Smogon Premier League 8: Doubles Discussion

Laga

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nah cuz then he wasn't semiroom and then i lost :[

sad fact: for the first time since before my first game of SPL, I go into a match with the possibility of coming out with a negative overall record.
 

Bughouse

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bughouse's impromptu predictions tour rankings:

me: 1-4
miltankmilk: 1-3
Skiddo: 1-4
Gogoat: 1-4
deo: 2-2

man, we're all really good at predictions. will potentially track this each week

user We Three Kings and user Finchinator predicted 4-0 in the spl wk 1 thread so grats to them lol
 

Bughouse

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true, finchinator has a better record than the bigs' doubles starter
 

emma

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me: 1-4
miltankmilk: 1-3
Skiddo: 1-4
Gogoat: 1-4
deo: 2-2
we tried our hardest okay

expected matchups for week 2

[RUIN] Memoric vs. Laga [BIGS]
[TGRS] MajorBowman vs. kamikaze [FLCN]
[CRYO] KyleCole vs. Braverius [CONG]
[SHRK] I Am a Rookie vs. Biosci [SCTR]
[WOLF] SamVGC vs. Stax [RAID]

1-4 currently but lets give it another goal

Memoric vs. Laga | 60 / 40 - Both 0/1 but I think Memo will pull back strong
MajorBowman vs. kamikaze | 65 / 45 - Really hoping for kami to pull back but one of these players is undefeated in spl while the other is winless
KyleCole vs. Braverius | 40 / 60 - Kyle won't hax his way through Zach
I Am a Rookie vs. Biosci | 35 / 65 - Still not rooting for the guy who just stole frania offense
SamVGC vs. Stax | 45 / 55 - After a bad spl start I think Stax pulls back to his usual self

exited for memoric/laga (avi/ct on the line), bowman/kami, and kyle/zach
 
Memoric vs. Laga -Memoric is 4-1 the last 2 Spls and Laga is 0-4. Also hopefully neither bring necrozma but I've liked the teams and playstyle of memo in our test matches.
KyleCole vs Braverius - This is the biggest tossup and highlight match of the week imo. My gut tells me Braverius but honestly this match is a coinflip. Based on my predictions last week I should just pick Kyle bc my gut is inaccurate.
I Am a Rookie vs. Biosci -Biosci won on a choke while Rookie surprised the world with a win. I sparred with him a bit in VGC 15 for BSPL and he's as good as anyone in this tour, really think as soon as he puts the effort in he's a threat to win any game.
SamVGC vs. Stax - Two of my favorite users in the DOU tier. Based on their play week 1 both will lose this match (sorry fams) but I think Stax got embarrassed harder and will come out with more motivation. Rooting for both of these guys though
 

Bughouse

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Memoric vs. Laga
MajorBowman vs. kamikaze
KyleCole vs. Braverius
I Am a Rookie vs. Biosci
SamVGC vs. Stax
 

ryo yamada2001

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https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1MAXcnqLhsHGMgQQ4AT7XtPXWW_oYdbKPgytFJkCQXIw/edit?usp=sharing
SPL predictions spreadsheet

Week 1 predictions according to you guys:
MajorBowman vs Stax (10 - 6) - 62.50% for Bowman
KyleCole vs SamVGC (10 - 8) - 55.56% for Kyle
Biosci vs kamikaze (11 - 7) - 61.11% for Biosci
Braverius vs Memoric (6 - 8) - 42.86% for Zach
Rookie vs Laga (0 - 14) - 0.00% for Laga (yes really)

Total predictions standings: 37 - 43 (46.25%)

Weekly stats:
(only winners and runner-ups listed (most correct prediction amount and second most))
trc 4 - 1
We Three Kings 4 - 0
Finchinator 4 - 0
Teddeh 3 - 2
-Tsunami- 3 - 1

Total stats:
kinda useless for week 1 :P
 

Biosci

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Since no one posted times

[RUIN] Memoric vs. Laga [BIGS] - Saturday 9 am
[TGRS] MajorBowman vs. kamikaze [FLCN] - Saturday 2 pm
[CRYO] KyleCole vs. Braverius [CONG] - Saturday 9 pm
[SHRK] I Am a Rookie vs. Biosci [SCTR] - Sunday 4 pm
[WOLF] SamVGC vs. Stax [RAID] - Saturday 11 pm

Mark your calendars
 
Memoric vs. Laga - Doubles Jesus can't possibly lose twice in a row.
MajorBowman vs. kamikaze - Choo Choo, all aboard the undefeated train.
KyleCole vs. Braverius - You better make me rethink pokes like you promised.
I Am a Rookie vs. Biosci - I kinda hope Rookie does well just for the underdog story.
SamVGC vs. Stax - This is matchup up the week for me and it should be very even, but I gotta root for my friend SamVGC in this one.
 

