If, for some reason, you don't already believe that the original Pokémon theme song was made out of pure magic and dreams, then maybe this story will change your mind.
University of Iowa freshman Spencer Lee defeated Rutgers' Nick Suriano on Saturday night, winning the 125-pound title at the 2018 NCAA Wrestling Championships in the process. While his achievement is one to be celebrated for - you know - talent-related reasons, we couldn't help but love the fact that he chose the Pokémon theme to give himself a boost before the match.
As it turns out, Lee actually follows the competitive Pokémon scene and has entered into competitive play in the past. If he wasn't busy being a full time student and athlete, he might actually still be competing.
Not wanting to take anything away from Lee's hard work and success, we hope that the track somehow had some sort of mystical influence over proceedings and, with that in mind, we now plan to blast the song out on repeat for the rest of the week in hopes that all of our dreams come true.
[source comicbook.com]
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This is amazing, that man has my respect!
Wow, that's very Unusual.
Nintendo Life: Last Day of June review, please.
Gamers can be big and strong, too. No excuses. Get liftin'.
That’s nothing. Herman Cain should’ve won in 2012. Then he would have walked out to the Pokémon song on election night.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=o95KxKKrgkQ
Imagine this. But with Herman Cain instead of Trump, and with the Pokémon song.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GYsWWAAuYAE
This is great. As somebody who enjoys watching the darts sports, where the competitors also come on stage with walk-on music of their choice, I had always wondered what it would be like if one would walk on with a Nintendo based song. I guess it would be something like this!
4kidd gets alot of crap(rightfully deserved), but they made alot of great opening sonhs for anime orihibal pokemon theme included.
Proceeds to play the Pokemon theme on repeat via Spotify
If the opponent played the ARMS theme, I bet he would've won
@Muddy_4_Ever "Gamers can be big and strong, too. No excuses. Get liftin'."
He's 125 pounds and like five feet.
@justin233
http://www.pushsquare.com/reviews/ps4/last_day_of_june
@RevengeFan Thank you. Would like to know if there are any qualms with the Switch version too, however.
His comment about the community not being a hopeless one interests me. Why would he say that unless someone else claimed it WAS hopeless? Competitive Pokemon has some issues, largely with their focus on in-person tournaments that force expensive travel, and their requirement that you use Pokemon obtained in THAT Pokemon game(not just the same species, but actually caught or bred in that generation). But overall it has struck me as quite healthy with a vibrant playerbase and large tournaments despite these drawbacks. Regional and international tournaments often drawing hundreds or more of players and spectators.
This guy is a true legend.
@Heavyarms55 It would seem that way with how verlisfy talks on YouTube.
This young man is a ridiculously good wrestler. He dominated an incredibly deep field in route to winning his title and should have been named the outstanding wrestler of the tournament. He is one of the best American folk style high school wrestlers of all-time (which is prestigious in this sport). He also gave a very gracious and articulate interview after his championship match. I’d love if he could get involved promotionally with the Pokémon Company after he exhausts his NCAA eligibility.
Edit: He also has an excellent chance to be a future Olympian.
@Zscout1288 verlisfy is absolute trash and a not worthy of a single view. You would have to pay me a LOT of money to watch his trash.
lmao niceee
@Heavyarms55 agreed, but you couldn't pay me enough
@Zscout1288 Lol, everyone has a price.
@Heavyarms55 also to reply to your first comment. "...their requirement that you use Pokemon obtained in THAT Pokemon game..." I think the fact that it's harder to hack/glitch in the new games and easier to patch any major ones as they come up. Also it would encourage use of the new pokemon from that gen.
@Heavyarms55 If I watch him it is through a commentary channel
@Zscout1288 I have heard that argument made - but it is a moot point, cheaters had hacked Pokemon in Sun and Moon and USUM within a couple days of launch. XY took only a couple weeks. The requirement punishes those of us who don't cheat, while completely failing to block the targeted cheating.
Fact is that even with all the improvements made, breeding and raising Pokemon for competitive play is still a huge time investment, and when we can bring Pokemon over from previous games, there should be no reason to require us to breed that exact same Pokemon again, EV train it again, put the same moves on it, and level it up, again.
They have Pokemon Bank, they should make that the key test for hacks, and then for tournaments they can simply have the rule banning exclusive move tutor moves or TM moves from previous generations - if they want.
@Heavyarms55 I haven't done the research on it and I was just going on what I could see as the reason for it. But after reading what you pointed out I agree with you
@Zscout1288 Sorry for the long winded post, as a Pokemon fan going back to Red and Blue, and having played online since the feature was added in Diamond and Pearl, it is an issue I feel pretty strongly about. I desperately hope they handle it better in Pokemon Switch. Fans like me, who put hundreds of hours into the games... well I don't like being told I can't use my shiny Milotic just because I hatched it - after 400ish eggs, in Pokemon Y.
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