The Imposter Laddering Contest

[Akumeoy]

In as ILCumeoy

 

[Quantum Tesseract]

signing in as ILC P1101560

 

[dhelmise]

ILC Rhythms

 

[woodboys23]

Signing in as ILC1 Woodboys

 

[DEG]

In as ILC Notice Me TI

 

[Kingslayer2779]

I added a section on Wildcard strategies.

Kingslayer2779 brought up a good point last night on calculating scores. Even if GXE varies between ladders, the fact that it's averaged already incorporates the variance between STABmons and AAA. Plus GXEs are easier to average when a player doesn't rank on a ladder (for example (75% + 0%) / 2 versus (5th place + ??? place) / 2). So I might switch it to that.

Also The Immortal is mean and doesn't want to use Star rank for anything besides the Daily tours. Other ideas:

• Mention in Room Intro (The current Imposter Champion is: )
• Influence over the next contest's ladders/team picks
• Temporary CT on Smogon (I have to clear this with the rest of upper staff first)
• Some combination of the above

Gxe also creates an intresting dynamic when laddering. Gxe doesn't decay, but it also is difficult to raise without a good deal of battles. But it also requires you to beat quality opponents. With enough time players can get high elo without facing many quality opponents or losing to them. Also if you average gxe at the end of the month instead of taking peaks, it adds a risk/reward dynamic to continued laddering without requiring players to spend time maintaining rank throughout the whole month.

 

[warhowl]

in as ILC warhowl

 

[EV]

Congratulations to Week 1's (STABmons/AAA) winners!

1. OM room (ILC OM) - 15.5 (11 STABmons / 20 AAA)
2. Betathunder (ilc beta) - 22 (22 STABmons / 22 AAA)
3. InfernapeTropius11 (ILC IT11) 51 (56 STABmons / 46 AAA)

Week 2 is Balanced Hackmons / Anything Goes! Check out post #2 for the team.

 

[Betathunder]

Signing up as ilc2 beta

 

[InfernapeTropius11]

in as ILC2 IT11
tagging Deathly ♛The King to annoy him

 

[woodboys23]

ILC2 Woodboys

 

[OM]

In as ILC OM1

 

[MZ]

ilc megazard
edit: Eevee General can we use the other gira form
edit 2: actually out but still good thing to know for others

 

[Twix]

ILC2 TWIXY POO

 

[ih8ih8sn0w]

in as ILC sn0w

 

[MAMP]

ILC MAMP

 

[Kingslayer2779]

ILC KINGSLAYER

 

[Anna says hi]

ILC2 Anna

 

[yoman5]

ILC2 yoman

 

[A Linoone]

In as ILC2 Linoone

 

[hexandwhy]

ILC Sage

 

[Naruto94]

In
ILC Naru

 

[captivity]

In as ILC2 CaP

 

[Quantum Tesseract]

ILC2 P1101560

 

[InfernapeTropius11]

ilc megazard
edit: Eevee General can we use the other gira form
edit 2: actually out but still good thing to know for others

Anything else?

You may use any NFE, alternate form, or mega form of the Pokemon provided, but not split evolutions. (So you can't turn a Gardevoir into a Gallade.) You can change your team around so long as you maintain the same 6 Pokemon during the challenge. (You may change abilities/moves/items depending on the metagame.)