses on circuit but you can put teamtour stuff in the other field

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otherwise i will likely forget most of this by next year, but we'll also likely have another discussion prior to the teamtour starting and i do think the system needs finetuning, while still keeping the spirit of regs prioritized

late gulch
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do i get like a miny trophy or ribbon i wanted to outdo @pallid iris

neat dew
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you get bragging rights

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and a CA probably

late gulch
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@pallid iris ur bad im better

pallid iris
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Read it and weep

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You didn’t win a real fucking trophy like I did I tackled ZRyan in his prime mate

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They actually say that homefield advantage is worth 151 dollars

late gulch
pallid iris
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He fell off now and hes got less pace than mertesacker

late gulch
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i heard his physicality is good

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@loud fox ?

loud fox
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zinnias had to bribe me to win homefield all im sayin

loud fox
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i was promised a cosplay of orihime and i never got it

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i was scammed.

somber tusk
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My condolences

cold pumice
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@tawdry wigeon maybe next time you can be at the top of the sheet

tawdry wigeon
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🥂

cold pumice
tawdry wigeon
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Oh do yall still have odds

cold pumice
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Yeah I think so

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Very narrow

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But possible

neat dew
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we basically need to win

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so not too narrow

tawdry wigeon
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Gotcha gl

neat dew
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also hling again wheel is the best 4k ive ever spent

tawdry wigeon
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Goes back to the manager issue I was talking about in no world should wheel have been 4k 😭

cold pumice
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Got some good sets in, so happy at the end of the day

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Even if I kinda lucked soggy a bit g1

velvet copper
tawdry wigeon
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havent been very locked in these past few weeks since we've been guarenteed playoffs but the first few weeks were really enjoyable sets

cold pumice
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Fr kinda glad that the rands pool was top heavy. Wasn’t trying to run the gauntlet every week

uncut sigil
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Late to this but I think draft has to have forum names

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it was very confusing sometimes to see who is who

paper coyote
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Win so I can spinback in playoffs @cold pumice

cold pumice
paper coyote
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Cant have my only real opponent be icybumguin who will probably hax

cold pumice
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Also you dodged icy during the season smh. Why’d you let this guy go 6-1

paper coyote
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They changed lu last minute

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Was gonna tell icy to sub into a different slot actually but forgot

cold pumice
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Rip

paper coyote
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Ladder kinda exhausted me from rands tho so idrm

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Week break before we stomp playoffs

cold pumice
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Nah if we make it in, we’re taking it

tawdry wigeon
tawdry wigeon
paper coyote
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Catlike champion 😂😂😂

tawdry wigeon
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😼

paper coyote
tawdry wigeon
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bro's pulling this shit and calling me a bum 😭

paper coyote
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Bums come in many flavours

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I still go to work no matter how tired I am 😶‍🌫️

uncut sigil
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Since my team is eliminated I would like to thank @civic anvil and @atomic glade for drafting me

past pond
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all quote unquote problems come from this being the worst auction of all time

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and bad drafting

neat dew
cold pumice
neat dew
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i blame the players except for star wheel

tawdry wigeon
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i blame none of the players except for star wheel

tawdry wigeon
past pond
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source: i went 20k

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I could point at other people as being clear ridiculous overpays but I don't see the need to put individual managers on blast

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just lots of trolling in auction

tawdry wigeon
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Stats for regulars(>1500 messages) in sdpl
63-97 overall

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not as bad as i thought ngl but 40% overall winrate is rough, this is including manager self buys

tawdry wigeon
wet sable
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only 3 non selfbuy regulars are positive rn so selfbuys are def broken in this

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oculars sealoo blooclipse

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me zinnias and poat are also positive but selfbought

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problem with 3/8 regs is the pools are pretty shallow even with good managers

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esp because some of the pools dont really have regs at all

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like rands sm ur not getting regs for

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there were regs slotted into rands but all were 0-x except a 1-1 and 2 1-2's

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last year pretty sure every regular was super negative in rands too

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meta for this tour is selfbuy both and dont be natdexers and get a natdex player in auction rather than bothering buying regulars for other tiers in auction minus a few exception

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a couple exceptions but for the most part selfbuys save way too many credits and natdex is the best pool to buy a regular for

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nd you get good cheap regulars because theres a ton of good picks and selfbuy you get good cheap regulars because fixed price

neat dew
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what are your recommendations to change

wet sable
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adding aaa to the tour could make regs stronger prob

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i remember last year aaa reg pool was good although tbf half the aaa players managed

