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RCoP Retro Cup of Pokémon 2025 - Quarterfinals [Tiebreaker at #46]

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Rules:
  • General tournament rules and regulations can be found here.
  • If metagame changes occur during the middle of a round, they will take effect in the subsequent round.
  • Battles must take place on either Smogtours or Pokemon Showdown!
  • Replays are required. Any win post without replays will not be counted

  • On Substitution:
    • If you are unable to schedule with your opponent, please let your managers know ASAP so they can communicate that to us or the other team's managers for a potential substitute.
    • When making a substitution, please inform the host team, the managers of the opposing team, and all of the players affected by the substitution to ensure that everyone is made aware.
    • Keep in mind that once a player is subbed out, they cannot be subbed back into the same round, but can be put back onto the roster for the next round.
    • Substitutions will not be allowed in tiebreak series unless both teams agree (or TDs enforce double sub). We will be reluctant to give activity wins to those who are clearly fishing for them.

Regular Tiebreakers:
Teams each select 1 tier to play.
They are then informed of their opponents' selection, and must reorder the remaining 6 tiers in order of preference.
We will strike out the least preferred tiers from both teams' lists until there are either 1 or 2 tiers remaining. In the former case it will be played as the 3rd tier for the tb, in the latter case we will random.org the 3rd tier between the two options.

Advantaged Tiebreaker:
We wish to reward better Round 1 records throughout the entirety of playoffs; whenever a team is tiebreaking against a team with a worse R1 record (this can only happen in playoffs), the Advantaged Tiebreaker format will be used instead.
The advantaged team selects the first tier.
Then, the disadvantaged team selects the second tier, and bans a tier from the 3rd option.
Then, the advantaged team picks between the remaining options.

Quarterfinals

US Northeast (4) vs (4) Greece
SS: MGdos16 vs Solo Laddering
SM: Gilbert arenas Fragments vs nikitas Naniwa Tiger
ORAS: awyp vs the pharoah
BW: Monai vs BluBirD
DPP: Laurel vs Lialiabeast
ADV: Kaboom vs Fear
GSC: gorgie vs GLFGno7
RBY: Isza vs Christos

United Kingdom (4) vs (4) Italy
SS: Baddy vs lolebruh
SM: zinnias vs entrocefalo
ORAS: ImperialH vs Laroxyl
BW: Cow vs Raiza
DPP: Django vs Tizio Potente Ao
ADV: Caloom DKM vs Sachumberto
GSC: Underlying vs coco
RBY: NotVeryCake vs Amaranth

Canada (4) vs (4) India
SS: SpookyZ vs IPF
SM: Jytcampbell vs Vioz
ORAS: Always! vs kingofking
BW: Dababy2 vs TGA
DPP: TyCarter vs NoName6293
ADV: mayo vs Piyu
GSC: melancholy0 vs pj
RBY: Genesis7 vs Blui

France (5) vs (2) Germany
SS: YoruNoxx vs RaiZen1704
SM: ChaFouuu vs Eelektrone
ORAS: Hyssou vs xray
BW: Exiline vs Feaniix
DPP: Emeral vs Larry
ADV: BlazingDark vs Fogbound Lake
GSC: Zokuru vs vani
RBY: Kaz vs Serpi​

Deadline for Quarterfinals is Sunday October 12th 11:59PM GMT-4
 
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GSC Predictions:
Glfgno > Gorgie - this is a close one between two idealistic players with their own views of the game. Gorgie has been in good form recently, and is a bit more mercenary in his builds than Glfgno. However, based on my experience with both these players, I favour Glfgno to outplay given an even mu, which should be doable with minimal Fear support. Hope it turns out to be a good game.

Coco > Underlying - Underlying is a player who I liked pre his great invitational, having a really strong performance with his style of teams (crunch kou offense / balance comes to mind). Now he appears to be taking the next step and trying to branch out following some aggressive brings by his opponents since invit. The problem with this is it comes with growing pains, especially vs a strong player like Coco who can bring anything (so you want to mix it up), but has a good in game that you want to bring something you are experienced with. If Underlying can gain comfort with his new style I would favour him, but I think thats unlikely so would go with Coco.

Zokuru vs Vani - this is an intetesting one, Vani improved a lot over the past two years to a strong invitational win, but seems to have taken a break since then. Zok on the other hand seems to be still building and trying new ideas based on his round 1 games. I think it will come down to who will maneuver better in the early game, Zok has a unique playstyle that is really good at converting small advantages, but I think hes loading jank that will lose if it gets behind - especially vs Vani's newer, less techy style. Leaving this as a toss up, but if pressed would minorly favour Zok.
 
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