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Tournament Solomods Premier League III Commencement
- Thread starter Gekokeso
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we call this "The Slither King Effect"
hello chat. i am not a manager this year, which means i can make a PR without outing my draft plan, so that's exactly what i'm gonna do!!!
1.
Mid Metangs
The obligatory #1. Unironically tho I think Nog and Jump had a stellar draft. They've got the best clickers in the entire tour aside from maybe Dave's, with names like LpZ, OLK, and ChrisPBacon standing out. qsns with Nog support will lock down the MG2 slot, Ineros is super flexible and has great past performance, gephicka will apparently go crazy in FEVGC, I'm a fraud starter but I will support every tier if given the chance, and both managers are free to support so the clickers will actually have a chance to go in. Overall an insane draft, I can see us going very far this year.
2.
Workers' Union of Gourgsokyo
My alma mater. Before even getting into the draft, both of the manager selfbuys are incredible, with FlamPoke essentially locking down the PoA slot and ana having knowledge on half the metas in the tour. THE_CHUNGLER will smash whatever meta they're put into, Smudge covers FEVGC, and shreyashhy should have DNU covered at least on the tier knowledge front. Mada, Plague, and DripLegend are good clickers who have a solid chance to perform well considering the amount of support they'll be getting. TTK tier-locking into ZA is a strange choice but I expect he'll do well if he's slotted there. The weakest link here is definitely MG2, Orangesodapop has experience in it but otherwise things are looking pretty lacking on that front. Overall this is a really stellar draft, pretty much what I'd expect from the Gourgs. A lot of their support picks were great presences in the server last PMPL and I expect the vibes will be just as strong this tour.
3.
Dave's Dusknoirs
Dave's have once again pulled the genius drafting strategy of "blow all your money on 4 good players and scrounge for the rest," which I would knock, but they keep winning tours with it so I can't really judge. Monai is a guaranteed X-0 in whatever meta he's put in, same for Xrn, spell is another amazing clicker and big tony 2014 isn't half bad either. srvoltmike is apparently a VGC player, though we know from previous years that his support will be limited to hopefully he can self-sustain, Oculars and Tempo are solid clickers who should win often enough to guarantee the team some victories, and the rest I don't know as well but I'm sure they'll do fine with Dave's support. The scariest thing here is definitely the fakemon metas, Monaipricefixed only signed up to play Best Wishes (and technically PoA), but assuming he's slotted in PoA along with Xrn in either MHOU or Touhoumons, that still leaves one fakemon meta unaccounted for, so Dave's will have to find another player comfortable enough to learn something completely new. Still a very solid draft though, and I expect Dave's to make it to playoffs once again.
4.
Terrifying Tanukiefs
A pretty top-heavy squad. They've got igiveuponaname for MHOU, and Fragments and Spammernoob are good general clickers, but there's almost no tier knowledge for most of the formats. Idk who they're planning on putting in MG2, they've got LogIce and sheepie for FEVGC but both are unproven, Akaru Kokuyo signed up for Touhou but idt they've played the tier before, LBN and lostmemories are known tour players but don't have much of a history in Pet Mods so who knows how well they'll do, and they also drafted known frauds Concept and teamo. I can see this squad doing really well in the right situation, but overall Tanukiefs' performance heavily depends on how quick their clickers can pick up the tiers they're placed in, and how well the supports they drafted can help with building for those clickers.
5.
Stamford Starlies
If Starlies do not go X-0 in DNU, they have failed as a team. Jokes aside, this is a solid draft. R8 will be great in MG2 once he's actually alive, Tanny is the only player in the entire tour with BW experience, fifi should be solid in Touhou, BenjiTho is one of very few MHOU mainers in the draft, and volcaronavgc literally has VGC in their name. NEO is probably their pick for DNU but they have like 5 DNU players so they're not lacking in that slot. Their clickers are kinda lacking, I will admit. M0onStarr and zxgzxg both have prior tour experience but have middling results, Bobsican and woo the same but with actively bad results, and SquidSpring I don't know that well but is probably their best slot for something like PoA, which they'll otherwise really be struggling to find a player for. Definitely a team with some weaker tiers, but I do see potential here.
