The Final Hour of the Random Battle Ladder Tournament

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@freezailive3842 Ай бұрын

There's some video quality issues with youtube, this is the unedited stream but its in HD kzbin.infowQufxg3Yn1g www.smogon.com/forums/threads/rblt-cycle-2-signups.3751286/ Cycle 2 Signups are open!

@ShirayukiRaito Ай бұрын

Freezai with agency video quality 🔥🔥

@Stefan-ih9kd Ай бұрын

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@TheDeathlyG Ай бұрын

I feel like they should amend the tournament timer rules. Currently, it is without a doubt the best move for the top 6 players to BM and stall out as many games as they can for the last ~10 minutes or so. Less players climbing/wasting time on them means a better chance of holding your spot. Rules should be that any game started *before the end of the tournament* is counted for positional ranking. This means that top 6 players now have a choice: start a bunch of games to get last minute ELO, or start no games to try and protect their current standing. It is effectively a last-minute gamble, how much ELO can you squeeze in at the end? Now stalling out a ton of games is no longer optimal. You are punished if you bite off more than you can chew, but you are rewarded if you can win the games you do take. The only downside i can see is that you'd have to have a system to track which games started before the clock hits 0. But at least you arent rewarding borderline BM behavior in a fan-run tourny on a fan-run server.

@Lation94 Ай бұрын

MichaelderBeste casually coming online to play a single game to get first place back with a GXE of 95.1% is just insane to me.

@ayo-whats-this Ай бұрын

He kinda lost a bit of respect from me today. He could have just not laddered anymore. But he timer stalled two games in the end. One of them being the last one we just saw. It was unnecessary and mean spirited.

@justaliljello5198 Ай бұрын

@@ayo-whats-this ya idk what you're on but he needed the last game to secure the #1 guy behind him was inching

@jakelowk3y793 Ай бұрын

@@ayo-whats-thishe dont need or want ur respect lil bro

@BingusTingus-ls4mf Ай бұрын

@jakelowkeyk3y793 Michael's need or want of respect is irrelevant too their perspective that what Michael did was unnecessary and mean spirited. I love sucking dick too dont get me wrong it's a big part of my life, just let them believe he was being mean when he did that. All is well

@dssc8691 Ай бұрын

⁠⁠⁠@@ayo-whats-this It wasn’t unnecessary, as if somebody passed him in the last minutes he wouldn’t have enough time to queue and finish a new game, but by already being in the middle of a game, if somebody passes him, he can play quick and potentially regain the placement, but if nobody passes him, he can timer stall, so he’s just giving himself a chance to regain a lead at basically no risk. It is a bit mean-spirited as you can argue stalling is against the spirit of the game, but it’s what the ladder tournament format incentivizes, and you can’t expect people not to play strategically when there is money on the line just because it’s a bit mean spirited.

@maximevingerhoets8765 Ай бұрын

"I found something more interesting". RIP Pokevin

@TheRealBErhart Ай бұрын

now that is some epic malding pog (i hope I'm using the terms "epic", "malding", and "pog" correctly)

@RuijsNL Ай бұрын

Very hip and down with the times

@lambo4046 Ай бұрын

MichaelderBeste is the absolute goat of random battle. What a beast

@BFCSkyler Ай бұрын

This is like the NFL Redzone of Pokémon hahah well done

@mcanimegod507 Ай бұрын

Man I was rooting for Ilex it's a shame man. Truly legendary I'm now a fan

@samsalkie4957 Ай бұрын

MichaelderBeste has his own KZbin channel where he shows his thought process and actually hits 1st on ladder on a brand new account

@LegalizeCrystalWeedd Ай бұрын

He actually got the first 5 places on the ladder in randbats gen 9 and is going for first place in every gen😮

@alfredsupersauce Ай бұрын

I refuse to believe Michaelderbeste is a real person. How can someone just be so much better than everyone else at something?

@Cardb33 Ай бұрын

Haha right? He definitely is though he has a YT channel. He's also very good at competitive Pokemon in addition to being the Random Battles GOAT.

@tarunyadav3567 Ай бұрын

Magnus Carlsen of Pokemon

@Decide-ru2ud Ай бұрын

thank you

@B0nsai_444 Ай бұрын

I can’t imagine being at the top of the leaderboard playing Rand bats for thousands of dollars just to get reverse swept by a dunsparce or something

@hoboayoyo Ай бұрын

"L is European and I believe he went to sleep."

@KanderUdon Ай бұрын

Lets goooooo

@aldrichunfaithful3589 Ай бұрын

i was no way near the top 6 but i managed to hit top 100 which i'm pretty proud of (also i'm gonna ignore the fact that you stopped laddering so i can be smug about beating you by 14 elo lol), back in gen 8 my peak was 1500 i've learnt a ton from watching your videos. also here 16:04 i think the correct line was to go cyclizar first, that created a 50/50 where he could either draco the eel or double out on the chesnaught switch

@El_Kanto Ай бұрын

going cyclizar first would've definitely been the better play. there are some mindplays involved but if the eel stays in on the draco, lady writer wins if it's the leftovers set or if it's the av set with tera steel

@aldrichunfaithful3589 Ай бұрын

@@El_Kanto i've been thinking about it too much and i'm getting confused now lol, but i'm pretty sure if he went cyclizar and clicked draco twice it was a guaranteed win actually, no matter what the opponent did eel would always end up in range of cc. i don't blame him for choking though it was a high stakes game with time pressure

@El_Kanto Ай бұрын

@@aldrichunfaithful3589blade couldve also sacd the chesnaught to the first draco which means drain punch and leftovers wouldve recovered him to full hp or let him coil to be safer against cc. at that point it sort of depends on cyclizars tera type but i wouldnt call it a guaranteed win.

