Tournament PUBD II - Semifinals (Tiebreakers #32)

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Hey guys,

Interrupting the win posts to make a quick log of my first teamtour experience as Vigs have been defeated:

Firstly, thanks so much to VyoletRayn and Theycallmephil for taking a gamble and drafting a new player and making it such a fun and inclusive experience! Both were incredibly supportive and kind throughout the tour.

I started the tour supporting as much as I could with tests and building and found that my opinions were well received, especially for SV (probably my best tier). Everyone listened and worked collaboratively and it was a very gratifying and fun experience.

I learnt a hell of a lot of PU this tournament, having tried every single tier in tests at least. I really enjoyed learning from our strong players and getting a chance to play myself in some cool sets.

I'm really pleased to have gone 2-2 in 4 diff tiers (LOL) and can't wait to play more teamtours!

Some personal shoutouts:

Lambovino This guy is an incredible player, character and builder. His presence was massively helpful for everyone and was always aronud for tests, was supportive and played suuuuuper well this tournament. Needs more respect on his name!

2xTheTap Same sentiments, great player, super active, very very nice guy and helped me a ton with my lower tier experiences and learning. Amazing to tour with.

yandaud again, super active (apart from his small hiatus) helpful, communicative and an extremely strong player no matter the tier. Absolute monster in DPP PU too!

Sabelette crazy strong RBYer, extremely useful and communicative with their teambuilding and helped me a ton with my rby set.

Tizio Potente Ao and Gallinova were also super healthy presences in the server, active, supportive and kind and both play very very well.

Anyone I've missed, I appreciated everyone on the team and it was just a super fun and enjoyable experience !

Good luck to the Mongeys and their opponent in finals :)
 
I am posting this only to thank how ridiculously cool everyone was with me,all my teammates were wonderful and it was one of the servers where I felt most comfortable and best treated,VyoletRayn is a really cool guy and a great captain,he has a lot of charisma and always willing to help you,same with Theycallmephil ,she was always very attentive and kind,bringing a great atmosphere and playing gamestestest,without hesitation about Lambovino, 2xTheTap ,DD Joe ,yandaud I have no words to talk about how wonderful they are. I really hope see all this guy in other tours and vy+phil core of managers, they was amazing. Clearly I have to apologize for my performance that is being pitiful so far this year, I will not justify myself just say I'm sorry.

mention of BloodAce who offered to play games with me, maybe I should have played a lot more with him and Aurist He helped me with the team this week and played some games with me, I had not had the opportunity to meet him and he was a great guy, I hope to meet him on other tours

https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen2pu-825426 i won in a honorary game vs thechungler, thanks for play with me, u are great my friend, gl in finals
 
Okay its later than I planned but I made a promise and I'll be damned if I don't keep it.

This is the vigoroths shootout post


First of all i wanna thank the hosts of this tournament for even giving me the opportunity to manage this tour. This was truly a pleasure and an honor I did not take lightly. The other managers were all respectful and cooperative aswell so uh ty guys!!!

Now enough about those stuffy old non-vigs amiright :vigoroth:


First I wanna shoutout my co-manager and an anchor of our SV core VyoletRayn after wc ended we became fast friends and i somewhat jokingly asked if he'd manage the next pu tour with me and I got a yes, as this tour came closer I became more anxious about getting drafted and more willing to try managing so, I asked again. And the VigilanteVigoroth 's were formed
Vy was a massive help obviously as my co, often being the optimist to my rage and pessimism.. I had a ton of fun managing with him and honestly don't think I could've chosen a better partner for my first time managing.

Love u vy.

Next shoutout has gotta be the infamously most expensive player of the tour, Xiri the guy obviously has, incredible skill for mons and i went into it expecting to learn alot from him and boy did I, great vibes all around, helped out other slots when he could. Just a standout guy and brought value to that high price. See you around friend.


