Silph League - Announcements (2024)

Silph League - Announcements

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It is time! The Arena is thrilled to announce this morning that we're unveiling a powerful new resource to help you conquer GO Battle League. What's in the box? Some game-changers for new PvP players and veterans alike. Take a look!

🔥 1. 3v3 Battle Team Rankings!
After great efforts (and insane processing requirements!) the performance of roughly *half a million Battle Teams per League* have been analyzed, compared, and ranked to provide a uniquely useful resource: the most powerful teams of 3 in Great, Ultra, and Master League! These calculations build on PvPoke.com's amazing 1v1 rankings to analyze full Battle Teams *as a unit* - and the outcome is the starting point many beginners have been searching for. (Shoutout to PvPoke for the help!)

📈 2. Live Arena Data: Most *Popular* Teams!
*Also* for the first time, the Arena is exposing data on the most frequently seen Battle Teams in ranked open Great/Ultra/Master League tournaments!

🧠 3. Basics: "Getting Into PvP" Guide!
On each of the new League pages, we've included a new (really great) guide introducing the basics of PvP aimed at newcomers struggling with GO Battle League.

⏯ 4. Highlighted Resources!
We've also sought the best resources for Great, Ultra, and Master League and have collected them into a Resource Highlights section for easy reference.

We know many newcomers are feeling overwhelmed or discouraged trying to build their GBL teams. We hope these resources will give them the confidence boost to stick with it and jump into the competitive PvP community.

We hope you enjoy your new tools. They're a labor of love from the Arena to you! Help spread the word to those in your community - and good luck!

https://silph.gg/league/great

- The Arena Team -

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📰 February Community Day News! 📰

Greetings from The Silph League! February Community Day runs on Saturday the 22nd this month! The polls are closed and Niantic has tallied the Feb 1st Research Task results: the majority vote has gone to Shiny Rhyperior! https://i.imgur.com/EkhyqUd.jpg

A few quick updates for community leaders:

📋 February Event Registration: OPEN
Community Day registration via the @Silph Road bot is open for the feb2020 event! Remember to register your community so you can begin authorizing your staff.

📁 February Badge Assets: LIVE
The assets site has the February badge assets up for free download and modification, visit <https://assets.sil.ph/silph-league/> today!

✏️ Retroactive Check In: SOON
January retro check-ins will be opened alongside February Community Day.

As a reminder, retro check-ins are for verified in-person attendees at your meetup only and can be done through Discord, and regular check-ins should be done in-person only.

🗺 Other Resources
1. How to Offer Check-Ins at My Meetup: <https://thesilphroad.com/community-day-checkins>
2. Travelers Cards Explained: <https://thesilphroad.com/travelers-cards>

Questions?
Need a hand? Join us in t.me/silphleague for help!

- Director Stygien -

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Become a Legend at the World’s Most Epic Open-Invite PvP Tournaments!
As mega-tournaments have continued to pop up in more and more countries and regions, local legends have been made. And the Arena has been working on a way to hype these amazing events up even more! Tonight we're excited to announce: The World Legends Tournament Series!

World Legends Tournament Series
This new tournament series highlights some of the largest and most epic PvP tournaments in the world - where legends are made! These huge PvP events, called Battle Towers, are open to all and are given special status in the Arena! Battle Tower events are held in many regions of the world each Season and are hosted and run by local communities in cooperation with the Silph Arena. Special prizes and exclusive collectibles are available at Battle Towers for all competitors – but especially for the Tower Champion!

🏆 The winner of each tournament, who earns the title of “Tower Champion,” will receive an exclusive trophy on their Travelers Card and an automatic invitation to a Continental Championship (!) for the current season! Other prizes will frequently be found at these huge events, including an exclusive enamel pin and potentially even a cash pot! But every competitor who competes will go home with the a special Travelers Card Badge for entering the Battle Tower.

The World Legends Tournament Series kicks off this weekend with the Portland Battle Tower, hosted by PDX PokeArena! Join them on Sunday, February 9th, to see who becomes the champion of the Cascadia Region's first Battle Tower!
https://silph.gg/t/geu2

For more information, check out the link below. There are many Battle Towers almost ready to be announced, so keep your eyes peeled!

