Ladder Discussion

[Heald]

After much thought, I have decided, 3 months into the ladder, about making some reforms, and the reasons why.

- Run the Ladder on an annual rather than a 6-month basis. The reason for this matches are not being completed quickly enough nor at a large enough rate to make the 6 month time enough. Case in point, I haven't even completed my 2nd match yet and we're already halfway through; some people haven't even finished their FIRST match.

- Alternatively, the Ladder and the coefficients will be permanent but points awarded for wins and draws will be weighted according to the difference in the ladder positions of the combatants.

- Nominate a committee of sub-refs. Refs appear to be having difficulty meeting the 3-day time limit, therefore, any ref on the committee may jump in to ref a single round if a sub-ref request is made in the thread. If the original referee fails to referee the round after the sub-reffed round, a new referee will be selected.

- Scrap the permanent team idea, but instead at the beginning of each battle, each combatant must send their teams of 6 and their first Pokemon to the referee. This is intended to stop the disadvantage of being the first person to send a Pokemon out.

- Lower the reffing rank limit to Rookie. However, consistently poor reffing may lead to you being disallowed from reffing Ladder matches.

- Enable Abilities. They seem to be working so no reason why we shouldn't use them.

That's about it for the main changes.

If you have any suggestions, comments or criticism, please post your remarks in this thread. It'd be good to get a read on what you feel is working and what isn't.

[MeLoVeGhOsTs]

I can find myself in most fixes.

I like the permanent team, though.

[DarkestLight]

Yeah the permateam was spot on. Maybe though change it to a quarterly event when we can sub out who is on the team?

Also, Abilities should be optional. That's just me.

Put me on the Sub-ref committee. La.

[MeLoVeGhOsTs]

Permateam, permateam, permateam!

[Heald]

The problem is the bureaucracy. It's a bit annoying having to update all the teams at the same time (although so far no one has requested to change their squads).

What about the other ideas?

[MeLoVeGhOsTs]

Abilities should be optional aswell I think. Just give people the choice. It wouldn't surprise me if 80% took abilties on, but we must give people the choice.

Reffing and subref ideas = good!

Annual base, good. Looks more logical too, and more on our level.

[Heald]

True. We'll make abilities opt-in i.e. both trainers have to agree to use them.

I personally prefer a permanent ladder rather than an annual one.