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The Player released: Issue #2!

By Vacate on August 30, 2014

The second issue of The Player has been released! This issue features an interview with Darnell, a look at the Wi-Fi economy and The Studio's favorite artist of this month. The contributors did a superb job with this issue - if you're interested in contributing, check out our guidelines!

We also have Ask the Admins going for our third issue, in which you can ask our panel any questions you like. Remember to vote for the next staff interview and to post your favorite article in the release thread. Happy reading!

Read Issue #2 of The Player here!

PSPL II, Tournaments and more

By sirDonovan on September 16, 2014

Week 2 of PSPL II has begun! Continuing the group stage of the tournament, the announcement includes results from the first week and current standings. Check out the new match-ups and cheer on your favorite rooms!

After a brief downtime for maintenance, scripted tournaments are back. Head over to our official Tournaments room to compete in the leaderboard challenge! Smogon's Official Ladder Tournament has entered its second cycle. We recommend you read how to sign up and visit the OLT Room for discussion of the tournament. The Mentorship program is also hosting a tournament series called Mentours. These micro-tours are played four times a day in the Community Mentoring room to introduce newer players to Smogon's tiers as well as encourage teambuilding and collaboration with Mentors.

Congratulations to chechnya for winning the Academics room's Jeopardy tournament after defeating Weebl and AnthemOfTheWorld in the final round! If you would like to join the next tour, take this test and PM SteelEdges a screenshot of your results on Smogon forums if you pass to receive information on the next step.

The OM Mediocremons has been replaced by Hidden Type, and Smogon Doubles Ubers, LC UU, and Smogon Doubles UU now have ladders! Head over to their respective threads for information and discussion of these metagames.

Lobby Update, PSPL II and OLT

By sirDonovan on September 25, 2014

As you may have noticed, the Lobby has had a small update regarding staff. Similar to other rooms on the server, it now has its own roomauth. You should only contact global staff for issues outside of the Lobby as room staff members do not have global authority. A client update is planned to help distinguish between these two groups.

Week 3 of PSPL II has begun! This will be the final week of the group stage of the tournament. The announcement includes results from the previous week and current team standings. Check out the new match-ups and cheer on your favorite rooms as they compete to secure their spots in the next stage!

Smogon's Official Ladder Tournament has entered its third cycle. If you are interested in competing, we recommend you read how to sign up and visit the OLT room for discussion of the tournament.

Chat font is now slightly bigger

By Zarel on September 27, 2014

No, it's not your imagination. Chrome recently made fonts look slightly smaller, so I'm making the chat font size slightly bigger (from 8pt to 9pt).

If you don't like it, give yourself a week to get used to it. Plenty of other things on your computer have different font sizes. In a week, I'll decide if we need to do anything else about it.

We also made an update yesterday that seems to have drastically decreased lag, so...