Tournament UUPL XIII - Finals [Won by Celestial Tower Tycoons]

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Celestial Tower Tycoons (6) vs (4) Camphrier Town Ladies
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SV: umbry vs Mossy Sandwich
SV: Xiri vs vivalospride
SV: Petros vs Bouff
SS: Attribute vs crying
SM: odr vs Indigo Plateau
ORAS: Dj Breloominati♬ vs Shiba
BW: Punny vs Cow
DPP: frankjosh vs Estarossa
ADV: Charmriah vs Heysup
GSC: feen vs SANKE CARP

Celestial Tower Tycoons (0) vs (0) Camphrier Town Ladies
SV: umbry vs Mossy Sandwich
SV: Xiri vs vivalospride
SV: Petros vs Bouff
SS: Attribute vs crying
SM: odr vs Indigo Plateau
ORAS: Dj Breloominati♬ vs Shiba
BW: Punny vs Cow
DPP: frankjosh vs Estarossa
ADV: Charmriah vs Heysup
GSC: feen vs SANKE CARP

Deadline for this week is <t:1747025940:F>​
 
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Biased predicts (go go my beloved Ladies) incoming. Hopefully I can beat the gorilla after his astounding performance against avarice in tiebreaker.

Celestial Tower Tycoons (4) vs (6) Camphrier Town Ladies

SV: umbry vs Mossy Sandwich
This should go without saying, umbry has been one of the best SV performers this tour and had a strong showing in tiebreak even though she lost. Mossy has been so-so, so bolding umbry.

SV: Xiri vs vivalospride
Both players have been underperforming (though Viv's price tag is much higher), though I know viv has been working his ass off this tour. I have no insight into Xiri's prep or how in tune he is with SV besides the few games he has played, so I am bolding my dawg viv to clutch up in finals. I know he is going to do whatever it takes after the tiebreaker L last week also.

SV: Petros vs Bouff
Like the umbry bold, this one is obvious because Bouff has been on fire this tour and just had a dominant tiebreak win against a very tough opponent. This is Petros first start all tour I believe, so I cannot evaluate his play. Bouff should be favored by almost anyone here no matter how self-deprecating they try to be.

SS: Attribute vs crying
Very excited for this MU between IMO the two best SS players this tour (besides yours truly :blobthumbsup:) . Attribute's only SS loss was to me so clearly that does not count, and I find his builds to be very good and much stronger than crying's. Crying is amazing at piloting janky stuff but I don't think Attribute will lose in the builder here. Crying also is not someone to prep/scout in a subforum tour so I give the edge to Attribute.

SM: odr vs Indigo Plateau
My most biased of these predicts. IP sort of got destroyed last time they played but I know he will bring a check to sub Primarina this time.

ORAS: Dj Breloominati♬ vs Shiba
Simply put, 2025 Shiba does not lose (except the 2 times he did this tour). Spitfire's record is great but Shiba's play has just been better.

BW: Punny vs Cow
Idk if I would bold anyone over Punny in BW UU, not much else to say.

DPP: frankjosh vs Estarossa
Hardest MU for me to evaluate as both are great and both are playing well this tour. My DPP knowledge is also ass so I am defaulting to the person with less losses here.

ADV: Charmriah vs Heysup
The godfather finds himself in yet another UUPL finals game, the Sup in ADV UU gives death and taxes a run for their money. His take on the tier might be unorthodox, but you cannot deny he Just Wins Games.

GSC: feen vs SANKE CARP

Reina​

4/28/25, 4:08 PM​

gsc is crazy btw feen is like a [broken] clock he wins a game twice a tour not thrice
 
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I hate this matchup a lot because both of these teams are filled with some of my favorite people on this site, which means some of my friends have to lose.

Celestial Tower Tycoons (5) vs (5) Camphrier Town Ladies
SV: umbry vs Mossy Sandwich - I'm never not gonna bold Umbry. Hella respect to Mossy tho. That guy leveled up very quickly and become one of the better cg UU players rn.
SV: Xiri vs vivalospride - I've seen vivalospride lose so many god damn games that he's got to be so motivated to win one. Xiri is one of the all time greats of throwing them into X tier and succeeding though.
SV: Petros vs Bouff - Bouff annoys me, and yet I am one of his biggest fans. He is also quite good at Pokemon.
SS: Attribute vs crying - After watching Attribute beat xrn in adv uu, I am unsure if he's able to lose rn.
SM: odr vs Indigo Plateau - Shoutout whoever dug this fossil up. IP is still one of the better SM players and I rate him higher than ODR.
ORAS: Dj Breloominati♬ vs Shiba - Two of my favorite people on this site. DJ went from great to incredible these past few years and he definitely deserves credit for that. But its 2025 and Shiba is superhuman so I can't predict against him; not after that game vs dinger.
BW: Punny vs Cow - Cow is genuinely good at all BW tiers, but I simply cannot predict against Punny when the stakes are this high.
DPP: frankjosh vs Estarossa - frankjosh
ADV: Charmriah vs Heysup - I might be heysup's biggest fan. This grumpy Canadian has just unlocked superpowers and he will be unbeatable.
GSC: feen vs SANKE CARP - I'm picking Feen just bc I KNOW this series is GOING TO TIE and if I pick Sanke that means I'm predicting not a tie.

This series is going to tie. These teams are just about equally matched and theres simply no way this ends anything but 5-5. I will take Tycoons to win the tie breaker here simply bc I think like Umbry Punny Attribute is better than whatever 3 the Ladies select.
 
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ADV: Charmriah vs Heysup - Who is Charmriah? For the blind, he is the vision. For the hungry, he is the chef. For the thirsty, he is the water. If Charmriah thinks, I agree. If Charmriah speaks, I'm listening. If Charmriah has one fan, it is me. If Charmriah has no fans, I don't exist... Charmriah, my beloved god and deity :regiF:
 
To the blind, he is the light
To the hungry, he is bread.
To the sick, he is the cure.
To the lonely, he is company.
To the sad, he is joy.
To the prisoner, he is freedom.
For the poor, he is treasure
For me he is everything
If Charmriah thinks, I agree.
If Charmriah speaks I listen
If Charmriah fails, I fail.
If the world is against Charmriah, I am against the world.
If Charmriah has 7 billion fans, I am one of them.
If Charmriah has no fans, it’s because I no longer exist.
 
SV: umbry vs Mossy Sandwich - I risk being redundant or mean with this prediction, and I would hope that those reading this understand that I want for neither of these things. umbry has been very good and involved, while Mossy has been not so very good and seemingly behind the times, and that doesn't feel like something I as an old man that shows up 2-3 times a year should be noticing. As a fan of Good Games I will be rooting for both players to come through with their respective A games, but as a writer of predictions on this thread I will be hedging my bets based on what I have seen thus far.

