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Sam Bentham - 🇬🇧 VGC player

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Thanks, as always, to @Dimsunlight for being the best mentor, friend, and cheerleader (and for the team...); @sdg_ryo for prepping with me this week and company this weekend, and everyone I played or interacted with for being great. Love you all, see you in September 🫶

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Finished 8-4 for 73rd.

Once again not quite good enough this weekend, but for the first time in a while feel like I have some concrete understanding of what to work at. Progress!

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As I mentioned yesterday, LOVED getting to play Mega Gardevoir, as well as run back TFlame Chomp for the gajillionth time :)

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It was an absolute privilege to get to reg my favourite Pokémon for a tournament after all this time, and even better to make Day 2!

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@AzazeL_the_God

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@SturdyGraveler No more "must grind a different £70 game to obtain this Pokémon in champions" please and thank you, shouldn't have been a thing for Floette either

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@SturdyGraveler Sick job mate, wp!

(Also @Wiggliar extremely relevant to your interests)

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@The_Leegion 🐐

We will get there :)

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@45mice In general I am extremely team "Your opponent is human and both very disappointed and wants to get off stage asap, shake their hand, thank them for the game, THEN celebrate properly" but there is really very little wrong with this. It's finals and he barely even did anything?

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Not had an optimal start to Phase 2, but glad to be back amongst it and looking forward to coming back and scrapping for every game again in the morning.

Stream was fun, nice to get some redemption for a lot of losses I've taken on camera 😅

Tomorrow comes!

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(4/3)

It would have been so easy to do this right. Announce Reg I on the 1st as normal and say how much notice we'll have of switching to Champions.

Instead we have delays and uncertainty and it just feels like there's no respect for our time, effort, or emotional investment.

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I normally stop short of openly criticising the running of the circuit, because I think running it when you have to work around development timescales that shift is hard, but this is SUCH a wholly unsatisfactory announcement I feel it warrants it. (1/3)

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Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet Championship Series Regulation Update

Read more ➡️ https://t.co/yb8PIms3mf

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Example: I'm not going to Prague, but I plan on going to Utrecht. Should I prep for Reg I? It's on a date where the Asian circuits are moving to Champions. Will it be finalised by the time signups go up on RK9? What should I do in the meantime?

What a horrendous mess. (3/3 end)

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@45mice We have Tapu Koko at home?

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@AzazeL_the_God @CybertronVGC @Wiggliar I must be getting old because I've heard of like 3 of the acts on this list

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2016 vs 2026 at EUIC with @tapu_kyriakou

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@ChuppaVGC Yeah that's fair, there is absolutely nothing nearby.

Think it's reasonably hard to achieve the venue being in a convenient place in Europe due to how old most of the cities are and how big a venue is, being out of the way pretty normal here. Definitely different in NA!

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@ChuppaVGC Genuinely interested, what's the issue with the Excel? Imo the best venue I've been to in Europe for any games, suffices all major requirements:

Easily accessible
Plenty of food options
Plenty of toilets

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@ElliotVGC Tbf I don't know shit about the different types of coffee 😂 if someone wanted a better version of what they'd make for instant coffee at home what would they need to ask for?