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First Official NeoGAF Pokemon Tournament

Forgot about items.

I can offer:

ONE EXP Share (I suppose the winner would get it, and if he or she didn't need it, they could give it to the second placer, and so on and so forth)
ONE Thunderstone (same as above)
Four Leaf Stones
Three Water Stones
ONE Fire Stone
Three Moon Stones

Not much, but... >_>
 
A Link to the Snitch said:
Gengar - Spooky Plate (yeah I know, these kind of items aren't great, but it's the best I got!)

Sludge Bomb
Thunderbolt
Shadow Ball
Dark Pulse

Alakazam - Choice Band

Focus Blast
Psychic
Calm Mind
Energy Ball

Torterra - Miracle Seed (read above)

Earthquake
Synthesis
Wood Hammer
Crunch

Blastoise - that water item

Surf
and some other shit on my undeveloped Poké :x

Blissey - Leftovers

Ice Beam
Minimize (not for tournament mind you >_>)
Softboiled
Sing (soon to be Thunder Wave [hopefully])

Staraptor

Brave Bird
Close Combat
Roost
Steel Wing
Gengar:
Wise Glasses should be easy to get as an item and would be better. Just talk to the guy in the Celestic shop between... I forget the times. But he gives three items, one between 8 PM and 4 AM, another between 4 AM and 12 PM, and another between 12 PM and 8 PM. Or something like that. Just check in those eight-hour intervals.
Dark Pulse is moot on your set; you're already hitting Ghosts and Psychics super-effective with Shadow Ball (and with STAB for that matter, unlike Dark Pulse), and the Normals that are immune to Shadow Ball take more damage from STAB Sludge Bomb than Dark Pulse anyway. Replace it with anything out of Hypnosis, Will-O-Wisp, Focus Blast (buyable for 5500), Destiny Bond, Energy Ball, and various other cool things Gengar can do.

Alakazam:
Choice Band boosts the power of physical attacks, not special; you're looking for Choice Specs.
...But when we're talking about Choice items, Calm Mind is out of the question. (Unless you have both Calm Mind and Trick so that you can get rid of the Choice item.) Either the move or the item has to go.

Torterra:
You probably don't have access to the item that boosts the power of all physical attacks (albeit by 10% instead of Miracle Seed's 20%), or another set of Leftovers, so go with the Ice-resistance berry... You can use it to scout whether an enemy has an Ice attack, and if you correctly predict that they do, you could use Synthesis that turn so that Torterra survives (unless they critical), recovers away the damage, and then you're free to switch.

Blastoise:
I have zero experience with Blastoise, either fighting one or raising one, so I won't make recommendations here. >_>

Blissey:
Ice Beam, Thunderbolt, Softboiled/Calm Mind, Sing/Thunder Wave - Any of these work.

Staraptor:
Steel is a really great defensive type, but a bad offensive type--at least, it is when you already have Close Combat, which hits Rock and Ice super-effective (along with other things) and has both more power and more accuracy than Steel Wing. I'd take one of these options:

U-Turn (buyable at Game Corner) - Helps you safely learn something about the enemy team. Bring Staraptor in on something that has to run away, then use U-Turn. The enemy will run and something that counters Staraptor will come in; Staraptor does a bit of damage and switches out, and now you're picking a counter to their counter. And now either you have knowledge of what one more of their team members is (if you haven't seen it before) or (if you have seen it before) you have knowledge that whatever they brought out is probably the team member who was most able to deal with Staraptor. Meaning that you would now know that if you got rid of whatever they brought out, Staraptor would have less of a problem taking on the enemy team.

Quick Attack - Helps to get rid of Endure users. Or just hit Choice Scarf stuff real quick.

Endeavor - Has some semi-decent synergy with Brave Bird; take recoil damage and when you're at low enough HP, Endeavor the enemy. (Brings them down to your exact HP amount.)

Return: Most powerful attack Staraptor could have in those cases where you can't do more than neutral damage anyway.
 
