ehhh... that kind of worries me. do you think they would add more participants in the beginning, like maybe 256 to get more people in this?
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i dont think so. last year it was more like an experement to see how well it would be recieved, and it was a success.
if you went to worlds ANY year, the main hall is reserved for the TCG players/fans.
in 2008, they reserved one of the conferance rooms for VGS, and that held a small stage, and the compettitors, with little room for the judges/fans.
this year they can very well up the attandance, but not to 256 after just 1 year. you have to remember that they are still new to this and want to make it a regular event. but they have to take small steps up. seeing how last year only 16 people from the USA got to play in the finals, if they have 4 qualifyers with top 8 invites, that would be doubling the compettitors from last years finals.
you really have to see this from PUI's standpoint.
The first year of showdown is going to be a drop in cash, to generate word and buzz for the next year seeing that Diamond and Pearl have been out for quite a while.
The next year of showdown (2009) will generate sales for Platinum-the NEW game. Here is what PUI should say for their opening announcement:
By doing this, they will get the MAXIMUM ammount of peoples intrest in this tournament, without blowing ton of cash.PUI said:
so to sum it up:
256 invites is not cost efficient compaired to 32 invites.
EDIT: if you where talking about having 256 people in the tournament qualifyers, that would mean 9 rounds of single elimination.
with registeration, 1 hour rounds, 1 hour lunch break, 10-15 minutes inbetween rounds, that would easily mean 12-14 hours of play. PLUS you have to consider that the stage has to be set-up the night before and taken down as soon as possible. this would mean long days for the compettitors, but even longer days for the staff.
yeah i still have it and yeah sure just PM me for an offer.
anyways after breeding some more last night i came across 2 beldums that are really not what i expected
Beldum #1
Brave
25/31/31/31/30/1
Beldum #2
Brave
22/31/31/29/27/1
the number 1 is mine the other i guess ill hold and wait for PM's to come my way.lol
special thanks to PBB and Micuat, if you hadent told me the usage of the hp-fire metagross i would have kept going and gotten both these 2.=D
Edit: the thing is now is making my Metagross a mix attacker good? also he 30 in sp.D mean it might be able ot take special hit from threats like
Kingdra's and Ludicolo's rainy Hydropump
Abomasnow's blizzard
a fire blast from pokeon like IDK, Slowking...maybe a heat wave from Zapdos or Infernape
well, as long as more people make it thats fine with me.
Remember, i never said that they ARE going to up the invites, this is just my speculation. I am just seeing it from PUI's point of view is all.
so, don't be upset if the ammount of invites/qualifyers are the same as last year.
yeah, i saw your quote about what they should say. but only time will tell how many people can participate.
thats great to hear with the release of Platinum everyone should be close to done =)
correct, platinum only
funny thing is yeah but you wont see any cause most people in the US prefer levitate
It'll probably take me until the like the week before the tournament to decide that. Idk why so many prefer levitate, especially since earthquake hits everyone else on the battlefield, it could slay your partner and ruin your strategy. Not to mention, how common Heat Wave Zapdos will be, that fire neutrality will be useful.
thats is very true, but you also have to remember that blue cookies pointed out people are going to copy the champions team pokemon to pokemon and attack to attack. wich includes abillity
One of my responses to overcoming your problem might be infractable so I won't bother posting it, even though it's a what a lot of players do before spending the "huge waste of time" breeding. How long does it really take to breed something just to test it? It's not like you would be shooting for godly iv's, but usable ones. EV training takes about 10 minutes so I don't know why you care so much about redoing ev's. Second, if you're just rebreeding for a different nature you should already have good parents from your past testing breed so it really shouldn't take very long. Third, how do you think the "experienced" players became experienced? Did they ask other experienced players? No, last year no one was very experienced since it was the first year. The reason that players like zerowing and PBB actually are experienced now and were successful last year was because, gasp, they tested teams! I know PBB had at least 2 teams he tested, and zerowing had five or more. Also, if I see like I'm lashing out at you, it's just that I'm just mad at how bad this thread has been and it's finally coming to the surface. The only quality posts coming from this thread are from micuat. When you see very unintelligent posts, ignorant and redundant questions being asked that have already been answered in depth at least once is pretty annoying. I'm not talking directly to you, but to most of the people who post here. All of the people I've been talking to on aim to strategize for next years showdown completely agree with me and if you have ever wondered why a lot of last years competitors stopped posting/rarely post in this thread, that is why. Hopefully those of you who read this whole thing will think if what you wrote is really intelligent, doesn't belong in a certain thread in the wi-fi forum(like LamP thread/General trade shops), and hasn't been answered in the past before you hit that post button. That way this thread can actually have some intelligent strategy discussions.
Now for the Bronzong discussion, so hopefully this will be the start of some higher quality discussions about strategy for next year:
Actually, I think Levitate is a far superior a choice for Bronzong. If you are using Levitate Bronzong you are 3hko'd by most weaker fire attacks(like some unstabbed Heat Waves) and 2hko'd by all the strong fire type moves like Fire Blast(or strong, stab Heat Waves). Either way you are setting up Trick Room successfuly. Also, using Levitate Bronzong not only protects you from your opponents earthquakes, but more importantly it allows your own Metagross to use earthquake without fear so it can actually damage other Metagrosses. If you use Heatproof it means that Earthquake on your Metagross no longer becomes a viable move and it's best move to hit other Metagross with becomes Hammer Arm, which won't be doing much damage. Next, if you are using Heatproof Bronzong, why wouldn't you use the superior Dusknoir(especially with Hypnosis' accuracy being lowered which was another of the only advantages he had over Dusknoir)? He is also neutral to fire attacks, and although he is slightly worse defensively and in typing, he can make up for it with a stab priority move, memento, and psych up, and also an immunity to explosion so you don't die to CB Lickilicky explosions, right PBB :p
Basically, if you want to use Bronzong to set up TR, you should use Levitate. If you want a fire neutrality, use Dusknoir. If you really wish you had Levitate and a fire neutrality, then use something like Uxie or Cresselia, even though their moves aren't very threatening at all.
so what are the teams do you expect to see at showdown?
mine are
1.Trickroom
2.Raindance
3.WTF?
i cant really say "Goodstuff" because of the inexperinced players running wierd pokemon that dont work together and are actually people singles team who think work well in doubles. as said by BlueCookies.lol
mine are
1.Trickroom
2.Raindance
3.WTF?
i cant really say "Goodstuff" because of the inexperinced players running wierd pokemon that dont work together and are actually people singles team who think work well in doubles. as said by BlueCookies.lol
theres a team "WTF"?
no i ment a noob team. it means easy win: some guy that thinks his single team is so good the he trys it out for doubles and realizes i suck.
Definitely Rain Dance, it seems like that's all I see. I was trying to think of Pokémon that could counter all these commons. But, I don't think there's really anything that can counter every major team.
actually for rain you have to use a snorlax as a counter.
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