Post by GGFan on Jul 18, 2011 1:25:01 GMT -5
Yes, I am apologizing to you, icy; but more importantly, I want to say that I'm sorry to all of RBY2K10 (except for you, bobby, who should really do something about all of that sand in your vagina). I have realized the error of my ways--truly. From this moment on, I will give your community the peace that it deserves.
Icy, you were in the right to harass and troll me for six months. Me, a member who got along with everybody and never did anything wrong. Maybe you were disappointed about how I ignored your unwarranted troll bait. I'm sorry, but I just didn't see the point in needing to respond to something like "ggfan isn't that good," because you need to realize that I'm the same person who has received death threats from some of the biggest legends in this great industry of ours. Also, I guess it didn't help that your biggest claim to fame was winning three whole games in a row--the legend of TOS8 will be told 1,000 years from now, I'm sure.
But listen: I understand that you're trying to maintain a legit forum, and there's no better way to be legit than by trolling the nefarious GGFan. Therefore, just so you know, I wholeheartedly agree with how you condoned Nerd being an annoying prick in your first tournament, and how you were actually stupid enough to think that I was scared to play him. It absolutely didn't have anything to do with the fact that, if he won, both you and he would have harassed me and bragged like retards about it. But I should mention that it was good strategy on your part to ignore the fact that I won 3 games to 0 against him earlier in the tournament, and then nearly came back from a 0-2 deficit in the final set. Yes, I certainly was scared to play a game of Pokemon, especially against somebody that I'm 7-3 overall against, you fucking moron.
But now that I am finally out of the equation, I should congratulate you on ascertaining that I was never anything remarkable, and now you can look forward to a scintillating future. There's a lot of potential in that forum, and I'm sure an intrepid leader such as yourself is most definitely cognizant of that fact. Why, you've got none other than Bob as a moderator--the same person who belittles your forum behind your back and called you a cocksucker, and who never contributes anything besides dogmatic opinions that nobody gives a shit about. Don't worry though, icy: I'm sure somebody as (un)intelligent as you are can discern the fact that all of his posts make him come off as if he was born the ugliest looking piece of shit on the face of the planet, and have some brilliant reason as to why you keep him around and decided to ostracize me. Maybe it's the naive dumbshits like Garrin Red who encourage him; certainly that must be worth having members who make your forum look like a bigger joke than it already is. Certainly.
Obviously, there was no room for an amenable, experienced member who didn't feel like talking out of his ass every single time. You had Nitro for a while, but he wasn't as patient (rightfully so) as I was. But really, what the hell do I know? I'm obviously just a troll who has never accomplished anything in the decade that I've been in the Pokemon community. Sure, I may have won three tournament matches in a row on a daily basis during the zenith of the GameFAQs era, winning 13 tournaments--a record which still stands 8 years later--against tougher competition. Hell, I only managed to win over 50 tournament matches in 2003 (in one game matches), but that surely means nothing compared to your paramount accomplishment of winning three games in a row in TOS8--my own tournament. And those games were indicative of your own sublime abilties, with your tremendous luck against me and beating the person with whom you played several times against prior.
However, all of my accomplishments and supposed ability are obviously nothing more than a subterfuge, a byproduct of my own ingenuity. You see, all of the fat, ugly losers on Smogon who have no friends besides their own pathetic selves were right in saying that all of the tournaments I won and every single person that I've beaten over the last decade were actually my alts. As cunning as I've managed to be, Smogon is only more so: they couldn't have come up with a more brilliant way of dismissing me. Now, I don't have the power to erase icy from the Pokemon community by writing conspicuous libel about him, because I'm not an important figure in the most influential oligarchy in the Pokemon community. But if I were, I don't think even I would have been able to manipulate the impressionable 14-year-olds that make up the majority by saying to avoid so-and-so because he has thousands of alternate accounts. However, you morons--you miserable pieces of shit that have harassed me--have to give me credit for my own master plan; for I surreptitiously created hundreds of alternate accounts on Smogon.
I recently had the chance to peruse the hundreds of logs I've saved over the last six years, and it left me in an ambivalent state. I guess I never amounted to anything, because my victories against the likes of Nitro, Undone, Hipmonlee, obi, Sticky Topic, Loki, Majin Tupac, jira, PurpleWeezing, DevilKid, Cerberus, ViL, Redwall, Shrouded, Haste2, Kevin Garrett, Crystal, Shuveit, red13n, peter pan, Binabik, GG, Fish, Lesm, spies, gotei, imperfectluck, Great Sage--hey, I even beat bob in GSC twice. Don't worry, though, bobby, you'll always be the king of the metagame that only five people played and is played by even less now because the self-proclaimed "authority" is nothing more than a pathetic shell of a human being who thinks he "fits in" when he's actually an abomination who doesn't belong anywhere. Anyways, I'm ambivalent because these were all my alternate accounts. Obviously. No, wait, you're all idiots and I never gave a shit about any of you. I reveled in the fact that you tried so hard to portray me as a laughing stock while I continued to compile wins and troll your dumb asses. I'm sorry, that was uncalled for.
