hello!
i have a complaint regarding this tier. it is a very fun tier, but i believe there is an issue of nomenclature which is holding it back. i present to you:
the case for littler cup
little cup began in the game pocket monsters stadium 2. it was called little cup because you had to use only unevolved pokemon. this tier got implemented on sims around dpp and became an om. now it is kind of a central smogon metagame. but not really. but anyway. it is big enough now to have its own oms like lc dubs and even this very tier right here itself. i remember i first heard of it from aerow when i first came round to the lc scene in xy. i liked it and i still like it. but since then engagement in the tier hasn't really grown like at all and
that's fucked up.
but worry not, my friends, for
i have the answer. the big reason this tier has not grown is because it doesn't have a ladder on ps! it doesn't have the playerbase to get a ladder, or it doesn't have a ladder to get a playerbase, chicken or the egg, whatever.
this is because people don't like the name "LC UU." and why should they? it's an ugly name. for one thing, it's combining two acronyms, which is
just wack as fuck. for another, it's too long of an acronym to stand for something that's not funny. people like short acronyms for most things that aren't funny, like "DNC" or "GOP", and only like acronyms longer than 3 letters when they stand for something funny, like using "SWAG" to mean "some windmills are giants."
"LCUU" does not stand for anything funny. it just stands for "little cup underused." which brings me to my third problem with this name. "little cup" naturally abbreviates to "LC," with one letter representing one word. "underused," however, is actually one word per official smogon nomenclature, which is technically supposed to be spelled "UnderUsed," but hey,
you can't just put random capital letters in a word like that. that's some bullshit. it wants to be one word and two words at the same time, and did nobody think of hyphenating? but the important thing here is that a four letter acronym,
which is far too long for a serious endeavor, only stands for three words. that doesn't make sense. we need a new acronym that does not have these issues.
which brings me to my proposal:
change the tier name to "littler cup." if you want an acronym, you can make it "LrC." this name has many advantages, for one that it makes sense, with all the big nasty pokemon in the little cup, that the tier below them would be the littler cup. it is more
lexiconically consistent. also, littler cup rolls off the tongue much more easily than lc uu,
which is a whole syllable extra! that does not seem like a lot, but think of
how many precious moments you waste each and every day with that extra syllable, moments that add up to time you could've spent doing useful things instead of pronouncing some stupid four letter acronym that stands for three words. according to my calculations, renaming this tier to littler cup could save upwards of
3 whole entire minutes off the lives of the tier playerbase in just the first year alone. even for just this reason alone i think we should change the name. but there is more. i believe that renaming this tier littler cup could get us a ladder much more quickly, because it would just fit so much better than lc uu. you hop on showdown, click the button to pick your format, and there, right under little cup, is littler cup. it just makes sense organizationally in a way that the name lc uu does not. imagine seeing lc uu listed under little cup. you'd have to know what lc
and uu stood for. that's a lot of knowledge that could discourage new players from coming to the tier. if new players saw littler cup, they would know what it was about: it's like little cup, but, like, littler. which is what it is.
the
egregious misdeed done by whoever named it lc uu in the first place
cannot be perpetuated. we must take steps to improve ourselves and our world and we must learn from the lessons of the past without memorializing failure. i urge you, my fellow littler cuppers, to join me in righting this boat and bringing
unprecedented prosperity and success to this tier. you can support the cause by
adding the clan tag [lrc] in front of your name in the little cup and "lc uu" discord channels and by
tagging the folks in charge, like this:
Corporal Levi Serene Grace taranteeeno tahu Jac Quote tko
join me in making the usage-based tier under little cup
great again!!!