Perry
slayer
Great discussion all around here, loving to see it. I would like to share my 2 cents on one specific post, however:
PS: this is my personal opinion, doesn't really point out to any direction we TDs will take in the future.
I'm very much against extending the SPL branding to our newest 3rd tournament. SPL should be, by definition, Smogon's premier product. It's not only seen as such by our community, but also our social media audience that rarely evers knows WCoP or Snake or anything else. By extending the SPL brand to our newest tournament, while indeed making the new tournament more prestigious than what a 1st edition would usually be, you are making our "old" SPL less prestigious and I have my qualms with it. Branding aside, I do agree that most aspects of SPL (draft, number of teams, etc) should be carried over, and the discussion wrt tiers has been very interesting thus far.Hi all, I'm not too concerned with exactly what format tiers and draft wise the next snake takes but I have a cool idea about branding I mentioned on Discord.
I think Snake should be called 'Summer SPL' or something to that effect, and it should keep the SPL team names.
The twist is that the teams get a new freshly designed second logo with a different mon mascot for either this tour or old gen/winter SPL - for example the Tyrants could reboot their legacy TTar mascot for old gen SPL and use the current Tyrantrum one for lower tiers, or as another example the Cryos could keep their Suicune in old gen SPL and have a fresh one with Vanilluxe or something for lower tiers. There's a lot of cool stuff you can do with this, it picks up on the history and charm of the SPL teams while also having a new spin for the new lower tiers tour. SPL team identity works, and this seems like a nice compromise between legacy and originality.
PS: this is my personal opinion, doesn't really point out to any direction we TDs will take in the future.
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