Hi ! That was my first CAPPL and first true teamtour, and I have to say it was incredibly fun and instructive. The Galactic Astrolotls had a good run and I'm happy with how I played overall, and with most of the teams I built. Sadly they are sometimes a little / very outdated, so I'll mention when they're still playable and when they're completely outdated. I built some of them a while ago so I might miss a lot of things in my explanations obviously (please don't judge my building skills by this post). Let's hop right into it.
Week 1 vs quziel (Won)
I knew for a fact quziel was going to bring standart balance with some sort of twist at least twice if not thrice, so I was very focused on having a good matchup against the most common defensive cores and not going too crazy with my builds. As we had aproximately the same level of play and we knew each other very well, I thought it was very important to bring the best teams possible.
Winning felt really good, which took a big part in my mentality going forward in this tournament.
Game 1
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For the first game I brought the team I was the most confident with. Dracozolt was a very nice pick that had a good matchup against the most common physically defensive mons like Tomohawk, Toxapex, Mandibuzz and Slowbro. It worked great in tests and it worked great in the game, which I was very happy with. Looking back at it, mixed Life Orb with Volt Absorb was maybe a bit better because of Hustle but I got lucky in the game and hit my crucial Earthquake against Rhyperior. I brought Taunt Cinderace which I always thought was overpowered. Scarf Trick Rotom-Heat was my Equilibra check of choice (which is important when relying on Dracozolt) as well as speed control. I love how Trick makes you safe against anything because you always have that option in the back, so it was a nice pick against a player like quziel who like strange setups.
Game 2 
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Another pokemon that worked great in tests against balance was Mollux, which has only one safe switchin being Pajantom, which quziel had already brought game 1. It was good at spreading status so I paired it with Hex Dragapult to take advantage of that. I thought Rotom-Wash was an underrated pokemon, being an Equilibra check that could put a lot of pressure on most teams thanks to Nasty Plot. Ferrothorn completed my Fire Water Grass core and I added Zeraora for some volt-turn which was another thing I thought was underrated. I ran into the unstoppable Calm Mind Zeraora and lost after a good start though (if only I had brought trick).
Game 3 
(not outdated, replace Toxic on Astro)
Lastly I decided to bring a standart volt-turn team with the very hard to wall Syclant. There isn't too much to say about it, other than the fact that I brought Rotom-Wash again. The last turn of this game was insane, but I still felt good with my win because I should've won more easily without the burn on libra and the numerous flinches by Jirachi.
Week 2 vs DetroitLolCat (Lost)
I didn't know too much about DLC going into this match and he hadn't impressed me too much in his week 1 match. He was looking pretty unpredictable so I decided to go for triple balance once again, because I thought balance vs balance would favor me for sure.
Game 1
(kinda outdated bc toxic is important on Astro but you can still replace it)
I wanted to use Blissey balance because I thought aromatherapy + Tomohawk had a good matchup against teams relying on wearing down Tomohawk long term with Toxic while using this idea myself. Scarf Jumbao was some good speed control and Zeraora check that could take advantage of Regenerator being everywhere. I almost lost to Volcarona but he didn't have Psychic so we didn't have to do dumb 50/50s with Urshifu and I won in a good game.
Game 2 
(not too outdated, replace Toxic)
I was very confident with the Astrolotl / Pajantom / Equilibra core, which I think is still extremely strong. Pajantom is a free switchin to every Equilibra Check and appreciates Astrolotl poisoning Tomohawk and Mandibuzz and setting up Spikes. Sadly I didn't give this core the best partners and my team ended up being way too passive and weak to delayed moves, so I lost terribly. I should've tested more, so I felt pretty bad about this loss. Trust me this core is godlike though.
Game 3 
(not outdated, replace Toxic)
I had to win the last game so I brought the auto-win pokemon Volcarona. This team relies entirely on winning with Volcarona while trying to have a very safe and well rounded defensive core. It ended up working perfectly until DLC got the triple Earth Power drop (1/1000) on my Volcarona when I wanted to setup, which was pretty insane ngl.
Week 3 vs Lasen (Won)
For this BO3 I decided to switch it up a little because I was getting predictable. I thought it was the perfect time to do so because Lasen's defensive cores had been looking pretty suspicious up to this point, so more offensive teams could very well do the job. I decided to go all the way and bring 3 offenses.
Game 1
(outdated, you can replace Cinde with Darm
I guess)
Sun was pretty tough to run in this metagame because of Astro + Slowtwins being everywhere, but I adapted my team to this ; also Venusaur was still a HUGE threat to many teams. My plan was to ohko Astrolotl with LO Cinderace's High Jump Kick, which worked perfectly in test games. Other than that the team was pretty standart. Venusaur won at preview, so it was a pretty easy win.
