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No need to, I should have spent some time online, I kinda entered because a couple of friends of mine where going and did just chuck a team together based on http://www.smogon.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3447811 that thread, I really did mean it when I said "what am I doing up here?"
Honestly I...
Just gonna jump in the thread to say hi, I was one of the 25 finalists before being knocked out by a smogonite (in which I massive herp derped, and even said so into the mike). Just wanted to let him know my username.