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Tournament AAAPL I - Information and Administrative Decisions

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Welcome to the first ever Almost Any Ability Premier League!
Roster | Schedule | Standings (Records) | Usage Stats and Replays

Overview

Teams - Managers

:honchkrow: The Head Honchkrows managed by LordBox and Career Ended
:Salamence: The Smashing Salamences managed by Natcrozma and Lady Salamence
:Corviknight: The Well-Baked Corviknights managed by Hiusi guy and sundays
:Ceruledge: The Cherry Pit Ceruledges managed by OM and Potatochan
:Charizard: The Charming Charizzards managed by Atha and The Number Man
:Psyduck: Psycho Psyducks managed by SpaceSpeakers and zastra

How this works
There are TBD teams this year. Each team will have 6 players and at least 2 subs. The players are bought using the 80k credits that managers receive during the auction. Managers and co-managers will be allowed to purchase themselves as players for their team at a fixed price of 10k. The managers must inform the host (Isaiah) of all self purchases before the beginning of the auction. Teams can win their matchup every week by winning 4 of the 6 matches that their players have to play.​
The tier lineup this year is as follows: SV Almost Any Ability (3 slots, one is 2AC), SS Almost Any Ability, SM Almost Any Ability, ORAS Almost Any Ability
It is recommended to play all games on SmogTours in the most current version of the format corresponding to those listed above. Games can be played on the Pokemon Showdown main server, but run higher risk of interference from server restarts/crashes. The result between players may be decided in a best-of-one or best-of-three at the discretion of both players involved. If there is no agreement, the result will decided in a Bo1 by default.​
Winning a round rewards a team with 2 points, drawing 1 point, and losing zero points. In addition, the manner in which the round has been won will also be recorded i.e. the difference between a team's wins and losses in a specific week's round (referred to as "Win Differential").​
Playoffs:​
Each team will play one another for five weeks. Based on the final standings, the top 4 teams will enter a Playoffs Round to determine the teams appearing in the finals.​

Tiebreaker
In the event of two teams being tied for a spot in the finals based on points and win differential, or a tie in the final round itself, we will have a tiebreaker round(s).​


Substitutes
Substitutes are to be used in the case of extenuating circumstances, whether on the first day of the week, or the last. At the same time, players should be relatively well-aware of who all are available to play in the opponent's camp. If last minute substitutes are being frequently used or abused and the hosts find explanations unsatisfactory, the hosts still reserve the right to veto them. In order to further prevent this being the case, teams are only granted a maximum of two substitutes per week. Any substitutions after the second will be vetoed.​

Trades
The hosts have decided to not include trades this year due to reasons outlined in this thread - all roster decisions will be final, so draft carefully!​

Miscellaneous
 
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Schedule

Week 1 - August 13
Cherry Pit Ceruledges vs Charming Charizzards
Psycho Psyducks vs Head Honchkrows
Smashing Salamences vs Well-Baked Corviknights

Week 2 - August 20
Smashing Salamences vs Cherry Pit Ceruledges
Charming Charizzards vs Head Honchkrows
Well-Baked Corviknights vs Psycho Psyducks

Week 3 - August 27
Head Honchkrows vs Smashing Salamences
Cherry Pit Ceruledges vs Well-Baked Corviknights
Psycho Psyducks vs Charming Charizzards

Week 4 - September 3
Cherry Pit Ceruledges vs Psycho Psyducks
Well-Baked Corviknights vs Head Honchkrows
Smashing Salamences vs Charming Charizzards

Week 5 - September 10
Charming Charizzards vs Well-Baked Corviknights
Head Honchkrows vs Cherry Pit Ceruledges
Psycho Psyducks vs Smashing Salamences

Week 6 - Semifinals - September 17

Charming Charizzards vs Psycho Psyducks
Smashing Salamences vs Cherry Pit Ceruledges

Week 7 - Finals - September 24

TBD vs. TBD
 
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To help people find inspiration for old gen teams, I compiled some replays from some big AAA tournaments of the past! Obviously not everything in these replays is legal anymore (make sure to check out the old gen hub for the banlists we will use for this AAAPL), but I figured that at the very least, having something to watch and get ideas from while you're trying to figure out, "What the heck do we bring this week?!" should help the process along :]

> The names in parentheses indicate a name change.
> If games weren't linked in the tour thread, I didn't bother trying to find them.

