for posterity

I’m not sure where to begin for once. I suppose I should start with explaining why I decided to come back. As many of you know, I left Pokemon Perfect in January of this year because it was obvious this organization was going to be reduced to the personal playground of a troll who did nothing to deserve the enormous power he was given. The two alleged reasons that have been spewed the most were Lutra not caring enough who is in charge, and Lutra feeling that he needed to “shake things up.” I believe the former given said owner not giving a rat’s taint for this place ever since his rise to prominence on Smogon, but the latter is as laughable as it is inane. Well, you sure “shaked things up,” alright—let’s give the keys to the city to none other than Callous. Callous, somebody with a reputation for quitting, publishing scathing vitriol against the very site he now basically owns for “being a breeding ground for cheating,” claiming he’s a “top 20 ADV player in the world” and better than most of his peers, and clearly having ulterior motives in mind when taking over. The total absence of delegation in the Egghead Era has been no surprise whatsoever considering the person in charge once claimed he didn’t deserve to be benched after a 1-4 start and that he was “clearly better” than his replacement (no wonder this particular team tournament has been a disaster). Well, I heard one or two of his lackeys were also given some semblance of authority; however, all they’ve been doing is emulating their beloved leader with their smaller heads (but growing at a steady rate, it seems) lodged far up their behinds.

Well, I did leave out a couple of details. When I heard that Callous was now in control, I did what anybody who had common sense would have done—rail against him. Not only did he abandon his team and leave in incredibly childish and petty fashion, but he openly expressed his opposition against Pokemon Perfect, and then proceeded to quit again when the poor baby didn’t get his bottle in another team tournament. I argued that it was unfair he was given so much control given that he had done nothing to deserve it, and that he should have had to prove himself to even be allowed to join the GTT. Of course, it’s as I always say, though: the competitive Pokemon world always glorifies and rewards those who don’t deserve it. As this was a case of history merely repeating itself, I wasn’t surprised. Nonetheless, as someone who played full time here for half a decade (dating all the way back to Master Tournament #2), it would have been a disservice for my belief in this place in spite of its useless and grudge-ridden founder if I didn’t opine on the current state of affairs.

Egghead’s retort to my very reasonable and logical argument was that I’m a “conspiracy theorist” (now that’s amusing—something as nonsensical and stupid as the decision to give him power) and even suggested that I should be banned from Pokemon Perfect. In my time here I was lucky enough to be considered marcoasd’s toughest opponent during his run in 2014, I was lucky enough to have been in the final four of this organization’s most competitive season ever in 2016, I was lucky enough to win a season in 2017 when Peasounay and Troller were at the top of their game, I was lucky enough to nearly win this organization’s most prestigious cup tournament, I was lucky enough to nearly win a World Championship, I was lucky enough to be an assistant manager in arguably the greatest team tournament ever, I was lucky enough to take a team of underdogs to the finals of PPL 3, and I was lucky enough to accomplish far more than that. My point is that I have a lot of history on Pokemon Perfect; therefore, to even intimate that I should have been banned for merely expressing my opinion would have been an immediate red light to anybody who actually cared about the well being of this site. Moreover, the fact that Lutra did nothing as usual made it clear to me that this is what he wanted all along. He wanted Pokemon Perfect to become a joke.

The first administrative decision made during the Egghead Era was to unban Ebola for basically no reason other than the fact that he wasn’t banned on Smogon. This set an inconsistent and problematic precedence in my eyes, especially considering that, mere moments after his ban was removed, Ebola tried trolling me. As much as we mock Smogon for being a bastion of stupidity and autism, their staff is at least competent and would have reapplied the ban immediately. However, instead of annoying me as was his intention (along with Egghead and Lutra, who probably read the messages with dopey smiles and a glazed look in their eyes), it simply made me realize that my energy and talents would be better put to use elsewhere.

The last straw was two certain users defending Callous and Ebola like soulless drones. One of them also threatened to abuse his power had I continued to defend myself from their baseless accusations (a cowardly staple in this era of cowardice). However, both of them would later apologize to me for being idiots:

“as I should have admitedly forseen

you were absolutely fucking right

I admitedly have to admit my fault for this one

I should have never given him any trust.

no one could have changed that rapidly in 11 months”


“I think this is the time we rid of him for good

Just as you do I want to expose this community how this failure of a man has not changed since pocl 2018”


“I have some saucy logs to give you

such as callous claiming he "Put money into PPL so he has the power to bend the will of the entirestaff"

then the staff discovers someone else put all that money in

and callous didn't put one cent”


“he'll drove PP into the ground by himself

Literally every staffer disagreed with his decision

and he said "I can bend the staff's decisions"

as if he doesn't seem to understand

who put him in power

in the first place. it takes a different degree of stupid to do that.”


