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US Regional Qualifier - Dallas, TX, May 29, 2010 - WON BY JGILES
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Yeah. I think I talked to the guy that beat you. Well I at least talked to a guy with a nats shirt. He is a smogoner, but his name escapes me. You must have lost right when I did, because I watched him enter the finalists lounge after I was walking away from loosing.
Totally an awesome battle, loved watching it in person. You switched out so many times lol. At least one switch every turn almost, though you got a 4-0 win so it worked. Congrats!
Yea that's what I thought while watching your battle. My friend and I were saying "oh man, he's got this won" but then Crunch came instead of EQ and our mouths dropped lol. It's really unfortunate but those mistakes do happen. In 3 of my battles, I accidentally used Fake Out instead of some other attack. I finally started paying more attention in the 4th round...only to lose :/
ANYWAY, you did good :D
The only thing in my team that could take Kyogre on was Tangrowth in the sun (I plan to remedy this by Nationals). I played too conservatively and missed my chance on the first turn, expecting a Fake Out. Then he just stayed one step ahead of me for the rest of the match.
Yeah, I think so. The matches went by so fast that I can't really remember the specifics of any of them, though. Good game, regardless.
I won Junior 1st place at the Dallas VGC. I coan't believe I talked to and had a picture with Marriland! That was an awesome experience. I advise anyone who wants to go to a VGC, go. It's an awesome experience. You never knoiw when you're going to win big.
I made Top 8 with a Trick Room team... Actually, I was the guy that held up the finals for a bit after that battle with the stalling Blissey.
Totally owned. Good example of controling the weather.
The stupid mistake at the start if he had Power whip on Tangrowth and it was faster than Kyorge thanks to the sun, but he got scared of the Fake Out for no reason.
Oh, that guy! I remember you battling a Dialga. Anyone who waw a freakin awesome Shuckle and Zapdos whippin butt in Trick Room, that was me.
Yeah, except for the whole Blizzard xx Tangrowth's awful special defense xx Get Raped combo being a pretty legitimate reason to fear the Fake Out.
Someone decides to spill the guts on his team, that beat the majority of teams presented despite being Rock/Ground/SS based, and everyone goes crazy saying he's a noob and doesn't know what he is doing.
I greatly appreciate hearing these stories of how the tournament goes, but if you are beat or beat someone with a "noob team" that should not have made it as far as it did and talk about how crappy it was, that's not exactly good sportsmanship.
To make it to top 8, he had to beat likely 10 other people, and in the mix there HAD to be TONS of people packing the same team, since it swept most tourneys in Japan, and several here in the states. Since he built to counter that, he did well, and I don't think you should knock him for using a strategy that except played by him, probably wouldn't have made it past round 1.
I greatly appreciate hearing these stories of how the tournament goes, but if you are beat or beat someone with a "noob team" that should not have made it as far as it did and talk about how crappy it was, that's not exactly good sportsmanship.
To make it to top 8, he had to beat likely 10 other people, and in the mix there HAD to be TONS of people packing the same team, since it swept most tourneys in Japan, and several here in the states. Since he built to counter that, he did well, and I don't think you should knock him for using a strategy that except played by him, probably wouldn't have made it past round 1.
lol, you honestly don't expect anyone to abide by that, it's just your typical legal disclaimer in case mommy or daddy decide to sue.
Congratulations to jgiles and all the other Smogonites who participated! I really do find the Solrock/Hippo/T-tar/Regirock team very intriguing. The whole strategy where you Dig and explode with something slower (err... faster thanks to TR I guess :p), then next turn explode again with something faster before you resurface is interesting... I recall people discussing that back during JAA as a way to use the oh-so-broken Fly Rayquaza :p. Speaking of JAA, I remember someone winning a qualifier back then with a team that had a similar concept - anti-metagame with no ubers.
I'm curious as to the 510 EVs in Special Attack... what Pokémon was it? It really angers me that someone can pull something like that and eliminate good players with legit teams from the tournament before they're caught via the hack check. I never knew that they didn't do the hack check until round 4, but I suppose it makes sense; with 1280 potential competitors, there's no way they can examine each game cart individually.
I'm curious as to the 510 EVs in Special Attack... what Pokémon was it? It really angers me that someone can pull something like that and eliminate good players with legit teams from the tournament before they're caught via the hack check. I never knew that they didn't do the hack check until round 4, but I suppose it makes sense; with 1280 potential competitors, there's no way they can examine each game cart individually.
I think his mewtwo had it in speed because mine was +speed nature and 252 evs in speed with 31 ivs in speed and it outsped twice, I assumed it won the speed tie twice and got lucky. I think the dialga had it in s atk as well, but I managed to ohko with low kick (after finally waking up) before it could do any real damage on anyone. Idk for sure, and we only think thats how he hacked, he could have just poke sav'd his team, or been over by a couple of ev's. And there were more that one hackers also, I beat one in round 2.
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