SV: Xiri vs vivalospride - I'm going to put myself out there for my friend on this one, because to speak candidly viv has been very just ok this tour, and I don't think encapsulates him well. It is my opinion that he would win against Xiri in a neutral matchup on their best game, whose outings in this tier have entirely fine if a bit confined to just playing the hits, but an X factor of note is in the overthinking. Hoping to see cooler heads prevail, but regardless this should lend to a good, relatively even match.

SV: Petros vs Bouff - Bouff has been good at Pokemon, happy for them, and will be expecting another win here. Petros as a player feels stylistically very similar, and to their credit is much further along in their development than most in the 'good, high activity player that is becoming their transitional phase from helper/bench to proper starter' archetype, where their place in these finals feels fully deserved. This all to say that, matching ceiling for ceiling, I would place Bouff on top, and after being cleansed in the crucible of fire against Passion should have leveled out their nerves for this game here.

SS: Attribute vs crying - I would just like to clarify that I am pro-crying, and that my predicting against them twice now is merely incidental. Attribute is lucky, good, and iconoclastic to the point where what little I can intuit of crying prep from their teams likely will not suffice. It is not within the realm of possibility we bear witness to some massively ahead of the curve team here, but more likely than not I think we see bulky offense with a crying twist quashed by 3-4 Flying-types.

SM: odr vs Indigo Plateau - I caught IP talking about the hyper specific conditions under which he has 'never lost' earlier today, a trait of the losing-est players history has yet seen. I am to imagine both parties' losses last week have lit a fire in them to perform here, but unlike adaam I am finding myself unable to grasp a version of IP that is able to meet and overcome odr on his terms right now. This to me will be a game sealed by early game aggression and an inability to overcome the resultant deficit.

ORAS: Dj Breloominati♬ vs Shiba - Shiba once again gets to play the role of steady hand overcoming a faltering player this week. Spitfire played a good game in semis, but found a loss from what to me read as a surprisingly unaware team selection; while i appreciated the interactions the team worked with, and am no stranger to tactical cheating of certain matchups for a better overall team, their final draft to my eyes seemed to give slack to just about every Pak staple under the sun. It's 2025, Shiba is good now, you gotta be able to counter prep and if that's what's being cooked up over there then I am obliged to predict accordingly (I am expecting this game to be good, both are playing some solid pkmn).

BW: Punny vs Cow - Cow came through with a strong win last week, albeit assisted by what I might deem as self-destructive prep from Monai, but you know how the rest of this goes. I believe we're going to see a tech or match-up call hit to bridge the gaps here, but then by that same token I feel Cow's trajectory in this tour has come as the result of increasing familiarity with the metagame, and to deviate in any major way would feel antithetical to that. Interested to see how this game is approached by both parties.

DPP: frankjosh vs Estarossa - I'm glad to have eaten my words last week in regards to the fatty esta game, one of the bigger blowouts of the tour coming through via a smart stylistic pivot and call me crazy but I think they ride the wave of that into this week as well. Gun to my head I feel like frank edges the show out a hair on gamer cred, but the wind has shifted and I must follow my heart. Stated this earlier in the week but this to me feels like the highlight of the week, or if nothing else the hardest game to call from the offset.

ADV: Charmriah vs Heysup - We're seeing another Charmriah vs titan of the industry match-up and I think the same sentiments of last week again apply, perhaps moreso with Heysup himself at times venturing so far outside the box that he forgets the box has some cool stuff in it. That all said, it is obligational to bold the sup here, he's been holding things down this season and the luck has been good far more than it has not.

GSC: feen vs SANKE CARP - SANKE bounced back in a big way in their semis games, maybe not delivering an airtight performance over the entire bo3 but one that confirmed them to be in the game after a late season slump. feen's win last week was also solid, making a smooth transition into the tier for their team, but one might argue his win was a bit of a collaborative effort with the idols. Given what we've seen, I think a no-nonsense bring from SANKE executed as we've seen them to be capable of should win here.
 
smdicts

SM: odr vs Indigo Plateau - IP is better at SM UU. This is not a diss at ODR's playing ability, whose ceiling is the highest of the highest in my opinion, but IP has much more experience in SM UU and if he doesn't overthink his team in the builder, he should win. ODR brings a lot of teams that I hate in SM, and that is not necessarily his fault as I don't know who is making the decisions behind his teams, but in the past few UUPL seasons he has made some very questionable brings. I expect umbry to control some of that here, and make sure a solid team is brought, as she is entirely capable of doing so. In an even matchup team-wise, I trust IP to recognize the small advantages in the tier to give him an edge in an otherwise extremely close matchup.
 
i wasn't really the most social person this tour and thus i wasn't interacting THAT much with everyone on the team so i won't be doing shoutouts, but i would like to thank everyone on the team for making this win possible. this team was incredible talented from top to bottom and i couldn't be happier winning with this group of people. instead of shoutouts however, i would like to gas a couple people in particular, cause fuck they deserve this win more than anyone. before i get into that though, ggs to the ladies, when finals popped up the match ups looked close as shit and i knew we'd have to bring our A game to pull it out. props to you guys.

with that being said, people probably(?) know this already but no one deserves this win more than Lyssa and umbry. the amount of time and effort they put into this tour cannot be understated, and considering they've been trying at this tour for years now, im just glad that they finally got over the hurdle and earned themselves a ring here. lyss, we kind of started off at the wrong foot but im glad we were able to look past everything and are cool with each other now. i really respect your mind for the game and i always enjoy the conversations we have about anything pokemon related, especially those that we had during r*pl. thank you for your back breaking efforts in not only teaching me gsc (lol whyd this really happen) and adv, but also trusting me that much to play those tiers in the first place. your presence in every slot is extremely appreciated, and we truly couldn't have done it without you. umbry, you're fucken powerful. pretty much as close as you can get to an ideal teammate; a strong sense for playing the game and able to make the best teams in the tier on a consistent basis. elite support too. i respect you a lot and im just happy to see you farm firsthand. where your doubters at?!?! i brought this up before but after seeing ALL of punny/gondra/santu signing up and... my spectacular(!) performance in rupl lingering in the back of my mind, i was unsure id even be drafted on this team. you two ended up getting me however, and i wanted to do whatever i can for us to get the job done. ive learned a thing or two since that rupl, so maybe this tour can be the one. admittedly, i ran into motivation issues with the nat ban and the fact that ss uu was indeed ss uu'ing, but im just glad it all worked out in the end. nonetheless, congrats you two, and enjoy it as much as you can #cursebroken. oh and speaking of rupl.. punny!! franky!!! we did it!!!!

ggs everyone. and like i said before... TYCOONS!!! OUR YEAR!!!!
 
