OMG Havak you stole my spotlight j/k as I just came home and wanted to post one of the group pics, but my sis has not sent me the pic yet :(
So, I got back home from Paris 2 hours ago. Had a wonderful time there, even though I didn´t qualify for worlds.
Beat Albert in round 2 in one (which were actually two) of the arguably most controversial battles of the tournament. After the tournament I heard rumors and people told me they heard rumors about what happened, but that doesn´t matter right now. The official rules should have a clear decision for such a case, I´ll read the rules again carefully to make sure what they say about that particular situation or whether they deal with it, at all. I´ll get into more detail what exactly happened later.
Won three matches but tie-lost in round 3 to the French Blissey guy Galloks wrote about a few posts above me (his ingame name was Ken and btw. he almost won that TV battle in top 16, he froze the foe Chande but missed quite a few Blizzards alongside Sing lol). He hit 4/4 Blizzards with Blissey against me of course, one of them froze me, which proved to be game deciding, obviously. The luck equals itself out over the course of a few battles it seems, because I had some hax against Albert, but luck is a huge part of this game. But, I´d like to say that I think the third game-deciding tie rule is unfair and needs to be changed, because Blissey always wins the scenario. I´ll post more about this crazy battle I had against Ken later, as well.
I wasn´t even angry or disapppointed or anything, because the battles I had were really ridiculous, interesting and weird. Basically I was the last one to finish my pre-finalist lounge battles with the (by far) most pokémon professor involvement in the entire tourney. The thing is, Pokémon´s just a game, but becomes a serious business between hard-training pro´s that fly up to 1000 km to a qualifier. The Pokémon professor´s a cool guy and understands that, thanks for that.
My rather unique team was tested and worked quite well on PO where all I see is Zapdos, Hitmontop, Metagross etc. you can name them all, but sadly I faced none of those three in any of my three rounds and all my battles were very close...this sucks a bit because in the later rounds that I saw on TV, those were the pokémon that made it and got the tickets to Hawaii.
Yep, 3 of the top 8 were Germans, 2 of the top 8 were British, 2 of the top 8 were Spaniards and 1 was Italian, but people should stop bashing the French, just imagine your national would be crowded by 30+ German, British and Spanish players who play the game at the top level, plus it´s single elimination.
Congrats again to those who made it, Martin, Yoshi, Rob & andycid.
I enjoyed the time after the tourney the most, I´m glad that I met again the people I knew from previous tournaments and many new people (mostly British), you´re all super cool. Thanks for the awesome time.
Here´s the group pics taken by my sis.
So, I got back home from Paris 2 hours ago. Had a wonderful time there, even though I didn´t qualify for worlds.
Beat Albert in round 2 in one (which were actually two) of the arguably most controversial battles of the tournament. After the tournament I heard rumors and people told me they heard rumors about what happened, but that doesn´t matter right now. The official rules should have a clear decision for such a case, I´ll read the rules again carefully to make sure what they say about that particular situation or whether they deal with it, at all. I´ll get into more detail what exactly happened later.
Won three matches but tie-lost in round 3 to the French Blissey guy Galloks wrote about a few posts above me (his ingame name was Ken and btw. he almost won that TV battle in top 16, he froze the foe Chande but missed quite a few Blizzards alongside Sing lol). He hit 4/4 Blizzards with Blissey against me of course, one of them froze me, which proved to be game deciding, obviously. The luck equals itself out over the course of a few battles it seems, because I had some hax against Albert, but luck is a huge part of this game. But, I´d like to say that I think the third game-deciding tie rule is unfair and needs to be changed, because Blissey always wins the scenario. I´ll post more about this crazy battle I had against Ken later, as well.
I wasn´t even angry or disapppointed or anything, because the battles I had were really ridiculous, interesting and weird. Basically I was the last one to finish my pre-finalist lounge battles with the (by far) most pokémon professor involvement in the entire tourney. The thing is, Pokémon´s just a game, but becomes a serious business between hard-training pro´s that fly up to 1000 km to a qualifier. The Pokémon professor´s a cool guy and understands that, thanks for that.
My rather unique team was tested and worked quite well on PO where all I see is Zapdos, Hitmontop, Metagross etc. you can name them all, but sadly I faced none of those three in any of my three rounds and all my battles were very close...this sucks a bit because in the later rounds that I saw on TV, those were the pokémon that made it and got the tickets to Hawaii.
Yep, 3 of the top 8 were Germans, 2 of the top 8 were British, 2 of the top 8 were Spaniards and 1 was Italian, but people should stop bashing the French, just imagine your national would be crowded by 30+ German, British and Spanish players who play the game at the top level, plus it´s single elimination.
Congrats again to those who made it, Martin, Yoshi, Rob & andycid.
I enjoyed the time after the tourney the most, I´m glad that I met again the people I knew from previous tournaments and many new people (mostly British), you´re all super cool. Thanks for the awesome time.
Here´s the group pics taken by my sis.
