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Playoffs Smogon Grand Slam V - Playoffs [Won by Ice Tea]
- Thread starter Vinc2612
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1/ PDC vs 8/ .CarloO~
2/ Ciele vs 7/ Rodriblutar
3/ DennisEG vs 11/ Hack
4/ Vinc2612 vs 12/ Ice Tea
2/ Ciele vs 7/ Rodriblutar
3/ DennisEG vs 11/ Hack
4/ Vinc2612 vs 12/ Ice Tea
PDC straight up better than mexbrother Carloo, expect him to snag some competent team and groove some wins out in a close one
Ciele seems to always come prepared even in formats one might not picture him as all-too-competent in so taking him over a bit of an oddball in Rodri
Hack finds a way to win a lot of games, not only in Ubers, while Dennis is making gains everyday and shows that with his 3 seed rep, gotta go w/ old reliable Hack tho in my fav series
Vinc is the host with the most and Icey Tea is due to get unlucky (cwl) so that'll happen bop
Rooting for PDC and Hack to win!_!
Ciele seems to always come prepared even in formats one might not picture him as all-too-competent in so taking him over a bit of an oddball in Rodri
Hack finds a way to win a lot of games, not only in Ubers, while Dennis is making gains everyday and shows that with his 3 seed rep, gotta go w/ old reliable Hack tho in my fav series
Vinc is the host with the most and Icey Tea is due to get unlucky (cwl) so that'll happen bop
Rooting for PDC and Hack to win!_!
1/ PDC vs 8/ .CarloO~ - PDC is realy good, but I have a feeling that Carloo is going to win this
2/ Ciele vs 7/ Rodriblutar - Close one
3/ DennisEG vs 11/ Hack - Dennis is really good oo
4/ Vinc2612 vs 12/ Ice Tea - Really close one, but ict is (imo) better overall, and sorry again for being a dick and ruining your Grand Slam run :/
2/ Ciele vs 7/ Rodriblutar - Close one
3/ DennisEG vs 11/ Hack - Dennis is really good oo
4/ Vinc2612 vs 12/ Ice Tea - Really close one, but ict is (imo) better overall, and sorry again for being a dick and ruining your Grand Slam run :/
Vinc vs ict wins it all but I wouldn't be surprised to see PDC or especially Ciele to bring it home
1/ PDC vs 8/ .CarloO~
2/ Ciele vs 7/ Rodriblutar
3/ DennisEG vs 11/ Hack
4/ Vinc2612 vs 12/ Ice Tea
C/p the pairings for easy tags
Current bans are in effect. I know tiers used to be locked in the past for the duration of the playoffs, but it has not been a thing for the two previous editions (outside of recreation).
2/ Ciele vs 7/ Rodriblutar
3/ DennisEG vs 11/ Hack
4/ Vinc2612 vs 12/ Ice Tea
C/p the pairings for easy tags
Current bans are in effect. I know tiers used to be locked in the past for the duration of the playoffs, but it has not been a thing for the two previous editions (outside of recreation).
Mazar
Banned deucer.
1/ PDC vs 8/ .CarloO~ - carloo is crazy in terms of teambuilding and although i think pdc is more versatile I would say Carloo wins this because he would be a typical gslam-top4
2/ Ciele vs 7/ Rodriblutar - Actually dont know his opp, but Ciele will be hypermotivated to get the trophy one more time
3/ DennisEG vs 11/ Hack - as he helped me preparing for bouff last year I'm glad to see him in top 8 this year. hope you make it and i would consider you as more calm and experienced in your battles than dennis
4/ Vinc2612 vs 12/ Ice Tea - yup here it ends
2/ Ciele vs 7/ Rodriblutar - Actually dont know his opp, but Ciele will be hypermotivated to get the trophy one more time
3/ DennisEG vs 11/ Hack - as he helped me preparing for bouff last year I'm glad to see him in top 8 this year. hope you make it and i would consider you as more calm and experienced in your battles than dennis
4/ Vinc2612 vs 12/ Ice Tea - yup here it ends
Won 3-0 vs ciele, ggs there were intenses games.
