While the suspect itself served its purpose of increasing players' overall interest in the tier and providing us a chance to give a look at the tier, there are a number of things I'd like to address.



The first thing I want to point out is that while the suspect's premise itself didn't have any issues, I believe some things could have been different. We could have banned both Gothitelle and Gothorita in the suspect ladder to have a temporary opportunity to observe what the tier would look like without them. Just about everyone in np: 0 thread who pointed out about suspecting goth family argued that their very existence in the tier invalidates archetypes, puts massive pressure on teambuilding, or does other things, and I frankly don't understand how allowing goth family in the suspect ladder will effectively give players a chance to acquire proper understanding of the purpose of the suspect itself. A suspect ladder without goth family would have forced all players to prepare for the different shape of metagame and could have given them a chance to build new teams with different Pokemon that wouldn't be so useful / viable with goth family around. Bottom line is that because the suspect ladder and the regular USM Ubers had the same environment, suspect ladder was not so much different from casual ladder games players will play the other day and thus invited virtually anyone who can do decent in ladder to get involved in tiering decision.



I have witnessed various reactions from people after the suspect test concluded. Some say that people who lack knowledge could simply just spend some time playing in suspect ladder just like they would in other day in the regular ladder and have rights to vote without thoroughly understanding how goth family influence the tier itself. While this kind of reaction may rather sound condescending, I too felt that the suspect test's requirement itself somewhat lacked security to appropriately filter out users who were authentically involved in the community to contribute to the tiering decision and others temporarily played Ubers just to expand their collection of suspect votes for Tiering Contributor badge. What I'd like to see from future suspect held from Ubers is the playerbase providing an environment where the knowledgeables will be allowed to determine the fate of the tier, not a place where someone who didn't play Ubers before could just hang around in the ladder for a bit and can get a permission to vote for something that they are not very knowledgeable about.



My proposal to this problem is construction of Ubers council. While I am not fully knowledgeable about the metagame / playerbase enough to nominate the candidates, I feel like it is vitally necessary for a group of people to actively filter out extraneous posts from suspect discussions, publicly state their insightful opinions about the tier or suspect materials, and most importantly, have power to involve themselves into the final decision about tiering.



While I had a lot to criticize about the suspect, this doesn't translate to my overall attitude towards Ubers. I fully trust in Ubers's authorities' senses of judgment, and I believe that they will take any feedbacks in this thread to make better suspect test in the future so that others will not scorn us by calling our suspect test a farce that temporarily invites some users to hang out in the tier for a couple weeks with the teams that others built for them.



With that said, allow me to conclude by thanking everyone for participating or coordinating this suspect test.