Welcome to another edition to the PokeSTEEM Battle League Weekly Tournaments. We are challenging the @steemit community to take part in this week's tournament. Members of the community can battle Pokemon for a chance at the Weekly Rewards earned from this post. Those players who place within the Top 12 battlers of the week will receive the reward.

All players are welcome to make posts about their battles and take part in spreading the word of the PokeSTEEM community by using the hashtags #pokesteem #pokesteembattleleague or the current weeks hashtag example #week7pokesteem. Spreading the word of the community helps bring more rewards to the pool and will hopefully encourage the Pokemon community to want to use this platform.

This tournament will end on Sunday at 11:59 PM and all battles marked in the battle verification log will be used for the earnings leaderboard and distributed according to the following brackets.

This Week's Tournament will be

Monotype Random Tournament

Important Information When Challenging Players:

Using the Teambuilder will not be necessary for this week's tournament. Find the User that you are challenging and change the format to Monotype Random Tournament to begin a battle with them.

Remember in order for battles to be recorded you must save the replay and place within the battleverification log.

All battles can be verified with the links to ensure that the records are accurate. In order for battles to be logged and applied into the records a replay must exist inside the Battle Verification Log for the Admin to look over.

Elite Four Members	Win - Loss
@orjesus88	14 - 0
@guidom	13 - 3
@guaru	3 - 1
@boycharlieplays	19 - 10

Gym Leaders	Win - Loss
@lokee	4 - 3
@pablitolaprea	14 - 13
Unidentified Edgy Teenager	3 - 3
@markmorbidity	1 - 1
@froilanbigott	17 - 20
@saywha	1 - 2
@matapalmera	3 - 8
@hasbydiaz	3 - 8

Trial Captain	Win - Loss
@shadelf1 (Solidus)	5 - 14
@rafa-Toto	2 - 9
@angelesanchez28	0 - 4
@ths	0 - 3

The Trial Captain role will be discontinued from this point forward read below for more information

IMPORTANT NEW INFORMATION

Moving forward the founder of the organization has decided to eliminate the Trial Captain Ranking on the Leaderboard and adjusted the prizes for the Top 12 Members in the league for the week in order to bring more funding in hiring moderators and other community engagement projects such as the Professor Reward.

> Elite Four will still receive 10% each of the post rewards - 40%

> Gym Leaders will now receive an increase, 3.125% of the post rewards - 25%

> Moderators, Community Engagements, and Post Boosts are paid using the last 35% of the rewards.

This Week's Professor Reward goes to...

@pablitlaprea

@pablitolaprea has been a dedicated member of the league since the very beginning and has dedicated his time the last two weeks to reach out and invite people on steemit. He has also taken to mentoring any of the spanish speaking members of the chat if they need help regarding Pokemon Showdown and the leagues rules.

We want to say Thank You again to @pablitolaprea. You will be receiving your Reward very shortly ! You deserve it!

We would also like to announce our first addition to the team officially...

@orjesus88

@orjesus88 has done a fantastic job helping me out with keeping track of the records for the tournament. To honor his new moderator status we are awarding him 7% of weekly post earnings from the tournament challenge on top of whatever he earns as a rank for next week.

Thank you for all that you do, and you dominated last week in the tournament. Keep it up! Battle on!

We here at the PokeSTEEM Battle League would like to thank you all for reading.

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