Welp, now that my team's out. I guess it's about that time where I talk about my team's run. Honestly, despite being in 9th place, I've had an absolute blast with this. Judging by everyone's power ranks and predicts, we were predicted to be second last and have a bunch of us go 0-3, so while it looked like for a moment there that we had a shot at playoffs, I'm still super proud of everyone in my team, and at the end of the day, this is a fun tour and this is easily some of the most fun I've had on this site. Guess I should start by giving my shoutouts to
Juno for hosting this tour and giving me the opportunity to manage this team. I know there is a lot of people that would've liked this tour to go on for longer, honestly hosting a tour like this is a thankless job and you're killing it.
Moving onto the actual team. My SS dudes
TMM,
gorex and
Maple. Honestly before this tour, I had absolutely 0 interest or investment in SS UU, but I've had a hell of a lot of fun building and testing with you guys. Building that sun squad was some of the most fun I've had on this site in a while and it was super satisfying seeing it win. Wish I'd had more time to build with you guys.
Ninjadog - It was super satisfying seeing you play against kink and it's a shame I didn't get more opportunities to build for you. Losing the last game to stall is certainly rough and one of the most annoying things about SM UU is how powerful stall is so I don't blame you if you're not keen on playing SM any time soon haha. That said though, LC is still my favourite SS tier so hopefully we'll get the chance to team again soon.
Euphonos was an absolute pleasure being a co-manager. Thanks for always picking up after me whenever I'd fuck up discord perms or do other dumb shit on mobile. Ngl your teams still make no sense and I find ORAS even more confusing now but they got the results so I've gotta respect it.
trace - Idk if it's a coincidence or not that I had absolutely 0 input in bw UU and u were one of the only people that went positive or not, but hopefully if we team again, you're playing a tier that I actually know cos you're super chill.
byronthewellwell - similar deal with trace. I feel bad that I didn't get to interact with you as much cos DPP is completely foreign to me. You're clearly a competent player and if matchups were better I'm sure your score would be better. Also rip Oceania team.
eden - Thanks for coming aboard and learning ADV UU. I certainly enjoyed watching your test games and seeing you learn the UU meta. It's a shame that the tilt got to you cos I'm sure you'd have had a much better record without it.
last but definitely not least, I've gotta give a shoutout to my subs and support guys.
Ark - you probably won't even log onto the forums for the next 6 months, but idk what we'd have done without the building support and scouting that you did for ORAS and ADV.
Kreme - Would've been cool to see you play some ORAS too, but I'm super grateful for all the ORAS testing that you did with Euphonos.
Cynde thanks for picking up all my teams and then making them 20% better and doing test games. Shame we didn't have more opportunities to build stuff. The CT reunion with you and Kreme was also pretty cool. Rip that room.
tko shame you didn't get to play more considering how much we had to fight to get you into the team in the first place. Thanks for picking up at the last minute and making sure we didn't have any 0-3 slots.
stitch.kr shame we didn't really talk much but you seem pre chill so I hope I team with you again.
Also massive shoutout to
Eyan for providing us with some absolutely fire artwork. Honestly your art is insane and I hope I get to manage again so I can likewhore your artwork again. I know you don't do shit on smogon much anymore but you should really do ur own art thread because your work is fire.
Guess this is the last time I'll get to say this for a bit so uhh. Shoutouts to the Asiancy.
Stoward out.
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christopher the gopher dw ur not forgotten. We all know we'd have won if we picked u