To break this frivolous incongruity, I'd like to refer to more pleasant times. After Smogon attempted to ostracize me from the Pokemon community, I decided to moonwalk to Germany where I became a legend. I became a combined 10-time champion in the German circuit, and leave it to those crazy Germans to like me so much that they would have adminned me if I only improved mein schlecht Deutsch! But it obviously doesn't mean anything that I was a major player in Pokemonexperte and Pokefans, two of the biggest forums in competitive Pokemon history. People had every right to glance at what I was doing over there and laugh because I wasn't at Smogon winning the "Smogon tour," but was playing in stinky German forums. I managed to excel against some of the best players in the world--some of which actually managed to win the "Smogon tour"--but it actually didn't mean anything because it wasn't the "Smogon tour."
I never did win the "Smogon tour," but some of you may recall hearing about how, in 2008, I was the only player to have won a major tournament in every generation. Of course, leave it to Smogon to make pretend that I hadn't played at a serious level in five years, and when I did, I only played RBY. People were right for claiming that my supposed accolades were nothing more than the silly conjecture of somebody who was one of the best in the world. When I think of Vineon's topic about me, I don't think about how stupid I was at that time. I think about how persistent I was, knowing that the topic was nothing more than a gathering of the most insignificant pieces of shit on the internet, and how I wound up outlasting and becoming more successful than everybody on that topic. If I'm nothing more than a "douche bag on the internet" like ruby soho said, then I assume that almost everybody who contributed to that thread is nothing more than the salt of the earth. Ruby soho, you (don't) have my condolences, you bulbous manatee and ugly loser.
The fact that Vineon made his topic one day after I caught Smogon stealing from THE Alternative's analyses was purely a coincidence. THE Alternative, an aptly named forum that morons instantly assumed was an "anti-Smogon" because it was made by me, didn't contribute anything. All of its tournaments, new players, innovative ideas, all deserved to be undermined for the fact that I made it. It was brilliant logic on the part of others to label anyone on THE Alternative my alt, because they didn't go to Smogon and wanted to play competitive RBY in an outlet that provided solidarity. I would like to (not) apologize to my friends, HcM and Slayer, solid players who never got the recognition they deserved because they were associated with me. You had to deal with belligerent idiots, but it's ok because we all had fun. Oddly enough, I loved THE Alternative, despite the fact that there was nothing to love because it was obviously a joke. Oh wait, it wasn't a joke. You can go fuck yourselves, you petty losers. Sorry, I'm sorry.
I'm sorry to SamG, whom I've known for six years. It was wrong of me to ban you from THE Alternative that one time; I'm sure you can forgive me, though. It was a privilege to watch your ascension into quietly becoming one of the greatest RBYers of all time, and I hope you enjoyed your time at THE Alternative as much as I did. We had some amazing games, and we played each other more than we played any other person. Prior to my 100+ games with you, I played Hipmonlee over 40 times. I thought that would be never surpassed, but little did I know. You helped me to improve my game; it was you who persuaded me to change my team in 2006, before the finals of TOS5. I did just that, and my legendary team of Jynx/Snorlax/Tauros/Exeggutor/Chansey/Alakazam has indubitably become the most dominant team in competitive RBY history. I'm still in the process of finding out just how many tournaments and tournament matches I've won with my current team over the last five years!
But speaking of Hipmonlee, I'd like to apologize to you as well. You were my most prolific opponent in 2003; we played over 40 times, as I mentioned. I don't know if you realize how many times we played, but all of our games really helped me make the transition from "good" to "great." To this day, our famous 90-minute classic might be the greatest game I've ever played. I can still remember the ending: it came down to my Tauros against your Lapras and Rhydon. I got the paralysis, but Ice Beam took me down to 17%. Your Lapras had 40% left, so I had quite the conundrum on my hands. After a minute or two of ruminating I went with Body Slam, which was the right call. You switched to Rhydon, which was put into kill range. It was an excellent game, but I wasn't an excellent person. I'm still not an excellent person, but I'm sorry.
