Welcome all to the first stages of the Doubles Derby, a new and exciting team tournament being introduced for the Doubles OU community. This tour aims to provide a highly competitive environment to spotlight and develop Doubles tiers that don't get nearly as much attention as some of the other tiers such as previous generations. This tournament has been discussed quite a bit on Discord as is, but we would like to get a more formal dialogue started on the forums as well. The hosting team (myself and bunnyy) would like to begin the discussion process early so that we can hopefully reach a community consensus on the general direction of tiers and other organizational matters regarding this new tournament. Before that, I'd like to outline some general things that have already been decided on.
On to subjects of discussion, the primary one as always is what tiers to include in the tournament. The tiers up for consideration are SV DOU, SV DUU, SV Doubles Ubers, SV National Dex Doubles, SV Doubles Little Cup, DPP DOU, and ADV DOU. As a reminder, we only have 8 slots available. For the sake of transparency, the hosting team is currently favoring the following format:
2x SV DOU / 1x SV DUU / 1x SV Doubles Ubers / 1x SV Doubles Little Cup / 1x National Dex Doubles / 1x DPP DOU / 1x ADV DOU
However, this has been the subject of much discussion in the Doubles Discord, with some proposing things like 2 DUU slots. We appreciate any and all feedback on the matter.
Currently, we are planning on an auction-style draft much like DPL as it is a proven format that works better than any other tournament I've participated in on this site. If anybody has any ideas for a different format, I would love to hear them.
Managers
We would like to cover a couple topics that always come up with the team tours we run. Whether or not managers can play or not has more or less been a closed case in favor of managers being able to play, and my current thought is to implement the same manager pricing format DPL uses. We could either start with a clean slate at a set price like 10k, 15k, and so on, or we could use DPL wins as a metric with the same formula as DPL. This is certainly not set in stone either way and I would greatly appreciate on this.
Co-managers were introduced in this most recent edition of DPL, and I would be curious to know what people think of how those went. If we want to keep co-managers, should we have them sign up together, or allow managers to pick their co-managers after managers have been selected? We would retain the rule that only one of the two managers can play in the tournament.
If anybody has any other pressing concerns or comments about anything else, please feel free to comment those as well. I appreciate any and all feedback on this, and I hope we can all come together to make this tournament a success!
- The timeline for the tournament is currently as follows:
- Discussion thread will be up for quite a while, with manager signups beginning on July 2nd and running until July 9th.
- Following this, a buffer week will be taken for art to be created for teams. We would love to see various DOU community members contribute to this, so if you have any interest/experience with making logos, please feel free to reach out to me! This buffer week will conclude on July 16th.
- Player signups will then run from July 16th until a day before the draft. Managers and the hosting team will schedule the draft to occur sometime from July 28th to July 30th.
- Week one will be posted July 30th once rosters have been submitted.
- The regular season will conclude by September 3rd. Playoffs will run for two weeks barring any tiebreaks, resulting in the conclusion of the tournament by September 17th ideally.
- As for managers, we would love to see some new faces managing teams. Slight preference will be given to those that have not recently managed in DPL or been captains in DWCOP. Do note that this does not exclude those that have managed in the past, nor does it guarantee a spot for new managers.
- As far as teams and number of slots, it's been decided that for the first iteration of the tour, we will have 6 teams and 8 slots. More on which tiers will be included below.
- Deadlines for games to be played and roster submission will be strictly enforced. Any games scheduled at or beyond the deadline, unless previously communicated to the hosting team due to extreme scheduling difficulties, will result in dead games. Any manager that does not submit a roster before the deadline will have the lineup from the previous week used.
- Most importantly, to fit the name of the tournament, teams will have horse themed names. For those looking for inspiration, me and some others already made a list of possible names, with various references to either Pokemon names or famous race horses and so on.
On to subjects of discussion, the primary one as always is what tiers to include in the tournament. The tiers up for consideration are SV DOU, SV DUU, SV Doubles Ubers, SV National Dex Doubles, SV Doubles Little Cup, DPP DOU, and ADV DOU. As a reminder, we only have 8 slots available. For the sake of transparency, the hosting team is currently favoring the following format:
2x SV DOU / 1x SV DUU / 1x SV Doubles Ubers / 1x SV Doubles Little Cup / 1x National Dex Doubles / 1x DPP DOU / 1x ADV DOU
However, this has been the subject of much discussion in the Doubles Discord, with some proposing things like 2 DUU slots. We appreciate any and all feedback on the matter.
Currently, we are planning on an auction-style draft much like DPL as it is a proven format that works better than any other tournament I've participated in on this site. If anybody has any ideas for a different format, I would love to hear them.
Managers
We would like to cover a couple topics that always come up with the team tours we run. Whether or not managers can play or not has more or less been a closed case in favor of managers being able to play, and my current thought is to implement the same manager pricing format DPL uses. We could either start with a clean slate at a set price like 10k, 15k, and so on, or we could use DPL wins as a metric with the same formula as DPL. This is certainly not set in stone either way and I would greatly appreciate on this.
Co-managers were introduced in this most recent edition of DPL, and I would be curious to know what people think of how those went. If we want to keep co-managers, should we have them sign up together, or allow managers to pick their co-managers after managers have been selected? We would retain the rule that only one of the two managers can play in the tournament.
If anybody has any other pressing concerns or comments about anything else, please feel free to comment those as well. I appreciate any and all feedback on this, and I hope we can all come together to make this tournament a success!
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