IMPORTANT DYNAMIC UPDATES FOR DURING PAX
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-ONLY 6 BADGES ARE NEEDED TO BEGIN FACING THE ELITE FOUR! This is because there are just not as many gym leaders available at all times (since some are enforcers, and others are playing hard to find) so ONLY 6 BADGES are needed to begin the challenge agains Giovanni!
-Some gym leaders are working as enforcers, so they will not be able to challenge at all times, and may not even have updates.
-at least one leader is from canada and thus not using a phone so as not to get shafted by crazy price rates.
-The twitter gets updated as soon as gym leaders tell me where they are, so bug them :P
-Currently, I can't see any
@paxpokemon tweets on my phone, since it's only text updates, so if someone knows how to make it send
@paxpokemon tweets to my phone, PLEASE do tell.
-ALL PPL MEETUPS will be on the BOTTOM MOST FLOOR of the handheld lounge, unless otherwise noted.
-THERE WILL BE AN ADDITIONAL MEET UP: after the final round of the omegathon, because I want some pictures of all the Leaders, and all the challengers, and everyone all together. location for this is TBD, so watch the twitter please.
-THANK YOU ALL FOR SHOWING UP! we've vot TONS of you who showed up for this! and we're happy to keep this going. I'm glad to see gym leaders 4 trainers deep in battles ready to go out, and I'm a little afraid of how much I'm going to battle on sunday, but mostly excited to get to play LOADS of pokemon.
That’s right, premiering this year at PAX prime is a real life Pokémon league! Challengers will have to find, challenge, and defeat our gym leaders in contests of will, endurance, and of course - Pokemon battling. All you need to enter is a copy of any Fourth-Generation Pokemon game [Diamond, Pearl, Platinum, HeartGold, or SoulSilver] with any team. We suggest you use HG or SS if your teams are not level 100, as there is no flat-battle option in D/P/Pt. Teams must follow the rules given below, but most players will find that their teams qualify!
Rules (At-A-Glance version)
- HAVE FUN! This is supposed to be an enjoyable activity, please don’t get stuck in semantics or rules-lawyering.
- Wheaton's law applies. We're trying hard to make it fun for you. Treat us with respect, please!
- Any activity that helps enrich the experience is acceptable and encouraged! Cosplay as your favorite trainer, announce your moves to the public, and help us spread the word! This will not be a success without your enthusiasm!
- Don’t use hacked or banned Pokémon. If the pokemon in question is banned in the battle tower, it is either banned or restricted from the PPL. For a full list of banned Pokémon, please see the “nitpicky rules” section.
- Gyme Leaders my only be challenged once per day, and Elite four only once each. This is to ensure that we are also able to enjoy PAX, and encourage all of you to spend lots of time at PAX as well, doing more than just playing Pokemon.
- A few things frowned upon: Spamming sleep moves or trying to abuse the evasion system. In general, strategies like those are not fun for the challenger or the gym leaders, so please don’t use them. There are more details in the nitpicky rules.
- On a similar note, the Gym Leaders and Elite Four, are trying to make this fun for you, and we would appreciate it if you would return the favor.
- Please keep in mind that all GL and E4 are PAX attendants just like you. We have things we want to see, so note there will be times when we’re not able to accept challengers.
The Leaders
Each gym leader that you find will be marked in some way - they will either have a bandana signifying their involvement or will be incredibly obvious to spot. As a challenger, there is no need for you to wear anything, although we do encourage cosplay! The league twitter account (
@PAXPokemon) will be updated during the convention with information about various locations and meetups, so please check it!
After defeating or otherwise proving yourself to the gym leader, you will receive an actual physical badge (while supplies last) signifying your accomplishment. After you have collected 8 badges (CHANGED TO 6), you are then permitted to challenge the Elite Four for your shot at becoming a League Champion! The Elite Four must be challenged in order.
Please remember that Gym Leaders and Elite Four are PAX goers just like you, so there will naturally be times they can and cannot be challenged. There will also be set-aside times where all challenges will be accepted. More to come on that later.
Leader will be easily identifiable by their cosplays, pictures posted below, and THESE spiffy bandanas that many will be wearing/have on their person:
Leader Bios:
Team Rocket!
You may want to be careful; Team Rocket has heard of our plans to gather the strongest trainers in the world, and hopes to capitolize on this for their own nefarious gains. Sources say they may have even infiltrated the PAX Pokemon league, much like they did the Kanto League.
