As a TD of the "excluded from the rest of the world community where people with lack of attention and acknowledgment play against each other to get more self-esteem", I'd like to give my opinion. But first of all, please notice that I'm not french (I'm from Belgium) and as such, I couldn't play for Team France anyway. So what I'll say really isn't motivated by jealousy or anything like that.
The community we've been leading for now a couple of years does have a level inherently lower than the one you can find on Smogon. That's obvious and I'm not denying that. That being said, something like half of your team is coming from this very community you're criticizing. And that's because the main purpose of that community is to serve as a training for Smogon. Something that could bring the best players of the community to rise and maybe make some perf on smogon. I'm totally fine with you preferring perfs on smogon than perfs on OFCS, that's perfectly logical, but what I really don't like is your trashtalking of that community that, in the end, gave you half the team you have right now.
That being said, it's obvious that a lot of people criticizing pretty much everything you do, do it for pretty bad reasons. But don't do as if the whole community was against you, because that's not true, and that's even pretty much the opposite of what you can observe every year. For each WCoP, you have a lot of french goons cheering the team -sometimes it's even a bit too much-.
I won't really be cheering for you personally, as I'll be invested in another team, but I still hope you'll go as far as possible -and who knows, maybe see you in finals ? That would be awesome-.
The community we've been leading for now a couple of years does have a level inherently lower than the one you can find on Smogon. That's obvious and I'm not denying that. That being said, something like half of your team is coming from this very community you're criticizing. And that's because the main purpose of that community is to serve as a training for Smogon. Something that could bring the best players of the community to rise and maybe make some perf on smogon. I'm totally fine with you preferring perfs on smogon than perfs on OFCS, that's perfectly logical, but what I really don't like is your trashtalking of that community that, in the end, gave you half the team you have right now.
That being said, it's obvious that a lot of people criticizing pretty much everything you do, do it for pretty bad reasons. But don't do as if the whole community was against you, because that's not true, and that's even pretty much the opposite of what you can observe every year. For each WCoP, you have a lot of french goons cheering the team -sometimes it's even a bit too much-.
I won't really be cheering for you personally, as I'll be invested in another team, but I still hope you'll go as far as possible -and who knows, maybe see you in finals ? That would be awesome-.
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