/vt/ - Virtual Youtubers

Twap really was cute today (yesterday)...hearing her talk about all the fun memories from the tournament was really great. I decided to summarize pretty much all of what she talked about today because it was a really great retrospective on the tournament and her time with Bora and Selly, so it's going to be really long. She jumps around topics a lot, so there's a lot of seemingly random segues and short topics she talked about only briefly.

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She thanked everyone for supporting her during the last week.

She started off by talking about her character mispick in the first round. It seems they were all in the training area right before the scrims started, and the last character she chose while there was Lifeline, which is why it auto-selected it at the start of the next round.
It shocked her so much once she realized what happened that she felt sick.

She talked about how it's sometimes difficult to connect with people outside of hololive, because usually you only get 1 or 2 hours of interactions during collabs. She doesn't really have the same opportunities to just casually chat with them as she does with the people in hololive since they're typically not around in the same places.
During this CR Cup though, she had the chance to stream and chat a lot with Bora, and she realized that they're really similar and that they get along really well.
Towa said she thinks they have similar thoughts on how to approach streaming, like trying to prioritize having an enjoyable environment for the stream (Towa talks a lot about how she won't stream if she's in a bad mood because it will just end up ruining the mood of the viewers), and focusing on the things that are important to you, while also making sure those around you have fun as well.

She talked with Ojiji (CR owner) before they had selected teams for the tournament about who would be participating, and who she might be able to join a team with. She told him she wanted to participate, and ideally she wanted to be on a team with 2 females and 1 male. When Ojiji heard that, he suggested a bunch of players she could team with, but Towa had never interacted with any of them before, so she was kind of hesitant to ask any of them. She figured the male teammate would somewhat inevitably be someone who she hadn't met before, but she would prefer the female to be someone she knew if possible.
Since CR Cup is a really difficult tournament, she wanted to play with a team who she knew wouldn't get angry at her if she made mistakes, and could give her proper critiques if she did something wrong, so she was really worried about joining with people who she had never met before. That's why she chose Nose as her teammate in the previous CR Cup, because she knew no matter what, they would be able to get along.
In the end, she told Ojiji she would like to team with Bora if possible, so Ojiji contacted Bora, and when Bora responded, she was really glad that Towa reached out to her and said that of course she could join.

Because of the point limit this time, they weren't able to pick someone like Mondo and Ras because both speak Japanese too well for the language barrier rule to apply to them, so since Bora is able to speak Korean and translate, they thought Selly would be a good choice, and when they asked, he agreed to join.

Towa said the initial impression she got of Selly was that he was kind of cold, when they were talking about what characters they should play, he was kind of just like "play whatever you want", and when they asked about playing certain characters, he said stuff like "anything is fine" without giving much input, so she ended up being a little scared of him at the start and wondered if everything would turn out alright, especially with the language barrier and Bora having to interpret between them.
Towa was really worried about the mood of the team, so she ended up researching a bunch of Korean FPS terms and basic phrases before they played together.

I don't think any other team has just fucked around this much, this is fucking hilarious