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Your Alolan winner is... SANDSLASH

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/9/4/4/AAdhHyAAExKY.jpg

Meowth: 37
Sandslash: 70

honestly haven't been paying attention myself until the end to finally count and oh wow I wasn't expecting the blowout, good work slash

Graph (axis Saves vs Time in hours)
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/9/4/5/AAdhHyAAExKZ.png

Anyways now that first contest is done feel free to discuss your thoughts here - I know there was a bit of tension about SPEED ROUNDS the other day but like I said this is a beta test series testing out features then dialing in to what the contest can handle (regarding target save times) and what people are interested in

I can definitely say late game speed rounds wouldn't normally be a thing but there's only so many rounds and I gotta fit 'em in a few times to get different samples of people engaging with them

Amount of saves you can do is another thing to consider, without looking up I believe the way past contests handled it was 2 saves lasting up until the Top Half, then going to 1. Though there is an interesting strategy to them that interacts with how these contests allow saving the save character, and multi-saves is the only phase where trading actually is a thing so it might be something to shuffle in with the later rounds

but the point Xuxon made is very much valid that you can't really just shuffle everything around so much and the later rounds already do need regular rule updates to keep up with save requirements, so swapping back and forth can absolutely be disorienting

anyways yeah that's things to consider, feel free to comment and the next test building off feedback and the growing activity will start tomorrow with Galarian Forms

also mnk mentioned about regional form evolutions and that's something I haven't actually decided yet, on one they are a different thing than just alt forms, but on the other hand... they really are like the Final Form of their Alolan forms so it feels weird to exclude them

think I'm leaning towards include