Elo Bandit I still have no idea what spurred you to draft me last year. I still also have no idea what spurred you to start me every year last year over Sky of Doom. Honestly, even though I have no idea what was going on there except for me being super active, I would have not gotten anywhere near where I am as a player without you, so thanks so much for everything. You're also someone who I consider one of my closest friends in the community, so additional thanks. Sucks that we couldn't clutch it out though, but I'm incredibly lucky to be friends with you.
Murman We really need to play unite more often... Anyways, thanks for always being the pillar of the team, both this time and last time. It's been quite a weird time lately, and similarly to what I wrote in the Bandit shoutout, I have no idea why you decided to draft me last year. You're still like, one of my closest online friends and even as I step away from playing in as many tournaments going forward, I hope we can still be friends with Unite and stuff.
Urfgurgle Sparing you the triple ping this year, but I know that the season didn't really go how you wanted it to. I consider you the person who really taught me how to play 1v1, and you're an amazing player and an awesome person to boot. Reading how in depth your prep notes were was absolutely amazing, and really showed me how much I had to grow as a builder throughout the season. I still have a lot of work to do to catch up to you for sure! Thanks for all the help throughout the season, and also that Iron Treads is not good it has a weird threatlist. I know I liked it after I first built it but it's not a good Pokemon idk why you like it so much.
AlyssaVGC The fact that the teams you built in 30 minutes before a series carried me throughout the entire season because I reused the absolute life out of them is amazing to me. You're such a talented builder, and it still shocks me that you didn't get drafted. Actually, I'm quite glad you didn't get drafted cause idt I would have gone undefeated without you. We've known each other for quite a while now and you're genuinely my closest friend at this point, so I'm glad that we were able to prep together and stuff throughout the season. Also, thanks for helping me calm down when my anxiety was getting the better of me so many times throughout the season, and dealing with me while I was going through the craziness that I was going through irl. It genuinely means so much to me to have you as a friend and I really hope that we can continue to be friends going forward.
Itchy We've known each other for what, four or five years now? God that's terrifying. You're like one of my oldest friends on the site in general, and I'm so happy that we've been in touch for so long. You've always been there for me when I was figuring shit out, and talking to you always lets me recenter in a way that I don't think I get with anyone else. Anyways though, I'm challenging you to more Wikipedia speedruns those things are so fun what the heck... I know the season didn't really go too well for you either, and sorry that I didn't help out too much with BW prep this year, I really wanted to but the combination of being busy irl and having motivation and burnout issues really got to me, sorry. I hope that we continue to stay friends even though I'm taking a step back from playing mons as much going forward.
Bernian Despite what you think sometimes, I think you're a fantastic player. I know that burnout hit you really hard throughout this PL and stuff, so I was just wanting to tell you that you're a lot better of a player than you think you are. Honestly, you're probs a lot better in a lot of aspects of 1v1 than I am, which is honestly terrifying with how new you are to teamtours and stuff. I hope that your first team tournament experience wasn't too terrible and once again, sorry for not helping out as much as I probably should have with prep.
Career Ended holy shit you're the goat and probably the Barraskewdas' worst nightmare. Playing 1v1 with you this season was a lot of fun, and you always bring so much fun to teamcords and all! If I come back to playing tournaments and stuff one day, I hope that I'll be able to team up with you again. Maybe I pick up OMs one day, who knows! Anyways, please don't use triple arrows again in STABmons seasonal I might actually cry.
Lucario I've known you for super long now as well, and I know that you've grown increasingly jaded with 1v1 as a whole throughout this tour, sorry about that. Sorry that we didn't really start you too much this season either. Thanks for always being there for me, whether it was after my less than amicable exit from the Trivia room or with all the help you do with C&C and stuff. I'm super glad that I'm friends with you, and good luck with your NU endeavors as well!
Close Sorry we couldn't get the chip this year, I know you really wanted this one. I didn't get to talk to you too much this season because we play pretty much mutually exclusive tiers, but your games are always amazing to watch. Going 4-1 is really cool as well, thanks for all your contributions throughout the season, such as all the SS prep you did when we had to sub Career Ended in against Potatochan and all the team checks you did for Bandit in various parts of the season. I'm glad that I got to team up with you!
Blurmpt Hey, I hope whatever happened irl resolves itself as soon as possible. Hope that you're doing okay and all as well. It was always fun hanging out with you in VC and stuff even though we really didn't talk about too much. You and Urf's prep sessions together were always super cool to listen in on. I hope that you're doing okay. Watching your games was also quite a lot of fun throughout the season, and I hope that I can see you continue on in 1v1 to some extent.
rumia Hi rumia you're always super chaotic and enthusiastic and stuff, and it genuinely terrifies me at times! I have no idea how you end up being upbeat all the time like what even... I'm glad we drafted you, it was really cool seeing you do teamchecks in SM in later weeks because god knows I cannot do teamchecks in any gen to save my life. Wish we still had an SM2 slot so that we could slot you more, though.
Roginald I still know like absolutely nothing about you. You're probs super busy with WCOR and stuff, which makes that super understandable, so wishing you good luck for all your randbats stuff! I hope that you continue to come back to 1v1 to play in teamtours and stuff, it's always quite nice to have you around!
Here Comes Team Charm! Thanks for the SS support throughout the season. I don't really look at SS a lot, but the whole thing where we protested discord's username rule change was quite fun, so thanks!
clerica Thanks for the ideas that you gave me for semis when I was running on zero, it really helped me out!
Waylaid stravench realaccountami? Eeveekid10 Kentari Thanks for joining our cord and supporting wherever y'all could, it was really appreciated!
Theia aaa forgot to add this sorry, thanks so much for hosting the tournament.
Rhyps as a whole, thanks so much for the opportunity to play alongside all of you. I'm genuinely really proud to call all of y'all my teammates and know that y'all will find your own successes in the future!!