Hello, my name is Zack.
I've been scouring Smogon for quite some time, but I didn't give myself a lot of opportunities to intract on the forums. Now I feel like I have something to talk about so I hope you all give me a chance. And if this thread is in the wrong place please let me know!
A couple years ago a videogame tournament hit our small town for Smash Bros Melee., (which I won, cause this town sucks at videogames if it's name isn't call of duty) but it didn't stick around for long and soon everyone was hoping for more and more tournys. The guy who put it on came back one last time for Brawl, but it sucked. (items and bad stages, half the tourny was melee....) So my brother decided to start putting on his own brawl tournys for the town, which were in great success, but now he is leaving for college so there won't be anyone to do game tournys.
I know so far all this is about Smash Bros, but I just recently hosted my own Pokemon tourny at the local library which was more of a big friendlies-get-together, but hopefully I can make it bigger in the future. I wanted to test the interest in the town and I got about 20 people to show up which was pretty sweet and kinda unexpected.
Now I'm here to ask for some tourny running advice. I will describe how everything went and I'm really hoping for a quicker way to get things done. I felt like everything was kinda slow and boring. Don't get me wrong though, it was fun, but it was just taking too long to keep everyone busy at the same time.
My setup included; a wii with a copy of PBR to check for obvious hacks, my laptop equiped with Tournament Organizer, and several Nintendo Power for those who wanted something else to do.
There was also pop and pizza.
The Rules were as follows:
No Duplicate Pokemon
A trainer can not have any pokemon of the same species,
a different evolution does not fall under this.
Nick Names
Any pokemon which have an inapropriate name will be disqualified,
There will be no naming pokemon the same name as another,
No naming pokemon with names of other pokemon; EX. a Charizard named Squirtle
You will be given a chance to rename your pokemon if able.
Ubers
You will be limited to a total of 2 of these pokemon on your team:
Wobbuffet and Wynaut can not be one the same team.
Garchomp Kyogre Rayquaza Shaymin
Mewtwo Groudon Arceus Manaphy
Mew Latias Darkrai Giratina
Lugia Latios Palkia Deoxys - All forms
Ho-oh Wobbuffet Dialga Wynaut
No 1HKO moves
Banned Moves:
Fissure
Horn Drill
Sheer Cold
Guillotine
No Evasion Raising/Accuracy Lowering
Banned Moves:
Double Team
Sand Attack
Mud Slap
Flash
Mud Bomb
Muddy Water
Smoke Screen
Octozooka
Mirror Shot
Kinesis
Banned Items:
Lax Inscence
Bright Powder
No Soul Dew
Item Restriction (OFF)
You can have more then one of the same item attached to your pokemon team.
Sleep Clause
Only one pokemon on an opposing team can be put to sleep at a time,
selfinduced sleep, such as Rest does not fall under this.
Self Destruction Clause
If it comes down to 1 v 1 and a pokemon uses Explosion/Self Destruct and both pokemon are knocked out, the person who initiated the move is declared the loser. If 1 v 1 and both pokemon faint but the attacker was hit with recoil they still win.
The Style will be 6 v 6 with a minimum of 4 pokemon to participate.
Pokemon do not have to be level 100 to participate, WiFi battles can fix that.
This is a Ninendo DS counsel only tournament which will include the games; Pearl, Diamond, Platinum, Soul Silver, and Heart Gold
There will be a mandatory Hack check using Pokemon Battle Revolution.
HACKING WILL NOT BE TOLERATED AND CAN GET YOU BANNED
If you have reasoning that your opponent is hacking then please report it and an investigation will be taken place.
Failure to follow these rules can result in disqualification or even a ban from future tournaments
(I thought they were pretty solid anyways, but I will be removing Ubers from future tournys)
First off, I registered everyone who came in with their screen name and teams of 6.
2nd, I got everyone hooked up to the wireless via the library's internet, but I had to make sure everyone could connect to the internet and had the WEP key for the library.
(this is where most of the problems occurred)
Problem 1:
Most kids had never even used their wifi before and couldn't connect right away.
problem 2:
Several had no idea how to input the WEP key
Problem 3:
There was a dropped game. Their fight was restarted, but dropped a second time.
Problem 4:
Kids came in with crazy amounts of legendaries that they probably shouldn't even have.
(Ex. One kid came in expecting to play with 3 Arceus and a Darkrai)
(I can't think of anymore at the moment :P)
So I come to you all to ask for help in organizing my next tournaments and those to come, so long as they continue. I am open to all suggestions and critisizms. Any experience or advice is greatly appreciated.
I have already decided that I'm going to change some of the rules and add another that includes any vulgar language on ball capsules. (I want to have air tight rules, because this is, for all purposes, a kids game so there obviously shouldn't be anything of the like. Plus I don't want these tournys to not have popularity among the kid's parents.) :P
Thanks for everyone's help!
