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GBAtemp Pokemon Champions tournament sign ups open, set to run on the 23rd of May

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After a long wait we're finally back with our first tournament in many moons. For this grand event we'll be playing Singles battles on Pokemon Champions. For those not familiar this involves building a team of six Pokemon and picking three to participate in any given battle. Any items currently in the game are permitted to be used, with a maximum of one of a given item being usable across the entire team. Given Champions is still relatively new, the rulesets and mechanics available to us are still fairly limited, so we'll be using the Regulation Set M-A rules with a custom ban list for this event. A summary of these rules can be found below:
  • Battle Format: Single Battle
  • Number of Pokemon: 3
  • Total Time: 20 Minutes
  • Your Time: 7 Minutes
  • Move Time: 45 Seconds
  • Mechanics: Mega Evolution
The theme I've gone with for the ban list is "the unpopulars", with the 150 most used Pokemon being banned. This should make your team building experience a little varied, even if you've spent a good bit of time playing on the ladder already. A full list of allowed Pokemon can be found painstakingly typed up in the spoiler below:

  • Alcremie
  • Appletun
  • Arbok
  • Aromatisse
  • Audino
  • Aurorus
  • Avalugg
  • Avalugg-Hisui
  • Bastiodon
  • Beartic
  • Camerupt
  • Castform
  • Decidueye
  • Dedenne
  • Emolga
  • Farigiraf
  • Flapple
  • Flareon
  • Florges
  • Furfrou
  • Garbodor
  • Golurk
  • Goodra
  • Gourgeist
  • Hydrapple
  • Leafeon
  • Liepard
  • Luxray
  • Lycanroc-Midday
  • Lycanroc-Midnight
  • Meowstic-F
  • Meowstic-M
  • Mr. Rime
  • Ninetales
  • Oranguru
  • Pangoro
  • Passimian
  • Raichu
  • Raichu-Alola
  • Rampardos
  • Rhyperior
  • Rotom
  • Rotom-Fan
  • Rotom-Fridge
  • Samurott
  • Sandaconda
  • Simipour
  • Simisage
  • Simisear
  • Spiritomb
  • Stunfisk
  • Stunfisk-Galar
  • Tauros
  • Tauros-Paldea (Fighting)
  • Tauros-Paldea (Water)
  • Trevenant
  • Typhlosion
  • Tyrantrum
  • Watchog
  • Wyrdeer

The tournament will be a single day event starting at 2pm in the UK on Saturday the 23rd of May. Players will be expected to show up on-time and be available for at least a few hours from the start time. I've not run something like this in a while so bear with me if there are any teething issues. The exact format the tournament will use will vary depending on how much interest we get. Anybody with an account prior to this post going live is free to sign up, so head over to the sign up post in the GBAtemp Tournaments group if you're interested! There'll be a £20/€20/$20 Nintendo eShop voucher in it for the winner, and with Pokemon Champions being free to download, it won't cost you anything to enter.

Those interested in signing up can find the post linked below.

:arrow: Sign Up Post
 
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Mama Dizzys said:
oh interesting, will the event be broadcasted?
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Maaaaaaaaybe? I don't know what kind of spectator setup is available for Pokemon Champions, but if there's interest I certainly have the gear to come up with a stream for these things going forwards.
 
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Scarlet said:

After a long wait we're finally back with our first tournament in many moons. For this grand event we'll be playing Singles battles on Pokemon Champions. For those not familiar this involves building a team of six Pokemon and picking three to participate in any given battle. Any items currently in the game are permitted to be used, with a maximum of one of a given item being usable across the entire team. Given Champions is still relatively new, the rulesets and mechanics available to us are still fairly limited, so we'll be using the Regulation Set M-A rules with a custom ban list for this event. A summary of these rules can be found below:
  • Battle Format: Single Battle
  • Number of Pokemon: 3
  • Total Time: 20 Minutes
  • Your Time: 7 Minutes
  • Move Time: 45 Seconds
  • Mechanics: Mega Evolution
The theme I've gone with for the ban list is "the unpopulars", with the 150 most used Pokemon being banned. This should make your team building experience a little varied, even if you've spent a good bit of time playing on the ladder already. A full list of allowed Pokemon can be found painstakingly typed up in the spoiler below:

  • Alcremie
  • Appletun
  • Arbok
  • Aromatisse
  • Audino
  • Aurorus
  • Avalugg
  • Avalugg-Hisui
  • Bastiodon
  • Beartic
  • Camerupt
  • Castform
  • Decidueye
  • Dedenne
  • Emolga
  • Farigiraf
  • Flapple
  • Flareon
  • Florges
  • Furfrou
  • Garbodor
  • Golurk
  • Goodra
  • Gourgeist
  • Hydrapple
  • Leafeon
  • Liepard
  • Luxray
  • Lycanroc-Midday
  • Lycanroc-Midnight
  • Meowstic-F
  • Meowstic-M
  • Mr. Rime
  • Ninetales
  • Oranguru
  • Pangoro
  • Passimian
  • Raichu
  • Raichu-Alola
  • Rampardos
  • Rhyperior
  • Rotom
  • Rotom-Fan
  • Rotom-Fridge
  • Samurott
  • Sandaconda
  • Simipour
  • Simisage
  • Simisear
  • Spiritomb
  • Stunfisk
  • Stunfisk-Galar
  • Tauros
  • Tauros-Paldea (Fighting)
  • Tauros-Paldea (Water)
  • Trevenant
  • Typhlosion
  • Tyrantrum
  • Watchog
  • Wyrdeer

The tournament will be a single day event starting at 2pm in the UK on Saturday the 23rd of May. Players will be expected to show up on-time and be available for at least a few hours from the start time. I've not run something like this in a while so bear with me if there are any teething issues. The exact format the tournament will use will vary depending on how much interest we get. Anybody with an account prior to this post going live is free to sign up, so head over to the sign up post in the GBAtemp Tournaments group if you're interested! There'll be a £20/€20/$20 Nintendo eShop voucher in it for the winner, and with Pokemon Champions being free to download, it won't cost you anything to enter.

