2013-2014 Play! Pokemon Season Rules, Dates Revealed
Lots of news today in relation to next season’s rules. The Pokemon website has revealed a number of things about the next season.
The official changes document has been posted on the Play! website but we have also included links to more specific information where necessary.
First off Regionals, Nationals, and Worlds dates have been revealed, though no information on location has been revealed just yet for the stuff we didn’t already know. You can see those dates here, but they are also as follows:
Fall Regionals
Weekends of October 12th, 19th, 26th
Winter Regionals (2014)
Weekends of January 11th, 18th, 25th
Spring Regionals (2014)
Weekends of April 5th, 12th, 19th
US Nationals
July 4th-6th, 2014
Worlds
August 15th-17th, 2014
Fall Regionals will continue to use Pokemon Black 2 and Pokemon White 2, while further tournaments will transition to Pokemon X and Pokemon Y.
Along with these changes to Regionals dates there has been a restructuring of prizes for the next season. Instead of directly giving you a travel award from your performance at a Regional, your Championship Point standing will determine which prizes you will qualify for. Winning a Regional will now give the first place winner a Nintendo 3DS. All the information related to Championship Points can be found here.
After the Spring Regional Championships, the Championship Point rankings will award Travel Awards and Stipends for North American players to the 2014 U.S. National Championships with the following distribution (per age division):
1st–16th: Travel Award and a $300 Stipend
17th–32th: $700 Travel Stipend
33rd–64th: $350 Travel Stipend
After July 10th, 2014, the final video game Championship Point rankings will be pulled. Accounts must be in good standing and updated by the user to reflect accurate information. At this time, Championship Points earned at the 2013 World Championships will also be added to players’ accounts. The following prizes will be awarded (per age division):
1st–4th in North America: Travel Award to the 2014 World Championships
1st–16th in Europe: Travel Award to the 2014 World Championships
Included are also best finish limits to the number of Regionals that will count towards your Championship Point total. Only 3 of your best Regionals performances will be counted towards Travel Awards/Stipends and Worlds Invites. The Top 16 North American players at the end of the season will receive an invitation to the World Championships, with the Top 32 European players also getting invites to the World Championships. There will also be 4 spots available for Last Chance Qualifier top 4.
What do you think of these changes Nugget Bridge? You can find all the information related to VGC for next season on the Play! Pokemon website.
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Love this idea. If the system this year is fixed as it’s rumored to be, I’m pretty sure no one would have an issue here.
Also, from a business/marketing standpoint, it costs Nintendo nothing directly, and I’m assuming it wouldn’t cost TPCi too much to get some gift cards from them to hand out to high ranking players in such tournaments. Some people may not even know about the eShop (I forgot it existed until know honestly) and this would draw them in, so free advertising too!
Well if people buy third party content (let’s say the upcoming Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies that everyone should buy) then it would cost them 70% of the game’s cost or whatever the cut the actual developer/publisher get but yeah it would help as the money goes directly back into their products. Also introduces people to the eShop service (which will hopefully have an account system by then).
Giving full downloads of Nintendo titles would theoretically just be free for them though.
I must say that I don’t like this system. I think it was said before that those who can afford to go to multiple regionals have better chances of getting the cp they need, and it seems worse in Europe where there are loads of cp up for grabs and many people can go to several of them, whereas some can only go to the one in their country. It will certainly make wi-fi tournaments more interesting (IF they can fix the disconnection problem) but I still feel that the top-something-in-regionals-for-nationals-invite and top-something-in-nationals-for-worlds-invite is definitely the better way to go.
I don’t know man. If someone wants to go overboard and drop the money to go to every event, I hope that works out for them. I’m just going to keep going to my regional, maybe another if I can swing it, Nationals, hang out with the people I’ve come to appreciate, have fun, and see what happens.