And upon closer inspection, the hair almost seems to be breathing. chaos, thanks for making the time to let us interview you. To start us off, could you tell us about your life outside Smogon and Pokémon? I'm a junior in college, studying computer science, mathematics and music.
I research programming languages, partly for fun, partly for work. Ok chaos, I understand you don't like the tour banned status. But you can't just revenge tournament ban the head TD "just because".
We have an appeal process. Smogon adopted the highly popular battle simulator Pokémon Showdown, which is the source of its tiering. I am happy to speak with Chris Monsanto (chaos), the founder of Smogon, to about the early era of competitive Pokémon, the Smogon community, and its impact on the wider Pokémon competitive scene.
Is there a procedure for succession, and if not, will there be a Willy Wonka type scenario before that happens? Or is it like a Highlander situation where his successor has to behead him to take his Quickening? So, I was reviewing the Chaos folder for VGC 1760 and I noticed that IVs are not captured. Are there any particular reasons as to why this value is not captured? AMA Saturday: chaos Hey all! I'm chaos, and I own a website called Smogon. Ask me a thing and I'll answer it.
Quick background: I'm 26, and I've been playing competitive Pokemon since 2001. (Back then we used to play Pokemon over IRC! Good times.) IRL I am a PhD candidate in Computer Science, studying programming languages. Chaos has profited off people who feel empowered and enabled as moderators and administrators of a forum and/or Discord server.
Welcome to Smogon! Take a moment to read the Introduction to Smogon for a run-down on everything Smogon, and make sure you take some time to read the global rules. This Pet Mod was previously approved for Gen 9, and later for renewal by AquaticPanic and other mods (fitting image will go here) Welcome to the most recent version of Gen 9's Crossover Chaos! Where your favorite characters from video games of all sorts can enter the world of Pokemon and battle. Smogon University, commonly shortened to Smogon, is a website whose content encompasses competitive Pokémon battling.
It offers guides on battling strategies for people of different Pokémon knowledge backgrounds. The website was founded by 'chaos' (one of the developers of NetBattle) and is a considerably well-known website, visited by competitive Pokémon battling enthusiasts. Its mascot is.