Team MPL X - Finals [Won by Melemele Meloettas]

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Hearthome Honchkrows (3) vs (5) Melemele Meloettas
SV: Mimilucha vs Floss
SV: Tarre25 vs Bouff
SV: style.css vs Masskeau
SV: TTK vs feen
SS: 3d vs schwipper
SM: Gondra vs Toadow
ORAS: fade vs Cielau
BW: Sabella vs Gelbel3c

Hearthome Honchkrows (0) vs (0) Melemele Meloettas
SV: Mimilucha vs Floss
SV: Tarre25 vs Bouff
SV: style.css vs Masskeau
SV: TTK vs feen
SS: 3d vs schwipper
SM: Gondra vs Toadow
ORAS: fade vs Cielau
BW: Sabella vs Gelbel3c

The deadline for this round is Sunday, July 28th at 11 PM GMT -4.​
 
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Krows(4) vs Melos(4)
SV: Mimilucha vs Floss - Floss is extremely jealous that im 4-3 and wants to make his mark in his mpl debut by rivaling me, mimulucha did some unholy things in the builder and in their game last week.
SV: Tarre25 vs Bouff - idrk bouff but tarre25 is the only spanish monotype player so he will win to represent his community.
SV: style.css vs Masskeau - newest council member style css will win or be removed from council following the loss, good luck!
SV: TTK vs feen - ttk will get nervous while old man feen will play 100 turns with no emotion, joy, or faith in a god, and capitalize on nervousness
SS: 3d vs schwipper - 3DiscordMain gonna get schwipp'd around.
SM: Gondra vs Toadow - Why'd the SV circuit champion never play sv btw
ORAS: fade vs Cielau - Cielau has had a meh season and will tryhard prep into a good mu.
BW: Sabella vs Gelbel3c - villanous sabella will hax nice guy gelbel and say gg before the game ends.
 
finals predicts by LUSTRE
(as is tradition)

after a crazy mpl season we're finally at the finale, with the defending champions (franchise only) on one end and the unpredictable underdogs (french) on the other. i certainly didn't expect melos to make it to finals after having a less than 50% odds to make it into playoffs but they have somehow persevered! will they be able to take it home?

Hearthome Honchkrows (4) vs (4) Melemele Meloettas
SV: Mimilucha vs Floss - 25k floss has had a very average season, with a 3-3 record not looking very good for the tier leader. meanwhile, 4.5k mimilucha has firmly taken yedla's place on the finals lineup, with a 2-0 record, certainly enough to impress the managers and surpass yedla's performance this season to earn them a spot in the finals. even though floss is from the underdog team here, mimilucha is the underdog in this match, and with 2 consecutive wins from both players, both sides are boasting great momentum. bolding floss here as his wins have been against more experienced players, making a good case for him for this game. (40/60)

SV: Tarre25 vs Bouff - bouff has proven to be melo's blessing in disguise, with a 3.5k cost and a reliable 3-1 record against tarre's 2-2. with a fresh win against dieu last week and some more wins over players like xiri, bouff makes a strong case for himself for this matchup. (30/70)

SV: style.css vs Masskeau - masskeau remains on top of the melos records sheet with a strong 5-2. despite being bought at base price, he has shown everyone his creativity and strong in-game. style has a similar record, albeit with one extra loss; however, his recent promotion to mono council due to his constant involvement with the tier gives him the edge over 3k masskeau. (55/45)

SV: TTK vs feen - both players have had a pretty average season, however seeing ttk go on about getting a new ca in the mono room gives me the impression that he cares about this tour a lot more than his opponent. i think this difference will reflect in the match and ttk will emerge victorious. (60/40)


SS: 3d vs schwipper - 3d has proven himself to be quite adaptable and reliable despite being ranked last on the PR, boasting a 6-2 record which is the best ss record so far. his synergy with isza has proven to be quite spectacular, as he got a win against schwipper in the regular season thanks to head smash aegislash against schwipper's main type. however, this time around, the surprise factor won't be enough to catch the mono mainer off guard, there's a lot of pressure on schwipper for this game i feel, because without it melos might face a tough time beating krows. this game could be a deciding factor on whether the finals go into tiebreak or not (49/51)

SM: Gondra vs Toadow - the melos manager might have to step up here, he's already had a win over gondra in the regular season so he might have to repeat that feat. gondra is easily a top-tier player in sm especially, with a fresh win off dugza in the semis so the momentum definitely favors gondra here but melos have a semblance of a plot armor so i do believe toadow will clutch this (49/51)

ORAS: fade vs Cielau - the oras slot of melos have had a rough season, initially belonging to mono cup winner drizzle, experimented with frankjosh and ultimately the manager himself had to step in here. the result bore some fruit, with 2 wins in oras slot in favor of cielau, however the momentum favors his opponent, who despite his negative words regarding the tier has managed to secure a 5-2 record. (60/40)

