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The World Cup of Pokémon 2025 - Finals
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Hosted by ken, Vertigo, Syrinix, UT, goldmason, and mimi. Also, Larry.

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Welcome to the finals of the World Cup of Pokémon 2025! Italy returns for a second year in a row, whereas US West reappears for the first time since winning in 2019 and after losing their spot in the finals last year to Italy. In this epic rematch, continuing their hot streaks for Italy are Santu, with a whopping 6-0, and Kebab mlml and zS, each at 5-0. US West's own streaks that continue to burn are Fusien, 5-0, and emforbes, 4-0. And none of the defeated SV players have been paired, potentially allowing them to go all the way. Italy is here and hungry for their second trophy, whereas US West is pushing for their third. Whoever wins will be the first repeat since at least 2020, but will that come at the cost of the relegation curse in 2026? Check back next Sunday (and year!) and see!

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US West (5) vs. (5) Italy
SV OU: TJ vs. zS
SV OU: Attribute vs. Kebab mlml
SV OU: shiloh vs. H.M.N.I.P
SV OU: emforbes vs. Tricking
SV OU: Fusien vs. Niko
SS OU: z0mOG vs. Raiza
SM OU: PZZ vs. Empo
ORAS OU: Ruffles vs. Santu
SV UU: Meru vs. Punny
SV Ubers: Frito vs. entrocefalo

The deadline for this round is Sunday, July 20th @ 11pm GMT-4.

US West (0) vs. (0) Italy
SV OU: TJ vs. zS
SV OU: Attribute vs. Kebab mlml
SV OU: shiloh vs. H.M.N.I.P
SV OU: emforbes vs. Tricking
SV OU: Fusien vs. Niko
SS OU: z0mOG vs. Raiza
SM OU: PZZ vs. Empo
ORAS OU: Ruffles vs. Santu
SV UU: Meru vs. Punny
SV Ubers: Frito vs. entrocefalo
 
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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, Aurella, Roller K, tko
- Italy: zS, entrocefalo, JUST ONE GALATINA, Laroxyl, Kibo, StepC, Pais, Going Hard

2 players are looking for their second team trophy:
- US West: :Umbreon:shiloh:Umbreon:,:Delibird:ima:Delibird:
- Italy: n/a
2 players are looking for their second trophy and first team trophy:
- US West: :Beedrill-Mega:Fusien:Beedrill-Mega:, :Iron Moth:Vert:Iron Moth:
- Italy: n/a
5 players are looking for their third trophy (third team trophy for each of them):
- US West: :Weedle:emforbes:Weedle:, :Doublade:Meru:Doublade:
- Italy: :Darkrai:Kebab mlml:Darkrai:, :Drifloon:H.M.N.I.P.:Drifloon:, :Regieleki:Niko:Regieleki:

Now for the players already pretty high up on the Hall of Fame ranking looking to climb higher:
- With an Italy win, :Raikou:Raiza:Raikou: would receive a fourth overall trophy and a fourth team trophy, entering a tie for 30th place in the Smogon Hall of Fame (accounting for the others that would move up with an Italy win).
- Likewise with an Italy win, :Sylveon:Punny:Sylveon: would receive a fourth overall trophy and a third team trophy, securing a tie for 23rd place in the Smogon Hall of Fame.
- With a US West win, :Obstagoon:z0mOG:Obstagoon: would similarly receive a fourth overall trophy and a third team trophy, also securing a tie for 23rd place in the Smogon Hall of Fame.
- With an Italy win, :Lucario-Mega:Santu:Lucario-Mega: would receive a fourth overall trophy and a second team trophy, and in one very successful stretch of a few weeks, would move up to 20th in the Smogon Hall of Fame (having entered the month in 78th place).

- With a US West win, :Throh:TJ:Throh: would receive a fifth overall trophy and a fourth team trophy, securing a tie for 12th place in the Smogon Hall of Fame. Likewise, TJ would join the club that currently consists only of SoulWind, BIHI, elodin, Tace, and as of the most recent SPL S1nn0hC0nfirm3d, becoming the 6th player to win each of Smogon's three team trophies.