“hsowa is fully aware that callous is being A grade levels of stupid

fomg and lutra are the only ones who still trust him in the staff

the second is unsurprising

fomg just doesn't care.”


“Honestly I get what you mean now. CALLOUS has absolutely run the RBY qualifier into the ground with his bad hosting and it's barely been 2 weeks.

Forum structure still looks like garbage designed in 2 minutes. "If it's [gen], it's here!" and threads called "Music", "Sports", "New to Pokemon Perfect". Nobody would sign up if this was a new site.

People (even new players!) keep posting in the archive because of how bad the new structure is.”

That last one reminds me: I also criticized how lazy and uninspired the forum looks now. In fact, it’s as if Egghead wanted to erase and replace it with his own structure—one that has been failing miserably. There have been two completed RBY tournaments over the last five months. The winner of the first one couldn’t be bothered to play in the next two, the winner of the second didn’t play in the third, and roughly half the sets in the third were decided by the infamous coin flip. If that wasn’t enough, Konzern, who is banned on Pokemon Perfect, made it all the way into the semi finals of the last tournament, with Callous supposedly being aware the entire time: “But we deliberately waited until (PPL) signups were closed before announcing it and banning him Otherwise he may just make a new alt and try again"

I remember how competitive and enjoyable the Master Tourmament scene was when Pokemon Perfect reached its zenith in 2017. To see it degenerated into this:

RBY e b 0 l a joined.

Nate RBY (Konzern): buddy

Is simply sad. Anybody who genuinely cares about this site should want nothing to do with it until Callous is either banned or at least removed from power, and Lutra goes away as well. Or focus your time elsewhere—even on Smogon. I’m as opposed to Smogon as they come, but even I have to admit that Pokemon Perfect looks redundant and meaningless in comparison. They have staff who care, staff who are active, more RBY tournaments, and promote their scene. Absolutely nothing has happened in the Egghead Era besides the organization becoming a laughing stock. Don’t play in any tournaments here if you care about the game or Pokemon Perfect.

However, there are a group of people who support Callous because “adv tournaments” and “Callous Invitational” (which, by the way, is humorous because most of the money comes from other people, yet he names it after himself). While the ADV tournaments are larger, it’s a façade in that the site has become the official forum of Egghead’s discord. Everything else has decayed tremendously—the forum layout, the RBY tournaments, the number of tournaments, and its team tournaments. On that note, let’s talk about PPL, which was the impetus for this post and highlights how pathetic and meaningless Pokemon Perfect really is. Before I dissect this atrocity, however, let me explain why I came back. I had been gone since January to focus on my website, The GGFan Experience. Knowing that this site was beyond salvation, I stopped visiting the forum and left the discord, vowing to myself not to come back, as I was genuinely happy to have nothing to do with it. Shortly before PPL started, Disaster Area approached me and wanted to know if I’d be interested in being the RBY coach of his team. I enjoyed managing back in PPL 3 very much and team tournaments in general, so I decided (with apprehension) to join the team. Unfortunately, this led me back to the forum for the first time in months (I still refuse to enter that discord, though), where I discovered how horrifying things had become. OK, the forum is, shall we say, “garbage” (OH, HO HO HO HO), but, perhaps, this stupid (he’s not blind, this one, just stupid) squirrel has finally managed to find a nut. My first impression was that the tournament resembles the NickJr version of SPL even more than it did before with the allusion to Pokemon in the team names (naming teams after elements was better ala PPL 1-3). “Hush, you’re being too cynical. It’s all about the quality!” Fair point—the quality is terrible, to put it lightly. The replay thread is updated once, MAYBE twice, per week (there are still no replays up for week 4 as of this post). In week 3, scores went the whole week without any updates, and the week 5 thread wasn’t posted until Tuesday when the deadline was Sunday. The only two people in charge have been Callous, who puts more energy into his ADV tournaments, and Sadylius, one of his unremarkable brown nosers who is more concerned with walking, talking, and looking like an egg.

