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Grant

@VelocityVGC

VGC Competitor | Top Cut Worlds 2024 | Top 4 US Nationals 2016 | Astrophysics PhD candidate | Personal account (he/him)

 Los Angeles, CA
youtube.com/velocityvgc
Joined April 2017
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I made Top Cut at the 2024 Pokémon VGC World Championships! Wish I could have taken it all, but I’m so happy to prove I can play well on the Worlds stage, especially with Regidrago. Thanks to everyone who has helped or supported me along the way!
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It all started that one fateful day, the winds of history have blown us here
Grant (@VelocityVGC) profile pictureGrant@VelocityVGCJul 8
My claim to fame is in 2020 I was in the scholarship office at UMich. Abdul El-Sayed (current senate candidate) was on campus for a rally and had the meeting after mine (he was a Rhodes scholar). He walks into my meeting and says “just got off the phone with Bernie Sanders”
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mikumiku37 has never seen the awesome power of regidrago and when they free him these bots will crumble
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My 9 games, long live pokemon
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We really got a solution to Navier-Stokes before we got the assault vest
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I don’t think Takuma winning is a result of this format being particularly RNG heavy. Plenty folks have made it far at Worlds with few other results, and all world champions had some amount of luck in their runs. Sometimes a format just clicks for someone and they ball out.
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we feast with rillaboom heatran in singapore
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takuma the goat
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Pokémon Center line is notoriously not disability friendly. In 2024 they held us in effectively a greenhouse for multiple hours and someone in my party fainted from the heat. It’s absurd that year after year this continues to be a problem.
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Good luck to all at worlds this weekend! I would have loved to return to San Fran (my first worlds was 2016), but life has been very busy. Hoping to see friends go far!
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Honored to have played a small role in his journey
Grant (@VelocityVGC) profile pictureGrant@VelocityVGCJul 8
My claim to fame is in 2020 I was in the scholarship office at UMich. Abdul El-Sayed (current senate candidate) was on campus for a rally and had the meeting after mine (he was a Rhodes scholar). He walks into my meeting and says “just got off the phone with Bernie Sanders”
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My claim to fame is in 2020 I was in the scholarship office at UMich. Abdul El-Sayed (current senate candidate) was on campus for a rally and had the meeting after mine (he was a Rhodes scholar). He walks into my meeting and says “just got off the phone with Bernie Sanders”
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new planet just dropped
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read more here: arxiv.org/abs/2607.01315
Discovery of an Inflated Hot Neptune and Its Formation from Jovian...

Discovery of an Inflated Hot Neptune and Its Formation from Jovian...

The production of Neptune-like planets with orbital periods of 3--6 days is challenging for conventional models of high-eccentricity migration. We present the discovery and characterization of...

arxiv.org
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We've got teams being discovered on day 1 of the format that a decade ago someone would've saved all year to bust out for top 64 at worlds
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p.s. I made top 64 at worlds a decade ago
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This is a great video. As someone who leans towards hyper offense, but obsesses over what is the best way to play and how to find a competitive edge without HO, this gave me a lot to chew on.
Justin Carris (@AzazeL_the_God) profile pictureJustin Carris@AzazeL_the_GodJun 4
After months of work, I can finally publish my next big project... A story about both reinventing myself as a competitor, the approach I took to figure out how to do it, and a whole more. What It Means To Be "Meta"
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Just saw a parking enforcement car whose license plate is exactly my POP ID (all 7 digits!)
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Had the great honor of being destroyed by steelix in 2018 playtesting vs wolfe
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oh to have the gift of prophecy
Grant (@VelocityVGC) profile pictureGrant@VelocityVGCApr 26
Eliminated from Day 2 of the GCF. Happy to have made it this far, GGs to all opponents. Fun tournament!
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We have finally found the low power, low diversity format that I warned about in my video from 2 years ago on the science of diversity and power in VGC youtu.be/tPb3Hhv28Fw?si=_E8y…
The SCIENCE of diversity and power in Pokémon VGC

The SCIENCE of diversity and power in Pokémon VGC

A scientific analysis on diversity and power in Pokémon VGC from 20...

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SV wrapped, thank you regidrago ❤️🐲
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