Tournament SCL V - LC Discussion Thread

[BlackKnight_Gawain]

Another year, another iteration of Smogon Champions League! This thread is the hub for Little Cup's involvement in the tour — we'll be posting matches, predictions, discussions, metagame trends, Norwood status of all your favorite players and whatever else relevant to the Little Cup side of things in this tournament. Much like the last two years, I'll be your host for the thread bringing you all the updates and commentary!
(Faster this time I promise)

Relevant Links:

SCL V Commencement Thread
Schedule Sheet
Replays Thread
Usage Stats
Overall Spreadsheet

Teams in full:

LC Player Cores + Prices (starters in bold):

Studio Gible:
Laroxyl (12,000), fade* (10500), Taka (9000)
Orange Islanders:
Envy (10,000), Colin (10500, retain)
Indigo Platoon:
Kaboom (5000), Fille (3000) [Kingler and Quinn manager support]
Uncharted Terrors:
Lokifan (10,000, retain), BlackKnight_Gawain (5500), Hacker* (8000)
Technical Machines:
tazz (10,000, retain) [Expulso, Piyu manager support]
Mt. Silver Foxes:
Always Edgy (3000), Onraider (3000)
Power Plant Dynamos:
jake (3000), Greedy_eb (4500)
Showdown Shoguns:
Eniigma (10000)
Circuit Breakers:
Wail Wailord (4000), AJ (5500)
Arena Spartans:
Starsama (16000) [tko manager support}​

(* indicates that a player may be listed as signed up for LC and/or tierlocked but not necessarily playing)​

 

[daunt vs]

I have been told gawain is starting

 

[reggg]

I have been told gawain is starting

why aren't you starting?

 

[Éric]

as you know, i made scl v draft predictions woo! here are the overall results:

dumb questions

the people have voted: dvs is most definitely a bum. there's only one person who voted against it, most likely dvs himself while coping.

72% of people think (wrongfully) that colin will not be playing lc this tour. this is probably due to the fact he locked out of it and has a very competent svlc partner in envy, but do not let this fool you: svlc will be his new swsh jail

actual predicts

laro, eniigma, envy and starsama are the four players who the people were absolutely sure were gonna get picked. we still dont know officially if laro is gonna play lc or not, and i guess technically we dont know if envy is playing lc (even tho its totally clear), but they all did get picked. democracy wins this time.

this is the bunch of players who got around evened out spreads of votes, meaning no one had a fucking clue whether theyd get picked or not. out of these, only edgy, onraider, greedy and fille got picked. only edgy is expected to start here, as onraider, greedy and fille all have an lc teammate that went for more money in auction. they are absolutely no slouch (except greedy who is bad and bald), so dont count them out!

these are the three people who had overall positive responses, meaning theyre likely to get picked, but not guaranteed. jake and wail got picked, while elfuseon got snubbed for some reason (unless gawain missed him in his post). these kinds of players are the most interesting to watch always, so keep an eye on them! wail def 9-0ing

lastly, these are the people you guys had absolutely no faith in getting picked, but did. you bastards. actually, i dont really know if santu got picked. gawain didnt put him in the op, but come one he is one of the best players on the site, i will just assume he missed him.

thanks for reading! and remember: if you want this post deleted, want me to post something else, or want your specific result, you can give me money for free in paypal.me/eridbst

 

[daunt vs]

why aren't you starting?

Never, that would be elderly abuse