08-19-2017, 01:45 PM | #1 |
時の彼方へ
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VGC 2017 Worlds
https://www.twitch.tv/pokemon
https://www.twitch.tv/pokemonvgc The first day of this year's world tournament was yesterday. If you missed the fun, there are some choice games online that you can watch on YouTube or Twitch. A game in which last year's world champion, Wolfe Glick, was flinch haxed by Rock Slide three times set the tone for this year's troll-meme: "Rock Slide was the play for Worlds," and similar quips. I just finished watching Day 2 Swiss Round 2, Markus Stadter vs. Ryuuzaburo H. It was incredibly exciting to watch, though perhaps not for the right reasons ... ^^;; Spoiler: show We're moving on to Day 2 Swiss Round 3 right now. The main channel is streaming TCG matches, though I imagine it will be streaming VGC matches soon. But you can use the backup, VGC-dedicated channel to catch the live matches that are being streamed for us at home. ... Oh gosh. :o For Round 3 they're showcasing Wolfe Glick's game. Let's watch!
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08-21-2017, 07:57 AM | #2 |
seems theres a case aclaw
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damn. that final though.
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08-22-2017, 10:55 AM | #3 |
Think ye can take me?
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Final was lit. Surprisingly little hax in the top 8 games imo
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08-24-2017, 11:37 AM | #4 |
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Ducking in without reading any of the replies made since Saturday of last week just to report:
Spoiler: show I still have no idea who wins this, but I have to say that from what I am seeing so far, Top Cut 2017 is one of the most exciting and delightful top cuts to watch in memory. I don't think the overall season was as fun or as memorable as VGC 2014 was, but the Top Cut at Worlds bears an awful lot of similarities to it. Lots of little quirks and varieties. One guy brings a Krookodile and does really well with it ... one guy brings a Mandibuzz and does really well with it ... You do see the same Pokémon a lot -- the four Tapus, Celesteela, Kartana, Snorlax, Arcanine -- but there's enough variety afoot to prevent me from really discussing "cores". You don't see the same cores, necessarily. Or if you do, they're cores only two Pokémon big. You don't reliably see the same four or five Pokémon showing up on every single team that made Top Cut. This is a refreshing change of pace from VGC 2015 and 2016. Throughout the season, both of those formats were pretty homogenous. And even at Worlds, VGC 2015 was homogenous while VGC 2016 was little more than a Paper-Rock-Scissors match between Double Primals, Rayogre, and the third one. But VGC 2017, I honestly cannot say yet who I think is going to take home the trophy. Every one of these trainers is battling really well. And every one of them has enough tech variations to make the matches exciting and different. I think that's a big part of the reason why I haven't skipped ahead to the championship match this year, whereas in previous years I have done precisely that. I didn't watch all of Top Cut 2016. And I sure as hell didn't watch all of Top Cut 2015. But Top Cut 2017 is interesting enough that I am having fun watching the games, each of the games, even if it's taken me ten hours and forty-six minutes so far to get to where I am.
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