kaz "We're here to fucking compete" rby when i ask him to play before 1-4am mine (i should've been better at time management)
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Tournaments RBYPL VI - Commencement
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I thank everyone on my team. You all put in the utmost energy and excitement you could, and tried your hardest. The Wartortles Discord server was probably the nicest Discord server I have ever been in. I am sorry I let you down when you needed me this week. I would like to say to YBW specifically that you were an amazing assistant to RBY Ubers for me, with your useful suggestions and tweaks to the teams I made. To LNumbers, you made some mistakes as all humans do,but you've learnt from them and don't deserve any of the current hate your getting. To nicole7735, you were an amazing manager throughout the last two years and I could and should write an entire second post just to thank you alone. I wish you all success in the future, no matter where you may end up.
However, I would like to thank one person for giving the most to not only the Wartortles, or even the Wartortles through its past generation, but to the entire RBY community, as well as being my best friend on this site and helping me through everything. I apologise if it may come across as a mess of a post, as I am writing it from pure emotion:
Sceptross, I remember when we first interacted, with you seemingly randomly challenging me to a game of RBY PU while I was online one day. I had no clue who was challenging me as you were under an alt and were being very secretive. I had legitimately no clue what I was doing and don't even remember how I did in those games XD. But, what I do remember is your kind, welcoming attitude right from the get-go towards me, a nobody who had done nothing except talk nonsense on Discord. I also met your two friends, who were spectating the games, Kaz and chuva de perereca. I admit, I thought they were a bit strange at the time, but that was due to my lack of knowledge of anything or how anything worked on Smogon. I had interacted briefly with Kaz before, as I remember him lecturing me once on the secret-hidden-ultra-awesomeness of Sub Slowbro, but of course, I did not recognise him when playing. I walked away from that interaction confused, yet happy and content. I only learnt of your true nature and intentions to scout me as a potential PU starter with that PU challenge when I got drafted by you in my first ever team tournament, RBYPL, coincidentally in your first edition as a manager as well. Despite not even making it past Round 1 in that tournament, and Kaz getting viciously attacked throughout, I consider that my favorite tournament I've ever been in because of how fun you guys were, as well as the sheer effort you and your friends put into training me as a player.
You and your friend's entire ethos with the Wartortles is something I admire you so much for. The selflessness of being able to put to your back the desire to win at all costs in order to help cultivate the RBY community 3 years in a row, putting all your effort and time into educating and training up and coming stars is simply amazing, and you don't even ask for a single thank you from anyone.
I especially admire you for always being there for me, some of the things you've said to me I will carry with me for the rest of my life. You always had an open ear no matter how bad things got for me and always stuck up for me from the things I've been called and said about, at times, even at the cost of your own reputation. I will be frank, half of the reason I even returned to Smogon and have stuck with RBY is because I did not want to leave behind you and your friends. Personally, I do not think I could continue or ever do an RBYPL without you guys, you make the tour for me and your absence would be heartbreaking.
I am so, so sorry I couldn't and still can't stand up for you as you have stood up for me countless times. The attacks on you have been relentless and barbaric, and I feel like a bystander, idly watching from a void of denseness, unable to swim forward and reach out to help. I am especially sorry for being the catalyst of even a small amount of the hate that you have received recently, as I have seen the screenshots of people attacking you and Nicole for drafting me, demanding your ban and calling you both transphobic scabs. You bought me in spite of me going above your price estimates, which just proves your absolute resolve and loyalty to those you consider a friend in spite of all repercussions.
People take for granted your willingness to take what they dish out, and I want to say that, no matter what you decide to do from here on out, your work towards this tour and the community will always be cherished and thanked endlessly. Everyone who has ever been on the Wartortles through the past 3 years knows it, and the teachings you've given them will surely go on to help make them star studded leaders of the community in the future.
However, I would like to thank one person for giving the most to not only the Wartortles, or even the Wartortles through its past generation, but to the entire RBY community, as well as being my best friend on this site and helping me through everything. I apologise if it may come across as a mess of a post, as I am writing it from pure emotion:
Sceptross, I remember when we first interacted, with you seemingly randomly challenging me to a game of RBY PU while I was online one day. I had no clue who was challenging me as you were under an alt and were being very secretive. I had legitimately no clue what I was doing and don't even remember how I did in those games XD. But, what I do remember is your kind, welcoming attitude right from the get-go towards me, a nobody who had done nothing except talk nonsense on Discord. I also met your two friends, who were spectating the games, Kaz and chuva de perereca. I admit, I thought they were a bit strange at the time, but that was due to my lack of knowledge of anything or how anything worked on Smogon. I had interacted briefly with Kaz before, as I remember him lecturing me once on the secret-hidden-ultra-awesomeness of Sub Slowbro, but of course, I did not recognise him when playing. I walked away from that interaction confused, yet happy and content. I only learnt of your true nature and intentions to scout me as a potential PU starter with that PU challenge when I got drafted by you in my first ever team tournament, RBYPL, coincidentally in your first edition as a manager as well. Despite not even making it past Round 1 in that tournament, and Kaz getting viciously attacked throughout, I consider that my favorite tournament I've ever been in because of how fun you guys were, as well as the sheer effort you and your friends put into training me as a player.
