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Maintaining Inner Focus: A 5th Place Missouri Regional Team Analysis
Two weeks before regionals, I had a team that I had been testing alongside Collin (TheBattleRoom) for a while and I had gotten comfortable with it. Then, the Tuesday before the event, I decided to...
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Getting Physical with Fighting Types
They are strong, they are aggressive, and they never shy away from the battle! These are the fighters of the Pokemon world! Fighting-type Pokemon are known for their high base Attack stats, useful...
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World War Zedd: A Melbourne Fan-Event Report
Hello everyone! My name is Ty Power or TheBlooFoxx on Nugget Bridge and Pokémon Showdown. I’m relatively new to the VGC format (starting with X and Y) but have been playing competitively for a few...
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Schwarzer Schnee der Frühe – Nugget Bridge Circuit 2 Top 8 Report and Team...
Seiet gegrüßt! It has been a while since I introduced you to this neat offensive Hail Room concept that, honestly to my surprise, still hasn’t been forgotten. In fact, I may have even played a major...
View ArticleJapan Cup 2014 Announced as Qualifier for Japan National Championship
Like last year, Japan’s National Championships for the VGC ’14 season will be invite-only with the players decided by an online tournament. Japan Cup 2014 will run from the evening of Friday May 2nd to...
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Japan’s Battle Road Gloria Circuit Qualifiers – Complete Team Details and...
The start of Japan’s official VGC/World Championship Series 14 circuit may still be months away, but the Japanese tournament scene has been far from inactive! Among the numerous grassroots offline...
View ArticleEfficiently Capturing Your Roamer in Pokémon X and Y
Have you tried to capture a usable Zapdos, Articuno, or Moltres on your X or Y game yet? Based on previous generation game mechanics, one might reasonably assume it would be mathematically impossible...
View ArticleIntroducing VGC ’14 Premier Challenges
Late next month, we’ll see an expansion to the Pokémon Video Game Championship Series with a pilot program at a very local level in North America. Select tournament organizers who have been active in...
View ArticleNugget Bridge Major 3 Top Cut Is Set
After 8 grueling weeks of Swiss rounds, the Nugget Bridge Major Top Cut is here. A big congratulations to every player who made it this far, 62 of the best players will now duke it out in a single...
View Article[NBR] Under The Bridge 008: Spring Regionals Preview & Nugget Bridge Major
Under The Bridge moves to the end of the month, and with good reason: it’s almost time for Spring Regionals. Listen as hosts Alan Sutterlin (Dubulous) and Matt Sybeldon (bearsfan092) provide a...
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Japan’s Battle Road Gloria National Finals: Results, Team Details, Statistics...
On Sunday, the 23rd of March, Japanese Pokémon players gathered in Osaka to watch the culmination of the biggest grassroots tournament circuit in the country with the VGC ’14 ruleset: the Battle Road...
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Rain Story: An Oregon Regional Report
2014 has brought in a new generation, and with it a new set of rules for VGC. The Salem, OR Regionals were the first Regionals with the new ruleset that I had the opportunity to play in. In a situation...
View ArticleVGC ’14 US National Championship Moves to 3 Day Event
For the first time ever, the 2014 Pokémon US Video Game National Championships will be a three day event. The structure of the competition was revealed today and it’s quite a change from what players...
View ArticleFirst Details for Korea, Australia, and New Zealand Pokémon VGC ’14 Events
Over the past week we’ve finally received information on how Pokémon Video Game Championship Series events in South Korea and Australia will be handled. Both will see vastly improved systems, one due...
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Bisafans Spring Open 2014 Registration Open
Hey everybody! After the great success of the IdM 2014, which was the largest WiFi Live Tournament of all time (over 300 participants), the German forum BisaBoard decided to give those two day events...
View ArticlePokémon Holding Open Auditions for Commentators
The Pokémon Company International is looking for more commentators who can support Evan (plaid), Scott, Josue (Crimz) and Josh (TheJWittz) as commentators at large events like the Pokémon National and...
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2014 North American Spring Regionals Preview Part 1
This weekend there are some Regionals. Hooray! Who is going to those Regionals, you ask? More importantly, who do you not have to worry about because I accidentally placed some weird internet curse on...
View ArticleStream Archive from the VGC ’14 Washington Regional
Unfortunately without the ability to save battle videos during live competitions we’ve been seeing far fewer battles archived from Regionals. However, much like in the fall, we were able to stream a...
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Teams from the 2014 Asia Cup
We have the teams of the 32 participants of last week’s Asia Cup finals! The best players from Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea, Singapore, Phillipines, Indonesia, and Malaysia faced off in a Wi-Fi...
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WigglyTough is Tough Enough! – A Massachusetts 1st Place Report
I’m still exhausted from the weekend at Massachusetts Regionals so I’m only going to post a team report this time rather than a “warstory” like I posted after Virginia. Salamence @ Choice Scarf...
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