Back on the beat although pj losing has ruined any chances I had at happiness.
Round 2:
1. Star (SS, SM, ORAS) vs. Flex OKLM
This is by far the most straightforward matchup of the 4, Flex's series last week was one of the worst sets of mons I've seen and the beef afterwards was so exceedingly cringe that I couldn't even laugh at it. pj had Star by the nuts in ORAS making one of the best sequences I've ever seen in my time on this site only to bin the endgame with a little misfortune, but Star navigated his very favourable matchup in SS well to put the series to bed. We can put that series being close down to praj being the greatest to ever do it, so I will bold Star very confidently here.
2. MichaelderBeste2 (SS) vs. 10. jonfilch (SM, ORAS)
Alright things get tougher from here. Admittedly, this is biased. Michael 'Easy Mode' Bestie's set against Malekith had some of the dreariest games I've seen with the only saving grace being Malekith losing his mind at every instance of misfortune. The games were messy and exceedingly boring, and the whole thing took over 2 hours to complete, but props to Michael for staying focused and closing it out. jon on the other hand received a donation from AMQ in his SS game, donated his SM game and then played a great ORAS to take it home over watashi. As far as this matchup goes, I think SS clearly goes to Michael and ORAS is clear for jon. SM is tricky, Michael played really impatiently in my opinion and got punished for it and while I don't think jon made any outright chokes in his game, he definitely played sub-optimally towards the end, so I'm just gonna go with who I want to win here.
3. Giannis Antetokommo-o (ORAS) vs. 6. beatiful (SS, SM)
Think this will probably be the most entertaining series although bea's refusal to build fresh teams will come back to bite him at some point...right? Both demolished their round 1 opponents so there isn't really much to go off, I think bea is best SS in this pool of players so I'll back him there but the other 2 feel like complete toss ups. ORAS is probably both of their weakest tiers of the 3 and both are very solid at SM so I think they split those, with bea taking it overall. Looking forward to this one.
4. Bushtush (SS) vs. 5. SoulWind (SM, ORAS)
Man I don't even know where to go with this, similar to the above series both dispatched of their round 1 opponents with ease, and the last time these two played the legendary BWTUSH was unleashed. I like Bush's chances in SS but overall I do think SoulWind takes the set, his play is just more solid and he seems more resistant to inting (please don't kill me Bush it's not that deep I promise).
something something rooting for jon and bush hope you clowns don't get owned