6.
Slugma Slugma Slugmas
31.5k for Baddy in this pool is fucking crazy. Regardless, I think this draft could've gone better for the Slugs. Necas should crush in FEVGC, fiish is their Touhoumons knowledge base, Ryan&Ditto covers MHOU, and Lacks seems to be their ZA player, but otherwise clickers like Taka and Baddy are pretty much flying without support. One notable weak point here is again PoA, there weren't that many support options in the pool to begin with and Slugmas didn't pick up any of them, so hopefully they can pull something together or else they'll be hanging high and dry in the slot. Another rough spot is MG2, not really sure who they're gonna be slotting there. Slugmas are kinda relying on Quinn passing teams to half the players while also playing himself in order to do well here, so we'll see if that plan pans out.
7.
Gallade Gladiators
This is a weird one. evakiyama! and Stories are solid clickers, QT has at least played Touhoumons before, and iPetBigfoot+Evie is a proven FEVGC combo. Nashrock can do well with support but idk where they'll be slotted, Zpice is their DNU pick but idk if he'll perform, and the rest are ppl I've never heard of. Supports seem really lacking for this one, which is bad considering how much they're relying on their top clickers to pull wins, so overall I think Gallades are gonna have a rough time this tour.
8.
Earnest Espurrs
The ultimate fraud team. Everywhere I look I see frauds. pannu is a fraud, Clas is a fraud unless they're in Teramax, Paul will be playing from a nursing home, Pixie has zero records, TTTech is washed, Slikkles is pretty cool actually, and the rest are no-names except cityscapes, who is like their one good clicker. Actually seraphz is also a clicker, but like who tf is their FEVGC slot? Who tf is their support for half these tiers? pannu will be slotted in MG2 and go 1-6, ZA idek who they're slotting, and don't even get me started on the fakemon metas. Unless Paul activates his third eye and builds for half the tiers, I doubt these guys are making it to playoffs.
In conclusion, don't count your chickens before they egg. Or was it to count your chickens if they hatch? Or did you need to count your road? Or...
1.
Mid Metangs The obligatory #1. Unironically tho I think Nog and Jump had a stellar draft. They've got the best clickers in the entire tour aside from maybe Dave's, with names like LpZ, OLK, and ChrisPBacon standing out. qsns with Nog support will lock down the MG2 slot, Ineros is super flexible and has great past performance, gephicka will apparently go crazy in FEVGC, I'm a fraud starter but I will support every tier if given the chance, and both managers are free to support so the clickers will actually have a chance to go in. Overall an insane draft, I can see us going very far this year.
GRAND SLAM 13
UU Classic 2021
BDSP Grand Slam
ADV NU Spotlight
SS NU CUP
BW RU OPEN
ORAS GRAND SLAM
BW GRAND SLAM
GSC NU Cup
BW PU CUP
ADV PU CUP
ADV RU OPEN
RBYPL 1
GSCPL 1
PUWC 2021
PUWC 2022
Teamballo 2023
RUPL 2023
PUPL 2021
PUPL 2023
ZUPL 2023
EPL 2023
ALTPL 2024
NUCL 2024
UUPL 2024
ROAPL X
1v1 PL VIII
UU Classic 2021
BDSP Grand Slam
ADV NU Spotlight
SS NU CUP
BW RU OPEN
ORAS GRAND SLAM
BW GRAND SLAM
GSC NU Cup
BW PU CUP
ADV PU CUP
ADV RU OPEN
RBYPL 1
GSCPL 1
PUWC 2021
PUWC 2022
Teamballo 2023
RUPL 2023
PUPL 2021
PUPL 2023
ZUPL 2023
EPL 2023
ALTPL 2024
NUCL 2024
UUPL 2024
ROAPL X
1v1 PL VIII
2.
