>>37291464>mods don't even play their own formats 9/10 times>half the tournaments scene cheats because there's no way to get caught cheating unless someone deliberately rats you out>"tiering philosophy" that basically means nothing because councils are circle jerks and voters vote based on impulse>a community of seething "contributors" that need to assert their opinion so fervently that they'll spend hours making forum posts about small changes between sub ranks on their viability rankings>https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/bw-ou-diglett-and-excadrill-suspect-discussion.3641738/>playerbase is divided into an infinite amount of subformats which exacerbates every previous problem because it encourages players to stick around in these tiny communities to feel like they're important by giving them activitythe only reason they're relevant in two-kay-18 is that they have the current best Pokemon sim as their official sponsor. I don't like VGC, but it's at least more respectable than smogon nowadays.
