So I figure there's no better way to get the NintendoLife crew together than a good ol'-fashioned tournament. Considering that Pokemon is the second most successful franchise in gaming history and the DS is the most successful bit of hardware in gaming history, it seemed the logical choice. To that end, I present the first of what will hopefully be many NintendoLife Pokemon tournaments. Wanna compete for fame, fortune and fabulous prizes? Read on!
Anyone who's interested, throw your Friend Code up here and I'll draw up a simple elimination ladder, matching foe against foe. The tournament will start on the first of May, so that'd give you three weeks or so to train. The tournament would last for a week, so there should be plenty of time for everyone to organise and schedule each battle. We'd be going off the honour system here, so I'd have to take each party's word on who won and lost. Once a final winner is declared, I hook them up with their prizes and a new tournament gets announced.
In the future there'll probably be unique rules and themes for each competition, but for now, let's keep things simple. 3v3, standard rulesets, auto-level to 100, no hacked/illegal Pokemon. Seems fair enough?
Remember those prizes I mentioned? Well, for the first tournament I figure we might as well stick with the classics: the winner will receive their very own Mew, as handed out by Nintendo at some point last year. It'd be the European "Aura Sphere" version, so totally legit and worth getting a hold of. The winner would also receive their very own EXCLUSIVE NINTENDOLIFE POKEYMANZ OMG - in this instace, the Moai Head Pokemon himself, Nosepass! Freshly hatched, with a unique moveset, and shiny to boot! Truly a treasure to be... um, treasured.
Anyway, that's enough for now. I'll throw up a full rundown of the prizes, and a list of banned Pokemon, later. I'll also update the OP with all the current Friend Codes and such when appropriate. If you're interested, post away!
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