Won the tournament in 2 good games vs
ponchlake, a great player and poke-friend of mine, glad we managed to keep our promise to dance for final!
G1:
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen8camomons-1704328680
G2:
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen8camomons-1704336927
Where to start? I'm playing Camomons since well, I don't exactly remember but at least 5 years maybe? While being bad when I look at my teams and even at my plays, I managed to win my first Camomons Tour on Smogon the
20 Apr 2019, date of my birthday lol. Since then, I continued to play Camomons while spamming my Cresselia team (les français savent mdr) until the second editition of the Camomons Tour. I entered this tournament wanting to do better than just spamming a team and clicking Calm Mind with Cresselia lol. I used my new experience as SM OU player to build new teams and I finally also won this tournament after some really good games against In The Hills and Astralydia, really good Camomons players during gen7.
Then came my retirement from competitive scene to focus on my studies. Well, as you can see this retirement isn't perfect LOL. In fact, I entered the last OMWC of gen7 with the opportunity to be the captain of the first french team and the Camomons slot. After that, I participated to OMPL VII under the captaincy of Funbot28 and to OMPL VIII under the captaincy of Jrdn and Andyboy. Indeed, while wanting to retire from the competive scene, Camomons was and remains my prefered metagame so finally getting the opportunity to play great opponents in such teamtours was a golden opportunity I couldn't let go.
As we all know, Camomons has gone through dark times since it was removed from teamtours and deprived from its ladder (although at the end of day it doesn't really matter due to how inactive it was). To me, it was a consequence of the bad state of the metagame making it not funny and not competitive. Sad to see Camomons wither away, I decided to be involved in some changes to make Camomons great again. That's why I proposed the ban of Calm Mind of gen8camomons to make it both funnier and more competitive while resolving at the same time some other issues we had such as hazards spam being too strong with reduced counterplay. The road was long and steep but glad we finally got the green light to ban Calm Mind.
Since then, I played Camomons during the OM Spotlight Trios tour and the metagame seemt much more funnier and cool! After all these years, I can say I finally enjoyed building again in Camomons!
The Number Man with
Osake support FORCED (jk) to enter the Camomons council after I did so much for metagame providing resources, etc.
We try to revitalize the metagame but after all we wanted to share our enjoyment with people! That's why we made new and up to date resources while starting this tournament.
I was personally quite sad to see so few entries but well, maybe my expectations were just too high. After all, Camomons was but in a cryogenic sleep during this year and people lost interest in it without ladder to try the new metagame and really few chances to play for nothing but just fun (which is still good in fact!).
I initially did not enter the tournament because well, I did my time you don't think so? But again, I fell lol. Imagine doing all of these to get a competitive and fun metagame to play to just be spectator at the end? No way.
I really enjoyed a lot this tournament because I had the chance to build and play with many people. And now you see the conclusion coming:
Shoutouts! Because yeah, if you think I'm alone building teams and playing correctly because I'm probably much more experienced than the average player in the tournament, you're so wrong! Since years now, mon isn't a solo adventure anymore. If I managed to win today and the days before, that's also thanks to people who cheered me and helped me testing!
So here we go!
Euphonos sad we didn't play much against each other because you always have some really good ideas and an interesting vision of the teambuilding making you always a great opponent! Thanks for hosting the tournament and for your dedication to the metagame all these years. It will be a pleasure to work with you next gen to make Camomons live and, I hope, shine again!
The Number Man quite a discrete man there because technically taking a break before a triumphing return in gen9 but you were a great support to me helping me testing and building at the same time. Always a pleasure playing you and talking with you and I hope you will come back soon!
Clastia, fellow council member and cool guy! We didn't play a lot in test during this tour sadly but you were still helpful! Hope you're doing well because I know playing this game is sometimes really frustrating. Oh and btw, JUSR FUCKING FORGET ABOUT TORKOAL!! LOL
Flairr a player I didn't know before this tournament and probably one of the best surprise of the tour! You've come to me to get help in building or testing and it was so cool to see you enjoying the metagame and making progress at an insane speed! Thanks to you and our discussion, I managed to dive deeper and deeper in the Camomons metagame in search of the rare pearls! Hope to see around next gen because I'm pretty sure it's only the beginning for you if you still want to continue in the competive scene!