For prizes I think we might have enough. I was only expecting 3 prizes. After that, it gets hard to do placements. So I'll see how it goes with the brackets. How the tournament will work does slightly depend on the amount of participants. Because I have to account for the odd number of people there will be unless this reaches 64.

For Snitch's Blastoise, you should try Surf, Rapid Spin, Haze or Roar, and Mirror Coat or Ice Beam. He can be your rapid-spinner and phazer. The only problem is he has is no form of effective healing so he can't take too many hits. He makes a pretty good utility Pokemon otherwise.
 
This may not be the right thread to ask, but could someone explain how the IV battles work? I tried with a friend of mine to battle six of my lvl. 1s, against some random pokemon from her collection, and for some reason, it won't allow more than 2 pokemon from each side. What am I doing wrong?
 
Keru_Shiri said:
This may not be the right thread to ask, but could someone explain how the IV battles work? I tried with a friend of mine to battle six of my lvl. 1s, against some random pokemon from her collection, and for some reason, it won't allow more than 2 pokemon from each side. What am I doing wrong?

Yeah, most general questions (like team help and this) should be in the other thread >.>; be sure to put it to LV100 Singles Set. Write down all of your Pokemon's stats and check them using IV Calculators.
 
Firestorm said:
Yeah, most general questions (like team help and this) should be in the other thread >.>; be sure to put it to LV100 Singles Set. Write down all of your Pokemon's stats and check them using IV Calculators.
You're right, but I didn't see the other thread on the first page, so I assumed everyone migrated their discussions here. -_- Thanks for the help though!
 
A Link to the Snitch said:
Donate it to me.

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The next seven people to join will be spares in case someone doesn't show up. If we get 7 more people, then the tournament will expand and include 55+ participants.
 
Round 1 Winners Bracket
Deadline: 9:00 PM PDT (Midnight EDT) June 19th, 2007.

Division 1
TJ Spyke
Bye

Adol
timnich

EBCubs03
LouieGeetoo

Bye
gimz

Division 2
Error
Bye

sonikokaruto
rafman400

yudaan
RagnarokX

Bye
FootNinja

Division 3
Giard
Bye

Synbios459
Kreed

WolfofMebu
MasterTK

Bye
DarthWufei

Division 4
usea
Bye

charlesthefirst
ant1532

NeoForte
variance

Bye
cvxfreak

Division 5
Firestorm
Bye

dfyb
Adumaha

Xisiqomelir
Axalon

Bye
purgeface

Division 6
ivysaur12
Bye

dr3upmushroom
RevenantKioku

Michan
BrodiemanTTR

Bye
Death_Born

Division 7
Jiggy37
Bye

BorkBork
JSnake

JCX9
gamerx

Bye
Ninja Kn1ght

Division 8
The S-Word
Bye

SixStringPsycho
yeb

grandjedi6
KimiSan

Bye
Crazymoogle
 
Since 50% of participants have a Bye anyway, if both your teams are ready, you can have your match and report it in this thread. Make sure both parties know that the match is a tournament match. Either way, no one needs to finish their match until the deadline.

Seeding was done through post count in the official Diamond/Pearl thread. So TJ Spyke was 1, I was 2, Crazymoogle was 3, cvxfreak was 4, and so on. I realize it's not really an indicator of skill but I couldn't think of anything other than that or randoming it. Figured people who had the most posts in that thread are the ones who spent the most time with the game (for the most part).
 
Unless my new team combo gets better, I might lose again to two people in my division. But its all fun, right?
 
What happens with friend codes if you change the DS you're playing on?
 
Sweet. Done and done. And I added myself to Demi's page thinger.
 
PMs have been sent to everybody but me (duh), TJ Spyke (PMs disabled), and JSnake (PMs disabled). Also someone else but I forgot who it was. 44 PMs with 30 seconds between each is truly horrible =(
 
Firestorm said:
PMs have been sent to everybody but me (duh), TJ Spyke (PMs disabled), and JSnake (PMs disabled). Also someone else but I forgot who it was. 44 PMs with 30 seconds between each is truly horrible =(

You rock.
 
