Gym Leaders Signups [Summer 2016 Season]

Gym Leader Signups
Summer 2016​

Welcome to the gym leader signups for the PO League Summer Season!


The following tiers will be considered for a gym (a tier or two may be excluded depending on who signs up and what is deemed best for the league when going through applications):

• ORAS Ubers
• ORAS OU (may have two leaders)
• ORAS UU
• ORAS LU
• ORAS NU
• ORAS LC
• ORAS Balanced Hackmons
• BW2 OU
• HGSS OU
• ADV OU
• GSC OU
• RBY OU
• Challenge Cup
• Battle Factory 6v6
• Inverted Battle
• Monotype

If you are new to the gym leader selection process, we are looking for the best of battlers! We pride ourselves on choosing well qualified gym leaders who offer some of the best competitive challenges in their tiers, so make sure you are confident that you can live up to this standard!

We also favor an experienced approach - former gym leaders looking to take up their titles again will be given preference in most cases, but not in all cases and just because you have been part of the league in the past does NOT guarantee your admission to the league as a leader in the future.


If you get accepted for the position, your responsibilities will include, but not be limited to, the following:

• Trying to maintain a healthy win/loss record.
• Maintaining decent amount of activity throughout the season, which is Mid-May to Mid-July in this case.
• Keep track of and report all your wins and losses, and the date they happened on.
• Maintain a good attitude with your challengers. Be sportsmanlike, even if it means taking a haxy loss in stride.

Elite Four:

The Elite Four will consist of four versatile, experienced, and skilled battlers who will pose the next obstacle between a challenger and defeating the league as a whole; so be warned that this is even tougher to be selected for than a regular leader! If you wish to be considered for the Elite Four, please mention this in your application form, along with your tiers of mastery (at least three, preferably five/seven tiers in which we can turn into a best of three or five for your prospective Elite Four). Note that not all applicants will be accepted for this, similar to that for gym positions, but you certainly may and are heavily encouraged to sign-up for both Gym Leader and Elite Four positions, even if you doubt your odds of making one or the other, so please apply if you have the desire to.


Application:

Server names: (feel free to list any and all you wish to disclose to the public)
Tiers applying for: (must be from the official list!)
Interested in Elite Four: Yes/No (if yes, please mention your tiers of mastery for prospective Elite 4)
Accomplishments: (any accomplishments you feel add weight to your application eg. ladder peaks, official tournament wins, server tour rankings etc.)
Timezone: (in GMT)
Availability: (self-explanatory)
Comments: (any other comments you would like to be considered)



Signups will be open until May 21, with a prospective League start date of May 26.

All pending Elite 4 challenges must be completed before then. A thread with all of the rules and regulations for this specific season will be posted alongside the release of gym leaders around the start of the league.


If you don't post a proper signup, your post will be deleted. Good luck!

 

Server Names: Velvet Blood / Poke Expert
Tiers applying for: ORAS Ubers
Interested in Elite Four: Not Interested
Accomplishments: http://imgur.com/fXyLM5I
Availability: Available in evening
Timezone: GMT-7:00

 

Server names: snaga
Tiers applying for: i really only want to do e4 but uu if desperate
Interested in Elite Four: Yes ORAS UU, BW2 UU, ADV OU, ORAS LU, ADV UBERS
Accomplishments: went like 8-0 last summer league including 1 e4 win until a kinda just stopped
Timezone: (in GMT) -4
Availability: yeah
Comments: ~_~

 

Server Names: [T[TR]R]Hassin627
Tiers applying for: Batte Factory 6v6
Interested in Elite Four: No
Accomplishments: -
Availability: Whenever I'm free
Timezone: GMT +2[/TR]

 

Server names: [Sleague]DracoNova, Chips and Ice cream
Tiers applying for: ORAS NU
Interested in Elite Four: no
Accomplishments: Won NU tours at Tournament Channel from time to time, and top the NU leaderboard with 1400+ from time to time( currently kinda low tho atm https://gyazo.com/ba119b637ed7b7546353a2474564d832 ), Also came in third for tournament leaderboard ranking.
Timezone:(gmt -6)
Availability: Evening from 3pm+
Comments: Good SportmanShip+Active Player sulcata is bad

