Manchester Pokémon Tournament #6 Results
The sixth Manchester Pokémon Tournament took place on February 8th, setting a new attendance record for a grassroots Pokémon Video Game Tournament in the United Kingdom with a whopping 99 competitors. Players from all over the country travelled to Manchester to take part, including one player who came all the way from Italy to take part. After a shaky start due to technical difficulties, the gruelling swiss rounds began. Sadly, due to time constraints, there were only five rounds instead of the optimal seven. To compensate for this, the top cut was changed to a top 16 in order to reward more players with a record of 4-1.
Daniel Nolan (Zog) managed to go undefeated in the swiss rounds along with Andrew Parrot (Shoe) and Jamie Miller, who ended up as seeds one, two, and three respectively. After a playoff round between the competitors tied for 16th seed, it was Barry Anderson (Baz Anderson) who managed to progress and set up an epic first round of top cut clash. After some great matches featuring many of the most highly rated UK players, including last year’s winner Richard Fairbrother (NidoRich), it came down to our final two. Daniel Nolan (Zog) defeated Mark McQuillan (woopahking123) in a brilliant final match, going undefeated all day in the process of being crowned champion. Daniel is the first player to win two grassroots tournaments in the UK, with this tournament as the 10th event. He walked away with a brand new, limited edition 3DS X and both players received a copy of Bravely Default, Nintendo eShop Credit, a Pokemon Game, and a finalists trophy.
I’d like to thank everyone who came along and made this event such a success! I apologise for the slow start, but it was out of everyone’s hands at the time and I hope it doesn’t put people off travelling to future events. Stay tuned to Nugget Bridge for more tournaments!
Final Standings
- Daniel Nolan (Zog)
- Mark McQuillan (woopahking123)
- Anis Haque
- Jake Birch (WhiteAfroKing92)
- Richard Fairbrother (NidoRich)
- Jamie Miller
- Chris Gibson
- Chris Wilson
- Barry Anderson (Baz Anderson)
- Samuel Connor
- Nicholas Rhodes
- Rina Purdy (SqishyRina)
- Samuel East (Samuel996)
- Daniel Oztiken (Necrocat219)
- Eden Batchelor (Xenoblade Hero)
- Andrew Parrott (Shoe)
Challonge Bracket – Top Cut
Challonge Bracket – Swiss
About the Author
Havak has competed in the VGC series since 2009 when it was first introduced to Europe, qualifying for the World Championships in 2011. Since 2009, he has also been a big influence in the United Kingdom's competitive scene by helping run local tournaments.
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NB names for some people:
Anis Haque is El Fenomeno I believe
Jamie Miller is blaze king7
Nicholas Rhodes is pro blaze
^^^^
Also Chris Gibson is TheRagingApple
Oh yeah, Samuel Connor is Garchompguy I believe.
(Cant edit post on these comments :s)
Ignore my final standing, 39th isn’t my greatest achievement lol,
Oh yeah, Samuel Connor is Garchompguy I believe.
(Cant edit post on these comments :s)
Ignore my final standing, 39th isn’t my greatest achievement lol,
Nice job Zog. You kicked my but on Random, Rated Special 😀
Ace write-up!
I could have done worse than 27th for my second big tournament, the day was a lot of fun too.
Chris Wilson now has an account, Chrismondo.
Daniel Oztekin
Very pleased with my first ever top cut! Congratulations to Jake for getting as far as he did, and to Jamie for going 5-0 in Swiss, sadly losing out in the top cut but doing very well regardless
Havak, do you know if the Nugget Bridge Youtube is going to be updated with Manchester videos? There’s certain matches I really want to see
My surname is spelled Perrott by the way 😛 And yeah it was a great event.
any vids ?
They will be coming soon, everyone has got to send them to them first. I haven’t quiite but doing it right now.
Just to confirm I am samuel connor
It was a really great day and tournament. Starting the day off with an unlucky loss I felt my chance to top cut was out but I came back and pulled a 4-1 coming 9th.
It was bad luck that me and Baz got Zog so early because I felt they could’ve been potential finals too, but the way I played against Zog I really didn’t deserve to win haha I scrubbed up :3 Zog really didn’t have an easy ride to the final by any means so more props to him
It is actually oconnor the guy got it wrong
Who are we supposed to send the vids to?
Alright. So Zog is kind of okay a little.
Any videos you have, please send them to Eiganjo!
cheers guys and thanks for playing.
State the tournament it was, the round, and the name of yourself and your opponent if possible. If he has the time, he’ll add it to Youtube.
Also, apologies for any wrong names! I Can’t edit them right now on the article, but can do so on the Challonge. If you really want them changed, make Firestorm or another admin more clear of this