Laga

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MajorBowman vs. kamikaze - kami and I are the washed up dynamic duo that need to avenge last year; I can't not root for him
KyleCole vs. Braverius - Zach cost so much money which will make him play better. Also memesack mcgee is memes
Rookie vs. Biosci - Newfound respect after w1 despite him using a simple, already built team. This guy is really good.
SamVGC vs. Stax - Both of them have a strong potential to rebound from a shitty first SPL game. I'd give Sam an edge because of my assumption of him better fitting SPL format.

Memoric vs Laga - I already have ur new avatar ready fam
 

Biosci

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Have match times set for 3/4 of the remaining match ups so I'll just edit when we get the last match time

Memoric vs SamVGC - Saturday 12 am EST
Braverius vs Kamikaze - Sunday 3 pm EST
I Am a Rookie vs Majorbowman - Thursday 5 pm EST
Laga vs Stax - Friday 2-3 pm EST

After this week, we have one more week til midseason. If people want to get picked up at midseason, now is your chance to start asking around for the potential pick up. This season of SPL has already been looking pretty interesting with results and teams, so looking forward to this season moving forward. GL to everyone this week, lets get some good matches
 
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Memoric vs SamVGC - this is a close 1 but the qsns factor tilts it in sam's favor :toast:
Braverius vs Kamikaze - I hope kami gets some wins eventually but they won't be against zachary that guys a beast
I Am a Rookie vs Majorbowman - ok I've predicted against this dude every week and he always wins but major6-0man aka majorblowsmen is gonna put him in the dirt
Laga vs Stax - stax seems to have bounced back from his week 1 loss and laga hasn't? I just think stax is better too idk
 

emma

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thoughts ig lol

stax is back to his usual self following his week 1 performance so i expect him to continue to have success in the following weeks.

K A M I K A Z E won this week and im so happy and now that he has won i think he'll definitive improve and bring home some wins and we'll see the usual kami we all know

laga is continuing to struggle but i hope he pulls back D:

sam, memo, and kyle are all at 1-2, kyle and memo surprising since they did well last year and not really surprising for sam since its his first spl

zach and bowman at 2-1 is not surprising they are both great. biosci is super underrated while hes also 2-1 which is cool

I AM A ROOKIE the lone 3-0 winning with the wildest shit including linoone and scarf mat block greninja this mans a legend holy shit

i am still awaiting the n1n1 post :toast:
 
Thread is a little dead but its midseason now so why not talk about SPL doubles up to this point.

The main story is definitely Rookie going 4-0 with a combination of unique and standard-ish teams. Not to say that it's unexpected but I don't know if anyone expected the more dominant wins he had and being able to top some of the higher ranked players such as Majorbowman and Stax.
At 3-1 we have Braverius and Biosci. Not sure if that's surprising but both have brought some pretty damn cool teams up to this point with some unexpected sets. 2-2 is a pretty crowded area at the moment featuring some of DOU's most consistent players; Stax, Bowman, KyleCole and SamVGC. These guys have had their ups and downs, some bad luck here and there but seeing these guys at 2-2 shouldn't shock too many people at this point in the season.

At 1-3 are both of the tier leaders, Memoric has featured some really odd team choices and Kamikaze has struggled in some of his matches to this point. Both players have shown some signs of life and are obviously capable of playing better than they have in some of their games. Both teams have some credits going into mids so it'll be interesting to see if they make a move. At 0-4 are BIGs doubles showing the same signs they did last year. Some poor team choices have led to hard matchups and it appears Doubles Jesus' resurrection may have been short lived. Last year they didn't make any moves in doubles at midseason but maybe they'll change their minds this year.

Its been discussed a bit on discord but the pool of DOU players at mids looks pretty deep. Depending on interest and funds, their are quite a few players with backgrounds in SPL that could help a struggling team. Names like Finally, Arctic, Shaian, and Mizu come to mind but I guess we'll see where it goes.

I'm not sure what to expect in the next half of the season but I expect guys like Rookie and Braverius to continue winning and I hope SamVGC gets back to his home tier of GSC OU.
 

Checkmater

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Didn't know where to put this before but laga isn't doubles jesus, if anything milk is
he's the one with a fucking custom title

good post

prediction for midseason is for tfc, finally, maybe arctic to get bought
Thing is I doubt either memoric / kami's teams will pick up dou players. Both are tierleaders and probably hitting unlucky streaks (whoops, primarina lucked itself onto my team? idk not really throwing shade but lowkey ??). Memoric has frania already on his team so there's that, while kamikaze has stratos+rei working with him. I will vouch for his week 2 team being a heavy inspiration for the team I built for stax in his week three, alolatales is pretty flames.

As for bigs, we saw last year that blingas is probably going to play for them, don't know the status of their funds/abilities to say more than that realistically.

Also want to go on the record and say that dou as a whole should be more willing to accept new talent, while also dubious of past achievements. Doing very well in an spl/tours when the player pool was much, much smaller is imo much less valuable in comparison to high activity, winning seasonals/opens, and being an active member of the community.
 

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