How i found pokemon...
well it all started in school, pokemanz was the biggest thing in the world. From the show, to the cards, to games, and because we live near mexico, tapas. Tapas take me back, it's the reason gliscor is one of my favorite pokemon. But I'm getting sidetracked. Well everyone around me was into pokemon, well... the boys anyway. I was the poor kid though, no one knew it though. My parents sacrificed a lot to send me to private school for better education, so all the kids around me had somewhat rich parents. My friends talked about pokemon all the time, so i wanted to know what the big deal was. I asked for the tv channel, but it was some channel that i didn't have because poor kids don't get cable. So instead i found digimon on the local fox channel. I kinda introduced digimon to my friends but still pokemon was the major thing. Well then one of my friends gave me a pokemon deck, starter, you know the one, with the machamp. good times... the first booster pack i bought, and the only one, had a moltres in it, i was so lucky. Well anyways everyone had either red or blue and i was the only one left out. well as yellow came out. My parents got economically better, so then they were able to get me yellow and a gbc for christmas. Well I actually never got into battling, i rarely saw my friends as they lived sort of far away and all that, and games were banned during school. So i beat the game yellow multiple times, you know different challenges. Like using only ash's pokemons, or only unevolved pokemon, or all the same type's and all that. Then silver got out I got that too. I never actually battled during g/s/c so when i actually got to this site i was surprised to find most of the pokemon i used and relied on were NU. Well i never actually got a gba so getting pokemon in that generation didn't happen. Well time went on, pokemon was an enjoyable memory, every know and then i play a quick run through one of them.
How i found smogon...
Then senior year, new friends and all that. My bus mate was playing pokemon platinum, it just came out. I asked how the game has changed, and what he was doing. He was breeding. I asked why he kept breeding the same pokemon. Well he explained most of the strategy to me, about how natures make a differences, and IVs and EVs, and getting different moves. He mentioned this site and serebii, for the more in depth info. It wasn't until he mentioned wifi battling that actually got me interested. I never actually got to battle remember, and that was what the original games were all about. So i actually bought diamond before i bought a ds. and here i am now.