- With an Italy win, :Whiscash:Tricking:Whiscash: would receive a sixth overall trophy and a fourth team trophy, entering a tie with McMeghan for 6th place in the Smogon Hall of Fame. As a neat bit of trivia, Tricking would also become only the second player to win three different trophies multiple times, a feat previously only achieved by ABR (although to foreshadow things, another player would do so as well).

- With an Italy win, :Grovyle:Empo:Grovyle: would become the first player in Smogon history to win nine trophies, adding a fourth team trophy to his five individuals. This extends his current lead for 1st place in the Smogon Hall of Fame, and would also join the aforementioned "group" of players to have won three different trophies multiple times.

Same as before, if I'm jinxing everyone at once then no one's jinxed. Good luck everyone, super excited to see the battles :))
 
I'll do my S/o here to farm reacts, i need em for this year likeshop. "Haha" also works

Llegué al team como un random de 5 posts 2 semanas antes que empiece qualys 2024, estaba emocionado y a la vez nervioso. Laddeaba un monton todos los días en SM, para preparar mi juego de main stage jugué 150 juegos usando el mismo team, todo para llegar y perder por un miss. Igualmente llegamos a cuartos donde entré de nuevo y perdí de nuevo. Todos hablaban de Chile y su sorpresivo resultado, pero me fui con el sentimiento de haber sido un carreado y tener un custom gratis.

Le metí focus a SM laddeando y jugando con Raptor un montón, pero este año no fue muy diferente el resultado. Después de todo ese tiempo y un mes antes de esta wcop me escribe Mclovin preguntandome si podía ir SV OU (Supongo que todos sabían que tan malisimo era en esta tier).
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Me voy 1-3 de esta edición (1-4 pero lleve team troll asi que podemos olvidarlo jeje) nuevamente con el sentimiento de ser un carreado pero también con la idea de que si puse de mi parte este año y no fui un extra. Quitando lo personal, fue un año buenisimo, semifinales para un país que no llega a los 20 millones de habitantes es algo inimaginable, especialmente porque se sufre buscando a gente nueva, pero los que ya están son buenisimos. También tengo que decir que no tuve mucha fé este año, especialmente después del ban del ximdiddy y azogue estando 3 metros bajo tierra y apareciendo para decir que no va a jugar, y me arrepiento de eso, si llegamos hasta acá, es porque hubo fe y esfuerzo.
Vileman Mister McLovin Lazuli Hicieron un muy buen trabajo este año, se aprecia el compromiso que hubo con el tour, sacando lo del tema personal, creo que no me arrepiento de haber jugado SV OU quitando el tema del record, fue una experiencia distinta que mirando en retrospectiva fue buena. Gracias especialmente a lazuli por spammearme juegos l
Mako Nunca habíamos hablado hasta este tour, no sé mucho de ti pero por lo que he escuchado representas a la parte más experimentada del team, gl en tus proximos torneos.

azogue No se puede explicar que es el aura sin hablar de azogue, verte revivir cada año para ser clave y dar un espectaculo cada juego que ganas es algo increible, te deseo lo mejor y ojalá revivas para el proximo año también

Mendeez No tengo mucho que decir, tuviste un buen tour y se notaron las ganas en tu canal de prep. Quizas tuve que jugar un poco más contigo pero me daba paja a veces para q mentir, gl en otros torneos.

Endill Era inevitable que hayan habido ciertos roces acá, viene Endill diciendo que quiere jugar SM y me quita el puesto, después sale que quiere sacar un tangrowth en 2025. Me acuerdo de estar hablando con peaje y decir algo como "Si este weon no sale 3-0 voy a estar emputao" en un momento que ya estaba "emputao". Al momento que escribo esto el ctm sale 5-0 ganandole hasta a Empo. Se nota que mejoraste un monton desde tus juegos de main stage hasta ahora. Gracias x soportarme y no meterme block, aunque si piensas sacar tangrowth de nuevo haré lo mismo. Suerte en SPL.

