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Vote: Unite In-Game Tournament Substitutions List
The monthly in-game tournaments can be fun, intense and quite a challenge. We are required to register as a team if you want to play with certain friends. That's fine. However, once you pre-register your team, you cannot make changes to the roster (trainer list). Life happens. Things come up, internet goes down, server issues occur. Sometimes teammates are no-shows or they tell you in advance (but after everyone's registered) that they can't make it. When that occurs, the remaining teammates are out of luck and not allowed to play.
I suggest a simple solution to this issue. Allow a registered team of five to have a substitute list of two additional trainers. Allow teams of two to three (since they don't allow a team of four) to have one on a substitute list. The other option would be to allow the preregistered team to make EDITS to the the team up till the time they press the go button to enter the tournament.
Think about it. Pokemon games have "benches" just like real live sports. You even have a secondary "bench" when you play a TCG, called your hand. Please vote if you agree. Mods, please pass this request and feedback on to the developers.
Vote if you would like to have a substitute list added or to have the registered tournament teams editable.
Comments
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Thank you! (Did I do it correctly?)
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What is this?
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@fineasmatei , this vote is basically just a show of hands (a show of support) for how many of us who play unite that would like the ability to edit the in-game tournaments they have. Right now, once you sign up, the team list is uneditable.
These tournaments seem to take place about once a month. You create or join a team ahead of time (diff then a unite squad) of either 1-3 people or 5 people, then you sign up for a two hour time slot for the server that's closest to you (i.e. North America etc). The stadium is usually the same as the one used for the current ranked season stadium however everyone plays the ban and draft style to pick which Pokemon are used (only one person can be any one Pokemon) and which ones are not allowed (by either team) to be played. You start off with so many points. If your team loses, you lose points, if you win, you gain points. Your team can keep on playing until it's had enough or the two-hour window is up. You may get stuck waiting for matchmaking also since there shouldn't be any cpu's allowed to play. The number of wins determines how many little prizes you get. After so many battles, you get a sticker for your profile and bragging rights.
It can be fun and pretty intense. Have you ever tried it?
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oh that thing I dont know how to do it.
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@fineasmatei, the vote thing? Or the Unite tournament thing?
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the tounament thing
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(my comment was just delayed)
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Basically it's an icon in a menu on the right hand side of the main page in unite.
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