Tournament NUPL XII - Finals [won by Vibrant Vivillons]

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:sv/vivillon: vs :sv/ninetales:
Vibrant Vivillons (6) vs (4) Fabled Nine-Tailed Foxes
SV: Tuthur vs Taka
SV: zS vs Floss
SV: Danny vs frankjosh
SV: Django vs GXE
SS: Pokeslice vs Kushalos
SM: etern vs Tenebricite
ORAS: Trade vs lax
BW: hellom vs Tack
DPP: vivalospride vs Real FV13
ADV: Parpar vs Xrn

The deadline for this round is Sunday, July 7th at 11:00 PM GMT -4. Congrats to both teams for making it here and good luck :toast:

Vibrant Vivillons (0) vs (0) Fabled Nine-Tailed Foxes
SV: Tuthur vs Taka
SV: zS vs Floss
SV: Danny vs frankjosh
SV: Django vs GXE
SS: Pokeslice vs Kushalos
SM: etern vs Tenebricite
ORAS: Trade vs lax
BW: hellom vs Tack
DPP: vivalospride vs Real FV13
ADV: Parpar vs Xrn
 
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The final flips are here and we live in the worst timeline where diancies missed finals our coin continues middling results guess 10/18 players and 1/2 teams, 10 players left barring dead games and 1 final team to determine, regardless the coin will end with a worse than 33% success rate on predicting teams so have fun whoever the coin predicts to win

Overall season: (this will be updated as the week goes to reflect the coins final success rate)
Player predicts: 150/301 -- 49.83%
Team predicts: 10/31 -- 32.26%

FINAL FLIPS
Vibrant Vivillons (7) vs (3) Fabled Nine-Tailed Foxes
SV: Tuthur vs Taka
SV: zS vs Floss
SV: Danny vs frankjosh
SV: Django vs GXE
SS: Pokeslice vs Kushalos
SM: etern vs Tenebricite
ORAS: Trade vs lax
BW: hellom vs Tack
DPP: vivalospride vs Real FV13
ADV: Parpar vs Xrn
 
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Only doing SV because I know shit about the other tiers

Vibrant Vivillons (0) vs (0) Fabled Nine-Tailed Foxes
SV: Tuthur vs Taka - I like Tuthur builds, always bringing something heat. Taka will probably try to cheese again.
SV: zS vs Floss - floss is a good player but I think the nu tier suits zs more. Will likely be a good game.
SV: Danny vs frankjosh - I can see this go either way. Will probably come down to team choice because both play on a pretty high level from what I’ve seen.
SV: Django vs GXE - gxe is still unbeaten I think. Barring crazy luck there will be little hope for Django.

good luck to all :blobwizard::heart:
 
SV: Django vs GXE - gxe is still unbeaten I think. Barring crazy luck there will be little hope for Django.

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That's Smogon's luckiest player 2013 ur talking about
 
Vibrant Vivillons (4) vs (6) Fabled Nine-Tailed Foxes
SV: Tuthur vs Taka
SV: zS vs Floss
SV: Danny vs frankjosh
SV: Django vs GXE
SS: Pokeslice vs Kushalos
SM: etern vs Tenebricite
ORAS: Trade vs lax
BW: hellom vs Tack
DPP: vivalospride vs Real FV13
ADV: Parpar vs Xrn
 
Vibrant Vivillons (6) vs (4) Fabled Nine-Tailed Foxes
SV: Tuthur vs Taka - Tuthur is a sweaty nerd and will outprep Taka who doesn't seem to care/build much.
SV: zS vs Floss - zS is an enigma, at times he will have 0/10 takes like "ss groundvally is overrrated" or lose to Gurdurr, but then other times he conjures up the most otherwordly shit and succeeds with it. Both are good players but I have a better feel of zS's game sense and only one of them invented covert cloak Mesprit to troll Dudunsparce.
SV: Danny vs frankjosh - The stepbro will mollywhop hariyana grande I am convinced.
SV: Django vs GXE - The Vivillons have expertly managed to sack their weakest sv slot to the raid boss, wp. If GXE by some miracle loses I hope it will be the wake up call needed to play SS again next nupl.
SS: Pokeslice vs Kushalos - This is pretty much entirely dependent on how much kush tries; if he builds and tries I like his odds, but if he continues the foxes trend by !randpicking between outdated teams and going 2-5 in the tier for it, he will most likely get brutally punished by slice despite being the better player.
SM: etern vs Tenebricite - etern will bring something that tene has never heard of and get outcooked.
ORAS: Trade vs lax - Sliggoo gets you points in my book but not enough to beat lax.
BW: hellom vs Tack - Good player who knows the tier vs better player that doesn't. A full season of bwnu may have made hellom figure out the tier by now but underestimating Tack is a death trap.
DPP: vivalospride vs Real FV13 - Everyone always tells me that viv is basically jesus at this tier, surely they can't all be wrong?
ADV: Parpar vs Xrn - Xrn is very good and now that it's finals he might care enough to try influence the coinflip as positively as possible.
 
