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Username: veti
PS! Username: v3ti
Signup Format: SV DOU
Your timezone: gmt-7
Usual Hours of Availability: afternoon to 1 am most days
Tell us a little about your experience in competitive Pokemon (min. 3 sentences): I've been playing mons since 2020, started getting good in late 2023. In DOU, I hit #40 on ladder with minimal losses so I could probably push higher if I continued instead of letting the alt decay and I'm in round 8 / top 16 of the ssnl, however im clueless in teambuilding and my play could be improved as well. In singles tiers, I've gotten onto OU VR and QC, SS QC, won ND Trios, and have gotten into smaller PLs.
Are you able to use Discord?: yes, @gen9ou is my tag
Username: Shade1x PS! Username: Shade1x Signup Format: Draft Your timezone: CST (GMT-5) Usual Hours of Availability: Evenings after work, can usually chat during work as well (after July I will just have school and should be free throughout most of the day) Tell us a little about your experience in competitive Pokemon (min. 3 sentences): I've been playing for like 7 years now, and have experience across tons of leagues, individual tours, and some lower team tours. It took me a long time to see any noticeable improvement, and while I think this last year is the best I have ever played, I still struggle a ton with consistency and quality of prep. I can and have beat very strong players, but I also lose just as often to players that I should easily beat. This has led to me struggling with making it far in recent smogdraft tours and breaking into team tours past like PWS level. I think I have the potential to play well, but I still do not know how to approach prep creatively, and tend to just rely on pretty standard sets with solid play which tends to get outprepped in bigger games. My prep also often feels that it lacks a game plan in the sense that I have poor ideas to check threatening mons or to force progress. I also think that I do not really play well quite often, typically making throw-level mistakes at some point and often taking suboptimal routes to close out games that leave me open to losing to good plays, luck, or 50/50s. This also stems from a slight lack of confidence - I often consider myself the worst player in a division or game and feel as though matches are hopeless from the start even when it would be a good opportunity to beat someone better than me. I think my drafting is solid enough, but I would not mind touching on that either as I tend to just go by feel rather than truly analyzing my teams. I would prefer to focus on SV, but would also love to touch on parts of ORAS and USUM as I have a small amount of experience in those and want to learn more for tours. My overall goal is that I want to be a player people tend to respect, and while I do not expect to at any point be some high priced player, I do want to get to the point where I can typically see myself drafted and playing in the strongest team tours (dcl dpl etc). Are you able to use Discord?: Yes, I would prefer to use discord. My tag is shade1x there as well.
Username: Zelph PS! Username: EG Zelph Signup Format: Oras
Your timezone: GMT-4
Usual Hours of Availability: 10am-1pm/6pm-10pm
Tell us a little about your experience in competitive Pokemon (min. 3 sentences): I started 1 year ago, and since then I reached round 9 at ORAS and ADV seasonal. played at ADVPL recently, and got picked at the Venezuela wcop team. Played a couple of side tournaments like frontier premier league. I have plenty experience in adv but I want to learn now oras because I think it's a fun tier that I want to play at a better level in tournaments
Are you able to use Discord?: yes, cristianj1588.
Username: phosphor PS! Username: phosphor Signup Format: ADV OU Your timezone: GMT+8 Usual Hours of Availability: Given I am between school semesters and work flexible hours I am actually free 6am-3pm for the next two months! Tell us a little about your experience in competitive Pokemon (min. 3 sentences): I like to think I am competent at GSC OU and BW OU but I just can't figure ADV OU out despite my numerous attempts. I want to get into the meat of competitive level play and learn some serious ADV OU. I willtry to learn and make connections fast, I want to be a contender as soon as I can. Are you able to use Discord?: Yes, username is phosphor_
Username: Nashrock
PS! Username: Nashrock
Signup Format: RBY/ADV OU
Your timezone: GMT +8 before Aug, -4 after that
Usual Hours of Availability: everyday 8 PM - 12 AM
Tell us a little about your experience in competitive Pokemon (min. 3 sentences): I consider myself to be at least mediocre level in sv. I peaked 1980 on svou, and had some good records in lc and natdex. For roa, I only played bw and oras before, but I would like to try rby or adv because both look interesting to me.