Game 2 
Voltage told me standart HO was a good pick for game 2, as it would allow me to make use of my momentum ; so I used this team that I stole from a Finchinator video (check out his youtube channel it's great) and edited a tiny bit for CAP. It's a standart HO, nothing much to say on the team really. On the game I saw that Hawlucha won easily with any chip on Krilowatt ; I got those chips at the beginning so I went for it as soon as possible, which I think was the right play. After the SD I thought I just had to spam attacks to win and didn't realize Pelipper could take one, so I missplayed and attacked instead of spamming Substitute to fish for a miss. Then I lost the 50/50 at the end and lost somehow.
Game 3 
As unlikely as it sounds, Lasen and me brought the exact same rain team (I planned to bring it before facing it in game 2), which we both built separately. It had a pretty good matchup against common defensive cores, especially Thunder Krilowatt which is a pretty unstoppable pokemon, but also Band Urshifu-Rapid, which has litterally no switchin under rain. The game went flawlessly as I think I was at the best of my play here.
Week 4 vs Andyboy (Won)
I didn't play BO3 this week because Voltage wanted to take down Snaelstroms in the BO1 games and kinda sacrifice someone to Stresh. As much as I wanted to play him, I thought this was a pretty good idea and we could still rip off the BO3 by fishing for matchup ; which we did LMAO.
The game
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Enough craziness, I brought back standart balance with Dracozolt once again, mixed this time as I trusted this pokemon a lot and I expected andy to bring standart balance too. Adamant Cinderace + Toxic Astrolotl was also something I trusted a lot, and it paired well with Dracozolt as Cinderace would invite Tomohawk, Mandibuzz and Toxapex, which all die to Dracozolt. Wish on Astrolotl was useful because I had LO on Dracozolt, and also for Equilibra. The team preview was very fun but also pretty sad because we had the exact same team except he had Toxtricity as the Electric type breaker and I had Dracozolt. The game wasn't as funny because of all the 50/50s. I played very aggressive in the early game with my Cinderace which gave me a slight advantage in the mid-late game. Turn 62 was pretty crucial as HJK was so obvious for Andy for multiple reasons that I'm lazy to explain that I went for Scald and got the lucky burn, which probably mattered, although I'm not entirely sure. I didn't see that I lost instantly if he used U-Turn but I was so convinced he'd HJK that I didn't calculate. I don't know if it was a missplay because it worked but I can get why andy was pretty pissed about it. Also, looking back at it, Dracozolt wasn't as good as I thought because the opponent just had to play smart with Equilibra and he could avoid pretty much any problem.
Week 5 vs Nalei (Lost)
I'm pretty ashamed of this BO3 because I had a great tournament so far and lost terribly to a player I underrated as terribly.
Game 1
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For this game I planned to bring a solid team with a wincond I knew would be good against anything. I ended up choosing mixed Dragapult, which was doing wonders in OU at the same time. I thought the team was good but it ended up not being that great because too passive. Looking back at this game I can't blame myself too much because who tf would expect full hp Toxic Espeon ?? But I let my Dragapult get poisoned and from this point I had no way of winning.
Game 2 
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HO was definetly something I wanted to bring because it wouldn't care too much about Nalei's cheesy teams. I built with Xatu because I felt like rockers/spikers had too many opportunities to set hazards against HO in this metagame. It should've worked but I missplayed twice. I thought Azumarill could win by just setting up on Tomohawk because Aqua Jet killed Necrozma after rocks, but I didn't calculate that she could sacrifice something and go back to Tomohawk to then take a hit with Necrozma, which was very stupid. I missplayed again right after because on turn 14 I could've went Scizor, forced in Rotom-Heat and then Setup on it with Volcarona and win ; but I went Volcarona immediately, so then Scizor obviously couldn't win.
It's sad to end the tournament on that note but I can't be disappointed with my run overall because I had a good ratio, and more importantly I had a very fun time with the Galactic Astrolotls. Huge shoutouts to
-Voltage-, a very dedicated and funny manager, keep up the PodCAP and the horrendous french ! Shoutouts to all other teammates
Zephyr2007,
Wulfanator72,
snake_rattler,
2spoopy4u,
Snafutari,
martha,
lyd,
Lkjc,
GardeLame (team apéro toute la vie), I never had anything to complain about.
Shoutouts to
quziel,
Jrdn,
PinkDragonTamer,
aesf for all the tests and discussions.
Shoutouts to
Snorlax in the way for not getting subbed out at some point just to get stepped on by Finchinator.
Dj Breloominati♬ Ur the biggest noob I've ever witnessed
:krillowatt: 
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