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Tournament SV National Dex AG Revival - ROUND ELEVEN

Calling Act on my op hazelnut as i asked to schedule days ago and have had no response and theres less than 16 hours remaining until the deadline proof on hazels account
 
Round Seven - Winners' Bracket
https://www.smogon.com/tools/bracketmaker/view/23750/
default0  vs  Ryu09
Truthankamon  vs  DaWoblefet

Losers' Bracket
https://www.smogon.com/tools/bracketmaker/view/23751/
unfuuny  vs  Da Pizza Man
bekama  vs  Bobsican
cataclyismo  vs  Bread Sandwich
S1ardus1  vs  ENARCY
A1pha_sleepz  vs  Bye 1
volcaronaisboss  vs  Bye 2
lcalvexx  vs  Bye 3
unglitchedlatios8  vs  Bye 4
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DEADLINE FOR THIS ROUND IS <t:1792411200:F>
DEADLINE FOR EXTENSIONS IS <t:1791979200:F>
good luck have fun!
Resources can be found here.
 
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(the 52 Arceus here are only normal, there have been 8 Dark, 2 Water, 3 Fairy, 9 Ground, and 1 Ghost)

Woah look who's been procrastinating! Despite the absence of this usage graph for the last few rounds, I've been doing a lot of thinking about the meta trends we're seeing in this tournament, so let's jump into my thoughts and observations!

As expected, the 4 players in winners semis all trended towards bringing solid teams with various ways around the sea of gimmicks populating this tier. We also saw our first instance of NDAG spectator participation with coolguy14604 goin 0-2 on semis predictions! What a bum!

While Truthankamon got to semis without having played a single match, the team they chose to bring in all 4 games vs Dawoblefet was a solid bulky offense, with my favorite Arceus set to deter revive cats, forcing a draw (PSA: you can win vs cats with that set if you just don't run removal!)

DaWoblefet was my personal favorite to win the tournament and was our only semifinalist who has actually brought cats or full shedinja, using both pretty regularly in his lineup of teams to make it to semis. He's also made use of a very cool cm roar darkeus as both an anti cheese measure and calyrex shadow check on a glimmora HO.

default0 has shown perhaps the most creative approach to handling the madness of this meta, bringing (I think) only 3 teams in the few sets that they've played, showing off tech like a mono attacking roar Kyurem to shuffle revive cats into spikes range and cleaning with icicle spear setting off a chain reaction of spikes deaths, never allowing the felines a feasible flash to flick their fiendish revival formula.

Lastly we had.. Me! I've been building pretty much every week for this tournament, favoring various hyper offenses with tech pieces like lunala, chien-pao, sd recycle arceus, and kyurem black as my chosen tools against cheese.

We've seen a giant decline in baton pass in the last few rounds (thank god) The teamstyle is just really inconsistent and people seem to have realized it. Shoutout unglitchedlatios8 and lcalvexx though.

Webs! Shuckle webs has seen its first uses with 2 from myself and 1 from Sami , I think the structure is pretty criminally underplayed rn

Shedinja and Liepard have been seeing pretty much identical usage which I really find horribly confusing. Not only do I feel that full shedinja teams are much more reliable than cats, default0 is the only person I've seen utilizing Shedinja as a tech piece on otherwise standard teams, which I hope to see more of.

Big uptick in gweez usage (I think? idk it's pretty high on the list)

Lastly I'd like to comment on Ho-Oh keeping its neck and neck race with Caly Shadow, pretty cool to see as I personally had Ho-Oh as my number one on my VR that I made before this tournament.

Seeing a lot of cool stuff as we enter the super late stages of this bracket! I'm still having a blast, glhf to everyone who's still in!
 
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Ryu09 and I lost in Winners Semifinals; how are we playing in Losers Quarterfinals? Double elimination brackets (sample) should place the loser of Winners Semis into Losers Semis, i.e. it shouldn't be possible to have 4 losers matches ongoing. Something seems off here...
 
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Hey there. TD here. Due to some unfortunate misunderstandings and mistakes earlier in this tour, the tour will need to be ran off-kilter for the remainder until a winner is crowned. The bracket as posted stays as is, and then the next two rounds of loser-bracket-only matchups will determine who will face default0 in a "standard" DE grand finals.
 
Also want to add that I'll explore us hosting another ND AG tournament in the near future (likely around the new year) and personally keeping an eye on it to ensure it runs smoothly to makeup for this. It is an addition, not a replacement and I'm looking forward to some good battles to close this one out! Sorry about the inconvenience this has caused to the remaining participants.
 
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