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(The translation is not 100% faithful, as I’ve taken the creative liberty to fix grammar and improve the flow of the piece. The author was clearly agitated while writing this. This is a complete translation of yiyueweiming 's post)
Debunking rumours, the
end summary of cnpl, and the reason I’m
abhorred in rage , including doubt in the host’s
ability to pick selection of competent captains.
First off, I’ve never apologised for the animosity between me and my captains. At that time my decision to keep things quiet was out of respect for the tour and my teammates’ hard work; to reduce negatively impacting their performance. As my team is now unable to make the playoffs, I have discarded this notion, and am here to lay everything on the table.
The following content will not include logs, reason being no one hopes their logs will be under public scrutiny without providing approval first hand. I can, however, assure that everything I’m about to say is objectively sound, and
nothing hyperbolic with malicious intent.
There are three types of people that I don’t like:
1. People who have double standards - strict on others but switching the narrative when the same situation is applied to oneself.
2. People who have no skill, yet want to be the “big man”. Maintaining this facade, only to have zero responsibility or integrity, a deserter so to say.
3. People who are inept at Chinese
（language and literature).
Unfortunately and regrettably, my captain UnownDragon
(UD) happens to fall in all three categories seamlessly, being excruciatingly obvious to bystanders. Hence, when you (UD) said to my face that my EQ is low, I’m not mature enough, and even acted as a helpful mediator, I couldn’t help but be amused. The most important duty of an adult is to have a sense of responsibility and be dependable, and that is something you dearly lack. Therefore, I won’t talk about reason with a child, especially one who is essentially illiterate.
I think every person who’s been on a team tour with me know, I’m not someone very
demanding of strict with my teammates. I don’t like to linger on a loss, and I don’t particularly enjoy game reviewing. I even hold a sizable reputation of stopping immediate post game analysis, and people can vouch for this.
In the first week, when everything was just beginning, our gen 3, 7 and 9 were defeated. I could be remembering incorrectly and it might be more than these three; regardless, everyone who lost were our foreign friends who weren’t even in the qq1 group chat. After the losses, UD’s relentless analysis of the games were akin to Tang Sanzang2 incessantly chanting mantras. Iirc, aside from our gen 3,
everyone else was in a winning position but ended up throwing, which was especially unfortunate.
（this sentence describes gen3）Although our gen 7 and 9 players did missplay, they did also make solid decisions within their respective games. Gen 9 did not
take enough time think thoroughly with the end game; gen 7 especially played well at the end, but it wasn’t able to overturn the deficit from their misplays at the beginning of the game.
The mental state of players is something I hold in high regard, and I apply the same regard to the replays themselves.
Although I admitted that the attitude shown in week 1 was acceptable and the errors made were not egregious, my teammates did lose their games due to their blunders and deserved criticism. But when our captain UD stepped up to the plate and gave his game away, our
managers captains who dissected and chastised every single misplay were nowhere to be found - with soft whispers of encouragement and support taking their place. Such mollycoddling briefly led me to believe that UD played a fairly accurate game and merely lost due to hax until I watched the replay. I was utterly confused - others were put under the magnifying glass when they lost, but our captain, the most expensive player on the team, a person who was convinced that he had the quality to prove himself in the tournament and justify his 20k price tag, someone who has boldly stated that their exclusion on the country's WCoP squad was due to personal issues with key members of the team and they had the ability to start in any fairygen, was not only leaning onto his
co-manager assman for support after a loss, but worked in tandem to absolve himself of any responsibility for his misplays. I could understand unconditionally3 supporting someone, but doing so for an uncouth man4 perplexes me. Nevertheless, I held my tongue and merely pointed out that luck was not the only reason for his loss, but mistakes happen and he should simply focus on avoiding the same mistakes next week.
Unfortunately, this was only the beginning.
In the second week our captain - the 20k and highest costing player on our team - once again demonstrated that skill of his that he believes is enough to make him a gen 9 OU starter for team China. His opponent was someone who he completely
disregarded looked down upon, a sub newbie 3k pick. Here is the replay:
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9ou-2297375182-dcfc21ntmnc1llmwghsqj82u0k0hmtepw
Sure, the plays were ugly, but everyone has their off days. That’s when something unbelievable happened. My captain UD was tilted because he played incorrectly and got his game critiqued afterwards. The confident self pick was now 0-2. His method of tilting5 was not “just you wait, I’ll prove myself next week”. Rather, he disregarded the fact that he took 20k of the points of the team to draft, the fact that his drafting required the most resources out of anyone on the team, his previous boastings, and in front of such an obstacle declared “my motivation is gone, my motivation is gone, I can’t play anymore”, and subsequently subbed himself.
