Tournament 1v1 OGPL III - Commencement Thread

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i dont like writing these but i feel obligated as a manager also got somethings to say but i am not good at writing these
luser good job brave leader
Kry i think u went 6-2 or something monster performance money well spent was fun having you around
Waylaid thanos gauntlet but got haxed in like half your losses still went positive goat thx for being around idk what to write
Synonimous similar to waylaid u a cool guy to have around + thx for helping draft + shadowmanager. unfortunate that you have lost yet another finals :(
Jabiru 3k for u is criminal idk how we got u that cheap sad we missed u 1 week
lemonstre1 unfortunate u couldnt get slotted more often, another good 3k pickup. however we got a bit of a problem of building teams and then dropping them 2 minutes before ur series so they dont get qced but realistically my fault i should have been on top of this slot a bit more some of the weeks (more on this later)
Mcthelegit 4-2 for first(i think?) teamtour being thrown into random old gens (lol gsc jail) pretty fucking good i was like 1-4 my first ogpl u put in good work - similar to lemonstre more on this slot later
Dragonmirror good thing we didnt have to sell you back thx for helping whenever you could and barely missing out on beating dpp thanos nuxl. we got a couple older players for 3k kinda crazy
Pokemh defeated vertigo in ss 1v1 wp to u and then got gsc jailed after. thanks for cheering us on when u couldnt play- again more on this slot later
Portrait or Ruin week 1 was unfortunate sry u couldnt get to play anything after that. this was pretty funny we spent like 10 minutes trying to decipher what you said insane mobile typing diff + i think unfortunate language barrier, thanks for cheering us on as well for the rest of the season
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Fragments the players we were getting for 3k/4k is kinda crazy cuz of how inflated the draft was initially but ig that means everyones more poor but another fine pickup thx for being around
Marshmelto player rating: 9.8/10 minus 0.1 point as i shouldnt be losing up 2-0 but its fine i won the ones that mattered, ngl would have liked tom numbers in the adv pool the adv pool was pretty dire. -0.1 points for majority no aura full standard teams. good selfbuy im adv thanos - self glaze
manager rating: 2/10 i felt like i did nothing other than draft/week lineup/farm my slot which is like what i would expect from a player -drafting and then i kind of did nothing else i just left other slots especially gsc to the wolves and then we ended up loading sample teams in finals because i did not pay attention to this slot like it couldnt have been that hard to build. my justification was most of our slots were self sufficient and i was not the best person to be helping like bw for instance but i did not do anything and kind of sat there. was kind of busy tiebreak week but i still did like literally nothing LOL. i guess good experience. maybe id do it again with new mindset; i think if i did like half as much as some of the other managers we could have won but alas. ea and waylaid basically replaced me as managers. sorry team. thx everyone else who was around Rellia and during finals @ bird@ Potato@ DripLegend. thx LRXC for that steelix set. wp to spectres. this concludes ogpl reflections with marshmelto
 
Unfortunately I am lazy but this team deserves shoutout post. I will post some dpp thoughts and sets and random ponderings at a later point because I know Waylaid is looking forward to them.

Marshme1to luser
O Captain(s)! My Captain(s)! Beyond individually being demons in your respective tiers, thanks to you guys for putting this team together and paying an exorbitant amount of money to add me to it.

Synonimous Mcthelegit Dragonmirror
I need to throw in a shoutout to dpp peoples. Synon, as always a pleasure to pick your brain, and hear your takes, still got it after a good while of playing inferior tiers. dragonmirror was cool to see you around again, even if it seeing you and synon hopping in the sm channel and throwing ideas out did ever so sharply remind me of how long ago 2018? 2019? was when we were all just room randoms tryna figure out how to play sm. Was glad to see you play and play well, sorry I couldn't help you more to get across the line for the series win. Mc, what can I say, you were a goat. I feel like I fed you some garbage prep at points, yet I never doubted you'd get across the line. Also just enjoyed having you around, chill dude 10/10 would team again.

