2013 International Challenge — June
The final International Challenge of the VGC ’13 season is upon us! With 11th to 13th place in North America tied and the live events in Europe over, there has never been as much at stake as there is now. North American players will be trying to get the lead they need to best secure an invite at the US National Championships while players within 10 points of the Top 32 spot in Europe will try to ensure they keep that elusive invite to the 2013 Pokémon World Championships. Additionally, everyone who participates in at least 5 battles and doesn’t get disqualified for disconnecting will receive 5 Apicot Berries, 5 Petaya Berries, and 5 Ganlon Berries.
Registration Period
00:00 UTC, Thursday, June 13, 2013, through 23:59 UTC, Thursday, June 19, 2013 (5:00 PM PDT, Wednesday, June 13, 2013, through 4:59 PM PDT, Thursday, June 20, 2013
Competition Dates
00:00 UTC, Friday, June 21, 2013, through 23:59 UTC, Monday, June 24, 2013 (5:00 PM PDT, Thursday, June 20, 2013, through 4:59 PM PDT, Monday, June 24, 2013)
Ruleset
Prizes
- All players who end up on the final rankings (are not disqualified and have at least 5 matches recorded as played) will receive 5 Apicot Berries, 5 Petaya Berries, and 5 Ganlon Berries.
- The top 128 players in North America and the top 128 players in Europe in each age division (Juniors, Seniors, and Masters) will receive an undetermined amount of Championship Points that will count towards qualifying for the 2013 Pokémon World Championships in Vancouver, BC, Canada
Age Divisions
- Junior Division: Born in 2002 or later
- Senior Division: Born in 1998, 1999, 2000, or 2001
- Master Division: Born in 1997 or earlier
Requirements
You must be using a Pokémon Black 2 or Pokémon White 2 game card to participate in these tournaments. You must also have a Pokémon Global Link account synced to your game card. You must have a Player ID linked to your account to receive Championship Points.
Disconnections
You must play 5 full games to be ranked on the ladder and receive your berries.. Those who do not finish their battles and disconnect to try and save their record may lose their placing on the ladder as well as receive a ban in future WiFi competitions.
About the Author
Firestorm is one of the co-founders of Nugget Bridge and the Community Manager for eSports Tournament Platform Battlefy. He has been playing Pokémon since 1999, competitively since 2007, and attending tournaments since 2010. He lives in Vancouver, Canada with a degree in Interactive Art & Technology + Communications. You can follow him on Twitter at @rushanshekar.
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Wow, just lost to a pre-1500 from Scotland and I get a dc during the results sending but I still lost some points =/
#TeamScotland
Luck of the…..Scottish? xD Irish in disguise
Very Strong Indeed
Just got back to competitive battling after hectic studies ended. Got off 8 battles with 3 ragequits. Debating whether or not I should quit now, but I’m afraid I’m in the danger range of a disqualification. What do you guys think?
Come to think of it, we are entering the “ragequit period” that a friend of mine mentioned that Saturday night onwards will have many people disconnecting to keep their scores. So that’s the only argument I had for stopping now.
Someone please quote my post in your reply, so I can find it easily.
Happy battling people!
About to get off the road and go to the vacation home where I can Continue!
Plusle please slow down… I am only at 1887 xP
My goal is 1925 by the end of the night.
I lost 1 game (double heat wave burn
) so I am quitting the tournament at 63W – 1L – 14DC 1899. GGs everyone I played
Well, I’m getting DQed. Sitting at 33-3-13. I have no more faith in the players I fight, and having WiFi that gives out every once in a while, tonight’s going to be interesting. Currently at 1736.
Haven’t played for some time. I’m at 1608.
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Never said it was fully my team, it is heavily based off that team with a few changes.
edit: yes Fatum
Isn’t that what Mean used in Bochum?
50-7-11 total and 90% win ratio for day 2 so far, quite some time ago I had that the last time, though most opponents were trash…
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1688, not bad, but I don’t think I’ll have more time to play. I’m not too crazy about the way these tourneys are run, might not even play in them anymore (it’s not like I needed to try to win any CP anyway, lol).
Calling it quits for today with about 1700.
Today was far more competitive than yesterday. I faced a lot more competent teams and didn´t have as many easy wins as I had yesterday. Unfortunately, the DCs also reached an all-time high for me: I even got 4 DCs in a row once. As usual, I doubt that I´ll rank.^^ Oh well, I´ve been DQ´d too often to really care about this anymore.
