Big news for everyone who has been awaiting the next season of the Nugget Bridge Circuit! We’re back, bigger, and better than ever! Black and White are behind us and we now enter the age of X and Y. Along with that big change, the Nugget Bridge Circuit Season will have some major changes.
The most important and newsworthy changes:
The end of the season Nugget Bridge Invitational will have more players (32) and new ways to qualify. Now you don’t have to participate in a glut of Live Tournaments in an attempt to qualify. Like the past the Top 16 from the Live Circuit will receive invites, but in addition to that the Top 8 from the Nugget Bridge Major, the Top 2 Coro Coro Cup teams, and the last Invitational Top 2.
The Nugget Bridge Major will now be “separate” from the Live Tournament Circuit. The tournament will no longer award points towards an invite, but will now just give automatic invites to the Invitational as outlined above. Great prizes and tournament play will still play a part in the Major.
The Nugget Bridge Major will now be Swiss plus Top Cut. The Major has a history of some surprising bracket busters causing big names to lose early, and while we lose that moving to Swiss, the tournament becomes more in line with the modern day Video Game Championships.
A new team based tournament that gives invites to the Invitational for the top 2 teams. The rules will be based on the Coro Coro Cup tournament that was run in Japan during the 2013 VGC season.
Tournaments will no longer be seeded. This was a fun experiment for the first 2 seasons, but it was just more hassle than it was worth. It also often tilted the playing field a bit and we saw the same people get paired up over and over. Tournaments will still be in a bracket, but they will now be randomly assigned.
More than one Live Tournament a week. Still a work in progress and a lot of it depends upon the attendance numbers. If people play, we will continue to provide them a place to.
Late night live tournaments. In a bit of an effort to include Australia and North Americans who can’t make the other times we will begin a trial run of late night live tournaments. If we get the numbers, we will continue running these long term.
Circuit Points have been revamped. With the loss of the Major counting for points and more Live Tournaments, the best finish limit will be changed and points themselves will receive a makeover.
While the Standard ruleset for for the VGC ’14 season has not been announced, here on Nugget Bridge will we use Kalos Dex Only in the meantime. Item clause and Species clause all apply to Nugget Bridge Tournaments. The current rules allow for every Kalos Dex Pokemon with the exception of Yveltal, Xerneas, Mewtwo, and Zygarde. These rules are subject to change at any time and once we get the official ruleset from TPCi we will switch over to them.
The schedule right now isn’t 100% set in stone but what you can look forward to this season:
- Live Tournaments every week from now until around US Nationals time. Days will be subject to change at a moments notice due to unforeseen TPCi influences or other important events in the World of Pokemon.
- The Nugget Bridge Major starting in Late-January/Early-February.
- Coro Coro Cup Rules tournament starting in Mid-April.
- Nugget Bridge Invitational Mid-July.
We here are Nugget Bridge are excited for the upcoming Nugget Bridge Circuit Season and you can find more specific details like schedule and point values in the Online Tournament section of the forums. And last but certainty not least I personally want to thank all of our tournament hosts who help make tournaments on Nugget Bridge possible; without them we couldn’t provide the fun and excitement of the Nugget Bridge Circuit. Next time you play be sure to give some thanks to your host.
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