I cannot believe this is a captain, a self-declared WCOP caliber player who is targeted by the community, and someone who wants to start his own dynasty to rise above the animosity towards him within the Chinese community’s actions. I myself have been the highest costing player on a team, and obtained a shitty record of 0-3. I know exactly what that kind of shame and dissatisfaction feels like. Everyone who I know is close to or above me in skill share the same sentiment. It’s fine to lose, but you’ve had your team’s trust and taken the team’s resources. Unless
something irl incidents occurs where you can’t actually play, it’s a disgrace to deliberately ask for a sub. But UD, without any shame, with the same ease as drinking water or breathing air, committed this exact act. My
vice-captain assman followed along, proceeding by finding an opportunity to attack me, the blasphemous who dared to review UD’s games. Completely disregarding the fact that UD threw way harder than the foreign teammates, and sticking up for UD. Please don’t try to deny this, because when you guys get mad you say the exact same thing:
UD: “So I should just fuck off right?”
Kanzaki: “So I should just fuck off right?”
It’s fine, sticking up for a friend with zero principle is still a lot better than two pussies6. You’ve also received higher education, so you shouldn't be using such uncultured vocabulary like “nmsl”7. It’s uncouth, and you’re stooping to a lower level.
Just like that, my captain decided to sit on the bench and comfort himself, along with whitewashing the narrative and switching up his logic. How your price doesn’t dictate how good you are, how you haven’t played too many smogon tours, how expensive players going negative is an everyday occurrence…..haha. I of course know one’s records don’t reflect one’s skill completely. The game inherently includes variance. Looking at all the great players, I wonder which one can, because of feeling a bit down, have the audacity to ask publicly in the team chat to sub out, just to save face. I don’t think there is any now is there? Looking at some other players in just cnpl, a lot have had horrendous starts. Unlike you, however, they pressed on, adjusting their attitude, playing week after week until their team no longer had
faith hope in them. If your price doesn’t reflect your skill and your responsibility, then why did you spend 20k on yourself, and not 3k? Just ask the hosts for a refund; “I don’t know how to play, and unlike other captains, I’m not worth 20k.”
I told my friend before our team was quite strong, and had a chance. My friend never understood what grounds I have to declare such a thing. I can now tell you all, that under my captain’s leadership, it’s no accident that our team’s bench’s total worth reached upwards of 50-60k in the most egregious week; however, the 20k sitting on our bench was not there because of irl reasons, because they had health issues, but because they needed time to feel better…..oh. Still, our team didn’t crack previously, only being a few points down, even winning the week with 50-60k on our bench or something iirc. Anyways, if we were to count up the scores, the best performing are usually the cheaper players, exemplifying the idiom “价廉物美”8.
In a total of seven weeks, the 20k player who was robbed of his spot on the wcop team, who wanted to use cnpl as an opportunity to prove himself, captain unowndragon, to feel better about himself, subbed himself for two weeks and went 1-4 in the remaining five. Choking one game each in gen 7 and 8, and two games in gen 9. I didn’t watch his final game, but in the four weeks he lost, there were always very clear misplays. He went from wanting to prove himself initially, thinking he was a strong contender, to having such a run. I’m finally done with having such a captain.
I also have to apologize to my teammates. Whether you like me or not I don’t know, I’m admittedly a bit strange, and
if whether you can tolerate that is left to fate. I didn’t play well in the last few weeks, having clear differences in piloting. It’s my fault that I couldn’t wrap up games I was meant to win, and I shouldn’t have allowed anything outside of the tour to affect my performance. I’m not a hypocrite who only criticizes others, the reason why I ignored UD is because I didn’t believe he had the right to scrutinize my play. Whether it comes to in-game performance or otherwise, normally I should have been able to do better, and I’m ashamed and have learned my lesson. I will do better in my next tour. I can however guarantee you all that aside from the final week, I’ve put in at least 100 games worth of testing into each team I loaded (aside from the sun team). All of my alts sit at around 1500-1670, and I for sure did not just load random teams.
I can even put in this much effort for gen 9 UU, so if someone really wanted to win in gen 9 OU, then it shouldn’t be that hard for him to come up with a replay that isn’t difficult to watch.
To my
brother Sealife: I was wrong about saying the reason you were benched was because you had a weak mentality and were under UD’s guidance. My bad, I shouldn’t have spoken without getting confirmation.
1. Chinese messaging service, think of it as chinese discord
2. Tang Sanzang is a monk who achieves enlightenment in the Chinese classic Journey to the West. His chanting subdues Wukong, the monkey king, as it tightens a band around his head
(I would rather describe him as Chatot)
3. The Chinese term that yiyue used mainly serves as a jab at a person's lack of morals or lacking in principles.
4. Literal translation is 'rough', the lack of refinement implied cuts a lot deeper in Chinese as education and self-refinement is what separates a person from a beast in traditional Chinese culture.
5. Literal translation is more flustered/tilting
6. Literal translation is ‘deserters’, meaning coward or the chosen word
7. Stands for 你妈死了, or your mother is dead, a standard Chinese insult online
And 你妈死了 means 'your mother is dead'
8. Means cheap
and but high quality
shoutout Slowpoke Fan for helping with the translation