It may surprise some of you to see that I'm also sorry to Nitro. As you impressionable morons read from Vineon's topic, my assumed "legacy" began with the IBT. In reality, this upset me for maybe a week before I went back to winning tournaments and establishing myself as one of the most dominant RBYers in the community. But there needed to be some kind of plotline, and I guess that was it. Well, Nitro was the captain, and he did take me off the team after I was originally going to be included. The reason I didn't get in was because Nitro didn't like me, not because I wasn't "well known." It was a good arugment by Vineon though, because only a fucking moron like him could make such an egregious contradiction, ignoring the fact that I had been on the Pokemon Blue board for over a year; and kudos to Redwall for ignoring the fact that he called me one of the best in the community. But Redwall and Vineon eventually faded into obscurity like the losers that they are and don't matter. MetalMew doesn't matter either, one of the members of the team who was enlisted solely to contradict Vineon's inane argument. And Remnant doesn't matter, the member who had been on GameFAQs for a whole two months and got on the team largely based on the fact that we didn't get along. No, none of that matters--what does matter is that Nitro was right in not including me on the team, because I would have done the same thing. I'm just grateful that I had the opportunity to have several games aganst him in 2003; in particular, my outing against him in a type clause tournament where I would have won 4-0 with a team of 5 Pokemon. It made me look really strong, even after Nitro soundly beat me right after. In most of our games, Nitro put me in my place, but unlike the average troll, I learned from those losses and used them to better my game. In 2011, I was fortunate enough to have one more encounter against you, and what a game it was. Though it wasn't under the circumstances that I would have liked (as much as I liked Hector Gold, it should have been GGFan), it was a great game and I was glad that you came back. Sorry for being so irritating back then.
As interesting as the story about the IBT was, what's also interesting is how I met SamG. I introduced him to competitive Pokemon in November of 2005, back on GameFAQs. But there was another user who I discovered by the name of Amaranth. I had played both in order to help them improve, and thought that Amaranth was the better of the two. And when SamG asked me how long I thought he'd last, I told him "maybe six months." But Amaranth would be gone by December, and SamG would go down as a legend in his own right--both as a player and for his tolerance of me.
I've always prided myself as somebody who was able to learn from my mistakes. In 2005, after GameFAQs died as a competitive outlet, I had my game against zfs in which I was pressured to play him. What zfs and the rest of those craven bullies fail to mention is that several of them invaded the server that I frequented and began to harass me. Well, I caved in and played the match, but lost 1-0. I would have won if my Chansey wasn't paralyzed four turns in a row, but it didn't matter because the ammo was there. But though I had lost to Smogon's own, I found solace in the loss because I knew that I could learn from the loss, and I did. I went on to become not only one of the greatest RBYers of all time, but a versatile player. Zfs would later get 6-0d by my good friend Makoscientist (I'm not sorry those losers accused you of being my alt. How could such pathetic human beings tolerate people not liking them, anyway?), not that that mattered. Well, I thought it was funny because it brought up the subject of karma.
Karma is an interesting thing; it often occurs when you least expect it. Well, in December of 2005, it did. Most of you know where I'm getting at here, but for those who don't, I am referring to my famous game against Warthog. Warthog was Smogon's golden child of RBY, for he had played well in one of their RBY tournaments. I was a joke in their eyes, but they didn't know that I was on Smogon, compiling win after win with one of my many psuedonyms. After going 8-0 in what I dubbed the "2005 Smogon Tour" (fuck off, icy), I had the chance to play Warthog. After verily outplaying him, he forfeited. I revealed my identity just to see how he would react, and he reacted by squealing like a piggy to one of the loser admins. I was quickly banned for my troubles, and Warthog accused me of telling him who I was because I was "trying to make a friend." What I was really doing was testing his character to see if he was a Smogon archetype (fucking shit-for-brains moron), and I guess I was right. Well Warty, it was a pleasure to embarrass you, as you were clearly distraught by losing to the nefarious GGFan, and I had a lot of fun going 9-0 in the 2005 Smogon Tour.
That same month, I made my debut in the Brazilian circuit. Because I was banned from Smogon and PokeRealm (zeroality, you are a cowardly cunt for banning me for the sole reason that "I was GGFan" and I wish you the worst in all of your future endeavors), I thought I had no outlet for competitive RSE. But there was Brasil Pokemon, and it was here where I was able to play some stellar people. It was in CAM where I learned the rudimentary aspects of competitive RSE, and it was in Brasil Pokemon where I learned how to become a good player. The likes of Ged, Ryuma, and kael made my one month tenure in Brasil Pokemon a really fun experience. In Feburary, I would spend two months in Saint Seiya Brasil, which replaced Brasil Pokemon as the largest Brazilian server, and had a great time. Brazilians have earned the GGFan seal of approval.