You and your friend's entire ethos with the Wartortles is something I admire you so much for. The selflessness of being able to put to your back the desire to win at all costs in order to help cultivate the RBY community 3 years in a row, putting all your effort and time into educating and training up and coming stars is simply amazing, and you don't even ask for a single thank you from anyone.
I especially admire you for always being there for me, some of the things you've said to me I will carry with me for the rest of my life. You always had an open ear no matter how bad things got for me and always stuck up for me from the things I've been called and said about, at times, even at the cost of your own reputation. I will be frank, half of the reason I even returned to Smogon and have stuck with RBY is because I did not want to leave behind you and your friends. Personally, I do not think I could continue or ever do an RBYPL without you guys, you make the tour for me and your absence would be heartbreaking.
I am so, so sorry I couldn't and still can't stand up for you as you have stood up for me countless times. The attacks on you have been relentless and barbaric, and I feel like a bystander, idly watching from a void of denseness, unable to swim forward and reach out to help. I am especially sorry for being the catalyst of even a small amount of the hate that you have received recently, as I have seen the screenshots of people attacking you and Nicole for drafting me, demanding your ban and calling you both transphobic scabs. You bought me in spite of me going above your price estimates, which just proves your absolute resolve and loyalty to those you consider a friend in spite of all repercussions.
People take for granted your willingness to take what they dish out, and I want to say that, no matter what you decide to do from here on out, your work towards this tour and the community will always be cherished and thanked endlessly. Everyone who has ever been on the Wartortles through the past 3 years knows it, and the teachings you've given them will surely go on to help make them star studded leaders of the community in the future.
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First of all, ggs Haymakers and congrats. I suppose it's about time I shared my thoughts about what went down last week and finally clean the air, but before I do that I'd like to thank my team and literally everyone in the chat for having made this rbypl an unforgettable experience. After having been gone for like 2.5 years, it was super refreshing to have an active chat with people constantly seeking to improve and trying their utmost to win. I see great potential in every newcomer we had on the team/server, I'm sure that you will get to where you wanna be in no time if you keep grinding like this. It was a pleasure to team up with you all and play for the Wartortles together. I also wanna shoutout some people in particular.
chuva de perereca Kaz spies for having been a part of this the whole time despite not officially being on the team. To me though you were part of our squad all along. I don't think that our chat would've been the same without you and we greatly benefitted from your input and sheer chat presence. You deserve credit for the success we've been seeing each week. Thank you.
NotVeryCake I'm ngl when I watched the draft and how people were reacting to your buy, I was asking myself what kind of person you were to make people attack you so much. Ofc I didn't know you at all back then. Fast forward, I can only say that I really enjoyed teaming up with you and you deserve to be treated better. I think most of the problems you face around here are due to misunderstandings and one kinda has to get to know you well in order to see that. Also, you're goated af in RBY Ubers and owned in that slot, good job.
nicole7735 I didn't know much about you before this tour other than that we faced like 1-2 times 3 years ago, and you've been seeing tons of success in the past years to get you where you are now, and goddamn, you didn't disappoint. I really enjoyed discussing the meta with you in dms or playing some rby games every now and again. As a manager, you were nothing short of formidable. You really carried in terms of scouting and giving advice for most if not all of our slots, and you were there whenever somebody needed help or advice (even despite being sick and on a plane lol). I hope you eventually decide to sign up for spl, you've definitely committed to the derust that you were feeling at the beginning of the tour, and I'm excited to see how it'll transfer to your performance in spl.
Sceptross My man. Honestly, I don't even know where to start. I was super happy when I saw your dm about you wanting to pick me up. You immediately made me go like "This is the team where I wanna end up on". Not only did your message convey that you are super serious about this tour but you're also just super kind and friendly. No wonder people around here frequently call you "friendliest user on smogon", you definitely live up to that reputation. During rbypl itself, you were just what I had imagined - a super capable manager (and player!) that knows exactly what he does and helps wherever he can. I really enjoyed our calls for prep (even though we probably spent more time discussing other things than actually hardcore prepping lmao) and just talking to you in general. I know that the past week(s) haven't been easy for you, but I just want you to know that you can be proud of how you handled every obstacle that came in your way. In my honest opinion, you showed a lot of character and there's really nothing else you could've done better. This actually brings me to why I made this post in the first place:
As we all know, things got kinda tense after my rbypl series last week vs Acetylaldehyde. First of all, I wanna apologize to you for having taken so long to show up. I won't go into the details of why I ended up being late, but I do want you to know that it wasn't on purpose and I tried to inform you as soon as I found out. Unfortunately, it ended up getting this late. I also want you to know that the breaks I took between the sets were obviously neither to tilt nor to timestall you (I don't see any merit in doing that). I used it to talk to my team and discuss things. Yet, I have a bad habit of forgetting to look at the clock and well this is how 5 mins turned into 7 mins for instance. Look, I understand why you were mad especially after a loss when having waited for so long. It was also a deciding game, so emotions were high, it happens. However, I would've wished for you to come talking to me to sort things out before making a public post and infracting me. This is something that I wouldn't have done in your stead. Again, emotions were high so I do understand. I just think what ended up happening after is something that neither you or me could ever anticipate and I think everyone involved ended up losing in that one.