Should put my FC here: 1804 8826 0055

And I am SOOOOOO losing in the first round. Why must I be born a breeder and caretaker and not a battler. :(
 
Oh shit I just realized I have double team on one of my guys. Ugh, ugh ushg now I have to figure something out.
 
yudaan, look at the first post for a link to where to enter your FC.

Synbios459 said:
I would like to enter.

You'll have to make do with being a spare sorry. I gave like 2 weeks for entries and the brackets are up =(
 
RevenantKioku said:
Oh shit I just realized I have double team on one of my guys. Ugh, ugh ushg now I have to figure something out.

You should put sheer cold on it instead! >_> Or substitute or something general.
 
rk: take it to the official thread. Join the party (again).

Firestorm: done.

And have Synbios face Error, Crazymoogle or cvxfreak. Hell, have him face all 3 :D
 
Kreed said:
Wow...it's June the 19th already? :/

Nope, but like I said, unless I can get at least 55 people, the tournament will stay at 48 to stay fair in terms of byes. It'd be awesome if we could get 64 but there doesn't seem to be enough interest. Next time I guess we'll do a round robin + double elimination tournament if possible.
 
Firestorm said:
Nope, but like I said, unless I can get at least 55 people, the tournament will stay at 48 to stay fair in terms of byes. It'd be awesome if we could get 64 but there doesn't seem to be enough interest. Next time I guess we'll do a round robin + double elimination tournament if possible.

Yeah, you did say that...but you also said this.

Firestorm said:
Date and Time
The tournament will begin on June 18th, 2007. I will put up the backet on June 17th once I get home from work (expect around 7:00 PM PDT). You will have 2 - 3 days to finish each battle depending on the amount of entrants. More entrants means less time allocated as we don't want the tourney dragging on forever.
 
Oh whew not until the 18th? Man I was so scared when I saw a bracket posted! I'm not done with my team, I don't even know who I want in the last 2 spots! Time to work harder. The bye will give me some extra time too.

Though I guess there is nothing stopping people from doing matches early if they want.
 
Thanks for the PM. Good idea and really useful.

I'm so good, I don't even need to battle to get to the second round! mwahaha
 
Kreed said:
Yeah, you did say that...but you also said this.

We needed to cut it off early. Firestorm didn't think we'd be able to get 7 more players in the time between now and the 17th. If he exceeded 48 but didn't make 55, the bracket would be all messed up and he'd have to kick some players out. He did what he had to do..
 
Kreed said:
Yeah, you did say that...but you also said this.

There were a few requests to get brackets up early, and seeing as there had been absolutely no activity in this thread I just gave up on waiting for more. You can be a second alternate if you want. 29 people have received my PM and 15 have yet to read it.

At the moment, we have the fairest bye system in that everybody will get at least one free round. Well, except for those who win the first round, but I don't think they'll be complaining.
 
EBCubs03 said:
We needed to cut it off early. Firestorm didn't think we'd be able to get 7 more players in the time between now and the 17th. If he exceeded 48 but didn't make 55, the bracket would be all messed up and he'd have to kick some players out. He did what he had to do..

I understand why he did it, my problem is that no one said anything about an early cut off until AFTER it was too late. I was under the impression that June the 17th was the last call for entries because that was the date given for the creation of the brackets.
 
Firestorm said:
There were a few requests to get brackets up early, and seeing as there had been absolutely no activity in this thread I just gave up on waiting for more. You can be a second alternate if you want. 29 people have received my PM and 15 have yet to read it.

Don't have much of a choice. 2nd alternate it is.
 
Um, why didn't you just put your name down earlier? o.o; I did say in Post #114 that after the 48th battler that the next 7 would be spares.
 
Firestorm said:
Um, why didn't you just put your name down earlier? o.o; I did say in Post #114 that after the 48th battler that the next 7 would be spares.

Even if I was near a computer that day, you already had 48 people when you made that post so it's not much of a warning.

But the reason I didn't apply earlier was because I wanted to make sure my team was ready for the tournament before I entered and I wanted to make sure nothing came up that would keep me from entering. And since I thought I had plenty of time, I decided to wait until it got closer to the June 17-18th deadline to enter.
 
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