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Finals The World Cup of Pokémon 2017 - Finals [Won by Team USA East]
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Won vs Bad Ass, gg.
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I'll probably write up some cheesy shout-outs later (if only to make We Three Kings turn in his grave), but for now I wanna just thank everyone who has supported us and cheered for us as we somehow made it this far into the tour. This was an insane roller coaster and I couldn't be more proud of my team. We'll win the next one. n_n
Congratulations to everyone on US East!
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Ricardo
Banned deucer.
Well, lost against John, it was an honor playing vs someone i look up as a player, well played man, hopefully we can play again someday.
And congrats to you east, even if i think you guys are cancer at times, you have players that i admire and respect a lot on the team and keep showing why you have been winning every wcop lately, deserved trophies.
Thanks to everyone that helped and supported us throughout this tour, i'm glad there were people rooting for us.
And to europe, i can't thank you guys enough for everything.
This tour made me restore faith in team tours which is something i didn't think would be possible.
I've hated this game forever but you guys made it bearable for me during these weeks and thanks for putting up with my nonsense like johning every game, being a lazy fuck or going out and coming back super fucked to play important games.
The fact that even after all of this, you kept believing in me, means a lot and i'm thankful you guys betted on me after how some of my past performances went.
It was really fun having armchair calls, memeing and talking to you guys, some of these interactions really stuck with me and made me look at certain things in a different perspective and i can't thank you enough.
It was a fun ride and i never expected to be in finals and even if we didn't win, at least we tried our best and got close, thanks for carrying me into finals and hopefully we'll be back stronger next year and maybe get that blue trophy haha
Thanks for everything bros, love you all.
And congrats to you east, even if i think you guys are cancer at times, you have players that i admire and respect a lot on the team and keep showing why you have been winning every wcop lately, deserved trophies.
Thanks to everyone that helped and supported us throughout this tour, i'm glad there were people rooting for us.
And to europe, i can't thank you guys enough for everything.
This tour made me restore faith in team tours which is something i didn't think would be possible.
I've hated this game forever but you guys made it bearable for me during these weeks and thanks for putting up with my nonsense like johning every game, being a lazy fuck or going out and coming back super fucked to play important games.
The fact that even after all of this, you kept believing in me, means a lot and i'm thankful you guys betted on me after how some of my past performances went.
It was really fun having armchair calls, memeing and talking to you guys, some of these interactions really stuck with me and made me look at certain things in a different perspective and i can't thank you enough.
It was a fun ride and i never expected to be in finals and even if we didn't win, at least we tried our best and got close, thanks for carrying me into finals and hopefully we'll be back stronger next year and maybe get that blue trophy haha
Thanks for everything bros, love you all.
Usui Horokeu
Banned deucer.
lol pokemon in mid 2017 haha
I'm not a fan of individual shoutouts, since those just end up being an unnecessary cheese fest, so I won't be posting that kind of thing here (though I probably would have done them had we won lol). What I do want to say though is that this has easily been the most enjoyable tournament I've participated in on this site so far. Even if we had just ended up getting eliminated in R1, I would not have wanted to be on any other team. R1 was a fantastic three weeks for me overall, be it the armchair calls, the pleasant surprise when we somehow started winning game after game or the near heart-attack when we almost had a meltdown on the last day. Playoffs was not quite as fun, especially due to me being super busy and not really having the time to appreciate just how well we were doing, but I guess it also started being a bit less about goofing around and more about winning games, which is of course to be expected. We all wanted this trophy after all.