I've been scouring Smogon for quite some time, but I didn't give myself a lot of opportunities to intract on the forums. Now I feel like I have something to talk about so I hope you all give me a chance. And if this thread is in the wrong place please let me know!
A couple years ago a videogame tournament hit our small town for Smash Bros Melee., (which I won, cause this town sucks at videogames if it's name isn't call of duty) but it didn't stick around for long and soon everyone was hoping for more and more tournys. The guy who put it on came back one last time for Brawl, but it sucked. (items and bad stages, half the tourny was melee....) So my brother decided to start putting on his own brawl tournys for the town, which were in great success, but now he is leaving for college so there won't be anyone to do game tournys.
I know so far all this is about Smash Bros, but I just recently hosted my own Pokemon tourny at the local library which was more of a big friendlies-get-together, but hopefully I can make it bigger in the future. I wanted to test the interest in the town and I got about 20 people to show up which was pretty sweet and kinda unexpected.
Now I'm here to ask for some tourny running advice. I will describe how everything went and I'm really hoping for a quicker way to get things done. I felt like everything was kinda slow and boring. Don't get me wrong though, it was fun, but it was just taking too long to keep everyone busy at the same time.
My setup included; a wii with a copy of PBR to check for obvious hacks, my laptop equiped with Tournament Organizer, and several Nintendo Power for those who wanted something else to do.
There was also pop and pizza.
The Rules were as follows:
No Duplicate Pokemon
A trainer can not have any pokemon of the same species,
a different evolution does not fall under this.
Nick Names
Any pokemon which have an inapropriate name will be disqualified,
There will be no naming pokemon the same name as another,
No naming pokemon with names of other pokemon; EX. a Charizard named Squirtle
You will be given a chance to rename your pokemon if able.
Ubers
You will be limited to a total of 2 of these pokemon on your team:
Wobbuffet and Wynaut can not be one the same team.
Garchomp Kyogre Rayquaza Shaymin
Mewtwo Groudon Arceus Manaphy
Mew Latias Darkrai Giratina
Lugia Latios Palkia Deoxys - All forms
Ho-oh Wobbuffet Dialga Wynaut
No 1HKO moves
Banned Moves:
Fissure
Horn Drill
Sheer Cold
Guillotine
No Evasion Raising/Accuracy Lowering
Banned Moves:
Double Team
Sand Attack
Mud Slap
Flash
Mud Bomb
Muddy Water
Smoke Screen
Octozooka
Mirror Shot
Kinesis
Banned Items:
Lax Inscence
Bright Powder
No Soul Dew
Item Restriction (OFF)
You can have more then one of the same item attached to your pokemon team.
Sleep Clause
Only one pokemon on an opposing team can be put to sleep at a time,
selfinduced sleep, such as Rest does not fall under this.
Self Destruction Clause
If it comes down to 1 v 1 and a pokemon uses Explosion/Self Destruct and both pokemon are knocked out, the person who initiated the move is declared the loser. If 1 v 1 and both pokemon faint but the attacker was hit with recoil they still win.
The Style will be 6 v 6 with a minimum of 4 pokemon to participate.
Pokemon do not have to be level 100 to participate, WiFi battles can fix that.
This is a Ninendo DS counsel only tournament which will include the games; Pearl, Diamond, Platinum, Soul Silver, and Heart Gold
There will be a mandatory Hack check using Pokemon Battle Revolution.
HACKING WILL NOT BE TOLERATED AND CAN GET YOU BANNED
If you have reasoning that your opponent is hacking then please report it and an investigation will be taken place.
Failure to follow these rules can result in disqualification or even a ban from future tournaments
(I thought they were pretty solid anyways, but I will be removing Ubers from future tournys)
First off, I registered everyone who came in with their screen name and teams of 6.
2nd, I got everyone hooked up to the wireless via the library's internet, but I had to make sure everyone could connect to the internet and had the WEP key for the library.
(this is where most of the problems occurred)
Problem 1:
Most kids had never even used their wifi before and couldn't connect right away.
problem 2:
Several had no idea how to input the WEP key
Problem 3:
There was a dropped game. Their fight was restarted, but dropped a second time.
Problem 4:
Kids came in with crazy amounts of legendaries that they probably shouldn't even have.
(Ex. One kid came in expecting to play with 3 Arceus and a Darkrai)
(I can't think of anymore at the moment :P)
So I come to you all to ask for help in organizing my next tournaments and those to come, so long as they continue. I am open to all suggestions and critisizms. Any experience or advice is greatly appreciated.
I have already decided that I'm going to change some of the rules and add another that includes any vulgar language on ball capsules. (I want to have air tight rules, because this is, for all purposes, a kids game so there obviously shouldn't be anything of the like. Plus I don't want these tournys to not have popularity among the kid's parents.) :P
Thanks for everyone's help!