damn sucks to end it with getting slapped in finals, but thems the ropes. i'd like to first congratulate
Melon,
tazz, and the rest of the archens for a great season and finals victory. you guys were super consistent throughout the season and laid pipe in the playoffs so it's definitely well deserved.
and for the shellos, my dudes its been a fun ride. teeno and I had been planning how we wanted to go about this ever since like mid lcwc, and aside from winning the whole thing, I couldn't of asked for anymore out of you guys or this experience. each and everyone of you were targeted for specific reasons and added qualities to the team that we probably couldn't of gone without and I thank you all for the effort you put in week-to-week. as for personal shoutouts...
taranteeeno - dude I cant thank you enough for all the hard work you put in this season. like I said, I knew ever since lcwc that I wanted you to manage w/ me and I was so happy about how geeked you were about it. from gathering info and devising our draft strategy to every week providing thorough af scouts, team help, and squads of your own, you truly were the cog of this team. im sure the rest of the team can agree with me that you took on more of a head manager roll than even me, and I thank you for that. I have my own style and I think it blended perfectly w/ yours, and I guess the proof is in the pudding, making it to finals and what not. fuck what luthier thinks, id spend 20k for your ass and would manage w/ you again ez.
Shrug - the real king. as i told you early on man, you were gonna be our centerpiece. i've always been a huge fan of how you played the game as well as your interesting takes on the metagame, and fuck it, life itself tbh. i firmly believe you are at the top when it comes to sm and thats why we really didnt give a shit about dropping 27k. i'd do it again in a heartbeat. although you're not the most active chat presense (niether am i), you always showed up when it counted and I could count on you to have a super favored matchup essentially every week. keep being awesome man, lc needs you.
Plas - ngl bro we almost didnt have you LOL. we thought you'd go for too much for budget, so teeno just hard put what our max was expecting to get outbid and we snagged. i'm super glad we did though, as soon as we got you you joined call to help us nail the rest of the draft and from then on you were essentially a right hand man to our managerial squad. i know your record isn't as great as you'd hoped, but you were an great chat presence and, when you're on your game, a top slot we could count on each week. my only advice to you is to not let matchups dictate how you play so much. thinking matches are "auto-losses" from preview is a such a defeatist mindset that i cant get behind, and altho i know you tried your best each week, i think sometimes you let the negativity steep in a little too much. nevertheless, i really appreciate everything you did this season and id happily snag you again.
trace - I can honestly say i didnt know what to expect from you this season. I'd teamed with you before in uupl (altho we were laughing about how i forgot LOL) and knew you were a solid player, I just didn't have a ton of info on you. Teeno was high on your talents and after planning out where we were spending money in the auction, we decided you were probably the best bang for the buck sm / oras hybrid. Of course teeno worked his butt off getting you teams most weeks, but damn did you play those teams well. we could basically give you whatever, you'd look at it once, and go out and win. it's weird to say but sometimes you play like a savant where it looks like the game just comes naturally to you, and shit am i glad we got you for such a steal. certain games could of probably been thought out a little more on your end, but man i cant even complain because you were so motivated and came to play each week.
Luthier - i know you were a late addition and slightly butthurt you only went for 6.5k, but like i told you before, you were a part of the draft plans from the get go. did you really think a team headed by me / teeno gunning for shrug didn't have you in the plans? certain things like getting plas unexpectedly, among other things, left our auction credits much lower than anticipated and unfort we couldnt get you, but damn when you popped up for 6.5 late in the draft teeno and i were kicking ourselves hard. naturally, though, when rumblings came about that you might be available mid season, teeno and i made it our mission to not fuck up twice. altho we had to make some sacrifices, i think it's clear that it paid off. I'm super proud of you dude, going 9-0 in the biggest lc tourney around is a major deal. i know how hard you've worked on the come up and it's cool to see that it's paying off. while you could sometimes ruffle some feathers, mostly mine and especially teenos lmao, we'd be dumb to think you weren't one of the most important aspects about this team.
King Leo V - LEOOOOOO. man i cant rly get the feeling outta my head of you clinching us finals berth. i went from thinking you had it locked up, to "fuck he's choking this", to elation when you brought it back. you were clutch when you needed to be and that's all we could ask for. I like the team structures you come up with, and i think if you had a tad more consistency under your belt, you'd certainly be a top player. in the end, you were a chill team bro and a wonderful pickup.
mambo - Mr. Irrelevant. I remember during auction teeno, plas, and I trying to decide what to do with our last 3k. There were some names rolled about, and initially teeno was slightly skeptical of not really knowing you, but I used my dick on the table manager powers to say once and for all we were bringing back los mambos. I'm sure everyone on the team is glad as hell we did. I've always loved talking to you bro and Ive considered you one of my closer mons buds for a while. you're just real and i've always appreciated that about you. I couldn't of expected how good of a presense you would of been though having been out of the game for a year or so, but damn you were helping everywhere. while some of your shit had to be tamed a bit or thrown in the trash, most of your ideas were really helpful. i'm pretty sure we even used one of your teams in every gen asides from bw so. keep being chill man and i hope you stick around a bit.
HSOWA - you were our #1 dpp bro from the get go. i'd grown pretty impressed with some of your dpp results in recent tours, and its sometimes hard to find people who thoroughly love dpp who won't go for top tier money, so we quickly zerod in on you. personally, you were everything i wanted in a teammate. you engaged in scouting talks every week, made sure to bounce around ideas, and were super receptive to any critiques or changes i had for your squads. i also think you played really well overall, maybe some minor misplays here and there, but i took solace in the fact that i had you in dpp every week. thanks a ton for all the work you put in.
Pamplona - PAMP. man you're fucking interesting dude. i had a good idea of your skill ceiling playing a couple times in lcuu, and teeno was also pretty high on you, so we made an effort to snag you late. I know we didn't utilize you as much as we should of, but i felt confident is putting you in whenever we had to and you delivered. building with you is a minefield because you're stuck in your ways on certain things and your process is just completely different than mine lol, but i cant lie it was fun having convos about your squads with you. you're amazing when you're in your team element and thinking through plays fully, so keep doing you and maybe run rocks on a little more teams.
KingKdot and
EternalSnowman - im not sure if its disrespectful to tag you in this, but if i didn't make it clear enough before, i truly am sorry for how things played out. while i cant really apologize for the trade in its entirety because i was doing what i thought was best for the team, please know that we drafted both of you thinking you were gonna be mainstays. sling any shit you want because i probs deserve it, but honestly i felt rly shitty about it and if i didnt think it was essential (mostly because of my own woes in sm at the beginning of season) i would never of pulled the trigger. hopefully you can forgive me because id sure as hell team with you guys in any setting again.
also, thanks to anyone who joined our server during playoff run. there were a bunch of you so im not gonna go through them all, but your insight and help near the end was incredibly helpful and i appreciate you guys chipping in when you didn't have to.
thank you so much shellos fam, slugs forever.