Pokemon Video Game Championships return this spring

"Congrats to you and all other Pokémon fans for staring into those dual LCD screens that, for all their brightness, still reflect only the inky blackness that has replaced your souls and yet still managed to keep the pistol out of your collective mouths one more day."

That was great. Now I feel kinda shitty though... thanks...

The last time I competed in a Pokemon tournament was during the second generation (Gold/Silver/Crystal), and I might compete with the remakes. How fitting.

Hopefully this time when I go I get to participate. Last year they drew random names of registered participants because there were too many. I was registered 10 minutes before registration officially started.

Time to raise a new Arcanine and prepare for battle

Wow, that really added to the conversations.

Thank you for your contribution :)

I think Charizard would eat you first.

PokeSav? I think so.

So, is it pronounced "wenkman' or 'venkman'?

Yeeeeeeeeees
my parents didn't let me have video games when I was little (first console I got is an n64 I got when I was 14...5 years ago), so I didn't get to participate in stuff like this.
I have 130+ hours logged in platinum so I can't wait for this game and competition :]

Shit's gonna get crazy with Dialga, Giratina, Groudon, Ho-Oh, Kyogre, Lugia, Mewtwo, Palkia, and Rayquaza being allowed.

I hope they have a tournament in MN... :(

All of my pokes are lvl 60-75 fully ev trained. If they are going to be downgraded, should I level them to 100 anyway? When pokemon are downgraded back level 50, do they still keep the stats awarded by the EVs, or do like half of them disappear and then come back once you level them back up.

>_> Poor Griffin.

Seriously, nobody is going to comment on Griffin's sexy Trainer duds? What are you people, robots?

"Well, for a number of reasons, the most important of which being that it should reduce the max stats of each participating 'mon, which should help the flow of battles move much faster than they would if the Pokémon involved were max level. It also makes the tournament incrementally more accessible -- instead of EV training and leveling your Pokémon to their highest possible level, you can get them ready for battle at Level 50."

In previous years of the tournament the max level cap was 50. The only difference this year is that Pokémon over this level will be downgraded to 50, allowing Pokémon like Tyranitar (who evolves at level 55) to be used, as well as allowing Pokémon to learn a move that they otherwise wouldn't be able to learn until after level 50.
A Pokémon can be maxxed on EVs at level 1. Effort Values are a hidden stat within the game that is gained when you kill a monster or use a stat up item like carbos or protein. EVs increase your stats. A Pokémon cannot have more than 510 EVs and cannot have more than 255 in any one stat.

@Broken Triforce
The competition will almost definitely be limited to 250 participants per age group again. It's very difficult to accommodate more than that for a tournament with no entry fee (it would require renting out more space, more staffing, equipment etc..) They may increase the number, but it seems pretty unlikely to me that they would invest in all the new equipment it would require.
I know that number sucks. I worked the Philly event last year as auxiliary staff, and it was pretty depressing watching some of the younger kids work so hard on making their teams only to be turned away because their number wasn't drawn.

My advice is don't go way out of your way to attend one of these things (we had people drive 10 hours to Philly who didn't get in), and don't get your heart set on playing until your number is drawn.

Also, how hard was it to pull up the tournament info from 2009 to find out that this wasn't the first year that the level cap was level 50? I'm fine with you writing an article and not knowing the first thing about EVs, but don't pretend to know what you're talking about if don't (or doing it through the guise of a "confirmed Pokémaniac").

Oh la la the joystiq staff as a whole is just soooooooooooo sexy......

yall see the new pokemon? looks like a... nvm.

http://www.serebii.net/generation5/

LOL UBER tier lite

Now I know which Pokemon I'll go for. x3

@skyblaze

Yep. Old news buddy.

Although I'm pretty pissed that Zoroark doesn't have blond hair. The silhouette made it look like a Super Saiyan.

Is this tournament gonna be over Wi-Fi? Because I can't bear to be the one 21 year old in a sea of 13 and younger playing a game aimed at 8 year olds.



.................I'm almost too embarressed to admit playing it on Joystiq.

Oh really ?
That's fantastic!I love Pokemon.Its a fun playing game and i love its series.I m eagerly waiting for this game to release.Thanks for sharing such a wonderful information.
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Haha I just listened to that episode of the Giant Bombcast, too. I would eat a coughing, but never a wheezing.