EG Jhonx~ IamLowTier Como son tiers que nunca he jugado no ayudé en nada con la prep, tuvieron un buen tour y supondré que estan satisfechos de este. Quien sabe si los vemos en SCL.

Pawchete Fue tu primera experiencia en un torneo como este y nadie te puede echar la culpa por un 0-3, fue exactamente como mi año pasado solo que no me soltaron en la jaula de leones de una, sigue asi y estoy seguro q el proximo año traerás wins.
darkman64 Quien chucha estudia pa un simse weon salte de ese liceo ahora. Quitando eso estuvieron chistosas esas ladder calls durante vacaciones de invierno, gracias por estar ahi levantando animos y sacando risas jungo con PanWithQueso

1LDK La otra cara de la moneda, el peor motivador del tour.

Ya fuera de webeo hiciste un trabajo admirable, siempre has sido el weon q me apoya en todo y la censura q te dan es la venganza de deaje

Sadlysius Bueno no tengo mucho que decir y sabes porque, espero q podamos ser equipo en un futuro y hablar.
Nemosse I should have invited you before NGL, thanks for the help even if we couldn't play much, I appreciate it.

ApacheRomero Bueno al final no terminamos preparando mucho y además porque prefiero ir comfort más que nada, gracias por estar ahi.

eldids La cabra belga se le subió el ego después de ganar $100, me cai bien y eres el mayor ragebaiter del chat, vuelve a chile traidor.

Hubo más helpers pero de eso se encargan los que estaban siendo ayudados, gracias igualmente.

Quizas se me olvida algo o alguien, lo hice un poco rápido xq tengo q irme a estudiar jasjajas. Prometo que para 2026 voy a llegar a wcop siendo alguien mucho más solido y confiable. VAMOS CHILE
 
Already dropped shotouts in our server but wanna give a public thanks to all my team for a great tournament. Hope some of my boys stop being slept on and get a shot in other tournaments (if Lazuli IamLowTier Mendeez Endill don't get drafted for SCL/SPL yall are idiots)
Personally dissapointed in my own results but oh well. Wanna at least thank KlefkiHolder for helping me with team choices and Ruffles for giving me games and also double checking my teams.
Also thanks to everyone who supported us either by rooting for us or being directly involved in our prep. Means a lot!!

Either team is a fine winner so just want to see some good games played, hf
 
US West (5) vs. (5) Italy
SV OU: TJ vs. zS - there's not much you can really take away from zS' last game but he's still on fire. Guy's like 5-0. TJ has more experience in tour finals, but I don't see zS falling victim to nerves here. Also think his brings have generally been slightly more inspired than TJ's.
SV OU: Attribute vs. Kebab mlml - Kebab has been having a really great run this tour, and it's very hard to argue with a 5-0 record. However, the more I look over his games the more I morally align myself against the brings, effective though they may be. Dudunsparce is paraslop. Frosmoth is basically Volcarona which is dishonest gaming. Pecharunt + Moltres is just evil. Goodra-Hisui...okay that one is sheist I can't complain about that. Schizo rant aside: I think he's very slightly favoured here because he's got that 5-0 momentum and playing well, but it's always hard to bold against Attribute in SV. Losing in semis doesn't take away his ridiculous sheet record in the tier, and he has previously built iconic evil-ass teams of his own.
SV OU: shiloh vs. H.M.N.I.P - Same as last week I don't really know either of these guys' bodies of work in SV OU so I'll just treat this as a builder proxy war. I think West tends towards safer, more proven structures, while Italy likes to play around a little more with compositions. Going purely off of vibes I am thinking H.M.N.I.P brings a weird Moltres-based BO that ends up lacking the damage to get past a tryhardy Ting-Lu comp from shiloh, and a Dragonite or Zamazenta ends the game.
SV OU: emforbes vs. Tricking - highlight matchup. Here's the thing, on paper I favour emforbes. He's much more deeply embedded into SV OU and is 4-0 this tour, with a quite nicely played game in semis. I bolded him for this reason. However, last week's game has revealed that Tricking is in fact active on the SV ladder, and this combined with his well-calibrated brings has given me the looming feeling that he is going to pull a Tricking's Trick and potentially get a win here. You can't count this guy out.
SV OU: Fusien vs. Niko - Niko's loss in semis doesn't really count, it happened after the series was clinched, but I'm probably bolding Fusien here anyways. He is looking much more confident than in SPL and is showing why he's the rightful winner of that 21th OST, MRP be damned. For his sake I'm hoping Niko can reassume form but this is a scary opponent to do that against.
SS OU: z0mOG vs. Raiza
SM OU: PZZ vs. Empo - this is my wildcard prediction not really based on anything solid.
ORAS OU: Ruffles vs. Santu - Santu's last few weeks have been going too well. Usually you don't win an individual and a team trophy this close to each other.
SV UU: Meru vs. Punny
SV Ubers: Frito vs. entrocefalo
 
