The Champions' League Tournament

The Silver League's purpose is to both to exist as a safe haven from hacked-in Pokémon and to encourage creativity among its players. However, the Champions' League Tournament has gained a reputation to be infested with popular and OU-tier Pokémon, going against the League's philosophy. And while there exist arguments for both sides, it was clear something needed to be done; however, the current decision of denying Elite Four runs based on the general rating of the winner's team is both an opening for bias and unfair denial of passage. In lieu of this solution, Odds and I have created a potential way of both making the CLT less stagnant and introducing new Pokémon into the CLT's selection of usable Pokémon. The suggestion? Seasonal rulesets.

Springing from various VGC and SL tournament ideas, CLT Seasons would occur in time with real-world seasons (Winter, Spring, Summer, and Autumn) and bring varied rulesets each time in order to decrease the stagnancy within the game. A 1-year example could be:

December-January-February 2017/2018 CLT Ruleset:
 -Removal of Species Clause in December
 -Ginune War 1 ruleset in place for January (no claiming Legendary Pokémon, though)
 -FEBRUARY WILL NEVER HAVE EXTRA RULESETS

March-April-May 2018 CLT Ruleset:
 -No Island Deities or Ultra Beasts in March
 -Full Item clause and a 3 OU limit in April
 -No Pokémon may share a type in May

June-July-August CLT Ruleset:
 -Only Pokémon in UU or below in June
 -No Entry Hazards, Screens, Recovery (excluding items), or Protect-like moves in July
 -No Mega Evolutions, Z-Moves, or pseudo-Legendary Pokémon in August

September-October-November CLT Ruleset:
 -SEPTEMBER WILL NEVER HAVE EXTRA RULESETS
 -No set-up moves or stat-raising Abilities (including Sand Rush-like Abilities) in October
 -No Pokémon may have a stat above 120 in November

Other possible rulesets:
 -No Legendary Pokémon [all Mythical, Legendary, UB, and Tapu]
 -Mega Evolutions cannot be OU or BL
 -A team must have 1 RU or below Pokémon
 -No Leftovers, Black Sludge, or Rocky Helmet
 -1 of each Choice item is required on every team
 -No status-inducing moves [Toxic, Sing, etc.]
 -Monotype teams only
 -Anything Goes tournament
 -No Pokémon may use STAB
 -No weather or Terrains
 -etc.

In addition, all CLTs will have the top 10 most-used Pokémon in the OU tier banned from usage (Ubers tournaments, barring Ginune War ones, will also have the top 10 Ubers removed from play). This rule is not applied in February or September.

The removal of extra rules in February and September serve the following purposes:
 1) As an experiment: "Will people spam OU at the first chance they get, or be more creative due to the influence of these rules?"
 2) As a breather. We cannot 100% bar Smogon play; that defeats the purpose of SL being competitive
 3) As a test to see how players use their experience to thrive in the "official" competitive metagame

These rulesets are to help increase creativity and make CLTs more interesting to watch to the viewers on the streams and YouTube. Varying the rulesets also means the higher-skilled players will consistently come out on top while also allowing people who have strengths other than standard OU singles to have more of a chance.