National Pokémon Association 3 is Starting Soon
It’s been almost a year since the last season of the National Pokémon Association started, and we’re back at it for another! Last season had 12 teams with 72 players total fight it out for that #1 spot on top, which led to the Seafoam Islanders’ victory. This season we have a few changes from last season that I’m sure some people might be excited about. Unlike other tournament held here on Nugget Bridge, the NPA does not give any Nugget Bridge Circuit points.
For those who don’t know, the NPA is a team tournament held here on Nugget Bridge that lets players join together and work as a team to try to best the competition. All 16 teams play in 8 rounds with the top 6 making playoffs. The last remaining team in the playoffs will become the champions for this season. Unlike the Dodrio Cup, there are no special rules that the players must abide by. All matches will be played in the Standard format. Just a reminder the rules are:
- Players must use Pokémon X or Pokémon Y
- All matches are played in Doubles format
- Pokemon above Level 50 will be brought down to 50 for the match while those below 50 will stay as-is
- Players choose 4 of their 6 registered Pokemon after team preview
- Species Clause: No two Pokémon can share the same Pokédex number.
- Item Clause: No two Pokémon can hold the same held item.
- Pokémon must be bred or caught in Kalos
- Pokémon must be part of the Central Kalos Dex (1-150), Coastal Kalos Dex (1-153), or Mountain Kalos Dex (1-147)
Players sign ups will start August 1st. There will be weekly coverage going on throughout this season, so even if you aren’t drafted be sure to follow all of that!
Tournament Structure
- Each week, teams will go head to head in a fight to win the best of 6 games. So the winning team for the week will have to win 4 or more games. If the week goes 3-3, the week is recorded as a tie for each team. A win is worth two points, and a tie is worth one point.
- The 6 matches will consist of 6 standard ruleset matches between each member of the team.
- There are 8 weeks in the season, two weeks for playoffs, and a week for finals for a total of 11 weeks
- Each team will consist of the 1 manager and a minimum of 6 battlers. Each week, each manager must submit a roster of what 6 players they are using for the week to Duy and Biosci. Managers are not allowed to play in the weekly games, but are encouraged to help the team practice.
- Managers must post saying they’re subbing an inactive player out to put in another player. Once a player is subbed in that week, they must either play or the match will be decided on activity.
- All games will be played on Nintendo 3DS systems using Pokémon X or Pokémon Y
Managers
A thread will go up Saturday July 19th to see who is interested in managing this season. Duy and Biosci will personally decide who manages each of the teams with some input from advisors. All managers will be decided upon by the end of July 30th.
Draft
Players will have a chance to sign up from August 1st to August 17th, and the draft will be held on August 22nd (subject to change). The draft will happen in the synIRC channel #npa. The draft this year will be an auction, which you can learn about here (if you have questions about it, just comment below). As a manager’s turn comes around, they will quickly choose who to nominate and the bidding will commence. It’s recommended that a manager come into the draft with a set of players already in mind to draft.
Details of the draft will be worked out soon.
Trades
If teams wish, they may trade for players from other teams for players of their own or cash for the mid-season auction. They will first start out by proposing the trade to the team manager they want to deal with. If both managers agree to the trade, PM the trade info to Duy and Biosci using the forum PM system. Once you receive approval, the trade is official and considered done. If a trade is done mid-week, the player swap is done immediately even if the player still has a match yet to finish that week. The player can be subbed out for the team substitute or subbed in for the new player.
No more trades may be made after mid-season is over.
Mid-Season and All-Star Week
There will be a mid-season break after week 4 for teams to pick up new players in the mid-season auction and conduct final trades for the season. While this is going on, the current 12 players with the best records will be able to participate in All-Star Week.
Playoffs
The playoffs will contain the top 6 teams from the season. The top 2 teams will earn a round 1 bye while the remaining 4 fight it out to move onto top 4.
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Looking forward to see how the draft turns out, no matter if I’m on a team or not! I might be able to watch if I wake up early, despite it being my birthday haha.
I really hope I get drafted but I doubt it as there’s many that are a better choice
I’m ready for the draft!!!!
When is draft and where is it streaming?
Will there be a draft analysis stream like there was last year?
WOw it’s today the Draft?? i Nearly forget about it, even if i know i’m not gonna be drafted it’s allways nice to have your name in the same list as Aaron Zheng, Kyriakou and the others amazing top players. So I Got That Goin For Me Which Is Nice
No I pipe.
How long is that from now?Im not good with time zones
Google is a nice tool, but it’s in 1 hour and 28 minutes.
It’s in one and a half hour if i’m correct
Have I been drafted?For some reason twitch is messing up on my phone
no lol
Ok,I was just making sure.Maybe I’ll get in later
It’s done now. Well, uh… I guess all I can say is to establish an identity as a good player and to try again next year. Good luck!
Expect a news post up tomorrow with the drafted teams, thanks everyone for watching
I missed the draft.
Didn’t anyone read this post??? You paid more for me than Wolfe!?!? That wouldn’t be a good idea even if I was practicing! What the heck is wrong with this draft…
Thanks for giving us all these super underpriced Germans to compensate though, or this season could have been really terrible
Also draft log if anyone wants to read that External
One of 4 members of the exclusive, 40 Thousand Club.
On one hand, that’s quite an honour.
On the other hand… how did anyone think it was a good idea to blow about half the budget on a single player?
how about blowing 90% of your budget on 2 players?!?!?!!?
IDGAFFFFFFFFFFFFF WE OUTTT
Let’s Go.
I’ve got a question, there are certain teams who don’t have the minimum number of players. What is happening with that?? Could they pick up some free players to add to their team (I’d be up for it
) ?? Or do they have to trade?
Edit: just looked at standings. Seems something happened between the end of the auction and going into the standings XD
All the teams have at least 6 players, yeah. It’s just that the trades that took place during the auction weren’t tracked by the bot.
Ah well heartbreak for another year. Must do better this season
If the Lego Movie has taught me anything, it’s that you have to be hyped to buy overpriced coffee to be the greatest, most interesting, most important person of all time.. GOOD LUCK AFFORDING THAT WITHOUT A STAFF DISCOUNT MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
^ Me being special, suck it.
Oh well, another year of not playing I guess. On the bright side though, at least I don’t have to worry about Pokemon teambuilding for another half a month until Regionals draws closer
I would like to say congratulations to all the people who are on teams this year! Next year. I will have to make my statement and give all the tournaments my all! Maybe then I can join the battles! It will be awesome to see these battles play out…who will win? Who will lose? What team will come out VICTORIOUS!
Are the rest of us getting anything to prove we are good for the mid tournament auction?