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Published on October 4th, 2014 | by Scott

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VGC 2015 North American Autumn Regionals Preview Part 1

While it feels like we were watching Pachirisu inexplicably win the World Championships just yesterday, the first of the 2015 VGC season’s larger events start this weekend with Regionals in Pennsylvania and Arizona. After a month of optimistically fierce Premier Challenge play, players will have their first opportunity to make some ground in the Championship Points race that will stick more easily than the current leads from Premier Challenges. One of the biggest changes for this Regionals season is that unlike past years, many players are coming into Autumn Regionals this year with large amounts of Championship Points. Two players have 150 or more Championship Points already, something that wasn’t even possible until the second set of Regionals two years ago. While those numbers would be pretty good Championship Point totals from Premier Challenges at the end of the year, I would expect the gap in Premier Challenge points to close as more players hit and go over their best finish limits. As such, Regionals this year will likely do what it always has in the Championship Points system and function as the major way players can gain an advantage over the marathon part of the VGC 2015 season before the final sprint next summer.

We saw some interesting stories during the Autumn Regionals portion of the season last year, the most notable involving two players who hadn’t really been involved in VGC since 2010. Omari Travis (BadIntent) rocketed out to a massive start with 230 CP on a first and second place finish at two Fall Regionals in 2014. His run last Autumn helped carry him to the top point total going into Nationals last year. Omari’s finals opponent in California last year, Thomas Mifflin (PBB), was also one of the big surprises of the early 2014 season. He was similarly able to carry his early success forward into a bye at Nationals with a top 16 finish. As was the case for those guys last year, starting strong will continue to be important for players looking to finish near the top of the Championship Points standings at year’s end. More important than last year is going to be finishing the job and finishing as high as possible instead of just shooting for top cut. While 2nd place Regionals finishes in 2013 and 2014 earned just 10 less CP than 1st place’s 120 CP with 110 CP for 2nd, 2nd place now only earns 100 CP. Top 4 finishes have similarly been reduced from 90 CP to 80 CP and top 8 finishes from 70 CP to 60 CP, so the importance of winning top cut matches at Regionals has never been greater than it is this year.

Prizes

Players do receive more than just those reduced Championship Points! All the prizes awarded for Regionals in the 2015 season are listed below. Players will be earning Championship Points this Autumn that they’re not completely sure about the function of, but Championship Point payouts are listed regardless. As mentioned previously, it should be noted that the Championship Point payout from Regionals is reduced slightly for the 2014-15 season compared to the previous two seasons.

1st Place

  • A Pokémon VG Regional Championships 1st Place award
  • A Nintendo 3DSXL system
  • A combination of 72 booster packs from current Pokémon TCG expansions
  • 120 Championship Points

2nd Place

  • A Pokémon VG Regional Championships 2nd Place award
  • A combination of 72 booster packs from current Pokémon TCG expansions
  • 100 Championship Points

3rd and 4th Place

  • A Pokémon VG Regional Championships 3rd or 4th Place award
  • A combination of 36 booster packs from current Pokémon TCG expansions
  • 80 Championship Points

5th Place through 8th Place

  • A combination of 18 booster packs from current Pokémon TCG expansions
  • 60 Championship Points

9th Place through 16th Place

  • A combination of 9 booster packs from current Pokémon TCG expansions
  • 40 Championship Points

17th Place through 32nd Place

  • 30 Championship Points (if division attendance is 64 or greater)

33rd Place through 64th Place

  • 20 Championship Points (if division attendance is 128 or greater)

65th Place through 128th Place

  • 10 Championship Points (if division attendance is 256 or greater)