US West (5) vs. (5) Italy
SV OU: TJ vs. zS
SV OU: Attribute vs. Kebab mlml
SV OU: shiloh vs. H.M.N.I.P
SV OU: emforbes vs. Tricking
SV OU: Fusien vs. Niko
SS OU: z0mOG vs. Raiza
SM OU: PZZ vs. Empo
ORAS OU: Ruffles vs. Santu
SV UU: Meru vs. Punny
SV Ubers: Frito vs. entrocefalo

Incoming Tiebreak
 
was asked so:

US West (5) vs. (5) Italy
SV OU: TJ vs. zS (37-63) just hard to not expect him to win. tj game vs bhkg wasn't amazing even though tj has had great games in his past. zS one of the most standout players of the tournament. pokemon is pokemon so i'll give zS a modest rounded 5/8 to win.
SV OU: Attribute vs. Kebab mlml (60-40) kebab ofc has the better record this tour, but bute's schedule has been insane and he's just obviously more proven. italy in the wcop builder is peak, but just hard to go against bute in this mu in particular.
SV OU: shiloh vs. H.M.N.I.P (51-49) yet another weird sv pull for shiloh, will favor him slightly but idk how you even call this one. pietro won a weird one, shiloh also won a weird one. have to respect shiloh has been more proven to me in mons, but feels very coinflip nonetheless. gl pietro
SV OU: emforbes vs. Tricking (45-55) no glaze but he has made most games look pretty easy. played him on ladder a few times so ik he's been active & think this should be a rlly fun one. hl of the series imo. predicting vs emi twice normally is a winning move but this wcop it's a bit surprising.
SV OU: Fusien vs. Niko (60-40) i don't think many games in this sv series has had both players have a similar record this wcop, and this mu is no different fusien has finally found himself having a good teamtour, and doesn't seem to be slowing. niko is 1-1 which is ofc fine, just hard to favor on paper vs someone having such a good tour. sheetlooking aside id favor fusien rn based on sv trajectory slightly.
SS OU: z0mOG vs. Raiza
SM OU: PZZ vs. Empo - if pzz upsets bro fist into empo they need to build him a statue.
ORAS OU: Ruffles vs. Santu - have to respect how cool of a mu this will be, even if alrdy happened. santu has just been him though.
SV UU: Meru vs. Punny
SV Ubers: Frito vs. entrocefalo - maybe i dont know ubers but feels decently close based on showings, will predict what feels like an upset.

6-3 last week, if it goes to tb feels hard to not favor italy. think 6-4ing is more important for west than it is for italy.
 
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US West (5) vs. (5) Italy
SV OU: TJ vs. zS
SV OU: Attribute vs. Kebab mlml
SV OU: shiloh vs. H.M.N.I.P
SV OU: emforbes vs. Tricking
SV OU: Fusien vs. Niko
SS OU: z0mOG vs. Raiza
SM OU: PZZ vs. Empo
ORAS OU: Ruffles vs. Santu
SV UU: Meru vs. Punny
SV Ubers: Frito vs. entrocefalo

In my head there will be a tie here, but i thought there would be a tie in the semis too, rooting for you guys Attribute Fusien Ruffles
 
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