With our season coming to a close this week against the Jinwoos, I figured a shoutout post was in order. From the bottom of my heart, I want to thank each and every Luckitung for all their work this season. This was my first ever time managing a teamtour, and I couldn’t have asked for a better team to kick off the maiden voyage. We were the team with the highest number of players, and we slotted every single one of us. Chungler and I had it decided from the start of the season— if we were going to win, we were going to do it because all of us contributed, and if we lost, we were all going to shoulder that together. All being said and done, I’m super happy with how we performed, losing out to only the Charms and the Jinwoos, two super capable teams who I’m excited to see duke it out in finals. Thanks everyone for all your work throughout the season, and I hope to run it back next year with as many of you as possible!
THE_CHUNGLER – the underscore chungler
Maris Bonibelle – The unofficial third manager— Maris had more lines in the server than me and Chungler combined, and was a huge boon as support for like half the tiers. SU, LC, and STABmons would have been a lot worse off without you to bounce ideas off of, and that’s on top of carrying her own draft theorycrafting. Going 3-3 in the hardest pool in the tour while keeping the rest of us grounded is no small feat, thanks a ton for all your help <3
Daniolo7 – Make no mistake, Daniolo is HIM. A sleeper pick at the draft stage (I think only me and Soda had our eyes on him), he’s been farming an underground Spanish Rentals league for over a year before this tournament started, and he hit the ground running with a huge experience gap over literally everyone else in the tournament. Even in a quite competitive pool of experienced RBY players like Enigami, Toxin, and Quarante8, Dani started the season 6-0 and enabled the Luckitung run to go as far as it did.
Acetylaldehyde – Another absolute cornerstone of the tungs, Acetyl was one of only 3 players in the entire tour that were 4-0 after 4 weeks, and given how many ties we had, if even a single one of those was a loss, we may not have made playoffs. You did a crazy amount of prepwork in your channel every week, and I knew we were always in good hands for STABmons.
Sotina – Goatina is a high-tier clicker, we picked her up as a jack-of-all-trades player that we could slot in basically any slot and know she’d deliver, and we were lucky enough to be able to put her in her preferred tier and let her flex. Even in speed tie simulator where luck didn’t always go her way, her endgame lines were super optimized and she oddsmaxxed like nobody’s business.
bello figo – Our resident 1v1er, he handled prep for himself and also trained up FighterFrog in 1v1 at the same time. Gave a good performance every week even in the face of some rough luck and irl priorities, and I’m really happy we snagged you for our 1v1 slot. Thanks for all the great work, and all the insight & resources into the different sets/use cases for the viable mons with versatility.
Teh – You were super self-sufficient in NC97 and made the right clicks pretty much every week (we don’t speak about the sleep clause incident). Was nice knowing we had a good clicker every week to oddsmax in evasion simulator, even if the luck didn’t always go your way. Also supplied the hypest and fastest set of NC97 ever seen to secure the tie during semifinals and keep the team alive!
Click>Think – The Clickler… a super nice presence to have in the tungcord and had really good insight in ZU. Broke our 0-5 ZU curse in Semis and it was clear from your postgame discussions you really thought out the follow-up lines before making plays. Came into ZU completely fresh, and the randbats versatility really showed here— you took to the tier like a duck to water and with just a few practice games you were already pointing out solid lines I wasn’t considering. Next OMPL people should have their eye on him, he’s got a great intuition for RBY and is an equally great vibes buff to the team environment.
ThatOneApple – Another well-rounded clicker that could reasonably slot anywhere, I first found out how good apple’s RBY intuition was when we teamed in RBYPL and he learned UU basically immediately, finding optimal lines in seconds that would have taken me 10 times as long to deliberate about. It’s a shame we only got to slot you for 2 weeks, but knowing we had a reliable clicker waiting in the wings the other 4 weeks made planning a lot easier.
fiish – A tragic victim of Chungler and I drafting 2 little cup players, I so wish I could have slotted her every week. Winning the sleepless LC tournament, when we needed you to start you fell right back into the swing of things and played out of your gourd with some crazy predicts and landed all of them.
FighterFrog – Our final undefeated player at 1-0, FighterFrog was a sleeper pick from randbats that was also our cheapest— a steal at 4k. As a week 1 bench main, he went out of his way to learn tiers he wasn’t familiar with so he could play practice games with starters or sub in last minute if needed. Farmed me 7-0 in 1v1 practice during tryouts, and showed he could pick up tiers quickly and reliably. And when we needed you to start, you won your 1v1 set 4-2, correctly predicting what your opponent would choose basically every single game. Managers, keep your eye on him next OMPL (or don’t so I can pick him up again for 4k next go-around :gareggmie: )
aerobee – Aerobee started the tour with no RBY experience, only joining because dumbass unserious gastlies told them to, and luckily unlike their recruiter Aero proved to be a smartass serious player. We threw them into the deep end of the proverbial ZU pool and they were happy to learn, seeking out a bunch of practice games and picking up the tier super quickly. We only got to slot you for a single week, but I would have been happy to slot you into ZU again— at the rate you were improving you would have been ZUing with the best of ‘em if you had any more weeks to hone your craft.
DD Joe – The Dragon Dance Joseph, if we dropped Aerobee into the deep end of the pool we dropped you into the ocean, playing your first ever ZU game during your actual set. An established RBY clicker, we sent you out with nothing but a few bulletpoints about the tier. Naturally there was going to be a learning curve on a first set, and for nothing but a single paragraph tutorial on the tier, you played solid.
Support (Wanted in 49 States, Virae, Volk, Link, Torkonpeter, Hammer) – Behind every great team is a great support, and I’m happy to have had you all along for the ride.
Wanted in 49 States and Virae were a big help during the drafting process, both in theorycrafting and weighing in on next picks more than the actual managers did, and having established & reliable builders to help with draft was invaluable in a tier where half the battle is in the builder.
virae was invaluable with help in basically every tier in some capacity throughout the season— helping out with practice games for Rentals, Draft, NC97, and ZU; with insight and team evaluations in the other 4 tiers throughout the run. Volk, Link, Tork, and Hammer were all playoff acquisitions after other teams had been eliminated, and while
Link407 had been helping Daniolo with Rentals throughout the season, Volk/Tork/Hammer were poached directly from other teams, and each had a lot of expertise in a bunch of different tiers.
hammer798 helped Sotina prep for little cup,
torkonpeter provided some last-minute help with SU, and
Volk in particular could support basically every single tier, and was a big help in STABmons, Rentals, SU, and even ZU. All 3 of them were just an overall nice presence to have in the general and game discussion chats too. Everyone having someone to bounce ideas off of in their respective tier made for a really friendly teamcord environment, and a productive one for improving as players, so thank you.
Thanks for everything y’all, was a super fun time managing, and I’m glad to have been able to joke around and play RBY with you all the past two months!
Mickey Mankeys: 6 points, 4 differential
Aurafarming Jinwoos: 5 points, 6 differential
The Luckitungs: 5 points, 6 differential
Charmeleon Chokeslam: 3 points, -2 differential
Supersonic Shellders: 3 point, -6 differential
W i l d b u n g i s W e e d l e s: 2 points, -8 differential