The Metagame

The unique aspect of Autumn Regionals is that it is still using 2014’s format. While Autumn Regionals count for the 2015 season in terms of Championship Points, they will still be played with the VGC 2014 rules. The dynamic of a Regional played in a format after that format’s World Championships instead of before it makes battling in the Autumn Regionals a very different experience from the Regionals in Winter and Spring. While in the Winter players are still trying to figure out which Pokémon are strong and weak in a new format and in the Spring players are still trying to refine those ideas, the answers are seemingly already on the table for Autumn. The best players in the world have shown what they think the best answers to the VGC 2015 format are. Astute trainers have had a chance to watch which Pokémon and strategies the top players used in the final legs of last year’s format, from qualifying through National Championships to fighting for the World Championship. At each stage those top players revealed powerful teams and Pokémon builds, many of which are now common knowledge. We’ve even seen the team and player that proved to be the strongest in the world in this format already! Many, many teams and strategies proved to be effective throughout the final stages of the 2014 VGC season, and those strategies are now out there for players to use, counter, and modify. Many players at Regionals will seek to emulate proven strategies, while others will try to adapt to them. There are some key threats and trends to keep an eye out for considering what we’ve seen during the past few months of VGC.

worldslogo

The impact of the most visible strategies from the 2014 World Championships will be evident at Autumn Regionals, especially from players who are learning more about the game but may not feel they have the mastery to try to anti-metagame the stars of Worlds. As was the case in the Autumn Regionals of the last two years, I would expect to see chunks or the entirety of top Worlds players’ teams show up frequently in the upper-middle tables of the post-Worlds Regionals. Jeudy Azzarelli, Ryosuke Kosuge, Lee Provost, and Dayne O’Meara from the Worlds top cut have written reports about their teams, and I would expect some other big name 4-2s like Wolfe Glick, Blake Hopper, Markus Stadter and Aaron Zheng who posted information about their teams to be similarly influential among players at Regionals. Knowing what was used in the past will probably be a key to success for many players over the next three weekends of Regionals.

pachirisu

Much like in last year’s Autumn Regionals, where there was a bit of a final renaissance for the Pokémon XD Follow Me users, World Champion Sejun Park will likely cause an uptick in users of unconventional redirective Pokémon this year. Pachirisu hasn’t fought its last battle yet, though I would guess it has probably won its last major VGC 2014 Masters tournament. Look for players to adjust to the sacrificial rodent and have better solutions to it than they did in the World Championships. I think Pachirisu was very much something that worked because it was good in the context of Sejun’s team and good in the context of the in-tournament metagame of the 2014 World Championships. It’s something that is good enough to be a factor at any tournament, but the road will likely be tougher for Pachirisu users with so much attention on it. The fit probably won’t be good enough this time for a win, but Pachirisu is still dangerous enough to have a solid run or two.

gothitelle

Another Pokémon I’d expect to see a lot more of in Autumn Regionals than ever before is Gothitelle. Not only did Sejun use this Pokémon, but it was also used (and posted about on his YouTube channel) by Aaron Zheng, as well as by Wolfe Glick. There is no way this many of the highest profile players using a Pokémon isn’t going to cause it to leak into especially the middle table significantly at Regionals. Unlike Pachirisu, I wouldn’t be very surprised to see more Gothitelle from top players as well. My perception watching games both during and after the 2014 World Championships is that Gothitelle is not something many modern teams are dealing with very well, and even now that people are expecting it, it seems to be very effective. Gothitelle was one Pokémon I really thought should have been used more over the course of the 2014 season and I would expect that low usage to be made up for some here. I think Gothitelle is a really important Pokémon to have a solution for going into this final set of VGC 2014 format Regionals for players aiming to get a win… but I haven’t seen too many good solutions for Gothitelle used yet. Shadow Tag is perhaps the strongest ability in the game, and misplaying into it even once can mean a win for Gothitelle.

