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Tournament PMPL V - Semifinals

Murphy Lawden

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Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | Semifinals | Finals
Administrative Decisions | Commencement | Spreadsheet | Replays and Usage

:Gourgeist:Workers Union of Gourgsokyo (2) vs (5) Gladiator Gallades:Gallade:
Iron Fist: anaconja vs presi
[Gen 6] Megas Revisited: Airi vs NoName6293
Fusion Evolution Gen 9: Mareep vs Joaf
Paleomons Gen 9: BenjiTho vs jawabarat
Teramax: ElectraineHeart vs Slikkles
Glacemons: Felilou vs Jojen
Blank Canvas Meta C: omar vs shreyashhy
Random Tandem (Bo3): Peum vs pixie909

:Furret:Fast & Furret (1) vs (6) Torchics RD:Torchic:
Iron Fist: Tanny89k vs about15gals
[Gen 6] Megas Revisited: 1yr vs Tempo di anguria
Fusion Evolution Gen 9: NecasInTrouble vs The Hisui Region
Paleomons Gen 9: solrock the great vs haxlolo
Teramax: Orangesodapop vs Clas
Glacemons: qtfox vs HydreigonTheChild
Blank Canvas Meta C: TTTech vs CoruptedUsername
Random Tandem (Bo3): bekama vs eldids


Deadline for Semifinals is <t:1788191940:F>. GLHF!

Workers Union of Gourgsokyo (0) vs (0) Gladiator Gallades
Iron Fist: anaconja vs presi
[Gen 6] Megas Revisited: Airi vs NoName6293
Fusion Evolution Gen 9: Mareep vs EJ
Paleomons Gen 9: BenjiTho vs jawabarat
Teramax: ElectraineHeart vs Slikkles
Glacemons: Felilou vs Jojen
Blank Canvas Meta C: omar vs shreyashhy
Random Tandem (Bo3): Peum vs pixie909

Fast & Furret (0) vs (0) Torchics RD
Iron Fist: Tanny89k vs about15gals
[Gen 6] Megas Revisited: 1yr vs Tempo di anguria
Fusion Evolution Gen 9: NecasInTrouble vs The Hisui Region
Paleomons Gen 9: solrock the great vs haxlolo
Teramax: Orangesodapop vs Clas
Glacemons: qtfox vs HydreigonTheChild
Blank Canvas Meta C: TTTech vs CoruptedUsername
Random Tandem (Bo3): bekama vs eldids

Ping one of the hosts if you spot an error, we are human after all!​
 
:archeops::ludicolo::enamorus-therian::girafarig::pheromosa: SwordIsBored vs big tony 2014 :lokix::sawk::exploud::muk::moltres::archeops:
sword has something very similar to oculars' team last year in w5, seemingly with the unlikely combination of graveyard and trump card. this seems pretty counterintuitive - weather tends to be offensive and want to close the game out fast, but trump card requires slower games to be able to rack up cards for big balatro blasts. at least the card and blast users are both immune to graveyard chip. tony on the other hand seems to have a voltturn balance with kyrum (lokix 2) + grimace acting as the anti-offense with wallbreaking coming from a possible spa invested tyler or band archeops. kyrum in particular could have a good mu into sword's team considering it can keep kurayami from sweeping and with tera also pressures enamorus hard (band leech does like 63 min). sword will probably have to preserve a likely armor tail archeops to check it.
sword leads with ludicolo to set up graveyard and immediately gets forced out by the kyrum counterlead, taking half on enam from uturn and allowing tony to mega moltres for free... except it gets hit by a hidden baseball from archeops and gets its spa/spd nerfed. grimace comes in to take the archeops hits but gets recover looped until it gets enough hp to curse and force archeops out. it predicts the switch and stanky legs the ludicolo, but it gets to set graveyard again and a free trump card on a moltres switch. sword goes kurayami predicting a roost, but it clicks fire blast doing good dmg before dying. not sure about this play because surely keeping it alive or at least defogging the sr is good to keep kyrum healthy.
kyrum fimps to revenge and sword reveals its actually chained wrath arch which is interesting considering it doesnt seem to be evd to get atk boosts from slower foes or have a scarf. archeops goes for a dubious iron head failing to 2hko the grimace and also getting chipped by helmet, but gets enam in for free on the milk drink who also goes for a dubious ep (252+ SpA Choice Specs Fashion Icon Enamorus-Therian Springtide Storm vs. 252 HP / 0 SpD Grimace in a Graveyard: 315-371 (76 - 89.6%) -- 50% chance to OHKO (87.5% chance to OHKO after zombies damage)) which tyler can switch into.
however tony perhaps predicts a tera bug and doubles to archeops which allows ludicolo to set graveyard yet again. i dont understand this play personally because even not factoring the 20/20 hindsight that boomburst on ludicolo would help tony longterm sword doesnt actually have a defensive switchin to it and teraing enam would only allow it to chip tyler for 20 (calcs seem to say its specs). anyway arch defogs while sword brings their own arch and just sets rocks again, chipping grimace with eq before dying.
sword takes advantage of the momentum to bring out girafarig only to switch out against kyrum, even though psyterrain is up and it probably kills with its coverage. tony sacks grimace to enam and defogs the terrain and rocks but sword predicts this and almost kills arch with springtide. turns out arch wasnt steel stab anyway so it dies to a second springtide, and after that tony doesnt have enough sacks to revenge with fimp so kurayami cleans up the rest.
balatro blast hardly played a role in this match with enam picking off mons pretty easily. it mostly comes down to tonys team lacking a good spd wall and having defog on a mon that loses pretty easily to most hazard setters that kept kyrum from properly pressuring swords team

