how are the midseason pickups doing after 3 weeks of fighting?
so far dad1 is 1-2, and he has brought somewhat odd teams in mega gyarados and whimsicott. it looks like dad1 has shaken off the nerves of his spl debut, and he's going into what many assume to be an easy weak against the mysterious njnp (who pulled an upset victory week 7).
although not a midseason pickup, miltankmilk was subbed in for majorbowman week 7 and won his spl debut game. unfortunately we won't get to see any miltankmilk in week 8 because majorbowman was put back in, but from his debut game miltankmilk showed strong mechanics and game sense.
also technically not midseason pickups, these 3 players bought at the beginning of spl all had their debuts week 7 in doubles spl: frania, TFC, and njnp. The most interesting out of the 3 has to be njnp because the Cryonicles' doubles player KyleCole fell off the face of the pokemon world and njnp was thrown into the fire as a sub. The young rookie is showing promise as he is 1-1 so far. In week 8, we'll get to see him fight another newcomer in dad1 and see if njnp has gathered up enough doubles knowledge and instinct to pull the win off against the more established dad1.
This upcoming week 8 we will get to see Croven's (sub for stax raiders) debut and Nido-rus' (sub for memoric and frania ruiners) debut, and i'm excited to see if they'll be able to overcome their nerves. Because of the raiders guaranteed spot in playoffs, hopefully Croven won't have too much pressure on his mind and he can focus on the game. We'll also get to witness nido-rus' legendary timezone johning, made even more confusing with daylights savings day coming up.
and finally, there's ya boi finally. after playing for the ruiners in spl 6, finally took a break from pokemon for spl 7 to become a hearthstone connoisseur. after learning that hearthstone has more rng than our beloved game of pokemon, finally stormed the scene and impressed the falcons management with his (slightly rusty) skills. oft described as "lucky 'n good", finally showed the lucky parts in his 1st and 3rd games against iamarookie and stax respectively. currently the falcon is at 3-0 and is feeling "jive as fuck".