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Deus Ex Machina – A Nintendo UK Winter Event Report
Overview Hello there, I’m Xenoblade Hero (also known as Xeno’s Test on Showdown, I’m usually on the VGC server) and this is my post about my experiences leading up to and at the Pokémon Winter Event,...
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The Parent Trap – 1st Place Nintendo UK Winter Event Report
Hi! My name is Brandon Ikin, but you can call me Toquill. You might know me from ‘Pokemon Showdown!’, where I often host small practice tournaments. After winning at the Northampton qualifier (getting...
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2014 North American Winter Regionals Preview Part 1: Virginia
After Fall Regionals continued with Black and White 2 for one last set of events, we finally have our first Pokémon X & Y events for Championship Points over the next three weekends. While we’ve...
View Article[NBR] Under the Bridge 006: Winter Regionals + EV Training Tips feat. Cybertron
This month the crew under the bridge has a visitor, Aaron Zheng (Cybertron). Listen as he joins hosts Alan Sutterlin (Dubulous) and Matt Sybeldon (bearsfan092) as they preview the upcoming Winter...
View ArticleResults from the VGC ’14 Virginia Regional Championships
The first Regional Championship of Pokémon X and Y is over! Over 240 players attended in the Masters Division giving us our first ever top 16 cut. As the first event worth Championship Points, we...
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Teams from the VGC ’14 Viriginia Regional Championship
With a brand new generation and format, players had very little information to go off of in the first Pokémon VGC event of the season. These are the teams that top cut in Virginia: Masters 1. Ray...
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The Comeback Begins – A Virginia 1st Place Report
I had a hectic week leading up to Regionals, as I was in Dallas for a Job Interview on Wednesday and Thursday, so I didn’t have a whole lot of practice time. Luckily I hired a personal trainer, Aaron...
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2014 Apex and North American Winter Regionals Preview Part 2
As expected, the first Pokémon X & Y Regional showed us greater total Pokémon choice diversity than probably any VGC event has ever seen while also highlighting a few favorites who are the...
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It was all for chesNAUGHT: A Second Place Virginia Regional Team Report
Teambuilding For the past month before the Virginia regional I had been using a Pledge team, however with the recent New York City grassroots tournament I found out that Pokemon Showdown’s Pledge...
View ArticleNugget Bridge Major 3 Signups Have Begun!
The 3rd Nugget Bridge Major has now started to take signups. If you couldn’t make it to an XY Regional this season, this is the perfect opportunity to see how you fair against the best of the best in...
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Wide Guarding to the Top Cut: St. Louis Masters Undefeated Swiss Team Report
Last weekend, I had the pleasure of attending the VGC Winter Regional Championships in St. Louis, Missouri, which had the honor of being the biggest Winter Regional Championship with 239 players until...
View ArticleRegarding Intentional Draws, And The Issues Around It
Forums and Facebook posts have been completely up in arms about a recent occurrence in the Winter Regionals: the instance of players intentionally drawing, or IDing, during Swiss rounds. For those who...
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2014 North American Winter Regionals Preview Part 3: Florida
With four of the first set of XY Regionals down, only Florida is left until Spring. As typically expected of the final event of this part of the season and of a Regional taking place on an isolated...
View ArticleResults from Apex 2014 and the VGC ’14 Winter Regionals
January saw the first tournaments worth Championship Points using Pokémon X and Y as well as the largest grassroots tournament yet! Read below to see who placed where at each Regional Championship and...
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Blast Off! A Top 4 Southern California Regionals Report
Hey everyone! My name is Jackson Daugherty, but I go by Jackson7 D on here. Although I play Pokemon constantly, I do not post on Nugget Bridge very often. That beng said, I am proud to say I have...
View ArticleFirst Details About Pokémon X & Y WiFi Test Tournament
We’ve been waiting for information about this season’s online tournaments for quite some time now as Championship Points from the events were the factor in who did and didn’t make the World...
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Would you like an Ability Capsule? 1000W-0L Triple Maison Team Report
This is R Inanimate. Some people may know that before playing in the Video Game Championships, I played a lot of Battle Frontier, and Battle Subway. In a single attempt of playing Triple Battle Maison,...
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Top 16 with Perish Rain at Tokyo’s 15th Arena Off Tournament
This is an analysis of the Perish Trap Rain team by the Japanese player YT (Twitter account and blog) who used it to achieve 1st place on the Showdown VGC 2014 ladder under the player names igrek and...
View ArticleManchester Pokémon Tournament #6
The Manchester Pokémon Tournament is set for its sixth tournament in five years! With sponsorship and help from Nugget Bridge, StreetPass Manchester, and Nintendo UK, this tournament’s purpose is to...
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Synergistic Frustration: Top 8 Winter Regionals Team & Tournament Report
Hello everyone! My name is Leonard Craft III, but you might know me better as DaWoblefet from the Nugget Bridge forums. After confirming my assumptions at last year’s Winter Regional that all the best...
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