:regice::zacian-crowned::chinchou::roaring-moon::talonflame: ihbst vs shreyashhy :lombre::moltres:
ihbst brings an offense team with an interesting pick in conquescape - it seems unfitting among its teammates since its only utility is slow pivoting and frigid terrain which only boosts the power of furumo and chinchou. the se reduction might be helpful for rmoon/zacc to set up as well as making anarlvet/daiyakuza ice type though. meanwhile shrey steals my dh team from more than a year ago lol. hell probably find it hard to set up anarlvet/daiyakuza considering up to three prio users, and rmoon probably sweeps the team if it safely gets a dd up esp if ohmyrod cant touch it.
ihbst leads zacc vs nedontrol and both get their sr up, but nedon gets chunked by pblades as it throws to daiyakuza. zacc in turn gets chunked by eq as it tries to set up with knuckle which forces ihbst to sack conquescape albeit chipping daiyakuza on the way out.
this allows talonflame to force a nedon sack; shrey uses this to mega moltres but chinchou comes in to force it out on a roost, burning and chipping the ohmyrod on the switch. ihbst sacks zacc and brings in furumo to spin while shrey receptions to dr liberty, but furumo activates spell card perfect freeze and flips to chinchou to force a rod sack. anarlvet consumes the madness counter and might pose a big threat but luckily furumo lives a knock and with chinchou and rmoon cleans up the rest of the team.
if shreys gonna steal my teams they gotta use the real ones bc im p sure this wasnt even good back in slate 8. daiyakuza isnt improved at all from the counters and sd is stupid af when you start at -3 and nedon being the only spd wall means you instalose to chinchou and yknow other problems with being 4 slates behind

:scrafty::celesteela::muk::kingler-gmax::silvally-fairy::vanilluxe: Tanny89k vs about15gals :kricketune::gardevoir-mega::crawdaunt:
abouts team is definitely modern dh done right. three sources of madness counters and all 6 dh allows it to keep the boosts up well, and daiyakuza-o fixes most of the problems base had in being way too slow and not being able to boost itself. meanwhile tanny brings the average sand semistall
about leads syndicant and immediately webs as fridgile sets sand and volts to kingler presumably to set hazards on it back, but it gets taunted and fails toxic which i think was an inaccuracy as as a lead mon its def going to pack taunt. it doesnt matter too much though as syndicant just kills itself anyway to set a madness counter. princirang eats the counter and might be threatening if its the cm psychic set tanny brought in w2 but its actually tbolt to hit molt so grimace eats its hit easily. dr liberty gets a free switchin but is held back by fridgile enough for it to set rocks before getting smited by sr. cowboy comes in and both tera bug (unnecessarily for about) which allows the former to resist focus blast and revenge with a big knock. was surprised to see cowboy get outsped meaning that its band river thief and not sd sand rush.
daiyakuza attempts to revenge but kingler takes its stab easily and toxics on the sd. unfortunately its coverage is eq meaning celesteela easily walls it and princirang out, pretty much closing the game out at that point because no one can contest grimace.
i think this was an unfortunate mu for about - packing tbolt on princirang and eq on daiyakuza allowed them to be mega walled, so psychic and maybe drain punch were better options.
 
