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AaronMk
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Sky funeral
@drumpowa
 
I guess we must say “bless the horsefuckers with so much time on their hand”.
 
But /mlp/ is a team with nine fucking kits, so I guess that goes without saying. It’s like we’re one of the only - or few - teams with something of a half brand and administration behind it. But I could be ignorant of the others but I don’t pay attention to the cup as a whole enough.
drumpowa

@AaronMk  
I was in the thread where one of their managers said they did +/- 1000 simulations over the course of months. Quote by PMB:
 
Lots of testing. It’s not voodoo so much as tactical instinct plus process of elimination. I’m a big proponent of volume testing, since PES ultimately comes down to finding patterns in the behavior of the RNG. Testing never guarantees you a victory, but it can help make a victory more likely and give you an idea of what kind of changes may help and which may hurt.
As for the difference in /mlp/‘s behavior over the course of the Cup, we go out of our way to adapt our strategy to each individual opponent we face. /mlp/ changes as its opponents change. It just happened to be that the teams we faced in the knockouts fell apart under hyper aggressive pressure offense, which we discovered through exhaustive, near constant testing. I actually didn’t see almost any of the games this weekend, due to running tests throughout.
Here’s an idea of what our volume testing looks like. Pic related.
 
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When asked how to decide when a formation is working or not, he responded:
 
I personally like to see no fewer than 7 wins in a batch of 10. This Cup, we often had to settle for 6 because the teams we faced were so strong.
AaronMk
Lunar Supporter - Helped forge New Lunar Republic's freedom in the face of the Solar Empire's oppressive tyrannical regime (April Fools 2023).
Flower Trio - Helped others get their OC into the 2023 Derpibooru Collab.
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Tree of Harmony - Drew someone's OC for the 2022 Community Collab
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Philomena - For helping others attend the 2021 community collab
Twinkling Balloon - Took part in the 2021 community collab.

Sky funeral
In the end, didn’t the /mlp/ team run a bunch of tests in the off-season or something? I remember someone saying they did a lot of simulations.
drumpowa

@Ebalosus  
Their group wasn’t the strongest, and IIRC they didn’t seem especially dominant in group stages either. It wasn’t until the knockouts where they took down /tg/ and /tv/ (both teams predicted to win it all) convincingly, when people took notice and started seeing /g/ go all the way…except /mlp/ as even hotter.
Ebalosus
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Build commie blocks!
fuck yeah
well deserved win too, /g/ put up quite a fight
The real question is: How the fuck did /g/ get so good?!
 
/g/’s my hometeam that I completely disregard given how bad they usually are.