Results & Teams from the VGC ’15 Gauteng Regionals
South Africa’s first Regional for VGC ’15 was held in Johannesburg, Gauteng. Attendance levels in South Africa are slowly growing, with a turnout of 24 players on the day a sign of bigger and better things to come. There were a few surprises with some newcomers earning Top Cut spots while some experienced campaigners came up just short. There were 5 rounds of Best-of-1 Swiss, followed by a Top Cut of 8 played in a Best-of-3 format.
Masters Division
1: Morné S (Acreland)
2: Dale Schwikkard (DalesHand)
3: Nikola Radevic
4: Jonah Alter
5: Armand Kruger (Snorlaxeon)
6: Stephan Davel
7: Ruan Pansegrouw
8: Stephen Botha (SteveBaPanda)
Keep an eye out for the next batch of regional events in South Africa at Kwa-Zulu Natal and Western Cape. We’ll report the results as they come in!
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acreland As a South African, Acreland spends most of his time trying not to be eaten by animals. When he's not evading wildlife, he enjoys playing competitive Pokemon and has done so since 2007.
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That’s…a lot of water types. Very interesting teams!
*Claps for Cloyster*
I wonder what kind of set is he running on that Cloyster though
very interesting teams to say at least
i love how the team with no water resist came in 2nd too :3
I’ll be that guy and say…
#TooMuchWater
Glad to see people still use Latios in this meta after the removal of dragon gen~ I wonder what sets are those two players running on him.
Hey All
If you want some information on some of the teams PM me and I will share if I have it.
Regards
DalesHand
Agreed with the “too much water” sentiment- that’s what happens when you throw a team together, hungover, exactly 2 minutes after registration was supposed to close (thanks for stalling, SteveBaPanda…). Steve, Dale & Jayhonas each picked a Pokemon for me.
Cloyster was scarf & Latios was specs. Both were pretty underwhelming TBH. DalesHands team is actually the interesting one- it’s as far from standard as possible while sneakily looking very standard.
@a friendly mod, please can you move this out of Simple Requests?
Pretty interesting teams. ‘”Too much Water” indeed, especially when all teams but 1 had atleast 1 Water-type, and also 2 of teams had 3 Water-Types. Complete lack of Landorus-T, Mega Salamence and Mega Metagross, and only 1 Bisharp, Kangaskhan, Sylveon, Heatran, Terrakion and Cresselia was used, as opposed to Greninjas that was used on 3 different teams. Also seeing regular Salamence is interesting.
Cloyster hard counters landorus T. notice the excessive lando counters in what I’m assuming is scarf Latios, water & ice Pokemon as well. It’s just the meta game adjusting to the most popular Pokemon in this split.