UUPL was always the tour I wanted to win the most. Back when we lost in 2023 I felt completely devastated: the amounts of hours me, Bouff and umbry put into that tour was unreal and all 3 of us felt pretty burnt out going into playoffs even after a resting week. Our first few games were about as cursed as it gets and killed my motivation to put in more effort into finalizing a team that clearly wasn't ready for a game, and to top it off our team came back from 0-4 to 4-5 just for us to get slapped in the face again by a long and quite bullshit stall game. Even though the circumstances were stupid I felt at fault for losing our season singlehandedly and it was murdering me on the inside, not just because I wasted all of our efforts but also because I didn't know if we were ever going to get another chance, between time investment required and landing with a team as strong as that one, it just felt like a 1/20 tours sort of thing. Last year we started motivated due to us landing an ideal retain core but it was obvious from the start that the level of the team wasn't close to what it was the year prior, the raw talent was there but some mistakes during drafting and planning made it impossible to find consistency with that group, and it's hard to hide that part of that was on me again. I was supposed to be the star of that team but it was evident that was never going to happen, not only because I'm not as clutch as people like umbry or punny but also because I'm just not built the same way: I have troubles focussing on my own slot and helping everyone else at the same time, my confidence in everything I do is underground and my mindset for competing is really toxic towards myself. It doesn't matter what people saw in me or what I shown I can do at times, at this point in time I'm way too inconsistent and run into too many motivation issues to be entrusted with a full season of playing, let alone as star player. After last year's UUPL I decided to give another go at SCL even though I felt like I was at my worst even in terms of headspace for the game, but I needed something to re-ignite my passion for this game and a result that I could treasure and look back at with sparkly eyes. First couple of weeks and that dream was already over, 2 games out of my control where I felt like I played nearly as well as I could, just to get hit with unfortunate turns. Managed to keep myself together because even though I had already lost what I was seeking after in that tour I wanted to win for my teammates that were so deserving of that title after years of trying, but disappointed everyone again with an awful prep in semifinals. And another meaningless .5 record to top it off, wasted 3 months just to feed my intrusive thoughts and feel like a failure again.

After all of that, there was one thing left: a silly promise me and umbry made at some point last year when Bouff told us they felt like playing in UUPL again instead, aka to manage this together as a last dance to idk, have a fun experience I guess? I really really didn't want to do it anymore after SCL and i took a 2 months break from even checking my pokémon-related chats, umbry had SPL ongoing and she also didn't seem convinced due to wanting to focus on it instead, but when signups went up I couldn't help but feel FOMO and told her I was willing to do most of the supporting work while she was playing and focussing on SPL instead. This was always going to be "weird" in a way: for people that don't know me, I've never been much of a builder person due to my low confidence in my work, I've always been a strongly opinioned mons thinker/yapper but i felt like I wasn't "good enough" to translate my thoughts into practice, even if infinite times before I felt like I had about as good of a metaread as you could get. With SV I had finally started building myself and for a long time I really didn't share many of my teams with others for them to use, they felt "hard to pilot" in the sense that my constant chase in making something that never has an autoloss mu often made the window for mistakes too small for comfort, and outside of a few exception such as myself obviously, umbry , passion and a couple others my teams didn't seem to work for many. Helping in general wasn't going to be an issue because I'd like to think my gamesense is good at this point and I had some at least basic knowledge of every tier in the tournament, but this plan required me to build for multiple SV slots whenever umbry had a busy week. Nonetheless, we decided to go ahead with it and the last dance was on. There were 3 targets in our eyes that we felt like we absolutely had to get, and they were Punny, Attribute and frankjosh. Punny has always been our 3rd partner in crime, at this point we've been friends for over 7 years and there is nobody we trust more than him, being in our eyes the best player on this website; Attribute was someone we got to know in last year's RUPL when we drafted him on the guardians (go guardians :) ), and even though as he mentioned we didn't start the best way possible, what we saw from him left us speechless; and finally frankjosh we had to save from the cursed moomoos and also make up the favour for the poor season we gave him in UUBD. I trusted all 3 of them to go into every week advantaged to beat every opponent they could face, and all 3 of them really didn't need much help to achieve this: to put it simply, they're amazing at pokémon. Nat dm'd us after signing up just before deadline and to me that was a great opportunity, she's by far and away one of the best SV players and someone I would be excited to work with everytime, also happy to finally run a tour together. The rest of our draft really wasn't planned as we were going in with top-heavy approach, meaning that we would've had to adapt through draft and see where that got us. Somehow landed a cheap odr after the masterclass he pulled last year, and we were over the moon. Unfortunately no viv to unlock his full potential this time, but I was sure that even without the best support option he could get, he'd still own his games like he shown multiple times. Topped this amazing start off with Xiri who umbry had just worked with in the past RU tour and was a great pilot to have around, Kushalos who we still believed to be one of best lower tiers players of all time even though he really didn't like SV, Dj Breloominati♬ a player we were surprised to get for so little considering he always saves everyone's weakest slots with strong performances and had just had an amazing 2024, a good shoutout from Attribute lead us to get Charmriah a very motivated and talented up and comer, Medeia that we got suggested as one of the best cheap GSC options in the pool, and finally feen.. wait we got arifeen in 2025? this guy plays every single tier on earth to a decent level and when you're spending big and going for minimal amounts of substitutes, this is the type of player that saves your season. This draft had a bit of a different approach compared to 2024 and was back to both our 2023 roots but also to what we had assembled with the RUPL 2024 guardians, a top-heavy group with some great talented finishing off the rest of our slots. I was over the moon about the draft and confident we had finally had a strong chance.

