won gg, thanks to everyone that helped, specially OranBerryBlissey10
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen8pu-865436
GO MAGS ~!
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen8pu-865436
GO MAGS ~!
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Tournament PUPL XI - Finals [Won by m.A.A.d. City Magmortars]
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won gg
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen7pu-865574
s/o avarice for making the team when I was not feeling my best, LGI ZS
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen7pu-865574
s/o avarice for making the team when I was not feeling my best, LGI ZS
gz madcitymagmortars
LETS GO MAGSSSSS
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thanks to everyone for their support especially my SV crew and my fellow managers but everyone on the mags who make it a fun place to be. The passion everyone brings to the games and forcing ourselves to get excited over a 3 month long PUPL teamtour is not easy, but it wouldn't be possible with any other team. I love you Mags, this is for you.
1gg https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen9pu-865659
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x 2 days, which equals 14, so close enough.
congrats mags! 2 wins in 4 tries and another playoff appearance! might be the most successful pupl franchise ever.
Every year I look forward to three tours in particular - MPL, WCOP and PUPL (shame that they all happen at the same time). The vibes were kinda not it this year in our MPL team despite retaining the same core, so that left me dissatisfied. WCOP ended in a heartbreak, I was personally feeling very good about my play but misfortune coupled with us not executing our gameplans perfectly meant that we got bounced out in quarters for the second year in a row. Despite being bummed by that, I made peace with the situation given I knew deep down that the whole team tried their best this time, and that there were still things that we needed to do if we wanted to go all the way. As mentioned earlier, these tours were happening in parallel, so after I was out of both I really really wanted to win PUPL. We werent doing particularly well in the tour at that point but the vibes were there, every week the villain mags were bonding together as to how we were still being predicted against and the likes. Everyone was putting in effort, and we were having fun doing so. There was also always some entertaining shit happening each week - the act call, the u-turn last resort incident etc. which made the atmosphere even more addictive. The turning point was definitely pdt crashing out in announcements mid week6, when we were down 0-5 in a must win week. We went on to comeback to tie the week and thats when I think we all started truly believing that we had what it takes to go all the way.
Everyone had their own moments where they pulled their weight for the team. Despite throwing him to the wolves all season, mielke got us a much needed early win in semis. Neomon was the team punching bag for the entire tour and his presence was enough to lighten the mood in any situation. KT's final game has G6 miami bron shaking. Andy and Skarph were so easy to work with and brought important wins (and vibes!!). The Huzz showed up and was reliable when it was crunchtime. Flampoke and Drew didnt mind putting their foot down and did whatever the team needed always. Plznostep, LpZ, DD Joe, and many others helped us at different points of the season in one way or the other, for which Im very grateful. Akir in particular carried our ass once again in bw (our record is not testament to this, if we listened to him fully we'd have fetched atleast 3 more wins). Franchise legends Gawain and Baitwiz were really involved all throughout and helped wherever they could. kyuss, you were the unseen engine that always kept us moving. It was always so fun to just pop in and see what concoction you were cooking up (and you were damn good at it too). Forever undebted to the absolute carryjob that Many put in all season - he was the method to KT's madness, he was the calm amidst the SM storm. No amount of praise can do justice to how integral he was to our team. Im convinced that pdt needs the added pressure of being the deciding game, because he ends up turning into a different beast everytime. Other than saving our season (twice), you were the biggest reason as to why our morale was always high. Drud, my brother, im so glad that we were able to get the monkey off our back from that TB 3 years ago and personally help our team cross the line (despite my constant efforts to sabotage your SS prep). The day we stopped playing retro rewind was when we got back to winning ways. Im SO happy that the 4 of us can proudly proclaim to be the winningest pu franchise oat, though you in particular still deserve to be shot for not telling me until very recently about your pet cat.
I love the Mags. Probably my favourite team to be a part of, with people Im very lucky to call my best friends. You're the best. Winning with all of you makes me genuinely so happy. Will be difficult to match this feeling, and Im grateful that I get to experience it, so thank you everyone.
Mags Forever~!
