YMMV / The War of the TwitchPlays

• Awesome Moments: Having had its moves depleted of their PP from pretty much defeating the entire Elite 4 by itself, HECTOR, the Gengar from the Green team, found itself in a difficult situation against the Champion's Exeggutor, and had to resort to Metronome. The result was Blizzard, the most powerful Ice-type move in the game (and arguably the most powerful move in the game period), which took out Exeggutor instantly and secured victory for TPP, who ended up winning the race as a result.

• Broken Base: There were a lot of contentious points brought up regarding the organization of the race, and the fact that this involved three different streams with their own respective communities competing against one another only split opinions further.
  • The idea of the race itself was met with skepticism from a lot of players, as TPP has a much larger playerbase than both TPS and TPPM. During the event itself, TPP often boasted a number of viewers that was about ten times as large as both other streams combined, which felt heavily unbalanced to a lot of players. Some described it as "TPP racing two moderator teams", while others decried how easy this made it for TPP players to basically sabotage the other two streams through sheer strength of number.
  • Macros, aka keywords that triggered specific chains of inputs, ended up being a huge point of contention among players. Both TPPM and TPS use them, while TPP does not, and the former two kept them available during the race, which left players of the latter feeling disadvantaged; for instance, TPPM players could input "#masha" to press the A button seven times in a row, while TPP players had to actually input A seven times in a row to achieve the same result. However, staff members raised the argument that TPP compensated by having more players overall, that macros were a double-edged sword that any user could freely add or remove, and that the reduced input duration made it so that macros ended up hardly affecting the Red and Blue runs anyway.
    • Adding fuel to the fire was a miscommunication issue between the streams' respective teams. The host of TPP told players that TPPM and TPS would disable macros during the race, whereas what they actually did was Nerf them by drastically reducing the maximum input duration. This only exacerbated the issue, as TPP players ended up being unclear about whether macros were supposed to be enabled in the first place; some even went as far as accusing TPPM and TPS of cheating, while others perceived it as a sign of poor organization. Stream staff have acknowledged that part of the issue had been the lack of communication regarding how exactly macros worked and had been adjusted for the race.
  • TPP having a much larger playerbase than TPPM and TPS made it much easier for said playerbase to engage in stalling or sabotage. However, a lot of players, including among TPP's very own community, felt that this was often taken too far, to the point of downright toxicity. This only worsened after debate flared up regarding moderator intervention and the use of macros, which caused the more vindictive TPP players to "take revenge" on the other streams by sabotaging them even further, which in turn caused the moderators to issue more timeouts, which itself just caused even more complaints about abusive moderator intervention. One of the sadly most notable moments of the race was Red getting stuck on Route 22 for hours due to malicious inputs, which went on long past the point of being funny to the point of feeling more like actual bullying, and was arguably a major factor in TPS arriving in third place.
  • Moderator intervention, particularly on TPS, was another hot issue. Firstly, moderators were able to input at a rate much faster than other users, which notably felt unfair to TPP players considering TPP moderators are not nearly as active. Secondly, while the rules stated that "all three channels do not intend to prevent anyone from playing for any reason except in cases of extreme trolling", this proved to be way too arbitrary to be properly enforced, and some players ended up being timed out for reasons that they often thought unfair.
    • Complaints also arose of moderators disabling and re-enabling macros that were used to sabotage their respective streams, although this was actually less a matter of privilege abuse and more of poor communication, as all users are actually able to add and remove macros on the fly, but this wasn't made particularly clear to TPP players.

• Memetic Mutation: HAIL HECTOR ^Explanation HECTOR, a Gengar obtained by Green through an in-game trade, was by far the most powerful Pokémon on the team at Lv.84, and swept most of the battles by himself, including the entirety of the Pokémon League.

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