Last BW RoA Room No Sleep Tournament: 11 players replay - finch the bw goat vs oilert replay - finch the bw goat vs shooka berryShooka berry won over finch the bw goat (that's not my alt btw, it's someone else). This tournament did not have another semi-final game due to a DQ when someone AFK'd and it had a bit less participation due to overlap with the end of the SPL draft, unfortunately. With that said, we had pretty good participation throughout the week and a lot of solid games as a result to that. Thank you so much to Earthworm and the remainder of the RoA staff for helping organize this, Hogg for the idea, and the players who participated throughout the week for making this as enjoyable as possible.As for the tournaments themselves, my main takeaway is that the metagame without sleep is a direct improvement from the metagame with it. You do not have to sacrifice a Pokemon or a moveslot to dedicate yourself to proper sleep coverage, there is a lot more room in teambuilding, and games are obviously never decided by Sleep Talk shenanigans. While BW will never be a truly perfect metagames in my eyes, this is the best version we have witnessed of it thus far and I think that it is very competitive this way. I also believe that Breloom will retain a lot of viability with the Poison Heal Protect variants, which are quite good at the moment. In addition to this, I think that Latios being able to use Trick will open up a lot more anti-stall/defensive core possibilities, thus letting BW retain its identity as a more aggressive, fast-paced metagame that it always has had besides for some recent phases when stall popped up (prior to the trapping related bans, for example).---The BW council plans to(starting on Monday, December 23rd). This vote will list throughout the entire week due to holidays and giving people a chance to review the thread and their thoughts before voting, but we will hopefully have a verdict prior to 2020 and SPL11.As for how we plan to tackle the problem, the council echoes the sentiment of rozes . We wish to ban all moves that have the sole focus of inducing sleep (Hypnosis, Sing, Spore, Yawn, Dark Void, Sleep Powder, Lovely Kiss, and Grass Whistle), but not moves/abilities that have other, more focal purposes (Relic Song, Effect Spore, Psycho Shift, etc.). However, we are aware that moves like Relic Song and Psycho Shift (specifically when the latter is paired with Rest + Sleep Talk) or abilities like Effect Spore can lead to multiple Pokemon getting slept over the course of a single battle. Because of this, we believe that keeping the current sleep clause in effect as a safety measure is still for the best, essentially limiting the scope of our vote to just the aforementioned moves that have the sole purpose of inducing sleep.Finally, if the initial vote results in a ban, we plan to have another vote after SPL in order to make sure that individuals still feel the same way after the tournament, which will give us a larger sample size of the "new" metagame.