Thanks to Lcans(Uu prodigy), Carloo(te espero en semis), Lednah(Thansk for the team), the50mph(Best Pu player) for all yours help and people that cheered me, especially Troskuanen <3
Thanks to Lcans(Uu prodigy), Carloo(te espero en semis), Lednah(Thansk for the team), the50mph(Best Pu player) for all yours help and people that cheered me, especially Troskuanen <3
won 3-0, eh not much to say LC was clean and a serious close series, got bunch of crits in pu and got outplayed so shouldnt have won that, uu was kinda even scald crit made it a bit harder but i got rewarded by dodging a gunk and therefore won. intense series man bunch of respect for u and im happy i could beat you. thanks to Anty, Star. for the lc and pu building and s/o to the people that passed me teams for the other games love you all would never make it that far without ya'll. shoutout blunder for being on a family walk and yet rooting for me and spamming chat =]
GGs
GGs
Won pu and ru, then it went downhill, ggs. Every game was pretty good though. I never really expected to make it this far- although I was highly motivated to go for it early on most of my open runs were cut short. When I won ubers open I saw this playoffs as a bonus, and I surely got to play a bunch of fun games.
Thanks to everyone in the slammers convo, especially TonyFlygon Pearl Kushalos FLCL Ice Tea rozes 49 Mambo who together provided most teams I tended to use a lot throughout my run. Also thanks to ZoroarkForever forever for the lc team this round.
ice tea wins this though
Thanks to everyone in the slammers convo, especially TonyFlygon Pearl Kushalos FLCL Ice Tea rozes 49 Mambo who together provided most teams I tended to use a lot throughout my run. Also thanks to ZoroarkForever forever for the lc team this round.
ice tea wins this though
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lost to carloo, ggs
a quick note:
i haven't had fun with this game in a very long time. and you would think, knowing me, after a loss like this i would just up and quit for 2 weeks again until the next tour comes around. but i have to say, that isn't the plan this time...
i'll restate it, i haven't had any enjoyment of playing this game since i lost to mcm in 2015, and that is a damned long time ago. as a result, my skills have been slipping (see: wcop / olt / uu + lc of this series) and i really haven't made any effort to turn that around. i stopped uploading on youtube, and all of the other stuff that i used to do on smogon frequently. my anger towards this game (and people) also grew higher, especially when i get lucked.
but i have to say, starting with PU i felt something different. i felt like i actually wanted to play the rest of the game out instead of just clicking the next move. instead of just setting up on what is in front of me, i actually thought about what i was going to do in the next 5, 10, whatever turns for the first time in quite awhile. aside from the ignorance of calcs in nu, i think those games actually turned out rather well for me.
i don't know, maybe i'm just finally delirious from playing for so long, but i have to say, that was an actually good series and i don't care that i lost, because i think i might have won back something much bigger.
thanks to:
teal6
bouff
fv
ict
evan
rozes
pearl
starmaster
teddehh
shake
pocl milotics jaja
and everybody else who i stole teams from this open, tested with me, and had a few laughs as my idiocy and ignorance of the tier along the way.
i guess this means....see you in spl?
a quick note:
i haven't had fun with this game in a very long time. and you would think, knowing me, after a loss like this i would just up and quit for 2 weeks again until the next tour comes around. but i have to say, that isn't the plan this time...
i'll restate it, i haven't had any enjoyment of playing this game since i lost to mcm in 2015, and that is a damned long time ago. as a result, my skills have been slipping (see: wcop / olt / uu + lc of this series) and i really haven't made any effort to turn that around. i stopped uploading on youtube, and all of the other stuff that i used to do on smogon frequently. my anger towards this game (and people) also grew higher, especially when i get lucked.
but i have to say, starting with PU i felt something different. i felt like i actually wanted to play the rest of the game out instead of just clicking the next move. instead of just setting up on what is in front of me, i actually thought about what i was going to do in the next 5, 10, whatever turns for the first time in quite awhile. aside from the ignorance of calcs in nu, i think those games actually turned out rather well for me.
i don't know, maybe i'm just finally delirious from playing for so long, but i have to say, that was an actually good series and i don't care that i lost, because i think i might have won back something much bigger.
thanks to:
teal6
bouff
fv
ict
evan
rozes
pearl
starmaster
teddehh
shake
pocl milotics jaja
and everybody else who i stole teams from this open, tested with me, and had a few laughs as my idiocy and ignorance of the tier along the way.
i guess this means....see you in spl?
Won in 5, extremely close series, ggs
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-uu-204212
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-lc-204214
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-pu-204215
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-ru-204216
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-nu-204223
S/O Lcans Rodriblutar for the amazing UU team and DennisEG for support, ty bro
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-uu-204212
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-lc-204214
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-pu-204215
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-ru-204216
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-nu-204223
S/O Lcans Rodriblutar for the amazing UU team and DennisEG for support, ty bro
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