 

Server names: assign
Tiers applying for: dpp ou/adv ou/bw2 ou
Interested in Elite Four: yeah dpp ou/adv ou/bw2 ou
Accomplishments: i play pkmn
Timezone: awst(gmt +8)

e: sry retracting won't have time 4 this

 

Server Name : Norman
Tiers Applying For : ORAS Ubers
Interested at Elite Four : Yea :)
Accomplishments : Did Some RMT's and Won many Ubers tour at #Tournaments And Currently 2nd Top seed at ORAS Ubers
Availability : All the Times (But Sometimes Only at Evening and Morning)
Timezone : GMT +5:30

 

Server Name: La.Melle2402
Tiers Applying for: Oras Ubers, RBY OU, GSC OU
Interested in Elite Four: if needed, why not. RBY OU, GSC OU, ADV UU, ADV OU, ADV Ubers, ORAS OU, ORAS Ubers..
Accomplishments: Ubers: Topseed on tours channel for about 16 months or something like that now. Topped the ladder often (on ps as well). GEN 1-2 OU: played old gens a lot the last year. Playing RBY in powc for germany (2w, 1l). Climbed the GSC ladder on ps with a bit more than 1500.
Availability: everytime
Timezone: gmt +2

 

Server names: gengar17
Tiers applying for: lu
Interested in Elite Four: No
Accomplishments: ltt powc
Timezone: +3
Availability: a lot
Comments: was gym leader in winter 11-1

 

Server names: Lacus Clyne, Hisui E. Fiore (android)
Tiers applying for: ORAS Ubers; XY Ubers; BW2 Ubers
Interested in Elite Four: Yes. I am signing up for E4 only.
Accomplishments:
Currently place #3 in the Ubers power ranking and also went 4-1 in UPL IV
Won RMT of the Week - Kogarasumaru
Won RMT of the Week - Exceeded Darkness
Won Ubers Winter Seasonal
Won the german Ubers open
Won the Back to the future tournament
Peaked #1 Ubers XY Suspect test
Peaked #1 Ubers - Pokémon Online (ORAS Ubers) 1776
Peaked #1 Ubers - Pokémon Showdown (ORAS Ubers) 1875
Peaked #1 Ubers - Pokémon Online (XY Ubers) 1748
Peaked #1 Ubers - Pokémon Showdown (XY Ubers) 1902
Peaked #1 Ubers - Pokémon Online (ORAS Ubers) 1507
Peaked #1 Ubers - Pokémon Showdown (XY Ubers) 1668
Peaked #1 Ubers - Pokémon Online (XY Ubers) 1629
Peaked #1 Ubers - Pokémon Online (XY Ubers) 1651
Peaked #1 Ubers - Pokémon Online (ORAS Ubers) 1530
Peaked #1 Ubers - Pokémon Showdown (ORAS Ubers) 1836
Peaked #1 Ubers - Pokémon Showdown (ORAS Ubers) 1784
Peaked #1 and #2 Ubers - Pokémon Online (ORAS Ubers) 1690 and 1620
Peaked #1 Ubers - Pokémon Online (ORAS Ubers) 1438
Peaked #7 LC - Pokémon Showdown (XY LC) 1615
Peaked #2 Ubers - Pokémon Online (XY Ubers) 1602 (ORAS was coming out)
Peaked #2 Ubers - Pokémon Showdown (ORAS Ubers) 1742
Peaked #2 Ubers - Pokémon Online (ORAS Ubers) 1602

±Porygon: Your rank in BW2 Ubers is 1/9963 [1565 points / 314 battles]!
±Porygon: Your rank in XY Ubers is 1/47938 [1770 points / 292 battles]!
±Porygon: Your rank in ORAS Ubers is 1/12212 [1530 points / 135 battles]!

Didn't save everything but I swear that this ain't even half of my whole peaks.

Timezone: GMT+2
Availability: I will get my matches done.
Comments: @cries in vain is an idiot.