Gen 6

Gen 7
2019 OMPL VIII Playoffs
motherlove vs rozes (shiloh)
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen7almostanyability-961752497

Racool vs itsKimbo
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen7almostanyability-961800754
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen7almostanyability-962194760

motherlove vs Chaitanya
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen7almostanyability-968325152

2019 OM Circuit Championship Top 16
Fardin (Skooma) vs velvet blood (velvet)
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/rom-gen7almostanyability-734971

Megazard (MZ) vs Dj Breloominati♬
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/rom-gen7almostanyability-737382

Andyboy vs Akashi
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen7almostanyability-1037674195

Hamhamhamham vs TectonicDestroyer
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen7almostanyability-1037768410

xavgb vs Catalystic
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen7almostanyability-1037797467

2019 OM Circuit Championship Quarterfinals
Pigeons vs Fardin (Skooma)
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen7almostanyability-1039964151

Jrdn vs xavgb
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen7almostanyability-1041314173

Hamhamhamham vs Megazard (MZ)
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen7almostanyability-1041537761

2019 OM Circuit Championship Semifinals
Jrdn vs Hamhamhamham
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen7almostanyability-1045865820

2019 OM Circuit Championship Finals
Andyboy vs Jrdn
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen7almostanyability-1048881450

2019 AAA Open Semifinals
rozes (shiloh) vs Quantum Tesseract
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen7almostanyability-872292397
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen7almostanyability-872293840

Plas vs highlighter
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen7almostanyability-872865518
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen7almostanyability-872867048

xavgb vs Chloe
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen7almostanyability-873469710
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen7almostanyability-873471708
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen7almostanyability-873473907

2019 AAA Open Finals
Quantum Tesseract vs highlighter
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen7almostanyability-876859225
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen7almostanyability-876863190
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen7almostanyability-876866650

xavgb vs Quantum Tesseract
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen7almostanyability-877634748
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen7almostanyability-877637054

xavgb vs highlighter
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen7almostanyability-877634748
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen7almostanyability-877637054
Gen 8
2022 AAA Seasonal Winners Semifinals
zioziotrip vs abriel
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen8almostanyability-1608232909
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen8almostanyability-1608239665

Heracross2.0 (Hera) vs Career Ended
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen8almostanyability-1609582451
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen8almostanyability-1609600168
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen8almostanyability-1609609484

2022 AAA Seasonal Winners Finals
Heracross2.0 (Hera) vs zioziotrip
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen8almostanyability-1618212119 (500 turn tie)
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen8almostanyability-1618247130
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen8almostanyability-1618261250
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen8almostanyability-1618274584

2022 AAA Seasonal Losers Semifinals
Osake vs longhiep341
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen8almostanyability-1619182612
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen8almostanyability-1619189847
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen8almostanyability-1619193722

2022 AAA Seasonal Losers Finals
zioziotrip vs Osake
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen8almostanyability-1622848267
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen8almostanyability-1622855230
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen8almostanyability-1622863647

2022 AAA Seasonal Grand Finals
zioziotrip vs Heracross2.0 (Hera)
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen8almostanyability-1627350050
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen8almostanyability-1627354468
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen8almostanyability-1627372087

zioziotrip vs Heracross2.0 (Hera)
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen8almostanyability-1635306215
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen8almostanyability-1635319052

2022 OMPL X Replays
https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/ompl-x-usage-stats.3698992/post-9182424

2022 OM Circuit Championship Top 16
abriel vs DugZa
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen8almostanyability-1746262736

PandaDoux vs Ivar57
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen8almostanyability-1746354513

astralydia vs cityscapes
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen8almostanyability-1746460010

