Union Street
Trainers gather to exchange pleasantries... And strategies!
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This is BBP's dedicated thread for casual discussion of the game. Team-building for facilities, planning Level-Ups, discussing counters to Pokemon, asking if a Pokemon is good or bad, sharing guides for content, exulting in triumph, praising, questioning, complaining, whinging, and whining are all welcome within!
What can't I do?Anything forbidden by Smogon's Global Rules is obviously also forbidden here as well.
Besides that, we mostly disallow backseating other players. Avoid discussing what a player should do in a current, ongoing match round. That also includes discussion of past rounds that would have ramifications for future rounds, like pointing out that a Pokemon in reserve no longer has any opposing answers.
You also should avoid asking to be backseated by other players. If you want to receive battling critique, please be sure to ask after the round in question is said, done, and reffed.
(This thread was formerly the "Discuss the current Tournament Thread." Here's how the thread used to look.)
Ah, what a nice overview of Lake Verity...
Since there is no event without spectators, and there are no spectators without endless quibbles about the event, we are having a Commentator Booth for those who would want to add your thoughts on others' matches! This is where you can give pointers to winners and losers alike about their mistakes, or congratulate them about their winning strategy. Everyone stands to win something from that, right?
However, there is no event without rules, which means there is no booth without rules either. So what do we have here?
- You are absolutely forbidden to comment ongoing matches. You'll have to wait until a match is fully resolved (ie the winner is plainly declared) to post about it here.
- This is a place of brainstorming and thought process. That means:
- No one-liners. Congratulations can be done on Discord or in PM
- Try to provide solid reasoning for your commentary, as best you can. Insightful posts are encouraged and leaning on the match itself for your reasoning is almost necessary. Do not fear being wrong (as long as you abide by the other rules), at worst other people will point out you're wrong.
- No being rude towards losing players, or jealous towards winning players. Banter is okay but that's a fine line to toe and we wouldn't like the community to dissolve over a thread like this.
- Mention which match you're commenting at the start of the post or paragraph. Make it clear for clarity's sake.
- No double posting for multiple matches. Just make multiple paragraphs and edit new text in if needed! As said above, make it clear so it's easy to know what you're talking about.
- Have I mentioned you can't comment ongoing matches? Yeah, don't do that.
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