 

Tryhard

 

fam.

finch
e4 (oras bw bw uu dpp w/e i play all im fckn god -)
you kno me (i can write a fuckton later, busy atm)
gmt-4 often on during afternoons n weekends n evenings

 

Server names: Blitz / Blitzamirin
Tiers applying for: Battle Factory 6v6 mainly and if not CC but that's prob going to Diamondslight or w/e
Interested in Elite Four: lol no
Accomplishments: A bunch of irrelevant ladder peaks from years ago + RBY OU Leader of season 1
Timezone: GMT -4
Availability: Pretty much always I don't have a life rly

 

Server names: 【天龍神】 ワタル
Tiers applying for: ORAS Balanced Hackmons
Interested in Elite Four: Yes - ADV Ubers, BW2 Ubers, XY Ubers, XY, Anything Goes, ORAS Balanced Hackmons
Accomplishments: I am an extremely experienced Balanced Hackmons player who has been playing this metagame since the BW2 days in mid-2013. RMTs I have made for this metagame throughout the generations comprise of my 10th anniversary RMT, Mirages of the Frozen Wasteland in BW2, and ☽Mare Tranquillitatis☾ in XY.

Below are all the ladder peaks I have achieved in Balanced Hackmons in general, in chronological order:

1. Peaked #1, #2, #3 and #6 in BW2 Balanced Hackmons on Pokémon Showdown!'s Smogon University server
2. Peaked #1 and #2 in BW2 Balanced Hackmons on Pokémon Showdown!'s Battle Tower server
3. Peaked #1, #2, #3 and #4 in XY Balanced Hackmons on Pokémon Showdown!'s Smogon University server
4. Peaked #1 in ORAS Balanced Hackmons on Pokémon Online's Pokémon Online server
5. Peaked #1, #2, #3, #5, #6, #7, #8, #11 and #20 in ORAS Balanced Hackmons on Pokémon Online's Pokémon Online server

The first three of the above ladder peaks may be on Pokémon Showdown!, whose Balanced Hackmons metagame has some distinct differences from the ORAS Balanced Hackmons metagame on Pokémon Online. However, those ladder peaks were achieved back when Pokémon could have 252 EVs in every stat, meaning that the Balanced Hackmons metagames in which I achieved those ladder peaks actually far more closely resemble the ORAS Balanced Hackmons metagame on Pokémon Online than Pokémon Showdown!'s current Balanced Hackmons metagame. As a testament to this, the fourth ladder peak seen above, which was in ORAS Balanced Hackmons on Pokémon Online, was achieved using the exact same team with which I attained my third ladder peak above, which was in XY Balanced Hackmons on Pokémon Showdown! prior to the EV limit.

I also played Balanced Hackmons for The Mewtwo Maniacs in the 2014 Other Metagames Premier League, and have defeated many reputable players of that metagame, including Adrian Marin (the god of stall in Balanced Hackmons) and Talent (the second replay was in post-EV limit Balanced Hackmons though). The team I was in came second in that tournament, losing only to a tie-breaker in the finals.

As for my achievements in the other metagames I listed, see this. I had a 4-2 record in the 2015 Ubers Premier League, in which I played ADV Ubers exclusively for The Defiant Durians, the team which ended up winning that whole tournament. I also played ADV Ubers twice in the 2016 Ubers Premier League and won both of those matches, while achieving a 4-1 record overall. The team I was in, the really good reshirams, won that entire tournament. I am also the creator of The Blazing Glaciers and The▲Absolute▲Power▲, two extremely famous and highly-regarded teams for BW2 Ubers and Anything Goes respectively.
Timezone: GMT+10
Availability: Most days at most times between 1pm and 1am, my time.
Comments: About how deserving of being a Gym Leader I am? A picture is worth a thousand words:

Spoiler

(Yes, I made the above picture all by myself using a combination of MS Paint, PIXL EDITOR and this tool sheet)

 

Server names: MeowMix
Tiers applying for: DPP OU / ORAS UU
Interested in Elite Four: Yes - ORAS UU / BW2 OU / UU / LU / DPP OU
Accomplishments: I've been a gym leader in p much every league since 2012
Timezone: GMT-4 EDT
Availability: I'm around enough
Comments: u picked arte over me last time for E4 give me a break here

 