politoed

The skies were mostly clear in Washington DC, with little Rain to be seen. Now that we’re back at Regional-level tournaments, I think the huge success of Rain teams during the National-level tournaments should be a sign Rain will do well at Regionals if players choose to use it. Countering Rain effectively is tricky in a format where players are already spread pretty thin trying to handle big threats like Kangaskhan and Mawile. In previous events Rain was a matchup some players chose to sacrifice in favor of others, which is part of why Rain teams won three National Championships earlier in this format. I think players are more likely to run into those anti-Rain teams that seem like they can’t possibly win against anything else at Regionals, but I wouldn’t be surprised if many players lose sight of this archetype a little bit in favor of Mawile and Kangaskhan when considering threats. Especially with how much more flexible Politoed and Ludicolo are in VGC 2014 compared to Rain duos in previous formats, Rain is probably going to wind up being a pretty good play here. One big benefit of Rain is that it is one of the few archetypes who can still fit Hydreigon pretty easily, which helps a lot with those troublesome Gothitelle. There should probably be a related uptick in Charizard use to deal with Rain and Mawile. Ludicolo’s increasing usage will also cause some trouble for the Rain that does show up.

mawile-mega

While it didn’t even appear in the final, the Mega with the biggest impact at Worlds was Mawile. Mawile was the most common Mega and the third most common Pokémon overall at Worlds. Mawile’s overwhelming presence helped make the 2014 World Championships the only event Kangaskhan struggled in all season. Germany’s Arena Cup, technically a Premier Challenge but realistically a tougher field than any of the North American Regionals, saw this trend continue. Mawile was again being the most common Mega Pokémon and possibly the second most common Pokémon. Using and countering Mawile became as or more important than countering Kangaskhan, which has really increased the value of some Pokémon like Garchomp, Charizard, Manectric, and Talonflame.

My theory is that this focus on Mawile instead of Kangaskhan will not continue into North American Regionals, especially for the field at large instead of just the top. I think it will be an interesting test of the North American players to see both what is used and what succeeds here. Germany’s Arena Cup had usage trends that were very similar to Worlds. Players understood they needed to check Kangaskhan, so many top teams hinged around Kangaskhan’s counters and its counters’ counters. I’m not so sure the larger variety of players in the North American Regionals will lead to the same type of usage. Fewer players playing very metagame-standard teams and fewer players playing very anti-metagame teams means that raw power is likely to be more appealing to players. Mawile’s challenges to switch in safely and low Speed means it may not be the best fit against the field at large at Regionals. I’d still keep it handy, if I was a player looking to take my first big leap toward Worlds, because that shift in priority back to raw strength is helpful for another Mega as well…

kangaskhan-mega

The return of the queen?

I’ll be really fascinated to see how Kangaskhan will do in these final five Regionals. To say it dominated the previous XY Regionals would be an understatement, but the World Championships may have shown players the light about how to deal with it. I would expect many more people will have good game plans against Kangaskhan than they did in any previous Regional. The questions now will be will enough players be prepared enough, and if they are, are they prepared enough for other matchups for it to matter? Look for Kangaskhan usage to decrease from previous Regionals and performance to increase compared to the World Championships. I think Kangaskhan will find the middle ground here. No longer is it the de facto favorite to win three Regionals or so, but I would also be surprised to see it get shut out. Some players will find success by going back to it and weaving through a field of anti-Kangaskhan landmines, while other Regionals will be won by players using teams that look like they’d fit in better with the World Championships metagame. Which type of Regional will your event be?

2015 Autumn Regionals Predictions

The section for each Regional will feature some background information on the Regional, the people I would expect to cut and the most interesting story lines (The Story), and the player most likely to win (The Smart Money is on…).

It must be noted before I go any further: Regionals are the most wide open of all VGC events. While established players have had the clamps firmly locked in for Nationals and Worlds the past several years for the most part, Regionals is where players become established. I can basically guarantee that in every Regional there will be at least two or three players in the Top Cut few would consider a favorite coming in. That’s a good thing — it means the game is growing and more players are playing at a high level. We saw more of this with XY than we had in the history of VGC. However, I can’t write about people we don’t know yet, so don’t take there being no further mentions of anyone but established players in any of these sections as an expectation that big names are going to sweep all of the top cut slots. They won’t.

Especially not in Phoenix, I’d wager!

