Hello,
I would just like to, as politely as possible, say that I am slightly dissappointed with this CCAT. The beginning of this thread (See the first 2 or so pages) actually was very incredible, and is an ideal model of what should be done in a CCAT.
However, I was a little disheartened when I saw two things:
1.) The vague decision on playstyle that meant we didn't have to choose between bulky offense or hyper offense
2.) EM's suggestions were the only ones taken into account from this thread when building the team itself. Specifically, Larvesta and Staryu. I am not doubting EM's prowess as a player at all (probably the best of all LC players), but especially towards the end, there was simply some great discussion about Omanyte and Tirtouga from very good players (which actually are somewhat inventive sets), and even talks about Ponyta, who is slowly falling out of the limelight for seemingly no reason.
Then, an incomplete team of 5 pokes was posted after "some deliberation" with other people. I actually have no idea who these other people were, other than EM. I'm not trying to say that I should have been asked for my opinion or whatever, because I don't think I'm all that, I'm saying that there was some seriously great discussion that was all ignored.
Finally, and perhaps the most distressing to me, was when I simply stated I was having a tough time with the team and I was attacked because "the team is just really hard to use." Next, on irc, prem and I were discussing synergy of Snover and Larvesta (read: as a side note) and Crux got upset at me, basically telling me to stop because Croagunk was the only change he was going to consider (if I misunderstood your tone in any of this Crux, I do apologize)-- and let's not forget who suggested Croagunk in the first place.
To Crux and everyone else, just note that I am not upset at you, and do not take this as a personal attack. I would just ask that if we do this again, that some of these points be taken into account.
