Prologue
I wake up at like 5 o'clock, do my morning rituals (had to refresh chicken water twice because a duck snuck into the pen somehow and decided a ~50 degree morning and a bowl that is about a foot in diameter was the perfect setting for a bath) and pack the car with clothes and stuff. We set off at about 6:30 (maybe 8:00?? idk), hit I-55 north, and drove almost in a complete strait line. Some asshole flipped me off because I almost pulled into him, but that's what he gets for chilling out in my blind spot. Lambert's Cafe was also super crowded which sucks.
When we get to the hotel, check in and go to the VGC area to look around, it's about 5:00 PM. My boy JRank is there and we have a hax match (bs my own mamo critting my own pokes with eq hax). While we were going at it fistycuffs style, someone comments on my 3DS and says there's only 2 others in his town. I talk with him for a minute and make a mental note to hunt him down for his male Jellicent Pokedex 3D data, but I couldn't find him afterwards. JRank asks if I knew that guy. I say I didn't and he gives me a weird look. Also, this fat kid wearing a Sonic the Hedgehog hat was running around (at the speed of sound, he had places to go had to follow his rainbow) in the little kid's play area with his hands outstretched behind him much like modern Sonic does when he runs. I estimated him to be at least 14, and he sneaked up on me once and asked which version I was playing with breath that smelled like one of my redneck cousin's whose idea of brushing is to pick the enamel off his teeth manually with hands fresh from skinning miscellaneous animals. He didn't wait for my reply and said he has both Red and Fire Red, laughs at his own statement and runs off in his Sonic-imitating manner. I have never been so creeped out by a human being in my life.
Before continuing to the actual event, here's my team. Click on them for EV information and stuff:
Samantha (a cousin on the nicer side of the clan; she caught a shiny shellos in front of me and gave it to me) @ Rindo Berry
Muddy Water / Protect / Ice Beam / Earth Power
JIMMY JOE (kin to BOBBY JOE and FREDDY JOE) @ Wacan Berry
Surf / Protect / Ice Beam / Hidden Power Grass
Speckles (IDK LOL) @ Flight Gem
Bullet Punch / Protect / Bug Bite / Acrobatics
Alvia (an engine on the RENFE line) @ Sitrus Berry
Thunderbolt / Thunder Wave / Heat Wave / Hidden Power Ice
Langshan (black chinese chicken breed with feathered shanks) @ Eviolite
Night Shade / Will-O-Wisp / Trick Room / Helping Hand
Sorrel (a plant that looks like it grows around the barn) @ Focus Sash
Drain Punch / Fake Out / Taunt / Sucker Punch
Trick Room/Rain hybrid. I figured a lot of people were going to be using rain, so why not? Langshan is probably the MVP, because nothing (and I mean nothing) came close to a 2HKO except Chandelure's Shadow Ball, and even then he took damage prior. Samantha also put on a fine showing, though I'm probably going to rebreed for a Quiet Gastrodon because she was kind of weak without a boost.
Day One
Wake up, eat some breakfast, headed on over to the mall and waited for people to show up. I watch JRank's flawless victory with Alaka and a few others with the ease of my camera's boss zoom over his shoulder and discussed the goings on in each match (Solarbeam Ninetales, anyone??). A referee tried to videobomb me a few times, but all I got was a bunch of pixels of his shirt and the zoom had to refocus afterwards.
mattj trading some Pokemon over to his cohorts
TCG matches (junior finals??)
You know, I would've bought something, but I already had a waffle and I don't need to get hyper on sugar right now.
my boy
this peace is what all true warriors strive for!!
not into the magma!!! it burns!!!
This is beans compared to last summer's VGC. I only got 30 more street passes!
Round 1: VS Ashenlocke
-uploading video soon-
After the match, he dropped out of the tournament for some reason.
Round 2: VS Biffster (smogon player iirc)
I played hilariously bad, and moves missed a lot. 0-4, couldn't lay a finger on him.
Round 3: VS female character cosplayer
She was using a VGC11 team, and a decent one at that. Speckles kinda wiped the floor with her, though. 2-0
Round 4: vs SOMEONE
EDIT: I remember now; I brought the Metagross weak side of the team to fight your Metagross. Still kicking myself for not bringing Alvia, 0-2
Round 5: VS JRank's friend
Really close match, thought I had him at the end but I fucked up and thought Bullet Punch was SE against Kabutops. 0-1
Round 6: VS mattj's friend
Choiced Politoed locked into Surf VS Samantha and Sorrel. 2-0
So after that, I have a few more battles and hand out copies of Langshan and Araucana to cool people.
That's all I feel like writing right now, so I'll leave you with the props and slops:
Props:
- Smogon/(LOLOTHERWEBSITETHATWEALLKNOWABOUT) gang for being bosses as usual
- mattj, for bringing his ultra cute daughter
- JRank for winning and JIMMY JOE's king's rock
- Marriland for giving great high fives
- Ashenlocke for letting me use his game to level up my Entralink
- My dad for coming with me and driving parts of the way
- My sister for coming down from Kansas City (Kansas) to see us
Slops:
- No Eye of the Tiger or Final Countdown (and general lack of atmosphere)
- Me for playing really, really badly sometimes
- JRank, for giving really bad high fives
- The lunch truck, for having really bad pizza
- the sonic kid
- I kept setting down my water bottle and forgetting it and as a result got a dry throat
- Almost running off the road due to crosswinds on the way back
I wake up at like 5 o'clock, do my morning rituals (had to refresh chicken water twice because a duck snuck into the pen somehow and decided a ~50 degree morning and a bowl that is about a foot in diameter was the perfect setting for a bath) and pack the car with clothes and stuff. We set off at about 6:30 (maybe 8:00?? idk), hit I-55 north, and drove almost in a complete strait line. Some asshole flipped me off because I almost pulled into him, but that's what he gets for chilling out in my blind spot. Lambert's Cafe was also super crowded which sucks.
