Pokemon Championship details

Gunmonkey

2010 pokemon Championship is here....http://ie.ds.ign.com/articles/108/1083718p1.html

The Euro schedule is:

May 29, Birmingham, United Kingdom—National Exhibition Center
June 5, Cologne, Germany—Pullman Hotel
June 12, Lyon, France—Cite Centre de Congres
June 19, Madrid, Spain—IFEMA Feria de Madrid

And every entrant gets a Shiny Eevee....that has Shiny Eevee-loutions (pink Vaporeon is the example given).

I might go to one of the Euro events....if I have a team by then (queue Rocky style training montage of me sweating over a DS in a meat freezer)


EDIT: rules are found here http://www.pokemonvgc.com/uk/regulations.php

djc123abc

Gunmonkey wrote: »

2010 pokemon Championship is here....http://ie.ds.ign.com/articles/108/1083718p1.html

The Euro schedule is:

May 29, Birmingham, United Kingdom—National Exhibition Center
June 5, Cologne, Germany—Pullman Hotel
June 12, Lyon, France—Cite Centre de Congres
June 19, Madrid, Spain—IFEMA Feria de Madrid

And every entrant gets a Shiny Eevee....that has Shiny Eevee-loutions (pink Vaporeon is the example given).

I might go to one of the Euro events....if I have a team by then (queue Rocky style training montage of me sweating over a DS in a meat freezer)


EDIT: rules are found here http://www.pokemonvgc.com/uk/regulations.php

I'd love to venture to one of them but alas money money money.

Hardly any sign of one's in Ireland?

Teferi

Unfortunate dates. Right in the middle of exams and volunteering stuff I do.

Urizen

If I didn't go to Germany or the UK for Rammstein, I'm not going for this.

CianRyan

If I have money, I'll go to this.
Highly unlikely, how ever...

Buzzthebatgirl

djc123abc wrote: »

I'd love to venture to one of them but alas money money money.

Hardly any sign of one's in Ireland?

You're joking right? You don't go to past Pokémon events and complain in person at the event that you want more to come to Ireland, then you have no right to moan about no Irish stop on future tours.

CianRyan wrote: »

If I have money, I'll go to this.
Highly unlikely, how ever...

Ryanair has flights for the Birmingham date for €19.98.

The VCG is being held in the NEC which is a free train ride to from the Airport, and a little walk. I was at the NEC before, the walk shouldn't be anymore than 10-15 minutes from the free train. It costs nothing to enter the VCG.

If you pack a lunch before hand, well that's even more saving. Allow about £20 for tea/coffee/bottle of drink/general spending. That's way cheaper than a night out on the tiles :P

So to sum up, don't anyone else complain about not it being to expensive to go. If I'm not on the staff that day, I'll happily go with anyone else who wants to go.

Banjo

May 29th is smack in the middle of my holiday. Further proof that Nintendo are trying to destroy the family unit and don't want the working, tax paying man to enter Pokétournaments that his taxes have paid for.

I could fly back from Philly for the day but that would cost me about 2 grand, plus about €20 for snacks and drinks, it's far too expensive

It does sound like a great opportunity for a booze cruise though. If your Pokies are legit but you're completely stantlered on duty free will they still let you enter?

Buzzthebatgirl

Banjo wrote: »

May 29th is smack in the middle of my holiday. Further proof that Nintendo are trying to destroy the family unit and don't want the working, tax paying man to enter Pokétournaments that his taxes have paid for.

I could fly back from Philly for the day but that would cost me about 2 grand, plus about €20 for snacks and drinks, it's far too expensive

It does sound like a great opportunity for a booze cruise though. If your Pokies are legit but you're completely stantlered on duty free will they still let you enter?

Then how does Germany on the 5th June, France the 12th June, or Spain the 19th June work with you? There will be English speaking staff at all the events and the vast majority of the the players speak English.

Besides if you went to Philly you couldn't complete unless you went out and bought an American game card. European player - EU game, US player - US game. Have the wrong game at the wrong tourny you don't get in the front door. No shiny Eevee for you...

I guess being boozed would depend if you got agressive with staff/other players. If you decide to use OUTRAGE on any living target, I assume 10 beefy Snorlax will come crashing through the wall to flatten you.

Banjo

I'm going to Philly to visit my sister and more importantly to bring my daughter to visit her auntie - why, is there a PokéEvent on there too? Score!

Anyway, I'm just making excuses, I'm not going to spend a weekend that could be spent with my family at a pokemon tournament until *after* my wife realises her mistake and divorces me Trust me, raising a kid is more fun than raising a pokemon - they can learn more than 4 moves, they're born knowing Charm, Sweet Kiss, Sludge Bomb and Water Cannon; mine was following me around a full year before HG/SS was released etc etc.