Those interested in signing up can find the post linked below.

:arrow: Sign Up Post
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When was the last event?
 
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Exnor said:
My 2 favorite Pokemons are not on the list :cry:
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I want to participate but i never played this game.
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If you have an unbanned Switch there’s enough time to get a team together without spending any money. No pressure but the option is there at least.
 
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Darth Meteos said:
the top 150 banned is wild
alright, let's do it
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Remember to pop a message on the actual sign up post linked at the bottom! Still not sure how many people will actually be interested in this, but if we only have a few we can always just do a round robin so we get a few games out of it.
 
well this is a good ban list NERF that TRICK ROOM teams HARD nerf em to HELL. but i can't join sadly i have to pay 5 dollars to get access to my teams again and i'm broke just to do that. good luck to everyone who's going join and stuff like that. if things change i'll keep everyone up to date.

edit:oh snap the non-used pokemon... i see now... UGH....
 
ChronoCrossfangirl2002 said:
Out of curiosity: why champions instead of showdown?
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New game seemed fun basically, plus it's free so not a huge barrier to entry. I've nothing against Showdown and likely will have it in the mix for future tournaments, especially for things like the Other Metagames. Some of those are super interesting.
 
Scarlet said:
New game seemed fun basically, plus it's free so not a huge barrier to entry. I've nothing against Showdown and likely will have it in the mix for future tournaments, especially for things like the Other Metagames. Some of those are super interesting.
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ah ok that makes sense!
 
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I'm 899 Pokemon in to my Living Pokedex in Pokemon HOME so I would normally love to jump on this to put some of these bad boys to the test.....

And I would have signed up too if it weren't for these meddling kids!

Kids of course referring to my hooligan IRL friend who I foolishly agreed to spend the 23rd with prior to learning that ignoring them to play Pokemon was an option.
 
Scarlet said:

After a long wait we're finally back with our first tournament in many moons. For this grand event we'll be playing Singles battles on Pokemon Champions. For those not familiar this involves building a team of six Pokemon and picking three to participate in any given battle. Any items currently in the game are permitted to be used, with a maximum of one of a given item being usable across the entire team. Given Champions is still relatively new, the rulesets and mechanics available to us are still fairly limited, so we'll be using the Regulation Set M-A rules with a custom ban list for this event. A summary of these rules can be found below:
  • Battle Format: Single Battle
  • Number of Pokemon: 3
  • Total Time: 20 Minutes
  • Your Time: 7 Minutes
  • Move Time: 45 Seconds
  • Mechanics: Mega Evolution
The theme I've gone with for the ban list is "the unpopulars", with the 150 most used Pokemon being banned. This should make your team building experience a little varied, even if you've spent a good bit of time playing on the ladder already. A full list of allowed Pokemon can be found painstakingly typed up in the spoiler below:

  • Alcremie
  • Appletun
  • Arbok
  • Aromatisse
  • Audino
  • Aurorus
  • Avalugg
  • Avalugg-Hisui
  • Bastiodon
  • Beartic
  • Camerupt
  • Castform
  • Decidueye
  • Dedenne
  • Emolga
  • Farigiraf
  • Flapple
  • Flareon
  • Florges
  • Furfrou
  • Garbodor
  • Golurk
  • Goodra
  • Gourgeist
  • Hydrapple
  • Leafeon
  • Liepard
  • Luxray
  • Lycanroc-Midday
  • Lycanroc-Midnight
  • Meowstic-F
  • Meowstic-M
  • Mr. Rime
  • Ninetales
  • Oranguru
  • Pangoro
  • Passimian
  • Raichu
  • Raichu-Alola
  • Rampardos
  • Rhyperior
  • Rotom
  • Rotom-Fan
  • Rotom-Fridge
  • Samurott
  • Sandaconda
  • Simipour
  • Simisage
  • Simisear
  • Spiritomb
  • Stunfisk
  • Stunfisk-Galar
  • Tauros
  • Tauros-Paldea (Fighting)
  • Tauros-Paldea (Water)
  • Trevenant
  • Typhlosion
  • Tyrantrum
  • Watchog
  • Wyrdeer

The tournament will be a single day event starting at 2pm in the UK on Saturday the 23rd of May. Players will be expected to show up on-time and be available for at least a few hours from the start time. I've not run something like this in a while so bear with me if there are any teething issues. The exact format the tournament will use will vary depending on how much interest we get. Anybody with an account prior to this post going live is free to sign up, so head over to the sign up post in the GBAtemp Tournaments group if you're interested! There'll be a £20/€20/$20 Nintendo eShop voucher in it for the winner, and with Pokemon Champions being free to download, it won't cost you anything to enter.

Those interested in signing up can find the post linked below.

:arrow: Sign Up Post
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I can't join because my Switch is modded and likely to be banned upon booting stock because I am a 'try before I buy' kind of person, and go sailing (downloading (with a yo ho ho)) whenever I need treasure (a game) to try out. If this could be postponed until the last Friday of June (when the Android version of Pokémon Champions is supposedly going to be here by), I could maybe join, and this would be fairest to everyone here, to be quite honest.
 

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