VGC Invites for Global Battle Union (GBU) Players

Magicxgame · Jan 28th, 2011, 10:25:56 AM

An article describing Black/White's online features has been released. Near the end of the article, there was one interesting tidbit:

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Aside from bragging rights within the Global Battle Union, top-performing players may qualify for invitations to live regional and national tournaments in the Pokémon Video Game Championship series for the opportunity to advance to the Pokémon World Championships in San Diego, California, in August.

http://www.filb.de/1478
http://ds.ign.com/articles/114/1146574p1.html

This is pretty vague, and doesn't state if it's just an invite or a paid trip. Still, it's nice for those that can't attend regionals or need a second chance.

mattj · Jan 28th, 2011, 4:59:37 PM

How on earth would that work. The top players could be from anywhere in the World.

Mosquito · Jan 28th, 2011, 6:19:20 PM

Watch someone be a troll and set up their Pokemon Club account to be New Zealand :P I think you need to put some contact info on your Pokemon Club account

cosmicexplorer · Jan 28th, 2011, 6:35:54 PM

...what is the GBU?

Darkpenguin67 · Jan 28th, 2011, 6:43:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Fat cosmicexplorer

...what is the GBU?

Global Battle Union

Firestorm · Jan 28th, 2011, 6:48:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Fat mattj

How on earth would that work. The top players could be from anywhere in the World.

Why would that be a problem? They could either restrict it or just fly them to the national of their choice.

BlueCookies · Jan 28th, 2011, 7:14:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Fat mattj

How on earth would that work. The top player would be from iowa.

don't worry there's an airport in des moines

Zog · Jan 28th, 2011, 7:23:41 PM

Woooh, a reason to play online! If I don't win the UK nationals this year, will be giving it a go.

mattj · Jan 29th, 2011, 9:01:45 AM

Actually, this system would be stupidly easy to manipulate. I don't know if anybody else has been experiencing this, but when I win, at LEAST 50% of the time I get disconnected and the win doesn't count. My ratio is only barely over 50 / 50 because of this. If I understand how ranking works, someone could easily set up an account, and only let the wins count.

bharmalm · Jan 29th, 2011, 9:35:16 AM

this could help. if i have one of my usual fails and screw up.....

Plusle · Jan 29th, 2011, 9:52:25 AM

Just disconnect if you lose.

Havak · Jan 29th, 2011, 12:39:11 PM

Hopefully disconnections would result in a loss (even if down to technical difficulties) and any kind of cheating would be easily prevented. I think it might be too hard for it to be accurate enough, but we'll see how it goes.

**Solace*** · Jan 29th, 2011, 12:46:03 PM

Seems impractical to me, because as mattj said you can just D/C if you lose, and it wont get added to your win/loss record.

And even if they did something where D/Cs count automatically as a loss, then even people facing technical difficulties will be penalized. I know times where Nintendo's Wifi has been garbage and gone down, if two people begin a battle they'll both get losses added to their record for Nintendo's own problems.

Of course, this gives an extra incentive to play on Wi-fi, but it seems like any person who abuses the system can just make themselves seem good enough to get an invite.

BlueCookies · Jan 29th, 2011, 6:47:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Fat Solace.

Seems impractical to me, because as mattj said you can just D/C if you lose, and it wont get added to your win/loss record.

And even if they did something where D/Cs count automatically as a loss, then even people facing technical difficulties will be penalized. I know times where Nintendo's Wifi has been garbage and gone down, if two people begin a battle they'll both get losses added to their record for Nintendo's own problems.

Of course, this gives an extra incentive to play on Wi-fi, but it seems like any person who abuses the system can just make themselves seem good enough to get an invite.

Technical difficulties have already screwed over some people in the real VGCs, what makes this any different. If they want to give out invites based on online rankings they'll have to make DC's count as a loss

drug_duck · Jan 31st, 2011, 3:56:26 AM

But they don't. This is the Global Link's random WiFi rated mode and it's completely retarded to give out invites to Nationals based on rating because of two major problems screwing up the whole system:

1. Disconnects. This has been debated here but once again, I can confirm that disconnects don't count as a loss which makes the whole thing completely retarded.

2. You can use anything in random WiFi, it's basically every Poké from Gen 1-5 without the cover ubers and the event ubers so this does not have any relation to the VGC events where players have to deal with a restricted list of Pokémon.

This is retarded.

mattj · Jan 31st, 2011, 7:15:23 AM

You know, since this is based off of one small paragraph of text, I really do think we're missing something important here.