TheChrisD

*looks at calendar*

****, I'm free

I mean, yay I'm free!

Buzzthebatgirl

Banjo wrote: »

I'm going to Philly to visit my sister and more importantly to bring my daughter to visit her auntie - why, is there a PokéEvent on there too? Score!

Anyway, I'm just making excuses, I'm not going to spend a weekend that could be spent with my family at a pokemon tournament until *after* my wife realises her mistake and divorces me Trust me, raising a kid is more fun than raising a pokemon - they can learn more than 4 moves, they're born knowing Charm, Sweet Kiss, Sludge Bomb and Water Cannon; mine was following me around a full year before HG/SS was released etc etc.

You do realise that Philly's stop on the tour last year was the busiest one with over 1,000 people attending for only 120 player slots?

wobbles

Buzzthebatgirl wrote: »

If you decide to use OUTRAGE on any living target, I assume 10 beefy Snorlax will come crashing through the wall to flatten you.

Snorelax used mega punch



Its super effective



Banjo used imitate



It doesnt affect snorelax



Snorelax used Mega Kick



Its a critical Hit



Banjo faints



Banjo lost his dignity

Star Lord

Banjo wrote: »

If your Pokies are legit but you're completely stantlered on duty free will they still let you enter?

This is phrase of the day Love it!

Banjo

I'm touched that you think I have dignity to lose

You do realise that Philly's stop on the tour last year was the busiest one with over 1,000 people attending for only 120 player slots?

I had no idea. To think, till now the only claims to fame I was aware of were the liberty bell, the massive crime rate, Rocky and the amish lazerdome. I'll be sure to wear my Pokewalkers prominently!

Gunmonkey

Hrm, the whole "First come, first served" could be a pain if flying to Birmingham, ya think there would be a queue formed to register early-ish or could grab a reasonably timed flight??

Buzzthebatgirl

Gunmonkey wrote: »

Hrm, the whole "First come, first served" could be a pain if flying to Birmingham, ya think there would be a queue formed to register early-ish or could grab a reasonably timed flight??

There was a queue last year, but that's because there was only 120 odd slots (128 I think, 130 people came to London and less than that to Paris). This year there's 256 slots for the Senior Division (less for the Juniors lol). If the flight is cheaper at 6.30am, you might as well get that one and laugh at the Junior matches.

TheChrisD

Gunmonkey wrote: »

could grab a reasonably timed flight??

"reasonably timed"
Yea, right.

CianRyan

Are those prices for return flights?!
You're seriously getting me thinking here.

I'm going on a sailing trip this weekend for the week, If I keep some of my money and starve one of the day, then do something crazy and not drink the weekend after... I could keep my money and head over.
I think I might have to do that!


To be fair, where I'm going there's no shops other than a bar... I don't know if anyone else here is into sailing, but having a hang over and trying to sail is REALLY not fun.
Right, I'll be sober for the trip... Extra money... Yes!

DON'T HOLD ME TO ANYTHING UNTIL I BUY MY PLANE TICKET!!!!!!

CianRyan

TheChrisD wrote: »

"reasonably timed"
Yea, right.

Also, this.
Ridicules hours in the airport, bent over DS's could be deadly fun.

I also have to buy HG/SS... Uggh.
Why can't I just use Platinum.:(
I'm just going to transfer all of my Pokémon over.

Atavan-Halen

Are you allowed in if you're not competing? I'm considering going but I wouldn't really be up to scratch. I'd just like to go for the atmosphere and whatnot

ghostchant

Working in the states til May, so I've got the US version of SS (I've actually never bought the European version of any Pokemon game, bought Red in the states in like 98 just as it came out and by coincidence I've always been there when they've been released). No shiny eevee for me then, which was my only interest in going...I'll live.

Atavan-Halen

Maybe I'll just enter for the craic and do some serious EV-ing from now until then :P

Star Lord

ghostchant wrote: »

Working in the states til May, so I've got the US version of SS... No shiny eevee for me then...

Why not check out some of the US events then to get special Pokémon?

ghostchant

yeah the thought had crossed my mind, did get the Draco Meteor Jirachi from gamestop, along with a shiny absol and shiny mudkip mystery gift promotion at an anime convention the other week, but there's always room for more

Buzzthebatgirl

CianRyan wrote: »

Are those prices for return flights?!
You're seriously getting me thinking here.

