Hi everybody,
For most of ADV LC's existence, Porygon and Wailmer were not banned. In fact, Porygon had never even been brought up for a suspect before Coconut's thread was posted, while Wailmer had been brought up for a suspect but voted against. When Porygon was added to the banlist, it was on the votes of a council of three users, with no input at all from other ADV LC players. While this was ignored due to ADV LC's inactive playerbase at the time, I feel that such a process isn't acceptable if we are looking into giving ADV LC more legitimacy going forward.
I think that this tournament is a prime opportunity to fairly evaluate these two Pokemon with a large playerbase, a chance that we may not be able to get for some time. The alternative would be to assume Porygon and Wailmer are broken for the duration of the tournament and then vote on them afterwards, but the playerbase then will likely have a biased representation of these two Pokemon, as they will only be able to playtest them against a very small group of people. Perhaps we can unban Porygon and Wailmer for the first three rounds, and have the remaining players vote on whether they are banworthy for the remaining rounds as a suspect test of sorts.
It's worth noting that while ADV LC never had a notably large playerbase, there were periods of time when it had a dozen or two users actively playing it - significantly more than it did when Porygon and Wailmer were quickbanned - and was developed over several years. As a result, we actually have
more sample teams for the Porygon/Wailmer metagame than the metagame without them, and a
variety of other resources from when Aerow was trying his best, so unbanning Porygon and Wailmer is preferable for helping ease users into the metagame in that regard.
e: this wasn't meant to be a callout - I was directed to make a post on the forums when I mentioned my concerns over discord