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Published on November 16th, 2014 | by RAV44

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Costa Rica vs Chile: A Latin American Encounter

Hi Nugget Bridgers, I’m Raúl Arias (RAV44) and currently the admin of a competitive Pokémon community in Costa Rica called The Costa Rica Online Challenge. I had the idea of promoting the competitive game in Costa Rica. Some time ago all the players were battling under the single battle format. For that reason I’ve tried to build this community around the official ruleset during the VGC ’14 season using the double battle format with great success.

Currently Costa Rica just got the license to run Premier Challenges thanks to the alliance among different communities of Pokémon in the country (including The CROC) giving birth to Trainer Valley. We started making live tournaments and looking for our own ranking systems with the results of each tournament so we would have the opportunity to form a team that would represent us as a nation on the international scene. We have made tournaments with great success, even 64 players in some of them. We have an advantage living in a small country allowing us to travel to the capital where the tournaments are realized with more ease than other countries. We may have less players, but we’ve been working with each of them who are dedicated to the  competitive game. In my personal opinion, that’s why we’ve managed to get Premier Challenges: the commitment of our players.

Thanks to our players, we could make contact with another VGC community in Chile (CBI Chile) and their admin Fenix Buccarey. We arranged the friendly that took place on October 10th – October 12th in a 7vs7 team match. This friendly was very exciting as it was our first and it was against Chile, a country that we knew had a good competitive level. Maybe the final results weren’t as we wanted, but we have learned so much and besides that we have made some friends in the Chile community as well. We are very happy with the results and we wanted to share this with the biggest VGC community: Nugget Bridge.

  • Format: VGC ’14
  • Tournament Type: Wi-Fi
  • Tournament Format: Best of Three, Random Pairings
  • Date & Time: October 10th, 11th, 12th, 2014
  • Registration: Invitational Only
  • Trainers: 7 Trainers from each country

 

Trainers List

No. Name IGN Country
1 Max Morales(MAX_LJCR) MAX_LJCR Costa Rica
2 Raúl Arias(RAV44) Raul Costa Rica
3 Luis Angel Zúñiga(luissaru93) Rose Costa Rica
4 Eduard Zúñiga(eduard22) Changueun Costa Rica
5 Miguel Marín(Migno) Migno Costa Rica
6 Antonio Rodríguez(Toño) Azuna Costa Rica
7 Edward Zúñiga(EDDCHRIS) Chris Costa Rica
8 Nicolas del Campo BibarelPower Chile
9 Estephan Valdebenito Pephan Chile
10 Sebastian Benavidez Vincent Chile
11 Francisco Arcos Heartless~ Chile
12 Matias Roa Boah Chile
13 Felipe Manzur Anysa Chile
14 Felipe Méndez TR Kid Chile

 

Pairings & Results

No. Name IGN Score IGN Name
1 Max Morales MAX_LJCR 1 – 2 Nicolas del Campo BibarelPower
2 Raúl Arias Raul 2 – 1 Estephan Valdebenito Pephan
3 Luis Angel Zúñiga Rose 0 – 2 Sebastian Benavidez Vincent
4 Eduard Zúñiga Changeun 2 – 0 Francisco Arcos Heartless~
5 Miguel Marín Migno 1 – 2 Matias Roa Boah
6 Antonio Rodríguez Azuna 2 – 0 Felipe Manzur Anysa
7 Edward Zúñiga Chris 0 – 2 Felipe Méndez TR Kid
Results: Costa Rica 3 – 4 Chile

 

Videos

Here it is a playlist where you can see each battle for each match of the friendly:

Costa Rica

1. Max Morales(MAX_LJCR)

charizard-mega-x sawk ludicolo gengar gothitelle zapdos

2. Raúl Arias (RAV44)

manectric-mega azumarill amoonguss conkeldurr garchomp rotom-heat

3. Luis Ángel Zúñiga(Luissaru93)

lucario tyranitar garchomp rotom-heat gyarados greninja

4. Eduard Zúñiga(eduard22)

manectric-mega talonflame mamoswine lucario amoonguss wigglytuff

5. Miguel Marín(Migno)

kangaskhan-mega sableye zapdos conkeldurr talonflame hydreigon

6. Antonio Rodríguez(Toño)

charizard-mega-y mawile-mega zapdos hydreigon lapras garchomp

7. Edward Zúñiga(EDDCHRIS)

mawile-mega garchomp tyranitar amoonguss azumarill rotom-heat

Chile

 1. Nicolas del Campo

mawile-mega politoed ludicolo scrafty gothitelle hydreigon

2. Estephan Valdebenito

kangaskhan-mega gourgeist aromatisse tyranitar azumarill bisharp

3. Sebastian Benavidez

kangaskhan-mega pyroar mamoswine staraptor klefki rotom-wash

4. Francisco Arcos

manectric-mega smeargle aegislash cloyster garchomp chatot

5. Matias Roa

manectric-mega rhyperior rotom-heat gyarados chesnaught bisharp

6. Felipe Manzur

blastoise-mega mawile-mega talonflame ludicolo politoed pachirisu

7. Felipe Méndez

kangaskhan-mega garchomp talonflame ludicolo gengar raichu


About the Author

VGC Player since '11 Founder of TheCROC and Trainer Valley, both communities to play and promote VGC in Costa Rica. I'm a Software Developer, Casual Chess Player, Ex-TCG Player, and of course a Pokemon Fan since 12 years old. Best achievement yet to be found...



7 Responses to Costa Rica vs Chile: A Latin American Encounter

  1. NinjaSyao says:

    Great matches and that Kangaskhan + Trick-or-Treat Gourgeist combo is just evil! :D

  2. Sam says:

    Love seeing the fun looking teams, Chatot is one of my favorite Pokemon so cool to see it used :)

  3. BibarelPower says:

    Nicolas del Campo is @sh4dowzon not me. I just lent him my game since his crashed 🙁

  4. Pephan says:

    Thanks @ninjasyao ! Battling everyday to be a best player. In This Friendly i lose, but my combo results fantastic Many times

  5. Zlatant says:

    I have played some of this players, Chile it’s a really competitive comunity on VGC. Soon we will see them on Worlds

  6. AlbusMagus says:

    Awesome matches (and fun-but-deadly combos like dat Trick-Or-Treat shenanigans) and its really cool to see how the Latin American VGC community is getting closer and closer. :)
     
    Saludos from a Colombian VGC player!

  7. Prof Almeida says:

    Same feeling here. I’m from Brazil, and we’re increasing out community and VGC, and we’ve been asking companies here to bring official tournaments. We hope this is the year a Brazilian will have a worlds invitation.

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