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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Good catch, thanks. Idek how I messed that up.
I’d actually be really surprised if these do count, since I had a ton the tournament where my DC rate ignoring them was the highest and still didn’t get DQed.
I’ve also only run during a few battles against obvious DCers when my rating wasn’t particularly high (one of which apparently wasn’t a DCer and uploaded the 0 turn battle to VSplayer…) early in tournaments and haven’t been DQed this season. Not DCing and having mostly stable internet has been a good strategy so far. I have accidentally hit that Wi-Fi switch a couple times, though, and am vaguely curious if there’s a way I can remove the switch so I don’t have to worry about it…
Maybe consider putting a small strip of tape over the wifi switch?
How quickly does one have to register for these challenges? I tried to register for the April challenge the morning after registration opened and it wouldn’t let me register.
How quickly does one have to register for these challenges? I tried to register for the April challenge the morning after registration opened and it wouldn’t let me register.
Any time during the registration period works. They don’t fill up.
Okay, count me in. Sakuma from None (because I move every so often). I will be using my new team that I actually put some thought into. It can counter Dive Cats, Breloom, Trick Room, Rain, Sand, Hail, and almost any other key strategies. I mainly just have to use good prediction against goodstuff teams. Soooo ready.
Has anyone been able to register their team? I haven’t been able to try it myself but some other people I’ve talked to have been having problems.
I’ll be in this suffering because I have the almost the same time zone as Japan. Yay for constant Japanese.
Dan from Sydney, NSW
My trainer message is some about about eruptions and grandmothers or girls and swallowing.
I’ll be using a Sand Team is anyone comes across me.
uh…
anyway, entering with both of my carts.
Tommy from cali behold my ball sawk seniors
JP cart something innuendo-like masters
Entering as Omega:D from Virginia in seniors.
What do you think of ROLE PLAY?
you might see me. AEDZ from London. no idea what my message is atm
I’m playin in this
Cameron from maryland in seniors
Cedric from Texas, Seniors.
mattj from Missouri
something about swallowing liquid ooze or gunk shot or something
Signed up, but I have a 3 day float trip planned for that weekend. If we get rained out or something, I’ll play.
I’m signed up now
And I’ll admit my team has changed slightly (Might actually be better) from that I used for UK nationals :3
Nido from UK, East Midlands
I want to headbutt with Scraggy
I’ve just signed up as well using team of Zapdos Abomasnow Chandelure Suicune Metagross Scrafty. However as I’m away for three days climbing Tatra Mountains in Poland, I doubt that the Wifi reception will be any good on top of Morskie Oko to undertake many battles
im in to win fear the king
External
we have no excuses
Well, considering I’ve got my summer senior project to do finish on Friday and something to do the following Saturday, I should have no time for this.
Going to enter anyway. PatBall from West Virginia with a new team and a new message: “I can handle BRELOOM”
“No competitions have been found for you to participate in. In Battle Competition, you cannot participate in the same competition twice.”
Does this mean that the limit of participants has already been reached? There’s still two days left. I hope it’s just a server error.
Nah. That just means the competition hasn’t started yet. It always says that.
is registration for this still open? the wifi comp doesnt apepar on my global link page?
doesnt appear on my available competitions list* 🙁
After Months of not playing the vgc mode, let’s do this
I registered, though not sure if I will actually have time to play much. Maybe will just play 5 to get them berries.
Also I don’t have a team yet unless I’m using my regionals team, but I probably would like to test out new things. I’ll see.
I think my name is Chubby(male symbol), Hiker, from British Columbia, Canada.
Might play in this with an old team, or something fun, but probably not going to do anything serious with this one. I just don’t like these tournaments.
Argghh! My ds card slot broke so I sent it in for repairs. I’m hoping to get it back in time to play in this tournament.
Collin from Wisconsin, I want to pound with Gothitelle
Moira from CA.
The power of AIR CUTTER! Let me show you!