esche my alcoholic stepfather who drug me by the johnson to sign up to manage in the first place, glad I took you up on that one. Jumping in to keep the (rebranded) franchise in finals was a good ride and glad we teamed up to share in all the definitely all metaphorical wall punching and definitely all internal screaming through the season. Getting in the lab every week with someone in dpp is definitely always a magical experience and we didn't always see eye to eye on everything but ratio + you invented subtox houndoom + got us to not use Milotic for a couple weeks + didn't snake raichy with Dig on an Assist team. After our initial draft plans kinda fell apart mid auction I'm definitely proud of our work pulling it back and ending up with the team we did. Didn't even need the belt to get us back to work after the rough patch in the middle everyone just fuckin wanted it.
Killintime my flooping brother, was really nice finally having a good run teaming with one of my longest time friends on this site. I was incredibly sure getting you was a great investment leading up to and during the draft, so much so that esche and I literally stunted our early draft when we got upbid to make sure we got you. Having esche getting used to your Built Different™ clause made for some of the best interactions on our team. In all seriousness you have one of the most unique general takes on mons in general I've seen in my time on smogon, and using it as a weapon to strike fear in to the hearts of the ORAS pool every year is a great time, glad you were churning out wins for us. And have some confidence dude the thought of playing you literally makes pak and garay shit their pants LMAO
pdt you proving the haters wrong all season had to have been the absolute highlight of this entire tournament. Fuck It Bo3 Pdt was but a meme between esche and myself for quite a while but in retrospect I am super happy we went all in on that gamble. You absolutely killed it and were the absolute cornerstone of our team both for environment and getting as far as we did, keeping everyone in a good mood and motivated on top of the goldmine of logs you left us throughout the season. As you did say after semis, we did get a lot closer over this tour and I genuinely hope we get to team again sometime hopefully soon, just sucks that your price is gonna be astronomically higher than the absolute steal we got you as this tour. Gotta say you have a great mentality for this game that helps you go this far, and it was a nice foil to my permanent doomer mode all season (read: year, eternity, etc). Hope you get to pull up in some bigger stuff like WCoP and SCL soon like you said you wanted to, you definitely deserve to have a shot up there in them Viable Tiers.
Snowy :ojama: you really got like an entire third of smogon mad with the most committed larp in history
Thank you for giving us minions your blessing as long as you did kingpin....
Actually though just like kt was nice teaming with a long time friend, even if I was planning on just keeping you as a sub until things went pretty poorly for us in current gen. I really do feel awful about subjecting a friend to SS UU against their will LMAO but I'm quite glad you stepped up for us and led us to a couple dubs after I slobbered all over my keyboard into an 0-4. Shiba sending me a pm of "get snofu the beatdown ong" was highkey the best advice I've taken in many months
Amukamara another goddamn GOAT. Don't exactly remember when you decided to randomly pick up BW but you've murdered the pool every time and of course this was no different. I've personally never been able to make sense of that clusterfuck of a tier so I always find it really damn impressive for someone to be so consistent with it and always love to see it when it's you carrying our asses all season. You're also a guy I feel like I've gotten to know a lot better over the course of this season and was glad to have you partake in our barclay boomer call culture through the season.
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The Strap glad you stuck around in the chat even though you were super tilted out of mons, your blessing got us all the way here. You and I teaming for things now has a 2/3 record of miraculous playoff runs, kinda starting to see a sign here........ Your daily @ everyones were crucial to our success as usual despite what Cora may tell the world
Fakee glad we picked you up man, I regret not subbing you in sooner, your record woulda definitely reflected how well you really did here and I'm sure the luck woulda evened out over a whole season. You actually played your ass off every damn game and made the most dire matchups and luck come down to some super close games that were literally a crit or double tect away from being won. Anyone would be dumb as bricks to underrate you after actually taking a look at your performance this tour. Once you're not held back by my shitty SS support capabilities I know you'll be fire
Corazan I know this wasn't really Your Tour but I still enjoyed having you around a lot man. You're a lot better as a player than these results would suggest and yknow everyone eventually has these kinda tours eventually. Still after all that you did win for us when it really mattered and did a decent job of turning the 0-2 start around. My one regret is not swapping you into SS when I could tell you really wanted to, the true destination of all French players, where you definitely woulda done better than me at least. Will remind myself of the Laws Of The Universe next time.
