# Aliyah US National prelim clicking

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**Created:** [August 20, 2025, 10:56pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/aliyah-us-national-prelim-clicking/431612 "2025-08-20T22:56:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![ice1000](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/ice1000/32/250979_2.png) [@ice1000](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/ice1000)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2025, 10:56pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/aliyah-us-national-prelim-clicking/431612/1 "2025-08-20T22:56:52Z")

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[![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/yoyoexpert1/original/4X/a/1/d/a1d216761e264a451528c5ce7b909731ac307a5d.jpeg "Aliyah Tan US National 3A Prelim visual clicking reference") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNNCNg8Cjl8)

I clicked Aliyah’s rebellious prelim.

Edit: I miscalculated the final score. It should be 40.

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**Author:** ![sammy\_j](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/sammy_j/32/292565_2.png) [@sammy\_j](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/sammy_j)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2025, 3:09pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/aliyah-us-national-prelim-clicking/431612/2 "2025-08-22T15:09:40Z")

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Why is the freestyle rebellious? Is there some kind of situation I missed?

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**Author:** ![MoxieOpal](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/moxieopal/32/691989_2.png) [@MoxieOpal](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/MoxieOpal)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2025, 3:32pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/aliyah-us-national-prelim-clicking/431612/3 "2025-08-22T15:32:27Z")

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She killed it

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**Author:** ![GTDropKnot](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/gtdropknot/32/212400_2.png) [@GTDropKnot](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/GTDropKnot)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2025, 5:34pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/aliyah-us-national-prelim-clicking/431612/4 "2025-08-22T17:34:15Z")

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Hmmm

This is a good question and I am curious what Tesla will say. I have no idea why Tesla called it rebellious, I do agree. It is rebellious to me because of the insanely high level of difficulty for a prelim. 3A players typically play it a bit more safe with prelims because it is just such a huge risk to include so many high risk elements; getting an early discard (-6 majors) could have tanked the nats run for her (see pat borg). She absolutely didn’t need to make a prelim this risky to make finals and yeah performing such a difficult and risky prelim in 3a is rebellious to me bc of how far it rails against what we typically see in 3A prelims.

She is a hero and this is, imo, the best 3A 1 minute stage performance ever.

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**Author:** ![ice1000](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/ice1000/32/250979_2.png) [@ice1000](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/ice1000)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2025, 6:19pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/aliyah-us-national-prelim-clicking/431612/5 "2025-08-22T18:19:22Z")

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