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Banned deucer.
The GSC Council, consisting of myself/BKC/Earthworm/idiotfrommars/M Dragon, have decided to reinstate Freeze Clause.
When making a decision regarding whether or not to add a clause, we take into account two major components. First, how significantly does the clause deviate from cart mechanics, and second, is it necessary to preserve competitiveness for the metagame in question? Addressing the former, while Freeze Clause is not built into the carts, several tournaments hosted by Nintendo Japan in the G/S era manually enforced Freeze Clause. This represents the intent for it to exist in competitive settings, even though the technology to implement the clause itself was lacking at the time. Since that technology is readily available on our simulator, we don't have to worry about messy circumstances that could result from a manual clause which can activate outside of either player's control. As for the necessity of this clause we agreed, although not unanimously, that it is important to have a safeguard against potentially devastating multiple freezes in a metagame where the status effect itself is more potent than in any subsequent generation, not to mention the steadily increasing usage of moves that can induce freeze.
Tagging Zarel so that he can implement Freeze Clause Mod in GSC at his convenience.
When making a decision regarding whether or not to add a clause, we take into account two major components. First, how significantly does the clause deviate from cart mechanics, and second, is it necessary to preserve competitiveness for the metagame in question? Addressing the former, while Freeze Clause is not built into the carts, several tournaments hosted by Nintendo Japan in the G/S era manually enforced Freeze Clause. This represents the intent for it to exist in competitive settings, even though the technology to implement the clause itself was lacking at the time. Since that technology is readily available on our simulator, we don't have to worry about messy circumstances that could result from a manual clause which can activate outside of either player's control. As for the necessity of this clause we agreed, although not unanimously, that it is important to have a safeguard against potentially devastating multiple freezes in a metagame where the status effect itself is more potent than in any subsequent generation, not to mention the steadily increasing usage of moves that can induce freeze.
Tagging Zarel so that he can implement Freeze Clause Mod in GSC at his convenience.