So our season ends.
1-3 for me which is, obviously, not a good record. But honestly, given the (extremely high) quality of my opponents- last year's best ADV record, the current ADV Championship champ, the most recent ADV Cup finalist and arguably the greatest competitive player of all time in that order- and the fact that I felt like all four games were fairly close and winnable, I don't feel awful about it. I'm not quite as good as those guys, but I felt I held my own and had my chances. It makes me optimistic for the future. All four games will be on my YT channel if anyone wants to check them out.
I want to thank Stone Cold and Void for drafting me and Eden for recommending me. I'm genuinely very appreciative of you guys. I really enjoyed being part of this, despite the chaos. Ezrael, Mannat and Bushtush in particular were really good, supportive, ego-free teammates that contributed a lot. Thanks for that.
I also want to say, while I don't want to get too deep into old drama, I think some of the criticism toward the Bigs drafters/management was too harsh. In my eyes they had one of the strongest drafts in the tour. With the base team we had (one of the best Doubles in Ezrael, one of the best RBYs in Nails, solid and talented guys like Sabella and Ima) if you were to take that foundation and add a cooperative Ojama, TDK and a giving a shit Fakes that team would be as good as any other in the tour. If he applies next year Stone Cold absolutely deserves to manage again.
I also really appreciate that, despite all the things going wrong (losing both Ojama and TDK, making two trades for talented proven players that didn't pan out, starting 0-2 as a team) the team environment as a whole, believe it or not, was drama free and in fact quite enjoyable. This was a really good group who made the best of a bad situation and the fact that we rattled off a few wins in a row and put ourselves in the mix, even though we didn't quite get there in the end, was really satisfying. I think even with the plethora of unfortunate things that happened we were better than the 9th place team in the tour, which is where the power rankings had us.
Thanks again to my managers and teammates and I hope to be involved with SPL in some capacity (MANAGER, Sub, Starter) next year. :)