Five years later, I would join RBY2K10. Even though I had accomplished everything I wanted to in competitive Pokemon, I still looked at icy's forum as a challenge. I was the hardened veteran going up against the "new generation," and I made quite the first impression, winning the first tournament in its shaky history. Even though Nerd was incorrigible to the point where he should have been dragged into an abandoned barn and taken out of his misery, he was right for saying that I suck. He has just as much credibility as icy, whose biggest accomplished in his own community is finishing 3rd place in an 8-man tournament. But as much as I suck, I had some great games with the likes of Crystal, waterwizard, Posthuman, and maybe a couple of others. Great games, guys--the RBY champion of the world salutes you.
But I don't salute you, Jackal. My final opponent in a RBY tournament, my match against you was a recipe for disaster. A culmination of six months of icy's idiotic behavior, I had to play you in a contrived matchup. Previously, icy tried to have me face nerd by subbing him with my no-show opponent, but I exposed icy's faggot trolling by c/ping a post in which he said that he was active. Good job, icy, you fucking idiot. Well, after a disappointing loss to DragonAura, I had to play you. And after some terrible luck and harassment from you and your idiot friends, I lost. But since I knew I was on my way out, I thought it would be apropos to go out kicking and screaming, so I did what I did. It was my (not) grand exit, and I don't know if I'll have a grand return.
Yes, I have written all of this because I am really, truly, definitely leaving. The decade of GGFan is over; I'm taking my Pokeball and going home. It wasn't easy to make this decision, but I had to factor in a lot of things. I suppose the biggest detriment was time; at the age of 22, I just don't have the time to be as active as I want to be anymore. I'm not afraid to admit that I look back to the time I've spent in the Pokemon community positively, as much as it may surprise some of you. I had so much fun, whether it was trolling all of the prepubes and gullible idiots on GameFAQs, my fierce rivalry with Majin Tupac in 2007 where we tore the server down every time we played, playing in forums all over the world, or just lurking and watching random games. I think the thing I cherish the most about my tenure is playing in the Brazilian circuit and in communities throughout Europe, because interacting with people from different cultures helped inspire me to travel. I've traveled throughout Europe, Asia, and Africa, and hope to travel some more eventually. In regards to forums, I'll never forget Jack Sparrow's remark in one of Smogon's topics about me: "his grammar is terrible." You're right, it was. But I've always been about acknowleding my mistakes, and six years later, my grammar and prose are at the level that they should be. I'm not the obstinate faggot troll that many of you idiots assume that I am. And because of this fact, I'm not going to say that I'm never coming back. It's unlikely, but you can never say never in this great business of ours. Maybe I'll come back a year from now, or maybe I'll miss 4 years due a severe back injury and make my return at Madison Square Garden, where I'll finally win the "Smogon Tour" inside the "Smogon Frontier." Ultimately, though, there is a 99% chance that I am done for good.
However, I can't ignore that motivation has played a factor. Yes, I know there's the fact that I've never won the "Smogon Tour," but besides that, I've done everything that I've wanted to. I have other goals that I want to pursue; at this point, Pokemon is a distraction. It's time for me to move on, and I'm sure aspiring trolls (not you, bob, you've been a disgrace to trolls everywhere for five years) will appreciate that. In addition to competitive Pokemon, I've dominated the art of trolling for ten whole years now.
My final tournament match occurred this month in Pokefans. I lost 2 games to 0 in the first round to gigapflanze, a young man with a tremendous upside. He's German, so I think he'll be ok; I'm not worried about the future. While my final outing in a tournament was kind of anticlimactic, I actually couldn't have been happier with it. It was in Pokefans, the forum that I joined back in 2007 and had so many memorable games against some of the best. Pokefans is by far my favorite Pokemon forum, and I had a wonderful time playing there. What a fitting way to end the era of GGFan.
I realize that this isn't a perfect farewell speech, but I think I did a good job overall. There are some things that I could have talked about, but I think I was thorough enough. Anyways, I'd finally like to give a shout out to Pidgeotto, a GameFAQs user who gave me the link to AzureHeights way back when. Because of you, I was able to discover the world of online Pokemon.
I think it would be prudent to end this by revealing what I feel is my biggest victory. I've had tons: TOS, TOS6, the 2007 Meisterschaft, my dominance in 2008, and so on. But if I had to pick just one, I would pick winning TOS3 back in March of 2004. My grandparents had both died three days apart, and then I got sick. But I still played Lesm in the finals, and managed to win 4-0. It was a special moment. But all good things must come to an end.
