Hi everyone, I'm making this post today to announce that I'm closing down the Brisbane Buzzwoles discord and taking a break from live VGC events (aside from the occasional PC/MSS) indefinitely. This has been a hard decision for me to make,…

Version Control and Pokemon How you can use systems such as Git and Github to preserve your teams onlineBy Damon Murdoch Introduction For as long as I’ve been playing competitive Pokemon, Pokemon Showdown has been the primary platform for …

Introduction Hey guys! It’s been about three months since I posted anything here, and I felt like after worlds and my draft leagues had finished it was time to upload my moon and ultra series team report. After a strong Sun Series showing,…

SirScrubbington's VGC 2016 Format Report Foreword Hey all, I’ve recently discovered this report which I had almost written and published to my blog back in 2016 however it was forgotten and never uploaded. Unfortunately many pastebins have…

Hey guys! I’m back again with another writeup, this time about the teams I used in the VGC2018 format. Despite my lack of results, I really enjoyed playing in this format for the most part and found teambuilding to be really interesting. I…

VGC2019 Sun Series Teams Writeup Introduction Hey guys! My name is Damon Murdoch, also known as SirScrubbington and I’m a VGC player from Queensland, Australia. I’ve earned 190/300 points of my worlds invite in the Sun Series for VGC2019, …

Introduction Hi! I’m Damon, also known as SirScrubbington in the Pokemon community. VGC, or the Pokemon Video Game Championships is the official competitive format for Pokemon and has official live events held frequently around the world. …

Hey guys! My name is Damon Murdoch, also known as Sir Scrubbington in the VGC community. Overall my results at big live events have been pretty mediocre this season, but I had a lot of fun with this format and love writing about VGC so I w…

Hey guys! I'm planning on reviving this blog pretty soon, it originally started out as an outlet for writing about my teams in 2015 but I switched to writing articles on Nuggetbridge during 2016. As the Nuggetbridge blog system has now clo…

Hey guys! This is the team I used to win the Brisbane Sceptile Series Premier Challenge #2. Throughout the day I faced a number of really interesting teams, and played some really great games! I was very happy with the team, and incredibly…

I've been messing with this team for a little while, and it has been excellent for practising with rain and has demonstrated how strong rain can be in the current metagame when unchecked, or its counters are played around effectively. This…

Hi! I'm Damon M, and thanks for checking out my blog! I'm a 17 year old Australian Competitive VGC playerwho started out with Smogon Singles in 2014, and Moved on to VGC just before Brisbane Regionals in April 2015. Due to my short time pl…