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either aaa or vgc / dou > rands would help or increasing to 10 slots

neat dew
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i have no basis for adding AAA otherwise but vgc tracks

pallid iris
wet sable
pallid iris
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island tiers are not a good thing to add actually.

hushed portal
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idt aaa is a bad tier to add, bias aside

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theres a pretty deep pool of players with quite a few regs who are aaa players, and theres a lot of resources for getting into the tier

wet sable
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Last years pool without ca and an unusual amount of aaa playing managers whi didnt selfbuy

iron gazelle
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would've lowered confusion significantly

past pond
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nah

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some of the decisions r truly fuckin inexcusable

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with regards to draft

past pond
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sure yes making it smogon users and not discord usernames is an upgrade

wet sable
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So that i could study the pool and have an advantage

past pond
iron gazelle
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there were for sure other issues

hushed portal
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you played aaa oomf 💔

past pond
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other metas shld stay in their containment chamber

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yea i played it in an other meta tour

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im not tryna gaf about a diff tour where my teammate switches great tusk in on pixilate volt switch

past pond
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the teams just look wildly unbalanced

hushed portal
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theres no reason for this to "EXCLUDE ALL OMS BC THEYRE OMS" when aaa is a competitive meta and its discussed somewhat frequently in this cord

past pond
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because some teams bought all the good players

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and some teams bought zero of them

past pond
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reminder that the majority of the website does not think these r competitive or representative of pokemon

iron gazelle
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what does the latter statement mean

past pond
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do the math

iron gazelle
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i mean its purely subjective without further elaboration

iron gazelle
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oh

past pond
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that asw

iron gazelle
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i dislike tier islands yes

past pond
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tier islands r bad

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but idk like

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other metas r just not analogous to singles tiers

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it doesn't fit the team tournament

iron gazelle
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i think I could seriously disagree if I cared enough about these tiers but I rly don't so

past pond
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gg

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i wld not play or manage if you add oms

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degrades the integrity of the tournament to circus madhouse just to add an island slot for nobody to watch

iron gazelle
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could one make a case for this with a format like rands

past pond
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yes

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remove it please

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if your concern is signup quality add ss sm oras

iron gazelle
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i think interpretations of what tiers are competitive are always gonna be varied but I would understand why ppl don't want these tiers

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was there ever a format discussion

pallid iris
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I'm committing myself to being a nicer person and less dismissive of other viewpoints

past pond
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if your concern is that it's a discord tour meant to serve the community- then by all means add aaa and add whatever people want to play

iron gazelle
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or just chosen in private

pallid iris
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But dont kill me with AAA 😭

past pond
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basically just pick one

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either it's a discord tour to serve the community and its quality doesn't matter, or it's supposed to be somewhat competitive and having decent player pools in real tiers is something you value

hushed portal
# past pond reminder that the majority of the website does not think these r competitive or ...

the majority of the website also has not learnt the intricacies of the tier at all and just shit on OMs bc theyre different. AAA may be a meta with high variance but if you actually took time to learn the meta its really not that different from "OU except you get 1-2 more ability options" for the most part. yes, there are gimmicks but what tier doesnt have gimmicks? and i dont see your argument about how its not representative of competitive pokemon is valid at all. LC is played with level 5 pokemon and with the same mons every generation yet people still play it without shitting on it because they find it fun

pallid iris
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AAA fit into prizeless sdpl just fine

past pond
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yap

past pond
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the majority of the site doesn't shit on oms because they're different it's because they're nonsense

hushed portal
past pond
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what do you MEAN you can put any ability on any pokemon

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these r things you come up with on the playground when you're eight

hushed portal
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why do you have such a narrow viewpoint

pallid iris
pallid iris
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violet river if u diss the wrong om

past pond
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anyw i have some jobs to do

iron gazelle
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what does real tiers mean just like SCL/SPL tiers?

past pond
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j word alert

pallid iris
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League isnt a job bud

hushed portal
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its just subjectiveness really

past pond
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there are degrees of realness but modding the game is so clearly far removed from real

iron gazelle
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cart conservative then

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weird term but hopefully u get that

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not that i don't mind that I think its a little funky when a large chunk of regulars don't even play these real tiers beyond OU or at least not very well

past pond
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i don't get what you mean sorry

past pond
iron gazelle
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i think i need to see the signup sheet before committing to this point but essentially shouldn't the formats more or less be catering towards tiers that the regulars can actually play well instead? UU for example doesn't have a strong regular pool at all so i'm unsure why its even in the tour at all.

tawdry wigeon
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We saw how that turned out

hushed portal
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uu was added bc its a circuit tier i think

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all our tiers are circuit tiers..?

