Pokémon Online Username(s): Bluewind
Country / State of Residence: Brazilian
Nationality: Brazilian
Other Eligibility (if applicable): I wish I was from Argentina so I could play with the fantastic DarkThunder if that's possible.
Ok kids it's time I tell you the tale of an Argentinian boy that could. First of all DarkThunder is telling you his side of the story, so I might as well give you the full version. He first came into Smogon nearly demanding that Iconic (WCoP host) talked to Bloo about the creation of a team called Hispanic America (which in a nutshell was the same as Latin America), and althought he criticizes rey manners, it was obvious that he was infinitely more rude to hosts (and rey) than rey was to him. Not being able to create this team, since we are 2 weeks away from the competition, hosts decided to redirect all HA players to LA team, in which they could tryout and try to make it into the team according to their games. reyscarface told DarkThunder we'd wait for people that would go to our chat and have them battle other smogon players, who were also trying out, so we could have an idea of which players were fittest to join the team. DarkThunder then says he finds it ridiculous that he has to try out for our team given he's a "famous player, a fact that can be backed up by players from many countries". Thing is, to be very honest, I've never heard of him, just as I have never heard of many of his players bar those that also play at Smogon; and yet DarkThunder demands we take a player we all know and trust, remove him from the team and give his spot to someone we've never even seen battle, just because "we won against Oceania WCoP team", even though that match was unofficial, therefore meaning a lot of OCN players didn't go as prepared as they were when the actual WCoP was happening (also they haxed Heist like a dog but I won't go into that because I'm a salty bitch and that's common knowledge). That isn't to mention I'd never base my judgment off handpicked facts; we're looking for consistency, not punctual displays of skill. They seem to believe a direct face-off between the two teams would be great to decide the squad and fail to recognize Pokemon is a game with so many luck factors that one can't just take a single match to determine who's better. That's why we were holding tryouts the way we here, having players battle each other as much as possible to see who displays consistency and who only manages to perform well a few select times. For the record, DarkThunder did play a game against one of the smogoners trying out for LA, davidness, a game he lost, so according to their logic we should take him off the team and put davidness over him; something I had no intention of doing before giving DT more chances to show his skills; because that’s how tryouts are meant to be held. However, given the way he's handled the situation and not only refused to even show us how good he actually is, but also questioned the moral conduct of a co-captain (he thought rey wanted him to play on Groudon's Grotto so he could use mod scripts, steal his team and counterteam DT and win, thus having a reason to reject him) it’s hard to want him on the team at all.
This post looks a bit weird and too much of an explanation because I meant to post it on their forums but it crashed and I can't be annoyed to edit the whole thing. tl;dr: learn some manners, be humble and tryout like everybody else; the diva spot of the team has already been taken by AM.