The era of GGFan: April 28th, 2002 - July 18th, 2011
You can never be as great I was, but I encourage you to try,
GGFan, RBY Champion of the World
Icy, you were in the right to harass and troll me for six months. Me, a member who got along with everybody and never did anything wrong. Maybe you were disappointed about how I ignored your unwarranted troll bait. I'm sorry, but I just didn't see the point in needing to respond to something like "ggfan isn't that good," because you need to realize that I'm the same person who has received death threats from some of the biggest legends in this great industry of ours. Also, I guess it didn't help that your biggest claim to fame was winning three whole games in a row--the legend of TOS8 will be told 1,000 years from now, I'm sure.
But listen: I understand that you're trying to maintain a legit forum, and there's no better way to be legit than by trolling the nefarious GGFan. Therefore, just so you know, I wholeheartedly agree with how you condoned Nerd being an annoying prick in your first tournament, and how you were actually stupid enough to think that I was scared to play him. It absolutely didn't have anything to do with the fact that, if he won, both you and he would have harassed me and bragged like retards about it. But I should mention that it was good strategy on your part to ignore the fact that I won 3 games to 0 against him earlier in the tournament, and then nearly came back from a 0-2 deficit in the final set. Yes, I certainly was scared to play a game of Pokemon, especially against somebody that I'm 7-3 overall against, you fucking moron.
But now that I am finally out of the equation, I should congratulate you on ascertaining that I was never anything remarkable, and now you can look forward to a scintillating future. There's a lot of potential in that forum, and I'm sure an intrepid leader such as yourself is most definitely cognizant of that fact. Why, you've got none other than Bob as a moderator--the same person who belittles your forum behind your back and called you a cocksucker, and who never contributes anything besides dogmatic opinions that nobody gives a shit about. Don't worry though, icy: I'm sure somebody as (un)intelligent as you are can discern the fact that all of his posts make him come off as if he was born the ugliest looking piece of shit on the face of the planet, and have some brilliant reason as to why you keep him around and decided to ostracize me. Maybe it's the naive dumbshits like Garrin Red who encourage him; certainly that must be worth having members who make your forum look like a bigger joke than it already is. Certainly.
Obviously, there was no room for an amenable, experienced member who didn't feel like talking out of his ass every single time. You had Nitro for a while, but he wasn't as patient (rightfully so) as I was. But really, what the hell do I know? I'm obviously just a troll who has never accomplished anything in the decade that I've been in the Pokemon community. Sure, I may have won three tournament matches in a row on a daily basis during the zenith of the GameFAQs era, winning 13 tournaments--a record which still stands 8 years later--against tougher competition. Hell, I only managed to win over 50 tournament matches in 2003 (in one game matches), but that surely means nothing compared to your paramount accomplishment of winning three games in a row in TOS8--my own tournament. And those games were indicative of your own sublime abilties, with your tremendous luck against me and beating the person with whom you played several times against prior.
However, all of my accomplishments and supposed ability are obviously nothing more than a subterfuge, a byproduct of my own ingenuity. You see, all of the fat, ugly losers on Smogon who have no friends besides their own pathetic selves were right in saying that all of the tournaments I won and every single person that I've beaten over the last decade were actually my alts. As cunning as I've managed to be, Smogon is only more so: they couldn't have come up with a more brilliant way of dismissing me. Now, I don't have the power to erase icy from the Pokemon community by writing conspicuous libel about him, because I'm not an important figure in the most influential oligarchy in the Pokemon community. But if I were, I don't think even I would have been able to manipulate the impressionable 14-year-olds that make up the majority by saying to avoid so-and-so because he has thousands of alternate accounts. However, you morons--you miserable pieces of shit that have harassed me--have to give me credit for my own master plan; for I surreptitiously created hundreds of alternate accounts on Smogon.
I recently had the chance to peruse the hundreds of logs I've saved over the last six years, and it left me in an ambivalent state. I guess I never amounted to anything, because my victories against the likes of Nitro, Undone, Hipmonlee, obi, Sticky Topic, Loki, Majin Tupac, jira, PurpleWeezing, DevilKid, Cerberus, ViL, Redwall, Shrouded, Haste2, Kevin Garrett, Crystal, Shuveit, red13n, peter pan, Binabik, GG, Fish, Lesm, spies, gotei, imperfectluck, Great Sage--hey, I even beat bob in GSC twice. Don't worry, though, bobby, you'll always be the king of the metagame that only five people played and is played by even less now because the self-proclaimed "authority" is nothing more than a pathetic shell of a human being who thinks he "fits in" when he's actually an abomination who doesn't belong anywhere. Anyways, I'm ambivalent because these were all my alternate accounts. Obviously. No, wait, you're all idiots and I never gave a shit about any of you. I reveled in the fact that you tried so hard to portray me as a laughing stock while I continued to compile wins and troll your dumb asses. I'm sorry, that was uncalled for.
