4th Gen HG/SS Championship

shinx95 said:
I've been pestering my parents about bringing me to the one in New Jersey. They keep nodding their heads and stuff but I don't think that they're actually taking me seriously. They think it's stupid that there's actually a "World Championship" for Pokemon. =/ And when I keep asking them if they actually mean that they'll take me, my dad's always like:
'Well, it's two hours away and that's a really bad part of New Jersey...'

.............. T_T I wanna enter and download that Eevee... Dang my parents...
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Aww I hope you can go! Maybe we'll go against each other. :D If you're in the senior class...Heck tell them that someone from Miami is flying over to New York, and then taking the bus over to Jersey. You definitely live a lot closer than I do lol. And if they're worried about the "bad area" then they can just stay there and watch you...I'm sure there are going to be security guards and stuff to watch the little kids. Two hours away is really not such a bad trip. Go tell them to hang out at Seaside so they can have fun if watching you is not fun for them. No offense. You gotta go! It's going to be fun.
 
I have a wonderful story to tell about my experience at this year's event.

I went to the one in Phoenix. But everything got ****ed up on the way there. I live about 2 hours north of Phoenix, so me and my friends made sure to leave early.About a quarter of the way there, traffic came to a halt because of a wildfire along the interstate. It wasn't very big, but it was enough to delay us for about an hour and a half. By the time we got there, it was 2 o'clock and registration ended at 1:30. So we were pissed off about that. But there was a "king of the hill" match setup for those who didn't register. So we waited in line for that for 2 hours, only to be the next to play and have the game shutdown because the tournament was over and they had to pack everything up. Sigh. And I worked so hard on my team for it. At least I connected to 8 pokewalkers and battled one guy. I won too, w00t. But still, I was really disappointed.
 
Aww sorry to hear that Kendall. Did you at least get an Eevee?
 
So, how long on average do you think it'll take to fully prepare? I have three days after finals end to prepare four Pokémon to relatively high levels with good EV spreads and ideal movesets, not to mention breeding and what not.

Also, what time should I arrive at the tournament to register? I don't want to be like Kendall and arrive too late (sorry to hear that btw), and I know there'll be a line before registration even starts. Is 12:30 a good time?
 
def be there by 1230 u dont wnat to go and not particpate
 
Well, I'm in Romania. I suppose the closest competition is/was in Lyon ...
I, however, didn't want to go. There are all sorts of people which travel a lot with a perfect team with perfect IVs, careful EVs, blah blah ...
I never do that, so I usually geot owned in Competitive. Plus, my mom would reject travelling to another country just to play Pokemon, too.
I've also heard (here on PC) about a family which traveled all the way from Scotland to Birmingham and got rejected because the "cap reached its maximal value". Lol, they came from SCOTLAND, a family which plays Pokemon freely and have no idea what an EV is and they get REJECTED ! :(
 
Heh Im going, Working on my team as we speak, I cannot wait, have a little stall team that opens up into a a ground sweeper's with incredible evasiveness.
Wish me luck.
 
Anyone go to the Birmingham one? If so did you happen to catch where the videos those guys where taking where from? Wanna see if I'm in any of em. :3
 
Sneeze said:
Anyone go to the Birmingham one? If so did you happen to catch where the videos those guys where taking where from? Wanna see if I'm in any of em. :3
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Oh cool you went? Did you have fun? I don't think that I'm going to do that well; I'm not trying to be negative, but I don't really know how to do EV/IV's. I just looked at smogon and tried to do similar things with the move sets and used a bunch of pokemon drinks like carbos cuz I have a lot of money in the game. Did you do anything like that?
 
Yeah, I did all the EV training and the likes, didn't bother with breeding for IVs though. Unfortunately I didn't get into the actual championship due to queues and the likes so if you going get there at least 3 hours in advance or you won't get it. It was still an enjoyable day though, had a few friendly battles and watched some matches. Good fun.
 
Well, the NY/NJ/CT regional is this Saturday...
Anyone else other than me going to it?

I'm doing all of my preparation over the next two days. Given what I have in mind, it shouldn't be too difficult to prepare.

One question to those who have gone: how common are Explosion teams and Sandstorm teams?
 
Ahahahahahaha...

Ahehehehehehe...

I was two hours away from yeterday's tournament without realizing it! Gah, if I had payed atention, I could have been there by now! Grr, oh well, I left my central team member (for my primary team, anyways) behind in another game, which is in another DS, across the world, but still...
 
I'll be in Jersey! Woohoo~
 
Digital Wings said:
I'll be in Jersey! Woohoo~
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Cool! I will be too! I wonder if I should hold up a sign saying my screen name. That won't attract too many stalkers will it? :P

How early do you think we should arrive? I'm flying in NY at 8am, so I think we're just going to rent a car and drive to Jersey right away. A couple people on here have said that they drove all the way to the place, registered, and still couldn't participate.
 
shuppet88 said:
Cool! I will be too! I wonder if I should hold up a sign saying my screen name. That won't attract too many stalkers will it? :P

How early do you think we should arrive? I'm flying in NY at 8am, so I think we're just going to rent a car and drive to Jersey right away. A couple people on here have said that they drove all the way to the place, registered, and still couldn't participate.
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I'll be there as well. We should have a PokéCommunity group there :)

I'm getting in line before 12:30; I don't want to be ousted from the tournament before it even begins. Especially that all I have left in preparation is EV training and filling out the team info sheet as well as getting the hacked Pokémon that I use in ad-hoc tournaments off of my game card to avoid the hack detection.
 
Awww, my parents decided to not bring me to NJ tomorrow. My dad kept insisting on the 'bad part of town' but I kept begging and begging. He ended up going camping with the whole family except me this weekend so I'm home alone with no ride to NJ T_T Depressing, I had my team ready and everything... And no shiny Eevee now... :(
 
This is just a bummer for a lot of people it seems. :( I left my house at 3:30 this morning, and sat in the airport waiting for my flight to NY to leave at 5:10. The reason I am sitting here typing to you guys and not on a plane is because the pilots from Spirit Airlines decided today would be a great day to go on strike. Maybe I can go the next time they do something like this :(
 
Well, I just got home from the Regionals. My advice to any future VGC goer: Arrive early. I cannot stress that enough; I arrived at around 12:20-12:30 and the line already wrapped around the block; turns out I was one of the last entrants to be accepted into the tournament.

Also, fear Rain teams. Fear them a lot.
 
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