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Hey everyone! This thread is for getting community feedback for planning the 2021 PU Circuit. I know we didn't had a circuit this year, but there are certain topics we would've wanted to gather feedback on from last year if we did have one. Here is our 2019 thread if anyone wants to give feedback and needs a refresher on how it worked last year.
Two seasonals, PU Ladder Tour, the PU Open. These 4 tours constituted our ribbon circuit last year and will definitely be making a return. Playoffs will still be a top 16 and this will all still be for a ribbon. However, back in 2019 as well as this year, many tiers opted to include 5 tournaments instead of 4. 5 gives people more chances to get points and expands our circuit a bit but at the cost of making the year pretty stuffed with tours, there will be something major pretty much all the time especially when you consider we'll also be running PUPL, possibly PUWC again, and other random tours. I personally favor 4 but this is one of the major topics we're looking for feedback on. If we did bump up to 5, the natural tour to include would be PU Classic, something that will definitely get hosted in early 2021 regardless of whether it's for circuit or not. It's slightly weird to include classic when playoffs will be bo3 current gen only, plus I'm sure some people might object to playing BW or ORAS for circuit points, but it does mean that we won't have to play SS PU for circuit immediately following the massive January shift. There will be a bit more of a buffer zone to do some tiering. Of course if people really don't favor classic, we could always try fitting in a third seasonal or a majors-style pools tournament, or something along those lines.
The only other major point of feedback is the points system. We don't recall any major issues with it last year so we can likely reuse the same format, but if people have some objection this would be a great time to speak up. We also need to develop a circuit points system for classic, it could be same as PULT where only playoffs qualifiers get points but given classic's playoffs are half the size I'd rather do something like give a seasonal-equivalent points for only your best open run or something along those lines. I haven't actually looked at how other tiers incorporate their classic yet, but there are definitely prior examples to draw from.
And of course if there's anything I haven't hit, let us know. We've got around a month to plan this out so there's time to give your opinion.
Two seasonals, PU Ladder Tour, the PU Open. These 4 tours constituted our ribbon circuit last year and will definitely be making a return. Playoffs will still be a top 16 and this will all still be for a ribbon. However, back in 2019 as well as this year, many tiers opted to include 5 tournaments instead of 4. 5 gives people more chances to get points and expands our circuit a bit but at the cost of making the year pretty stuffed with tours, there will be something major pretty much all the time especially when you consider we'll also be running PUPL, possibly PUWC again, and other random tours. I personally favor 4 but this is one of the major topics we're looking for feedback on. If we did bump up to 5, the natural tour to include would be PU Classic, something that will definitely get hosted in early 2021 regardless of whether it's for circuit or not. It's slightly weird to include classic when playoffs will be bo3 current gen only, plus I'm sure some people might object to playing BW or ORAS for circuit points, but it does mean that we won't have to play SS PU for circuit immediately following the massive January shift. There will be a bit more of a buffer zone to do some tiering. Of course if people really don't favor classic, we could always try fitting in a third seasonal or a majors-style pools tournament, or something along those lines.
The only other major point of feedback is the points system. We don't recall any major issues with it last year so we can likely reuse the same format, but if people have some objection this would be a great time to speak up. We also need to develop a circuit points system for classic, it could be same as PULT where only playoffs qualifiers get points but given classic's playoffs are half the size I'd rather do something like give a seasonal-equivalent points for only your best open run or something along those lines. I haven't actually looked at how other tiers incorporate their classic yet, but there are definitely prior examples to draw from.
And of course if there's anything I haven't hit, let us know. We've got around a month to plan this out so there's time to give your opinion.