@replays, search "cockgnaw guy" and you'll see g2 and g3 (forgot to record g1 but i played like poopoo so w/e). g2 is my win though i kind of haxed him, but i thought i played well actually (and yeah gyroing his celebi aimlessly was gonna stop before i ran out of pp i was trying to see how conservatively he played to get torn-t in, not sure that was the best idea tho lol), but yeah despite that it was solid.
g3 i have so many regrets. first, the team i brought while it had a nice matchup had been tested in literally a single battle but i didn't want to bring #KOBESYSTEM again (lost g1 anyway) and very spontaneously rolled the dice. until the end, i actually thought i outplayed him - in particular, i thought he was really clumsy with ttar and i knew i just needed to maim it since i had no rock resists (oops) and knew gengar could run the table on him if i killed it. the choke came when it was torn-t vs lando late game - that should have been a mamo sack to get gengar in and sweep, such that if lo recoil killed gar or there was an unexpected bulky celebi (!!!), tornadus-t could clean it up. so yeah even is landorus predicted a mamo switch-in who cares, gengar could mop it once i knocked it off and as much as the hurricane miss was bs, i critted him in g2 and had the game won. so i'm not thrilled about that. but for my first legit high-stakes match (if you count round 1 of a big tour as such), i'm not too disappointed. i have noticed that i botch endgames a lot though, and even though that's been my focus laddering, it's just something i don't have a good sense of. as you can see, haha.
i'm on uk time now but i'm cure i'll catch you on sometime within the next few days, though saturday i'll be on vacation for the week in the low countries so i won't be on at all, jsyk, but will be on before.
(also sry for the semi rant about the choke but i haven't adequately vented in detail about it. feels good tbh. :x)