- The Arena Department -

https://silph.gg/world-legends-tournaments

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📢 2020 Regional Invitationals Locations Have Been Selected!
After weeks of reviewing over 600(!) applications (and a lot of bug-hunting!) the Arena is proud to announce the official locations & hosts list for this Seasons' Regional Invitationals! The 2020 Regionals will host the fiercest competitors in the world at 305 locations across 60+ countries and 6 continents!

We've aimed to ensure as many qualifying regions as possible gain access to this elite event. Locations were selected for many factors, including the # of qualifying competitors, location centrality, and of course whether communities in the area applied to host! We could select less than half of total applicants, but we appreciate all the Organizers willing to volunteer for their areas. (If you applied, log in to silph.gg to see your application status!)

🗺 Map of Regionals: https://silph.gg/regionals-map

✉️ Competitor invites to Regionals go out beginning of March!

🏆 Looking Ahead to the Continental Championships!
While the strongest competitors in each region receive an invitation to Regionals, only the top will continue to Continental Championships. The following will receive that prestigious invite:

1. Regional Champions
2. Regionals with over 32 competitors earn a 2nd invite + 1 more for every 16 competitors after
3. The #1 spot on each National Leaderboard - location will be verified
4. A (very) small # from the Global Leaderboard
5. Battle Tower Champions
6. Winner of the Continental Open QualifiersThe road to the Championships is challenging, but there are many paths to the top!

Thank you to all who applied for helping grow the competitive scene in your areas and being willing to provide this important and exciting part of the competitive Season to competitors in your region.

- The Arena Directors -

https://silph.gg/updates/2020-regional-invitational-locations

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The official March Cup meta will be going live shortly, but first ...a new batch of Battle Towers are rising!

Five more epic Battle Tower events will be taking place around the world in the coming months! Join us at the following locations and see if you have what it takes to earn a place in the Hall of Champions!

Paris Battle Tower | Gothic Region - February 22nd
Monterrey Battle Tower | El Norte Region - February 29th
Naples Battle Tower | Mediterranean Region - March 28th
Liverpool Battle Tower | Isles Region - April 18th
Philadelphia Battle Tower | Atlantic Region - May 9th

Now, back to your regularly scheduled meta speculation. We'll have a potent reveal for you soon...

- The Arena Team -

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It's time to stock up on antidotes, because March 1st brings…

The Toxic Cup! :: March 1st-31st
March’s global Arena tournament will test your mastery of some of the most venomous creatures in the Pokémon world! Build your team from Poison, Bug, Normal, Ground, and Grass type Pokémon (including dual-types) for this deadly challenge. Tropius, Noctowl, Vigoroth, and Mudbois (Water+Ground dual-types) are not permitted entrance to the Toxic Cup! Check out the Cup page (https://silph.gg/cup/toxic) for a full list of rules, restrictions, and resources!

📁 Downloads: Assets for the Toxic Cup are now available for download - https://assets.sil.ph/silph-arena/

🗓 Ready to Schedule: Toxic Cups (and Practice Cups!) are now ready to schedule on silph.gg!

Good luck in the final two weeks of the 🌹 Cup. Study hard and be sure to practice well! We look forward to seeing your mastery of venom come March 1st!

- The Arena Directors -

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🔥 The fated hour has finally arrived! 🔥
Through months of fierce battles, new metas, & formidable opponents, over 55,000 competitors have been tried and tested around the world this Season. Today, the Arena invites the strongest among them to prove their skills ...at the 2020 Regional Invitationals!

Log in to Silph.gg and visit the homepage (https://silph.gg) to see whether your performance in the 2019-2020 Season has qualified you for an invitation to compete. Those invited will see a red notification in the site navigation with a message from the Arena!

Regionals will be held throughout the month of April. At these elite tournaments, the Arena's top regional competitors will face off against the strongest in their area for a chance to be crowned Regional Champion and advance to represent their Region at the Continental Championships!

If you have qualified, here are your next steps:
1. Head to https://silph.gg/regionals-map and find an Invitational near you.
2. RSVP for an event by March 15th. Be aware: many Regionals have a maximum venue capacity, so RSVP early to ensure you get a spot! You MUST RSVP *in advance* in order to attend a Regional.
3. Start preparing! The Regionals meta will be announced mid-March, but it’s never too early to start sharpening your skills!

For full details, instructions, and FAQs head to the Competitors Information page: https://silph.gg/2020-regional-invitationals-competitor-info

Congratulations to all who qualified! Prepare to bring your best game - the stakes have never been higher!