Those are Ryanair flights, so the sooner you book them the cheaper they will be. Closer to the flight date the prices will sky rocket

atavan-halen wrote: »

Are you allowed in if you're not competing? I'm considering going but I wouldn't really be up to scratch. I'd just like to go for the atmosphere and whatnot

Everyone will be allowed in, but you will have to fill up a team sheet. You can always drop after the first round, get your Shiny Eevee and just hang out for the day.

ghostchant wrote: »

Working in the states til May, so I've got the US version of SS (I've actually never bought the European version of any Pokemon game, bought Red in the states in like 98 just as it came out and by coincidence I've always been there when they've been released). No shiny eevee for me then, which was my only interest in going...I'll live.

*cough*rent.HGSS.for.the.week.from.Xtra.Vision.and.trade.over.your.team*cough*

ghostchant wrote: »

yeah the thought had crossed my mind, did get the Draco Meteor Jirachi from gamestop, along with a shiny absol and shiny mudkip mystery gift promotion at an anime convention the other week, but there's always room for more

Fan Events=hack

ghostchant

Buzzthebatgirl wrote: »

Fan Events=hack

I'm fully aware of this and don't lose sleep over it, luckily the awesome starfox/lylat-wars t-shirt I got from the stand distributing it was legit

Also the Absol was named O'Donnell, a starfox reference (mystery gift event was based on and named after the 'Can't let you do that starfox' meme), so I was pretty happy

EDIT: They also distributed the wonderfully-named 'Murderkarp' if you bought a Magikarp tshirt. Wasn't going to buy the shirt just for that though:

Magikarp (Shiny), level 100:
Hyper Beam
Zap Cannon
Octazooka
Spacial Rend

djc123abc

Buzzthebatgirl wrote: »

You're joking right? You don't go to past Pokémon events and complain in person at the event that you want more to come to Ireland, then you have no right to moan about no Irish stop on future tours.

I ain't moaning or complaining about the lack of an Irish event, I just think it would be a beautiful thing :^)

Star Lord

Back in the day (Blue/Red - Silver/Gold time) they used to have events in both Dublin and Belfast...

Buzzthebatgirl

DamoElDiablo wrote: »

Back in the day (Blue/Red - Silver/Gold time) they used to have events in both Dublin and Belfast...

"Back in the day" was the tip of the hype, the time with anything with Pokémon on it would instantly sell out. Unfortunatly these are not those times and the cost of ferring over a tour (and staff and step up gear) to Dublin is simply too expensive for Nintendo to keep doing. The only way to get them to come is to go to other events and give feedback. There was an Arceus event about 4 weeks ago in Belfast (for 2 days), who from here went to that?

Star Lord

I can't afford to travel to Belfast just to get another pokémon TBH.

At the time of the old events, I lived in Belfast, but couldn't go as I was in work.

Banjo

Maybe we're looking at this all wrong. Instead of travelling around europe moaning to Nintendo reps, maybe we need to organise a sort of Nintendo Territorial Army where we train every weekend to print giant cardboard Arceuses and hand out notch eared Pichu fliers in the hope that one day we'll be called up by Nintendo to stage an event for them? Then all it costs them is the a couple of quid to stick a distribution cart in the post.

Buzzthebatgirl

Banjo wrote: »

Maybe we're looking at this all wrong. Instead of travelling around europe moaning to Nintendo reps, maybe we need to organise a sort of Nintendo Territorial Army where we train every weekend to print giant cardboard Arceuses and hand out notch eared Pichu fliers in the hope that one day we'll be called up by Nintendo to stage an event for them? Then all it costs them is the a couple of quid to stick a distribution cart in the post.

Since one of the Shaymin Event distribution carts went walkies, Nintendo are dead serious on security with EVERYTHING. Everything from the Arceus event had to be returned, and I mean everything. Game cards/DSis/chargers where all counted and heads would roll is anything was so much as touched by the wrong person. Funnily enough the only thing they didn't really care about was the Arceus figures.

I enjoy your humor Banjo, but in reality the only way to get noticed by Nintendo is to go up to them by going to events and asking questions and making yourself known.

Atavan-Halen

So y'know the legit check for the competition. Will it only check the 6 you've entered to battle or check your whole game for anything hacked? Just in case anyones wondering, I have some legit pokémon that were traded from a hacked cart and I have clones from buzz.

ghostchant

I presume Nintendo have statistics on the events held in Dublin back in the day, and perhaps are using that (and sales figures I guess) in their decision not to come back, i.e. as was said there's no fiscal sense in doing it. I'm not sure that going up to a non-decision-making rep and saying that there's a handful of people who'd like them to come to Dublin will change that. That being said, on an island with the population of Ireland, one location (Belfast) isn't too bad. There are people in the states who would have to travel much further than that to get to their closest event (I'm assuming that, just for clarity)

Buzzthebatgirl

atavan-halen wrote: »

So y'know the legit check for the competition. Will it only check the 6 you've entered to battle or check your whole game for anything hacked? Just in case anyones wondering, I have some legit pokémon that were traded from a hacked cart and I have clones from buzz.