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idk

iron gazelle
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ig but then draft doesn't get added for whatever reason

pallid iris
iron gazelle
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i don't really like the incredibly multi-centric circuit either tbh

iron gazelle
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not cool

pallid iris
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its just some edits suck

tawdry wigeon
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How do you deal with tb

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If they have a good team mu

iron gazelle
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presumably this scenario doesn't exist if both drafts are not terrible

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not saying I want draft in this tour ftr

tawdry wigeon
past pond
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id rather draft than an om

past pond
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im not cart conservative id be down to mod out rby 1/256 glitch

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it's just that the ways that oms mod the game is so clearly more nonsense than the ways good tiers mod the game

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er

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real

iron gazelle
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i mean their mods aren't trying to fix they are adding

marble crane
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That's kinda the issue

pallid iris
iron gazelle
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its stuff that should've been figured out in

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a real format discussion

pallid iris
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Gap week blows

iron gazelle
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gap week actually blows yea i'm just sitting around in NDCL doing fuck all rn

wet sable
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yeah extra week to tour where you don't do anything sucks

past pond
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gap week blows

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unless spl

wet sable
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Unless ur the draft player

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i feel like draft is too much of a hassle to add to non draft teamtours to be worth esp when the playerbase is different

past pond
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meh

royal current
past pond
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draft wld be awkward

royal current
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rands in the tour is bad enough already tbh (no hate to rands players)

past pond
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but i tolerate it more than total nonsense

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aaa

past pond
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amen

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idk if you've read up

royal current
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im watching my rands slot get haxed or shit mus every single week

past pond
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but im crusading

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against the nonsense tiers

wet sable
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aaa would be over rands in my suggestion

royal current
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i also dont think draft should be in it

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even though im biased towards draft

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to be entirely honest my idea is kill off the custom and have it be a for fun tour as god intended

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it was a lot more entertaining last year

iron gazelle
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should catering tiers to what regulars prefer despite being less competitive** be in the spirit of the tour

past pond
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ok so I think the biggest issue w this tour and team imbalance is

past pond
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managerial incompetency has lead to very unbalanced teams

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despite having a fine player pool

royal current
past pond
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i totally reject the idea that you need to add aaa to make the signups better

royal current
past pond
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lol

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idk ab that one

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but basically

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all tournament related competitiveness issues come from skill issue

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and wld be fine next year

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BUT if you want to make it back into a for fun tour that serves the community

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then fully remix the slots

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have natdex and oms and whatever

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remove the ca

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etc

iron gazelle
past pond
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ye this is just ridiculous

iron gazelle
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only way u could make it fair to me is if u just axed the regulars rule

past pond
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nah

royal current
past pond
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idc abt that at all

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some teams r just strong top to bottom

past pond
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some teams r unplayable

iron gazelle
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i mean i don't want the entire tour quality to hinge on the managers being good at their jobs to work around the restrictions when it couldve just been standard auction

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see a lot of quality tours just suffer cuz of a quirky new rule getting added

royal current
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ngl i think a lot of the complaints just plain arent that big a deal to me from the pov of someone who just views it as a fun tour

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some teams r ass some r good kinda just how it goes

iron gazelle
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if its just for fun thats fine but CA tours and higher gotta be held to a higher standard surely

royal current
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ngl im not really sure it does tbh

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there r so many custom tours nowadays

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not all of them need to be max competitiveness

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but yeah im mostly in favour of just binning off the custom

iron gazelle
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ye but this is a pretty extreme case study of this phenomenon

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compared to other tours on site

neat dew
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i think our only quota was supposed to be high numbers and nothing insane

royal current
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i dont agree with complaints about what captains were accepted per se as most were here last year too in some form and replacing them with the same 4 people that show up to captain every single tour on site that has a custom attached is not better

neat dew
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which i think sdpl 1 and 2 accomplished

iron gazelle
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PL 2 defo had big names signup

royal current
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these big names dont actually use the server though

iron gazelle
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yea

royal current
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i dont agree that shoving out regulars to fit in "stronger" captains is suited to this tour

iron gazelle
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hard to have it both ways tho, in regards to asking regulars to both manage competently and to be on par with spl caliber players if they sign up to play

royal current
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yeah thats why i want it to be a fun tour instead

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idk if im in the minority though

iron gazelle
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where would u even move the CA slot towards

royal current
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not a scooby tbh lmao

