BREAKING NEWS
FINCHINATOR AND ANTI'S "TEAM" DISCOVERED TO BE A LIKE-LAUNDERING SCHEME
by: Merit
In the middle of the day on January 7th, Smogon Exhibition managers
Finchinator and
KratosMana stunned and infuriated many with an inscrutable draft scheme - waiting until the end to draft a total of 33 users. Many claimed that this strategy was "stupid" "bizarre" and "ruined the auction".
"[W]e already only had 6 teams, having one being a complete non factor in the biggest aspect of such a tour (the draft) is just a slap in the face" said badged user
fatty and many seemed to agree with him. Manager KratosMana responded publicly by stating
"[T]hat was the idea since the beggining [sic] ... i was doing it in whatever next tournament i`d manage regardless"
This intrigued our reporter, who began an in depth investigation into why such a bizarre strategy would be used. Was it an expectation that all the other managers were so incompetent that they'd leave dozens of good players undrafted? Was it due to bribery from an unknown source? Was it an elaborate ghosting scheme where the managers would simply use their drafted team as puppets for the two managers to play eight games a week through?
The last seemed promising, but the real truth was revealed just recently with an influx of low effort memes of the "mareanie army" in the form of a gif of many mareanie surging onto land. The source was identified to be from the Pokemon anime.
While these sorts of things are not uncommon, it was strange how many likes each of these incredibly low effort memes was getting, at which point this reporter realized exactly what was going on. Clearly this was carefully planned out by the Mareanie management in order to launder a large quantity of undeserved likes! As many know, in team tours many teammates simply like their teammates' posts regardless of quality. By drafting the absolute largest possible pool, managers
Finchinator and
KratosMana were able to ensure a large number of likes in an attempt for manager Finchinator to dethrone
AM from his title of "Most Likes".
We are shocked and appalled at this criminal behavior, and hope that the Smogon Police will take notice and confiscate these undeserved likes.