Weeks 1-4 went about as well they could. Our draft was working out the way we wanted it to be and our new blood was also showing off great stuff. Not the most talkative team on earth but our activity was still quite nice and even though a couple of our slots were having some issues, a bit more help and shuffling around seemed to do a lot, especially thanks to Dj Breloominati♬ and Charmriah exceeding everyone's expectations. I was meeting the expectations myself: not by myself since umbry was helping me a ton with fixes and testing but I was finally coming out of my shell and doing a lot more building than usual with great results which was a huge relief. This formula was working and at that point I really felt like it was in our hands and as long as we remained aware of what our weakpoints are and what to not do after our previous failures, nothing could go wrong.. or so i thought. Early into week 5, Nat got banned and although I tried my best not to show it I had mentally given up already. We had just lost a 4-0 player who had played some of the best UU games seen in the past year weeks 1 and 3, someone I could give any team to no matter how hard it was and would play it flawlessly. I was really devastated but I think something that helped me and I think everyone(?) reassess a bit was bonding over this happening. You could tell that something was wrong in the air since there were some minor dooming remarks and what not, but for the first time our team was fully opening up and being a united group due to this and a sudden much difficult rest of the tournament left to play. We kept it together and nailed week 5, clinching playoffs with a game we admittedly got lucky into, but that gave us some necessary time to see where to go from there and how to approach things with both team management and SV since we were about to enter a new metagame. The second point in particular was arguably even more important than the first one: I never really got good metagame reads starting from scratch, and this was quite relevant to aforementioned UUPL 2023 where that hit us quite hard. We picked up Petros as replacement, a super motivated player that in the last year started doing UU with a couple strong showing under his belt, especially winning a couple important games as underdog in the past UUWC. He hadn't been as active since missing out on an UUPL pickup but we thought he had good upset potential again in SV for playoffs and having some semi-recent basis to start off from+ knowing how motivated he was made him a stronger candidate over players that have a better overall mons skillset than he does but would have to put in effort to learn the tier from zero. These last 2 weeks went pretty slowly for me personally but they were also unimportant to us in general other than resting up and making sure we still believed to have a strong shot, just a lot of personal grinding in SV to make sure I was ready for both terrain and terrainless metagames. Week 6 we got our first loss due to an unfortunate activity situation, and week 7 we showed up against a team competing to get to playoffs.. while also not strongly wanting to win? For the sake of competition we did our best even though it wasn't an important series for us but by doing so we helped what we thought was our stronger opponent standing before the finish line, which wasn't exactly good news. Little fun arc was GSC Attribute during week 7. We thought GSC going into playoffs may have been the strongest pick into us and he proposed trying the tier out for a week to make sure he was ready if needed. Learning GSC was quite fun and he got to a good level in such a small time, the mechanics refresh was nice since GSC was one of the slots that needed the most help going into playoffs, unfortunately the game didn't go our way but hey that was something.

Entering semifinals I was honestly feeling not so well about things. As I mentioned before, we helped a team entering playoffs after a not-so-great regular season and that happened to be the team I was afraid of the most and also our semifinals opponents: the Idols. I know it sounds a bit like a joke but this was a lot for me to take mentally both due to this being the exact same situation as 2023 minus the playing part, which made me feel quite sick at the idea of losing here again, but also it was me vs Lily for the 50th time and although we are longtime good friends when it comes to anything BUT COMPETITIVE POKéMON, everytime UU is involved it gets really messy. To mention another one, I stopped doing in individuals back in 2022 when in my ever only attempt at UULT I got quite unfortunate against her in playoffs, and she went on to win the entire thing. I couldn't really take failing again vs her with things that felt out of my control, and the similarities and feelings of having sold us back in 2023 made me nauseous. The idols had a tough season that far, having only won 1 week and tied 5, not to say they didn't deserve to be in playoffs but they weren't living up to the expectations. However their ceiling was really high and I believed they were the favourites to win the tournament if they were capable of locking in, which i certainly thought they would. I wanna give massive props to my entire team here: our prep this week was probably the single best week of prep I've ever experienced on any team I've been part of. Every slot was active, trying hard and working their ass off to win. And for the first time in almost forever, I felt like I overcame something that's always been a weakpoint for me and nailed a metagame read going into a new metagame which was a massive relief, and not only that but also had people believing what I was saying even though that meant loading a team with more RU mons than UU ones. Regular series went about how people expected it to, our prep was on point on basically every slot minus 1 where the Amazing UU Tester Starbitstorm murdered us with the weirdest Keldeo in existence. Remember what I said about refreshing on GSC mechanics? yeah I skipped over the DVS part completely which meant allowing feen to load the most cheems Nidoqueen in existence which somehow worked out thanks to a bit of luck on our side. Tie was the perfect way to finish this really competitive series but going into tiebreak I was basically exploding on the inside due to everything going down and was by far and away my weakest point all tour. Picking what was best for tiebreak was hard: in last year's RUPL finals tiebreak we decided to take a route that gave us decent odds in all 3 games and it didn't work out and I was afraid of doing that again. I did what I thought was best as a manager and let the players decide themselves, which meant prioritising 2 wins and Punny was feeling SV. In a way I was scared of this, especially due to Finchinator's incredible performance this tour as a top 3 player in the tier, but i was entrusting our fate to the 3 best players I could ever ask for in my eyes so I was confident this would've worked out. I focussed on ADV for tiebreak, working with Attribute on finding a winning formula in a tier I always looked down upon but that I newly found some love for? This was honestly some of the most fun I've had in my time playing pokémon and seeing his growth and improvements in such a small amount of time was incredibly motivating/inspiring. Went into the weekend feeling as sick as it gets but Punny pulled a masterclass and showed me why I call him the goat once again. And then umbry's game happened and I felt like the world just crumbled upon me. It was happening again that bad luck hit us at the worst possible time and I just couldn't deal with it mentally and crashed. Not that I didn't trust Attribute to win but the idea that everything was going wrong again after years of work in the making was dreadful. And then light at the end of the tunnel: a fortunate early game crit vs granbull and a downhill game from there except for a stupid rock being so hard to answer. And so we won, and that was my happiest memory in my time playing. I felt such a huge relief in the moment and felt like I overcame the strongest demon. I just want to use this small space to apologise to Lily, Xrn and Denial especially because I wasn't really nice to be around during tiebreak. I think our series was amazing and competition as strong as you all is why this game is so much fun to play, but the moment of weakness really got to me and I lost it way more than necessary. This series was the toughest one I've ever experienced and the idols show up every year for a reason and that is the people working behind that project. You're easily one of best franchises in the history of UUPL and I hope you all continue to achieve what you want to year after year.

And after the most iconic semifinals possible, we had a surprise awaiting us in finals: our long lost comrade Bouff that somehow got the best SV record in the entire tournament? are you kidding me? And not only them, but also vivalospride who was in our server during semifinals for SM help+vibes and Shiba who was a key component in our ADV tiebreak win due to how much he helped Attribute and the hours of grinding he gave him. This was basically friendly fire, me and umbry had helped Bouff all season in their SV games and we got so much help from their team as well, but it was also the most iconic way for this tournament to end. And massive props to the Ladies as well: I remember at the start of the tournament not many people believing in them but they went such a long way and all of them improved so much through the season. I don't have as much to say for finals, I was feeling really confident and felt like we were going to be in control of the series unless we approached everything the wrong way, which I don't think we did. Unfortunately though, the series was a bit scuffed with a lot of games coming down to silly things from either side, and having been in that position many times before instead of saying ThAts MoNs i'm gonna apologise for it and wish we can have cleaner games in the future. 3 months of hard work going down to odds just doesn't feel great. and finally, I want to congratulate Bouff on their amazing performance, nobody really believed this was possible before the tour but they showed up as one of the best contenders for SV all season long. I'm sorry the both of us couldn't get this ring because If there is anything I know in this world is that you deserve it more than anyone else, and I can only help you and pray you get one yourself one day. You check every box required to do so. I know it's not the same thing, but let's win RUPL finals together this week.