Pennsylvania Regional

Difficulty Rating

malamarmurkrowmandibuzzskuntankrapidash / 5

(four Dark-type Pokémon and a horse out of five)

(how do you complain about how tough Premier Challenges are going to be in the dreaded northeast and then let pookar make the finals of one?)

Location: Pennsylvania Convention Center 1101 Arch Street Philadelphia, PA 19107

Last Year’s Results

  1. Michael Lanzano (JiveTime)
  2. Toler Webb (Dim)
  3. Matt Sybeldon (bearsfan092)
  4. Wolfe Glick (Wolfey)
  5. Cameron Kicack (Stormfront)
  6. Yuichiro Uzu
  7. Kristian Mosquito (Mosquito)
  8. Matt Coyle (PrettyLittleLiar)

The Story

The top cut from last year has a lot of early favorites, assuming they actually show up — I know already bearsfan isn’t planning to. I think Wolfe Glick (Wolfey) is the pretty clear favorite in this one. While it looked like things were almost over for him last year after he missed the cut at US Nationals, he blew through LCQ and put up a 4-2 finish at the World Championships to earn a solid 9th place finish. He’s also 4-0 in NPA without dropping a single game, which is noteworthy mostly because it means he’s consistently winning game 1s, the most important factor at a Regional. The best-of-one play was hard on him last year, but it’s hard to imagine a scenario where he doesn’t at least carry his momentum to the top cut at this point.

Last year’s top cut also has another name I want to draw out immediately. Michael Lanzano (JiveTime), last year’s winner, finally got the Worlds invitation he’d probably deserved for years last year. He ended up in the middle of the field with a 3-3 run, but he’s definitely among the top five Regionals players of all time and should be hungry to get back into Worlds and push it a little farther this year. The Northeast has no shortage of players from last year’s Worlds in attendance, and you have to figure that like Wolfe, the people who did well there are the favorites for this event. Jeudy Azzarelli (SoulSurvivor) never seemed to be able to make the mark many people expected him to during Regionals last year, but after his 2nd place Worlds finish he’s certainly proven he does have the ability to do so. Instead, now there’s the question of if he has the motivation, especially if he runs into one of his friends. Speaking of questions, who knows if Ray Rizzo (Ray) is going to bother to show up. If he does show up, it is similarly hard to guess if he’s going to put much effort in. Ray has been awfully good with even a little bit more than the slightest bit of effort at Regionals recently, so if he does decide to give this event a shot, his has to be one of the names you least want to see paired with yours.

The 12th and 13th place finishers from the 2014 World Championships should both be in attendance in Enosh Shachar (Human) and Ashton Cox (linkyoshimario). Enosh used Charizard an event too early last year in the final Regional of BW2, and while I think people forgot about him a little bit after he skipped Nationals, he’s been one of the most consistent players of all time and was still awfulyl close to a more memorable Worlds finish. Ashton was also quite consistent in his ability to top cut events last year. He surprised the world event after event last year, including an 8-1 4-2 finish at US Nationals and a 4-2 finish at Worlds. I think if you asked the other players mentioned in this section in private if they thought Ashton was going to top cut this event, you would get about 90% of them saying no. In spite of the public perception, Ashton keeps getting the job done. At some point he either has to stop or the other top players have to start believing, right?

The 2014 Worlds participant list keeps going. 2012 Senior World Champion Toler Webb (Dim) finished 4th last year at this event, but ended up with one of the worst records at Worlds. I think this was pretty flukey — Pokémon is a game where strange things happen, but his finish didn’t seem like an accurate representation of where he was at going in to me. I would expect him to turn things around some here. A pleasant surprise at Worlds was Aaron “Aaron CT (Cybertron) Zheng” Zheng, who I think many of us had kind of written off due to his struggles during a 2014 CP circuit he didn’t need to participate in. Once he needed to win again he certainly showed us how he made it to the semifinals of the 2013 World Championships with a solid 4-2 run at last year’s Worlds and a win in one of the more contested Premier Challenges this year. At the very least, Aaron has legitimized himself as a threat again.

