Storms Shoutouts/Sendoffs
We made playoffs! Unfortunately cold crew's titanic oldgens core tore us up after an unlucky BW and missed win in SV so we didn't quite make finals. As a last minute manager signup I couldn't have asked for the season to go much better, Smudge and I signed up on a whim with some friendly encouragement and did our best to prep a team for a season that quite frankly was one of the most challenging I've dealt with in any teamtour. Multiple team members ended up hospitalized at some point in the season, even more got sick, and there were innumerable work and life events that ate up huge chunks of time for our roster throughout the tour. Despite that, despite one of DOU's worst starts ever with a 1 point - 7 differential week 3 end, we managed to stage one of the strongest comebacks ever and make playoffs. We never quite hit our full potential but we managed to make something great out of the season through some solid teamwork and grit. I dearly wish I could have traded my 6-1 ORASPL record for my 2-4 DPL record, I dearly wish I could have spent more time helping prep and test but my body had other plans for this summer. (+1 Disability!) Still I'm proud, and everyone on the team should be too.Feyy My friend, my goat, my guy that genuinely gives Akaru a run for his money in terms of being stressful to support. Your goofy ass is always so much fun to be around, it's just a shame your enjoyment of the format has fizzled out and holy shit don't ever almost literally die on me again during the season or I'll kick your ass. Have fun in the Balatro/StS retirement home until VGC is worth playing again or a new DOU format inspires. Please don't die in a typhoon or because you refused to visit a doctor in the meantime.
Givrix I know you feel guilty about that last week loss and it was a tough way to go out but genuinely your performance this season was the backbone of the team. I went into the draft with the idea that I could exploit the other teams' SV slots and push for double wins in SV most weeks and you ended up being the second player I chose for that role; I could not have been happier. You put in so much effort self-scouting and practicing while being willing to push yourself with the teams I built/provided for you, I could not ask for a better team-player. You helped in Fey's SV slot and SS when needed and put up a fantastic record for the season, I can't believe this was your first time getting drafted outside of world cup. I hope others have noticed your growth and continue to give you opportunities to shine, you have so much potential to keep improving with what I saw this season.
Darts Holy shit. You might have been the steal of the draft for us with the performance you had this season. I feel bad that we as a team, and especially I as a player couldn't deliver you a custom avatar, but I hope you had fun with us. Interacting with you and seeing some of your prep process was really cool and I'm glad you gave us a good showing despite the slow start we had as a team. I expect a great run out of you at worlds and maybe one day I'll get to meet you at a regional.
Nido-Rus Fey might've been the the most stressful person on the team this season with the absolute slew of real life shenanigans and SV doomerism but your builder made you a close second. And that's exactly why I drafted you. Thank you for getting me to engage with Natdex in a new way, balancing meta knowledge with dragon cheer psychosis was a feeling I've missed as I've slowly become a more structured builder in the past couple of years. It was so much fun to look at your paste list every week and dissect the process and give a dissertation on which builds I thought were best. It was amazing to watch choice band rock slide lando-i clean house after a whole week of panicking about it being shit, what a hilarious feeling. I think you were by far the best player in the pool even if records disagree and it was a joy to finally properly get to team with you after years of random test games against you.
Tenzai Benching at the start was both one of the hardest and in hindsight one of the most flawed decisions of the season. I really underestimated your drive and focus this year but it came out in phenomenal form in your games. I won't underestimate you again.
qsns I've wanted to team with you for awhile now and we had a draft that looked ripe for you to come in and reign over the SM slot. Unfortunately neither of us got the season we wanted despite you not really missing a step as a player (ban goth). Even so it was a lot of fun just interacting with you, you're a pretty cool person. Over the last week I've been telling myself "I can regret the season, but never the team" and you're really the prime example of that to me. I have zero regrets getting to team with you regardless of the numbers on the board and I hope you enjoyed everyone else's company in the teamcord just as much.
Paraplegic Rough season, rough work, great player. I'll always have respect for you and I wish you had more free time to bring out your best. Even so you managed to help salvage our struggling BW slot at the end of the season and played some really tight games that could've easily swung your way given a small break of luck. I doubt this will be the last time we end up on the same team and I look forward to our next rodeo
Checkmater We had a rough season with you. Some miscommunications here some metagame disagreements there and some really unfortunate game results that came for a variety of reasons. Despite all that when the time came for you to sub out you were still extremely helpful in prepping the BW slot, and I respect that a lot. I didn't get to interact with you much this season but I can definitely say I've come to respect your character.
lax Goat. Best vibes and honorary US west DWCOP member. One game and one win and great presence as always, Smudge and I can always count on you to be a chill dude to have in the cord and I wish you the best as always.
KeanuVGC We don't talk enough but you're always cool with me. Thanks for getting darts into this tour and hanging out in the cord, its always fun when you come around to talk.
Smudge Thank you for co-managing with me last-minute. it was a stupid, crazy stunt to nab the last manager slot but we pulled it off and had a great season and you did so much work to help the team this year. I don't know if I'm going to try managing again next year but I'd gladly do it again with you.
Thanks to everyone who allowed me the opportunity to manage again, I know I'm a loudmouth around here who likes to poke fun and didn't start off on the best foot when I first showed up but I hope everyone understands how much i care for the community at this point, I'm glad I got to put in the work to help make a good teamtour this year. Teamdump in the oras thread after oraspl.
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