Okay, it looks like some people here are getting irritated over what I said so I would like to shed light on a few statements I made before and after the tournament. ;)
Is this on purpose that the title of the Thread do mention an English winner without mentioning that the Masters division was won by a French man ?
Froggy25, a Frenchman, created this topic, just have a little patience until he updates the topic's title. Bharmmalm was probably entered into the title because a British moderator knew him and got the info that he won so I don't see where that should be on purpose if we don't even know about the identity of the winners in masters but I'll come back to that in a minute.
I mean, I witnessed a lot of "We're gonna take the frenchs' high ranking, yeah!" things, during and after the tournament, and that pisses me off to say the least.
Take it easy. Wouldn't be fun without this and a lot of people are travelling to VGCs this year anyway, just take a look at all the threads and it's also normal if participants from several nations want to win and I wouldn't mind the trash-talking anyway.
I did have the feeling that foreigners thought they were above french people last saturday. When a Spanish, English or whatever gets haxxed, it's pure haxx, but when it happens for a french it seems it's a lack of talent or something. I personally think some people should be more humble.
Well, just look at the finalists' teams and how they played in the final, I felt as if they were taunting me. xD Anyway, I told you about how trash-talking is normal (and fun :P) before those events and you shouldn't be so serious about it, I definitely didn't think I was above anyone, be they French, British or Spanish or whatnot. This is Pokémon man, and especially this year it's more than ever a charade of crowning the luckiest players and not the best.
EDIT: I really don't agree. And as for the "random lurker frenchies", do I have to remind you we were in France ?
Yes, the finals were underwhelming because the finalists made so many obvious mistakes, probably because they didn't care about winning anymore and yes, nobody knows these people that got the flights, at least not on smogon which is why I called them "random lurkers" and I won't be taking this back - they used the resources that existed (smogon, skarmbliss, Pokemon Online) without contributing something to the community or even being registered on here for that matter and as long as they aren't on here they might be froggy's friends but they don't have a name here so they are lurkers by definition - or how would YOU evaluate the situation?
Well, I guess Germans had to fail in La Défense since the location is dedicated to the soldiers who defended France in the German-French war of 1870/1871 xD (Just take it easy ArcDeus :)
I'm not sure which incidents you were referring to, but, I'm sorry if I did offend, and I'm not trying to be confrontational at all with this.
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