SV: Ajna vs TheFranklin - both have been having great tours, and i would say franklin's has been more impressive considering he's in bo3, but ajna is at his best in situations where he absolutely has to win. the technicians seemed pretty comfortable with just spamming wo-chien spikes last week, and it did work very well for them up until the ajna vs sufys game; to me this shows the pranksters have what it takes to adapt to a very rapidly changing metagame and punish their opponents if they ever feel too comfortable, which is very important here. however, i think the pranksters also have a tendency to overcook at times (hecid), or instead fall into very similar building patterns (pads gapdos + scarf fez, still using leechtect chien in may 2025), which is kinda how they got punished pretty badly last week. i still trust ajna more as a player though, as long as he doesn't get too wild in the builder and franklin doesn't get too lucky
ORAS: Chaitanya vs DugZa - i honestly don't think oras was the correct pick from the pranksters, but maybe they have a reason i'm unaware of. chaitanya's very good at this tier, but i'd say dugza is overall slightly better while having played more than enough oras ru. i think where chaitanya has the edge is the builder, as he's backed by feli and ajna whereas dugza has less support. he's still a good builder though, and i feel like there's only so much you can do to punish certain building patterns in this tier. but idk i don't play or build this tier much so i might be making shit up
ADV: Finchinator vs SpoiledBerries - this one reminds me of the uupl semis tb, with attribute getting slotted in adv against 7-1 xrn and funnily enough, he won. berries is currently 7-1, and finch (much like attribute in uu) has never played this tier before. also, both the uupl tb adv game and this one were scheduled to be the last game. i honestly don't have a real rational reason to be bolding finch here but there are a few parallels so, sure why not!
overall a very close tb, i'm predicting the pranksters to win but i wouldn't be surprised at any of these games going the other way. let's all just make sure we get 3 games please :))