These are the explanations for the 11th to the 20th Pokémon Sword & Shield battle videos. I take from a very wide selection of knowledge, though I also take it you guys haven't been trying to Google up everything I type:

Dec 28 19 A - Puffer State - HISTORY - From "buffer state," a neutral country between two or more countries hostile toward each other.

Dec 28 19 B - And I Am a Material Squirrel - MUSIC - From "And I am a Material Girl," the last line in the chorus for "Material Girl," the 1985 song by Madonna.

Dec 28 19 C - Brought to You by the Letter "Pii" - TELEVISION (LIVE-ACTION) - From a slogan used in Sesame Street, in which someone in each episode always announces "Brought to you by the letters (three letters featured in the episode)."

Dec 28 19 D - Stingin' in the Rain - FILM - From the 1952 movie "Singin' in the Rain."

Jan 3 20 A - Cotton Matters - HISTORY - From "Cotton Mathers," an American religious reformist.

Jan 3 20 B - Hold Me, Thrill Me, Togekiss Me - MUSIC - From "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me," the 1952 song by Karen Chandler.

Jan 3 20 C - Berry King Live - TELEVISION (LIVE-ACTION) - From "Larry King Live," a long-running program that aired on CNN.

Jan 3 20 D - Fun in the Sun - IDIOMS/EXPRESSIONS - A phrase often used to describe beachgoing activity.

Jan 11 20 A - Frog in the Throat - SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY - Colloquial term for laryngitis or pharyngitis.

Jan 11 20 B - Along Came a Spider - LITERATURE/POETRY - A line from the nursery rhyme "Little Miss Muffet."

Type: Single Battle
Opponent: jenpea (18)
Stadium: Turffield Stadium
Music: Gym Leader
My Pokémon: Alicia (Passimian), Lizeth (Heliolisk), Umbreon (Blake)
Opponent's Pokémon: 蔥遊兵 (Sirfetch'd), 多龍巴魯托 (Dragapult), 洛托姆 (Rotom) (Heat)

Would've been more interesting had I brought out Cursola and brought her out first, because jenpea opened with Sirfetch'd, the Sword version counterpart. After all, both Cursola and Sirfetch'd are not just opposite region exclusives, but they both evolve from a pre-existing single-stage Pokémon via a Galarian form; both have original variants who are dual-typed but have a Galarian form that has a single completely different type; and both of those types don't reflect what they might be superficially (Flying for Sirfetch'd because it's a bird, Water for Cursola because it's a sea creature).

But I didn't, so here's how the battle goes.

It's this sort of battle that's why I would run a team through testing also. I don't just use my teams well right from the start; I have to get some experience with them too. As the years have gone on, my Pokémon get a bit more complicated as my team-building gets more advanced, so whereas I only needed a couple of battles to get used to a team in Pokémon Battle Revolution, I would rather have a whole session here, such that I can get not only how people react to my Pokémon and what needs to be changed, but how I myself handle situations. The way this battle ended is precisely that sort of thing. I brought it upon myself and lost a match I should've won because I overlooked something that happened many turns ago and inadvertently cut myself off of all alternatives.

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