OK, I finally got home and here are my views on this.
First of all, congrats to all the players on the list, especially Rukario and 7014gree. Two great players and friends of mine, who I had the honor to play throughout the tournament. Well done to you two, along with everyone else who played in the tournament. A lot of great names in the list. Good job to Ruben and Flash too, we had a couple of good games there too.
Second of all, I want to point out that I've probably played the most games out of anyone who competed in this competition. I was sick that weekend, and stayed home rather than going out with friends and left my DS on the entire time and battled basically every day of the tournament. This also means I've probably had the most disconnections out of anyone... I didn't properly record them, but I want to say I had around 120. Maybe more. On the first day, I had only 1 disconnection, and that was an accidental one against soul_survivor (in which had the win) because my mom shut off my DS. Afterwards, it was crazy. People disconnected every other game to protect their 1700+ ratings, and climbing up seemed impossible. I started Sunday with like a 1960+ rating, dropped down to almost below 1900, and slowly worked my way up to my 2050+ rating, beating (and losing) to a ton of opponents that I know are class VGC Players in real life. At one point, I was getting literally 1 win for every 10 disconnections, and I was getting really frustrated about this.
As for disconnections on my side: I won't lie, it has disconnected because on my side several times. My Wi-Fi isn't that shaky, but whenever I walk into another room with my DS, my game immediately drops the connection. I think R Inanimate can vouch for me on this: I beat him, but my game disconnected before the game/records were counted. This happened a bunch of times in team preview, and maybe 2-3 times when I lost and I truly apologize for that.
I don't mind that much that I am not on the list, because I know that I did well enough to be 2nd. What I hope people don't think is that I disconnected a lot to get my way there, and I hope you all know that I didn't. I took my losses against everyone fair and square (7014gree, MattJ, TR_Jesse, and several others that don't even have online accounts can vouch for me on this).
I don't know how Pokemon DQ'd players like me. I had around 10 DC's on my side (to my knowledge). Maybe this is the reason I was disqualified. I'm not trying to make excuses or anything, but my brother got a new case for his DS over the weekend and this seemed to weaken the connection significantly, and after it DC'd a bunch of times, I took it off just to be safe. I just hope people don't actually think I disconnected to get where I did.
Thanks for the tournament TCPi, it was fun. It's just a bit disheartening to know that I don't even get any recognition for doing well, especially when I actually spent so much time on this and took it a bit seriously.
Aaron
EDIT: And honestly, I'd rather them include everyone then DQ people who DC'd. Seeing how I know a lot of players on this list have disconnected at least once (Ruben disconnected against me after I beat him. Accidental or not, it was still a DC. All my disconnections were accidental, but guess who didn't end up being included?) :(