A new challenger approaching out east is 1942 US National Champion Mike Suleski (OmegaDonut), who will be making a tricky adjustment this year. As is expected, the guys out east and the guys out west like to trash talk back and forth some. Mike’s progress this season as someone who was a top player when he was out west should be an interesting field test about the relative strength of regions. Ben Rothman (Ben7000) was a complete non-factor in the 2014 VGC season prior to shocking the world by making it through the LCQ and then… being a complete non-factor in the 2014 World Championships. I have no idea what to make of him here — he could either be really good or really bad. The last player from last year’s Worlds is Ben Hickey (Darkpenguin67), who I think is possibly the most interesting player in the field. His Worlds run was a middling low-tiebreaker 3-3, but he’s been solid in Premier Challenges and in NPA. I think by virtue of being a former Senior who wasn’t part of that original group he’ll probably be underrated for life, but he’s got a good shot to finish near the top here.

Of course, there are some big threats out east who didn’t make Worlds last year as well. Since we’re still in the 2014 format those guys who did are going to be the favorites here. but there’s definitely more to look at. Simon Yip (Simon), as usual, was just that close to Worlds this year after a top 8 finish at US Nationals. In spite of missing Worlds, I don’t think you can make a good argument he isn’t just as good as the other guys that have been mentioned. Beyond him, I am interested in how Angel Miranda (CT MikotoMisaka) will do now that he hopefully has an event in VGC before he’s knee-deep in children’s card games, but that whole ring of friends seems to be cursed with not doing very well in Premier events for some reason. On a related note, Chuppa Cross (Chuppa) is another interesting guy going into this one, especially after getting to the finals of the last east coast XY Regional and working against that curse a little.

There are also some big threats who didn’t make last year’s Worlds but have been to the big dance many times before. Matt Coyle (PrettyLittleLiar) made the top cut of this event last year, but the last two seasons have been slow for him. Trista Medine (ryuzaki) is sort of in a similar category where she is one of the best players in the game when she’s on, but hasn’t been quite as good as we’re used to her being lately. While I favor the people with long track records when I’m predicting to begin with, I do think Autumn Regionals especially favors the more experienced players who know how to adjust after Worlds and to how much less fluid the metagame becomes at this point in the season a little better than some of the younger players, so this could be a good event for these two.

A few more names to rapid fire: Joey McDonald (joej m) was a surprise Regional winner toward the end of last year and will further add to the difficulty of this already difficult Regional. Dark horse Chris Semp (pookar) did OK at backseat managing his NPA team and Premier Challenging, but is he a one two trick pony? Demhaha is undefeated in NPA, but has been so unnoteworthy in Premier Events I don’t actually know his real name. Fellow NPA undefeated Jonathan Hiller (MrFox) is a bigger name, though he’s part of a group of former Senior division stars who are looking to get it done for the first time in a Masters Premier event. Patrick Donegan (Pd0nZ) and James Baek (Jamesspeed1) get Nostrom’s amazing pre-tournament hype bonus points for Premier Challenge finishes. Tommy Cooleen (Tman) was the king of Swiss last year in the northeast, and he has recently even started finally winning best-of-threes. Oliver Valenti (Smith) and David Mancuso (Mancuso) also had top cuts last year. The first event in Masters tends to be the toughest, but Cameron Swan (Drizzleboy) finished his run in the Senior division well enough to be seen as a threat here. Kristian Mosquito (Mosquito) did well in Regionals last year and always seems to be much more threatening than his hype would suggest.

The Smart Money is on…: I tipped my hand on this already, but Wolfe Glick is the favorite this time. It’s hard to argue with his recent success. Frankly, it’s hard to predict against him even when he doesn’t look this good coming in, but I don’t think there’s much debate he’d have the best betting odds on this one.

Attending this event? Join your fellow competitors in discussion on our forum.

