Nugget Bridge Circuit Season 3 Set to Begin
Big news for everyone who has been awaiting the next season of the Nugget Bridge Circuit! We’re back, bigger, and better than ever! Black and White are behind us and we now enter the age of X and Y. Along with that big change, the Nugget Bridge Circuit Season will have some major changes.
The most important and newsworthy changes:
The end of the season Nugget Bridge Invitational will have more players (32) and new ways to qualify. Now you don’t have to participate in a glut of Live Tournaments in an attempt to qualify. Like the past the Top 16 from the Live Circuit will receive invites, but in addition to that the Top 8 from the Nugget Bridge Major, the Top 2 Coro Coro Cup teams, and the last Invitational Top 2.
The Nugget Bridge Major will now be “separate” from the Live Tournament Circuit. The tournament will no longer award points towards an invite, but will now just give automatic invites to the Invitational as outlined above. Great prizes and tournament play will still play a part in the Major.
The Nugget Bridge Major will now be Swiss plus Top Cut. The Major has a history of some surprising bracket busters causing big names to lose early, and while we lose that moving to Swiss, the tournament becomes more in line with the modern day Video Game Championships.
A new team based tournament that gives invites to the Invitational for the top 2 teams. The rules will be based on the Coro Coro Cup tournament that was run in Japan during the 2013 VGC season.
Tournaments will no longer be seeded. This was a fun experiment for the first 2 seasons, but it was just more hassle than it was worth. It also often tilted the playing field a bit and we saw the same people get paired up over and over. Tournaments will still be in a bracket, but they will now be randomly assigned.
More than one Live Tournament a week. Still a work in progress and a lot of it depends upon the attendance numbers. If people play, we will continue to provide them a place to.
Late night live tournaments. In a bit of an effort to include Australia and North Americans who can’t make the other times we will begin a trial run of late night live tournaments. If we get the numbers, we will continue running these long term.
Circuit Points have been revamped. With the loss of the Major counting for points and more Live Tournaments, the best finish limit will be changed and points themselves will receive a makeover.
While the Standard ruleset for for the VGC ’14 season has not been announced, here on Nugget Bridge will we use Kalos Dex Only in the meantime. Item clause and Species clause all apply to Nugget Bridge Tournaments. The current rules allow for every Kalos Dex Pokemon with the exception of Yveltal, Xerneas, Mewtwo, and Zygarde. These rules are subject to change at any time and once we get the official ruleset from TPCi we will switch over to them.
The schedule right now isn’t 100% set in stone but what you can look forward to this season:
- Live Tournaments every week from now until around US Nationals time. Days will be subject to change at a moments notice due to unforeseen TPCi influences or other important events in the World of Pokemon.
- The Nugget Bridge Major starting in Late-January/Early-February.
- Coro Coro Cup Rules tournament starting in Mid-April.
- Nugget Bridge Invitational Mid-July.
We here are Nugget Bridge are excited for the upcoming Nugget Bridge Circuit Season and you can find more specific details like schedule and point values in the Online Tournament section of the forums. And last but certainty not least I personally want to thank all of our tournament hosts who help make tournaments on Nugget Bridge possible; without them we couldn’t provide the fun and excitement of the Nugget Bridge Circuit. Next time you play be sure to give some thanks to your host.
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makiri started playing VGC in 2008 and has been an advocate for VGC play since then. With three Regional Championship victories and multiple other high placings, makiri is a seasoned competitor ready to impart knowledge of the game to others.
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Awesome. Thanks home-slice.
Sooo how many matches usually happen? I mean, if I am defeated right away. does that mean I am out of the tournament?
Number of matches depend upon how many people sign up for the tournament
Depending on the tournament. For the live tournaments, yes, once you are defeated you are out of the tournament since live tournaments are always single elimination best of one. For live tourneys that are not, it will be listed within the opening post.
When will you guys announce the next block of live tournaments?
The next block of live tours will be announced within the next week or two.
To clarify I have to sign up an hour before the tournament right!? Like tomorrow’s tournament?
The sign up period for live tournaments will always be the hour right before the tourney starts.
As Biosci has mentioned next block of lives are gonna be up soon (timing the lives is really annoying work), but more importantly the next Nugget Bridge Major Signups will go up this weekend. Stay tuned for our biggest tournament!
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Wrong thread.
Have you got all the dates of the live tournaments? I shocked to see there is one tomorrow
Still sorting out a few things behind the scenes but yeah lives will be going again.
Is there a schedule for block 2? I had no idea the one yesterday was happening :'(
I’m curious to how disconnects and internet interrupts are handled?
Sorting something out behind the scenes, the next one is on the 7th though. Whole schedule out soon.
Case by case basis, no two disconnects are the same.
Block 2 has been edited into the OP, but here it is for people who don’t check that for whatever reason:
Wednesday, February 12
Thursday, February 20
Wednesday, February 26
Saturday, March 1
Friday, March 7
Saturday, March 8
Wednesday, March 12
Thursday, March 20
Friday, March 21
Thursday, March 27
Saturday, March 29 SWISS
Wednesday, April 2
Wednesday 4 PM PST/7 PM EST/12 AM GMT
Thursday 12 PM PST/3 PM EST/8 PM GMT
Friday 9 PM PST/12 AM EST/5 AM GMT
Saturday 12 PM PST/3 PM EST/8 PM GMT
So where do I sign up
You sign up at the thread (i.e. http://nuggetbridge.com/forums/topic/4307-nugget-bridge-live-tournament-s3-14-21214-won-by-dingram/)
For the wednesday tournaments I could enter but I would have to start R1 or R2 7-10 minutes late would that be ok or not ok?
Can you use cresselia or not from pokemon bank
For this set of rules this year, you can’t use anything outside of the Kalos pokedex and it has to be Kalos native (shows a blue pentagon on your pokemon). Cresselia is not in the pokedex, so no.
Thank you
Being late is generally considered a loss.
so how will the coro coro cup work is it done in multi battles etc and we need a team of 3 yere
From what I understand u get a team of 3 people, all of you use 6 Pokemon (none of them can be the same Pokemon) and each person from your team matches up against one guy from another team, and you all play best 2 of 3 sets. Then the team that wins the match is determined by who won the most 2 of 3 sets. But to answer your question directly it is definitely standard VGC Double Battles, the rest I’m only fairly sure about.
Why is one of the tournaments randomly swiss?
It’s the weekend before the American Regionals so it’s helps us get into the swiss mentality.
I’m going to try and get Saturday March 29th off of work. I’d really love the practice in swiss battles.
Can someone tell me how to sign up for this please? I cant find it in the post anywhere but i may just be being blind…
Wait for the threads to come up in this subforum and post your Friend Code in them. Then go on IRC #nuggetbridge so people can contact you for your matches.