Ubers Major League II - Administrative Thread

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Ubers Major League II​

Hello, and welcome to the second edition of Pokemon Online's Ubers Major League! Here in this thread we are going to post everything related to UML administrative matters/problems and so on. Here, the hosters (@gengar17 and myself) will post:

• Season Schedule
• Teams and their Rosters
• Administrative Decisions
• Trades, and Retentions
• Auction Logs

First and foremost, those are the six teams:
Tryhard Toxapex, captained by @Finchinator (retention rights from Savage Salamences)
Glowing Diancies, captained by @Mysterious M
FnG Mewtwos, captained by @snaga
Lolcopter Lugias, captained by @La.Melle2402
Glorious Gengars, captained by @The Trap God (retention rights from Confoundedly cute Chanseys)
Littleroot Lunalas, captained by @Krauersaut (retention rights from Genocide Genesects)

As everyone is aware by know, first those six teams will battle in a Round Robin tournament and they will be awarded the following points:

• Win = 2 points;
• Tie = 1 point;
• Loss = 0 points.

When all five weeks are finished, the team with most points will go straight to the finals, and the 2nd and 3rd teams in the standings will face each other in semifinals. The winner of semis and the 1st team will then compete in Ubers Major League's Finals!

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To sign up, you're required to personally post the following format in designated thread that will open the next Monday (15th May).

Code (text):

1. [b]Nickname[/b]:
2. [b]Timezone[/b]:
3. [b]Tiers[/b]:
4. [b]Inactivity[/b] (optional):

Ubers Major League will feature five tiers, and every team will have eight players in its titular team. The tiers/spots are as follow:

• 2 SM Ubers;
• 1 ORAS Ubers;
• 1 BW2 Ubers;
• 1 HGSS Ubers (Arceus banned);
• 1 ADV Ubers.

We expect you only to choose a tier if you have experience playing it. If you think you might miss some week(s) of the tournament, please fill up "Inactivity" with details so the managers can be aware of the fact - this is really important!
After signing up, we encourage you to get in contact with the team's captains via Discord, where they will handle tryouts for their team's spots. Discord activity is really important, and if you're absent from that platform they might not pick you fearing activity concerns! Remember that this is a team tour. Thus you're expected to get in contact with your team on a daily basis.
And don't forget to enjoy the experience! :]

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After signups have been completed, there will be an auction hosted in Pokémon Online server (a channel will be announced alongside the date on this thread, so don't worry) where the captains will pick their players for the tournament. The six teams will have 100K to spend on, at very least, ten players for this tournament, with the minimum bid for a player remaining 3K.
The managers can choose to play themselves but that will cost a set price of 15K, and assmans, if wanted, will need to be bought up in Auction (this doesn't change much, but any assman will be invited to the Administrative Discord Channel where live discussion about UML is held).

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The official schedule will be announced when Auction is held, but you may already know that it's going to take, at very least, seven weeks and maximum of 9. Retention / Trades information will also be posted here when a conclusion has been reached with all captains, but we may already tell that captains can only retain two players from last year's UML. Captains should have been provided with previous information in that regard

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This thread will be locked and any further news will be posted separately.

 

@Finchinator @Mysterious M @snaga @La.Melle2402 @The Trap God @Krauersaut

Retentions are now OPEN. To retain x player, you must send a private message to @gengar17 and me with the name of the player you wish to retain. As agreed with all captains, you will have to pay 10K or last year's price + 3k (whatever is greater) and as mentioned in the OP every team can retain up to two players, and those must also PM @gengar17 and me (you can add them when you're PMing us, actually) to confirm that they're willing to play this tournament on that team.

You can also trade retention right of players (for money or other players retention rights), and for that, I will need confirmation from all sides - this means both managers AND both players must agree to that trade. Also, please don't agree to be retained if you can't afford the time to play this tournament - we won't be kind with those.

Well, this is straight-forward, and I don't think there will be any questions, but if there are any, please PM the hosters.

 

Diancies trade the retention rights of Darrel1297 to Gengars for 4k
Gengars retain Darrel1297 for 10k
Gengars: -14k +Darrel1297
Diancies +4k

 

Glorious Gengars have retained @N Bad for 20,5K.

Remaining Credits: 65,5K
Players: Darrel1297 and n bad

 

Lolcopter Lugias have retained @Leru and @porygon2 by 10,5K and 16K respectively.

Remaining Credits: 73,5K
Players: Leru and porygon2

 

FnG Mewtwos have retained @Mr.378 for 32k.

Remaining credits: 68k
Players: Mr.378

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After discussion and agreement between all the managers and hosts, we have decided to reduce the amount of starting spots for each team to 6, and the tiers of the lineup being 2 SM, 1 ORAS, 1 BW, 1 HGSS (Arceus banned), and 1 ADV, with 2 subs minimum.

The auction will be held June 3rd at 6 PM GMT (+0)

 

There goes our official schedule for the tournament:

WEEK 1:
Tryhard Toxapex VS. Littleroot Lunalas
Glorious Gengars VS. Glowing Diancies
Lolcopter Lugias VS. FnG Mewtwos

WEEK 2:
Tryhard Toxapex VS. Glowing Diancies
Littleroot Lunalas VS. FnG Mewtwos
Glorious Gengars VS. Lolcopter Lugias

WEEK 3:
Tryhard Toxapex VS. Lolcopter Lugias
FnG Mewtwos VS. Glorious Gengars
Glowing Diancies VS. Littleroot Lunalas

WEEK 4:
Tryhard Toxapex VS. Glorious Gengars
Lolcopter Lugias VS. Littleroot Lunalas
FnG Mewtwos VS. Glowing Diancies

WEEK 5:
Tryhard Toxapex VS. FnG Mewtwos
Glowing Diancies VS. Lolcopter Lugias
Littleroot Lunalas VS. Glorious Gengars

Teams can send their lineups to the hosts (please send to both, thanks) already, and the tournament starts tomorrow.

 

week 1 rulings:
gunner rohan gets the activity win vs klefkwi
mr.378 vs p2 dead game

 

Here's the official decision (written by Perry)
I believe everyone is aware of all the sudden news that hit us hosts and players of this tournament today, and after studying through the evidences and talking with other captains, our head TD, and 2 of Smogon TDs, we have decided to take the following actions:

1) fromthenewworld, american_boy, and mudkiplover have been confirmed to be alts of Level 56, rozes and magsy, consequently they are disqualified from this tour (there might be forum ban/tour ban applied but that's not for us to say)

2) The Trap God was stripped of his role as the captain of The Glorious Gengar, as he did know that he was buying 2 players of SPL level (rozes and Level 56) and a known Ubers player for 9K, which probably wasn't going to be anywhere near the price paid to those in a normal auction.

3) The Glorious Gengar are from now on lead by N Bad (captain) and darrell1927 (assman). They are allowed to: 1) sub those 3 players from this week's lineup for another of their remaining players available to play (I do hope everyone will understand our position and will try to play this as fast as you can); 2) pick 3 players from the remaining pool of players that weren't drafted for UML. This will be discussed after this round ends and we will let everyone know shortly who was picked.

4) The user overdose, even though he was given a second chance for I don't remember what time on this community, has proved once again that he isn't trustworthy. He joined with at least 2 alts in this tournament, them being overdose itself and Valhalla. Thus, we have also decided to automatically both alts from this tournament, with immediate effect.

@snaga and @Finchinator will be able to pick players from the remaining pool as well after this round ends. We would like to apologize for this stress, and hope that we can now have the tournament everyone wished to get when the idea first sprang up. To those players that decided to join with alts, whatever was their reason, I wish you good luck elsewhere.