Last time they just check the party Pokémon after the third round, dunno about this year though

Atavan-Halen

Oh right, I just want to be 100% sure because some Pokémon I'd be thinking of using were traded from a cart that's been action replayed to f*ck :P The Pokémon being used are 100% legit though.

Buzzthebatgirl

atavan-halen wrote: »

Oh right, I just want to be 100% sure because some Pokémon I'd be thinking of using were traded from a cart that's been action replayed to f*ck :P The Pokémon being used are 100% legit though.

Pokés that came from a card that had been ARed, but are legit themselves passed the legit check. My Wobbuffett "Cute" came from my Ruby that had ARed a Zigzagoon to unlock Mirage Island. Cute was caught there, Pal Parked, EVed and played in the VGC with my totally forgetting where he came from.

Atavan-Halen

Ah right cool!

Atavan-Halen

Flights are only €12 atm!

However, I went to book it just there by laser and I had €18 in my account. Grand says I, so fill in all details and then total cost came to €22 at the end because of "administration fees"

FML!

Atavan-Halen

Borrowed an aunts credit card and booked the flights

Please tell me someone else is going :P

TheChrisD

I've an exam the Thursday morning beforehand, and I think that something else college-related might be being planned for that weekend...

I still can't say for definite yet whether I can go or not.

Atavan-Halen

Ryanair are having a sale atm and flights are down to €6 return. Probably about €16 with administration fees. Anyone would be mad not to go for €16!

CianRyan

I have the money, I'll book my flights later! AAGH!

I'll have to buy HG in the next few days now.

Atavan-Halen

CianRyan wrote: »

I have the money, I'll book my flights later! AAGH!

I'll have to buy HG in the next few days now.

Woop!

Buzzthebatgirl

atavan-halen wrote: »

Ryanair are having a sale atm and flights are down to €6 return. Probably about €16 with administration fees. Anyone would be mad not to go for €16!

No excuses now folks! Let's swarm the UK in Irish players!!

CianRyan

Just booked my flights!! :D:D
Me and Atavan will be stumbling around Dublin airport at about half 5 in the morning waiting for our flight!

I'll go grab my game either tomorrow or the next day.
CAN'T WAIT NOW!! :D

Edit: €17 all in, would have been 16 but I asked for a text that I'm not going to get. I put in the Portuguese prefix my accident...:rolleyes:
Hahaha

TheChrisD

I still can't commit just yet. At the moment it's looking like there's either going to be a Games Society LAN, or at least a Paranormal Society committee dinner that weekend

Buzzthebatgirl

CianRyan wrote: »

Just booked my flights!! :D:D
Me and Atavan will be stumbling around Dublin airport at about half 5 in the morning waiting for our flight!

I'll go grab my game either tomorrow or the next day.
CAN'T WAIT NOW!! :D

Edit: €17 all in, would have been 16 but I asked for a text that I'm not going to get. I put in the Portuguese prefix my accident...:rolleyes:
Hahaha

And me, I'll be there! Dunno if I'll be staff or not, but I have a team and ready to kick ass and drink coffeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee weeeeeeeeeee!

TheChrisD wrote: »

I still can't commit just yet. At the moment it's looking like there's either going to be a Games Society LAN, or at least a Paranormal Society committee dinner that weekend

SKIP them! VCG only comes once an year and previous to last year was only held in the States and Japan, despite being the World Video Game Championships!

CianRyan

Buzzthebatgirl wrote: »

And me, I'll be there! Dunno if I'll be staff or not, but I have a team and ready to kick ass and drink coffeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee weeeeeeeeeee!

SKIP them! VCG only comes once an year and previous to last year was only held in the States and Japan, despite being the World Video Game Championships!

Awesoooooome!!
We're going to have to be in the airport for about 5am... My god! hahaha

Chris, you have to come. Take a sick day from the nerdy stuff(cough) and come with us!
We'll be there and home within the day!!

COME!!!!!11

TheChrisD

How long are the cheap flights available for? I'll probably make my decision on Saturday.

Mainly as with everything that's going on with me recently, I'll have been out of the house and around town for six Saturdays in a row (this next meetup is week four...), and then I have two weeks of college exams with the last one the day before we'd need to leave for the VGC's. Also my money situation isn't the best especially with all these weekends out.

I still can't commit to anything this major just yet...

CianRyan

Major?
It's like going to town for the day!!

The sale is on anything after the 17th of May I think.