Welcome to another edition to the PokeSTEEM Battle League Weekly Tournaments. It has been an amazing eight weeks at that. In this post we will be acknowledging those who have entered in our tournament for Week 8 and introducing the Week 9 tournament details.

As always we are challenging any member of 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. Players who place within the Top 12 battlers are eligible for tournament rewards.

All players and content creators 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 #week9pokesteem. 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 listed under the leaderboard section.

This Week's Tournament will be

UU TOURNAMENT

In a UU(Underused) Tournament players are battling with Pokémon that are not OU by usage and are not banned to Ubers or BL (Borderline) can be used in UU, including Pokémon from RU and NU.

In order for Players to participate in the tournament you must create teams using the Teambuilder found on Pokemon Showdown.

To view the Pokemon that can be used from the compatible tiers please check the links below.

http://www.smogon.com/dex/sm/formats/uu/

http://www.smogon.com/dex/sm/formats/ru/

https://www.smogon.com/dex/sm/formats/nu/

http://www.smogon.com/dex/sm/formats/pu/

Viability Rankings can be found by clicking this link!

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

Check out all battles using this link below to verify all wins and losses if any issues in regards to the records below please contact either @boycharlieplays or @orjesus88.

IMPORTANT NEW INFORMATION

New rules have been added in order to make things fair amongst battlers and to discourage battle spamming between two members to increase reputation and current weeks record.

Ammendment Rule #1 : Players are limited to 7 Battles with an individual player. Example. @pablitolaprea may battle @boycharlieplays 7 times.

League Standings from Week 8

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

Elite Four Member	Current Ranking	Win - Loss
@guaru	1	7 - 0 (+7)
@orjesus88	2	6 - 1 (+5)
@ersulba	3	4 - 0 (+4)
@guidom	3	4 - 0 (+4)

> Gym Leaders will receive 3.125% of the post rewards - 25%

Gym Leaders	Current Ranking	Win - Loss (Growth)
@boycharlieplays	1	6 - 2 (+4)
@shadelf1	2	4 - 2 (2)
@pablitolaprea	3	5 - 8 (-3)
@ths	4	1 - 2 (-1)
@froilanbigott	5	5 - 11 (-6)
@lokee	6	1 - 4 (-3)
@hasbydiaz	7	2 - 9 (-7)
@hunter25000	8	0 - 3 (-3)

This Week's Professor Reward goes to...

@shadelf1

We want to say Thank You again to @shadelf1 for spreading the word of our community. You will be receiving your Reward very shortly ! You deserve it!

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

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