Server Name: Ben / BenXxX
Tiers Applying For: Battle Factory 6v6, HGSS OU
Interested In Elite Four: Sure, why not. Battle Factory 6v6, HGSS OU, ORAS NU, BW2 NU, HGSS NU
Accomplishments: I once beat ZoroDark like 6 times in a row in HGSS OU. :^)
Timezone: GMT +1
Availability: At least available at anytime from Thursday to Monday. Tuesday is slightly limited. Wednesdays I would not be willing to battle.
Comments: I've been playing (competitively) since early DPPt, and know what I'm doing sometimes. :^)

 

Server Names: Mysterious M
Tiers applying for: ORAS Ubers
Interested in Elite Four: give it to Lacus imo
Accomplishments: Well i dont consider peaking a ladder an accomplishment but well i did it on both po ps, played in some prestigeous tours, etc etc
Availability: Anytime
Timezone: GMT+3

 

Server names: Lutra, Beedrill Lord Lutra
Tiers applying for: RBY OU
Interested in Elite Four: No
Accomplishments: 6-0ed with Beedrill in Random Battle I mean it's not the same tier, but RBY is all the same right?
Availability: morning/afternoon/evening (go to bed earlyish in GMT+1)
Comments: I feel like I need to be a gym leader at some point. Also, I'll get really annoyed if I don't get picked and whoever does doesn't have a Beedrill sweep to show.

 

Server Names: The Alio
Tiers applying for: ORAS OU/ORAS NU (ORAS UU if needed)
Interested in Elite Four: no
Accomplishments: nothing special.
Availability: Anytime
Timezone: GMT+2
Comments: I swear I'm not bad

 

Server Names: Troller
Tiers applying for: I just want to do E4 but Rby OU if needed (there's Lutra, so it isn't really needed)
Interested in Elite Four: Rby OU/Adv OU/Dppt OU/Oras UU/Oras Ubers
Accomplishments: Forced Metalgross to make the http://pokemon-online.eu/threads/champions-thread.32952/ last season and lost (2-3 for Bw2 NU as last battle srsly?)
Availability: Nerd Level
Timezone: GMT+2
Comments: I will kick @MetalGross's ass this season, also remove Bw2 NU as tier if man

 

Server names: epikhairz
Tiers applying for: inverted battle
Interested in Elite Four: nah
Accomplishments: i peaked #1 on PO and top 10 on PS pretty easily back when i played and i 2-0'd gym leader windblown back whenever that was (windblown SUX)
Availability: afternoons PST
Comments: idk i just wanna play inverted battle again lol. ill even reinstall PO just for this

 

Joyverse, RedFalconStream
Tiers: Monotype
NO E4 for me, not yet lol.
Accomplishments: I helped @Elize Lutus ban 'half' of the monothreats by posting intelligently and ending up getting no credit for it. He can go for E4 and lemme give a chance :3 Also I managed a quite ok position in Mono Ladder last year, even though ladder sucks.

Spoiler: Ladder Peak circa 2015

I went on to 1250+ (Rank 6) even though I don't have the screenshot with me. Also I beat Raducan during the 2014 Winter Season in Mono so give a thought.

GMT +5:30, Usually on at nights cause my smartphone is borked and I depend on cyber cafes.
Comments: I can annoy anyone and I can hax. Jokes aside, I have beaten certain key players in monotype a given number of times, only to choke vs Carl in the two seasons following following Winter 2014. Now I am here to reverse the odds. Try me!

 

Server Name: [Plateau]Arnold
Tiers : Monotype
Interested in Elite Four : No
Accomplishments : Great experience with Grass Type Pokemon; used them effectively for years in different teams.
Availability: Very often , I'm online in the morning ( not always ) , afternoons and always in The evening.
Comments: Interested in The Grass Type position.

