Manchester Pokémon Tournament #6
The Manchester Pokémon Tournament is set for its sixth tournament in five years! With sponsorship and help from Nugget Bridge, StreetPass Manchester, and Nintendo UK, this tournament’s purpose is to bring the UK Pokémon community closer together, while providing practise and a more active competitive scene before the VGCS Nationals and Worlds in the Spring/Summer. There are some great prizes to win and the chance to meet a lot of gamers with similar interests to yourself more than once a year. The event will take place on Saturday, February 8th, 2014 with sign ups beginning at 11:00am.
Tournament Format
The tournament will run a Swiss and Top-Cut format:
Rounds of Swiss: 6 (Best of One Game)
Top Cut Cut-Off: 8 (Best of Three Games)
Schedule
11:00am – Sign Ups Begin
11:45am – Sign Ups End
12:00pm – Swiss Rounds of Battles Begin
16:00pm – Swiss Rounds End ; Lunch Break Begins (Roughly)
17:00pm – Top Cut Begins ; Best of Three Games
20:00pm – Tournament Ends ; Awards Ceremony and Photographs
22:00pm – Venue becomes no longer event specific
Rules
The tournament will use the current Pokémon Video Game Championship Series Rules, which you can find in full here. Please make sure to read them carefully as there will be team checks upon registration.
Prizes
1st Place
- A Champion’s Trophy
- A Nintendo 3DS XL Fire Emblem Edition
- A copy of Bravely Default
- A copy of Pokémon Typing
- £30 Nintendo eShop Credit
2nd Place
- A Finalist’s Trophy
- A copy of Bravely Default
- A copy of Pokémon Typing
- £30 Nintendo eShop Credit
3rd & 4th Place
- £20 Nintendo eShop Credit
Event Page
Please register your interest on the official event page which you can find here. You can also join in the discussion on the forums.
Venue
TV21
10 Thomas Street, Northern Quarter
M4 1DH
Manchester, United Kingdom
It is at the request of the venue that you do not bring your own food or drink inside and please do not leave any rubbish behind. If you’re found guilty of any of that, you will probably be asked to leave and thus be disqualified from the tournament. The venue does nice food which you can order to be brought downstairs to the tournament room at any time, however, there will be a lunch break where you’re able to go and get food upstairs or outside – as long as you eat it outside of the venue. Every participant will receive a free drinks voucher upon entering, which covers a spend up to around £4 and does include alcohol for those of you with photographic proof of age. Thank you for understanding.
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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Foodking, what gender are you going to have your pokemon this year?
Let me know, I want to make sure my captivates are effective as possible. If you can tip me off about explosions too, I’ll make sure to bring WoW.
Also, I’m going to this. See you all there.
thanks for all the support guys and dozz you make me laugh
I may attend if I can make some adjustments to my team in time and depending on train prices from Birmingham. Hope to see you guys there.
My group are heading there from Birmingham too, as long as you catch the train at off-peak times, you can get a return train ticket for somewhere around £25-30, just so you know
Good to know. I am hoping to convince a friend who drives to go, if not I will be training it
Just booking the megabus now, really annoyed as am waiting for my Tesco Clubcard voucher to come through to use for the booking and in the time it’s taken for the email to come through the tickets have gone up from £5 to £8
So the prizes better be worthwhile and I better play well enough to win something!!!
Welp, looks like it would cost me about £70 and getting up before 6AM to get there. Maybe not then…
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(Also the Nugget Bridge article says second place gets a trophy and first place doesn’t, is this a mistake? I’d almost rather have a trophy than another 3DS
Yeah, that’s an error! First place gets a trophy too.
I’m getting the megabus from Birmingham, booked and it’s costing me £12 return
Train from Derby to Manchester (return) is only £25 and the last train me and my bro can catch is one after 9
I’m going, be scared ;D
Do you have to sign up before hand or do you just turn up?
Just turn up at 11a.m, signups will be done there
Wait, so I can get drunk and play pokemon all in one! This will be awesome! (Even though their is no way in hell I am going, living in the U.S. and all…….)
I’ll be attending with a friend from uni, this will be the first VGC tournament that I’ve attended, but I’ve been practicing a lot recently and I’m fairly confident…for now
Anyway, good luck to everyone who enters
sure i’ll be attending with the usual crew.
Ignore everything Baz said, he is coming, we have a hotel, and we are getting hammered during and after the event.
See you all there guys!
P.S I still dont have a team yet.
<3
Poke bank released: me finally can breed TR scizor
Since I actually have the game this time, hopefully I’ll be able to build my team in time to compete… >.>
My team is ready! Unless I do what I usually do and change it completely.
Not a bad idea cause last year I made my team the night before….and we know how that went
haha
There must be a correlation between doing well at Manchester and preparation. I made my team on the way there as well.
Might just put the DS down, and see what takes my fancy on friday night.
This is going to be exciting. Good luck to everyone entering 🙂
The majority of you are most likely aware of this, but Havok has written a news piece on the Machester Pokemon Tournament. Check it out if you haven’t already; some of the prizes have been announced – http://nuggetbridge.com/news/manchester-pokemon-tournament-6/
Today’s the day.
I’m full of the vinegar! #Doesn’tReallyLikeVinegar
I suppose 3-2 isn’t too bad for my first tournament, though I have no idea how I managed to lose to a trick room gardevoir team…
I was gonna stay and watch the top 8 but I felt ill so I decided to go after the swiss rounds, good luck to the top 8 though.
Anyway, met some pretty cool people and had a good time
Really pleased to have cut this tournament after a pretty gruelling sequence of swiss opponents. Took a close and slightly upsetting loss to NidoRich in T16, but had an excellent day overall. Was lovely to meet all the people I met, and a big congratulations/thanks to the organisers: once it got going, it was really very smooth, especially given the deluge of entrants.
Any information on how the top 16 bracket went?
Zog was the winner of the tournament, Woopahking123 coming in second. It’s been a great event, and I hope to see some of you writing up some reports to fill Nugget Bridge with.
As for myself, I’m amazed that I managed to make top cut! WhiteAfroKing also played exceptionally well in the last few matches up until losing in the semi finals. It was brilliant seeing everyone again too and it shows just how strong the Pokemon community is
Yeah I finished 9th after Swiss and then lost to Zog in the top 8 where I played awfully. I think had I played well enough I could have swung the match, but no need dwelling. I might put up an article if anyone is interested…..it was full of vinegar!
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This is the top cut!
Lyto, that wouldn’t happen to have been MY Trick Room team, would it? X3