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I was not expecting last week's results, really excited to see who take its all this year

Workers Union of Gourgsokyo (0) vs (8) Gladiator Gallades
Iron Fist: anaconja vs presi - its gourgs
[Gen 6] Megas Revisited: Airi vs NoName6293 - its gourgs
Fusion Evolution Gen 9: Mareep vs EJ - its gourgs
Paleomons Gen 9: BenjiTho vs jawabarat - its gourgs
Teramax: ElectraineHeart vs Slikkles - its gourgs
Glacemons: Felilou vs Jojen - its gourgs
Blank Canvas Meta C: omar vs shreyashhy - its gourgs
Random Tandem (Bo3): Peum vs pixie909 - its gourgs

Fast & Furret (0) vs (0) Torchics RD
Iron Fist: Tanny89k vs about15gals - Tanny has been on a good streak
[Gen 6] Megas Revisited: 1yr vs Tempo di anguria - Tempo is the more reliable player
Fusion Evolution Gen 9: NecasInTrouble vs The Hisui Region - Necas the undefeated slot
Paleomons Gen 9: solrock the great vs haxlolo - lolo the better player but solrock clutched when needed the most
Teramax: Orangesodapop vs Clas - the bingo slot beckons
Glacemons: qtfox vs HydreigonTheChild - the child is stronger most of the time
Blank Canvas Meta C: TTTech vs CoruptedUsername - TTTech is back to the man i sued to glaze years ago
Random Tandem (Bo3): bekama vs eldids - Bekama lost the juice he had in covid
 
Gekokeso said:
I was not expecting last week's results, really excited to see who take its all this year

Workers Union of Gourgsokyo (0) vs (8) Gladiator Gallades
Iron Fist: anaconja vs presi - its gourgs
[Gen 6] Megas Revisited: Airi vs NoName6293 - its gourgs
Fusion Evolution Gen 9: Mareep vs EJ - its gourgs
Paleomons Gen 9: BenjiTho vs jawabarat - its gourgs
Teramax: ElectraineHeart vs Slikkles - its gourgs
Glacemons: Felilou vs Jojen - its gourgs
Blank Canvas Meta C: omar vs shreyashhy - its gourgs
Random Tandem (Bo3): Peum vs pixie909 - its gourgs

Fast & Furret (0) vs (0) Torchics RD
Iron Fist: Tanny89k vs about15gals - Tanny has been on a good streak
[Gen 6] Megas Revisited: 1yr vs Tempo di anguria - Tempo is the more reliable player
Fusion Evolution Gen 9: NecasInTrouble vs The Hisui Region - Necas the undefeated slot
Paleomons Gen 9: solrock the great vs haxlolo - lolo the better player but solrock clutched when needed the most
Teramax: Orangesodapop vs Clas - the bingo slot beckons
Glacemons: qtfox vs HydreigonTheChild - the child is stronger most of the time
Blank Canvas Meta C: TTTech vs CoruptedUsername - TTTech is back to the man i sued to glaze years ago
Random Tandem (Bo3): bekama vs eldids - Bekama lost the juice he had in covid
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As another preface, Id like to offer my deepest apologies to the Worker's Union of Gourgsokyo for allienating them. I didn't mean to offend anyone with my jokes about losing in semis and I can understand if it seems like im doing this to specifically spite you all. It was never our intention to cause any harm to them, as this decision was based not out of personal preference but rather adhering to the rules and ensuring fairness, but as it is it my job as tour host to ensure to enforce the tour rules to the best of our ability.
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Resign Now Cuckokeso
 
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