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it doesnt have to get used ig

neat dew
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if pl loses the CA we aint putting it anywhere else

iron gazelle
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i mean if presumably we keep CA

rare path
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CA can go to the community playthrough for whoever's team I like best

royal current
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tbc i have no issues with the fact that a custom was added this year i thought it was an awesome idea and i was a fan of it at the time

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dont want it to appear that im being negative about it

iron gazelle
royal current
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ive just changed my opinion a bit after this ssn

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it would be worth experimenting with frags idea to keep regulars included without it being as difficult to balance before we go nuclear i think

iron gazelle
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theres nothing inherently wrong with having a CA for this tour but I think ther eis kinda an identity clash on how this tour is supposed to look

past pond
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cas are pretty free

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and also

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i get griefed in CA tours all the time

royal current
past pond
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:p

royal current
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get double pinged idiot

past pond
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as a manager I never get griefed

royal current
past pond
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for the tour to go wrong as a manager u have to have fucked up a lot

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people cancering is whatever

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as a player tho

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if your teams bad irs just bad

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no control over it

acoustic hawk
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This tour is just unserious which is fine

pallid iris
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also rands has been a good part of the tour

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i defend that shit

past pond
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Rands is fine yes

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its some tier inbetween super real and super unreal(oms)

royal current
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im not even saying that as a dig on rands its just factual

acoustic hawk
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Idk man nd and ubers are pretty unserious too

tawdry wigeon
acoustic hawk
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^ yeah this is what im saying

royal current
tawdry wigeon
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What are you saying

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Rands has higher carience?

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Variance

royal current
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higher variance and generally less competitive than the other tiers present

wet sable
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rands is bo3

royal current
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i'd say the same thing if the slot was monotype

tawdry wigeon
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So if it has higher variance

royal current
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no hate to the tier or the players

tawdry wigeon
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How is the standings ordered so well

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I’d say that disproves what you’re saying

royal current
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but if you're wanting the tour to be ultra competitive then it probs doesnt belong

wet sable
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theres hax in every tier even with bo3 but thats just the game

acoustic hawk
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hmm this is an interesting discussion

tawdry wigeon
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Or at least is heavy evidence against it

acoustic hawk
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How much luck is involvwd in rolling a good matchup in tiers prep?

royal current
acoustic hawk
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Like if youre pulling up with a fish intiers isnt it also “lucky” that you found the right mu?

royal current
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sample size isnt exactly large to work with for this tour to disprove what im saying

acoustic hawk
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I understand that scouting is a thing but idk if thats all that relevant tbh

royal current
tawdry wigeon
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That’s just not an argument

royal current
#

im not arguing no im stating what i believe to be a fact

past pond
#

we can all agree that oms r a tier of uncompetitive beyond the tiers currently in the tournament.

royal current
#

but like its hard to argue ubers is less competitive than rands is when you can just look at which tiers get played in the major tours and which ones dont

acoustic hawk
#

Thats not necessarily a good indicator either

#

tds have their own biases

royal current
#

i think a good indicator is the fact that rands is bo3 to begin with

past pond
#

as a Rands player

royal current
#

why is it bo3? why is it bo5 in their bigger tours? sometimes bo7?

past pond
#

it has a very high skill ceiling

#

everyone does not reach it tho

royal current
past pond
#

Rands is a high skill format but everyone chokes back and forth every game making it look bad

acoustic hawk
#

Wasnt there a whole debacle about that in recent times

royal current
past pond
#

Don't remove Rands just ban bad players

royal current
#

when gen 10 comes out if spl has to cut a tier it should be rby

past pond
#

rbys Tuff

#

u suck

acoustic hawk
#

At least youre consistent

#

But many tours players would take issue with that asw

past pond
#

rby and Rands r both great formats played by chokers who make them look bad

#

^

acoustic hawk
#

Because despite a tier being high variance it can still have greater skill expression

royal current
#

if a tier NEEDS to be bo3 to be competitive why exactly is that?

past pond
#

rby doesn't need it

tawdry wigeon
#

Who said it needs to be

past pond
#

people just like it + it's grandfathered in so may as well keep it

tawdry wigeon
#

It’s just preferred that way

past pond
#

Rands is kinda similar I think

#

Status quo is just that bo3 is pog

royal current
#

all im saying is that rands is high variance, yes the best players will generally rise to the top and the bad players will fall to the bottom, i dont disagree with that

tawdry wigeon
#

If tiers prep was easier people would also do bo3

paper coyote
#

@tawdry wigeon what did rampardos do

acoustic hawk
#

Well at what point is competitiveness determined by higher skill expression vs less variance

tawdry wigeon
past pond
#

Rands is a bit higher variance than some other formats

#

But its not uncompetitive

paper coyote
acoustic hawk
#

Like id argue some people value the former more than the latter and i think thats reaosnable

past pond
#

So I have less of a gripe

royal current
past pond
#

Tjan for say

#

Oms

royal current
#

i do think it is less competitive than the other tiers but i dont think its ridiculously so

paper coyote
#

Rands is more competitive than draft lol

past pond
#

ridiculous untake

royal current
#

why are we bringing up draft

past pond
#

as someone who plays both

royal current
#

is that just a personal jab at me cause i play draft?