BW: Sabella vs Gelbel3c - sabella in finals is a different beast, who had a pretty average season last mpl with a 4-5 record and is now boasting a very intimidating 6-2. he finds himself on the very team he faced in finals last season, and odds look to be in his favor. gelbel is currently 5-3, and he might be looking to neutralize his record with sabella's, since if he wins, both players end the season with a 6-3. definitely a solid player, gelbel has his foot in the bw monotype door for a while now but sabella sits on the throne of this empire, and has the resources and team support to end the season at 7-2. (60/40)


in summary, this is a very close matchup, not as easy to predict as i thought it would be initially. i do believe the odds are slightly favored for the honchkrows performance-wise, but the meloettas have clutched through to finals despite having a mediocre regular season, all they need is one final push to claim their victory here. should be an interesting finals overall, looking forward to the games :)
 
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Krows(4) vs Melos(4)
SV: Mimilucha vs Floss - Floss is extremely jealous that im 4-3 and wants to make his mark in his mpl debut by rivaling me, mimulucha did some unholy things in the builder and in their game last week.
SV: Tarre25 vs Bouff - idrk bouff but tarre25 is the only spanish monotype player so he will win to represent his community.
SV: style.css vs Masskeau - newest council member style css will win or be removed from council following the loss, good luck!
SV: TTK vs feen - ttk will get nervous while old man feen will play 100 turns with no emotion, joy, or faith in a god, and capitalize on nervousness
SS: 3d vs schwipper - 3DiscordMain gonna get schwipp'd around.
SM: Gondra vs Toadow - Why'd the SV circuit champion never play sv btw
ORAS: fade vs Cielau - Cielau has had a meh season and will tryhard prep into a good mu.
BW: Sabella vs Gelbel3c - villanous sabella will hax nice guy gelbel and say gg before the game ends.
Aww you mad?
 
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen7monotype-783168 won vs gondra, ggs everyone
What a run team, what a run... thank you everyone for the support you give to us, we had a really rough start, all this tour was really hard, at one point during week 4, it was near impossible for us to be in playoff.
But here we are, Meloettas won MPL X! Fantastic job everyone, I'm so proud of you, enjoy this title! Thank you Attribute for the help and the advice during the season. And of course, thank you Cielau to let me manage this team with you, glad to be a part of this journey with the team!

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mushamu We did it goat
 
Thank you Ken for hosting, these tournaments don't run as smoothly without people like you. Thank you to Seo. and Dead by Daylight for helping, its appreciated and I'll remember this, you're always welcome in my discords. :heart: And gg to the melos, I'm not going to lie to say I'm at least happy some of my friends got a ring, but I'm also not a sore loser. Regardless of the circumstances, you guys earned it.

The worst part about losing especially in finals for me isn't about how close we got. It's letting down the community members(new and old) who care and put in the time just to come up short. I always believe we win and lose as a team, but this feels a lot worse. I'm sorry to my team for not being able to deliver the ring like I did back then. Me and Sabella signed up only with the agreement that he plays and I manage everything, which I have no problems with. With no draft plan, our goal was to do what we do every single year which is get SV players that care and get good pilots for old gens. Picked up some new guys, some community members, and of course my very talented pilots who I all appreciate. Tarre25 JeoZ Mimilucha thank you giving it your all and playing for me, my goal is always to get more new players into whatever community I participate in. I think its safe to say you 3 will stick around.

I'm accountable so I'll admit our team was a little loud this season, although I wouldn't say toxic or malicious. If you know me personally, you know I like to hype up my players and that its all in good fun so I apologize if anyone took it personally. There are certain instances where I'm not taking shit, like when azick tagged me right after my player lost a game, and wondered why that would end up in an argument. Or when my Best friend decided to shit talk me because I said a set was bad, despite unconditionally advocating for him everywhere for years. (you said sorry but I know you meant it) Water under the bridge anyway.

I don't think Im the best individual support at any of oras(Cell) SM(Chait) or SS(Trich) But I do think I'm the most well-rounded support overall. This ring to me validated my ability as a competitor and I'm super disappointed to fall short. As fun as this was I don't think I can manage anything again for a very long time, I'm too sad atm. I wont be doing shout outs since I dmed you all personally, but I loved this experience and best of luck in the tier in the future.

And of course, thanks for having me.
 
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https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen7monotype-783168 won vs gondra, ggs everyone
What a run team, what a run... thank you everyone for the support you give to us, we had a really rough start, all this tour was really hard, at one point during week 4, it was near impossible for us to be in playoff.
But here we are, Meloettas won MPL X! Fantastic job everyone, I'm so proud of you, enjoy this title! Thank you Attribute for the help and the advice during the season. And of course, thank you Cielau to let me manage this team with you, glad to be a part of this journey with the team!

