That's the ideal of Smogon, but not the reality. It's part long-running sports institution, part long-running forum, so there's office politics, peacocking, behind the scenes drama and elitism. They prioritize tournament players over ladder players, despite the latter outnumbering the former by a few orders of magnitude. Some people accuse them of groupthink, but I personally think Smogon has the opposite problem: there's no consistency in how they balance their metagames, because some members want simple bans and others want bans that minimize collateral damage, and all of them have a different definition of the word "uncompetiive".
Still better than a world with Blaziken/Mega Salamence/Moody bullshit running around.