Waylaid
Even if you spent half the tour complaining about my compatriot, was a pleasure as always. I don't think there's a chance in hell we made it this close without you. You were an invaluable asset to the team, especially in the latter stages, beyond just winning your own matches. Also on a more individual level, you certainly made this tour a good bit more fun for me (and SS 1v1 ever so slightly more comprehensible). I can however only hope that my extensive efforts to soften your heart to the beauty and intrigue of the DPP 1v1 tier have borne fruit.

Kry
I hate to admit, I was not familiar with your game. 6-2 overall (if we count losing a dead rubber), 3-0 in semis/finals (and still somehow disappointed with that finals performance?) is insanely impressive work. Also just being another positive, chill human being made you a pleasure to team with. I do apologize for how horrendous literally all of my sm shouts were, I promise I was trying...

Portrait or Ruin lemonstre1
A bit of a shame that neither of you ended up playing more, but especially as we got to playoffs I for one really appreciated the hype and the vibes you both brought. I feel like it is sometimes easy to become disengaged, especially when we didn't always have the most active server but I did really appreciate you guys showing up and supporting the team. Bro Portrait you had me watching SV games, I really wanted to see you get across the line in 1v1 Open - has been a rough last 12 hours.

Pokemh Fragments
Ultimately, I didn't really have a whole lot to do with either of you from my dpp cave but you both showed up and slotted wherever we needed you, even if it was ss prison. Thanks for being part of the ride.

@Toucannans
Genuinely had a really good time this tour, and whilst on a personal level I'm a bit disappointed with my performances, I am really proud of what we managed as a team. Thanks for being great, same time next year?
 
I really suck at shoutout posts. ggs to toucannons, y'all played really well. was a really fun challenge for us.

also personal reflection / thoughts in here for myself at the end ig.

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delemon nice clutch up!! and uhhh ty for like... being delemon. I will send you more wagoogus pictures sometime. Sorry I was too tired last night... obligatory quack soundboard mention. Anyways, it's always a pleasure to manage with you, and I'm truly lucky to have someone as good as you in what you do as my co-manager. It's sorta insane that we were able to get this team this year, and I don't think there's ever been a 1v1 team to be able to go back to back like this in a draft based tour. Not too much else to say here honestly, my best way to send you appreciation is through cat pics lol...

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torterraxx I wanted to give you a special shoutout here because the one week I was slotted in oras taught me so much about the game of 1v1 as a whole, and I really appreciate how much you taught me about ORAS that week and how patient you were with my occasional stupidity. I'm glad that we could get you another tour chip. You're a really good player and I'm glad that I finally got to team up with you.

Iron Crusher I went into the draft not knowing that you played BW. Literally just got you for SM. I'm now convinced that you were an insane underpay and think that you should really really be on council. It's insane that you have five teamtour wins as well. You're genuinely one of the strongest players and coolest people in general that I've had the pleasure to team with. I really hope that I can team with you again at some point in the future to have another fun BW core with you.

bern I give you permission to post the Lumi ADV logs. Also this is my formal apology for not knowing ADV mechanics and for accidentally recommending you a bunch of DPP mons to use in ADV... I know that the start of the season fucking sucked for you, but I'm glad that we were at least able to redeem it by getting you on the hall of fame. I'll be dead honest, I did not know that you knew how to play ADV when I drafted you, but things really did seem to work out in the end lol. Thanks for being a good friend both when we're in tours and outside of them, and I hope to extend the record I have with you and me on the same team at some point lol.

Slip I didn't talk to you an extraordinary amount because we frankly had better DPP support than me throughout this entire tournament, but you're always a really underrated 1v1 player. You were more or less the silent assassin of the team, and just seeing you play and win was really cool. I'm really bad at DPP atm, so having a player like you on the team was really nice. Hope to see you stick around 1v1 more!

Imperial AM Formal apology from me for not being able to slot y'all this tour. Our regular lineup just ended up being too broken for me to have any reason to change anything though... I'm glad that y'all were on the team and hope that y'all will get y'alls time to shine in 1v1 soon.

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Elo Bandit Murm I wanted to leave y'all for last because I genuinely have no clue what to write on here for y'all, but y'all have basically been my ride or die crew in 1v1 since pretty much the moment I started playing the tier. I hope y'all know how much y'all mean to me not only as teammates or the managers who first gave me a chance despite my only playing 1v1 for 20ish days before 1v1PLVI draft, but as some of my closest friends. We finally got on the hall of fame after losing in semis and finals for three years and winning the most official unofficial of all time lmao... I'm still unsure about my PL plans, and I'm more leaning towards trying to manage for it, but I'll always cherish the teams I was on with y'all.

