holy shit we did it! this tour has been such a crazy experience, where do I even begin with shoutouts?
first I wanna say grats to
SamVGC and the Side-Pups on a good season. Sam was such a sleeper during the draft, it wasn't until it was over and kami and I were talking about who we thought the starting lineups of the other teams would be and realised that the Pups would be a powerhouse. Sam definitely had a plan and executed it perfectly (apart from fucking up and letting the timer run out on Chase rip). I'll be watching more carefully if he manages in BSPL2.
I had so much fun during this whole thing, after the draft I regretted not buying myself and thought it would be less fun not being directly involved but I think it ended up allowing me to be more relaxed and just have fun with everyone more. I love playing mons but building teams kinda stresses me out enough on its own, so I don't think I would have had time to be able to help train bobo's Blaziken or help Megazard build GBU teams based off Jibaku's rushed notes. In the end I absolutely loved being a pure manager and letting my team carry me week to week.
kamikaze aka pseudo assman. This is the one guy I had set in stone before the draft to add to my team. I knew that by getting him I was getting someone that could play anything I needed, was experienced in team tours so could hold my hand for the first week while I figure everything out, patch up my knowledge of the doubles crowd, and give me all of Psynergy's secrets for when we had to play them. He's also cool and funny
Memoric I honestly bid on you so I could get both you and kami together which I thought could work out well from a team chemistry perspective. you ended up taking on the role of Kyrie and you killed it. Now that I know we have good timezones I wanna make sure we stay tight
Joint Cena I've known you for a while now and I've been destroyed by you and your alts in so many room tours now, I figured the best way to end that was to make you my teammate instead of my opp. I also knew you'd be a chill teammate and you proved me right every week. you were always there to help bobo and the first to recommend him over you when you had a rough week, just having you around was worth it
Jibaku I'm so glad I took the "risk" on buying you. even if you'd ended up busy every week and couldn't play I just thought your tour / bss / gbu experience would be worth it, but you ended up being able to play BSS and had a great season. I know you're all about VGC now but I hope you come back and play some SuMo BSS
bobochan the biggest steal! your work ethic this tour was admirable and I think you definitely earned your stripes even if some people think you're a lucky player. you and Joint worked so well as a team, you did your homework on every opponent and built your teams accordingly. I got love for you. get your freakin DS back so you can play on cart again
I Am a Rookie
we flexin out here. "is that the guy who won US nats who always wears a singlet?" when I realised who you were I decided I was gonna go hard in the bidding wars, man I was lucky Sam choked / PS lagged coz I got you for a bargain. your teams are so heat, congrats on a great season and joint-MVP! hope you enjoyed your first Smogon experience and decide to hang around #linoone
Megazard the other managers slept on you. I honestly just put a bid on you coz I wasn't gonna let Hula get you for nothing and lucky enough I ended up with the joint-MVP. We'd never met before this but now I know you're a cool guy and I wanna keep hanging out. Hope you stick around to play some BSS
miltankmilk I felt bad having you on the bench because it was a waste of your talent but you stepped up when we needed you and were a great team player.
PikachuCandyツ where are you lol
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and finally, one last
Thanks DragonWhale for the road. you did an amazing job running this all, I'm pleasantly surprised how smoothly it all ran, but I'm still not sure whether it's more your hosting or us being a great community :thinking: I'm glad we get along well enough for us to be able to have an argument about how something should work and still be chill at the end of it, no matter how bad my arguments can be sometimes. I've got high hopes for BSPL2 with you behind the wheel.
I think that's it. I love battle spot