"Unfortunate" doesn't begin to describe my series, this game
rewards blind luck and nothing else, I am beyond convinced at this
point. After getting completely tooled by scheduling with my
opponent changing times on me last minute and refusing to provide
confirmation prior to the day of the match as to play times, losing
this way somehow felt even worse than I had thought possible. My
preparation was superior, my play was superior, and I lost, so I
don't see a reason to continue engaging in an activity where what
is within my control is overwhelmingly outweighed by what is not. I
am done with competitive Pokemon, and you won't get a fond
farewell. This community is infected to its roots with a
degenerative disease that grows stronger over time but stops short
of killing its host. Tournaments used to have a competitive spirit
at their heart, this has been transplanted and replaced with an
artificial organ that feeds on vitriol and mockery from insecure
little boys that heckle by the sidelines and tear each other to
shreds over scraps of attention. The environment we fostered has
trapped us all like this in a vicious cycle, and escaping it
requires acceptance of the harshest reality we all scramble to
explain away, that none of the countless straining efforts we put
ourselves through here will ever amount to one single shining
glimmer of significance. I would make this the end, but World Cup
is still ongoing, and I would never leave so many great friends out
to dry, so I'll suffer through a few more games for them. One last
thing before I leave you all to react with disdain, ridicule, and
self-righteous fervor, before you do everything in your power to
minimize my words and thoughts, box them up and shove them to some
cobwebbed corner of your memory, and hope they disappear forever as
a stain on your finite time ground to dust. From this moment on,
nothing you say matters to me. The foulest insults you hurl with
intent to wound will calmly settle at the earth before my feet, and
the venom you spit will bring all the pain of a warm summer breeze.
You are less than anything you can conceive, while I carry on,
brimming with joy distilled from detachment.