And with that, this was our season the way i lived through it. I don't know what's next for me in UU/pokémon but I finally feel like I achieved something in this game and don't feel like a huge failure anymore, a feeling that's been hunting me for years. I hope one day I'll find a formula to also unlock myself as a player but I have more demons to overcome to get there and that's a story for another day. Most importantly, I could've never achieved this without being surrounded by such a strong, talented and amazing group of people and I want to thank each and everyone of them for their efforts all season long. I'm not a shoutouts girly and I never believed I'd be doing these but hey, this is a really special occasion so here we are:
umbry obviously going to start with you. I didn't talk enough about you in the paragraphs above because to me at this point the amounts of work you put in and everything are "obvious" which is about as dumb as a thing as one can say but it's genuine. People that ever talk bad about you were never your teammates and it shows. You literally cannot ask for a better one. Someone so incredibly talented at the game you can always rely on to win any game, in any tier, under any circumstances, what the actual fuck. Someone that understands the game so deeply they can make precise remarks about anything in any tier they don't even know anything about???? SOMEONE THAT CAN FIRST TIME BUILD TEAMS IN A TIER AND ARE GOOD ENOUGH TO WIN A TIEBREAK GAME IN INSANELY HIGH STAKES???? But also someone that is always around to help you whenever you ask her, with anything really. People don't understand you because you're so quiet and don't ever make noise for yourself but you're my sleeper pick for the goat of this game. And you have the results required for what you played, where and when you did it. And this is just the mons part of it, we've been close for like 6 years at this point and even through ups and downs we're still here running every tour together and just being a danger duo. I don't think I could've ever achieved anything in this game without you and I'm just thankful you're here and that we share all our memories together. There's more on the personal side of things but I honestly don't really know what to say and there are better places than this shoutout post, but yeah, if you weren't here there were no chances we won this tour and you were the biggest part of this win. Let's continue this journey together and see what's next for us!!

Punny oh girl you've come a long way from the days of LopunnyKicks2002 clicking HP Rock with Pheromosa against Snou's Moltres haven't you??? I still remember it like it was yday and we were basically just kids. I don't know what to say if not that i'm an idiot for even doubting you for a second. I said it yday and I'll say it again, there's never going to be another Punny. You're just too unique and too good at anything you do mons wise, I can't think of a person I think is better than you and seeing where you started and where you got is just mindblowing. You're truly the best and keep on showing why. Other than that, we've been friends for 8? years at this point and just wow it's been long and we're old now. I'm very very happy to have got this win together especially after both UUSD 2020 and UUPL 2023 and once again thanks for everything you've done, between winning every single important game of the season with no exceptions and helping all around with everything at any time. All the words I said for Aly also work for you, and as I said for her 0 odds we won this tour without you clutching for us over and over, in both games and prep. Don't know when or how but Looking forward to team again in the future as usual!!

Attribute yeah it's just hilarious seeing how this started and where we are at now LMAO. I have no words to truly describe you as well: I don't know what made you think 1 single game would change everything that RUPL season showed us but no, absolutely no chance it did. You were always going to be on this team unless someone broke their bank for you and we had nothing left. Every part of you is amazing, you're incredibly funny to be around and I love working with you, I love talking about the game with you and hearing your thoughts on just about everything, you're an incredibly hard worker capable of picking up any tier you want in no time and understand it well. Idk, you're the whole package. Thank you so much for stepping up for that tiebreak game even if you weren't confident at first and for all the effort poured into it, thank you so much for playing an entire season of this god forsaken tier and I wish you the best with anything you decide to pickup next, if you ever need any help I'll be there to provide in any way I can but knowing you I'd really just be there to give you an echo. Growing up in this game I looked up to many people but if there's anyone I look up to at this point in time it's you, you work the way i best envision myself playing and you're always on. fucking. point. I have learned so much already but still have a long way there, just a massive thank you for everything and whenever I say I think you're up there with the best atm I mean it.

frankjosh LMAOOOOOO I thought you may have been washed before this tour ngl. But i was happy to break bank for you anyways because you're the only person that ever made me feel comfortable both looking and playing your tier and I think that speaks for itself. And ontop of that, we had work to finish after last RUPL and we HAD TO, especially after the DPPPL and UUBD disasters. I don't know how high your interest for this game is at this point but I hope you'll stick around, you're one of the funniest dudes on earth and I love everything about you. Good luck on your nuzlocking/streaming journey, I hope you can entertain people as much as you entertained me with your masterclasses in every tier we ever picked you up to play. Also fuck all those dpp goats that complain about Clefable you're the one and only to me. #FrankJoshFandom

Seldanna you are part of this team so i'm putting you here. You've been with us since 2023 on and off the team, you've been massive help throughout in both DPP (being the only other person i trust for it :sob:) but also occcasionally in other tiers, but most important insane support for me and aly! Thank you so much for being part of this journey, for the vibes and for being a super great friend, hope we can continue to have so many memories together and maybe someday playing something together again? seems doubtful atm but we're both addicted even though we both hate it so who really knows!!!!

odr hey, was nice to talk and play again after a few years we didn't interact!! I stand by you being criminally underpriced in auction and one of the best SM players of all time between your dominance in both UU and RU. Having you was such a massive relief and I'm sorry we couldn't help you as much as viv would've, but I'm very happy with the work we got done multiple times and I think this season was definitely still a huge success. Wishing you the best with everything and see you around!

Dj Breloominati♬ ngl I thought you were a bigger clicker than you are at the start LOL After having played/talked a lot I understand you much more. And now I'm even more confused as to why people don't pick you up for starting into any tier? you basically play all of them at a good level. Super fun guy to be around, helped in prep multiple times in multiple slot and was so nice to work with. You also have such a pure soul for having fun in this game that I lost a long time ago but was so nice to see even though it meant sometimes we had to find some insanity for you to be excited and confident going into game. Wishing you the best with both Team India, SCL and life, hope to see you succeed. Thank you so much for everything this season and for stepping up when we needed it the most, you're amazing. Fuck you for winning our bet.

Charmriah THE up and comer. You're a bit too wild in the builder for my taste but you've quickly became one of my favourite people in the team. Activity? Amazing, Vibes? Amazing, Winning? hell yeah you won a lot too. Enjoy another custom and good luck with everything going forward, also @UUBD UUSD UUWC UU whatever tour pick up this guy he's so motivated and a super hard worked and also give him a chance in CG he's not just an ADV player.