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Urfgurgle You fall into that Bandit + Murm category for me as well. I still consider you (and Gym) as sorta the two people who sat down and taught me how to play both BW and 1v1 as a whole. I genuinely do not know where I would be without your support, both during PLVI and afterwards. The sheer amount of support you provided throughout this tournament is frankly insane to me. If South + Central is together again, I'd love to team with you again for WC this year.

glitched waow... To be fair, we really did not have enough SS support in our draft for delemon, so having you on board as her personal supporter was really awesome. I'm not fully sure about the full extent of your contributions because the extent of my looking at our SS channel was opening it, being like "oh they're cooking" and then promptly closing it because I have no idea what the fuck any SS mon does and does not beat. Anyways, I'll send you cat pictures too. There's some more silly ones that I have somewhere on my phone that I will find for you.

HiZo Inviting you to the teamcord because there was a random question about Super Staff Bros was a really funny but good choice. The legacy of this teamcord is going to be the joke that led to RBY fight button becoming a thing. Probably. Anyways, thanks for sorta being the reason that I started playing mons competitively. Funny that the random Trivia room PSPL team thing ended up with this lol...

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Felucia I do not like you. Your metallic ant scares me. Thanks for all the help throughout the season and for being the reason that I really even came back to playing 1v1 after a pretty long semi-hiatus. Thanks for dealing with my immensely variable mental states throughout the tour. I still have a long way to catch up to you as a manager, but I'll try to get there at some point. :swadloon:

Eeveekid10 Mentality LongRat happysh Sanshokuinsumireko stravench ZackPalace thanks for joining for Finals. I'm glad to have had y'all onboard and thanks for all the support y'all offered throughout the last couple weeks of the tour.

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Lumii oh hi that's me I think. maybe. Anyways, this is my own personal thoughts section. This has by far been my favourite team ever to be a part of. It's always really easy to like a team when the team is winning, but I do think that this team's culture was one in which I would have truly enjoyed myself even if we did end up losing every week. Hypotheticals aside, I wouldn't have gotten myself anywhere without the sheer amount of support this team gave me. The reality of me as a player in this tour is that I can only be self-sufficient in one gen, which is BW. My entire idea during the draft was to just put me in our opponent's flex most weeks and build a team that would be able and willing to support me really heavily in that slot. I'm not fundamentally a very strong 1v1 player, but I don't really need to be when I've got people who are much stronger than I am willing to teach me how to play the gens that they're good at. I think the strongest thing this team had is just collaboration and overall good vibes in a way.


Also, I've brought this up to multiple people before (sorry) but on the form for the power rankings article, I took a screenshot to send to Felucia giving my thoughts on the teams. GGs. Fucking called it before the tour even happened.

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I don't really know how to end this message but I'm probs gonna be taking a break until PL to focus on other things for a while. I'll still be around for posting random cat pictures everywhere, but anything past that is going to be at least a little bit variable activity wise. My dms will be open sorta if people need me. anyways random wagoogus shoutout gn.
 
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well that was a finals of all time.

unlike marshmelto i enjoy yapping so yeah
so this is the part where i talk about cramorants genesis but it's honestly not super impressive it's just like
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this and i agreed and then we made a server n stuff i started preparing draft plans which looked kind of like this
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it's a very similar idea to spectres except my name is not lumii and that means i'm not that good at opp flex, we also had in the back of our minds drafting people like podra, shivam, zack.
fast-forward to the draft and........................................................yeah everyone knows what happened

saying that missing draft was the most irritating thing that could've happened for me, is an understatement, like yes, of course there was an unexpected emergency and that does suck that i had to attend to it immediately and could only connect 1 hour after the draft started, after receiving 60 pings and like 5 people dming me, which really sucks to be in that position btw, i couldn't even let miyoko play ogpl due to them not even signing up which sucked even more, all around just sucked...