Workers' Union of Gourgsokyo My alma mater. Before even getting into the draft, both of the manager selfbuys are incredible, with FlamPoke essentially locking down the PoA slot and ana having knowledge on half the metas in the tour. THE_CHUNGLER will smash whatever meta they're put into, Smudge covers FEVGC, and shreyashhy should have DNU covered at least on the tier knowledge front. Mada, Plague, and DripLegend are good clickers who have a solid chance to perform well considering the amount of support they'll be getting. TTK tier-locking into ZA is a strange choice but I expect he'll do well if he's slotted there. The weakest link here is definitely MG2, Orangesodapop has experience in it but otherwise things are looking pretty lacking on that front. Overall this is a really stellar draft, pretty much what I'd expect from the Gourgs. A lot of their support picks were great presences in the server last PMPL and I expect the vibes will be just as strong this tour.
3.
Dave's Dusknoirs Dave's have once again pulled the genius drafting strategy of "blow all your money on 4 good players and scrounge for the rest," which I would knock, but they keep winning tours with it so I can't really judge. Monai is a guaranteed X-0 in whatever meta he's put in, same for Xrn, spell is another amazing clicker and big tony 2014 isn't half bad either. srvoltmike is apparently a VGC player, though we know from previous years that his support will be limited to hopefully he can self-sustain, Oculars and Tempo are solid clickers who should win often enough to guarantee the team some victories, and the rest I don't know as well but I'm sure they'll do fine with Dave's support. The scariest thing here is definitely the fakemon metas, Monai
4.
A pretty top-heavy squad. They've got igiveuponaname for MHOU, and Fragments and Spammernoob are good general clickers, but there's almost no tier knowledge for most of the formats. Idk who they're planning on putting in MG2, they've got LogIce and sheepie for FEVGC but both are unproven, Akaru Kokuyo signed up for Touhou but idt they've played the tier before, LBN and lostmemories are known tour players but don't have much of a history in Pet Mods so who knows how well they'll do, and they also drafted known frauds Concept and teamo. I can see this squad doing really well in the right situation, but overall Tanukiefs' performance heavily depends on how quick their clickers can pick up the tiers they're placed in, and how well the supports they drafted can help with building for those clickers.
5.
Stamford Starlies If Starlies do not go X-0 in DNU, they have failed as a team. Jokes aside, this is a solid draft. R8 will be great in MG2 once he's actually alive, Tanny is the only player in the entire tour with BW experience, fifi should be solid in Touhou, BenjiTho is one of very few MHOU mainers in the draft, and volcaronavgc literally has VGC in their name. NEO is probably their pick for DNU but they have like 5 DNU players so they're not lacking in that slot. Their clickers are kinda lacking, I will admit. M0onStarr and zxgzxg both have prior tour experience but have middling results, Bobsican and woo the same but with actively bad results, and SquidSpring I don't know that well but is probably their best slot for something like PoA, which they'll otherwise really be struggling to find a player for. Definitely a team with some weaker tiers, but I do see potential here.
6.
Slugma Slugma Slugmas 31.5k for Baddy in this pool is fucking crazy. Regardless, I think this draft could've gone better for the Slugs. Necas should crush in FEVGC, fiish is their Touhoumons knowledge base, Ryan&Ditto covers MHOU, and Lacks seems to be their ZA player, but otherwise clickers like Taka and Baddy are pretty much flying without support. One notable weak point here is again PoA, there weren't that many support options in the pool to begin with and Slugmas didn't pick up any of them, so hopefully they can pull something together or else they'll be hanging high and dry in the slot. Another rough spot is MG2, not really sure who they're gonna be slotting there. Slugmas are kinda relying on Quinn passing teams to half the players while also playing himself in order to do well here, so we'll see if that plan pans out.
7.
Gallade Gladiators This is a weird one. evakiyama! and Stories are solid clickers, QT has at least played Touhoumons before, and iPetBigfoot+Evie is a proven FEVGC combo. Nashrock can do well with support but idk where they'll be slotted, Zpice is their DNU pick but idk if he'll perform, and the rest are ppl I've never heard of. Supports seem really lacking for this one, which is bad considering how much they're relying on their top clickers to pull wins, so overall I think Gallades are gonna have a rough time this tour.