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mushamu We did it goat

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Cielau Toadow Masskeau Gelbel3c Congrats guys. Very happy to see you guys bring it home this year after we got out from semis last year. Toadow Congratulations to you in particular for winning your second ring this year, keep going big dog.
 
Thank you to the hosts for making the tour run very smoothly. Huge thanks to isza for taking doing the heavy lifting managerial duties. I had a good time drafting and feel like we really put a well rounded fun team together which is all you can really ask for. Thanks to all my teammates who grinded to get us here. Ik for some of you this felt like business as usual but for the others who were newer or getting to start for the first time you did a great job.
 
Thanks for hosting ken and Vertigo !

That's it, we did it guys, for lot of meloettas it's there first mono tournament win me include after 4 years in the tier. Still crazy it's with this team as manager, back 1 month ago I think 2% of people would trust in us for winning it and yeah I think at the end we had the shonen run, plot armor clause idk cuz the fact we got 2 aws week 6, the fact our week 7 is really clutch (thx pokemon ofc), the fact we made back to back a 2-3 into 5-3, when u know melemele in qualif it's 2 wins-1 lose-11ties in 2 edition. Yeah I'm and I have to be proud of that.

I have to say it was hard, it's the other face of our tournament. Like we start the auction with like 60% of our budget, we couldn't waste money and have to be really carefull. So we made so many concession, I think we manage it correctly even if we let lot of players bought lesser than their real price. I was happy of our team, lot of new player, like I said we didn't had a lot of budget so ofc we had to find the hidden golgen nuggets between the 3k, and I will say it in the individual s/o but I still think all the player I pick are able to make good thing even if they not always had the chance to show it in this tournament. Win a teamtour is always a huge experience, especially a pl, imo it shows a lot.

But by hard I meant until week 5 and even 6 we had difficulty, imo we grow in power each week but yeah lot of things to fix. Huge difficulty in oras and sv imo, for oras we didn't had the same support as some teams but we wasn't suppose to went in 1-7 (I doesn't count the aw) and it was not a question of player imo. Same in SV, I think the result show it but we start to really got lot of wins after the week 5 (week 5 we was 10-10, week 7 we was 16-12). Imo it's here our dynamique of win start, and it's ofc when I start to really let Masskeau build the team for our players. Cuz yeah it was clearly not my best tournament, as player but mainly as builder/caller. I start to suffer about overwork, irl + all the tournament I played at the same time brought to this, and I think it's the reason of my absence of inspiration. Also ofc hard to keep a good mental when u chain lose in many tournament. U start to doubt a lot, so I had to take a breath. I made the necessary for the team but not more and take rest to bounce back when it will count the more. I think I finally start to feel it better week 7 (even if I lose my game). Out of that, I'm ovarall happy I think last year I would don't have the experience necessary to manage a situation like that, also I probably wouldn't be able to support and make pertinent decision in prep in each tier. That's all for my personnal exp of the tournament.

Ovarall this tournament stay a really good experience, I have to respect a lot the perf of Honchkrows, they was 6th in the pr but yeah they was clearly the team I fear the most after Tinka. Isza and Sab manage it really well, and they follow the huge palmares of Honchkrows as team.

I will only do individual pairing for the player of my team, but thx for all the person who support us. Just a s/o to Fírnen , hope u good bro, monotype fr made a lot for me so I have to thx u and all the mono fr goon

Toadow I don't even know what saying here, always a pleasure to have u as co-cap. We complement each other really well imo, u here where I fail and I hope I am for u where u fail. Frol1 did a huge run, Dieu too, I always have rinda in mind and ofc I estimate myself, but yeah u prove it again, the best french mono player did well this tournament again. Just the way less we take time for prep more u perf is crazy, a classic mele mele. Maybe a 3rd edition of our managing of mele mele ?

Gelbel3c People start to know it, but this tournament prove to everyone how good u are at this game. What a flexible player who take in hand bw mono in only 2 tournament, I know u had some hard time too mid season but u bounce back really well for week 7 and play off. I know if I put u on a slot u will be able to handle it as long as we are here for help at call

Floss I always wanted to mate with u in a mpl, funny to know u was my manager for my first smogon tournament and my player for our first mpl win. At first it was not planned to get u, I said we had budget restriction so put 25k on a player was clarly not a pertinant tactical choice but yeah I play greedy. FInally it was for a good thing, even if like me u didn't start well the tournament, when the team start to really need u, u was here and able to take all the win we need. It's a part of why I was really confident if we had to make tiebreak in semi and finals. Now it's my turn to make it in PUPL I guess ...