past pond
#

well obviously yea

#

it's just bait

celest pagoda
acoustic hawk
#

dr*ft

royal current
#

i literally said earlier draft doesnt belong in this tour Shrug

cosmic orbit
paper coyote
past pond
#

the most uncompetitive part abt draft is

celest pagoda
#

Who up Michaeling rn

past pond
#

how much u can be puppeteered

cosmic orbit
past pond
#

someone does hr draft makes ur tema and tells you how to play

royal current
#

one thing i have learned recently is the rands community is very insular and doesnt seem to be very nice

past pond
#

that's fax

#

not recent

tawdry wigeon
#

How so?

celest pagoda
#

Curious

paper coyote
#

michael?

tawdry wigeon
#

Definitely is insulated tho

acoustic hawk
#

Its insular but tiers discourse gets way more toxic lmao

tawdry wigeon
#

It’s almost exclusively random jerks

past pond
#

the rands community only interact via 1800 elo ladder games

acoustic hawk
#

LOL

royal current
#

there's a lot of hostility

robust matrix
royal current
#

i joined a jerk a while back and the vibes were not good lol

tawdry wigeon
paper coyote
acoustic hawk
#

Yeah theres no way bro

past pond
#

?

celest pagoda
#

This lol

acoustic hawk
#

Rands is legit the nicest community ive been a part of on ps

paper coyote
#

LMAO

sturdy lagoon
tawdry wigeon
past pond
#

:)

royal current
cosmic orbit
paper coyote
#

@tawdry wigeon im your man 🥺

celest pagoda
#

Paysa IS rands

cosmic orbit
acoustic hawk
#

Ofc when the community is so big there are gonna be dipshits

tawdry wigeon
sturdy lagoon
past pond
#

ok unironically

tawdry wigeon
#

You’re just speaking generalities w/o backing anything up

past pond
#

the worst part abt the rands community is how many games you guys call unwinnable on matchup

tawdry wigeon
past pond
#

It's not objective, how could it be

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Lol

#

She's super right ftr

royal current
celest pagoda
acoustic hawk
cosmic orbit
paper coyote
#

heh 😼

past pond
#

was wondering if someone wld say it

#

adv is a miserable formats

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im locking out of it for rbtt

#

u guys saw my unown counter.

tawdry wigeon
past pond
#

SEVENNNNNNNNN

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SEVEN UNOWNS!!!!

tawdry wigeon
acoustic hawk
#

yeah lowk adv sucks but at least its fun

past pond
#

I had a bo3 that tour where I got two unowns back to back

royal current
past pond
#

Hppsy into hpbug

paper coyote
#

me irl if anybody gaf

celest pagoda
#

Oh hey Muslim Toji

cosmic orbit
#

LMAO

tawdry wigeon
#

Oh hey justout

paper coyote
cosmic orbit
#

oh hey icy

past pond
#

ur allowed to have opinions on things right

tawdry wigeon
#

Oh hey sylvee

past pond
#

oh hey wigglytuff

celest pagoda
#

They're calling me the Australian Nanami btw

cosmic orbit
tawdry wigeon
royal current
paper coyote
tawdry wigeon
past pond
#

twerkmaxx

celest pagoda
#

Twerking for other reasons personally

past pond
#

average randbats player wld twerk for a lv 92 raticate

still plume
paper coyote
#

I’d kirk for a level 92 raticate

robust matrix
still plume
#

charlie charlie kirkie

tawdry wigeon
paper coyote
#

@past pond are you a fan of heatrans

past pond
#

the miami heatrans

paper coyote
#

the rbtt flame body faction 🥸

#

what rands do u play outside of adv

past pond
#

rby

acoustic hawk
#

Oh dear

past pond
#

ill sign for roulette for rbtt tho

acoustic hawk
#

Poor guy

paper coyote
#

dm me (justout.) for tryouts

past pond
#

im tuff in all 9 gens...