8.
Earnest Espurrs The ultimate fraud team. Everywhere I look I see frauds. pannu is a fraud, Clas is a fraud unless they're in Teramax, Paul will be playing from a nursing home, Pixie has zero records, TTTech is washed, Slikkles is pretty cool actually, and the rest are no-names except cityscapes, who is like their one good clicker. Actually seraphz is also a clicker, but like who tf is their FEVGC slot? Who tf is their support for half these tiers? pannu will be slotted in MG2 and go 1-6, ZA idek who they're slotting, and don't even get me started on the fakemon metas. Unless Paul activates his third eye and builds for half the tiers, I doubt these guys are making it to playoffs.
In conclusion, don't count your chickens before they egg. Or was it to count your chickens if they hatch? Or did you need to count your road? Or...
Team Rankings:
1. Mid Metangs: It is said that when Osama Bin Laden's compound was raided by SEAL team 6, they found a lifetime subscription to the Nog Blog alongside his belongings; multiple sources corroborate this. Infamous tier basher Noglastica pairs up with the Mary Immaculate of DNU: Jumpheart, to bring a very powerful team to the competition, the pair being the most accomplished manager duo in solopl. Somehow, for some reason, Noglastica's main tactic of just ragebaiting every single other manager worked this year as every manager decided to let them get the best team possible at dirt cheap (except Daves, who straight up got held hostage for being broke for the entire draft). The team combines old goats from the Drakloak era like Runo and QSNS, the good segments of the flop era of the jynxes like Beaf Cultist and Ineros, and distressingly low 3k steals like ChrisPB and OLK. Their record speaks for itself, as the dynamic duo are bound to make a splash, but wherever that splash is a light drizzle or a thundering storm remains to be seen.
2. Daves: For about 3 years now the Dave Dynasty has ruled the petmods tour scene with an Iron Fist®, farming custom avatars and Discord Nitro like no other group of people has done in order to cement their legacy as the most threatening group in petmods history. After being left with 50 bucks and a lighter trying to buy back their family, Chairman Larry and Great Teacher Mana were subjected to grueling gourg psychological torture, yet still managed to get pretty good 3k slots like Tempo and Oculars that round another powerful lineup for the most powerful dynasty in Petmods history. I don't doubt that this team will perform well, especially since there's now a BW tier that they can slot Monai in instead of sending him to the trenches in a fakemon tier, but wherever they are going to manage to win it all again or finally face its yellow river catastrophe remains to be seen.
3. Gourgeists: There is evidence of a higher power ruling over our lives, some sort of divine figure who controls our every action, and at the present, it really fucking hates the gourgs. Flampoke joins the fun in the yearly Anaconja divine torture ritual to try and finally get this squad to get past the semi-finals. Like all years, the gourg lineup is nothing short of stacked. The most threatening out of all self-bought manager pairs, generalist excellence with the likes of Mada and TTK, and people with benignant/malignant auras such as THE_CHUNGLER and OSP. Logic dictactes that this tour will not be the exception, faith makes us hope the gourgs will at last kill their white whale for once by winning, and declare 2026 as the year of the gourg.
4. Terrifying Tanukiefs: The only team to choose a fakemon as their mascot since the tragic tale of the Manicunos, the Tanukiefs will now attempt to see if the fakemon curse is dormant or still active. CEO of white people Concept joins forces with Cow of "Holy Cow" fame to bring a well-balanced team. CAP comandos Fragments and Spammernoob provide a quite competent building core for the likes of LBN, Lostmemories, Igiveuponaname and more, even if their general experience isn't the best. Regardless of my opinion of Concept's drafting acumen, his building skills are quite potent, which, combined with the support from Cow (I'm yapping here, as far as im aware from their messages in petmods discord im not sure this guy is even alive atp) should make for quite an interesting team as long as they force Spammernoob to not get coerced by other squads to give them teams.
