Explaining MY Greatest Competitive Pokemon Game of All Time

freezai vs High Impulse (2020)

For clarity on the world cup format, the qualifiers are held right before the next tournament.
E.G. if you finished in the bottom 3 in 2020, you would play qualifiers a few weeks before the 2021 tournament, to gain access to the 2021 world cup

[sunvulper]

Why did he leak it? Was there any given reason?

[danielhale]

Props to the UK team immediately announcing the leak and refusing to be party to it. Also I'm glad you noted this so openly. It would be easy to make them out to be the villains since they were your main opponent, but as you said, they did nothing wrong here. It was entirely Aquafinity being garbage. I think that challenge definitely makes this a good story; it's not when the stakes are highest, necessarily, but when you're most proud of yourself. Really good job pulling through!

[Plastoon.]

I think the worst smogon tournament experience I had was in gen 6 XY OU.

It was the Semi-final round a standard OU tournament. Not a big event by any means but it was my first tournament ever and sadly my last. I had a balanced semi defensive team centered around mega venusaur and umbreon. But I cant remember the rest of my team, other than it had u-turn and voltswitch for momentum and a scarf cleaner.

My opponent was running an aegislash before his ban. He had the swords dance shadow sneak set. The opponent tried to set up swords dance in my mega venusaur but I knew how rampant aegislash was and specific EV'd him to be able to take even a +6 shadow sneak after leach seed, protect and synthesis if necessary to stall it out or force a switch.

The mods watching the tournament at the time, saw my opponent set up a +6 and looked at my team and assumed it was over. I ended up winning the semi finals thanks to mega vensaur chipping away at his team with leech seed and momentum moves enough for my scarfer to clean up. But my opponent had already told the mods that he won and was placed in the finals shortly after.

I was left confused and wondering when my finals round was going to be. When I asked the mods they told me that I had lost the battle, so why would I be in the finals. I had to make them watch the rest of the replay of my semi final match just to prove that I did indeed come out on top. All the while the "finals" where taking place behind me.

They where shocked and surprised, but they did correct the mistake with an apology shortly after though. They also called off the current final match that was well under way. But the damage was done. Over 2 hours had passed and my finals round was finally about to go under way. At this point I was distrought confused and just not in a great mindset but tried to go into the battle as best I could. I made a few bad calls and lost the match 0-3. It ruined my perception of tournaments from smogon and now I only play competitively on a casual level on extremely are occasions.

[angelbeatzbell]

I love the irony of how freezais game name is serene grace and the 1st turn, serene grace gets him 💀💀

[unwilledlight...]

Your crawdaunt game was pretty legendary too

[thepotato]

I love that the footage you used when talking about Aquafinity was of them losing. So fitting

[amberhernandez]

Ahh, the greatest threat to any snakes in the grass: integrity. Good on team UK for immediately shutting it down.

[jaspermidnight]

i like how one of the requirements for a good championship game is just “✅ dracovish”

[belimvasim]

As a indian it feels so good to see pokemon growing in india not poke go or unite but mainline series games

[Aflay]

"I predict his predict"

"He predicts my predict"

CHRIST.

THIS IS JUST JOUSTING. I don't even have the stomach to watch this commentary. And this is just qualifiers, NEVERMIND GRAND FINALS.

[jaschabull]

Can we talk about how cool the team logos are tho? Just love how each national/regional team picks their mascots.

[Gold-Dango]

At first I thought UK cheated by hacking Freezai, but turns out they didn’t and even reported the cheater. Although they still lost, at least they had the sportsmanship to know cheating is wrong. Also it’s fun to watch the battle turn into a all out hyper offense vs hyper offense war.

[frankwest]

Maybe you could make a video, where you explain the difference between a Pokémon being OU, having a significant niche and minor niche in the tier. Since not every mon that you need to team build with or around is placed in the tier, where it sees use

It’s a thing that many mediocre players struggle with and recognizing that tier placement doesn’t mean a mon isn’t relevant for a higher tier.
I would argue that this is the biggest barrier between a mediocre and good competitive Pokémon player and would love to see a video on it.

[noobslayer]

I was just on your channel like 20 minutes ago checking to see if I missed an upload. Then you drop this BANGER

[destroyerprime]

As an Indian i can confirm that there are not a lot of competetive pokemon players around in here. There are a lot of huge pokemon fans but not a lot competetive pokemon players. I have been playing pokemon for almost 8 years now and i came to know what competetive pokemon is just the last year when a good friend of mine explained me that and brought me into pokemon showdown. Loved the video btw and ure doing a good job i learn a lot from you. Good luck bruv.
Love from india 🇮🇳

[Nvel]

Absolutely loving this coverage–especially all the contextual information you include on how the tournament works, how it ended, and what's happened since 2020. Fantastic video! Thanks for the hard work on this!

[dharve]

Super cool video man. Thanks for sharing that story with us! Massive respect for you bringing that to your country. Also massive respect to the UK team for doing the right thing.

[borby]

Hey man, I got some info on your next opponent:

They’re going to use 6 Pokémon, and they will not have any Pokémon from Paldea.

[YukkuriChei]

Freezai: As you may know, there are more than 16 countries in the world...
Americans: Wait, really?

[lyokhamishukov]

The switch to team flare mauic when talking about aquafinity is some good quality editing right there I tell you hwhat