ok so... bw predicts.
predict actually.
so, uh, let's talk about the MZ Byronthewellwell game. I don't like to critique the way people play because god knows I've made some objectively bad plays in my time, including in bw ru, but Byronthewell made what in my view are several big mistakes here. First of all, on turn five he straight up risks the game my going into a frozen smeargle on what is very obviously a SD Sceptile. Had MZ chosen to make the aggressive SD play there, he could have well lost the game, or at least been forced into trying to make awkward plays with rotom and then being in an abysmal spot versus Aerodactyl later. But that aside, he really, and I mean really sets himself up to lose to scarf durant. I don't know if it was scarf on MZ's team, but the team structure is thus that it well could have been. On turn 17 he lets Emboar take damage from the Cryo to put it in range of X-Scissor when he could have either used Sceptile if its was Physical to kill it or just gone Slowking to beat it. Then on turn 18 he lets Druddigon take a hit from the Sceptile, which probably put it in range of the durant, when all he had to do was go slowking and set up TR for the win since even ADA Sceptile can not kill Slowking without a crit (252+ Atk Sceptile Leaf Blade vs. 252 HP / 4 Def Slowking: 290-344 (73.6 - 87.3%) -- guaranteed 2HKO) assuming in this case he wasn't some crazy non max HP TR set. The endgame thus comes down to whether it was scarf durant and could connect 4 atk which is obviously in his favor, but given the way the matchup and game went sould porbably not have needed to be a factor. Now he should get credit for making some good plays, he adjusted well to an unlucky turn 1, and got the mind games around Qwilfish right. MZ played pretty well, I don't think he made any mistakes, but it was clear his team was running at a slight disadvantage here and he maybe should have tried a line of play betting of maximizing reward for his opponents choke.
Ok... the um.. trace Lep game. So Lep gets mad respect for basically refusing to ever diverge from his standard build and continuing to pull out wins. Trace didn't play the game poorly, but uh, brought basically a terrible team matchup, which is pretty bad considering how predictable Lep teams are. Scolipede is probably a decent pick, but going heavy on physical breakers versus someone who loves to spam Alomomola and Rhydon is questionable. They did have a specs Slowking which could have put in work, but is just way to slow a choice for the team they brought which didn't really have any cobbled together defensive synergy. So... yeah. Could be just a fluke but that wasn't great in the end.
So who will win... I'm going to go with Byronthewellwell, because despite making some bad errors in their game, the team they brought was at least a sound choice, and they did make some good plays during the game. Hopefully the final is a good one!
(4) The Nav Fan Nidoqueens vs The S-Rank Vileplumes (4)
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(4) The Nav Fan Nidoqueens vs The S-Rank Vileplumes (4) 