at least lumii sent me a dm saying she's not gonna let me get unbought, they nom me immediately after and... no one bid... i got bought for 3k. wow, so turns out not being in people's draft plans really does wonders for you, looking at the rest of my team, murm, lumii, delemon, bandit, tort, slip, this looks like a top tier team, maybe not making it to draft was a blessing in disguise? and i can always make crams in another ogpl tour, since i don't want to put the logo to waste, so that's pretty much the lead up to the draft, a bit of an emotional rollercoaster for me but well, what's done is done, there's no turning back now.
don't really have much to say about the szn itself that i won't mention in the s/os so here's a little brief intermission, an ai generated J
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you know how people say "a picture speaks more than a thousand words"? well here i think it speaks more than a thousand questions because i have no idea what's going on :sob:
:mamoswine: Lumii :mamoswine:
i associate you with jirachi more but you did say mamos was your favorite mon so i'm putting mamos, anyway you really were the heart of the team, despite some mistakes in the adv channel which i will share in front of everyone.
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but that aside, you really put in the work in literally every other tier, and that's really commendable, you were amazing as a manager and as a player, and that 15-0 is still there so hope i get to see you soon!

:bewear: delemon :bewear:
man sometimes people forget that, like, you're delemon. this time it was your turn to manage and you suure did a better job than me, thank you very much for your support in adv it truly came to life and we were able to clutch up many wins against some strong players. uhh i'm not very good at shout-out posts idk what else to say uhhhhhhhhh yeah you're one of the best 1v1 players in the world i really don't know lol.

:beedrill-mega: Urfgurgle :beedrill-mega:
urfy gurgly, i wish i wasn't sleeping when the final game happened so i could've talked with u and murm and bandit and lumi n stuff i really regret that and it would've been super nice to be with everyone in there, but still you were one of the bigger presences in vc and just in the team in general and i think you deserve a bigger mention than most because of that.

:dwebble: Murm & Elo Bandit :shedinja:
well... we made it, since the first OGPL i've been riding this train with RPS Rhydons, then RPS Rhyperiors in PL7 (we can ignore 2024), but overall just trying to do our best, and in the end, we reached the hof, thank you so much to you guys (+ plus urf and delemon, actually 2/3rds of the council just to go neutral) for helping with adv, it was great to see myself grow in the tier and i hope to do more as time goes on.

:cherrim-sunshine: Iron Crusher :cherrim-sunshine:
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:3

:torterra: torterraxx :torterra:
oras sucks ban gengar ban mew stupid meta omfg

:jumpluff: Slip :jumpluff:
cool to have you around and cool that this is your first win (aside from home kickoff ig), here's to many more!

:espurr: glitched :espurr:
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objectively cute, subjectively cuter.

:kyurem-white: Imperial :kyurem-white:
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this is what happens when you bully catboykry (i just realized this has nothing to do with ogpl but like lumii said they didn't have the opportunity to do much unfortunately)

:drowzee: AM :drowzee:
china will overtake 1v1 wait no that's AL not AM

:zoroark-hisui: HiZo :zoroark-hisui:
literally the goat of all time

s/o to @ almost spectres asw :glaceon: :swadloon: :furret: :hoopa-unbound: :oshawott: :dracovish: :gengar: :vulpix-alola:

finally, anti-shoutout to LRXC for (afaik) building for almost every game i lost, which really just goes to show your understanding of the tier as a whole, but also DAMN MAN LET ME WIN.

:cramorant: bern :cramorant:
who tf is this fraud, who let them in adv, why are they neutral, jokes aside i'm glad i went neutral on a pl for... the first time. ever. hopefully i hit positive in pl9 or som because at this point i'm just not improving as a player, especially with college rolling around and cutting my gaming hours, it's all just a mess and i really hope i have it resolved before pl9 but yeah you know it is what it is eventually things change, maybe for the better, maybe i have to skip pl9 entirely due to burnout, who's really to say, but i do want to make my best efforts in 1v1 despite the overwhelming problem that college imposes, so uh yeah i hope to see some of you guys in umbd!
that's all for now, if you read it all you're either a fellow spectre or something is wrong here, anyway i'll make an adv post soon enough.

ty everyone for the support, gn :cramorant:
 
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