tawdry wigeon
#

@pallid iris are you a fan of heatrans

still plume
#

gsc is where the moneys at

pallid iris
sturdy lagoon
#

Roulette is shiest

paper coyote
sturdy lagoon
#

Best change in rands history

acoustic hawk
#

tones gonna change real quick when we start seeng gen 2 bo3 in the roulette slot

sturdy lagoon
#

TRUE

#

nuke that shit great idea

tawdry wigeon
paper coyote
cosmic orbit
#

@tawdry wigeon now

#

i want to bssf

tawdry wigeon
cosmic orbit
#

oh

#

i will wait

tawdry wigeon
#

Lemme hop on

#

Nah

cosmic orbit
#

let have proper games

#

come on

somber tusk
#

Unfun bssf

tawdry wigeon
#

On @cosmic orbit

cosmic orbit
#

bssf is always fun

#

you should draft me for it

#

im good

pallid iris
#

Paysa has achieved nothing in real tiers

#

But thinks he’s a someone because he manages (just makes his players schedule) a tour with free CAs

cosmic orbit
#

he hasn't achieved anything in rands

pallid iris
paper coyote
#

Wanna be drafted by us @pallid iris

pallid iris
#

Getting good mus

somber tusk
pallid iris
paper coyote
#

The roulette pool is already so sparse

cosmic orbit
pallid iris
#

I don’t like signing up for tours I don’t think I’ll get into

royal current
#

@pallid iris this is some elite ragebaiting im taking notes

#

big fan of your work

paper coyote
still plume
#

if you guys ever need to speak to a wholesome rands player message @robust matrix 🥰

pallid iris
#

✌️

celest pagoda
#

Yo Paysa yo unsafe rn?

pallid iris
#

Bros 0-1 in OUFL

celest pagoda
#

We can fix that

pallid iris
#

🤣 🤣

paper coyote
#

Noname waxing you next week pussy

pallid iris
paper coyote
#

Zzz

pallid iris
#

@royal current I broke him

paper coyote
pallid iris
#

He’s inventing matchups like an AI

pallid iris
#

oh you should’ve seen his face he got ragebaited so hard!

royal current
paper coyote
#

Want me to dm you the face I’m making rn @royal current

sturdy lagoon
#

✍️

paper coyote
#

I’m SOOOOO ragebaited

pallid iris
royal current
paper coyote
#

bet

celest pagoda
#

What's a vc sorry I'm new

paper coyote
#

lots of cuties in here :D

pallid iris
#

Honestly paysa you would have more success with women by saying “michael” with a group of shitters than by sending your face

#

Try it on tinder

robust matrix
celest pagoda
#

Oh hey Haunter

cosmic orbit
somber tusk
#

Can we sell back paysa

paper coyote
pallid iris
#

Icy is getting too confident after farming some rando this week

#

I think the opponent was Deeznuts67 or something

somber tusk
#

I did throw unfort

still plume
#

🤣

paper coyote
pallid iris
somber tusk
tawdry wigeon
pallid iris
#

🐟

#

@royal current another own

#

I’m on fire

paper coyote
pallid iris
#

I own all of rands

#

I’m the fucking king of zinnicord

somber tusk
#

I've dealt with so many clowns the past month I asked to change back already

#

It's obnoxious garbage

pallid iris
somber tusk
#

Stop

pallid iris
#

Cuz i had a bad old username too

#

However trig pulls are trig pulls

#

Oh also

#

My irl name gets made fun of in the same way

#

It’s Susy (i chose it before among us created)

#

So i feel u broski

fading perch
#

Wait what

#

U r going back to poat?

somber tusk
#

Yes

fading perch
#

Oh

tawdry wigeon
#

Oh hey @fading perch

fading perch
#

Gm

#

Hello toxic rands community

celest pagoda
#

Hi 👋

robust matrix
cosmic orbit
#

am i toxic

still plume
#

greetings LW

tawdry wigeon
#

I think lw’s existence disproves the allegations

somber tusk
cosmic orbit
#

cool

somber tusk
#

Or from a game

paper coyote
#

Xerosic giving backshots to Heatran @celest pagoda

fading perch
#

😳

robust matrix
#

Confirmed avatar choice btw

fading perch
#

I wonder if chat could generate that image

celest pagoda
#

Who needs chat lol

robust matrix
#

That's my manager JustOut459 !!

