Tournament National Dex Grand Slam IV - Playoffs - Finals [WON BY Danbear02]

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>> Final Standings <<

8 users have qualified for playoffs, congratulations for making it this far in the circuit! Also big congratulations to Nashrock Velcroc and ibleachyourskin for being great hosts for us this year. Couldn't have done it without your help. Here are the current standings for our Top 8 with their seeding and winrate:
  1. sealoo (70.00%)
  2. entrocefalo (58.33%)
  3. Hyjinks (82.67%)
  4. emoxu9 (93.33%)
  5. Seraphz (66.67%)
  6. Danbear02 (83.33%)
  7. seth (53.33%)
  8. HoodedZack (42.86%)

Playoffs Round 1:
[1] sealoo vs [8] HoodedZack
[2] entrocefalo vs [7] seth
[3] Hyjinks vs [6] Danbear02
[4] emoxu9 vs [5] Seraphz

Users must play in a multi-tiered Best of 3 set, consisting of any of NatDex UU, NatDex RU, NatDex Ubers, and NatDex Monotype. You may not play the same tier twice in one set.

Deadline is on Sunday, 18th August at 11:59 PM (GMT-4)
 
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Shout out Razorgliscor and Flames Of Elixir for their lovely performances throughout Grand Slam. They just barely missed the mark in tie-breaks and I'd love for them to get the nod here for posterity's sake. Also shout out to Bows and Bumboclaat that top-cutted but couldn't attend the play-offs.

Heading into predicts

[1] sealoo vs [8] HoodedZack

Sealoo is the favourite to win here. While I think Hooded Zack's performances have been impressive, Sealoo is a really dynamic lower tier player with solid fundamentals to help shore up any metagame holes in Ubers.

[2] entrocefalo vs [7] seth

This is neck-and-neck. I'd give RU and UU to Seth (although entro did beat him in the RU slam), and Ubers and Mono to Entro. Smart money would pick entro since he's won an RU head-to-head.

[3] Hyjinks vs [6] Danbear02

This is a biased one for me lol since I'm in the dark on the skill ceiling for Mono players. Both have only signed up for 1 tour and will take the Mono and UU rounds respectively. But I'm giving the edge to Danbear since they have more familiarity with RU.

[4] emoxu9 vs [5] Seraphz

I was impressed with Emoxu9's performance in Ubers and their victory over bumboclaat is a very solid one. Seraphz is a player that's been on my radar for about a year and they've shown potential in various formats. Classic jack-of-all-trades vs master-of-one scenario here, but since Slam favours the former, I'm putting my money on Seraphz.
 
Entro is the only person I really know so go Entro! B2B NDGS Champ!
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Don't really follow other NDOT so just from an Ubers perspective:

1. Entro - Not really a surprise as Entro is one of the best Ubers players on smogon and the NDUbers TL. If Entro takes it seriously and brings a good team it is going to be really hard to beat him outside of a massive builder advantage or some luck. I doubt he is bringing Mega Medicham to playoffs.

2. Emoxu9 - Won the Ubers Slam and played very well throughout. They're a very good player in general and they either build decently well or at least select teams that are well built and is a great player who is unlikely to make mistakes. I'm not going to go back and look at the 350 turn g2, but I don't recall any major mistakes. In hindsight I'm a bit salty I decided fuck it I'm tired as shit and don't care, let me load a fun team and Band Ray + Specs Lunala wasn't loaded into the stall team.

3. Seraphz - Seraphz is pretty good skillwise, but some of the teams she loaded in the NDUbers Open left me a little skeptical. The Skymin did go 4-0, including v me, but it did have a lot of luck in the early rounds. The Arceus-Ghost team was very cool, but it does make me wonder if it would be better to go with 'safer' stuff that doesn't require as precise play. Emoxu9 is a good player who has brought generally solid teams that will be hard to catch off guard. That being said, I do think Seraphz can win if she puts the time/effort.

4. Everyone else but Seth. The only memeory I have of anyone else playing NDUbers is wondering why Sealoo didn't use Wild Charge on Runo's Pogre in R1. Don't really know the other five players at all or well enough to make any predictions. I also don't really follow other ND tiers beyond skimming the forums and looking forward to towards one of the really great NDUU/NDRU discussion posts whenever those drop.

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8. Seth - Seth proposed dropping NDUbers from NDPL.
 
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Sorry would I be able to get an extension? I had an urgent emergency come up like 50 minutes before scheduled time, and haven’t been able online until right about now
The extension was denied as it required Emoxu9's acceptance.

Finals:
emoxu9 vs Winner of (Danbear02 vs entrocefalo)

deadline is whenever just get the games done.
 
emoxu9 vs Danbear02

Remember what you are fighting for: The National Dex Grand Slam Circuit Winner Forum Banner, the recognition of NDPL managers so we might nominate you, maybe just the bragging rights that you've won a tournament circuit. But most importantly, you are fighting so I can finally wrap up this circuit as your lovely host.

Good luck to our finalists.
 
Won in 3. First Slam, First Win, First Tour Win. Thanks to sealoo for moral support and being just a cool dude, and thanks to Runo for being the goat, hosting, passing teams, just being overall great. Huge shoutout to the NDUU Discord, lot of really cool dudes in there.

ggs to emoxu9. Great playing with you, you are a fantastic player.
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen9nationaldexubers-787887
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Even though i lost, let's say something,first thank for the support from entro and flames of elixir ,grand cayman,and my friend zuzhouwawa,he practiced with me for nearly three hours()sorry for lose
danbear is a strong opponent,i should practice nduu more and maintain my dominance at ndub,hope the meet to everybody at ndpl,see you next time
 
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Won in 3. First Slam, First Win, First Tour Win. Thanks to sealoo for moral support and being just a cool dude, and thanks to Runo for being the goat, hosting, passing teams, just being overall great. Huge shoutout to the NDUU Discord, lot of really cool dudes in there.

ggs to emoxu9. Great playing with you, you are a fantastic player.
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen9nationaldexubers-787887
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen9nationaldexuu-787894
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen9nationaldexmonotype-787897
Repeating what Runo said. DAN SLAM!!!
 
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