Xiri !!! You had an insane turn around, tour didn't start the best way possible and in part was our fault for that, timezone differences were tough at the start. But your CG comeback was truly one for the ages and you got so many clutch wins for us. Thank you for being such a nice guy and an amazing player too! wish you the best and hope we get to team again some day

feen LOL. okay fine picking you up did win us the tour. i'm glad i suggested you even though you made me crashout YOU KNOW WHY. great vibes and you stepped it up with 2-0 in playoffs. The nidoqueen incident is funny as fuck in retrospect. Game discussion with you was also funny as hell you just echo'd what you read even though it was the sutpidest thing ever and i'll never forget when you wanted to thief an ogerpon to steal it's mask or whatever?????? Sorry I made you play gsc but congrats on an amazing record you were clutch!

Petros yapmaster himself. I said it yday but I believe you have what it takes to be at the top in not much time. You're great and have a good mindset for the game, fast learner, good teamplayer.. maybe even a little too good? what the heck were you doing in the ADV tiebreak channel!!!!!! Very happy to have picked you up, keep being you and keep improving and you'll get great chances in no time. Hope this experience teached you a thing of two and sorry you weren't able to live up to your own expectations, I can definitely say you met ours and we don't regret the pickup.

Kushalos thank you so much for the efforts all season. You played some great games and I think you're going back to being the good old Clutchalos eventually, and I don't necessarily think it won't be in SV since i've seen amazing things from you. Sorry it didn't work out the way we wanted but still happy to have won this together, hope we team again in the future.

Medeia I don't regret picking you up at all. I think your level was good and you were too hard on yourself but in your position I would've done the same thing so I understand it having gone through all of that firsthand. If you ever feel like getting back into mons, you can do great things. Happy to have won this for you as well and best of luck with life and everything!

London Beats !!!! last member of our team! Honestly GLAD to have gotten a good tour experience together because even though we barely shared any teams we often ended up in each others' servers and we always had a bit of cursed experiences sob. You were clutch for oras and super funny to have around, one of my favourite people for sure so keep being your great self!

EDIT: OH MY GOD I FORGOT boomp SORRY thank you so much for all the adv help with charm this season but also for being a super sweet guy it was really nice to have you around in chat and even though finals circumstances made it a more awk, you were part of this team and this win is also yours. keep being great omg!!!

Nat if you ever read this i'm really sorry for how things went. This was finally the time we got to team together and unfortunately couldn't go the whole way. I'm still very happy to have picked you up, was really nice working with you and I know i like you tons as a person obviously!! I truly believe you played some of the best SV UU games played in recent memory and that alone speaks to the player you are, I hope we get to team and work together again in the future once you're back.

avarice Sabella Garay oak BeeOrSomething Thank you so much for joining and for all the help in playoffs, was super appreciated and even the smallest of helps went a long way! thank you dillon for your suggestions in both sv and sm, sabella for clutch games in sv, garay for vibes and bee for the gsc help.

Bouff thank you for teaching me what it means to be a good manager. I learned so so much from you over the years and the amounts of effort you pour into this cannot be understated. You're one of the best ever managers, support and chat presences, not only in UU but in general. Not to mention suddenly an SV threat??? What can't you do. Thank you so much for all the tests and talks over the season as well, I know it was mostly to help you and not the other way around but they sure helped us as well. Working with you is always great and looking forward to do it again now and in the future.

Ark thank you for looking after me again and for first teaching me everything about mons, I'm glad I was able to get this done and I also think it's in part thanks to you.

Huge thanks to everyone that supported us, and to everyone in Golducks for not only putting up with me but also incredible support and vibes throughout, UUPL season is always so much fun to live through in there.

As I said earlier, after RUPL idk what's next for me. I need a pause for sure but I still have some things to get done and I'll be around regardless. Don't really have many words of encouragement but to anyone that has been grinding for so long towards something: just keep believing and eventually it'll happen, I really did not think I was ever getting another chance at redemption after 2023 and I feel like this put my soul at peace mons wise. Just want to say once again thanks to everyone on my team for this experience it was truly the best UUPL I could've gotten. Thank you so much to every team in the competition for being strong and constantly pushing us all the way, especially all 3 playoff partecipants. Thank so much for the good and swift hosting adorluigi FlamPoke autumn, thank you to UU community through the years for always making UUPL a tour so competitive and different from any other one year after year and always an incredible experience. Until next time
 
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Funny how karma works sometimes. Looking back now to when I almost decided not to sign up to manage before auction, considering I've been really wanting to win this tournament for a few years now, that really would've been a foolish decision. I'm so glad everything worked out for the best this time around, and to do so with one of my favorite groups of people ever, I don't think any other tournament victory has hit the same. To the ladies, ggs to you guys. I felt like we had some sort of alliance during the season where several of our slots kept helping each other out until the final week, so I'm glad we ended up facing you at the end. You all exceeded mine and many others' expectations and had a great run, you should be proud of your work leading up to here. For the rest, I guess this marks the end of all the major things I wanted to achieve on here, a big chapter ends here but I still plan to stick around as I still enjoy the game and some of the people in the community, it's just a good feeling to finally get the monkey off my back. Of course, my beloved tycoons were nothing short of spectacular this season, so I could never finish the post without writing some shoutouts.

- The Team -​

Lyssa My partner in crime, we've known each other for such a long time that words aren't needed at this point, yet I still want to thank you for being a part of this journey and wanting to give it another shot with me. The experience wouldn't have been the same and I would not have been as motivated if you hadn't been there as well after all our attempts during the years, I hope you're already aware this meant a lot to me. I know you're basically done with the game at this point but I'm so glad you still stick around, I don't think I would either if you and some other friends were suddenly gone, our random yapping sessions are genuinely so much fun please keep getting into random games' lores and theories I like listening to those .horse.gif. I also wanted to say I've been thoroughly impressed with the amount and quality of work you put in this season, keyword impressed but not surprised, hopefully you stop underestimating yourself duh. Figuring out sv together is always something I'm looking forward to a lot and many of your ideas this season were so great and not just in SV, you helped everyone!! I guess the move was to always have you manage and not play, glad we figured that one out, you truly deserve this win so be proud of it, so happy to win together and thank you so much for all the trust you put in me. Let's win rupl now or bouff will never speak to us again :(

Punny Much like reina, you are one of the main reasons I'm still around, but honestly that's pretty reductive, I don't think I would even have started getting into smogon tournaments/communities if I hadn't met you many many years ago and I'm so happy I did, I feel you are the first genuine friend I made on here which means much more than you can imagine as I am the type to struggle a lot with social interactions and making new friends, still feels surreal that it's really been that long. Those long calls at night when we were like 16 are memories I still cherish to this day. As for the rest, you already know I glaze you a lot, it's really no secret... and no amount of words can describe the experience of seeing your genius at work in tiers that reward your creativity, it's truly a blast that no one else can replicate and it's so exciting every time. Best 30k ever spent, I was never once worried if the week wasn't decided and you still had to play. Also so happy we could finally win this together!! Let's win rupl now omg.

odr I'm glad we got to share a chat again after so long because you're so much fun to be around and it was such a relief to have a reliable guy for SM, which has really proven to be one of our main weaknesses in previous tournaments. It's still so insane to me we got you for so cheap after your insane record from last year, you contributed so much to our early momentum with very commanding wins when the tournament started and still kept a very high level even after burnout happened. Your record does not reflect the skills you display I'm sure we both know it, thanks a lot for your hard work, you're very deserving of the back-to-back and I hope you can enjoy it as well as a much needed break now, hope to see you around again next year!