Anyway, what I don't understand is everyone who was not involved in neither the Pampus or Tortles jumping in and accusing Sceptross or nicole7735 for having a part in this when in fact it was proven that neither of them were online around the time that the series happened. Everything these two have done for the community in the past couple of years as well as now for us Tortles in this team tour was to make RBY more appealing to not only newcomers but also experienced players. They're actively seeking to bring people together and make our tours more competitive. If anyone deserves an apology or to hear the words "you deserved better", it's them. They're one of the best manager pairs this community has ever had and weird accusations like these bring people to eventually decide to stop managing. This would be a big loss for not just the Tortles but for the entire tour. This tournament was only this exciting because they created an environment for people to engage with each other and grind together... imagine if every manager pair took it this seriously and created that? RBY would be on another level. So if you feel like you've attacked them in any way, go talk to them and make it up. They will understand.
chuva de perereca Kaz spies for having been a part of this the whole time despite not officially being on the team. To me though you were part of our squad all along. I don't think that our chat would've been the same without you and we greatly benefitted from your input and sheer chat presence. You deserve credit for the success we've been seeing each week. Thank you.
NotVeryCake I'm ngl when I watched the draft and how people were reacting to your buy, I was asking myself what kind of person you were to make people attack you so much. Ofc I didn't know you at all back then. Fast forward, I can only say that I really enjoyed teaming up with you and you deserve to be treated better. I think most of the problems you face around here are due to misunderstandings and one kinda has to get to know you well in order to see that. Also, you're goated af in RBY Ubers and owned in that slot, good job.
nicole7735 I didn't know much about you before this tour other than that we faced like 1-2 times 3 years ago, and you've been seeing tons of success in the past years to get you where you are now, and goddamn, you didn't disappoint. I really enjoyed discussing the meta with you in dms or playing some rby games every now and again. As a manager, you were nothing short of formidable. You really carried in terms of scouting and giving advice for most if not all of our slots, and you were there whenever somebody needed help or advice (even despite being sick and on a plane lol). I hope you eventually decide to sign up for spl, you've definitely committed to the derust that you were feeling at the beginning of the tour, and I'm excited to see how it'll transfer to your performance in spl.
Sceptross My man. Honestly, I don't even know where to start. I was super happy when I saw your dm about you wanting to pick me up. You immediately made me go like "This is the team where I wanna end up on". Not only did your message convey that you are super serious about this tour but you're also just super kind and friendly. No wonder people around here frequently call you "friendliest user on smogon", you definitely live up to that reputation. During rbypl itself, you were just what I had imagined - a super capable manager (and player!) that knows exactly what he does and helps wherever he can. I really enjoyed our calls for prep (even though we probably spent more time discussing other things than actually hardcore prepping lmao) and just talking to you in general. I know that the past week(s) haven't been easy for you, but I just want you to know that you can be proud of how you handled every obstacle that came in your way. In my honest opinion, you showed a lot of character and there's really nothing else you could've done better. This actually brings me to why I made this post in the first place:
As we all know, things got kinda tense after my rbypl series last week vs Acetylaldehyde. First of all, I wanna apologize to you for having taken so long to show up. I won't go into the details of why I ended up being late, but I do want you to know that it wasn't on purpose and I tried to inform you as soon as I found out. Unfortunately, it ended up getting this late. I also want you to know that the breaks I took between the sets were obviously neither to tilt nor to timestall you (I don't see any merit in doing that). I used it to talk to my team and discuss things. Yet, I have a bad habit of forgetting to look at the clock and well this is how 5 mins turned into 7 mins for instance. Look, I understand why you were mad especially after a loss when having waited for so long. It was also a deciding game, so emotions were high, it happens. However, I would've wished for you to come talking to me to sort things out before making a public post and infracting me. This is something that I wouldn't have done in your stead. Again, emotions were high so I do understand. I just think what ended up happening after is something that neither you or me could ever anticipate and I think everyone involved ended up losing in that one.
Anyway, what I don't understand is everyone who was not involved in neither the Pampus or Tortles jumping in and accusing Sceptross or nicole7735 for having a part in this when in fact it was proven that neither of them were online around the time that the series happened. Everything these two have done for the community in the past couple of years as well as now for us Tortles in this team tour was to make RBY more appealing to not only newcomers but also experienced players. They're actively seeking to bring people together and make our tours more competitive. If anyone deserves an apology or to hear the words "you deserved better", it's them. They're one of the best manager pairs this community has ever had and weird accusations like these bring people to eventually decide to stop managing. This would be a big loss for not just the Tortles but for the entire tour. This tournament was only this exciting because they created an environment for people to engage with each other and grind together... imagine if every manager pair took it this seriously and created that? RBY would be on another level. So if you feel like you've attacked them in any way, go talk to them and make it up. They will understand.
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