Arizona Regional

Difficulty Rating

cacturnecacnea / 5

(Two cacti out of five)

Location: Phoenix Convention Center 100 N 3rd Street Phoenix, AZ 85004

Last Year’s Results

  1. Stephen Morioka (Stephen)
  2. Benji Irons (benjitheGREAT)
  3. Gavin Michaels (kingofmars)
  4. Len Deuel (Alaka)
  5. Duy Ha (Duy)
  6. Mike Ellis
  7. Natalie Kaspszak (maski)
  8. Erik Holmstrom (Cyrus)

The Story

Since this thread also didn’t have a poll (stop… doing this…) and Phoenix does not have a predictable pool of favorites like the Northeast, this one is going to be really hard to preview. I apologize if I miss some names or give some names that aren’t going to make it out on this one! Tournaments in this part of the country tend to be difficult to predict in general, though. There tends to be a handful of big names who do well consistently when they actually show up and then a void just below them where anything can happen! A lot of “I’m not especially sure if this player is really going to attend the event” in this one, so if ever there was a chance for a dark horse to win one, this is it.

Last year was dominated mostly by players from a decent distance away, most of whom I am unsure about whether or not they will return. Apparently 2014 semi-finalist and Nationals quarterfinalist Gavin Michaels is returning, so that’s as good of a place as any to start. While he started off the first chunk of his first Masters season pretty slowly, Gavin has been one of the more consistent players since his 2013 Masters National Championship in spite of playing a style that seems unsustainably aggressive. He always scares me a little in best-of-one play because he doesn’t tone down the crazy much, but he’s found ways to make it work for him. Fellow returning semifinalist Len Deuel (Alaka) is also someone who could find himself near the top. This Regional was one of few high points to a season that involved many, many Regionals for Len last year, but once again it is a field he can finish on top of. Aided by one of the best supported Premier Challenge areas in the country, getting a decent chunk of points here could put him in a great spot to play the rest of this season out.

I have no idea if the rest of the top cut from last year is going to attend. Ben Irons (benjitheGREAT) is not going to return as far as I know, so there will be a new champion, which is a little unfortunate given the bleak field. Omari Travis (BadIntent) went last year and had his only weak Regionals performance of the season, but he, too, is a player I am unsure will show up. The only player from last year’s top cut I know is actually local is Natalie Kaspszak (maski), who had a nice burst of CP to start the year in last year’s Autumn Regionals. I think she surprised people by doing so last year and I don’t know if she’s planning on going this year, but she seems to be one of those people who can make things work on little notice.

I know it isn’t too much of a hike for Erik Holmstrom (Cyrus) to get out here, and if he does go this may be one of the first events where he can truly be considered a favorite. He had a surprisingly quiet season last year in spite of doing well at a variety of events and finishing very high on the overall CP list last year, to the point he could very easily have qualified for Worlds. While NPA has brought him out in the light a little, he’s one of the better kept secrets in VGC. I would probably make an east coast media bias joke here, but uh, I guess the media is mostly me. If he shows up, this is an event he could definitely take. Kamran Jahadi (Kamz) has had a Masters career full of strange situations, but he was having a great run in the LCQ before running into some battery issues. People don’t become World Champions by chance; I think he’s probably your 2 seed in this tournament. Reigning Senior World Champion Nikolai Zielinski (Nikolai) will be making his first Masters Regionals appearance. The adjustment will be tricky, but this is certainly a viable opportunity for him to ease himself in with a big finish.

Beyond that, there are a bunch of other players who have had good-but-not-great tournament histories that should have a good shot at getting a victory in an open field. William Hall (Biosci) apparently lives in Arizona now. He’s struggled some in most of his past Premier events, but he should be a favorite here. Additionally, in no particular order, expect to see some of Chase Lybbert (I am Rookie), Sam Johnson (RastaCharmander), Alejandro Jimenez (Legacy), Riley Factura (gengarboi), and former Regional winner Michael Fladung (Primitive) in top cut.