UPDATE: My sources were correct, and the PPL has indeed been infiltrated, but fear not, as the best trainers from arround the world are gathering here, and if they were stopped by a child before, perhaps this time we can stop them with the child inside all of us. That being said, do your best to track down and defeat as many rocket grunts as you can, as well as seek out their mysterious leader.
SECOND UPDATE: It seems it's worse that I originally thought... The Prince has mysteriously disappeared and Giovanni has volunteered to take his place... No one has seen a trace of the prince, but lance must be out looking for him. Though Giovanni has been cleared of criminal charges in the past, one can't help but pin the blame on him, as he had a seat of power to gain through this move.
Rewards
These are still being discussed, but every Gym Leader will have a badge for you to obtain upon defeating them, and a final reward will be set for defeating the full Elite Four.
Remember that all rewards are while supplies last - we're planning some backups in case we have more demand than we expect, but please don't be disappointed if we run out - things happen.
There might also be some other surprises in store for champions.
Meet-Ups at PAX
Meet-ups are designed to slightly lower the time that goes into finding a gym leader and more time towards battling. Though we still very much encourage battles anywhere during PAX, these meet-ups will be a sure place to go to find the leader you want to challenge. As noted below, for the most up to date information, please follow us on twitter
@PaxPokemon. I would also suggest following the PAX Handheld lounge, as they will be hosting multiple Pokewalker meetups, at which the PPL will attempt to be present.
Our official meetups will be in the handheld lounge(s) (the place with all the sumo bean-bags) at the following times:
-FRIDAY: 5PM
-SATURDAY: 5PM
-SUNDAY: 4PM
Please note: times and location are subject to change, and as I've said before and I'll say again, the best way to stay in touch is follow us on twitter.
Rules (long version) - if you're casual, they are summarized above.
Final note:
- Follow us on twitter
@PaxPokemon for updates about the league.
-Help keep your twitter world updated on your conquests int he league, and help us find them by tagging your tweets with #PaxPokemon (sadly #ppl is taken by tweets about... people...)
- If you’re going to be a challenger, please tell us. We're excited about this, and we would love to talk about people similarly excited!
- Tell your friends, tell your family, and tell anyone you know who’s going to PAX who plays Pokémon. We're hoping for word of mouth!
- Bring your A-game. This league will challenge even the toughest trainers!
See you at PAX!
Below are the previous front page posts, which are for archive purposes only, and really shouldn't be read.
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When would this take place, though? You can't expect Gym Leaders to stand in one place during the entirety of PAX!
I would hope so.
Type themed probably
As for where it would take place, I was thinking figure out designated times where the gym leaders should be in the DS lounge, or otherwise have them marked somehow (some article of clothing unique to them (AKA a badge or something) and you'd have to find them as part of the challenge)
Similarly the champion (whoever beats the series first) would have some sort of crown that they were to wear, and to challenge the champ, you'd have to go find them.
in short, still trying to figure that part about finding them out...
It's a cool idea, but that might be a high point of entry.
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not a full team for gym leaders. like... a team of 3-5 pokemon for gym leaders. maybe 4-5 (maybe 6) for E4
just trying to gain some ideas from this for right now.
just a thought...
Now I'm just getting too many ideas in my head... Thanks a lot. :P
now THAT is a fun idea.
maybe do it like... right after hours at PAX, but before the concerts start.
like during that dead time? yeah, that'd be good.
I just think it would be fun to setup a spot at the Pre-PAX Dinner where people can come and battle me though. I don't know if I would take a gym leader position though, unless there would be enough of us and challengers would only need to defeat a certain number of leaders to take on the elites.
Hrm...I wonder if I could get a crazy level 100 Steel type team going in time.
A word of caution. Wifi battles (which is what these would be) or notoriously IMPOSSIBLE to finish at PAX. There's so many wireless signals that usually half way through the battle you'll lose the connection and then it's sadfaces all around
I've had a lot of the fun in the past challenging people to Union Room battles, which are 2 on 2 with pokemans <= 30lvls, Yeah it's limited but the DS's handle line of site much better than wifi.
So while I'd LOVE to do this and be a gym master (of course, 'cause my pokeman are badass motherfuckers), I don't think it's feasible while at PAX.
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it'll be direct link wireless face to face, in the same room, watching the other person, and hopefully announcing the moves your pokemon are using rather loudly.
