JERICHO EDIT WEEK 3:
This will no longer be valid. Competitors who bring an invalid team will now forfeit the match. We strongly encourage you even if you are an excellent teambuilder or battler to share your team with your nation and have others look over it to make sure it fits the challenge. We apologize for changing things once again, but last week proved to us that this was not a good method. Please refrain from any "I told you so's". You no longer need to submit teams, but if your team you bring to battle is not fitting to the weekly rules, then you will be given the loss.
Many members have voiced concerns to their committee members regarding what happens when someone brings the wrong team to a PokeNations battle. As a committee, we had collectively decided that allowing the match to restart was the best course of action for this occurrence. However, we cannot ignore the fear that people have brought forth, in that starting the battle with an incorrect team could just be a tactic to scout the team they're facing against in order to gain a better advantage. In order to ensure that this competition is as fair as possible to all participants, the members of the committee have discussed and come up with the following solution: Every week, each battler must submit a copy of his/her/xyr team as a pastebin link to their Nation's respective committee member, or another committee member if yours is not on. In the event that a wrong team is brought to a battle, the battle will restart immediately and both teams will be carefully checked against the pastebin version, to ensure that nothing has been changed to gain an unfair advantage. This new policy will go into effect immediately, starting with Week 2 of PokeNations. We hope that this will assuage some of your worries and bring the focus back to having a fun, friendly community competition. Best of luck to those of you who have yet to battle this week, and good luck to all participants in the upcoming weeks!