feen U make me laugh in NUPL and I had a good memory of u playing oras mono, so u was one of this players on our target list. We already had our oras slot but I knew u would pilot correctly in SV. I think u was one of the player who suffer the most of my difficulty to manage all the sv slot, but u hold it really well. I'm still amazed by ur finals game especially when 30min before u ask me for test and I decide to bring u fight just on a feeling. Imo this clearly confirm for me, if we made more test each week of our prep u would realize a huge run

schwipper I talk about my target list with feen, but u was one of the 2 players I really wanted as promising great great player. Like we already discuss a lot I knew u would feat perfectly with the idea of Toadow and me had for a good team and honnestly I had right, we had some activity problem at the start of the tournament but u was one always here and it pays imo. For a first mpl u hold it well, especially in SS a tier not always easy to take in hand, 2nd especially when u see who was the pool of the tier, lot of really good pilot ovarall. I'm sure this exp will really help u to improve urself at this game so keep in mind u're still at ur start and this game need lot of tenacity to go as far as u want. But I'm confident on that

Bouff Same as Feen, we had u in our list, I knew u would be a really good sub if necessary. I had wrong, u was a really good titular ! One of the other thing who made our SV bounce back really well. I guess u still have in mind ur oras and finals game but imo both of them u manage it really well (btw each time I wrote a quick description of how looks all the mu for ur team, each time we face the one I tell u it will be really hard :skull:), but yeah ovarall I wanted to team with u from a long time and I don't think I need to explain, this tournament explain why

drizzle What a tough run, clearly not representative of u as a player. Imo the problem was during the prep and not during the game cuz we got really unfortunate match up and this m-storm miss, people don't know it start to become a meme in our test game or during our game (I think 50% of them miss). Well I estimate u as a player, and I think u deserve to have the mpl banner

RoFnA One of the guy we pick on CV I had the feelings u could make a huge run, unfort we let u only 1 chance, but u clearly show ur potential and u will clearly won to collect exp from team tournament. I believe in ur ability to go far in this game honnestly

frankjosh My RUPL mate, I had no clue about ur monotype exp but I wanted u as player, knew u would be here if necessary as sub and I knew u would bring some positivity in our team (and like that we had a mix French mono goon + UU/RU player). Had to say my bad, yeah... We wanted to give u a chance in the lu but at this moment I didn't wanted to go in the oras jail so we put u in the tier.... The tier we was in 0-4. And I give u a poison team, really hard to handle. Well.... Ovarall I think it was a poisonned gift... Glad we won LOL

Irene My bad too, the problem when u make a clutch qualif, it's u're always close to don't win a week so we weren't able to gives lot of chance to people. That's really unfort cuz I'm sure u could bounce back and show what u are able to do. I'm still confident on it. Hope u will keep a good image of this tournament ovarall

Masskeau I said to Gelb I will let u the last place, the place of the goat. People don't know we pick u last year just for the lore u made us the melemele logo :skull:. But yeah ofc even for the joke, it was mainly because we knew u are able to take in hand a tier really quickly and keep a high level of building and in game. Last year, I think u already show it a lot but yeah still an unfortunate run. This year, glad we had u, I already said it but u as builder and me as viability check works really well (we made a lot and a lot test before validate bramble band). Unfort I think it will be a one shot, nobody will let us have u for 3k again :skull:. Just the goat

Honnestly after 5 days, it's weird to say it but I think it motivate myself a lot to improve myself as a player and for the future as manager. I said it but I doubt a lot during this tournament, about my ability to do the right things when it really count. But yeah nah, I still have the passion to improve myself to be better. It's just ofc more diffuse than the first years. Special thanks to 2 ex melemele, Hurtadoo, I learn a lot about how u manage a team and how u see a good team, I think I follow ur step at this point. Same for mushamu I already knew it, but yeah it's huge what u did and I think had the habits to do for ur team, hope I follow ur stap as a player cuz I think we have a similar approach about this game.

Huge thanks to adjustments, Trouser Snakes and Attribute , for all the help in semis and finals. In some ways it would probably not possible whithout ut help

That's all MELEMELE !
 
As always, huge thanks for the hosting it was amazing !

I waited the manager message here, but yeah huge thx to both of you for picking me and letting me play, even if I'm your friend it means a lot that you see me as a player capable of doing well.

It was as always a very fun tour, big shoutouts to all the MELEMELE team, you were the best and it'll always be a very good memory to me : outside of the frenchies I knew basically nobody (outside of the helpers, big heart on you all by the way you were the goats too) so it's always just super cool to see and team with new faces !

Finally, huge thx to all the teams and particularly my pool in this tour : you're all great players and I really tried to outdo myself (bw mono is a madfun tier for me). I'm not old in this community and joined tournaments on a whim (monothreat freak player here...) but I learnt a lot of things, improved and saw where I have to progress all thanks to them and their players.

I hope to see you all in a next tour (maybe in threat ?????????), until then, cya !
MELEMELE MELEMELE
 
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