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Published on May 26th, 2014 | by Rusty

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Teams from the VGC ’14 Melbourne Regional Championship

Melbourne held its Regional Championship over the weekend and managed to make it the biggest Pokémon event in the country to date, eclipsing Sydney’s record last week by over 100. There were a total of 376 people attending the event with 272 Masters, 62 Seniors and 42 Junior competitors battling it out for the title of champion. The tournament was single elimination with best of 3 sets until the quarter finals, when it changed to a best of 1 due to time constraints. The battles were intense, the atmosphere was electric, and the overall day was amazing! There were an uneven number of competitors going into the top 16 for Masters and the quarter finals for Seniors, so all the teams are listed. As it was single elimination the only set places we know for certain are the top 4 in each division, with the rest being classified as “top 9” and/or “top 17” respectively on the day.

Masters

1. Sam P. (Cypress)

rotom-wash garchomp talonflame salamence bisharp kangaskhan-mega

2. Dayne O.

politoed lapras raichu staraptor talonflame lucario-mega

3. Peter T.

hydreigon aerodactyl rotom-heat mawile-mega aegislash amoonguss

4. Chris G. (The Batman)

garchomp manectric-mega mamoswine talonflame kangaskhan-mega rotom-wash

5. Tom

kangaskhan-mega mawile-mega salamence rotom-heat garchomp gengar

6. Rosario

ludicolo noivern kangaskhan-mega rhydon charizard-mega-y aerodactyl

7. James D.

smeargle charizard-mega-y kangaskhan greninja talonflame amoonguss

8. Jeremy K.

mawile-mega bisharp zoroark rotom-wash salamence amoonguss

9. James

magnezonetyranitargarchompazumarillcharizard-mega-xgengar

10. Anthony A

venusaur-mega rotom-heat azumarill klefki talonflame aegislash

11. William W.

garchomp kangaskhan-mega mawile-mega gengar rotom-heat salamence

12. Layne H. (Lejn)

tyranitar ludicolo garchomp politoed mawile-mega zapdos

13. Nihal Noor (Sporlac23)

venusaur-mega charizard-mega-x salamence talonflame meowstic bisharp

14. Matthew R.

kangaskhan-mega mawile-mega salamence garchomp amoonguss rotom-heat

15. Aaron K.

kangaskhan-mega mawile-mega rotom-heat mienshao salamence meowstic

16. Rif A. (raxtens)

tyranitar mawile-mega greninja talonflame amoonguss azumarill

17. Sudo N.

amoonguss salamence rotom-wash tyranitar mienshao charizard-mega-y

Seniors

1. Nathan

rotom-wash kangaskhan-mega bisharp salamence aegislash garchomp

2. Alex

gardevoir machamp ferrothorn garchomp manectric-mega talonflame

3. Arvin

azumarill garchomp espeon mawile-mega tyranitar rotom-heat

4. Michael Z. (Blui129)

ludicolo politoed talonflame kangaskhan-mega amoonguss bisharp

5. Siddhant

gardevoirmawile-megagarchomprotom-heattrevenanttyranitar

6. Jason K.

clawitzer ampharos-mega conkeldurr meowstic chandelure aegislash

7. Bailey

amoongussgarchomphydreigonchandeluremawile-megarotom-wash

8. Long N.

mienshao gengar-mega bisharp salamence rotom-heat nidoking

9. Sam L.

charizard-mega-y rotom-heat greninja dragonite aegislash venusaur

Juniors

1. Nick

garchomp salamence mienshao bisharp meowstic

2. Kaden

talonflame kangaskhan-mega mienshao gardevoir clawitzer aegislash

3. Peter

greninja gengar mawile-mega kangaskhan-mega talonflame garchomp

4. Gabriel

charizard-mega-y lucario gardevoir blastoise steelix tyranitar

Photo taken by Jesse from PokeMelbourne and used with permission. Check out other images by him of the event on the PokeMelbourne Facebook group.


About the Author

a pokemon player of old, has been an avid VGC player since the days of Hoenn! Since then he has become an advocate for Pokémon within Australia, and helps to run tournaments within his own state. Never one to keep knowledge to himself, he is here impart what he knows onto the next generation of Pokémon world champions.



21 Responses to Teams from the VGC ’14 Melbourne Regional Championship

  1. TwiddleDee says:

    Lapras is slowly becoming a trend, it seems! Some interesting mons, though. Namely Zoroark, Lapras, Steelix, and Espeon. A lot of the teams seem standard, but there is still some nice diversity. And also cool to see another second place team without a mega!

  2. Adib says:

    *cries manly tears of joy after seeing Steelix in Juniors top 4*
     
    Fullmetal Steelix is rising again. Prepare yourselves.

  3. LtRated says:

    Chris G placing top 4 in Pokemon, amazing.

  4. Mudkip421 says:

    It looks like there is a team with 2 Talonflames and a team with 2 Salamences. You might want to fix that if you can.

  5. EricOfficially says:

    Anyone else see the two teams that have two of the same pokemon? The talonflames and the salamence?

  6. shadowopz1337 says:

    steelix?

  7. Jamesspeed1 says:

    Lapras is my favorite pokemon to use this gen.

  8. Rusty says:

    Thanks for that mudkip I totally missed it. Ill send them a message with the edit.

  9. Rusty says:

    For the record 2nd place seniors should have a Ferrothorn and not two Talonflames.

    1st place Juniors should have Mega Kangaskhan and not two Salamences.

  10. Calm Lava says:

    LAPRAS IS GOOD AGAIN?!

  11. GamerMan says:

    Rusty, I sent you a message on your profile. Please check!!

  12. seasicknesss says:

    2nd place didn’t have a mega? I’m moving to Aus, end of story.

  13. Lejn says:

    Hahaha Dayne didn’t have a Mienshao, he had a Mega Lucario.

  14. seasicknesss says:

    Hahaha Dayne didn’t have a Mienshao, he had a Mega Lucario.

    Awwwwww not as fun

  15. ZzamanN says:

    For those wondering the team that Michael Z used (Blui129) was made out of 6 random mons i had in my boxes at the time xD
     
    EDIT: This was over Facebook and he was at home 20mins before registration started

  16. victin1rox says:

    ‘Hayden’ who came 2nd in Juniors is actually called Kaden.

  17. Rusty says:

    Ohhhh why didn’t he correct me when I wrote it down hahaha…

  18. superboySR says:

    VGC is getting too predictable 🙁 There is a Rotom in most teams and a Salamence. And in past tournaments Kangaskhan is way too OU. I hope people will experiment on different Pokemon 😀

  19. Rusty says:

    That’s why I asked the question the other day about what pokemon people think can work in VGC, that aren’t necessarily used :D

  20. ZzamanN says:

    Im so glad the top 9 teams in seniors were published as it will make teambuilding around the Melbourne metagame a lot easier. Thanks again Rusty

  21. Rusty says:

    No probs man.. Was going to do more, but it was getting a bit rushed due to time and having to be out of the building by a certain time hahaha. I’ll hopefully have top 16 for each division at nats.. maybe 32 for masters.. will wait and see. :D

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