Everyone had their own moments where they pulled their weight for the team. Despite throwing him to the wolves all season, mielke got us a much needed early win in semis. Neomon was the team punching bag for the entire tour and his presence was enough to lighten the mood in any situation. KT's final game has G6 miami bron shaking. Andy and Skarph were so easy to work with and brought important wins (and vibes!!). The Huzz showed up and was reliable when it was crunchtime. Flampoke and Drew didnt mind putting their foot down and did whatever the team needed always. Plznostep, LpZ, DD Joe, and many others helped us at different points of the season in one way or the other, for which Im very grateful. Akir in particular carried our ass once again in bw (our record is not testament to this, if we listened to him fully we'd have fetched atleast 3 more wins). Franchise legends Gawain and Baitwiz were really involved all throughout and helped wherever they could. kyuss, you were the unseen engine that always kept us moving. It was always so fun to just pop in and see what concoction you were cooking up (and you were damn good at it too). Forever undebted to the absolute carryjob that Many put in all season - he was the method to KT's madness, he was the calm amidst the SM storm. No amount of praise can do justice to how integral he was to our team. Im convinced that pdt needs the added pressure of being the deciding game, because he ends up turning into a different beast everytime. Other than saving our season (twice), you were the biggest reason as to why our morale was always high. Drud, my brother, im so glad that we were able to get the monkey off our back from that TB 3 years ago and personally help our team cross the line (despite my constant efforts to sabotage your SS prep). The day we stopped playing retro rewind was when we got back to winning ways. Im SO happy that the 4 of us can proudly proclaim to be the winningest pu franchise oat, though you in particular still deserve to be shot for not telling me until very recently about your pet cat.
I love the Mags. Probably my favourite team to be a part of, with people Im very lucky to call my best friends. You're the best. Winning with all of you makes me genuinely so happy. Will be difficult to match this feeling, and Im grateful that I get to experience it, so thank you everyone.
Mags Forever~!
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Shoutout Akir and Drud for teams and tests, i was definetly going 0-9 without you two
Shoutout pdt and dj spitfire for the advice and the encouragement
Shoutout to every mag that every picked on me, it was worth it (edit) and i deserved it
And shoutout to the mags culture, it was a pleasure
Shoutout Akir and Drud for teams and tests, i was definetly going 0-9 without you two
Shoutout pdt and dj spitfire for the advice and the encouragement
Shoutout to every mag that every picked on me, it was worth it (edit) and i deserved it
And shoutout to the mags culture, it was a pleasure
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I think that tour went on for the maximum amount of weeks possible outside of a diff tie in the normal season (is that even a thing?), regardless I want to thank my managers as well as the PU community for allowing me to take part in your tier. Some shout outs just because it would feel disingenuous otherwise.
ManOfMany I have to thank you foremost for dealing with my constant autism when it comes to refusing to use standard builds. Your wealth of knowledge allowed me to go from my rocky start to one of the best oras records this pupl. Very few people are willing to humor my ideas.
Dj Breloominati♬ Ill call this even for uupl but you'll still get a passing middle finger when we see each other in future team chats.
pdt it was an experience watching you speedrun every generic brain rot phone game, I was half expecting the raid shadow legends advert at some point
TSR im sorry things haven't gone your way in recent times but you had an impact in a lot of my building and understanding of the oras PU meta and ways I could fix my team.
Thisbemyalt similarly ty for noticing my painfully obvious teambuilder mistakes in our Minecraft sessions.
neomon especially thank you for being the teams punching bag so I could troll the oras slot without incurring the wrath of pdt spamming his cursed HOs in my channel.
ManOfMany I have to thank you foremost for dealing with my constant autism when it comes to refusing to use standard builds. Your wealth of knowledge allowed me to go from my rocky start to one of the best oras records this pupl. Very few people are willing to humor my ideas.
Dj Breloominati♬ Ill call this even for uupl but you'll still get a passing middle finger when we see each other in future team chats.
pdt it was an experience watching you speedrun every generic brain rot phone game, I was half expecting the raid shadow legends advert at some point
TSR im sorry things haven't gone your way in recent times but you had an impact in a lot of my building and understanding of the oras PU meta and ways I could fix my team.
Thisbemyalt similarly ty for noticing my painfully obvious teambuilder mistakes in our Minecraft sessions.
neomon especially thank you for being the teams punching bag so I could troll the oras slot without incurring the wrath of pdt spamming his cursed HOs in my channel.