To break this frivolous incongruity, I'd like to refer to more pleasant times. After Smogon attempted to ostracize me from the Pokemon community, I decided to moonwalk to Germany where I became a legend. I became a combined 10-time champion in the German circuit, and leave it to those crazy Germans to like me so much that they would have adminned me if I only improved mein schlecht Deutsch! But it obviously doesn't mean anything that I was a major player in Pokemonexperte and Pokefans, two of the biggest forums in competitive Pokemon history. People had every right to glance at what I was doing over there and laugh because I wasn't at Smogon winning the "Smogon tour," but was playing in stinky German forums. I managed to excel against some of the best players in the world--some of which actually managed to win the "Smogon tour"--but it actually didn't mean anything because it wasn't the "Smogon tour."
I never did win the "Smogon tour," but some of you may recall hearing about how, in 2008, I was the only player to have won a major tournament in every generation. Of course, leave it to Smogon to make pretend that I hadn't played at a serious level in five years, and when I did, I only played RBY. People were right for claiming that my supposed accolades were nothing more than the silly conjecture of somebody who was one of the best in the world. When I think of Vineon's topic about me, I don't think about how stupid I was at that time. I think about how persistent I was, knowing that the topic was nothing more than a gathering of the most insignificant pieces of shit on the internet, and how I wound up outlasting and becoming more successful than everybody on that topic. If I'm nothing more than a "douche bag on the internet" like ruby soho said, then I assume that almost everybody who contributed to that thread is nothing more than the salt of the earth. Ruby soho, you (don't) have my condolences, you bulbous manatee and ugly loser.
The fact that Vineon made his topic one day after I caught Smogon stealing from THE Alternative's analyses was purely a coincidence. THE Alternative, an aptly named forum that morons instantly assumed was an "anti-Smogon" because it was made by me, didn't contribute anything. All of its tournaments, new players, innovative ideas, all deserved to be undermined for the fact that I made it. It was brilliant logic on the part of others to label anyone on THE Alternative my alt, because they didn't go to Smogon and wanted to play competitive RBY in an outlet that provided solidarity. I would like to (not) apologize to my friends, HcM and Slayer, solid players who never got the recognition they deserved because they were associated with me. You had to deal with belligerent idiots, but it's ok because we all had fun. Oddly enough, I loved THE Alternative, despite the fact that there was nothing to love because it was obviously a joke. Oh wait, it wasn't a joke. You can go fuck yourselves, you petty losers. Sorry, I'm sorry.
I'm sorry to SamG, whom I've known for six years. It was wrong of me to ban you from THE Alternative that one time; I'm sure you can forgive me, though. It was a privilege to watch your ascension into quietly becoming one of the greatest RBYers of all time, and I hope you enjoyed your time at THE Alternative as much as I did. We had some amazing games, and we played each other more than we played any other person. Prior to my 100+ games with you, I played Hipmonlee over 40 times. I thought that would be never surpassed, but little did I know. You helped me to improve my game; it was you who persuaded me to change my team in 2006, before the finals of TOS5. I did just that, and my legendary team of Jynx/Snorlax/Tauros/Exeggutor/Chansey/Alakazam has indubitably become the most dominant team in competitive RBY history. I'm still in the process of finding out just how many tournaments and tournament matches I've won with my current team over the last five years!
But speaking of Hipmonlee, I'd like to apologize to you as well. You were my most prolific opponent in 2003; we played over 40 times, as I mentioned. I don't know if you realize how many times we played, but all of our games really helped me make the transition from "good" to "great." To this day, our famous 90-minute classic might be the greatest game I've ever played. I can still remember the ending: it came down to my Tauros against your Lapras and Rhydon. I got the paralysis, but Ice Beam took me down to 17%. Your Lapras had 40% left, so I had quite the conundrum on my hands. After a minute or two of ruminating I went with Body Slam, which was the right call. You switched to Rhydon, which was put into kill range. It was an excellent game, but I wasn't an excellent person. I'm still not an excellent person, but I'm sorry.