I’m currently on a long bus ride out to the middle to nowhere so I thought I’d gather my thoughts for shoutouts before I forget like I did with NUWC. This was an awesome tour, an awesome team environment, and an awesome way to earn my first CA from winning a tournament. It was a rollercoaster of a time the past few weeks in our server, but from the beginning we felt like we were the best team with our crazy crazy draft and I’m glad we lived up to the hype :)

shiloh - This feels like our 5000th NU tour together or something crazy like that, and it probably is, so it’s super fitting that we finally won a NUPL together, especially after dominating NUWC but not getting anything to show for it besides a malding DugZa (we’re keeping etern this tour as well). I’ve always enjoyed having you as a manager and there’s no one else better when it comes to dealing with dumb scheduling conflicts. I know we’ll team again and I’m looking forward to getting another win. 2/2 in the last 2 tours is pretty good I’d say.

etern - My fellow Californian, thanks for always having my back this tour and believing in me even when I didn’t feel my play or teams were up to par. That super late night test game session on the last day of finals is what I credit for me not panicking in my finals game, especially after we both were angry with how SM went and my own prep. It’s always a good time with you and I hope we run it back this NUWC.

Danny - After stealing my Drake CA, this felt like it needed to happen. You honestly carried prep in like 4 slots, including helping out a shit ton in SS with me, and we don’t win this tour without you. It was sort of funny watching you struggle finding a build you liked after seeing you pump out like 15 SV/SS teams, but sometimes tours go that way and just know even though you weren’t undefeated, you were easily the MVP here in my book. Let’s continue winning with ZUPL :pray:

Tuthur - 9K Tuthur LMAO. What a meme, almost like 98% of your meta takes, but that’s ok. As much as I love making fun of you saying things like “Plume is barely B tier in SV”, I enjoy teaming with you even more. I don’t know why people keep sleeping on your play when you go hyper positive the last three tours, but I won’t complain, especially with how it ended up for us.

Django - You almost gave me a heart attack in class. Like 8 times. I was trying to casually watch you beat gxe while paying attention to the lecture, but yeah…Thank God you won that one LOL. We don’t win this tour without that game or you in any other week as well. You were the ultimate 6th man when we needed you and a pretty awesome guy as well. I loved teaming with and getting to know your old ass. Thanks for the pub reqs in London as well :)

zS - I don’t know how you do it, but you always go .500 and always win NUPL LMAO. You’re the goat momo and a pleasure to team with. I know you felt like you were sort of checked out this tour because you were busy, but just having you on our side was bound to end up for the best. Thanks for sacrificing Danny in the finals with your win.

Trade - I remember when etern and Shiloh were talking about taking you out of retirement for this tour and wow you and Parpar have to have been the best budget picks of the entire draft (also shoutout DR keep it up). I think we got you for like 3K??? Absolutely ridiculous. You were always there to clutch up with your boomer energy which probably saved the week who knows how many times. At least 3-4. I don’t know what your region is, but you’re always invited to ORAS for U.S. West this NUWC…

hellom - Bro when you almost got banned I thought we were about to have to sub LOOR in BW and that would NOT have ended well. Thanks for not raging on ladder about someone haxing you long enough to win us this tour LMAO. You were a goated pilot of the classic Shiloh BW team and a pleasure to join forces with.

vivalospride - Even though you’re from the Valley, I’ll still happily call you a fellow Angelino. I don’t know what number time this is teaming together, but it’s always been an absolute blast being teammates with you, and if we couldn’t bring home SCL, at least we got a NUPL under our belts as consolation. It’s probably cooler and more prestigious anyways if you think about it.

Parpar - I’m still so mad we got you for 3K because I feel like if people don’t realize how good you are they never will. I swear every time I’ve faced you in a ssnl or seen you in a team tour you’re always super difficult to take down, and without looking a bit at the records this tour, I can say that it felt the same way this time around as well. You’re the goat and carried in ADV so I hope people realize that you should go for at LEAST 3.5K next time.

Baloor - What a full circle moment this was honestly. Any tournament success I get is because you helped introduce me a bit more into the tour scene, first with that ssnl run and then with that legendary BLT team. I feel like when I look back at all the tours I played, it definitely started at that moment, so it’s only right that we should win a NUPL together. It’s always a fun time when we team up together, especially with your ridiculous win rate in these things, and I hope ZUPL is next. We gotta lock in.

Ampha - I wish you had more games played this tour because your effort in prep and just vibes were beyond appreciated by me. Knowing that you were always willing to do the thankless job of creating scouts, run test games, or just sub in, even when you didn’t really get to play beyond a game or two goes such a long way. Really thank you and I hope we team up again because you were a fantastic teammate.

Welli0u Dangerous - We didn’t really get to interact much this tournament, but when we did, it was only a good time. I hope you guys enjoyed the tour as much as I did and that we can team up again in the future.

Dr. Phd. BJ - I’m so beyond happy we poached you from the PLOOMS towards the end of this tour. You added a much needed boost to our SV prep that was floundering and your tests, teams, and tips probably saved this tour for us. EQ Croak alone made it worth bringing you on board holy shit what a call. Let’s team up for real next time.

OranBerryBlissey10 Meri Berry - Thanks for all the help at the end with SS prep and just general brainstorming and discussion with this tier. It’s awesome and has so much potential, even if it just needs a bit of reworking. I’m looking forward on saving public opinion on SS NU together :)

I hope I got everyone in these shoutouts, but if I forgot you, it’s not that I don’t love and appreciate you, I’m just hungry and tired as I write all of this out. Thank you everyone once again this was an awesome tournament and I’m super glad we won this thing. GO VIVS WOOOOO
 
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