Attribute One of the most reliable teammates I ever had and will ever have, that being a big reason why we really wanted to get you in the first place after you expressed interest in being on our team, so glad we could go all the way here after being so close in rupl last year. Speaking of rupl, I'm very happy I got the opportunity to get to know you back then you're one of the most lovely people I've met on here and hope see you around for more still in the future, stay yapping never change. I also know SS UU is VERY BAD and I'm sorry to have put you through this hell... but honestly prepping together this season might be one of the most fun I've ever had dealing with building in this tier and being honest the way you approach the game and this tier challenged me and my beliefs in more ways than I could have imagined. It was nice seeing that despite this fact our meta views ended up aligning a lot this season and working together was very pleasant, learning adv uu from scratch and having it all pay off is an unforgettable experience. If you had the same mind for wordle that you had for this game I'm sure your genius would be unmatched, I'm afraid it's just natural selection, alas...

frankjosh I hope you don't take our semifinals decision to heart, to be honest if my life really depended on a DPP UU game I have no doubt in my mind I would have you play that game for me, then again I would be shaking with fear in my boots because in my opinion this tier is a straight up joke LOL sorry not sorry... Still, so so happy we got you, just like attribute you also shot us a dm before auction so we were really hoping we could land you despite being low on budget...and it somehow happened, paying only 12k for who I believe to be the clear best player of a tier will never not be crazy to me, I'm so glad everything worked out and we could win together after a few failed attempts, I had a feeling you were destined for greatness ever since our UU Open set in 2022. Congrats on the win friend, great work this season and see you around :D best of luck on your nuzlocking career!

Xiri We didn't really expect to get you after landing odr and with the general plan being keeping oras/sv somewhat low budget, but when I saw your bid slow down at around 5k I was sure that could not be right and we still needed players for those tiers so I wanted to make a small push for you, I don't think we've ever teamed before if memory serves me right besides me joining that rubd chat, though I was confident that with your general abilities as a pilot and our support we could make good things happen. Unfortunately, you were a victim to our suboptimal lineup for the early weeks where we had you in a tier you weren't super comfortable with and I'm sorry for our mistake. Still, I appreciate a lot that you kept a great attitude throughout the entire tournament until we finally found your moment to shine, your finals game was a great showdown at such a pivotal moment when we needed a win and you should absolutely be proud of it, enjoy a deserved win, hope to team with you again sometime!

Nat Much like some other players we got, you were a crazy steal, as well as someone I really do get along with quite well, you also seemed to consistently get the best out of the teams we gave you and it's no coincidence you were undefeated. Then again, I guess some things go wrong sometimes, your ban being it in this case, if you do read this I want you to know I do not hold grudges, I'm just a little disappointed because I would have liked to share this victory with you is all, I hope things can still proceed in a good direction in life for you and if you'll decide to come back after the ban is lifted, I enjoyed working with you quite a lot in this tournament even if our time was cut short.

Charmriah I loved teaming with you, you brought a lot of enthusiasm to the team and a great attitude in being willing to explore new ideas and improve, you're very fitting of what I would describe as a great newcomer, a very well spent 3k in what was a pretty competitive adv pool. Your unorthodox style is something you can use to great advantage in the lanscape a tier that's so oversaturated with standard goodstuff, though it can also be a double edged sword if you tunnel too much into it, if you learn to strike the right balance I'm sure you can get to even greater heights. Which would be pretty crazy honestly as you were the third best record in adv for a mere 3k so really you were pretty amazing for us and you should be proud, Was glad to have you and hope you can enjoy the win, hopefully rupl too this week!

feen feen feen I'm a big believer in cheaper picks being what really makes the difference in teams that go all the way, you charm and spitfire basically having an average of 5 wins while all being 3k picks is what really propelled us through even after our best performing player got banned in the middle of the tournament. We always had in mind to draft you because of your great activity and flexibility as a substitute, also so we would have a second player who would be able to play gsc since at that point in the auction we were going to spend as little as possible for it. But damn... to think GSC UU feen would be the true savior of our playoffs run? Nobody's ever said that one before I'm sure, thank you so much for bailing us out and for being a very fun and active teammate to have around, hope we get to team together again in the future.

Dj Breloominati♬ "So I took that personally". That was probably you after being on the bench at the start of the tournament. By far the best value pick we got out of the auction and it would not be an understatement to say you won the tournament for us, I did say in multiple places after auction we walked out with the 2 most ideal subs we could get for how our draft turned out, it's great to see you and feen could both show you were much more than that. The way you approach prep and in-games is pretty unique but actually fits ORAS extremely well, it's much different than what I would say my style is like so it was a nice change of pace seeing all the new crazy ideas in our channel every week. Thank you for all the effort you put in and congratulations on a stellar record, you really earned it, best of luck with future endeavors and leading team India rooting for you guys to achieve greatness!

Kushalos I still think your ceiling is so high when your mental game is in its best shape, it's a shame it didn't really pan out especially since you were doing quite well before near the end of the regular season when we could feel your motivation getting lower, it was fun to have you as well as working with you during the season and I don't regret it at all, also appreciate you being upfront with us about how you were feeling about it before finals, maybe the new teraless gen whenever it will come it might bring some of that spark back. I hope you still enjoyed being a part of the team nonetheless. Enjoy your break!

Medeia We got you because of Bee recommending you as a solid gsc option and I really don't regret that, you showed a good level of prep and play but were done dirty the most out of anyone else in our team, due to constant bad luck and some very unfortunate real life circumstances. I feel really bad about how all of that went, I wish you could have had a more pleasant experience. I really hope some of those irl circumstances got resolved if you end reading this and that things can get better, and if you do choose to stick around hopefully future tournaments can be less frustrating.