Next up for philip glazing is the #1 overall draft pick, my goat DD Joe obviously, incredible vibes. Seriously I loved everything about having this guy on the team. The thing that stuck out most to me tho was how useful he was for tests, testing with everyone and taking alot of weight off me, especially when I went through some illness and mental health crisis during this tour. DDjoe is also an incredible guy to bounce ideas off of, found myself doing that quite alot. And obviously he holds the moniker for most different tiers played in this tour, at a whopping 4. He was very eager to learn each time we called upon him and truly just demonstrated a refreshing love for the game.
Absolutely adore this guy, very glad I was bold and snatched him up for 3k when I did. #ddretain 2026


Speaking of 3ks..how the hell did we get Lambovino for a measly 3k
To say nothing of his incredible 4-1 record, lambo brought amazing vibes to the team and was very supportive of all the other players. This guy was a pleasure to work with and I hope I get the chance to do so again.

Love u lambo, shame we'll be opps in wc..

Next up i wanna shout out Platum
Its a shame we didn't get to play them more, but a supportive and valued vigoroth nonetheless. See u around goat.

Next up is Estarossa our dual SM and GSC warrior, truly just an outstanding player and honestly very sweet. Was tons of help with tests especially in their 2 main gens as well as a few brilliant dpp ideas iirc, was glad to have you along for the ride.

Next week have, 2xTheTap holy moly was he supportive, doubling as our dedicated oras starter and my advisor when things got tough, im very glad I had someone like tap around for this tour. Also I love your cat. Truly just an incredible presence with ingenious insite and invaluable experience. Thank you for coming along for this ride.

The natural order of the gens suggests it's time for Tizio Potente Ao who, despite having never picked up the meta before (that being bw pu) put on a marvelous performance and was just a pleasure to talk mons with throughout the tour. Genuinely such a nice guy and one of my routine chatters in the game discussion channel. Always excited to catch a game w this guy. :rampardos:
Hope to see you around more, and it'd be an honor to team up again.

Time to talk about yandaud
This is genuinely one of the nicest most approachable people i think you can find on this site, great flexibility with what he can play/test aswell. Loved having you around. You're a great guy.

Now how about Oathkeeper
Despite having a pretty rough go of things this guy was always being supportive in the cord and truly elevating my experience. Bounced plenty of ideas off him aswell. Hope to see ya around.

Our adv was notoriously cursed but!!
How things turned out wasn't for a lack of trying, BP and Amity were great and reliable support as well as trying their hands at getting in there to play.
Sorry this slot turned out this way, but I liked working with you 2

Gsc time!! Gallinova I already talked about esta so this is gallis section.
This guy was incredibly sweet, honestly talking to him kept me in a good mood throughout this tour, games went kinda tough but he was never giving anything but 100%. Very dedicated guy
Loved having him around
And yes my friend 6'1 is a pretty tall woman❤️

I was ecstatic to pick up Sabelette for this tour. Because I adore rby and the chance to get in great talks about rby AND put up a great record in my favorite tier was huge to me. And this is exactly what we got.
Sabelette was a great presence and I learned alot. Is it a safespace to admit I was a bit intimidated by her before this tour? Cuz i was. However i had a great time teaming with them.

But wait..there's more!!
sufys my greatest critic but, also obviously a great guy who I really like talking to, i was glad to pick him up even if I misunderstood their signup post..silly locked into oras grrr.
Sufys was great to tell me when my ideas were just, plain stupid.
See ya around friend❤️

Soda_Eesti its a shame we didn't get to have you on the field of battle, however when around you were still a great presence. See you around

I loved this team. Seriously this was an awesome crew and it was a pleasure to lead it
The plot kept us out of finals this time...but we'll be back...stronger than ever...:slaking:

Stay tuned for vigoroth team dumps going up in the following days.
 
Alt Girl Altarias (0) vs (0) Psycho Scowlers :articuno-galar:
SV: asa vs Metallica126 Loor and Metallica played an excellent game last week, and Asa won’t let metallica get away with using alolaslash spikes unpunished, this is the highlight match of the tour so far
BW: MZ vs LpZ banger match, I don’t really know how to beat lpz in this tier and I haven’t seen MZ play bw before, apparently he does build the tier a bit but this will be an uphill battle
DPP: Heysup vs gulch honestly would’ve liked to see dunoks or Alice kazumi in dpp with a gulch build, gulch did almost beat heysup last time but hasn’t been able to close out the game despite pulling a pretty good matchup from the looks of it
 
hell yea bw pu
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