Metagame [April Fool's] Important Announcement about SM NU

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fter much discussion with the staff members of other SM tiers, we have decided for quality control purposes that we are going to delay the release of NU Alpha for another month, so it will start in May. Pre Alpha is an important step to the development of our official tier and we do not want to squander the opportunity to improve our tier by ending it prematurely; considering the low amount of activity in the Pre Alpha thread so far, we think it would be prudent to generate more discussion here through this extension. Recently, we have also had some concerns with the development of the SM RU metagame due to their more rushed approach to the tiering process. It seems that the quality of their ladder has suffered as a result; the high usage of Pokemon such as Ambipom, Cinccino, and Guzzlord has confirmed this notion. Ladder quality is very important to both us as staff members and the broader demographic of general users, and we want to make sure that everyone is sufficiently prepared for the formation of a new metagame before proceeding with this crucial final step, to prevent anyone from making fools out of themselves.

If you have any questions about this decision, feel free to contact myself or one of the other NU forum moderators about this. We are sorry to announce this on such short notice, especially given all of the recent buzz about it, but we wanted to give RU a chance before we were forced to make this decision.

Have a good time in month 3 of Pre Alpha! We'll update the thread when new stats come out. :)
 
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