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PAX Pokemon League South 2015! The CHAMPION revealed!
AssumptionPrime
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Welcome to the PA Forums thread for the PAX Pokemon League at PAX South 2015!
What is the PAX Pokemon League?
The PAX Pokemon League is a weekend-long alternate reality game played at PAX! Gym leaders wander the convention center halls, ready to battle upstart young challengers like you! Find them and defeat them in battle, and you'll receive their badge!
Battles can take place anywhere at PAX. Note that this is NOT a tournament: just like in the game, ANYONE can train a team of their favorite Pokemon and challenge the League. We plan to have gym leaders at many difficulty levels, so everyone has a chance to live the Pokemon dream!
A little more info...
Started at PAX Prime 2010, the PAX Pokemon League has grown and continues to grow each year! The PPL focuses on creating a fun quest to find and battle gym leaders to earn their badges.
What do I need to participate?
All that is required is a copy of the newest Pokemon game (X, Y, Omega Ruby, or Alpha Sapphire), keen eyesight*, and a love of Pokemon Battle! Gym leaders will be all over PAX, and can be identified by their bright green scarves. Approach them, challenge them to a battle, and if they deem you worthy, you'll earn their badge! No need to sign up or anything, just find a gym leader and start battling!
*Note: Keen Eyesight only required to see neon green clothes in a sea of black t-shirts.
If, however, you want to know more about the league, join the community of challengers, and find information and hints that will help you locate and identify the gym leaders... well, you should visit our site where in the coming months we're going to be revealing leader profiles, detailed rules, and other fun things. We've also got a twitter account (@PaxPokemon) where gym leaders will often post their locations as they wander the con, and a (Facebook group) where if you like us you can see news and pictures from our Hall of Fame!
What are the rules?
The rules have been posted at http://paxpokemonleague.net/rules/ but will be updated when OR and AS come out.
What do I win?
Those who conquer the league will win the respect of their peers, entry into the Hall of Fame, and the ability to be forced to sit through the game's credits sequence.
Also, there may be some prizes...
That sounds awesome, can I help?
Right now, we're still in the planning stages! We're looking for artists and web developers who want to help make the PPL bigger, better, and shinier.
So, that's great, but what is this thread for?
This is the place to interact with challengers and leaders! We're always looking for cool ideas to improve the league, or input on rules that will help make the league more fun.
We also want to spread the word about the league! Tell us if you have any ideas about people we should talk to to get the word out.
We could also talk about your Pokemon. Perhaps you could show us them?
You guys are cool people, can I hang out with you?
You sure can! Visit our forums, follow our twitter or like our facebook page!
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Love Pokemon? Going to PAX Prime/East/Aus/South? Challenge the PAX Pokemon League!!!
good luck folks
Pokemon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire are coming out on November 21, 2014.
PAX South is January 23, 2015.
Guess what's coming back in Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire? SECRET BASES.
Guess what you can design your Secret Base as? A POKEMON GYM. WITH BATTLE RULES.
You can either:
a) Print out a QR code and hide it somewhere on the Main Floor with your badge symbol.
b) Street Pass people for gym challenges.
Penny for your thoughts. Please discuss.
Definitely something to consider. I'd think it would work well as an extra activity for the League, as much of the fun of the PPL is in finding and battling the leaders in person. Are the secret base battles conducted by the AI using your Pokemon or does it send you a challenge to battle them yourself via wireless?
Secret bases are definitely going to have some play with the PPL, we just need to figure out how to do it best.
Also, applications for the South PPL will be going up on the PPL forums soon, I'll give a shout here when they do!
The badges are buttons/pins. Here's a gym leader scarf with a ton of badges on the lower half: http://37.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8wus6Ah4C1rdk2q8o1_1280.jpg
http://paxpokemonleague.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1588
Our shiny new PAX South logo!
(Also mods sorry about the double post, wasn't AssumptionPrime's fault, I told him to repost because I thought this thread got locked when it was moved into this forum, since he can't edit the first post.
Love Pokemon? Going to PAX Prime/East/Aus/South? Challenge the PAX Pokemon League!!!
Love Pokemon? Going to PAX Prime/East/Aus/South? Challenge the PAX Pokemon League!!!
EDIT: Applications are now closed, and Gym Leaders have been selected!
PAX South is officially a GO! :O Can we do it? Can we run a PPL at a brand new PAX?
YES OF COURSE WE CAN
eeeeeeeeeeeee get excited! PPL South is going to be A THING
Love Pokemon? Going to PAX Prime/East/Aus/South? Challenge the PAX Pokemon League!!!
*CHEERS* YAY! Cant' wait. I've already got my team assembled(though I may adapt a bit when the new games are released)- trainers beware!
Love Pokemon? Going to PAX Prime/East/Aus/South? Challenge the PAX Pokemon League!!!
Check out my YouTube Pinny Arcade Videos!
Check out my YouTube Pinny Arcade Videos!
Check out my YouTube Pinny Arcade Videos!
Gym leaders at South will be using ORAS, but their teams (or backup versions of their teams) will be compatible for X/Y battles! Challengers can use ORAS or X/Y, whichever they have!
We've made some minor updates to the Rules page with a few banned and limited pokemon for ORAS.
More importantly, begin the Gym Leader reveals! Starting today with Allie, the Toxic Scientist!
There will be a new Gym Leader reveal every weekday leading up to PAX!