It may surprise some of you to see that I'm also sorry to Nitro. As you impressionable morons read from Vineon's topic, my assumed "legacy" began with the IBT. In reality, this upset me for maybe a week before I went back to winning tournaments and establishing myself as one of the most dominant RBYers in the community. But there needed to be some kind of plotline, and I guess that was it. Well, Nitro was the captain, and he did take me off the team after I was originally going to be included. The reason I didn't get in was because Nitro didn't like me, not because I wasn't "well known." It was a good arugment by Vineon though, because only a fucking moron like him could make such an egregious contradiction, ignoring the fact that I had been on the Pokemon Blue board for over a year; and kudos to Redwall for ignoring the fact that he called me one of the best in the community. But Redwall and Vineon eventually faded into obscurity like the losers that they are and don't matter. MetalMew doesn't matter either, one of the members of the team who was enlisted solely to contradict Vineon's inane argument. And Remnant doesn't matter, the member who had been on GameFAQs for a whole two months and got on the team largely based on the fact that we didn't get along. No, none of that matters--what does matter is that Nitro was right in not including me on the team, because I would have done the same thing. I'm just grateful that I had the opportunity to have several games aganst him in 2003; in particular, my outing against him in a type clause tournament where I would have won 4-0 with a team of 5 Pokemon. It made me look really strong, even after Nitro soundly beat me right after. In most of our games, Nitro put me in my place, but unlike the average troll, I learned from those losses and used them to better my game. In 2011, I was fortunate enough to have one more encounter against you, and what a game it was. Though it wasn't under the circumstances that I would have liked (as much as I liked Hector Gold, it should have been GGFan), it was a great game and I was glad that you came back. Sorry for being so irritating back then.
As interesting as the story about the IBT was, what's also interesting is how I met SamG. I introduced him to competitive Pokemon in November of 2005, back on GameFAQs. But there was another user who I discovered by the name of Amaranth. I had played both in order to help them improve, and thought that Amaranth was the better of the two. And when SamG asked me how long I thought he'd last, I told him "maybe six months." But Amaranth would be gone by December, and SamG would go down as a legend in his own right--both as a player and for his tolerance of me.
I've always prided myself as somebody who was able to learn from my mistakes. In 2005, after GameFAQs died as a competitive outlet, I had my game against zfs in which I was pressured to play him. What zfs and the rest of those craven bullies fail to mention is that several of them invaded the server that I frequented and began to harass me. Well, I caved in and played the match, but lost 1-0. I would have won if my Chansey wasn't paralyzed four turns in a row, but it didn't matter because the ammo was there. But though I had lost to Smogon's own, I found solace in the loss because I knew that I could learn from the loss, and I did. I went on to become not only one of the greatest RBYers of all time, but a versatile player. Zfs would later get 6-0d by my good friend Makoscientist (I'm not sorry those losers accused you of being my alt. How could such pathetic human beings tolerate people not liking them, anyway?), not that that mattered. Well, I thought it was funny because it brought up the subject of karma.
Karma is an interesting thing; it often occurs when you least expect it. Well, in December of 2005, it did. Most of you know where I'm getting at here, but for those who don't, I am referring to my famous game against Warthog. Warthog was Smogon's golden child of RBY, for he had played well in one of their RBY tournaments. I was a joke in their eyes, but they didn't know that I was on Smogon, compiling win after win with one of my many psuedonyms. After going 8-0 in what I dubbed the "2005 Smogon Tour" (fuck off, icy), I had the chance to play Warthog. After verily outplaying him, he forfeited. I revealed my identity just to see how he would react, and he reacted by squealing like a piggy to one of the loser admins. I was quickly banned for my troubles, and Warthog accused me of telling him who I was because I was "trying to make a friend." What I was really doing was testing his character to see if he was a Smogon archetype (fucking shit-for-brains moron), and I guess I was right. Well Warty, it was a pleasure to embarrass you, as you were clearly distraught by losing to the nefarious GGFan, and I had a lot of fun going 9-0 in the 2005 Smogon Tour.
That same month, I made my debut in the Brazilian circuit. Because I was banned from Smogon and PokeRealm (zeroality, you are a cowardly cunt for banning me for the sole reason that "I was GGFan" and I wish you the worst in all of your future endeavors), I thought I had no outlet for competitive RSE. But there was Brasil Pokemon, and it was here where I was able to play some stellar people. It was in CAM where I learned the rudimentary aspects of competitive RSE, and it was in Brasil Pokemon where I learned how to become a good player. The likes of Ged, Ryuma, and kael made my one month tenure in Brasil Pokemon a really fun experience. In Feburary, I would spend two months in Saint Seiya Brasil, which replaced Brasil Pokemon as the largest Brazilian server, and had a great time. Brazilians have earned the GGFan seal of approval.
