Teams from the VGC ’14 Perth & Adelaide Regionals
Greetings from the land of kangaroos and koalas! The Australian Regionals circuit started this weekend and what a weekend it was. There were many exciting battles had and even some chaos in the Perth Regionals with one of the finalists having their save data corrupted! However, the show must go on and it did, with both of the Regionals being double elimination with the first round being a being best of three and subsequent rounds a best of one until the finals for both states’ Masters and Perth Seniors. The Seniors (Adelaide) and both regionals’ Juniors would have round robin format. There was a total of 86 people in Perth and 49 in Adelaide battling it out to see who would be the best in their state! Below are the teams for each division at each Regional event.
Perth – Masters
1. Alister (Vlade)
Travis’ team used by Alister in finals due to corrupted data:
2. Cory (Pikaplz)
3. Marcus
4. David A. (d4vey)
5. George
6. Alex
7. Jake
8. Kareem
Perth – Seniors
1. Ryan C. (Desulax)
2. Antony
3. Matthew
???
4. Chris
Perth – Juniors
1. Dylan
2. Lachlan
Adelaide – Masters
1. Matthew B. (DarkMalice)
2. Chris G. (the batman)
3. Luke C. (CassyTheGastrodon)
4. Dominic N. (DrDimentio)
5. Josh W.
6. Ethan E. (Ethlier)
7. Rhys Z. (Zerbe92)
8. Wilson Q. (Jovis)
Adelaide – Seniors
1. Aaron
2. Liam
Adelaide – Juniors
1. Nick
2. Joseph
About the Author
Rusty 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.
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I just got told that the missing pokemon Aerodactyl on Matthew’s team
I could only go with the information that was given. Even in the final match it was a best of 3 (If the winner of the loser bracket had won it would have been 1-1, meaning a 3rd match had to be played – given that Alister already won 1 match).
It indeed was like that in Adelaide. The winner of Masters for Adelaide won both the finals matches after beating others in the losers bracket.
Yeah, I’m sure Nintendo would have loved for the final matches to be best of 3, but time is always a factor at events… haha
The amount of topped Kangaroos is even a little overwhelming for Australia.
Hahahaha.. yeah.. I thought we shouldn’t be supporting our nationals animal like that.. but alas we did
lol
I’m so glad that these were such successful events. Hopefully Nintendo will run another one next year for the 2015 season so I can hopefully make it! It’d also be awesome to see some grassroots tournaments happening around Adelaide too, I know they exist around Sydney but if they pulled up 50 people at an Adelaide regional, surely they’d manage half that for a grassroots? Congratulations to everyone that did well 🙂 hopefully I can swing something to come to nats!
This tourney was a lot of fun, and definitely more challenging than I expected it to be. I look forward to playing against some of you at Nationals.
[quote]It indeed was like that in Adelaide. The winner of Masters for Adelaide won both the finals matches after beating others in the losers bracket.[/quote]
Adding on to this, it was the batman (2nd place), who knocked me down to the losers bracket in the finals of the winners bracket. I then had to play CassyTheGastrodon (3rd place) a 2nd time before facing him again.
Yes. You have to lose twice to be eliminated from a Double Elimination tournament. The Batman was undefeated. After the first game, Darkmalice and The Batman were the only two players in the tournaments with less than two losses. That means they need to play again to determine who wins the whole thing.
The finals was not best of three.
The way it was explained to me from the person I got my report from was that it was a best of three, however, the prize for winning it all the way through the winners bracket was that the entrant who did so was given a 1 game prize win for the finals. Meaning that instead of there being a maximum of three matches played (as the batman would be 1-0), there would be two. Where if the batman had won the first game, then he would have taken the title, or the opposite would happen like it did, where the winner from the loser bracket won both matches, ending in his favour with the score 2-1 for the finals.
Those battles in the final were very good to watch as spectators as well. Congrats to Darkmalice once again.
Disappointed that PLL hasn’t made an appearence to comment regarding Aus’s “unique” meta.
Grats to the winners! Kang is universal.
Wow so many kangas, I wish I went I even nicknamed my kang australia2op for the event ;-;
I’ve got to contact this “Jake” guy who got 7th at Perth in the masters division.
Can anyone help?
Your best bet would be to join the Facebook group “Pokéclectic”. If he is anywhere, he’s probably there.
I’m interested in Jake’s Mega Absol, does anyone know anything about it/his team?
I love how a 4 weakness to fairy type team got 6th place at this tournament. I mean seriously, I know that the Australia VGC community is starting to boom, but this is ridiculous. I know that stuff would not fly in the major regionals in America.
Alex’s Mega Ampharos has just enough speed investment to outspeed Zog Azumarill after Mega Evolving (which also means it outspeeds Mega Mawile), and in BO1 it’s a really easy trap to fall into. Weavile/Ampharos does surprisingly well against a lot of standard leads; Weavile deals with dragons, has Taunt for other supports, and lets Mega Ampharos get a Cotton Guard off thanks to Fake Out. My guess is that he saved his Mega Luke for teams with Garde, which are pretty popular in Perth.
If all else fails he dazzles his opponents with bling, the bulk of that team is legitimately shiny as well!
Jake loves his Mega Absol and takes it everywhere he goes. Practice and familiarity counts for a lot