celest pagoda
#

It's already made

fading perch
#

Give the spriters an idea

#

O

pallid iris
#

can imagine u had a lot of that too

#

I think we can all agree that paysa got owned itc

#

I will now bid my farewell

paper coyote
somber tusk
#

Skill issue

tawdry wigeon
uncut sigil
#

damn I missed another huge convo

somber tusk
#

Just never go outside

#

And never sleep

neat dew
#

sounds healthy

somber tusk
#

Ikr

uncut sigil
#

True

placid olive
#

Also yea what you wrote above this is just how blt does it

#

x amount of players that need x amount of games per season

#

And it's still auction

hushed portal
#

oh i meant auction

#

i think i thought it out poorly in my head at the time but i was thinking thered there be too much regs to get all of them in an auction with limited credits

placid olive
#

Oh, well I mean yea but not every reg is drafted under this version of the tour either

hushed portal
#

fair enough

glass goblet
#

<@&1432390425855135795> @hazy storm @upper oasis oi

hazy storm
#

?

ornate island
#

🤔

glass goblet
upper oasis
#

@glass goblet

amber narwhal
cloud linden
#

top tier baiter

royal current
#

what's the score in furry series

placid olive
#

3-1 furries

royal current
#

let's go volcaronas xx

placid olive
#

@royal current @stuck sun do y'all know when the rest of your games are

royal current
tawdry wigeon
hushed portal
#

SV UU: duckycrater vs oliviaotero - <t:1766962800:F> / <t:1766962800:R>
SV NatDex OU: concepteverything vs im_m0rtal. - <t:1766937600:F> / <t:1766937600:R>

placid olive
tawdry wigeon
#

do those games determine which teams make playoffs or just seeding?

placid olive
#

both

tawdry wigeon
#

oh wow very down to the wire

royal current
#

we're locked in playoffs

placid olive
#

Yea I just noticed that like an hour ago, but your series still has implications for seeding

#

And whimsis still aren't locked

feral tulip
#

Unless yall deadgamed 3 games as well

royal current
#

pannu Celeste clean cow

#

furries can't match our diff anymore

feral tulip
#

No one tell clean they havent posted win yet

royal current
#

did this bum seriously

#

@barren bramble .

feral tulip
#

Wait they don’t have yalls team role

#

Lmao!

#

Unaffiliated win so we should dq them thoughts?

barren bramble
royal current
feral tulip
#

I have more faith in the furys to make it past first round.

royal current
feral tulip
#

What’s there to worry about? Ez sweep

royal current
#

@hazy storm @neat dew @indigo rain mortal is waiting x

hazy storm
#

He’s already been challenged

royal current
#

wish you lost so my game wasn't series decider though.

tawdry wigeon
#

So Delphoxes cats belis locked for playoffs?

#

And then who is still fighting and what are their odds

neat dew
#

is it not gears over bellis

#

@marsh fossil if you have chance think we can get a week update?

feral tulip
#

If furys win 6-2 + we lose all three games they make it

#

Else, we make it

neat dew
#

interesting

#

whats the scores for those two teams?

feral tulip
#

Since worst we can go is 3-4, -1 differential to put us at (0) game score while best furys can go is 6-2, +4 differential which puts them -1 game score

grizzled shuttle
feral tulip
#

Bellies are locked with a draw

grizzled shuttle
#

with a guarunteed tie we needed the furys to not get 6 diff

#

and we got our tie

#

its 4-3 series score rn

#

and the furys have 2 loses

feral tulip
#

Yep

grizzled shuttle
#

so it should just be gears bellies catlike guys and delphoxes

tawdry wigeon
#

who is 3rd seed out of gears/bellies?

fast pulsar
#

Whimsicotts 3rd

#

Fourth will be us or belli

tawdry wigeon
fast pulsar
tawdry wigeon
#

whats your score + games left to play rn?

fast pulsar
#

We’re 3/3 an i think belli is 2/2 but idk I haven’t followed their score super closely

tawdry wigeon
#

gotcha ty for the info

fast pulsar
#

np

unborn wasp
#

Apparently the bellys are 4-3 @fast pulsar

unborn wasp
feral tulip
#

Yeah bellis are in

#

Furys are out

fast pulsar
#

unfort

#

was a fun tour tho

unborn wasp
#

Whats the score of gears?

feral tulip
#

3-2 with 3 dead games lol

unborn wasp
#

How are there 3 deadgames

#

😭

feral tulip
#

Violet deadgamed since both missed the time

#

And then kayzn won to secure playoffs so exg and sire deadgamed cuz they didn’t care

fast pulsar
#

LOL

unborn wasp
#

Well, if you go 3-5 we'd have a tiebrraker

feral tulip
#

Ngl this a comical amount of dgs but it secures us the week so I don’t mind

unborn wasp
#

But it is what it is

fast pulsar
#

average tours player

#

avoid playing the game by all means necessary

feral tulip
#

Well yall are 5-3 no?

