This is just a post to explain how the Indigo league works in the manga, as I receive a lot of email (mostly from
NEW PEOPLE!!) saying how I'm a retard that I forgot to give Red the 8th badge even though he never receive the 8th badge from Giovanni, and that I even included a scene in the game to show Red noticing he didn't get the 8th badge, so yeah.
To explain how the indigo league works in the manga. In the manga, the indigo league is just a normal tournament that any trainers can participate. The rounds includes the Preliminary rounds which is split up into 4
Groups (
Group A,
Group B,
Group C and
Group D). In the manga, Red was shown to won the preliminary in
Group C, while Blue won the preliminary in Group D, Green won Group A and Prof Oak/Dr O presumably won
Group B as shown here:
After the preliminary, the winners of the respective group are matchup against each other in the
semi-final round. Then the winners of that round battle each other in the
finals. The champion is then declared to the winner of the
Final. However, in the manga, since Dr O quit the tournament after defeating Green in the
semi-final, he forfeited his place as the winner, which therefore turn Red and Blue
semi-final round to turn into the official
Final Round and also gave Green the title as the 2nd Runner-up of Kanto
. So if Dr O had not quit the tournament, he would've battle either Red or Blue (depending who won in the semi-final) in the finals, and Green wouldn't have gotten the title as the 2nd Runner-up.
So what are the
badges for? Well in the manga, the badges are items that enhances Pokemon's strength as mentioned by Blue:
The badges also contain mysterious powers that can create and merge Pokemon when they are all put together as shown in the creation of Zapmulcuno. At the
GSC chapters, as more and more people decided to collect badges due to their powers, the director of the Indigo League made a new rule that anyone with the possession of 8 different badges (I'm not sure whether they have the be in the same region) can automatically skip the Preliminary Rounds, and go straight into the Semi-Final round.