Finally recovered from celebratory drinks after regionals, it was painful thing getting up for mothers day breakfast.
The tournament turned out to be double elimination bracket thankfully, Bo3 for the first round then Bo1 for every one after that (don't know why it wasn't the other way around).
Lost my match in winners side to 4 consecutive flinches from a scarfed Mence rock slide, needless to say I was fairly salty. In losers I made a derp move and forgot Lucario had Inner Focus and tried to fake out him resulting in me losing my Kangaskhan, I played well and nearly made it back coming down to just his Garchomp vs my Azumarill and then lost to a crit from poison jab, did the calc after the game and it should've done 65-75%. Overall I went 5-2 and came I think 5th overall, was disappointed with the placing but happy with my play with the exception of that one fake out.
My hopes didn't end there though, when regionals was announced my friend and training partner for smash/other FG's also decided to take the plunge into VGC. We agreed that if either of us won we would split the prize as neither of us wanted to go to nationals and party it up in Melbourne alone, he had done well and made it winners finals with his mega-aerodactyl team and was called for his match to be displayed on the TV, however he was greeted with a message informing him his save data had been corrupted. After some initial panic and trying to recover it I offered him my team having just been knocked out, the organiser asked the opponent if he would allow it on the condition my team was not altered. This was the same player who flinched me out earlier so assuming he had the advantage of knowing the team and my friend not being used to it (he explained this in his write up) he did allow it.
He then went on to win that match and the tournament without dropping a match, leading to the aforementioned night of debauchees antics. I'm excited for nationals and hoping we hear details on the format there soon, for now though I'm pokemon'd out. I'm going to take what I think is a well deserved break and am excited to be able to finally get back to DS2 which I still haven't finished.