- The Arena Team -

p.s. To those who did not qualify this Season, fret not! Read up on the alternative paths to a Continentals invite if you're still intent on proving you're the very best!

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📰 March Community Day News! 📰

Greetings from The Silph League! March Community Day runs on Sunday the 15th this month! Keeping with a Gen I theme, we'll be hunting the spoon-wielding shiny Alakazam! https://imgur.com/jgaW1J0.jpg

A few quick updates for community leaders:

📋 March Event Registration: OPEN
Community Day registration via the @Silph Road bot is open for the mar2020 event! Remember to register your community so you can begin authorizing your staff.

📁 March Badge Assets: LIVE
The assets site has the March badge assets up for free download and modification, visit <https://assets.sil.ph/silph-league/> today!

✏️ Retroactive Check In: SOON
February retro check-ins will be opened alongside March Community Day.

As a reminder, retro check-ins are for verified in-person attendees at your meetup only and can be done through Telegram, and regular check-ins should be done in-person only.

🗺 Other Resources
1. How to Offer Check-Ins at My Meetup: <https://thesilphroad.com/community-day-checkins>
2. Travelers Cards Explained: <https://thesilphroad.com/travelers-cards>

Questions?
Need a hand? Join us in t.me/silphleague for help!

- Director Stygien -

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❗️The Team Rocket Takeover event this weekend has brought a new focus to Shadow Pokemon - and several questions have arisen that begged answers. So, the Arena's Meta Team (along with KakunaMattata42 from PvPoke, JRESeawolf, and iantslagle!) have crunched the numbers and got to the truth of how important Shadow Pokemon *really* are (or aren't!) for PvP.

https://silph.gg/updates/a-shadow-over-great-league
^ tl;dr - Shadows are rife with trade-offs & do not perform "objectively better" than non-Shadows! This article deep dives into the data for Toxic Cup and Great League.

👍We hope this may come as a relief to the FOMO-averse among us going into the weekend. Beyond this, however, a few minor tweaks are required for the Arena's site to add the appropriate support for Shadows on battle teams.

⚖️ As of a short while ago, the following are now in effect moving forward:
1. Shadow Pokemon must be designated when registering your Battle Team for tournaments. (A new 'toggle switch' is now available next to the CP field when registering.)
2. The Arena Rules have been updated to make this clear (https://silph.gg/rules)
3. Shadow Pokemon will be displayed with an icon on all Pokemon team previews on Silph.gg - so you know what you're up against!

Thanks again to Matt from PvPoke and Pisistratus for the effort on this analysis. We hope this resource is helpful as you examine Shadow Pokemon options for your own Battle Teams.

- The Arena Team -

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We want to give a huge shout-out to MartoGalde from Argentina who made history tonight!

🎊The World's First Elite🎊
After going undefeated tonight in a 7-round Buenos Aires tournament, he became the very first competitor in Arena history to ascend to the Elite Competitor Tier! A well-earned victory! You can now find his name atop the global leaderboard in brilliant yellow.

Congratulations MartoGalde! 🎉 🎊 🍾
https://sil.ph/MartoGalde

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To minimize risk to public health, the Arena's Battle Tower events in Naples, IT & St. Louis, MO, USA will be postponed to a later date. Watch for their new event dates on our channels!

We urge all tournament organizers & competitors to abide local health ordinances & guidelines. ❤️

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📢 With acknowledgement for increased public health risk affecting many communities around the world and the logistical hurdles communities and organizers are facing this month, the Arena has a few announcements impacting the competitive Season schedule:

🐝 The Toxic Cup Continues! 🐝
Toxic Cup tournaments can now be scheduled an extra month - through April 30th. This extension applies to all Toxic Cup tournaments in the Arena and is not region-restricted. Battling in the Toxic Cup in April will not interfere with rank weighting in a Regional Invitational or in April's monthly Cup - competitors can weight (10x) one of each Cup type as normal.

Note: As all competitors now have 7 weeks to find and weight a Toxic Cup tournament, the Arena will not be taking requests to alter weighting for any past Toxic Cup tournaments. If you feel your circ*mstances are extenuating, shoot an email to team@silph.gg with details.🏆 Regional Invitationals 🏆
The Arena will be continuing to work with any Regional hosts concerned about coronavirus risk affecting their Invitational. Hosts can email team@silph.gg with details of their situation to request approval for a date change. Note that any proposed Regional Invitational date changes must be at least 3 weeks in advance. RSVP'd competitors will be notified (via silph.gg notifications) if their event dates are changed.

