posting for my own posterity and b/c i like the format
i had a pretty good shot at getting in the fourth round but i sorta forgot about laddering altogether oops! i used a buttload of teams but this is the only one i have a replay on hand for. there wasn't really any idea behind the team apart from "hey look cb scyther looks nice" and then me using a couple fetish mons like protect sash jynx and lo jolly samurott. hitmonchan is scarf, pilo standard, xatu bulky grass knot. needs things like an actual tauros answer and maybe a normal resist in general, but it was a fun team to play mostly even if i lost a bit with it.
game with advantage
continuing the sd samurott fetish, this was a cool HO team. it either won the game handily or got whomped (rain). i had some other skuntank set first but changed to memento + lum, because vivillon dicked over my team and i didn't really have any counter play & memento on heavy hazard teams is cool. taunt special floatzel, double dance don, lum hp ice lilligant, standard hazards crustle, splash sd jolly samurott. also i ran water veil on floatzel because switching into wisps and scalds without fear of burn is so nice, and swift swim is so situational that it felt moot. you can always change that if you want though
last one. i built this entirely on a whim, lost the first game and declared it sucked, then won a random tournament and like 85% of the next games i played with it. cb skuntank is OG, and pursuiting ghosts & psychics clears house for gurdurr & goose & sawsbuck. slow xatu u-turn into zangoose is probably one of my favorite things in the world, especially since zangoose is actually impossible to prepare for. costa was a defensive scald set which helped a ton about having no fire resist, and sawsbuck was fast adamant scarf with baton pass. i almost never used jump kick or baton pass (de and leech were the other two moves), but loved the idea of bping an attack boost into skuntank or zangoose or something. everything just paired up really well together and it was a nice team to use, didn't really feel like i was out of any game except rain
rain also fucked over every team i used so just click x if you face it heh. lastly every one of these teams were pretty bad but most games were enjoyable, so that's what matters!!
edit: also can we talk about how nicely it lines up if soTsoT beats HJAD? you'll have one player from each week in the top four. how nice