5. Slugmas: No other team lives in more Petmod infamy than the slugmas. They are known as the fishermen, the cheaters, the hackers, the antagonists, the double-crossers, the cheesers, the worst kind of people on earth who will stop at nothing and will do anything degenerate to win the tournament, except actually win their games when it matters the most. I am exaggerating a bit there, but atp the Slugs have as much of a terrible record of getting prizes in Petmods team tours as the gourgs, and somehow they have their weakest draft yet this year, even if their manager pair is the strongest ever as Quinn finally got a sentient player to comanage in Necas. Aside from two strong managers and two strong clickers like Baddy and naere, the rest of the team is either mainer super soldiers or people that are good but not entirely impressive, and notably have 0 builders which means their player will actually have to build stuff instead of milk out some poor soul (jk they WILL find someone, I can ensure you that). Not much to talk about this year, but Slugmas are notorious for feeding from the hatred of other users and using it to power up their tour runs to ruin the dreams of other teams.
6. Gallade Gladiators: The most pleasant surprise in the last PMPL, the Gallades are now entering the much more brutal waters of the first team tour in PetMods history to feature 8 teams. Featuring a relatively new yet passionate leader to the Petmods scene, the Briton Zpice joins forces with Jeoz to bring a team that, while seemingly unassuming on the surface, will surely give more than a few teams quite the scare. While the actual building component seems like it will fall on the shoulders of the two managers in every tier (besides iPetBigfoot+Evie providing a powerful VGC core) they have a large amount of competent clickers like QT, Evakiyama!, Stories and Nashrock. Not a flashy squad, but certainly one that has potential, man.
7. Earnest Espurrs: A team held together by glue, scotch tape, hopes and dreams. Ghastlypixie was left trying to hold the squad together after an unfortunate incident, but has now gotten the help from Clas to help salvage this sinking ship. It will have to leverage its best clickers like cityscapes, slikkles, clas and Zastra if they want an opportunity. That is unless the likes of TTTech and pannu can magically stop frauding for once in a tour or if the espurrs are willing to commit elder abuse to get Paulluxx to build them everything, alongside having to learn every tier with the exception of PoA where the great mega is allegedly their LeBron, allegedly. From a change in leadership to almost not being able to have a manager present for the draft, this team has faced many hardships, but if DNUPL taught me anything is that you can do everything you desire with as much spite your heart can hold.
8. Stamford Starlies: Out of all the teams that could be possibly be labeled Glup Shittos, the Starlies out-glup their competition via- This section is completely irrelevant because they did the classic mistake of drafting r8 without being aware that his presence outside DNUPL causes the team to get afflicted with an ancient Mesopotamian curse. They ain't winning shit.
1. Mid Metangs: It is said that when Osama Bin Laden's compound was raided by SEAL team 6, they found a lifetime subscription to the Nog Blog alongside his belongings; multiple sources corroborate this. Infamous tier basher Noglastica pairs up with the Mary Immaculate of DNU: Jumpheart, to bring a very powerful team to the competition, the pair being the most accomplished manager duo in solopl. Somehow, for some reason, Noglastica's main tactic of just ragebaiting every single other manager worked this year as every manager decided to let them get the best team possible at dirt cheap (except Daves, who straight up got held hostage for being broke for the entire draft). The team combines old goats from the Drakloak era like Runo and QSNS, the good segments of the flop era of the jynxes like Beaf Cultist and Ineros, and distressingly low 3k steals like ChrisPB and OLK. Their record speaks for itself, as the dynamic duo are bound to make a splash, but wherever that splash is a light drizzle or a thundering storm remains to be seen.
2. Daves: For about 3 years now the Dave Dynasty has ruled the petmods tour scene with an Iron Fist®, farming custom avatars and Discord Nitro like no other group of people has done in order to cement their legacy as the most threatening group in petmods history. After being left with 50 bucks and a lighter trying to buy back their family, Chairman Larry and Great Teacher Mana were subjected to grueling gourg psychological torture, yet still managed to get pretty good 3k slots like Tempo and Oculars that round another powerful lineup for the most powerful dynasty in Petmods history. I don't doubt that this team will perform well, especially since there's now a BW tier that they can slot Monai in instead of sending him to the trenches in a fakemon tier, but wherever they are going to manage to win it all again or finally face its yellow river catastrophe remains to be seen.