^.^
Oh, man. I had a team of legitimately trained L:100s in Red. It was something like Charizard, Mewtwo, Gengar, maybe a Dodrio for some reason, and a couple of others.
I need to dig that game out again.
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I'd require that GLs and E4 will use no legendaries, but challengers are not restricted in this way (in my initial thoughs, but I may end up banning deoxys, and mew since they're WAY too good, but all is up for discussion)
I really think this has the potential to be awesome, I hope to see it be awesome. as I've said in my last 10 posts, IDEAS WILL BE MET WITH COOKIES!
That would be really cool actually.
then it'd feel like they have real badges, lol
but I know nothing of getting buttons made etc.
If you want to ban anything else, ban Arceus as well. It's not legitimently available yet, people would have to use something like Pokesav to get it, and I wouldn't be opposed to people using something like that to make their own team, as long as it's legit as possible, (stats and known moves per level for every existing pokemon are easy to find online) but Arceus can be really powerful if used right, even at low level. Just a thought though.
both noted.
it makes sense that arceus would be banned too... a bit too versatile as well.
also, I think arceus is available..... in japan...
Anyway, I'm still rigorously training a team in Heart Gold right now, rematching a bunch of the gym leaders over and over, as well as fighting the improved elite four until I can take down Red. I'll probably keep training them afterwards and just use them as my team for PAX.
would you be interested in being a gym leader, or a challenger?
also, some time this weekend I'll start a new thread with full on information on what I'm going to need (in terms of people to do stuff like, train pokemon teams of all one type as gym leaders etc...) and how others can participate.
do note, if this falls through, there can still be a pokemon tourney set up at some point.
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Probably a leader, though I'm not going to have much time to meet up with people to battle with them, unless we did something like I mentioned before, where challengers wouldn't need to defeat every gym leader in order to fight the elite four. Otherwise, I might just do my own thing at the Pre-PAX Dinner.
I can agree to that list.
I'd suggest for when/where to battle, each leader/elite four should have some set times each day to be in certain areas as is reasonable for each ones' schedule with some form of special button identifying them as the person of interest. If for some reason someone can't make those times it should be up to them to find that leader/elite four on their own and hope they're compliant for a battle or to schedule a personal match, such as you might see in those leader rematches. Elite Four should have some requirement for battling each one, so the trainers can say they were good enough to make it to them.
And 'twould be awesome to receive a "gym badge" button for winning.
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I don't get the "not legitimately available" part. What about the TRU event? (I think that's what it was, back in November.) I don't mind banning on basis of being overpowered, however.
What's wrong with this thread?
Keep us posted with your plans!
I don't really pay much attention to the events, so I may have missed one involving Arceus, I've just heard from multiple sources that it hasn't happened yet. The legit part just means there's no official way of obtaining Arceus. People would need something like pokesav to create it, then load it onto a rom on a flash cart.
Either way, we won't be seeing it, so it's all good.
I can see the Legendaries as being banned, but Wobbuffet and Garchomp? Those are just standard Pokémon, and it's your own fault if your team structure can't handle them.
One thought that I had is that there could be button "Badges", with graphics from the games, and one "Champion" badge that you can get for beating everyone or placing highest.
No, I mean I have Arceus from the event. I had to look it up when I took the picture just now, but it was in November of last year. But yeah, Roar of Time, Spacial Rend, and Shadow Force might only have 5 uses each naturally, but do you really need more? That's just a *bit* overkill for friendly competition like this.
Anyway, now that I've actually managed to remove Soul Silver from my DS for five minutes, I suppose I should get to breeding Brian those Kanto starters he asked me for back when we picked up HG/SS.
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It's more that Wobbuffet can, with some really easy prediction (is your opponent a special or physical attacker?) get at least one free kill.
Garchomp has a very high base stat total, which wouldn't be bad if it didn't have Sand Veil, giving it boosted evasion in a sandstorm. Given the overabundance of Hippowdon and Tyranitar, this makes Garchomp more difficult to kill than it should be.
This is going to be designed arround the challengers HAVING A CHANCE and some room for error (but less as they go on) so as I said before NO legendaries (or FEAR rattatas) are allowed by leaders of E4, but Challengers will have a seperate list that will NOT be as extensive as the list provided as the top of this page. I'll put out a list in the 2nd thread I'll be making this weekend with ALL the full info I've come up with, and hopefully that one will get stickied (a man can dream, can't he)
Makes sense as i'm studying to become and Air Traffic Controller <_<