And so begins the documentation of my season with my first PC. Links will be provided for every match that I am able to save, and if a match is particularly good, I will go into a move by move analysis. Sadly, I don't think I had any stand out games in Yeovil, but I had a quite a few in Crawley on the 19th which I will be posting soon after this one.
I advise you watch the matches before you read what I post about it so that you don't receive any spoilers on any particularly interesting moves.
Here we go:
Game 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlJx9iepyeI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-Uezo9kal0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJpZcj_RdX8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQqKn5lVBzs
Game 5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joLGIQZ04l0
Quarter Final (Any best of 3 games will only have the Game 1 link so that game results will try to remain hidden, any Game 2s or 3s will be on the channel)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyW8qLvaFyM
vs Daniel McCarthy
Team: MSalamence - Tyranitar - Excadrill - RotomW - Amoonguss - Aegislash
I've faced many Jap Sand teams with my own in practise, so I had a pretty good idea of how I wanted to approach it, and also when certain Pokes are more likely to Protect. I manage to called turn 1, although I was expecting Mence to Protect rather than switch, and also later in the game I call the Protect to get rid of my Tailwind. I felt that all the predictions I made in the game were very safe ones.
vs Lee Provost
Team: MGardevoir - Amoonguss - Thundurus - LandorusT - Heatran - Azumarill
Lee was the person who knocked me out of the UK Nationals, so naturally I wanted a bit of revenge on him. I would have had a very good chance of taking this game if I had Protected my Ferrothorn, but I over-predicted hard, expecting him to expect my Protect and Earth Power my Suicune. Looking back, there wasn't much reason for him to not target Ferro, as if he got it wrong, he lost his Garde, so I could have played smarter on this turn. I would have also taken it if the Garde wasn't as physically bulky as it was, as GI can KO 252 hp Gardes at -1, so given the damage, he was very likely a Bold one, which definitely worked out for him here.
vs Rhys Stevens
Team: MSalamence - Zapdos - Amoonguss - Bisharp - Suicune - Terrakion
A graduating Junior up to the Senior division. He was put in with the Masters as there were only two Seniors. It was a very simple game after my Thundurus got up to +2, although I am curious as to why he never Sucker Punched it as it was definitely the biggest threat to him, as he found out.
vs Marti Bennett
Team: MKangaskhan - Cresselia - Suicune - Breloom - Garchomp - Zapdos
I had only heard of Marti before the event, so it was nice to meet her. It was quite a long match as I was using my Ferrothorn to my full advantage, since the only Poke she had to hit it was her Breloom, and that could only get off one Mach Punch before being KOed to Gyro Ball + Iron Barbs, so Ferrothorn effectively won the game on its own, the other Pokes were only really there to speed up the process.
vs Liam Payne
Team: MCharizardX - MVenusaur - Clefable - RotomW - LandorusT - Aegislash
Charizard X. The Pokémon I made mark in the community with. And I fell right for the bluff. I really should have seen it coming since he had a Clefable, and I knew that his Venusaur was Mega. The signs were there, but I was ignorant to them and prepared fully for ZardY as I really didn't think he would bring a MVenusaur against a Mence. I did end up playing well at the end, making the only plays I could have to get myself back into the game, but as soon as the Zard got up a Dragon Dance, I lost too much momentum trying to deal with it. I was hoping that Zard X would nuke itself by bringing Ferro in on a Flare Blitz, hoping that all the recoil and Iron Bards would put it in range of a Scald, but I was one Rocky Helmet hit away from achieving it, so the Expert Belt choice came back to haunt me. It was Liam's first tournament, so I'm glad he had success, as it will hopefully encourage him to attend more, and the more regular people we have in the community, the better.
3-2 ended up squeaking me through in 8th, so resistance was on my side this time. I'm sure in future tournaments, resistance will inevitably come back to bite me. I don't really seem to have this issue at Regionals though.....
vs Jeremy Mantingh
Team: MMawile - Virizion - Heatran - RotomW - Tyranitar - Cresselia
A fellow World's competitor. I knew his team was Trick Room and had a Fling Tyranitar and that was about it. He, however, seemed to know all my tricks. I did know he knew that I had Roar, but I blindly went for my anti-TR mode and it failed miserably as I lost my Infernape turn 1. The rest of the match was me struggling to pull back momentum onto my side, but failing, although I did get some good information in Overheat Heatran.
Game 2 I could have taken on the first turn with a Helping Hand + Giga Impact into the Cress.....which missed. Jeremy confirmed that it would have been a guaranteed KO, so there would have been no TR, but as soon as it went up, I had pretty much auto-lost, as Jeremy had all the momentum and never lost it, showing why he deserved to win the PC (albeit with a +2 Scizor deciding not to Bullet Punch a Tyranitar for the loss in Game 3 of the final).
So that's my first PC of this season. I ended up with 8 CP, so that's fine. I do intend on receiving a little more in my future PCs though ;)
Next will be the 19th Sept Crawley PC.
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