Are you able to use Discord?: yes, as nashrock
Username: arpitraj
PS! Username: arpitraj1
Signup Format: SV 1v1
Your timezone: gmt +5.5
Usual Hours of Availability: - 2pm to 4:30pm everyday if i dont have any works
Tell us a little about your experience in competitive Pokemon (min. 3 sentences): i started playing pokemons in 2021 as a natdexag player after banning of gen 9 natdexag i started playing ag now and i am trying 1v1 because it is the luck based game(i know only this i dont know about 1v1 too much ) i want to be pro in sv1v1
Are you able to use Discord?: Yes
Username: BlackKnight_Gawain PS! Username: ^ Signup Format: DOU
Your timezone: +6, -4 mid-August onwards Usual Hours of Availability: flexible enough Tell us a little about your experience in competitive Pokemon (min. 3 sentences): Play a little bit of everything, but trying to get into DOU after a lot of 2v2 gaming Are you able to use Discord?: yea
Username: sayyonara
PS! Username: sayyonara
Signup Format: SS OU
Your timezone: gmt +1
Usual Hours of Availability:weekdays 7-11pm
Are you able to use Discord?: yes
Username: ina fable PS! Username: ina fable Signup Format: Dpp ou Your timezone: +2 Usual Hours of Availability: i usually can during my nights,(7pm,11pm) and my afternoons some days,on weekend I’m free almost every time Tell us a little about your experience in competitive Pokemon (min. 3 sentences): I started playing ss ou around 2 years ago and became really interested in that tier,made a lot of laddering,joined a lot of tours and had good results. Now after hosting dpppl,dpp gc,and the next dpp ssnl i wanna start playing dpp too Are you able to use Discord?: Yes, requesting Big loven is possible ty
Username: tahatahat PS! Username: Tahat Tahat/Dondozgoat Signup Format: BW OU, ORAS OU
Your timezone: -4
Usual Hours of Availability: 9am-midnight -4 until the end of summer (unemployed and home from uni) then probably evenings -4 on weekdays and all day weekends
Tell us a little about your experience in competitive Pokemon (min. 3 sentences):
I have been around random discord tours for like 3 months, and have very little pokemon experience from before then. I've never been a big ladderer, but I've been around the game long enough that I know the fundamentals of the game and some specifics about BW and ORAS. I'm hoping this program can help me consistently grind with/against a player better than me, which honestly may be what I need Are you able to use Discord?: yes, tahat_t
username: marsmallo
ps! username: marsmall0
signup: bwou
timezone: gmt -4
usual hours of availability: afternoons and late night:
Comp pokemon exp: started to play this year with johto league starting,rarely ladder but do a lot of discord tournament stuff. i play alot of gsc adv and oras and some dpp. wanna learn how to bw since bw2 are my favorite games. love abomasnow.
discord: marsmall0
Username: evakiyama
PS! Username: evakiyama
Signup Format: BW OU
Your timezone: -5
Usual Hours of Availability: not available 2-5pm weekdays nor mornings on weekends
Tell us a little about your experience in competitive Pokemon (min. 3 sentences):
Been playing comp pokemon for a couple years. I mostly play ADV, SM, and ranbats laddering and have laddered to top 10+ in ADV and ranbats. I want to learn BW because a lot of my friends play it and I'm very new to the tier.
Are you able to use Discord?: yes, evakiyama
triple axel blaze agreed to be my tutor if that's who I could be set up with
Username: thunderobolt PS! Username:tobtrox Signup Format: draft
Your timezone:est
Usual Hours of Availability: anytime
Tell us a little about your experience in competitive Pokemon (min. 3 sentences): Played a lot of pokemon in Gen 7. Did decently in some draft leagues. Struggling lately with Gen 9 draft. Want to improve on drafting and prepping.
Are you able to use Discord?: yes
Username: Lizzie PS! Username: Lizzie Stardust Signup Format: RBY OU Your timezone: GMT +1 Usual Hours of Availability: generally available 5pm-12am p much every day Tell us a little about your experience in competitive Pokemon (min. 3 sentences): started out playing oras ou in 2015. Since joining smogon I've mostly been involved in uu subforum tours, also have experience in adv where I made circuit playoffs last year. I've been interested in branching out into other tiers for a while and a couple of my friends recommended rby Are you able to use Discord?: yes, liz_angeles
Username: Bohrier
PS! Username: Bohrier
Signup Format: ADV or GSC
Your timezone: GMT +5.5
Usual Hours of Availability: weekdays 7:30pm to 12am, sundays 1pm to 12am
Tell us a little about your experience in competitive Pokemon (min. 3 sentences): I have been playing on showdown for a while now(about 5 years), however I only started playing smogon tournaments from late 2022. I have played RBY a good amount, but i wanna play the classic tiers that are not RBY more. ADV I placed top 16 or smth in the recent Old Money tour, and Im not that bad at the tier. GSC I played GSC Invi playins and reached top 12.
Are you able to use Discord?: yes, bohrier
Username: oopsalldeoxys
PS! Username: oopsalldeoxys
Signup Format: adv ou
Your timezone: -5
Usual Hours of Availability: in the evenings my time most days
Tell us a little about your experience in competitive Pokemon (min. 3 sentences): started playing adv in 2021ish, and became semi competent in mid 2022. I've played off and on since then, mostly through mushi and ladder. I've been wanting to improve lately but I've just been stuck for a long time I feel
Are you able to use Discord?: yes, oopsalldeoxys
Username: ImZer0
PS! Username: Shiesterrr
Signup Format: BW OU
Your timezone: GMT-4
Usual Hours of Availability: available throughout most of the day throughout the week, some saturdays i wont be avaliable in the morning from 11am-1pm but other than that i should be free throughout most of the day
Tell us a little about your experience in competitive Pokemon (min. 3 sentences): been playing mons for several years on both cart and PS, from 2012/2013 up until 2020 from where i took a 3 year hiatus from mons. Last year i created my smogon account for the first time and ever since then i've been grinding mons again while trying my best to not drop it again, and i can comfortable say that ive improved so much since i repicked back up mons. However, i feel like i could improve a lot more in general and i think i could generally become even better as a player, so i generally would like to redive into mons entirely once again and try to get way better so i can become a more consistent and amazing player again as a whole.
