I've always wanted to go to one of these Tournaments... To bad I'll never get to go. *silently sobs* | |
Video not working for anyone else? Here's the interview with the winner either way :) | |
There's seriously tournaments for this? Something like Madden or Halo I could understand, but Pokemon? REALLY? That's...just...stupid. | |
I'm sure some people would feel similarly about Madden or Halo tournaments. I've never got into pokemon much, but I prefer to be supportive | |
Pokemon is actually ridiculously well-suited for a competitive setting if you get into it. The amount of strategy involved is staggering. | |
I'm surprised that you thought that, well in Halos case, I would have thought that Pokemon is much more well known and strategic (on your own), then Halo. | |
as funk said pokemon has millions of different tatics and mainly comes down to one thing - guessing your opponents next move sadly i would never be this good :) | |
where do i sign up? :P | |
Hooray for super powered monsters that can fit in your pocket! I seriously wish I could make it to one of these tournaments but I suck too hard. | |
*Breaks out his copy of Platinum* When's HeartGold coming out again? | |
man, its a little depressing knowing that kids in grade school could destroy me with their pokemon skills :( | |
omg.. That guy remind me of one of my old friends.. Geez... | |
Link to the final battles: http://www.go-pokemon.com/worlds/2009/ Video of the Junior Video Games Champion: | |
I don't remember the game having trap cards or anything like what is used in Magic or Yugioh games... I mean it probably takes a lot of know-how, but when it comes to card games that would be better suited for this kind of thing...I dunno...I mean its like the strategy needed in Age of Empires (with all its resources and ages) vs C&C (we need MORE tiberium!). | |
We weren't talking about the TCG. We were talking about the videogames. | |
Oh sorry, I'm gonna go stand facing the corner now... | |
Am I the only person who laughed when the guy said "How many times have you come?" and the reply was "I've come all but twice" I lol'd hard. Maybe because i'm immature. But it was funny. My friend in work plays the WoW cards and has won about Ł20,000, most of it being spent to pay for trips to go to other tournaments or spent on more cards. It's a damn expensive hobby. Video game tournaments would be less strategic, I believe. Any n00b can fire a shotgun in your face in Halo. I can vouch for that :p | |
I know I'd get owned, but I'd enter if I lived near there just for the fun of it. | |
I would enter but lose. No way I could beat any serious player. | |
Yeah, man, when you throw in all the roles your pokemon need to play, sweeper, special tank, physical tank, etc, all this stuff I "sort of know general ideas about" yet never quite got into it. I was one of the kids who quit after gold/silver but knew people who were very 'hardcore' about it. :) Basically, when you throw in eV training, custom move sets, predictions, predictions of predictions, multiple sets, it does get complicated and strategic. (unlike the effing card game of LOL MY POKEMON HAS PASSIVE SMOKE SCREEN FLIP A COIN YOU MISS ^_^) | |
I would suck in pokemon tournaments since my tactics is fill my pokemon up with 3 attacking moves and 1 sleep type move:| I also don't pay attention to stats , probably because i've only had to play the game and not anyone else on wi-fi. | |
Holy crap. That's amazing. | |
I remember one of my cousins went to the 2007 Championship that was held in Hawaii. He gave me the poster and I have it hanging in my room. Its super awesome. | |
i want to go to the 2011...(im just being realistic here) either way i love pokemon | |
The video doesn't load for me, so can you tell me what division the video focuses on? On the pokemon home page the junior division looks like it doesn't stick to tiers as you ave Garchomp (competively classified as Uber tier) fighting with Abomasnow (Underused). The upper division, on the other hand, seems like a Standard+ tier mainly because Latios was there, and Latios with Soul Dew is dumb. Without it, it's good, but not broken. I'm a little bummed that it was 2v2 battles. I focus more on the 1v1 strategies. You need to fight me, Funk! I must know your true power! | |
I could probably not beat those kids... But I'd never resist the overwhelming urge to steal a DS, or 'accidently' knock a table over during a game... Actually, I might be able to in a couple of years, once I've got my party to full level 100s (I've got three already, now I'm trying to get a fourth which right now is level 98 and a fifth and sixth which are level 70ish). | |
But have you properly bread them to have 31 IV's in each stat, perfectly optomized them for there designated roles, provided them with the most intelligent move set so they can utterly destroy anything they come against? There's a VERY Deep Complex Meta-Game behind pokemon. | |
I WANT that poster. | |
oh great, more nostalgia coming from the most overused anime show in the world........I admit i like the old games and the (older) trading cards but the shows are just crap......im sorry but i just can`t handle those new made up piles of overused junk that they call movies....it used to be a great show until they started to just paste on giant grasshoppers and called them "legendary pokemon". | |
It started as a game, it's a franchise, if you have nothing constructive to say then don't say anything. | |
Lol, The irony in this post. | |
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Pokémon World Championships: Where Masters Are Made
Do you have what it takes to be a true Pokemon Master? Over 1,100 people thought that they did, flying from 25 countries across the globe last month to enter the 2009 Pokemon World Championships.
Way back in the summer of '04, I worked as a grunt at the Pokemon Center New York - now Nintendo World - smack dab in the middle of Rockefeller Center, New York (hell, I've still got the shirt). It was two stories dedicated to all things Pokemon, and while I'd always been a fan of the games it was here I learned how much further I had to go before being on the same level as the true diehards.
I love Pokemon, but compared to the people who flew out to San Diego, CA last month for the 2009 Pokémon World Championships? I'm just a casual - a dabbler, so to speak. More than 1,125 people, aged 6 to 55, came from 25 countries from across 6 continents (sorry Antarctica, no Pikachu for you) to compete in tournaments for both the Pokemon videogames and the Trading Card Game, with $100,000 worth of prizes - and the title of World Champion - up for grabs.
It's not like you could waltz right in, either - this was the premium, invitation-only shindig. You had to already be one of the best to earn your ticket in the regional and national qualifying rounds. Yessir, this was the proverbial Big (Pokemon) League.
The Escapist caught up with one of the competitors to chat about the prime-time experience. 12-year-old Kamran Jahadi took third place in the Juniors Division (Born in 1997 or later), when his team of Slowking, Clefable, Abomasnow, Machamp, Dusknoir and Weavile lost out to Jeremiah Fan's Rain Dance team. Even though he lost, says Kamran, he "wouldn't have changed anything" about his strategy.
"My favorite part [about going to tournaments] is meeting new people who like Pokemon like me," said Kamran, who has been playing Pokemon for almost six years now, and as long as he "gets good grades," he has no plans to stop anytime soon. In fact, he's already planning on returning next year, with his sights on the gold: "I'm going to compete in next years tournament and beat Jeremiah." A worthy goal, considering that the 11-year-old Fan went on to take first in their age division, beating out 9-year-old Santa Ito from Japan.
It's kind of depressing realizing that this 12-year-old could probably kick my butt up and down the block in a Pokemon battle, but best of luck on that goal of yours, Kamran. We'll be rootin' for ya.
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