1. I didn't think about being the past winner that much, if anything I felt a lot less pressure personally since I already had that win under my belt. Of course I wanted to win but I didn't feel like I have anything to prove. My prep this year was a lot less than last year cause I felt I knew what I was getting into for the most part. Last year I was still a pretty big noob to draft strategy and managing my money so I spent a lot more time thinking about that stuff last year. This year I just made lists of who I wanted but didn't spend a crazy amount of time with it.
2. A core of good doubles players and Pearl was a strategy that I was looking to do before the draft started. I don't really regret not going more into USUM since I liked our guys and I think we had at least 4 good slots each week, which is what you need for a win. Things just didn't work out for us, didn't perform to the best of the rosters potential. So I regret not living up to that, to an extent. But I'm happy with who I got.

3. That week was kind of a low point in our time honestly lol. That was when we were mostly coming to the realization we wouldn't make playoffs, but we still had a shot if the stars aligned. It was like any other week though really, and things just went our way. We didn't really prep for greil at all once we decided to let LightScreener play. We were out of playoffs by then so we put Screener in so they could get a game before BSPL was over. I gave them a few of my BSS teams and said to pick any one. And LightScreener played pretty well!