sounded pretty personal to me.
also from what i hear, west supposedly sat down and theorymon'ed vil's team last night. they even came up with the idea to add a rock polish rhyperior to scofield's team. i don't think he ended up doing but still, shows the intent :)
Aren't tournament directors not supposed to start things?
So yeah, I'll waste my 500th post on this crap.
We discussed VIL last night yes, but not in any capacity that gave me an unfair advantage. I asked, "what type of teams do VIL tend to use"? A perfectly valid question, if VIL had asked anyone the same about me, the response would've been "balanced bulky teams". Someone said "a parahax team". From there, we discussed things commonly seen on such teams, jirachi, machamp, paralyzers, etc. Another westerner had battled VIL and asked if I wanted to see the log, something which I refused. TBH I didn't pay that much attention to this, I had already decided on a team and only ever made 1 item change before the match, something I did while I was still in Ireland (ie before R3 came up). I had decided that my team can handle anything he threw at me, whether he used that team or another. I made no significant changes to the team, and hardly knew anything about his besides a basic strategy.
The rock polish rhyperior thing is also way off base. It was suggested to me in passing this morning like 20 min before the match, something that I never really considered. Why on earth would I mess with my team now after all the testing I did? I didn't even consider it, as I was going to stick to my guns. What intent does that show? I've suggested much worse in West IRC before, hell, I've suggested murder in the chat a few times....
Honestly, ultimately, no one else in the west was playing that match, it was me, I was unaware of VIL's team, I used the team I used the whole tournament, and I really don't appreciate you trying to take anything away from me, or west as a whole. I mean, this whole thing was settled, VIL and I agreed it was a good match, I don't even see any reason why you had to take this further.
And before anyone says anything about me taking things too seriously, this is me trying to keep under control, let's not escalate things any further.
EDIT: Phil probably thought I wasn't there because I wasn't paying attention and didn't say anything lol
and maybe you guys talked about it more after I left so yeah
Yeah, they did most of their discussion after I went to bed, so I wasn't even there for that, and never even saw the convo...