Torchic yet another goat who had a really rough start to the season and completely turned it around. 0-4 is a really tough start to mentally recover from but even in your losses you were still playing your ass off and as soon as you started getting some good matchups you stomped everyone when it really mattered. The adaptation you made from RBY to GSC was perfect as the season went on and hopefully people put some respect on your name for some other old gens, I know you wanted to branch out to more of them at some point. Also one of the my proudest accomplishments of the season was having you accept the dice rolls, even though you didn't really need em to start winning.
And in that vein,
Hydronics I will not lie at the beginning of the tour I was pretty unconvinced but esche stood pretty firmly by picking you up and now after this season I don't regret it either. I was pretty lost in GSC throughout most of this tour and you managed to be a massive help in that department and rly led us down the more offensive route that let Torchic start winning games. I wish we coulda given you some games yourself but shit just didn't work out that way since we kinda just ended up with a much bigger team than average. Glad we were your first team tour experience, hope it was a good one.
ProDigeZz glad we decided to pick you up as always. A couple of the games early on almost made me turn into a non-believer admittedly, but of course that was going against the natural order.... As soon as we put you back in those were exactly the kinda games I was trying to see, 3 straight super clutch wins that we really needed at the time(s), turned completely around and all played phenomenally. I know you were also pretty busy through the season with a new job and all that so would like for you to stick around for more UU stuff and team again + see you in slam playoffs this year, keep it up boss.
Plas farming ADV once again just like old times This year our prep was super lazy since all roads for us led back to Granbull Amph and Slowking and ADV in general has just been really stale as of late. But damn I didn't think going into week 1 we'd end up being the guys with 4 teams and a dream. Needless to say now but back then if there was anyone I could trust with pulling up with the same few teams all season and still getting dubs it'd have been you easily. Always a pleasure to have you around outside of shitting on Solrock as well, we should talk Smash more sometime.
Raichy I think this was actually the first time we teamed for anything official-ish, glad we finally could do it. You're an absolute machine in game and I'm super happy we got you to be our pilot for the stuff we were cooking up in DPP. Your record shoulda been WAY better too if not for the cursed ass Milotics we seemed to keep giving you on top of the unforgivable act of me snaking your epic Assist gameplay. I really dug myself a hole with that one... Fr though I hope we can team again soon, your ability to play literally anything at a high level has always been pretty damn impressive and it feels pretty good to have that on your side every week.
ez you're a pretty funny guy and was nice to have you around. I definitely blame myself for making actually playing tough on you, as I've said a million times by now I severely overestimated my ability to support SS and couldn't really get you up to speed the way I should've as a manager. Thanks for putting up with it. Praying on our opponent's downfall did work very well for us so thank you for teaching us the ways. The guy that hacked your first discord account trying to schedule with raptor for you was also one of the best moments of the season LMAO
QWILY I really appreciated how much you were just there for the team all season, from being our clutch sub several times to all the pretty scouts and all that good shit. In retrospect I shoulda had you playing more especially with how far you've been going in open now, but damn I really spent this entire season turning being indecisive into a personality trait. All the scouting and shit really kinda held us together in playoffs where I literally couldn't organize my clusterfuck of thoughts all week in a good way. Smogon needs more teammates like you man.
Armada sorry your debut went poorly but stick with it, I saw the Potential before the season and don't regret picking you up. Keep at it, you'll be getting there in due time. Literally drafted this guy because of the absolute gigachad energy of telling me I wouldn't regret picking him the day before the auction so anyone new-ish reading this wanting to get in to this tour and shit, sometimes the move is just throwing confidence at wall and hoping for the best. You can also tell I've spent too long writing this now that I'm just rambling about random shit loooool. ANYWAYS, Armada keep doing what you're doing, the first game in UUPL is a bit stressful always, you'll be killing it before long
Non team but also s/o my OTHER other long-time friend
eden for
HIDING IN UU with us and mashing test games while I wasn't around. Don't tag Ojama or talk about Riverdale challenge [IMPOSSIBLE] :eden:
TSR holy shit you suck lmfao