@aldrichunfaithful3589 Ай бұрын

@@El_Kanto ah hell i accounted for lefties but i forgot about drain punch recovery, that's it i'm not thinking about it anymore lol

@Cardb33 Ай бұрын

Top 100 is especially impressive when there's this kind of tournament going on. You have all the top players grinding hard, getting momentum going which is incredibly effective in random battles cause at a certain point you just get rolling and the games tend to go quicker and you get a better feel for the calcs. Congrats on your top 100 finish!

@eilhossannah6269 Ай бұрын

Man lmao my friend made it xD I litreally. Know aqguy

@LauLessPariah Ай бұрын

Seeing that Michael had five accounts at the top of the leaderboard for a while, it would not surprise me if he also made several KZbin accounts to hype himself up in the comments. These people are actually nuts and it makes me feel like they aren't even real.

@barry101ish Ай бұрын

That's a nasty smeargle set

@diegogris952 Ай бұрын

Thank you for your content, feeezai

@gymfamily Ай бұрын

I do not understand how michael is just such a beast. You can be great at something. But this guy is like consistently NUMBER 1 on A RANDBATS ladder. Just proves you can pull the odds in your favor even in randbats. I just cant believe this guy is consistently number 1. Great to see pokevin here too. Go watch michael's and pokevin's channel. They are great too!

@AlfaElQuinto Ай бұрын

Rabdbats it's an information battle. Say, I start the game with regieleki, and you have Gyarados. You know that I am likely going to volt switch, so you will put a ground type to block me. If you switch to something like a torkoal, you are actively telling me you have no ground type. If you tera your Gyarados to ground, you tell you don't have a ground + you have no way to dispatch regieleki. But, you could intentionally let one of your mons take the blow to advance the match, get a 3 vs 3 situation and THEN you put a excadrill in front of my regi. In that moment, you likely know at least 1 more if not both of my team, and you get a free turn to spin/SD, being excadrill usually capable of taking 1 hit if not super effective. In that very instant, you won most of the times, just because you gave me wrong information. Same with items. Faking a scarf or bluffing moves can lead to terrible consequences

@jonathanlgill Ай бұрын

Michael's also gotten top 3 in VGC for two years in a row. Just unbelievable how excellent he is across formats.

@BarcelonaMove Ай бұрын

The video quality is potato

@somenonsense7997 Ай бұрын

Mmm starch! Yummy!

@haydens329 Ай бұрын

Ain't nothing wrong with a good potato champ

@JohnHunterPlayerr Ай бұрын

Lol. I'll be back. Watching jimvitational...

@CUZdeathwins Ай бұрын

why is playoffs so few people?

@pettyjones Ай бұрын

The tournament has to end

@MoinCoin Ай бұрын

michaelderstalleste

@PatrickLloyd-Deely Ай бұрын

Ill come back when the quality is better

@tusay250862 Ай бұрын

Did freezai drop out?

@LauLessPariah Ай бұрын

He was very low in the ladder last time I saw a few days ago. I think he just chose not to be there in the end

@exaunitive4948 Ай бұрын

in my opinion this method is really lame the final game should count according to the CUE time as in(if you load a game in the last 10 seconds of the tour it should be the last game and it SHOULD count for the win) cause Ilex genuinely had a chance if that game counted

@itsnaman707 Ай бұрын

And micheal would be out from top 6 if that happens he was on 7th after that loss but ofcourse the thing is micheal was never going for win in the first place so we can't say anything

@exaunitive4948 Ай бұрын

@@itsnaman707 here's the thing if the last game counted no matter what Michael would fight seriously But instead he resorted to timer stalling i know he was already in top 6 but to ensure he doesn't lose top 1 he timer stalled someone else chance of getting in This isn't chess

@itsnaman707 Ай бұрын

@@exaunitive4948 yeah that was not good from his side like even if he didn't get top 1 in cycle 1 he can easily get it in other cycle also other cycles will be easier but instead he destroyed hopes of the other player I don't think that guy will play in cycle 2 he must be heartbroken after that

@Gianniszero555 Ай бұрын

Just pick yourself in the lottery if you dont make the cut gg easy

@TheTrueProxy Ай бұрын

Ilex even said he understod the timer stall. Non-issue.

@loue9376 Ай бұрын

360p ? Cmon bruh

@ButHearMeOut Ай бұрын

360p gang where u at?

@titaniumblade2761 Ай бұрын

Watching this live feels the same as going to the bar and watching the games, but for nerds But tbh tho. I’d watch a weekly stream of a bunch of high level players all compete at the same time with a commentator. Watching a bunch of high level clutches live. sounds like a good stream idea