Despite caring less for PPL than Lutra does for Pokemon Perfect, the Cult of Egg has made sure to keep quiet about this and feign ignorance. The people that do care are threatened:

“can u not find someone to update the OP regularly especially on the weekend when a lot's being played”

“you are trying really hard to not get picked next year? Probably best not to state the obvious over and over and try to help about the spreadsheet anyway” – Lutra

Brilliant display of leadership: instead of allowing an immensely valuable asset to help or at least heed his advice, threaten to never let him manage ever again. And what does our leader say when confronted by his unacceptable tardiness? His response is nothing but cringe:

“Im alive and everything is fine. Just busy yesterday irl. I will have everything updated and ready to go today” – Callous

“it's already tuesday for one of my players lol” – manager

“Aussie Aussie Aussie” – Egghead

Yes. Not, “You’re right, I’m sorry.” Not, “I’d better find someone who can expedite this process.” Just, “Aussie, Aussie, Aussie.” Like somebody on the spectrum who can’t speak coherently.

It doesn’t end here, unfortunately. Back in week 1, one of the team’s players clearly should have received the activity win, but it was ruled a dead game, thus said team ended up losing the week. When new evidence revealed that the call should have been overturned, Egghead did the right thing—for his ego:

“I don’t feel the need to continue disagreeing back and forth with it, nor do I want to set the precedent that every decision anyone disagrees with is something that, if you argue enough, might get overturned. I made a decision. It’s what I feel was the right decision. Not everything I do or every decision I make is right. I am obviously not out to get Finch or Mannat. I’m friends with both. But the decision is going to stand and I apologize if anyone genuinely feels it was the wrong one. I’ve been on the bad end of judge decisions in professional MtG play for thousands of dollars, so I really do understand and appreciate the frustration of feeling like a decision-maker got it wrong and you are getting boned by their decision.” – Callous

“Or you could like You know Change the decision when you realize you’re wrong Making a wrong decision sets just as many dangerous precedents Because people can use them to justify not trying to get games done when it favors their team to get a dead game Which is the opposite of what tournaments aim to achieve
more drama” – somebody with a brain

“See what I mean? And that’s why I’m not going to discuss it further. I’ve said my piece.” – brainless Callous

I dislike Finchinator and Mannat for obvious reasons, but I have empathy for both because, as a former manager, I would have hated to have been screwed over this way. Back in PPL 3, all managers were able to actually do their jobs and dispute calls, which multiple people in the GTT would review—not one disinterested idiot. My team would have never made it into the finals that year had it not been for having a GTT that was both competent and relevant. In this tour, it's just Humpty Dumpty wearing a paper crown from Burger King and laughing merrily, certain he'll never fall again. While that may be true, the Egghead Empire isn’t much to look at. Let him enjoy his “Callous Invitational” and play in real tournaments elsewhere.

With that said, I have decided to leave my team. I was on the fence about this because it’s been fun helping Enigami, mmf, and Unowndragon prepare, going 7-1 as the coach (I had nothing to do with Enigami going AWOL and using Arbok), watching the games, interacting with everybody, and so on. This was the most fun I had in a team tournament since WCOPP 2 in 2018. It’s been fun conversing with the likes of Caetano, Bomber, Hellpowna, Disaster Area, Unowndragon, and so on. I know this team also has a shot at winning at all, which would finally get me that coveted pixelated trophy that true warriors strive for, but I realized that I would be no different than everybody else who acquiesces to this Rex Inutilus and looks the other way. I don’t want to be a Lusch or a Gacu or a SadisticNarwhal and play for the sake of playing, joining for the sake of joining, etc. If I do so, then I would compound the problem. I have to get out, especially considering hardly anybody has been saying anything about how poorly managed this tournament has been. I would even say this has been the worst team tournament ever; this statement from a staff member doesn’t help:

“I don't get how more people aren't complaining.

This tour looks like a massive joke .

I think he might be doing this on purpose because he revels in being a troll.” - me


“I think it's b/c a lot of people don't care about this tour

which is kinda sad” – staff member

Yes, ultimately this is Pokemon on the internet, but it’s a competitive game like any other and is far more enjoyable when it’s treated with at least some level of legitimacy and respect. When even staff tells you nobody cares, it’s time to step aside. And, with that, I’m gone.

It was fun, Supernovas. Whether it was Unowndragon winning that game 3 with my Harden Snorlax, a veteran like Enigami agreeing with my advice, watching dream produce those clutch victories, helping with scouting reports and team analysis, I had a good time. I’d like to think I made a positive difference, and would have stayed if this were 2019. Before some moron tells me, “PP was bad in 2019,” there were more tournaments, better players, better staff, and more people who cared. My only regret is that I didn’t have enough time to play more test games, but overall I did my best.

Good luck. I’ll be working some more on my website.

"Deadline- 5/17 11:59PM EST"