Ducky sorry for predicting always against you bro TuT But yeah you were playing Ponch and mine teams so I couldn't say much about you :c We helped each other in testing during semi-final and thanks you for that! Glad to see you enjoyed the metagame and playing during the tournament! :D But just to let you know that Camomons is much more wider than Latios, Melmetal, Rillaboom, Slowking and Dragapult lol.
ponchlake where to start again? Everything started when you asked me if it was possible to still enter the tournament will it already started. And look now where did you come? Just impressive run man and even funnier and we should have been both eliminated in the initial 8 people playoff format LOOL. You're probably the one with whom I talked the most during the tournament in terms of building (we probably have 4 or more teams built together) and it was really cool to share our ideas and build with
original mons! We also tested against each other a lot making this BO even harder due to how well we known each other in terms of playing and building.
I'm sure this end is disappointing for you and I perfectly understand that but you did an amazing run and I was scared for real to play against you today because I knew well you were good and able to take this one! Be more confident in yourself because you did so well and I only won this because I spent all the week in building and testing many teams to face you today at 100%.
It was a pleasure to play you in final although the prep did a lot in our games. Hope you enjoyed playing throughout this tournament because it was the case for me and I wouldn't have had as much fun taking part to this tournament without you. Thanks a lot.
The french crew now!
Palapapop qui eu crû que je te verrai un jour dans un tournoi Camomons appréciant le tier alors qu'il y a encore quelques mois tu critiquais encore pas mal le tier mdr. En tout cas c'est super si tu as pu apprécié ta run et changé un peu d'avis sur le tier (y a des défauts après hein j'en conviens) ! Merci d'avoir participé et de m'avoir détruit en test bien plus d'une fois ! Ta créativité est une source d'inspiration même si je préfère parfois regarder celle-ci à distance mdr. En tout cas on peut dire que cette originalité dans le builder fait probablement de toi l'une des personnes qui aura le plus développer le métagame en cette fin de génération. Merci pour toi !
Osake merci d'avoir entrer le tour sur ma demande pour soutenir le tier et le tournoi ! J'espère que tu as pu quand même pu apprécier un peu les games que tu as fait ! Merci également de m'avoir parfois démonter en test avec tes conneries, ce fût un excellent moyen de mettre à l'épreuve mes teams contre un mec qui sait clairement jouer au jeu ! Sort de ta retraite et joue Camo next gen
Altthiel t'as in le tour malgré le fait que tu sois pas si fan du méta et que tu sois pas mal occupé à côté, merci pour ça !
J'espère t'as pu quand même un peu kiffé malgré le temps qu'il t'a manqué pour build des dingueries dont tu as le secret x) Tu m'auras bien fait sué du cul en semi en tout cas et encore bien joué à toi car franchement c'est pas passé loin !
Dragonillis merci d'avoir participé toi aussi même si tu étais pris à côté avec l'OMWC! J'attend de retrouver mon rival fr dans ce tier avec lequel nous nous disputions le leaderboard d'Arcade! Merci d'avoir pris le temps de m'aider à tester :catheart:
PandaDoux tout pareil, merci d'avoir pris part au tournoi même si t'étais pas mal occupé/pas assez motivé pour build et pour les qqs games de test que j'ai pu faire contre toi!
Clementine vraiment le mec qui a pas eu de chance quoi ptdr. In to beat Altthiel into Altthiel R1 mdr. En tout cas c'était un BO super drôle à voir s/o Bicharpe. Et bordel mec t'as géré contre moi je m'y attendais pas. Dire que j'aurai pu me faire éliminer en qualif par toi ptdr. Dommage que tu ais pas continué mais merci d'avoir in et de ton soutien au méta
Special mentions now!
To
Gman for being so wonderful and a sun shining from kindness!
To
shnowshner for the multiple heart attacks his teams made to me lol. Hope to see you again playing but otherwise I'm in peace now with
my revenge :sunglasses:
To
RobDog747 with whom I talked a lot in the Camomons Discord to make him stop to spam weather LOL.
To
Fleeting Memories I hope to see again playing Camo because you had a terrible and unfortunate run while you had some really cool ideas!
To
Smallsmallrose pretty sure you could have been better so I hope to see you again playing Camo! Alsp thanks for being active in the Camomons Discord!
And finally (yeah yeah I always write too much lol), thanks to all those who cheered me and especially the OM french community!
See you next gen guys!