Memorable moments:
-a team revolving around Fake Tears: Had a little nostalgic moment when I´ve seen it.^^
-playing my first NB member (R_Inanimate) in this tourney and failing horribly. GG regardless, though^^
-playing the same person twice: First match was a DC while on the second one, he took the loss
-getting DC´d on while the opponent was about to give me the final blow: What happened afterwards was even stranger, though. Shortly after the dreaded blue screen where I even wrote on IRC that someone DC´d on me while winning (if I would have done that, I woudn´t be dumb enough to mention it in a chat, would I?), Blitz came on and told me that I apparently DC´d on his friend. Well, this conclusion definitely is understandable if you look at it from a neutral perspective since he was winning but I´d have thought that he´d know me well enough that I don´t do things like that. Oh well. Because I don´t want to be set on one level with people who actually need this to maintain their ranking and because the thought of being compared to people the people who piss me off myself by one of my friends deeply sickens me, I´ll forfeit when I see him the next time. This might not be much but it´s the most I can do.
I´m actually only writing this in hopes that he´ll see it. I didn´t get a chance to explain the whole situation in a calm matter on IRC (mainly because the whole thing threw me off myself), so I figured I´d do it here. (to make it look like I actually have something interesting to write about…) Sorry again.^^ Believe me, I´d have rather taken the loss then the DC – I can get the points back if I try hard enough but the DCs will make all the effort meaningless… Oh well, let´s hope we both don´t run into many anymore. Good luck for the rest of the tournament.^^
I feel like I’m gonna be dq’d.
Record: 70-3-19. 1855
I can’t tell if what little skill I had eroded in the past month of not playing or if it’s because I’m using a different team or if I’m just getting fewer matchups with bad players. I’ve been doing horribly – can’t seem to get too far away from .500
Correction: I’ll be Aaron from California. Stupid PGL won’t let me register my Black 2 cartridge. I’m going to (finally) start playing.
I know some people have more right to blissey and moan but seriously. All of my losses have come from hax :/ I wanted to have a better result but I guess it can’t be pokemon without having things frozen, things missing and them crits. Don’t get me wrong though, these are the things that make the game exciting rather than some boring sequence of attacks xD
Congradulations WiFi for dropping me out during card preview against a South Korean with a rating of 1895. The name was two characters long and their phrase was something about CAMERA and VERSUS. Possibly they are streaming it? Does anyone know who it was because I was genuinely excited to play them and pretty annoyed my Internet dropped out.
Any idea if the name was 세준? That’d be the Korean I expect to see around there…
I just might have came across that guy. You prob didn’t want to fight him anyway… He DC’d on me when I beat him >: o
Although, the guy I faced was location: none.
You need to learn to play through/around hax, I’ve had such bs hax but have only lost once in 51 battles, pulling off a win even though you’ve been haxed is the sign of a real master
Had a great game against a jakob. Here’s the battle if anyone cares to see it: 61-27878-58768. Bisharp doing work in this one. KO’d his whole team with it. I done about 20 matches and im approaching the 1700s if i haven’t passed it already (too lazy to check) . Been lazy lately and didn’t really feel like doing a lot of matches.
Battled this guy who took like 2-3 minutes per move.
There were some rumors here that japanese players get more crits then others right?
Well, I think its true. Just got in 2 games 7crits. Both from japanese players. I won one, but lost the other game. And in the second game, I got 4 crits from a CHOICE BAND Tyranitar.
Thats just ridiculous…
Here is the vid, if someone is interested…
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All these DCers are rediculous, I think I am at about 20 already (counting those while searching for opponents)
I have a really hard time agreeing with this ideology. If you have favorable team matchups, make better predictions, are a better player than someone, sure you can get haxed plenty and you can still win. But if you’re playing someone on the same level or if they have one or two “problem” pokemon for you that your team needs to play around or that you only have one solid counter to and that counter gets critted, frozen, multiple full paras then really, how do you win other than playing outright better, which would violate that someone is playing on the same level as you. Some games have hax that occur that make it impossible to bounce back from. Pulling off a win even though you’ve been haxed just means that your opponent is THAT much worse than you that game.
Just played a “Black” with no location on 1779. gg
I’s false. The vsplayer would not show battles involving a Japanese player properly if that were true.