The Smart Money is on…: Gavin Michaels. Congratulations on being the only player from last year’s Worlds in a Regional using the same format as that Worlds I am reasonably confident is going to show up!

Attending this event? Join your fellow competitors in discussion on our forum.


About the Author

started playing VGC in 2011. He finished 17th at US Nationals, then lost in the final round of 2011 Worlds LCQ. He finished 10th in the 2012 World Championships and qualified for Worlds again in 2013 after going into US Nationals second in CP. Instead of playing, he commentated at US Nationals and the World Championships in 2013 and 2014. Follow him on Twitter @NBNostrom!



14 Responses to VGC 2015 North American Autumn Regionals Preview Part 1

  1. sohaib says:

    Damn I thought only good players coming to philly were ray and aaron but its gonna be packed.

  2. demhaha says:

    I’m Rory Evan. Remember that.

  3. shinryu says:

    I dunno, I don’t see too much Pachirisu usage, it worked well because of the surprise factor, but it’s still too frail, especially with Kanga coming back to curb stomp it. Goth I think will see more use, Shadow Tag is underrated and can really mess with things since few Pokemon carry escape moves like Volt Switch, and fewer still U-Turn. Rain and Kanga I expect to come back into the spotlight as well, and probably Hyderigon usage going down a touch too.

    Unsurprising no mention of me in Phoenix despite being the original Phoenician here. But I digress, I’m not actually going this year probably, so good luck to th other locals like I Am a Rookie! Rep AZ well! And good luck to the others like Galvin and Alaka.

  4. Sprocket says:

    I doubt you are any more Phoenician than I am, considering I was born here. Nonetheless the VGC community here is very small compared to elsewhere around the country. Should be a fun weekend.

  5. shinryu says:

    I doubt you are any more Phoenician than I am, considering I was born here. Nonetheless the VGC community here is very small compared to elsewhere around the country. Should be a fun weekend.

    Was born here also :P

    But yeah it’s good that the community is growing though, nice that more and more people are getting involved online as well.

  6. Ezrael says:

    Man it’s really great to do well at a premier challenge and have the people you did better than get more hype than you.
    also Ben Rothman isn’t going, sadly.

  7. kingofmars says:

    Man it’s really great to do well at a premier challenge and have the people you did better than get more hype than you.

    I agree, where’s the pball01000 love?

  8. Bopper says:

    bidoof I thought only good players coming to philly were ray and aaron but its gonna be packed.

    oh honey…
     
    This is really going to be an interesting set of regionals. Last year we saw a pretty heavy influence from Aaron at regionals, not sure if we’re going to see the same from Sejun considering his team was a bit out there. Shame I wasn’t able to make it to Arizona, would have been a blast. Good luck to everyone attending. 

  9. DynoQuilava says:

    GL to everyone who’s competing.. I’ll be at Arizona Regionals in the Seniors Division.

  10. ayesonnaiVGC says:

    Can’t wait till tomorrow. Good luck everyone at Arizona Regionals!

  11. Vapor says:

    If anyone writes a report (at least on Philly, I’m not sure how the others went), you should title it something along the lines of:
     
    “Autum” Regionals: [insert year, place, etc]
     
    I don’t know… I just thought someone should mention how they spelled Autumn “Autum” on the pink screen in game.
     
    Me and my friends had a good laugh about that.

  12. xicious says:

    This article would have been much better had it been before regional weekend.

  13. Adib says:

    This article would have been much better had it been before regional weekend.

     
    It still came out before the tournaments started, which is all that really matters. Besides, look how long that article is. I’m sure it takes a lot of work to put together something like that, especially when you consider how much real life can interfere with what you can do in VGC as you get older.

  14. xicious says:

    I get that, I really do. I occasionally write for six prizes which is a tcg site so I completely understand how much work and dedication it takes to write an article of this caliber. I just feel it could have gotten much more appreciation and credit if it released a few days prior to when people started traveling to the events. I didn’t even realize it was a thing until yesterday when I went to check results.

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