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I'd like to change my name to "ego". While I have some nostalgia for this name that I picked when I was 13, nobody can actually remember how to spell it and any short forms get confused with another user. Looking for a shorter name that's a bit more closely connected with my real name. Name is...

Good idea, time to make a big post :)) MichaelderBeste2 has entered a tie for 7th all-time with three individual tournament finals. This tie contains an illustrious group, bringing Michael into a draw with, among others, top 10 all-time players BKC, Tesung and Tricking. However, the name in...

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To specify for anyone interested, I'm pretty sure the first time SubTectDD Kyurem showed up was week 9 of SPL this year (I guess theoretically someone could have brought it to seasonal or something first, I have no idea and don't really feel like scrolling through replays to check). Disscratch...

Okay, I want to highlight something really important, which is that you're very correct that "uncompetitive" gets thrown around a lot in tiering discourse and rarely gets defined precisely, and so I agree with you that talking about a Tera Blast ban on the basis of being uncompetitive is...

Given that Finch and leng loi are the only SPL players to make a post either here or in the Policy thread and the only other tournament players to post did so in favour of Tera Blast (in conjunction with the middling survey results) it does seem like the proposal is dead in the water so there...

Making the kind of post that I would have appreciated as a spectator with very little first-hand memory of past tours, because considering the massive amount of effort it takes to qualify for this tournament it's kind of a shame that the Slam playoff threads rarely have good posts talking about...

My two favourite things are digging through stats and ranking things in list format so without further ado, here's Hall of Fame Watch WCOP2025 edition! 17 players are looking for their first Smogon trophy with this tournament: - US West: Attribute, PZZ, Ruffles, Frito, vivalospride, Kustavan...

Great run by a great player! Some records to contextualize this achievement :)) With this, Santu becomes the 16th player to pick up his second individual trophy (17th if you count Frontier I guess). The 15 to do it before him aren't exactly the consensus top-15 of all time, but it's not far...

Wanted to put together some stats about all-time quarter/semi/finals appearances in individuals, because the existing stat sheets for individual tournaments are pretty out-of-date except for the recent (excellent) Tour Playoff Appearances and Classic Hall of Fame sheets. Figured now that we're...

But that's the point! If you can't come directly in on hazard setters, then you're going to have to play at least a bit of the game with hazards up. That can be fine, and it can also take certain team members out of the game if you really need hazards off. Sure, you can say "don't use sets that...

Having played around with both Levitate and Gas :Weezing-Galar: for a bit now, there's actually something I want to mention that I feel has gone a little underdiscussed. I used to be a bit of a Neutralizing Gas hater before I used it, because it never felt particularly good when I played against...