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Sabelette You have zero tour wins on the entirety of Smogon and have not won any tournaments, generally we want players to have some results in the metagames they are playing on(going out round 1 doesn't count). If you want to talk shit make sure you're living in reality first
Maris Bonibell You have zero tour wins on the entirety of Smogon and have not won any tournaments, generally we want players to have some results in the metagames they are playing on(going out round 1 doesn't count). If you want to talk shit make sure you're living in reality first
Melbelle You have zero tour wins on the entirety of Smogon and have not won any tournaments, generally we want players to have some results in the metagames they are playing on(going out round 1 doesn't count). If you want to talk shit make sure you're living in reality first
TG2513 You have zero tour wins on the entirety of Smogon and have not won any tournaments, generally we want players to have some results in the metagames they are playing on(going out round 1 doesn't count). If you want to talk shit make sure you're living in reality first
Zpice You have zero tour wins on the entirety of Smogon and have not won any tournaments, generally we want players to have some results in the metagames they are playing on(going out round 1 doesn't count). If you want to talk shit make sure you're living in reality first
Hey Maris Bonibell Theres something I wanna talk to you about. I think you guys have been underdoing the spamming of the same memes and copypastas lately. Personally the content doesnt really bother me, I genuinely see it as useful prep. But Im starting to hear about several people being annoyed by it, saying that the rby channel has been going up in quality lately and putting some of the blame on the pampus (and Tree but for all intents and purposes we might as well consider him a pampu for this lol). And this is several people in the same jerk, not people completely unrelated to each other
And those are the people Ive heard about, there might be more who didnt actually talk to me about it but obviously I cant be sure
I have been keeping myself completely silent about this situation, but now that it is over, I think it's time I write a few words about this.
Disclaimer: I won't be giving my opinion on this matter, and chose not do it throughout the whole thing, as giving it means I'd have nothing to gain and very much to lose just by doing it, regardless of what my opinion was. I'm sure that if you put yourself in my shoes, most of you understand why that's the case. And honestly, even to myself, my opinion stopped mattering a long time ago, because something much worse came out of it. Which brings us to the reason why I'm writing this post.
The drama that ensued because of this situation (mostly on gastlies' wall) was absolutely disgraceful. And everyone is at fault here. People from my team, people from the Electrodes, and even outsiders. At some point along the way this became much more about "the Teh vs Ranshiin situation" than about the tournament itself, the games, and having fun as a community. At points, some of the highlights of the tournament's weeks were being played, and yet what kept being "discussed" (can I even call it a discussion?) was this situation. What's this about after all, playing and watching some RBY, or about discussing and adding more fuel to the next piece of drama that popped up? Because judging on some situations where people chose to bring this up, it sure looks like it's about the latter.
There were no winners or losers in this, no one that is right or wrong. Only losers. We all lost, the Electrodes, the Mankeys and especially, the community as a whole.
I've already spoken to the parties involved in our team about this, and I won't reach out to anyone in particular about this outside of it. But I hope that you at least give it a thought to whether it was worth it. I think most of you will see it was definitely not.
You have zero tour wins on the entirety of Smogon and have not won any tournaments, generally we want players to have some results in the metagames they are playing on(going out round 1 doesn't count). If you want to talk shit make sure you're living in reality first