@flash
I think I don't have your match recorded. From Madrid I only have 3 or 4 matches from round 3 and thanks to Burger King only having one person serving that enormous line, I only have one semifinal and the final.
As for hax, I can't actually blame nothing. Last year I got incredibly lucky at London starting first round when a Dark Void from a level 1 Smeargle missed both my Pokémon. And then, as everyone there saw, my top 16 battle was won due to a double protect, again, against a MOLF team. I could have won that battle without the need of the double protect, but due to my inexperience, I had to resort to luck, and it went in my favour. Of course, I wasn't all that satisfied facing two MOLF teams when my anti-MOLF team was on the bench, but I thought that team wouldn't be that popular, and went with my other team. Luck let me pass through to top 8.
This year, in Birmingham I fell for a painly obvious Destiny Bond trick. I think I could have won if his Gallade hadn't critical hitted my Lapras with Leaf Blade, but you can't be always sure of this stuff. In Lyon I discovered that I was extremely unprepared for Smeargle. It didn't help that my Pokémon sleeped every turn until they fainted (I think my Dialga slept the entire 4 turns), but maybe I wouldn't have won anyway. In Madrid, if my Metagross had hit with his Meteor Mash and hadn't gotten burned, maybe I wouldn't have lost. Maybe I would. Who knows :P ?
In the end, I don't know if I got unlucky this year, or just got begginer's luck last year.
Luck will always be a problem in single elimination. Of couse, since this is an anual tournament, there is always next year, and I assume that good players will consistently place higher. I wasn't angry that I lost, and got to meet many players. Hope to see you all next year. Maybe I won't be going to as many qualifiers as this year, but we'll see :P .
And I think I'll be making a warstory. Not many battles to warstory, so it might be small :P ...
EDIT: And congratulations to the winners. Hope you fare well in Hawaii :) .