 

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FYI: Monotype leaders are expected to be able to play proficiently in any given type. You don't need to force yourself unto a single type. :)

 

Server names: Rigas.
Tiers applying for: ORAS Little Cup.
Interested in Elite Four: No.
Accomplishments: Was Little Cup tier leader here from mid BW1 until BW2 came out. Spent literal months straight on top of the Little Cup ladder at that time. Also got the Little Cup gym badge back when the league was using the old (non-seasonal) format.
Timezone: GMT +2 (Eastern Europe).
Availability: Widely available (generally every day of the week for several hours), but will occasionally have days of minimal to no activity (usually weekend days).
Comments: I'm applying because I see barely any interest in Little Cup from the rest of the people interested in gym leader positions, and it would be a bummer if the tier does not get included in the league because no one wants to take the ORAS Little Cup gym or if the only people interested are not qualified for the position. The last time I played Little Cup "seriously" was in 2012. Nowadays I just occasionally ladder on Showdown while being half-focused. If anyone shows interest in the Little Cup gym leader and has experience comparable to mine plus actual competitive ORAS Little Cup achievements, they will probably be more suited for the position.:
TL;DR: Reliable and experienced, but probably considerably below the level you'd expect a gym leader to have in ORAS due to competitive inactivity. Signed up to save the tier in case no one more qualified is interested.

 

Server Names: Noelson, Youngster Joey
Tiers applying for: Batte Factory 6v6, Inverted Battle, Challenge Cup, ORAS LC
Interested in Elite Four: No
Accomplishments: Playing PO for 5 years now, did alot of battling in the main time. Went from full rookie to experienced battler in BF 6v6, Inverted Battle, Challenge Cup and ORAS LC. I also feel confident about ORAS Balenced Hackmons, but I'm sure people can do the job better. Same for ORAS LU.

So I've been testing the ORAS LC tier alot in the time, mostly since I'm obsessed with it. I love to battle in the tier and make new teams (I might have thousands of them) I peaked alot of times in XY LC/ORAS LC, won tournaments and event tournaments and I'm sure my opponent won't get an easy match. But lately since most of those points got lost due to testing teams (Failure makes the team only stronger) and inactivity over the course of time. But this doesn't stop me for trying to achieve my dreams. I want to be a Gym Leader, and I know that I have the power to become one.

So here we have Inverted Battle. A tier which I've been playing for like 3 years now? Maybe longer, but at least like that. What I've known is that if you just copy your OU team to Inverted Battle, it ain't gonna work. After series of testing and playing, a new team was born. What did it do? It won me some nice tournaments, and even a lot of event tournaments. Ladder? Dead. You just couldn't find a battle with Find Battle, or wait 14717 hours for some battle to start, or battle the same person again after a while, which isn't what I need.

Battle Factory 6v6, that tier you get placed in when you have no valid teams. Besides from that, I'm pretty good in adapting to new teams, even if I never used them before. Also won some tournaments and event tournaments, never really did some sold laddering

And last Challenge Cup. It's actually quite a challenge, random mons, moves etc. Not only that can can be gamechanging, but also your way of setting. So why should I become leader? Well, I want to become it indeed, but I feel no support with Diamondslight there (no offense, Diamondslight is a great player).

Availability: I'm online every day, or something special must be interrupting my availability. Mostly online the whole day and large parts of the night (GMT +1)
Timezone: GMT +1
Comments: If I don't become a gym leader, I'm totally fine with it. Just gives me another year to train and become stronger.

 

I know but Grass is just my favourite type. Just wanted to Say that

 

Server Name: Tavi97
Tiers Applying for: Monotype
Interested in Elite Four: No
Accomplishments: #1 in monotype ladder more than once; #1 in inverted battle ladder; #1 in tournament leaderboard (July 2015); #2 at the moment in tournament leaderboard; 674 tournament points
Timezone: UTC+02:00
Availability: Almost always except at night
Comments: I have monoteams of many different types :D

 

e4

 

Server names: innovamania
Tiers applying for: ADV OU
Interested in Elite Four: No
Accomplishments: Helped my teammates for pocl test last year. Play a lot of adv and thoroughly enjoy the tier
Timezone: GMT +4 I believe (EST)
Availability: Work 60 hours a week but will try to make myself available during my day offs and will schedule directly with people if need be
Comments: Hope you choose me

 

This is still happening? Lol

Zamrock
ORAS OU
Only E4 me if needed (ORAS OU, BW2, ADV, GSC, RBY)
I've done enough.
Gmt -4
I'll be on.
Zamrockin PO League.