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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I’m not sure, maybe? xD
Were you using klefki?
Had a great day and need to thank Chris and all the other guys for organising the event. Big congrats to Dan for taking his Manchester title back, well deserved mate!
Just wish my first round Swiss match hadn’t been recorded wrong as a loss which put me game two against a 0-1 instead of 1-0, which ruined my tiebreaker for the rest of the tournament as the mistake wasn’t noticed until Swiss had finished, meaning I didn’t top cut on 4-1 when in most other circumstances I would have.
Awesome day. I’ve literally just got home after the most gruelling coach journey to London ever!! lol
Once I’ve had a sleep I might knock up a little report on my day with Battle Video codes etc
By the way Im Daniel Oztekin in the top 16, cut, i forgot to say I was Necrocat219
I was the one wearing the monkey in a Totoro Onesie and holding a leaf in case you remember 
Had an absolutely smashing day making the top 16 cut, had an amazingly intense battle with Blaziken7 battle to get knocked out and Zog was fun so couldn’t have asked for more
and meeting everyone who I’ve talked to on the forums, It was hilarious meeting up with you AfroKing! XD I’m afraid that everyone’s usernames from the Walsall group is slipping my mind even though I asked before leaving as I was up for 36 hours by that point ^^’ could you tell me again? Great to meet with lots of other fantastic people such as Superintigration who I had a great conversation on competative games and their communities, Ts99 who was a great sport in our game, Foodking who I had such a couch match it came down to 6hp and so many utters I had just met briefly on the day. It was also fantastic meeting up with my usual group of friends, and gutted for you Yoshiken that you were so close to top 16 getting knocked out in the knockout for 15th and 16th. I really can’t wait for next time 
PS congrats Zog, was great playing you
It was great seeing everyone again!
I finished breeding my team the night before and lost every single game I had with it, so I changed it last second :X
Once again I had to leave prematurely, my parents are always on a tight schedule
sigh
Thanks for the fun tourney, and congrats to Zog for going undefeated!
Had a good day, was fun to see everyone again.
Didn’t decide my team until I was at the bar with a pint, still managed 3-2 somehow.
The events after the tournament were extremely interesting, thanks whoever suggested Satan’s hollow. Me, Jake, Joe, and Baz had a very good night there.
P.S. Brandon I’m sorry it’s always you that gets cyber abused when we go out, I don’t even know why haha.
<3
Had a great day! Getting paired with Zog early in top cut was unfortunate, it should have been the final.
Mixed feelings on the team I used on various levels. It was interesting to see how much abuse I could get out of Smeargle and Dark Void in a real life/Swiss tournament.
Thanks Chris for the tournament (and drinks)!
i also had a great day im straight away testing a new team
Had another great day in Manchester, seeing all the usual people again is always good, and got to meet a few new faces aswell which was great.
I decided 2 days before the tournament that I was going to make a fun and easy to use smeargle team since I was probably just going to end up getting drunk anyway, never in a million years did I think I was going top cut, let alone make it into the top 4, but somehow it happened! It was also nice knowing that the only 2 people I lost to throughout the day were both finalists, zog and woopahking.
Whoever recommended the Satan’s hollow bar, thanks, because it was a fun night out getting smashed, and thanks havak for the Jack Daniels shots
Team Walsall!
Another great weekend as always. Was great seeing everyone again.
Satans hollow was one of the strangest places I have ever been to but it was well worth it! It made for one of the more interesting nights of my life and Baz definitely pulled.
Congrats to Zog for winning and knocking out all the smeargle users!
#TeamWalsall
Fantastic weekend, nice to see everyone. Even though I didn’t cut, I had a good time and had one of my best matches in Round 2 against Die2Distroy. Congrats to Everyone who cut and Over half of My team Walsall Crew on making Cut also, Especially Whiteafrohaxor on settling a year long grudge on the big screen.
#Team Walsall
The tournament was really good, i didn’t play anywhere near as well as i hoped, but i can only improve.
I want to say congrats to the friend i brought along who had never played competitive pokemon in his life and was given a team of trained pokemon that I had bred for fun more than for actual battles and he ended up getting top cut and losing in the second round.
I do however think that the bye system had a few kinks that need to be sorted, i got two byes when there were people of the same record who didnt even get one and I wasn’t even told of them until near the end of each of those rounds when i went to ask if they could get my opponent for me.
However despite only getting 3 games I still had fun and it was great to meet people, and the venue was also really good if a bit crowded.
This was a top day! Was good to see eveyone again, team Wallsal were out in force packing all types of Smeargle! Well done Jake on the top 4!
I didn’t do great, 2-3 in swiss, but had some epic battles. 3 of them over 20 turns! DaWoblefets advice for ev’s was top notch!
Congrats to Zog on the win and the pro Manectric!
Just wanted to say had a lot of fun at this! Mainly went to see folks, make friends and get experience as these types of events don’t seem to roll around very often – certainly felt like a successful trip!
Was also pleased at going 3-2 with a fun little gravity team
Congrats to Zog and everyone else who did well and big Kudos to Chris and co for organising!
No.
I guess it wasn’t me. X3
Oh well, maybe we’ll battle at another event.
Anyway, quite a lot of photos are up on StreetpassManchester’s facebook page, so they’re worth taking a look at!
if people saved battlevideos of this event, I’d love to get my hands on them, just send the numbers to me via PM if you haven’t already done so!