Last Chance, Let’s Have Some Close Combats: A Seniors LCQ Report
Introduction Hi everyone! My name is James Baek, and I’m known as Jamesspeed1 in the VGC community. Some of you might recognize me from my YouTube channel. I’m a 15 year old student from Staten Island,...
View ArticleLet’s Go Down to the Battle Spot (And Talk it Up Like Yeah): Playing to Win...
“But every game’s like turn one Fake Out, Tailwind on Suicune Rock Slide, Choice Scarf, prayin’ it’ll flinch soon, We don’t care, we’re running Camerupt and ice creams. But everybody’s like Prankster,...
View ArticleRegistration Open for the Season 4 Nugget Bridge Major
The long awaited fourth Nugget Bridge Major is finally here. Last year’s Nugget Bridge Major was the largest tournament we ever held here on Nugget Bridge with 449 participants and after a long and...
View ArticleMoonlight Sonata: Singapore Asia Cup Qualifier First Place Report
Hi! I’m Level 51, or as I am sometimes referred to in real life, Guan Yang Ze. I recently participated in Singapore’s Asia Cup Qualifier. Attended by 92 players and a government minister, the...
View ArticleSeason 4 Nugget Bridge Major Kicks Off
The Season 4 Nugget Bridge Major has begun! You can find the brackets hosted on Battlefy. Due to the unprecedented number of registrations, we’ve split the tournament into four flights for a more...
View ArticleVGC 2015 European Winter Regional Preview
With a new year brings a brand new ruleset, brand new surprises, and brand new experiences for the duration of the season. Which player will have the accolade of winning the first Regional Championship...
View ArticleNews Roundup: Regional Stream Details, New Hidden Abilities & Items, and PGL...
In 2010 and 2011, players took it upon themselves to stream the Pokémon World Championships using their phones (Thanks Alaka, DrFidget, and Danny). In 2012, we received our first ever official...
View ArticleLive Updates from the VGC ’15 European Winter Regionals
The first ever Regional Championship in Europe has begun! We have updates straight from the floor on our Twitter feed so remember to keep an eye out! Not sure what’s going on? Take a look at our event...
View ArticleResults from the VGC ’15 Netherlands Regional Championship
The first ever Regional Championship in Europe took place this weekend in Arnhem alongside the European Challenge Cup and we’ve got the results! Players from all over the continent attended in what...
View ArticleAchiEVing Perfection: Creating Specialized EV Spreads, Part One
If you’ve just started to battle competitively, then you might have seen players talking about these weird things called EVs. Perhaps you noticed them in Pokémon Showdown’s teambuilder. Luckily, Nugget...
View ArticleRound 2 of the Season 4 Nugget Bridge Major Has Begun
The first round of the Nugget Bridge Major 4 is in the history books. After a hard fought round, everyone is still in a position to make the top cut so don’t give up because you lost already. The...
View ArticleAchiEVing Perfection: Creating Specialized EV Spreads, Part Two
Welcome to part two of our series of articles about creating specialized EV spreads. In this section, we’ll cover the “how-to” of making specialized EV spreads, broken up into two chunks. The first...
View ArticleVGC 2015 North American Winter Regionals Preview
This article was a collaboration between Chris Semp (pookar) who did the Virginia, Missouri, and SoCal sections and Chalkey Horenstein (Chalkey) who put together the Oregon section. The first set of...
View ArticleLive Updates from the VGC ’15 North American Winter Regionals
The first Regional Championships in North America using the new format are upon us. Europe gave us a look at the metagame last weekend in The Netherlands, but we’re going to see four times as many...
View ArticleResults from the VGC ’15 North American Winter Regional Championships
With the first weekend of Regional Championships in North America finished, we have big surge in Championship Points. These players have inched ever closer to their invitation to the 2015 Pokémon World...
View ArticleTeams from the VGC 2015 Winter Regionals (Week 1)
We were able to take a small look at what was happening at Europe’s Regional Championship earlier this month, but last weekend gave us a larger picture with four events happening across the United...
View ArticleIndonesia’s First Premier Challenge
Hi guys! Hashegi is here, again. So, as we all know, Pokémon Trainers around the world are competing in the newly-added Premier Challenges. Today, I’d like to happily share with you stories and...
View ArticleIntroducing the Nugget Bridge Pokémon Damage Calculator
A key part of teambuilding is tweaking your Pokémon’s stat spread so you achieve the optimal stats to survive the right attacks and grab the right knock outs. To do this, players play around with the...
View ArticleOf Low Budget Team Building and Other Struggles: A Premier Challenge Alpha...
Hello my fellow nuggets and nuggettes. It’s been a while since my last team report on Nugget Bridge. My year of Pokémon in 2014 mainly consisted of bad memories, so it very much makes sense you haven’t...
View ArticleRound 3 of the Season 4 Nugget Bridge Major Has Begun
The second round of the Nugget Bridge Major 4 is in the history books. After a hard fought round, everyone is still in a position to make the top cut so don’t give up because you lost already. The...
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