Petros We started out well, then a few bumps on the road I hope are all well behind, I'm glad things ended working out in a way you ended being on the team and I know you're a little disappointed in your personal performance but as we all told you there are many more things you did for us that were very valuable and helped us push through (activity, testing, suggestions..) so really I do not regret you as our replacement pick whatsoever. Besides, you really did have a good showing in finals which is the highest stakes possible for this tournament, I guess now it's only uusd left to win all 3 in a row? It would be pretty crazy if you pulled that one off. Hope you stick around I think you have a good attitude with the way you play your games so I'm sure you can do much better in the future with a little less doubting, best of luck!

boomp Thanks a lot for helping charm during the entire season! as well as hanging out with us for the season it was a pleasure having you, I could not say this directly to you since you left but I hope you can read this.

Seldanna Thank you so much for being our number one supporter throughout the years and for all the help you provided for frank this season, it's always a very pleasant time having you around so I'm really happy you joined us again, it really would not have been our team if you weren't there with us once more because you really are an integral part of it. Thank you as well for all your support in general in being one of my closest friends, our daily silly chats are always so much fun and something I look forward to every day, I really hope these and more can continue for many years to come. Hopefully it's not a long wait before frieren season 2...right?

London Beats Thank you for all your help in ORAS and for sharing the semifinals team which was so cool, as well as also being one of my favorite people so I'm super glad you also joined us early in the season it's always a lot of fun to have you around. Also love talking with you about random shows and the daily twitter posts keep these up for sure!

avarice Sabella Garay oak BeeOrSomething thanks to all of you for joining in playoffs to help and hang out, very glad to have had you guys around, thank you for the help in newgens dillon and for some ideas I stole (the annoying deoxys), sabella for sv but also for an entire season of discussing sv in private it was very helpful to bounce ideas and opinions, garay for unmatched vibes and calling me the goat, bee for all the help in putting together the finals team we ended using it was really clutch.

- Fallen Friends and Supporters -​

Bouff I'm so happy for you seeing you're finally putting some great displays in these tournaments, it's refreshing to see you finally prove your biggest doubter wrong (yourself) you really did a great job. At the same time I'm sad me winning means that you had to lose, this meaning that all 3 times I won uu team tournaments I did so by beating your team in finals... honestly that's a pretty messed up coincidence, if this feels in any way incomplete it's because you weren't there with us, but that did rewrite the future in some interesting ways I guess... either way we got this in rupl dont worry.

Gondra I'm so sorry I failed to get you twice, still wanted to shout you out for being one of my closest friends and genuinely my time on here would not be the same if you just weren't around anymore, love our usual talks please never change, or maybe do change these italian brainrot memes are horrible.

vivalospride Thank you so so much for all your support and for all the times you were rooting for us and all the suggestions you made even before the tournament started because you genuinely wanted us to succeed, and even the time you took it upon yourself to join our chat to help us for semifinals when you literally did not have to do so at all because your team was still competing in the other series. I could not be more thankful to have met you and gotten to know such a lovely individual, I know real life is getting tough so best of luck with that and for your future endeavors in this game while you can still be around!

Killintime you didn't join our chat but still thank you so much for all the times you helped spitfire with your teams during the season, it was much appreciated, best of luck if you decide to play some more oras in future tournaments I'd love to see you play again.

shiloh Shiba thanks a lot for all the help for Attribute's tiebreak game, appreciated that a lot!

To everyone else who supported us, thanks a lot, it did not go unnoticed. Once again I would like to say I'm really grateful to all my teammates who have formed such a united and wonderul group of people, until next time!
 
Not doing shoutouts as I haven't really been active enough to talk in-depth about everyone, but really wanted to share some thoughts about this tour so here we go. I'll start by saying that winning this tour meant so much for me and not even because it was myself that won it all, but because my good friends umbry and Lyssa finally got to win it. They've been wanting to win this tour more than any other tour for a bit now and after seeing all their efforts across multiple tours (not just uupl but also uusd and uubd) im really happy they got to fucking win it. I want to say thanks to everyone on the team for being great in the chat and in-game, you guys were amazing. Special shoutouts to Attribute and frankjosh my fellow noble guardians teammates, glad we got to win something together.


Im going to write something more in depth about you two for two reasons: one id feel bad to not say anything after all the wholesome words you had for me and two ive been known you for so much and I have a lot to say.

umbry i've known you for seven years now and boy did we go through a lot. From spending hours in call making fun of half the italian community to laddering dou to watching random movies, wishing to finally become good at this fucking game, look at us now. Its hard for me to explain what I think of you as a player, the first word that comes to my mind is respect. Constantly building good teams, constantly playing well in game, constantly winning games. You glaze me a lot but look at you girl, you're one of the few people I trust as player and builder and you know how much of a criticizer I am when it comes to this game. You've mastered more than one generation of uu: sv, ss, oras are the ones that I believe you're the best at, but im sure you'd be able to pick up any iteration of this tier, and any tier for that matter. Im so glad you got to win this tour, you deserve it so much its not possible to explain it in words. Besides my respect for your mind at the game, I really enjoy you as a person, so thank you for always getting me for these whenever you have the chance to and for every kind word you say in my regards all the time

Lyssa you mention hp rock pheromosa??? Lets talk about you in 2018 shall we. Im not going to lie, my thoughts on you back then were that you seemed scared of this game, whenever you played you opted for the most obvious play and it seemed that the reason why you did this was not because you didn't understand the game state but rather you were just too afraid to pull the trigger. Now imagine about four years pass and you face that same player for UU invitational and its the complete opposite. It was crazy to me how much you had improved and I even dm'd you about it. Wanted to start with this because you're too harsh on yourself, you're great. Just like umbry, I respect you completely when it comes to pokemon, as builder and player and im just so happy you finally won this tour because in my mind you're the person that has wanted this more than anyone on this site and your effort this tour proves it, it was genuinely fucking insane. On this note, id want to thank you for the blind trust you have in me everytime. Most people would probably get mad if they're channel was constantly the only one without help from anyone, but in my eyes this is just you trusting me fully and expecting me to bring the best out of me even without any help, which means a lot to me.

love you both, lets win rupl now WOOOOOOO

oh and shoutouts to vivalospride because hes the goat, always there for me for whatever I need, love you bro:heart:
 
My entire team deserves a whole dedicated shoutout post without question but I really truly believe one individual deserves specific recognition for his performance this tour and it is Shiba

Shiba had an extremely strong tournament in ORAS and made prepping in ORAS a fun and team effort. On top of that, he didn’t forfeit to copy paste seis bat emp things repeatedly, and grew as the tournament went on. It makes me personally happy bc as someone that was around for most of Shiba’s “prime”, a tournament like this to up his value back to what it actually should be in future tournaments if he plans to enter more is awesome to me. Shiba performing well at 5k is a MASSIVE part of what held our team together to make a finals run.
 
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