These finals were definitely far from ideal for us, what with our SM OU Superstar TheThorn being missing in action, and maybe having a couple of games that could have gone differently on another day. Though most of us probably didn't expect to even achieve our goal of #semisatleast, let alone surpass it, I'd be lying if I said it wasn't disappointing to make it this far only to fall at the final hurdle. As for east, I think you guys are absolutely deserving winners no matter how much hate is thrown your way. If there's one thing I'd say about east, it's that they rarely 'donate' games, far less often than most of the other teams for sure. I've seen plenty of bitching about east always benefitting from 'donations', but if the rest of us are going to lose games that are very much winnable when it counts, we have no right to complain about 'plot armor' or east 'dominating' this tour year after year. Regardless though, I think every team Europe member (other than Kushalos) deserves to be proud of what they've done in this tournament. Whether you won or lost in this final, you've all been amazing, and deserve to go out of this tour with your heads held high. The way we've built up this team over the past couple of years has been nothing short of incredible, and this year we've struck on a great mix of new talent and old heads.
Now as I said before, I won't be doing individual shoutouts for everyone, but I have to give a special mention to Pohjis. Low-key our MVP of the tournament, the amount of work you've put into helping everyone is mind-boggling. Easily the most useful scouting reports I've ever come across, the fact that you understand pretty much every generation of pokemon really shows when I look through them too. I wanted you to at least grab a win in this tournament so bad, shame that couldn't happen. But to everyone who's a manager in a team tour, snake/SPL or whatever, you should know that you're absolutely missing out if you don't pick up this man. And of course, I have to commend my captain Tony for putting together such a phenomenal team. I know you had many tough decisions to make, but you stuck to what you thought was best for the team and the results are there for all to see. Glad you saw the light in the nick of time and benched Kushalos + started me (fwiw though, I don't hold any sort of animosity towards kush, but it is rather lame to sign up for a tournament like this and have your only activity being stuff like complaining about pu classic). I'm happy that I was able to reward your trust and deliver for the team this time.
But yeah, that's gonna be it from me. To everyone else, expect us to come back even stronger next year. #TROPHYATLEAST will be the goal.
These finals were definitely far from ideal for us, what with our SM OU Superstar TheThorn being missing in action, and maybe having a couple of games that could have gone differently on another day. Though most of us probably didn't expect to even achieve our goal of #semisatleast, let alone surpass it, I'd be lying if I said it wasn't disappointing to make it this far only to fall at the final hurdle. As for east, I think you guys are absolutely deserving winners no matter how much hate is thrown your way. If there's one thing I'd say about east, it's that they rarely 'donate' games, far less often than most of the other teams for sure. I've seen plenty of bitching about east always benefitting from 'donations', but if the rest of us are going to lose games that are very much winnable when it counts, we have no right to complain about 'plot armor' or east 'dominating' this tour year after year. Regardless though, I think every team Europe member (other than Kushalos) deserves to be proud of what they've done in this tournament. Whether you won or lost in this final, you've all been amazing, and deserve to go out of this tour with your heads held high. The way we've built up this team over the past couple of years has been nothing short of incredible, and this year we've struck on a great mix of new talent and old heads.
Now as I said before, I won't be doing individual shoutouts for everyone, but I have to give a special mention to Pohjis. Low-key our MVP of the tournament, the amount of work you've put into helping everyone is mind-boggling. Easily the most useful scouting reports I've ever come across, the fact that you understand pretty much every generation of pokemon really shows when I look through them too. I wanted you to at least grab a win in this tournament so bad, shame that couldn't happen. But to everyone who's a manager in a team tour, snake/SPL or whatever, you should know that you're absolutely missing out if you don't pick up this man. And of course, I have to commend my captain Tony for putting together such a phenomenal team. I know you had many tough decisions to make, but you stuck to what you thought was best for the team and the results are there for all to see. Glad you saw the light in the nick of time and benched Kushalos + started me (fwiw though, I don't hold any sort of animosity towards kush, but it is rather lame to sign up for a tournament like this and have your only activity being stuff like complaining about pu classic). I'm happy that I was able to reward your trust and deliver for the team this time.
But yeah, that's gonna be it from me. To everyone else, expect us to come back even stronger next year. #TROPHYATLEAST will be the goal.
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Oh hey good tournament haha
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