unborn wasp
#

Oh right

#

We cannot go 6-2

#

mb

feral tulip
#

So it doesn’t matter yeah

#

Good try though yall got really close o7

royal current
#

all 4 playoff teams having positive diff in the end is terrible news for agenda posters

tawdry wigeon
#

Free playoffs

placid olive
#

so true bestie

safe whale
#

Go sharks

fast pulsar
safe whale
#

Where is this from

strong quarry
#

free playoffs

dense heart
#

oh nevermind, they wished someone gl for poffs

pallid iris
safe whale
#

Ok

dense heart
#

@pallid iris ur going down frfr

pallid iris
#

Derpy was wishing me specifically luck in playoffs

#

Thank you very much

pallid iris
dense heart
#

yeah that's gonna be the reason for our loss

#

if we lose

pallid iris
#

Is that v0-2 pioz

dense heart
#

🙄

pallid iris
#

Best OUPL throw of the year winner

#

Aura loser

dense heart
#

we both lost to baganha, only diff was u didnt get haxed

pallid iris
#

You didn’t get haxed either he was just being nice

dense heart
tawdry wigeon
#

@dense heart when are we playing sdpl

dense heart
#

right now

pallid iris
#

Also I did miss a stone edge that won

tawdry wigeon
#

They don’t have week up

dense heart
#

😔

pallid iris
#

And your game had less than that

#

And I dont even call my games hax

safe whale
dense heart
pallid iris
#

Saying he actually watches games

dense heart
#

i watched

#

i chose to ignore

pallid iris
#

You didn’t watch

dense heart
#

i watched

pallid iris
#

+5.5 pbfer

dense heart
#

racist

#

bannnnnnnn

pallid iris
#

how is pbfer racist it’s about Roblox not race

fast pulsar
dense heart
#

ok

#

gamist

#

ah ok

pallid iris
#

You said to me about the game after I had fallen asleep

#

You weren’t watching nothing pioz

dense heart
#

waos

#

i watched the replays 💀

pallid iris
#

Is not possible

dense heart
#

brother what LMAO

pallid iris
#

Is not possible

dense heart
#

coping

#

we both are its ok

#

😔

pallid iris
#

Like you do

dense heart
#

?

tawdry wigeon
#

You don’t buy erasers? How do you erase things then

pallid iris
safe whale
pallid iris
#

oh we do have fun don’t we icypenguin player teammate

#

Im on a two pointer actually

#

I need to play spl

tawdry wigeon
#

Btw wanna play a set sometime today I lowkey haven’t touched rands outside of the one set a week I play for this in the past month

rare path
hushed portal
#

hope you have a great week wifi catheart

rare path
#

thank you catheart

ruby jacinth
#

@rare path

#

are you sure thats the lineup we submitted

pallid iris
#

Hope you have a great month wifi

rare path
ruby jacinth
#

@shy furnace

#

@hushed portal

hushed portal
#

i fuckes up oops

ruby jacinth
#

ohhh

#

happens

rare path
#

It was, hence the checkmark (and the delay)

somber tusk
#

No longer best streaming character tho

#

Rip

atomic glade
#

nope iono is better

somber tusk
#

Gimme canari

stuck solstice
#

iono clears the other one

atomic glade
#

sami W

somber tusk
#

It's ok to be wrong

rare path
#

Image muting poat

somber tusk
atomic glade
#

that means no more cloud

#

punishment worse than death tbh

somber tusk
#

Facts

neat dew
#

what the SDPL stats looking like

ruby jacinth
#

dire

tawdry wigeon
#

@placid olive @somber tusk what’s your series score rn

#

And when are last two games

somber tusk
#

4-2 baddy in 15

#

Taka at 4pm -5

neat dew
#

@rare path can we get an OP update?

tawdry wigeon
tawdry wigeon
rare path
#

When I’m on desktop

neat dew
#

would people value usage stats for this tour

royal current
#

TIIIIIEEEEEEBREEEAKERRRR

somber tusk
#

What are you guys picking

#

I think I know

#

Lol

tawdry wigeon
somber tusk
tawdry wigeon
#

Also do you need a certain # of 1500 message + slots for tb?

somber tusk
#

N

#

Anyone can tb

royal current
tawdry wigeon
#

We play mons everyone here does

tawdry wigeon
#

could managers post tb times when they have them please

#

and how has @fathom sedge not played yet stop johnning bro

fathom sedge
#

What i do

#

😢