look, the two battlers were both online during the smogon tour this week. They decided it wasnt worth their time to battle. So be it. This turned into a joke a while ago. Which sucks because for the most part this was a top notch tournament.
It sucks that, like the smogon tournament, the final round(s) were turned into a joke, at fault to the players (remember jesiah and his magikarp/mewtwo team?). It's just disrespectful that after all the hard fucking work me and shiv put into this that the finalists cant battle, and the one battle that did happen was a massive fucking joke.
I dont know fade away or gg very well at all, but im most surprised at 5k who i know is a good kid. It's just incredibly disrespectful. Who wouldnt want to be declared the winner of a tournament with the incredible field of battlers this had?
The World Cup III is over, the winner of the tournament is Team Asia.
I originally intended to post an extravagant end-of-tournament post, and it was gonna be good. But I am just too upset/disappointed to at this point, and this post was a long time coming.
The failures of this format have been noted and expect WCoP IV to be bigger, better and less anti-climactic.
I want to thank all the participants for coming out and really making this tournament a good time, especially the first round, which was buzzing with excitement more than any tournament ive ever seen before.
i did my best to run this, and im just hurt that this had to happen.