3. Gourgeists: There is evidence of a higher power ruling over our lives, some sort of divine figure who controls our every action, and at the present, it really fucking hates the gourgs. Flampoke joins the fun in the yearly Anaconja divine torture ritual to try and finally get this squad to get past the semi-finals. Like all years, the gourg lineup is nothing short of stacked. The most threatening out of all self-bought manager pairs, generalist excellence with the likes of Mada and TTK, and people with benignant/malignant auras such as THE_CHUNGLER and OSP. Logic dictactes that this tour will not be the exception, faith makes us hope the gourgs will at last kill their white whale for once by winning, and declare 2026 as the year of the gourg.
4. Terrifying Tanukiefs: The only team to choose a fakemon as their mascot since the tragic tale of the Manicunos, the Tanukiefs will now attempt to see if the fakemon curse is dormant or still active. CEO of white people Concept joins forces with Cow of "Holy Cow" fame to bring a well-balanced team. CAP comandos Fragments and Spammernoob provide a quite competent building core for the likes of LBN, Lostmemories, Igiveuponaname and more, even if their general experience isn't the best. Regardless of my opinion of Concept's drafting acumen, his building skills are quite potent, which, combined with the support from Cow (I'm yapping here, as far as im aware from their messages in petmods discord im not sure this guy is even alive atp) should make for quite an interesting team as long as they force Spammernoob to not get coerced by other squads to give them teams.
5. Slugmas: No other team lives in more Petmod infamy than the slugmas. They are known as the fishermen, the cheaters, the hackers, the antagonists, the double-crossers, the cheesers, the worst kind of people on earth who will stop at nothing and will do anything degenerate to win the tournament, except actually win their games when it matters the most. I am exaggerating a bit there, but atp the Slugs have as much of a terrible record of getting prizes in Petmods team tours as the gourgs, and somehow they have their weakest draft yet this year, even if their manager pair is the strongest ever as Quinn finally got a sentient player to comanage in Necas. Aside from two strong managers and two strong clickers like Baddy and naere, the rest of the team is either mainer super soldiers or people that are good but not entirely impressive, and notably have 0 builders which means their player will actually have to build stuff instead of milk out some poor soul (jk they WILL find someone, I can ensure you that). Not much to talk about this year, but Slugmas are notorious for feeding from the hatred of other users and using it to power up their tour runs to ruin the dreams of other teams.
6. Gallade Gladiators: The most pleasant surprise in the last PMPL, the Gallades are now entering the much more brutal waters of the first team tour in PetMods history to feature 8 teams. Featuring a relatively new yet passionate leader to the Petmods scene, the Briton Zpice joins forces with Jeoz to bring a team that, while seemingly unassuming on the surface, will surely give more than a few teams quite the scare. While the actual building component seems like it will fall on the shoulders of the two managers in every tier (besides iPetBigfoot+Evie providing a powerful VGC core) they have a large amount of competent clickers like QT, Evakiyama!, Stories and Nashrock. Not a flashy squad, but certainly one that has potential, man.
7. Earnest Espurrs: A team held together by glue, scotch tape, hopes and dreams. Ghastlypixie was left trying to hold the squad together after an unfortunate incident, but has now gotten the help from Clas to help salvage this sinking ship. It will have to leverage its best clickers like cityscapes, slikkles, clas and Zastra if they want an opportunity. That is unless the likes of TTTech and pannu can magically stop frauding for once in a tour or if the espurrs are willing to commit elder abuse to get Paulluxx to build them everything, alongside having to learn every tier with the exception of PoA where the great mega is allegedly their LeBron, allegedly. From a change in leadership to almost not being able to have a manager present for the draft, this team has faced many hardships, but if DNUPL taught me anything is that you can do everything you desire with as much spite your heart can hold.
8. Stamford Starlies: