At the very least, yesterday that was more or less unavoidable due to the Staff meeting being later that evening.
The reasoning was that it can't learn Hurricane otherwise, The next one I was planning on giving away would have been Manectric with Ice Beam (Chosen by Hukuna). Legendaries aren't happening. The format I had in mind was that the auth would pick one of their favorite mons, and a move it can't usually learn and give it access to it. As for rupees, yes that can be done, but there may be an issue with that sort of prize going forward.
I chose that time because it was the one that Kuro had been using. If you can all give me a day/time that works better for you as a whole, I'm flexible on that.
I'd announced the time of this thing weeks ago. I don't know if Redemption ALWAYS starts at this time, and I'm not blaming Dashie in the slightest, but this theme tour kind of got its toes stepped on. I tried to make it viable for more people by saying they could do both.
Well the Pseudos have already been more or less given away.
While I want there to be a competitive aspect to this, I also want it to be a fun and unique experience each time. As I alluded to earlier, rupees could work, for now. I'm open to making the prize an option between the mon and rupees. It won't be some of the ridiculous 5000 rupee prizes like you used to give though.