Even though it probably would compress the tournament- (set doesnt release until Friday, realistically cant start until Monday?) I think being able to go back and compare PokeBeach's winning deck to the actual World's winner would be kinda fun.
Tournament Poll for September Tournament Format
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@semurphy444 But this is about September, so Celestial Storm will be out for almost 4 weeks then.
I actually thought the same, but its not about August I see.
Then I’ll definitely vote for the new Standard format, given that I will play at the Frankfurt Regionals with a couple of friends at the end of September. So the PokeBeach tournament is like my first and last chance of testing in a competitive environment in the new Standard format with Celestial Storm and after rotation, except maybe a League Cup / League Challenge. And since there will change a lot, I think Standard format for September would be fair.
Could we maybe play Expanded the month a new set comes out, so the Standard meta has been established until the new sets becomes legal for tournament play? Like @Sabaku ’s idea?
I actually thought the same, but its not about August I see.
Then I’ll definitely vote for the new Standard format, given that I will play at the Frankfurt Regionals with a couple of friends at the end of September. So the PokeBeach tournament is like my first and last chance of testing in a competitive environment in the new Standard format with Celestial Storm and after rotation, except maybe a League Cup / League Challenge. And since there will change a lot, I think Standard format for September would be fair.
Could we maybe play Expanded the month a new set comes out, so the Standard meta has been established until the new sets becomes legal for tournament play? Like @Sabaku ’s idea?
Legacy? :3
[edit] just realized I bumped a week old thread but I stand by my plea to have people to play legacy with
[edit] just realized I bumped a week old thread but I stand by my plea to have people to play legacy with
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I'll want to go with Standard format / SM-on to be honest. I'm not only already wanting to play the next format and test all the 10 or so deck ideas and concepts I have, but unless some of us were actually going to Worlds physically, I feel like there's barely a point to playing the format anymore. Not that I don't like BKT-on, but I'm simply just a tad bit tired from it. No real powerful arguments here, honestly.
Definitely gonna vote Standard Format on this one. As @lukas2aces mentioned, some people use the Pokebeach tournament as a competitive environment to deck test in when major changes are made to the meta (like a new format rotation). So I think it's beneficial to go Standard Format at least for the month of September.
I feel that if you're gonna do Worlds format, do it in August, feels a bit weird playing it after rotation... also I really don't like *this* year's worlds format, too much Zoroark and puzzles. (Voted expanded, which I'm enjoying a lot so far, but we haven't hit rotation yet and who knows how fun standard will be; hopefully it opens things up a bit.)
It'd be nice to get a peek a what everyone's been testing for Post-Rotation without any tournament results tainting deck choices!
On a similar note, @PokeMedic is it possible to get metrics on more than just the top 8 decks? It would be an interesting exercise to see what the 'pokebeach meta' is as a whole.
That's a pretty tall order.
That's something I realized after I posted 
Standard format would be nice. Took a break from the game during world's format as it did nothing for me.