Rosesong Posted May 25, 2016 Share Posted May 25, 2016 JERICHO EDIT WEEK 3: This will no longer be valid. Competitors who bring an invalid team will now forfeit the match. We strongly encourage you even if you are an excellent teambuilder or battler to share your team with your nation and have others look over it to make sure it fits the challenge. We apologize for changing things once again, but last week proved to us that this was not a good method. Please refrain from any "I told you so's". You no longer need to submit teams, but if your team you bring to battle is not fitting to the weekly rules, then you will be given the loss. Many members have voiced concerns to their committee members regarding what happens when someone brings the wrong team to a PokeNations battle. As a committee, we had collectively decided that allowing the match to restart was the best course of action for this occurrence. However, we cannot ignore the fear that people have brought forth, in that starting the battle with an incorrect team could just be a tactic to scout the team they're facing against in order to gain a better advantage. In order to ensure that this competition is as fair as possible to all participants, the members of the committee have discussed and come up with the following solution:Every week, each battler must submit a copy of his/her/xyr team as a pastebin link to their Nation's respective committee member, or another committee member if yours is not on. In the event that a wrong team is brought to a battle, the battle will restart immediately and both teams will be carefully checked against the pastebin version, to ensure that nothing has been changed to gain an unfair advantage.This new policy will go into effect immediately, starting with Week 2 of PokeNations. We hope that this will assuage some of your worries and bring the focus back to having a fun, friendly community competition.Best of luck to those of you who have yet to battle this week, and good luck to all participants in the upcoming weeks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pbood2 Posted May 25, 2016 Share Posted May 25, 2016 Question: when do we have to submit the paste bin of the team to our committee member? because there are some people who might be redoing and changing their team after practicing throughout the week like I did this week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosesong Posted May 25, 2016 Author Share Posted May 25, 2016 You must have your team submitted before you face your opponent for the week. As a reminder, you may give the pastebin links to Jericho, myself, Hukuna, FraRPetO, Pyrrhon, or NickCrash. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deleted User Posted May 25, 2016 Share Posted May 25, 2016 Question: when do we have to submit the paste bin of the team to our committee member? because there are some people who might be redoing and changing their team after practicing throughout the week like I did this week. No it's only an issue should there be a need to restart. People might be changing their team after seeing the opponents team, having intentionally brought an invalid pokemon on their team to force that restart. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AuthorReborn Posted May 25, 2016 Share Posted May 25, 2016 So just for reference, that's Jericho (Avalon), Rosesong (Phantom Vulcan), Hukuna (Ravenholts), FraRPetO (Atlantis), Pyrrhon (Amazon), and NickCrash (Gaia), correct? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosesong Posted May 25, 2016 Author Share Posted May 25, 2016 Yes Author, you are correct Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pbood2 Posted May 25, 2016 Share Posted May 25, 2016 OK jericho and rose for explaining and clarifying the above. I appreciate it and hope for a successful Pokenations Season 2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kamina Posted May 25, 2016 Share Posted May 25, 2016 If a rule is broken, why-not just give the win to the other person? That will teach people to actually read the rules when they make their teams. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheep Posted May 25, 2016 Share Posted May 25, 2016 Probably because most of the time when rules are broken it's an honest mistake, not an attempt at cheating. Slapping down a loss penalty on someone who wasn't trying to cheat the system, and has taken lengths to prepare for the challenge isn't the way to handle this. They at least deserve a shot in my opinion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kamina Posted May 25, 2016 Share Posted May 25, 2016 It isn't that hard to read the rules( a good skill to have outside of pokemon as well). I understand that people may make honest mistakes but that should not be a reason to create more of a hassle for the rest of us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jelly Posted May 25, 2016 Share Posted May 25, 2016 kam it's standard procedure in like every team tour to submit teams before you play for any number of reasons not only if someone is breaking a rule : ( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kamina Posted May 25, 2016 Share Posted May 25, 2016 but those are not manditory and only used in the case of disconnects. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jelly Posted May 25, 2016 Share Posted May 25, 2016 i do agree that making it mandatory is a bit lame and having it be a recommended thing would be better Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deleted User Posted May 25, 2016 Share Posted May 25, 2016 I understand that in other tours that you don't get a second chance, but I'd like to think that this is more for the fun of the users and it would draw away from that fun for so many people if an honest mistake leads to a disqualification. This was the compromise I made. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sapphire Posted May 25, 2016 Share Posted May 25, 2016 (edited) If a rule is broken, why-not just give the win to the other person? That will teach people to actually read the rules when they make their teams. Believe me, we tried to get them to do that. This compromise was as far as they'd go. I agree with both of your posts 100%. Edited May 25, 2016 by Sapphire Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosesong Posted May 25, 2016 Author Share Posted May 25, 2016 Like Mike said, because this is a friendly competition, in addition to the timeless adage "shit happens", we've come up with this compromise as a way to ensure fairness but at the same time keep the light atmosphere that we anticipated this event having. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sapphire Posted May 25, 2016 Share Posted May 25, 2016 Someone has forgotten all the exploiting and push to win S1 had. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tacos Posted May 25, 2016 Share Posted May 25, 2016 As far as I'm aware, Season 1 and Season 2 are separate entities so that really isn't relevant. I'm glad to see this though. There was a lot of confusion with the rules for the first week already and I think this is an excellent solution to prevent a lack of battling integrity. Good job guys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sapphire Posted May 25, 2016 Share Posted May 25, 2016 (edited) As far as I'm aware, Season 1 and Season 2 are separate entities so that really isn't relevant. You've completely and utterly missed the point. Edited May 25, 2016 by Sapphire Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deleted User Posted May 25, 2016 Share Posted May 25, 2016 You've completely and utterly missed the point. You should do like Elsa and 'Let it go' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reignited'Light Posted May 25, 2016 Share Posted May 25, 2016 You've completely and utterly missed the point. Do you even still play this game enough to know what you're even talking about? lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Void Posted May 25, 2016 Share Posted May 25, 2016 You should do like Elsa and 'Let it go' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tacos Posted May 25, 2016 Share Posted May 25, 2016 And once again things go overboard... Let's keep things relevant to the point and try to remain respectful of others. The point of this thread is not to mock, but to discuss the new rule set in place indicated by the original post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sapphire Posted May 25, 2016 Share Posted May 25, 2016 (edited) Do you even still play this game enough to know what you're even talking about? lol Maybe you should take some time to think about what a silly statement that was. Jericho - I tried. ^^ Edited May 25, 2016 by Sapphire Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosesong Posted May 25, 2016 Author Share Posted May 25, 2016 Ok, that's enough. Locking this thread now; if there are questions regarding the new rule, PM a committee member Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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