The Languages Tour on Pokemon Showdown!

Introduction and Format

Welcome to The Languages Tour second edition. TLT is a team tournament where the teams are PS languages channels. These are the participant teams:

• Deutsche
• Dutch
• Español
• Français
• Italiano
• Português

Teams will take on each other in head to head matches. Each team will face all the others once in the league stages, following this calendar.

In each match-up, there are eight different slots which are (all tiers are based on Smogon tiers):
 

• XY Uber
• XY OU (1)
• XY OU (2)
• XY UU
• XY RU
• XY NU
• XY LC
• BW OU

Each team consisting of twelve players, managers and co-managers could be play only if they are included in players list ( (which is fixed for the entire tournament). Rosters have to be submitted on forum before 23rd November 2014 in this section, one day before the beginning.  Before each round, all captains have to submit the new line-up in the same section.

Only three substitutions are admitted every week. A player substituted out cannot play again before the following week. All matches must be played on Pokemon Showdown, please save your replays as an evidence of your win.

Score League and Final

In the league stages, beating another team gives you 2 points, drawing the match gives you 1 point, and losing it does not give you any point. n addition, the score of the week will also be stored (number of wins vs number of losses). This difference will be used in case of a tie at the end of the league stage. After the league stage is complete, the two best teams in the standings will play in the finals to determine which team will be The Languages Tour champion.