The PokeSTEEM Battle League is challenging the Hive account@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. Those players who place within the Top 20 battlers of the week will receive the reward.

All players 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 #week6pokesteem. 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.

This Week's Tournament will be

Monotype Tournament

In a Monotype Tournament players are restricted to using Pokemon that share 1 typing. Their secondary type can be anything, an example you can have a team of flying types and some of the pokemon being normal flying, fire flying, etc.

Pokemon from the OU Tier and Below can be used, make sure to select Monotype for the format of the team. To view the Pokemon that can be used from the compatible tiers please check the links below.

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

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

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

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

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

If you need a tutorial on how to build teams on the website feel free to message Hive account@boycharlieplays he is our resident Pokemon Showdown Expert on the discord in the PokeSTEEM Battle League discord.

Or you can google it. ;) !

Elite Four Member	Current Ranking	Win - Loss (Growth)
Hive account@boycharlieplays	1	12 - 0 (0)
Hive account@pablitolaprea	2	7 - 5 (0)
Hive account@angelesanchez28	3	4 - 6 (0)
unidentifiededgyteenager	4	0 - 2 (0)

Gym Leaders	Current Ranking	Win - Loss (Growth)
dio	1	0 - 2 (0)
Hive account@lokee	2	0 - 2 (0)
Hive account@froilanbigott	3	0 - 6 (0)
Empty Chair	4	0 - 0 (0)
Empty Chair	5	0 - 0 (0)
Empty Chair	6	0 - 0 (0)
Empty Chair	7	0 - 0 (0)
Empty Chair	8	0 - 0 (0)

Trial Captain	Current Ranking	Win - Loss (Growth)
Empty Chair	9	0 - 0 (0)
Empty Chair	10	0 - 0 (0)
Empty Chair	11	0 - 0 (0)
Empty Chair	12	0 - 0 (0)
Empty Chair	13	0 - 0 (0)
Empty Chair	14	0 - 0 (0)
Empty Chair	15	0 - 0 (0)
Empty Chair	16	0 - 0 (0)

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

CLICK HERE TO GO TO JOIN THE DISCORD AND CONNECT WITH THE FIRST POKEMON COMMUNITY HERE ON THE STEEMIT PLATFORM