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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I know I said this once before, but I think I’d really like to be done for real this time. 5 intentional DCs against me, one on preview and 2 more on the trainer card puts me at 8 in 35 games so far. I know sometimes the bar seems like it’s only in the 18-19% range so it’s not completely unrecoverable, but I wouldn’t feel safe at 18% and even to get down to that point from here I’d need 10 games in a row without a DC. My rating is pretty terrible right now too, so I still need a big chunk of games, and the longer I have to play into the weekend, the more likely I am to get more DCs. This whole thing is pretty irritating this close to the end, since actually getting some CP from this vastly increases my odds of making it to Worlds, as while I’m in 2nd right now Stephen is only 1 point behind me, Duy is 2, and Aaron is 4, and while I don’t think Duy plays in these, Aaron and Stephen will definitely pass me if I get DQed. I feel like +80 and +110 are also pretty nice marks to be over other people to reduce the odds of getting passed at Nationals and I have people around both of those marks from me, too (Cory -83, Kamz -84, Smith -112, JiveTime -116).
I feel like the odds of me actually getting my DC low enough that I even managed not to get DQed at this point are pretty low, which would at least prevent me from falling below 5th going into Nationals, but this tournament has been a fun reminder so far why I haven’t particularly enjoyed this season at all for reasons other than just how expensive it’s been even though to this point the Wi-Fi gods have been pretty good to me.
Fun stats:
Intentional DCs: 1472, 1513, 1505, 1500, 1602
Preview DCs: 1499
Trainer Card DCs: 1500, 1445
Average Rating: 1504.5
Not super amused by the fact I’m in hot water from a bunch of people who had made zero progress.
I was gonna play in this but…it’s a wifi tournament so yeah.
Lol saw a specs thundurus-i – how often do you encounter that? Anyway the trainer promptly dc’d on me when I beat his boring bog standard rain team. I can only hope in gen vi there are even stricter rules in place that make dc’s count as auto loss…
Just fought a Daniel from Cali. GG whoever you are.
Has anything cool come out of this yet like dive cats?
haha thats me. GG
@Kermit I guess i ended your undefeated streak
nope, just cutter birds
Ok, so I have 31 wins, 4 losses and 8 disconnects 22 hours into it, rated 1736. That’s an unsually high DC ratio for the beginning, don’t know yet what to make out of that… Also 4-1 against fellow NB users, 0-0 against fellow Germans and still few Japanese for me just like always pretty much.
Just keep playing I guess, I do feel a bit more comfortable with my team than in the last ones after all. A lot could have gone worse with my Draco Meteor being the most inaccurate since long ago.
Osirus, I think I just battled you. My OT is Alec, and I’m from California.
gg man, great match, though I was confused with that last play you made with landorus.
Currently 62-9-22, just broke 1800s. Praying to god that I don’t get DQed, I’ll be playing some more later on and hopefully disconnectors won’t be disconnectors.
Yeah gg man, and that last turn was bit weird I know, I really needed to lay the ground work for your last mon in the back, I thought you would have protected with gross to get Landorous out the picture, plus that and I fear’d the Fully para (which happened lol) on volc if I e-quaked so yeah, in theory it could have been good but looking back it was just bad…never mind, well played and good luck in the rest of your matches
Stopping for today at about 1600 with 7-1-3
This day was just strange… I felt like I´d be in the Subway: Misses, crits… luck effects everywhere. And the strangely high number of sets like Double Team Toxic Mandibuzz and Outrage Haxorus only adds to the feel. Not only that but I´ve also seen 2 Ferrothorns already and strangely haven´t lost against neither one of those even though my team can be easily dismantled by one with smart playing… Oh well.^^
Memorable moments:
-Double Team Toxic Mandibuzz: No words, just a vid: External
-A guy with an underleveled team in the 1300ies dcing on me R1… lol
-Some other guy who ran Monowater+Ferrothorn
-The “mood for a Wifi-tournament” lead: Rage Sharpedo and Outrage Haxorus xD
-Some guy who carried Taunt on his Thundurus-I but for some reason thought it´s be better to spam T-Wave on my TR inducer even though he revealed the Taunt… He T-Waved everything and got at least 1 FP every round ;_;
-A pretty epic match against someone named “Ryan” with no location who probably is registered here: I pulled out the win regardless of the horrible matchup.^^ (Well, gotta say that I got into a bad position after a RS flinch, followed by a RS crit only to screw him over again with a RS miss. xD ) (RS = worst move in the game)
The coolest thing I’ve seen so far(I talked about it on IRC) was Belly Drum Politoed+Psych Up Zen Headbutt Cress+Psych Up Metagross. I barely won against the guy because of a 50/50 play last turn. I accidentally clicked not to save the video when that was probably the only match I would’ve wanted to save this tourney, but you can see it here: External He also had Eject Button Amoonguss from what I played.
yeah so i just found plusle… and then my internet hiccups… thats 2 NB seniors i would love to battle… welp
EDIT:
@plusle i was outrage
sorry ;~;
I was in my room (which has crud connection), and decided to get the heck out of my room before my connection goes capowpow… but that didn’t help a thing did it
Oh my gosh I played that guy right before the IC on Ranked GBU. Fun team
Just faced someone who was trying to race to the bottom. They had a quality team (Thundurus-I, Tyranitar, Cresselia, Conkeldurr, Metagross, and Gastrodon), but were only rated 829. They forfeited first turn.
It’s fine, I got kicked off Wifi as well.
48W-0L-11DC 1851
HAs everyone been kicked in the last 10 mins or just me. Keep getting error code 61010!!!
I need to battle now my rating sucks
Hey I think I faced that team as well – I kind of felt bad beating them though, it was not really a fair match.
I also faced someone who only brought 4 ‘mons, all dragons. Surprisingly the dragon I’ve faced the most is flygon – I’ve seen about 6 different teams with flygon.
Does anyone know what percentage of dc’s get you disqualified? I’ve had 11 dc’s in 39 matches and I’m getting worried that I wont get ranked
I don’t think a disconnection rate of anything more than 20% is safe
I just got a really lucky battle in against Fatum. He missed Meteor Mash and Zen Headbutt and made one or two misplays, and I won 3-0 without Fatum seeing my 4th Pokemon (which was Latios). Yes, my luck is back!
Just got DC’d on three times in a row until I finally found a workable battle, yeah there’s no way I’m getting ranked in this
Currently at 23-1-11…I’m going to get DQed and I know it. *sigh*
Currently at 12-2-3, 1624 rating so not going too badly. Hoping to get quite a few games in tomorrow and minimal DCs of course. Seen so many Samurott/Lucario it’s insane. Also Counter Tyranitar was a cool thing, luckily didn’t manage to hit me with it though.
Hey guys. Trying to learn the doubles format so I’m ready to potentially compete next season and it’s been going pretty well so far. Currently at 17-1-5 and 1684. I’ve played one guy from Chile, one guy from Mexico, and 8 guys from Japan. Only loss so far was to a Sigilyph, hate that thing.
Still haven’t had a chance to play. Oh well, I always start these Wifi tournaments late anyway.
Currently at 19 Wins and 4 Loses. Somewhere around 1630. Doing alright I guess. Would like to hit 1700
Currently sitting at 1734, 36-5-5. Running into Biosci twice in a row was unpleasant haha.
at 1879 points with a record of: 65-5-14
this will be the last hour of the marathon, then i’ll get little play on vacation. it was a lot of fun marathoning though ^.^