Five years later, I would join RBY2K10. Even though I had accomplished everything I wanted to in competitive Pokemon, I still looked at icy's forum as a challenge. I was the hardened veteran going up against the "new generation," and I made quite the first impression, winning the first tournament in its shaky history. Even though Nerd was incorrigible to the point where he should have been dragged into an abandoned barn and taken out of his misery, he was right for saying that I suck. He has just as much credibility as icy, whose biggest accomplished in his own community is finishing 3rd place in an 8-man tournament. But as much as I suck, I had some great games with the likes of Crystal, waterwizard, Posthuman, and maybe a couple of others. Great games, guys--the RBY champion of the world salutes you.
But I don't salute you, Jackal. My final opponent in a RBY tournament, my match against you was a recipe for disaster. A culmination of six months of icy's idiotic behavior, I had to play you in a contrived matchup. Previously, icy tried to have me face nerd by subbing him with my no-show opponent, but I exposed icy's faggot trolling by c/ping a post in which he said that he was active. Good job, icy, you fucking idiot. Well, after a disappointing loss to DragonAura, I had to play you. And after some terrible luck and harassment from you and your idiot friends, I lost. But since I knew I was on my way out, I thought it would be apropos to go out kicking and screaming, so I did what I did. It was my (not) grand exit, and I don't know if I'll have a grand return.
Yes, I have written all of this because I am really, truly, definitely leaving. The decade of GGFan is over; I'm taking my Pokeball and going home. It wasn't easy to make this decision, but I had to factor in a lot of things. I suppose the biggest detriment was time; at the age of 22, I just don't have the time to be as active as I want to be anymore. I'm not afraid to admit that I look back to the time I've spent in the Pokemon community positively, as much as it may surprise some of you. I had so much fun, whether it was trolling all of the prepubes and gullible idiots on GameFAQs, my fierce rivalry with Majin Tupac in 2007 where we tore the server down every time we played, playing in forums all over the world, or just lurking and watching random games. I think the thing I cherish the most about my tenure is playing in the Brazilian circuit and in communities throughout Europe, because interacting with people from different cultures helped inspire me to travel. I've traveled throughout Europe, Asia, and Africa, and hope to travel some more eventually. In regards to forums, I'll never forget Jack Sparrow's remark in one of Smogon's topics about me: "his grammar is terrible." You're right, it was. But I've always been about acknowleding my mistakes, and six years later, my grammar and prose are at the level that they should be. I'm not the obstinate faggot troll that many of you idiots assume that I am. And because of this fact, I'm not going to say that I'm never coming back. It's unlikely, but you can never say never in this great business of ours. Maybe I'll come back a year from now, or maybe I'll miss 4 years due a severe back injury and make my return at Madison Square Garden, where I'll finally win the "Smogon Tour" inside the "Smogon Frontier." Ultimately, though, there is a 99% chance that I am done for good.
However, I can't ignore that motivation has played a factor. Yes, I know there's the fact that I've never won the "Smogon Tour," but besides that, I've done everything that I've wanted to. I have other goals that I want to pursue; at this point, Pokemon is a distraction. It's time for me to move on, and I'm sure aspiring trolls (not you, bob, you've been a disgrace to trolls everywhere for five years) will appreciate that. In addition to competitive Pokemon, I've dominated the art of trolling for ten whole years now.
My final tournament match occurred this month in Pokefans. I lost 2 games to 0 in the first round to gigapflanze, a young man with a tremendous upside. He's German, so I think he'll be ok; I'm not worried about the future. While my final outing in a tournament was kind of anticlimactic, I actually couldn't have been happier with it. It was in Pokefans, the forum that I joined back in 2007 and had so many memorable games against some of the best. Pokefans is by far my favorite Pokemon forum, and I had a wonderful time playing there. What a fitting way to end the era of GGFan.
I realize that this isn't a perfect farewell speech, but I think I did a good job overall. There are some things that I could have talked about, but I think I was thorough enough. Anyways, I'd finally like to give a shout out to Pidgeotto, a GameFAQs user who gave me the link to AzureHeights way back when. Because of you, I was able to discover the world of online Pokemon.
I think it would be prudent to end this by revealing what I feel is my biggest victory. I've had tons: TOS, TOS6, the 2007 Meisterschaft, my dominance in 2008, and so on. But if I had to pick just one, I would pick winning TOS3 back in March of 2004. My grandparents had both died three days apart, and then I got sick. But I still played Lesm in the finals, and managed to win 4-0. It was a special moment. But all good things must come to an end.
The era of GGFan: April 28th, 2002 - July 18th, 2011
You can never be as great I was, but I encourage you to try,
GGFan, RBY Champion of the World