Are you able to use Discord?: Absolutely, yoimzer0 is my discord and i can VC if needed
Username: Funkybeangamer PS! Username: spfunkm Signup Format: adv ou Your timezone: -4
Usual Hours of Availability: essentially always Sunday and Monday. I have work around 3-5 days a week too and usually have Thurs weds free most of the time
Tell us a little about your experience in competitive Pokemon (min. 3 sentences): I have played a bit in advpl, roapl, advcup, and discord tours. I play OK, but I'm always looking to get better. I have been playing seriously for around 8 months Are you able to use Discord?: yes. Spfunkm
Username: Termnal PS! Username: Termnal Signup Format: BW OU Your timezone: Gmt-4 Usual Hours of Availability: Most days after 2pm Tell us a little about your experience in competitive Pokemon (min. 3 sentences): I have been playing competitive pokemon for almost 5 years mainly Draft and whatever the current gen is, however I havent been enjoying Gen 9 much and got interested in older gens, and especially with all of the suspect news gen 5 in particular. I have friends who main old gens who I have played with and have played in some small tours but I really want to properly learn the metagame and feel confident to build my own teams not just play with teams friends have passed me.
Are you able to use Discord?: yea it Termnal
Username: Rambode PS! Username: Rambode Signup Format: ADV OU
Your timezone: -3
Usual Hours of Availability: From around 11am to midnight everyday for now, but once the next uni semester starts (around august 26th), it'll be 11am to 3pm on weekdays and still 11am to midnight on weekends.
Tell us a little about your experience in competitive Pokemon (min. 3 sentences): I have played a bit in bkcpl, adv revival, jim cool's open tours, mushi league and some individual tours on here for a little less than a year. Peaked 1608 on ladder (around #150 i think) if that matters Are you able to use Discord?: yes, Rambode
Username: sasha PS! Username: sasha Signup Format: SV LC Your timezone: GMT -7 Usual Hours of Availability: Pretty free, I'll make any time work Tell us a little about your experience in competitive Pokemon (min. 3 sentences): Been playing mons for a while now. Have done a lot I would say in terms of managing tours and playing. LC is just a tier that I've always been interested in and I would like to pick it up. Kythr is free and said he would help me learn + I'm free for a while so I figured this would be a good start. Are you able to use Discord?: Yes
Username: NotVeryCake
PS! Username: CakeConnesseur
Signup Format: BW OU
Your timezone: GMT+1
Usual Hours of Availability: 4-9PM
Tell us a little about your experience in competitive Pokemon: I have a decently sized amount of competitive knowledge in RBY and various tournament results in that tier. Such as managing team UK to Semi-Finals and going 4-0 myself, as well as a Quarterfinals placement in RBY GC 2023. I also have a vast experience with RBY Lowtiers, going 5-2 in UPL, 4-2 in PUBD, 6-3 in UUFPL, and am so far 3-1 in the ongoing UUBD. I want to get into BW as I have admired the tier for a while now and can that I am making mistakes, but I struggle to point out what mistakes I am making and how to fix them
Are you able to use Discord?: yes, my tag is .sandshrew_.
Username:Crossia PS! Username:Crossia Signup Format:SV Ubers
Your timezone: GMT -3
Usual Hours of Availability: Almost every day after 12hs GMT -3
Tell us a little about your experience in competitive Pokemon (min. 3 sentences):I played mons in 2016 (Peaked top 23 in ORAS). Came back in May/June after WC ended to compete for a spot in my team and started to learn the tier, right now i'm in a weird spot where Ithink how things works, but still want to improve and a tutor guidance would help a lot. I would like to fight for a spot in UPL/UWC next year so I'm trying to improve as much as I can.
Are you able to use Discord?: Yes, Crossia
Username: MestreOscar PS! Username: burrocomsorte Signup Format: SV RU Your timezone: GMT -3 Usual Hours of Availability: During weekdays I have almost all afternoon, and during weekends I have all day. Tell us a little about your experience in competitive Pokemon (min. 3 sentences): I've been playing on showdown for almost a year and a half now, but my first year I was exclusively playing randbats on an old account. This year, in February, I created my current one and started playing tiered metagames, while doing my best to understand playstyles and teambuilding. Ever since April or May, I'm almost exclusively playing RU and I've been really enjoying it. I'm able to have a decent winrate while playing on ladder, but only if I'm using my preferred playstyle. I'm also trying to get into a few tournaments to get more experience at high level play. So, I would like to get more in-depth knowledge about battling and teambuilding, as well as to learn how to use other playstyles, specially balanced. Are you able to use Discord?: Yep.
