Teams from the VGC ’14 Brisbane & Sydney Regionals
Greetings again from the land of Australia. We had our biggest event for Pokémon in the country over the weekend at the Sydney Regionals with 219 people (167 Masters, 47 Seniors and 11 Juniors) attending to battle it out to see who was the best. Brisbane did well also with 166 people (128 Masters, 24 Seniors and 14 Juniors) participating. Below we have the teams for the two Regional events. Unfortunately, I was only able to get a small number of teams from Sydney (the downside of living in another state). Without further ado, here are the teams.
Brisbane
Masters
1. Ash
2. Brendan W (ButtonBash)
3. Lionel P. (CatGonk)
4. Keiko
5. Ty
6. Thomas M.
7. Paul A. (NinPaulo64)
8. Tony N.
9. Tyler H.
10. Jackson
11. Wesley
12. Bernard
13. Luke G.
14. Luke M.
Seniors
1. Matt (ZzamanN)
2. Kyle (Karpinator129)
3. Michael
4. Dennis
JUNIORS
1. Luke
2. Will
SYDNEY
Masters
1. Lionel P. (CatGonk)
2. Jimmy
3. Mitch
4. Wade
5. Martin
6. Len (Alaka)
???
7. Eric
8. Peter
Seniors
1. Adam (GiroGoomy)
2.Brent (aguy)
About the Author
Rusty a pokemon player of old, has been an avid VGC player since the days of Hoenn! Since then he has become an advocate for Pokémon within Australia, and helps to run tournaments within his own state. Never one to keep knowledge to himself, he is here impart what he knows onto the next generation of Pokémon world champions.
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3 megas??? Does the person know that you can only mega evolve one pokemon during a match?
Wow…in Sydney Golduck, Furfrou, Barbaracle, Scolipede, and Quilladin were used!
shell smash Barbaracle FTW
The Juniors’ teams were more impressive than a lot of the masters’ teams…
Wow! The unique teams in Australia is amazing…. Can I… please be a part of their meta?
And it’s weird that me and Goomy’s teams are only one mon off from each other (same mega and everything), even though we’ve never discussed our teams .-.
#TeamScrubThinksAlike
I see Wade has love for that Vanilla Charizard though
Now i also want to use Quilladin!
Thoroughly convinced that both GiraGoomy and ZzamanN were both in the Master’s Division by the way they’ve talked and contributed on both Nugget Bridge and Showdown. I can easily see them being top contenders for a Senior’s World placement at Nationals
Finally, after 17 seasons, Ash Ketchup won a Regional. That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for Pokemon. Congratulations!
Now seriously, congrats to the winners. A lot of rare stuff out there: Alomomola, Golduck, and a Trick Room team in the 1st place on Brisbane, pretty cool. But I think it’s far from what we can expect in the next tournaments.
Furfrou is evil as all get out if it can set up two Cotton Guards. I battled someone on the international challenge with this set:
Furfrou @ Rocky Helmet
-Headbutt
-Cotton Guard
-???
-Rest
Yeah i do really like those juniors teams but Will (the guy who came second in juniors) was using my IV bred. EV trained battle ready kangaskhan which basically carried him to the finals xD
Also arent you linking peoples NuggetBridge username to their team they used?
Haha it was actually really hard.
thanks Xeno
ill let you know how it goes
Oh someone else using Granbull too, now I feel good Im not the only one using him. Btw interesting teams and congrats to the winners!
Now I’m curious about than Quilladin…
It’s no surprise that Mega Kangaskhan is the most popular mega in Australia, probably for the same reason Raikou is popular in Korea.
What struck me as odd on both days was how common Ferrothorn was. It was also something people in Perth kept talking about. I saw more Ferrothorn than Salamence.
Since Melbourne will be a bigger event it should give a better idea of what the Australian meta will really look like, but then again there are still differences from state to state. Most people in Perth would have played standard goodstuff teams (reflected by the winners) since we handed out like 15 of them prior to the event, but I wouldn’t be surprised if Melbourne still has the rain boner from last year (especially now that rain is actually good).
Never thought I would see the day where a trick room team came in first, at least in gen six. Gen six is so offensively potent and full of powerful speedsters that I see more relatively skilled players taking the ‘balanced offense’ or ‘tempo’ approach. No dis to the players out there, but a TR team taking first shows just how creative/unoriginal the meta in Aus is.
Edit:
Creative/original*
Oh, my sweet Jesus. The anti-meta noob in me smiled just a bit:)
Two Chandelures, a Gourgeist and Rhyperior, and a WINNING TR team in Brisbane? And the Mega Gardevoir<3 In the short time that I've been a part of the Competitive community(barely), even I know that's outrageous! Don't even get me started on Sydney, with the Golduck and basically all of Alaka's and Eric's and Wade's team!!
Congratulations to everyone who won! It looks like the competition was very diverse and challenging, so kudos!
Wow I can’t believe I defeated gira , I should have been in that tourney
Still pissed about getting 5th in sydney because of a bloody qualifier match….
Just want to thank Boomguy and ZzamanN for the help in getting the team information for everyone. I forgot to add it in the description in my rush to post the news. Future Pokemon Aus champs right tbere!!
Sorry.. i needed to get some work done on my legs.. anyway. I did the ones that when I searched on Nuggetbridge has associated accounts. Some didn’t have any, and therefore were removed as I found it terribly misleading. If they join, they can always comment with where they placed/their team.
Well, External claims RHYHORN was used as well. RIP Rhydon, I guess.
Rhyhorn 2 OP. Needs a nerf desperately.
Man, I’ve actually used all 6 of Ash’s team in practice really early on and was barely able to win a single match! I’m curious to know how he pulled off that Hail Room team. I love the idea in theory but practice was so rough =/
That’s strange I went through all the data I collected today and there’s no Rhyhorn mention. O.o
Wow, a lot of interesting team and unique pokemon choices..
I’m really curious about that Quilladin.