When we get to the hotel, check in and go to the VGC area to look around, it's about 5:00 PM. My boy JRank is there and we have a hax match (bs my own mamo critting my own pokes with eq hax). While we were going at it fistycuffs style, someone comments on my 3DS and says there's only 2 others in his town. I talk with him for a minute and make a mental note to hunt him down for his male Jellicent Pokedex 3D data, but I couldn't find him afterwards. JRank asks if I knew that guy. I say I didn't and he gives me a weird look. Also, this fat kid wearing a Sonic the Hedgehog hat was running around (at the speed of sound, he had places to go had to follow his rainbow) in the little kid's play area with his hands outstretched behind him much like modern Sonic does when he runs. I estimated him to be at least 14, and he sneaked up on me once and asked which version I was playing with breath that smelled like one of my redneck cousin's whose idea of brushing is to pick the enamel off his teeth manually with hands fresh from skinning miscellaneous animals. He didn't wait for my reply and said he has both Red and Fire Red, laughs at his own statement and runs off in his Sonic-imitating manner. I have never been so creeped out by a human being in my life.
Before continuing to the actual event, here's my team. Click on them for EV information and stuff:
Samantha (a cousin on the nicer side of the clan; she caught a shiny shellos in front of me and gave it to me) @ Rindo Berry
Muddy Water / Protect / Ice Beam / Earth Power
JIMMY JOE (kin to BOBBY JOE and FREDDY JOE) @ Wacan Berry
Surf / Protect / Ice Beam / Hidden Power Grass
Speckles (IDK LOL) @ Flight Gem
Bullet Punch / Protect / Bug Bite / Acrobatics
Alvia (an engine on the RENFE line) @ Sitrus Berry
Thunderbolt / Thunder Wave / Heat Wave / Hidden Power Ice
Langshan (black chinese chicken breed with feathered shanks) @ Eviolite
Night Shade / Will-O-Wisp / Trick Room / Helping Hand
Sorrel (a plant that looks like it grows around the barn) @ Focus Sash
Drain Punch / Fake Out / Taunt / Sucker Punch
Trick Room/Rain hybrid. I figured a lot of people were going to be using rain, so why not? Langshan is probably the MVP, because nothing (and I mean nothing) came close to a 2HKO except Chandelure's Shadow Ball, and even then he took damage prior. Samantha also put on a fine showing, though I'm probably going to rebreed for a Quiet Gastrodon because she was kind of weak without a boost.
Day One
Wake up, eat some breakfast, headed on over to the mall and waited for people to show up. I watch JRank's flawless victory with Alaka and a few others with the ease of my camera's boss zoom over his shoulder and discussed the goings on in each match (Solarbeam Ninetales, anyone??). A referee tried to videobomb me a few times, but all I got was a bunch of pixels of his shirt and the zoom had to refocus afterwards.
mattj trading some Pokemon over to his cohorts
TCG matches (junior finals??)
You know, I would've bought something, but I already had a waffle and I don't need to get hyper on sugar right now.
my boy
this peace is what all true warriors strive for!!
not into the magma!!! it burns!!!
This is beans compared to last summer's VGC. I only got 30 more street passes!
Round 1: VS Ashenlocke
-uploading video soon-
After the match, he dropped out of the tournament for some reason.
Round 2: VS Biffster (smogon player iirc)
I played hilariously bad, and moves missed a lot. 0-4, couldn't lay a finger on him.
Round 3: VS female character cosplayer
She was using a VGC11 team, and a decent one at that. Speckles kinda wiped the floor with her, though. 2-0
Round 4: vs SOMEONE
EDIT: I remember now; I brought the Metagross weak side of the team to fight your Metagross. Still kicking myself for not bringing Alvia, 0-2
Round 5: VS JRank's friend
Really close match, thought I had him at the end but I fucked up and thought Bullet Punch was SE against Kabutops. 0-1
Round 6: VS mattj's friend
Choiced Politoed locked into Surf VS Samantha and Sorrel. 2-0
So after that, I have a few more battles and hand out copies of Langshan and Araucana to cool people.
That's all I feel like writing right now, so I'll leave you with the props and slops:
Props:
- Smogon/(LOLOTHERWEBSITETHATWEALLKNOWABOUT) gang for being bosses as usual
- mattj, for bringing his ultra cute daughter
- JRank for winning and JIMMY JOE's king's rock
- Marriland for giving great high fives
- Ashenlocke for letting me use his game to level up my Entralink
- My dad for coming with me and driving parts of the way
- My sister for coming down from Kansas City (Kansas) to see us
Slops:
- No Eye of the Tiger or Final Countdown (and general lack of atmosphere)
- Me for playing really, really badly sometimes
- JRank, for giving really bad high fives
- The lunch truck, for having really bad pizza
- the sonic kid
- I kept setting down my water bottle and forgetting it and as a result got a dry throat
- Almost running off the road due to crosswinds on the way back
