Hello Hat Lovers! I’m back from the Washington Midseason Showdown. Both Mark and I got top 16 with this team in the elevated PC in Oregon and Mark got top 32 (5-2) with it in the Regionals. I missed out on CP from Oregon Regionals and since I was only planning to go to two Regionals and two Midseason Showdowns I needed to do better in the rest of my events. I’ve also neglected to practise at all because I recently bought a PS3 and have been catching up on all the Tales of games I’ve been missing since 2008. Because of this the only team I was practised with was “The Team”. Even though teams have become better suited to dealing with this team I was still confident that I could do well with it. Mark and I have made some changes to the team since the first PC I used it in. Most notably, we’ve been running Icy Wind Kangaskhan. Here’s the current team:

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Hello Hat Lovers!

I won the first BC Premiere Challenge of 2016. This was the first VGC 2016 tournament in BC so I didn’t know what to expect people to be playing. I decided to go with a team of Groudon, Xerneas, Kangaskhan, Salamence, Talonflame and Smeargle. The team is very strong and I’ve been playing with it for the last month so I figured I’d get a good finish from it.

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Hello Hat Lovers!

I’m back from Boston where I played in the world championships. I’ll be looking at the team I played and how I ended up playing it, as well as how my matches went during the event.

Team Building After Spring Regionals:

I did commentary for the first three rounds of the Utah Premiere Challenge before Utah Regionals. One of the teams I saw used Mega Sableye, and it seemed like a fun team. One team with Mega Sableye also made top cut during Spring Regionals. After seeing this I was interested in making a team with Mega Sableye. At this point I had maxed out on Premiere Challenges and decided to play joke teams for the last two in Victoria. I brought Sableye to the first of these Premiere Challenges and I made top 4 with it (much better than the Mega Beedrill team I used the next day). Here is what I had on the team:

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