VGC Reflections - A VGC Podcast

Pokemon Pros recap their first tournaments in Pokemon Champions

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 ​@CybertronVGC and  @13Yoshi37 are back for another episode of VGC Reflections! Both Aaron and Markus attended the first Champions majors in North America and Europe respectively and have lots to talk about... we cover the tournament experience, what it's like competing on Champions, takeaways and things we'd do differently, and the metagame.

Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
04:26 Aaron's preparation for Indianapolis
06:31 Preparing for tournaments
13:52 Aaron's Indianapolis team and tournament run
22:25 Results of Indianapolis and implications for NAIC
28:12 Connection issues in Champions tournaments
51:00 Indianapolis winning team
57:58 Markus' T32 run in Turin and Top Cut rules
1:10:11 Analysis of Markus' team
1:14:16 How to improve
1:18:52 Reasons for Markus' success this season
1:27:36 Turin metagame
1:39:45 Japan Nationals and the new Big 6
1:48:45 Aaron plans to co-stream NAIC
1:52:10 Japanese veteran players making a comeback
1:56:38 NAIC hot takes
1:59:32 Outro