Published on November 16th, 2014 | by RAV44
7Costa Rica vs Chile: A Latin American Encounter
Hi Nugget Bridgers, I’m Raúl Arias (RAV44) and currently the admin of a competitive Pokémon community in Costa Rica called The Costa Rica Online Challenge. I had the idea of promoting the competitive game in Costa Rica. Some time ago all the players were battling under the single battle format. For that reason I’ve tried to build this community around the official ruleset during the VGC ’14 season using the double battle format with great success.
Currently Costa Rica just got the license to run Premier Challenges thanks to the alliance among different communities of Pokémon in the country (including The CROC) giving birth to Trainer Valley. We started making live tournaments and looking for our own ranking systems with the results of each tournament so we would have the opportunity to form a team that would represent us as a nation on the international scene. We have made tournaments with great success, even 64 players in some of them. We have an advantage living in a small country allowing us to travel to the capital where the tournaments are realized with more ease than other countries. We may have less players, but we’ve been working with each of them who are dedicated to the competitive game. In my personal opinion, that’s why we’ve managed to get Premier Challenges: the commitment of our players.
Thanks to our players, we could make contact with another VGC community in Chile (CBI Chile) and their admin Fenix Buccarey. We arranged the friendly that took place on October 10th – October 12th in a 7vs7 team match. This friendly was very exciting as it was our first and it was against Chile, a country that we knew had a good competitive level. Maybe the final results weren’t as we wanted, but we have learned so much and besides that we have made some friends in the Chile community as well. We are very happy with the results and we wanted to share this with the biggest VGC community: Nugget Bridge.
- Format: VGC ’14
- Tournament Type: Wi-Fi
- Tournament Format: Best of Three, Random Pairings
- Date & Time: October 10th, 11th, 12th, 2014
- Registration: Invitational Only
- Trainers: 7 Trainers from each country
Trainers List
No. | Name | IGN | Country |
1 | Max Morales(MAX_LJCR) | MAX_LJCR | Costa Rica |
2 | Raúl Arias(RAV44) | Raul | Costa Rica |
3 | Luis Angel Zúñiga(luissaru93) | Rose | Costa Rica |
4 | Eduard Zúñiga(eduard22) | Changueun | Costa Rica |
5 | Miguel Marín(Migno) | Migno | Costa Rica |
6 | Antonio Rodríguez(Toño) | Azuna | Costa Rica |
7 | Edward Zúñiga(EDDCHRIS) | Chris | Costa Rica |
8 | Nicolas del Campo | BibarelPower | Chile |
9 | Estephan Valdebenito | Pephan | Chile |
10 | Sebastian Benavidez | Vincent | Chile |
11 | Francisco Arcos | Heartless~ | Chile |
12 | Matias Roa | Boah | Chile |
13 | Felipe Manzur | Anysa | Chile |
14 | Felipe Méndez | TR Kid | Chile |
Pairings & Results
No. | Name | IGN | Score | IGN | Name |
1 | Max Morales | MAX_LJCR | 1 – 2 | Nicolas del Campo | BibarelPower |
2 | Raúl Arias | Raul | 2 – 1 | Estephan Valdebenito | Pephan |
3 | Luis Angel Zúñiga | Rose | 0 – 2 | Sebastian Benavidez | Vincent |
4 | Eduard Zúñiga | Changeun | 2 – 0 | Francisco Arcos | Heartless~ |
5 | Miguel Marín | Migno | 1 – 2 | Matias Roa | Boah |
6 | Antonio Rodríguez | Azuna | 2 – 0 | Felipe Manzur | Anysa |
7 | Edward Zúñiga | Chris | 0 – 2 | Felipe Méndez | TR Kid |
Results: | Costa Rica | 3 – 4 | Chile |
Videos
Here it is a playlist where you can see each battle for each match of the friendly:
Costa Rica
1. Max Morales(MAX_LJCR)
2. Raúl Arias (RAV44)
3. Luis Ángel Zúñiga(Luissaru93)
4. Eduard Zúñiga(eduard22)
5. Miguel Marín(Migno)
6. Antonio Rodríguez(Toño)
7. Edward Zúñiga(EDDCHRIS)
Chile
1. Nicolas del Campo
2. Estephan Valdebenito
3. Sebastian Benavidez
4. Francisco Arcos
5. Matias Roa
6. Felipe Manzur
7. Felipe Méndez
7 Responses to Costa Rica vs Chile: A Latin American Encounter
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Great matches and that Kangaskhan + Trick-or-Treat Gourgeist combo is just evil!
Love seeing the fun looking teams, Chatot is one of my favorite Pokemon so cool to see it used
Nicolas del Campo is @sh4dowzon not me. I just lent him my game since his crashed 🙁
Thanks @ninjasyao ! Battling everyday to be a best player. In This Friendly i lose, but my combo results fantastic Many times
I have played some of this players, Chile it’s a really competitive comunity on VGC. Soon we will see them on Worlds
Awesome matches (and fun-but-deadly combos like dat Trick-Or-Treat shenanigans) and its really cool to see how the Latin American VGC community is getting closer and closer.
Saludos from a Colombian VGC player!
Same feeling here. I’m from Brazil, and we’re increasing out community and VGC, and we’ve been asking companies here to bring official tournaments. We hope this is the year a Brazilian will have a worlds invitation.