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3 Age Divisions at VGC This Year - Juniors, Seniors, and Masters
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If I practice a ton and my battling skill is 'pretty good' what sort of chance do I have of making nats?
Masters Division.
The pure joy of a little kid being defeated is now lost :/
The pure joy of a little kid being defeated is now lost :/
drcossack
I'm everywhere, you ain't never there
We can still beat up on 15 year olds...and depending on your age, they might as well be little kids. :)
Maybe there'll be some really good 15 year olds in Masters division. You never know.
Most 15 year old kids will be in the Seniors division unless they are going to turn 16 in 2011. Well personally I like how it is divided, but that is because us born in 1996 were given a great opportunity. We get to participate in the VGC with less competition to begin with and arguably lower quality competition, but we still have some good players which a lot of people have been mentioning the famous Aaron Zheng as a top competitor for this division, so we get to experience Nationals and probably Worlds with everyone so in that sense we don't lose much. However in the upcomming years you can see that quite a few VGC players in the Senior division, like me, Wildfire, PungentFruit, HolyChipmunk, I think jrlucario, Mosquitox216, Maestol55 and some more are going into the masters division next year so we get the level of competition of people like Aaron Zheng and JRank and all of the other people, while next year the level of competition decreases. So I'm sure for us born in 1996 we don't mind the division, but for most of those born in other years everyone loses out on quite a lot, but most of us are going to continue with pokemon either way and that means that we can catch up in the masters division with higher level competition anyways. Either way you guys can't point fingers at us if we do well and blame that we have a lower level of competition, think about this for a second.
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Myself and, I assume, those born in the year 1996 don't mind too much about the division, seeing we don't lose much and, arguably, gain opportunities. Others probably mind a bit because they lose out on some competition.
tl;dr
Myself and, I assume, those born in the year 1996 don't mind too much about the division, seeing we don't lose much and, arguably, gain opportunities. Others probably mind a bit because they lose out on some competition.
Seniors division. I don't wanna jinx myself, but this is looking kinda easy because I haven't seen any senior mention Phoenix. HolyChipmunk we can take 1-2 in San Francisco.
This is great! I'm born in 1996! :D I still have to face Cybertron and Human in the North East regionals. >.< better start practicing now..
No one's pointing any fingers. If you're mature enough and aren't overly cocky, you will have our respect. Jeremy Fann fit in pefectly with us and commanded our utmost respect and we never once questioned anything about the level of competition he faced in previous years.
Anyway, I see this as a very good thing for VGC. They are obviously trying to expand and creating 3 age divisions will give more people a shot at winning. While it may dilute the playerpool for the Masters division, we have to remember that the extremely competitive players are still a huge minority when it comes to the attendance of these events.
I'm not trying to be cocky here, but the seniors level will be too easy especialy for the hard core players from Smogon and SkarmBliss that actually know what they are doing. To do well in a Juniors regional last year, alls you had to do was RNG. If you just RNG and EV train you are almost guaranteed a spot in the top 16. I have a feeling this year's Seniors will be very like that. Yes there will be some people that sort of know what they are doing, but the majority will be straight up noobs to say the least. Now I am a senior this year, but this post is not guaranteeing me a win, I'm just declaring that there will be almost no competition.
And Human I will be in seniors one more year.
And Human I will be in seniors one more year.
Yeah can't wait to beat up on those 15 and 16 year olds.
I'm really glad it's not 18+, by the time you're 15/16 you're probably as far as you are going to get in developing Pokemon skills age-wise.
Actually, for Seniors this year (and to a minor extent, Masters) the chance of getting beaten by a random (aka non-Smogonite/Skarmblissian), will skyrocket. Think about it. We'll (Seniors) will be used to the Skarmbliss PO metagame (there's not much of one on the Smogon server :/), but since the majority of people I will play will be younger (I'll be 14 and the oldest there will be 15/16), they'll have a totally different mindset. I look at the Senior metagame the same way I would if I were going to Worlds and preparing for the Japanese. They have a totally different playstyle, and it might be difficult to adapt. (I'm pretty sure I can do it, though)
JRank you can just take an "attack now think later" team and steamroll them. Kill them before they kill you and you won't have to deal with random crap being slung at you. That's how regionals work at any level.
Before bashing 15-year-olds, I would like to remind you that Jeremy Fan was 13 when he placed 25th at Worlds in 2010, and that Tasuku Mano was 15 when he placed 2nd at Worlds in 2009. Yeah, by the time you're around 15, you've pretty much learned much of what there is to pokemon :D
Seniors isn't going to be a breeze either, since people in the Seniors division still are better than the Juniors players and may actually EV train and such, using all attack teams. Don't try to do anything fancy, but instead make a solid team. And this game IS all luck, little skill, so really, you're still gambling in Seniors.
Seniors isn't going to be a breeze either, since people in the Seniors division still are better than the Juniors players and may actually EV train and such, using all attack teams. Don't try to do anything fancy, but instead make a solid team. And this game IS all luck, little skill, so really, you're still gambling in Seniors.
Something like last year's "Kyogre Hitmontop" team, I predict, would do quite well in Seniors and Juniors. I gave my 7 year old brother that team just 5 days before North East Regionals, and he somehow managed to get 3rd, and even beat Grace Arnold at Nationals. How he managed to do that was still beyond me, but the point is, unlike playing against Masters where you actually have to PREDICT, most Seniors go on for straight on attacking. If you have a well executed strategy, you should have no problem against almost any Senior other than those from Smogon and Skarmbliss.
Yay! I am a English senior I may make it past the first round this year.
I am liking these age groups.
I am liking these age groups.
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