❤️ We again urge all organizers and competitors to take responsible precautions and abide local guidelines and ordinances when planning and attending live events in this climate.

- The Arena Directors -

p.s. More details here: https://silph.gg/updates/toxic-extension/

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📋 Community Day Update 📋

As communities adjust how they'll be participating in Community Day due to the present risk factors, we will open Retroactive Check-Ins for March 2020 alongside regular check-ins to accommodate all players.

Info For Community Leaders:

☑️ Retroactive check-ins do not require the handshake code to award a badge, you only need the name on their Travelers Card (for example Stygien, as confirmed by the card link https://sil.ph/Stygien).

☑️ Collect players' names by any means you prefer and enter them to https://thesilphroad.com/retro-check-in at your leisure on or after Community Day.

❤️ Again, we encourage Community Leaders to take responsible precautions and abide local guidelines and ordinances when planning and attending live events in this climate. As always, please feel welcome to join us in t.me/silphleague for help!

- Director Stygien -

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As COVID-19 continues to spread, the time has come for the Arena to take additional measures for the health & safety of our organizers and competitors:

📢 In-Person Tournament Events: Suspended
Beginning Monday at 9:00am UTC, in-person Arena tournaments will be suspended through May. Remote tournaments will continue as normal. Live tournaments previously scheduled for this weekend may continue, but we encourage organizers to hold them remotely if possible. Any tournaments scheduled for dates later than Monday morning must switch to remote or be cancelled.

📱Remote Tournaments & Max Capacities
Yesterday, Niantic lifted the Friendship requirement for remote battling to only requiring “Good Friends” for 30 days. We encourage all to take advantage of this timely change and host remote tournaments locally during this time.

For the first time, large remote tournaments are now possible - though these are in uncharted territory logistically. Due to this (plus the need for Silph.gg to upgrade infrastructure to support increased large tournaments & other factors) only remote tournaments up to 7 rounds (65-128 competitors) will be supported on silph.gg for the present.

🏆 Regional Invitationals
There will be no in-person tournaments in April - including Regional Invitationals. But the Arena is working hard to ensure 2020 Regionals will be held. For now, Regional tournaments & RSVP lists have been temporarily locked. More info on the adjustments to the 2020 Regional Invitationals will be released in the coming days.

We sincerely thank you for your patience and understanding as we continue to make adjustments for the health and safety of all competitors. The Arena team is committed to continuing to make competitive PvP exciting and rewarding – even in the face of a shifting environment.

Full details: https://silph.gg/updates/covid-19-measures-03-14-2020

- The Arena Team -

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🔥 The 2020 Regional Invitationals are ON!
With no clear end in sight for the public health concerns from COVID-19, live tournament events remain suspended for the foreseeable future. ...But it's high time for the Arena to adapt, overcome, and re-open the path to becoming World Champion!

🏆 After weighing the realities of the difficult options facing us, the Arena has come to a decision. 2020 Regional Invitationals must go on! Thus, all 2020 Regional Invitationals will be held as LIVE (REAL-TIME) REMOTE tournaments throughout April!

👂 Niantic: The Arena team has spoken with Niantic, and their team has committed to continue the Friendship level reduction through April 30th (and say they will keep an eye on the situation as things continue to develop).

⏲️ Live-Remote Format: While Invitationals will be remotely attended (hosted by the official 2020 Host community in each Region), they will run similarly to live tournamenta, concluding in one sitting with rounds happening quickly.

✉️ RSVPs To Re-Open: On Saturday, the Regionals map will be updated and competitor RSVPs will re-open for 72 hours before locking! 📢 *REMEMBER: Competitors must attend the Invitational closest to where they reside (or most frequently battle). Competitors attempting to battle outside of their Region will be subject to punitive action.* RSVP lists will be hidden until the 72 hours window closes to minimize the temptation to attempt to compete in incorrect Regions.

💬 Regional Hosts should log into silph.gg for time-sensitive information.

We did not foresee a pandemic breaking out. Nor was this the format we originally envisioned for Regionals. But we are glad that, even while we all stay indoors and isolate, we can still test the strongest competitors in each Region on an elite battlefield. Congrats to those who qualified - study hard! And thank you all for your patience and support.

- The Arena Team -

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