PungentFruit · Jan 31st, 2011, 5:18:46 PM

IGN also states "An invitation to a regional". i have no clue what that could possibly mean even though anyone can enter a regional or can they...? Maybe you need some special access or something. Who knows?

dtrain · Jan 31st, 2011, 8:10:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Fat PungentFruit

IGN also states "An invitation to a regional". i have no clue what that could possibly mean even though anyone can enter a regional or can they...? Maybe you need some special access or something. Who knows?

Means you get to cut the line at regionals!/jk

Also I think you guys should take mattj's advice and not jump to conclusions. Lets see where this goes. Also just wanted to hear what you guys think about medals/trophies. I play the Pokemon tcg and read they are switching over to medals from trophies for their state tournaments. Would you guys care? I'd personally would rather take the glass. I guess cause I don't really want to be a show off and wear my medal in front of my opponent.

mattj · Feb 1st, 2011, 11:51:58 AM

flash that bling

Atlas · Feb 1st, 2011, 10:21:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Fat mattj

How on earth would that work. The top players could be from anywhere in the World.

it said invitations, not necessarily paid

Cannonfodder · Feb 18th, 2011, 8:23:03 AM

In a way I think this will be kindof cool..........I mean no one with 255 ev's in all stats is going to be participating unilike at regionals!

Aqueos · Mar 28th, 2011, 10:29:49 PM

Uhhh yeah. Someone buy and mail me a copy of white, give me some good stuff, and we'll see who I can kill.
Jk but seriously, some person is going to stay up nights on end for this.

Jan 28th, 2011, 6:19:20 PM	#3
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Jan 29th, 2011, 9:52:25 AM	#11
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Jan 29th, 2011, 12:39:11 PM	#12
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Jan 29th, 2011, 12:46:03 PM	#13
Solace* i'm the boss Super Moderator Join Date: Nov 2009 Posts: 1,969 i love #thatPOWER Mentor	Seems impractical to me, because as mattj said you can just D/C if you lose, and it wont get added to your win/loss record. And even if they did something where D/Cs count automatically as a loss, then even people facing technical difficulties will be penalized. I know times where Nintendo's Wifi has been garbage and gone down, if two people begin a battle they'll both get losses added to their record for Nintendo's own problems. Of course, this gives an extra incentive to play on Wi-fi, but it seems like any person who abuses the system can just make themselves seem good enough to get an invite. __________________ [12:59pm] CDXCIV: Hugendugen said 12 hours ago in #x: Don't stooooooooooop thinking about tomorrow [12:59pm] CDXCIV: mikel said 12 hours ago in #x: DON'T STOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOP BELIEVIN' [12:59pm] CDXCIV: Hugendugen said 12 hours ago in #x: stooooooooooooooooop and stare [12:59pm] CDXCIV: Hugendugen said 12 hours ago in #x: I think I'm moving but I go nowhere

Jan 31st, 2011, 3:56:26 AM	#15
drug_duck Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 325 Erlangen, Germany	But they don't. This is the Global Link's random WiFi rated mode and it's completely retarded to give out invites to Nationals based on rating because of two major problems screwing up the whole system: 1. Disconnects. This has been debated here but once again, I can confirm that disconnects don't count as a loss which makes the whole thing completely retarded. 2. You can use anything in random WiFi, it's basically every Poké from Gen 1-5 without the cover ubers and the event ubers so this does not have any relation to the VGC events where players have to deal with a restricted list of Pokémon. This is retarded. __________________ German VGC Runner-up 2009 VGC Germany 2011: Qualified for Worlds

Jan 31st, 2011, 5:18:46 PM	#17
PungentFruit Join Date: Jan 2011 Posts: 348 #swaggg	IGN also states "An invitation to a regional". i have no clue what that could possibly mean even though anyone can enter a regional or can they...? Maybe you need some special access or something. Who knows?

Feb 18th, 2011, 8:23:03 AM	#21
Cannonfodder Join Date: Nov 2009 Posts: 125 Indianapolis, Indiana	In a way I think this will be kindof cool..........I mean no one with 255 ev's in all stats is going to be participating unilike at regionals!

Mar 28th, 2011, 10:29:49 PM	#22
Aqueos Join Date: Jan 2010 Posts: 747 Slaving away for VGC	Uhhh yeah. Someone buy and mail me a copy of white, give me some good stuff, and we'll see who I can kill. Jk but seriously, some person is going to stay up nights on end for this. __________________ My Black FC:4040 6014 4141 My Trade Thread Aqua Falls If I cmt in your thread respond in mine.