Quantum Tesseract vs Career Ended
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen8almostanyability-1746537185

2022 OM Circuit Championship Quarterfinals
crying vs Quantum Tesseract
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen8almostanyability-666209

Ivar57 vs astralydia
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen8almostanyability-1754533543

damflame3 vs longhiep341
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen8almostanyability-1755135796

2022 OM Circuit Championship Semifinals
abriel vs crying
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen8almostanyability-666926

2022 OM Circuit Championship Finals
Ivar57 vs abriel
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen8almostanyability-1765712437
 
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Submitting player lineups

Since everyone now has their players, here's how to submit lineups to be used for AAAPL weeks.

A week will last from Monday morning to Sunday night, so the deadline for submitting lineups will be at Sunday at 10:00 PM GMT -4, and failure to do so will result into randomization of your lineup for week one, or reuse of your previous week's lineup. Any illegal lineups will result in randomization or reuse of lineups. Any changes to said lineup afterwards will have to be done by using your two substitutes. Reminders will be sent out when appropriate.

When submitting your lineups, it is highly preferred that you send them via Smogon DM. Submissions by PS pms will NOT be accepted.

Here's the preferred process for lineup submission:

In Smogon DMs, make a conversation with the host (Isaiah) and your co-manager with the title "AAAPL Lineup Submissions" and include your lineup in the conversation. Submit the lineup exactly as in the formatting below (Code formatting (you can access this by clicking the insert option when making a post), and must include the @)

Code:
SV Almost Any Ability 1 - @PlayerName
SV Almost Any Ability 2  - @PlayerName
SV Almost Any Ability (2 Ability Clause) - @PlayerName
SS Almost Any Ability - @PlayerName
SM Almost Any Ability - @PlayerName
ORAS Almost Any Ability - @PlayerName

Note: Every week's lineup can be submitted in the same conversation, but each week must be in a new message, so you may not edit a prior message in the conversation with your new lineup.
Changes in lineups may happen freely before the deadline, after which substitutes will have to be used. Be sure to notify the host of each change.

Week 1 will start by Monday, August 14th, so get the lineups to me by Sunday, August 13th at 11:00 PM GMT-4.

 
Tiebreaker format change
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Since it's an AAA tour anyway and I subjectively rate current gen as the most important metagame to pay attention to, the tiebreak format has been changed to be as follows:

There will be three metagames played in total:
Slot 1 = SV Almost Any Ability
Slot 2 = Picked by managers of first tiebreak team
Slot 3 = Picked by managers of second tiebreak team

Since SV AAA has multiple slots in this tour already anyway, I don't mind if there are repeats (so yes, all three slots could end up being SV AAA in the event of a tiebreak). If the managers have the same conclusion and it's any other meta (2AC, SS, SM, ORAS), I'll use !pick to decide slot 3.
 
Playoffs Tiebreaker

The Head Honchkrows and Psycho Psyducks have tied in their playoff series. As a result, we will have a tiebreaker. Managers (LordBox Career Ended zastra SpaceSpeakers), please submit your picks for the tiebreaker metas to me through a Smogon DM by tomorrow, September 18th at 2:00 PM GMT -5 using the following format:

Code:
Meta we want to play: [meta]

Tiebreaker rules are below as a refresher:

There will be three metagames played in total:
Slot 1 = SV Almost Any Ability
Slot 2 = Picked by managers of first tiebreak team
Slot 3 = Picked by managers of second tiebreak team

Since SV AAA has multiple slots in this tour already anyway, I don't mind if there are repeats (so yes, all three slots could end up being SV AAA in the event of a tiebreak). If the managers have the same conclusion and it's any other meta (2AC, SS, SM, ORAS), I'll use !pick to decide slot 3.
*Extra reminder: SV metas in the tiebreak will be Pre-DLC.

Also, congratulations to the Charming Charizzards, Smashing Salamences, and Cherry Pit Ceruledges for making it to playoffs!
 
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