Sorry for the late reply, but here is my report of the event.
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Well Well Well...
What a Great weekend, another fantastic event thanks to Nintendo Oz.
Fountain Gate: Day one
After getting there a little late, I snuck in at No.116, the max is 128, so people, get there early!
What I did notice straight away was most of the staff were all new, Kat was hanging around but not really working cause shes pregnant (Congrats KAT!!),
Got to see Calum for a short time which was cool, and Andrew from Nintendo dropped by for a look as well.
1 Big difference was that the Hosts, they were 2 new people, 1 was this lady I have never seen, but she did a great job.
And the other was someone you guys should all know very well, none other then Mr.Mario Idol himself Jamie aka Chronorox, he did a very awesome job, and was very knowledgeable, and helped out fans as much as he could.... Oh how cute we're the ladies helping out?... =P
This is still early on, alot more people came in after the parents brang them down to the Shopping Centre.
Brian aka Golden Phoenix was Numero Uno.
Julia Last years Champ and only Female Tour winner came down to try and make it 2 years in a row.
Ash also Champ from Last year who beat me by 2hp in that tour, but its all good cause I got my revenge!. I think he made top 32 this time around.
The Wii area was very popular all day.
How much does this guy look like Necrobat!? =P
There were alot of great players around, but there were also alot of young kids who came in with their favourite pokemon's, but even though most of them lost, they still had a lot of fun.
Alot of regulars were there as usual, but a whole lot of new faces around which was cool to see.
Not many of the old Poke tour people were there, Attila wanted his revenge, but he had to fly to Japan during the time the tour was on.
Now to answer some of your questions.
*There is 1 Plasma for 2 people to Vs on and the crowd can watch and scream, and cry!
*There is 5 DS's stations to battle on, so there is another 10 people batting at the same time.
*On the big screen, they can't see the bottom half of the screen, only the top half with the battle.
*Latias, and Wobbuffets are allowed
Alot of people missed out on a spot, so always come early people, there is a stand by list incase someone doesnt show up, but theres a chance, you wont get in on stand by.
Some very good matches to watch, alot of action on the main screen, plenty of people around all the players, so it got a little crowded.
First round:
Some tough battles going on, even in the first round, thanks to the no legendaries rule, there was a lot of variety, but there were also alot of dragons flying around, and plenty of Garchomp.
No real drama's here, most people were happy with their match ups, some people didn't know about latias and were kinda of surprised, but they got over it with some games of Mario Strikers which was very popular on the days, all day, non stop!.
I won my first game without too much trouble so that was all good.
After the first round it was Trivia round, and there was plenty of prizes to go around, as usual people crowed to the front, but that didnt help them too much, they went for the most EXCited and quickest people to respond by putting their hands up.
And short people didnt miss out either, they looked around every where to make sure people didnt miss out, that didnt stop people from jumping up and down though.
Some of the prizes:
DP DS holders
DVD Sets of the Show
The New Lucario Movie on DVD
Some Wii games like Cooking Mama, Shrek the 3rd and a few others.
Pokemon D/P Games
And lots of Pokemon Toys.
And D/P Pokedex Book, and Walkthrough Books.
Round Two:
A few upsets here, for the love of god people, never underestimate anyone!
I went in confident, and almost got my ass handed to me by this kid, it was a lucky escape for me.
Some others weren't so lucky though.
I beat Johnathon's friend in this round, Johnathon was a dude we met who had a team of Blissey, Botom and Something else.
He was a very good trainer, and I think made it to the top 16.
They had another Trivia Session around this time, which was another hit with the crowd.
After it they had a session for the parents, which they seemed to enjoy alot and win their kids some prizes at the same time, it involved the Touch Gen games, so bring your parents down for a chance for them to win you some prizes.
They also had the dress up comp, and some of the best entrants of the day, Team rocket! And they finally got Pikachu
Round Three:
I lost in this round, I was going to sweep the whole team with my main pokemon, but it got Destiny Bonded,a nd since the other 2 were poisoned, things just went down hill from there, I didnt make that mistake the next day.
Dekar got passed this round to make it into the top 16.
Round Four-Top 16:
Dekar was the only left in TEC still competing, I got out in the top 32, master top 64 I think
He got matched up against Julia (Last years Champ, and first girl to win a tour), this match went on for ages cause of the Blissey V Blissey, and I think it was the only match that EXCeeded the 10min time limit.
They checked who had the most health on all pokemon, then declared Julia the winner, no more Dekar today, nice work buddy, you did very well.
Julia and Dekar going head to head.
Top 8:
After the standard Picture time of the top 8, it was battle time!!
*Insert Battle music here*
I didnt have my video camera cause I lost the charger, so I didnt get any matches on tape, I think some people might of.
Julia ended up bowing out to Cats who some of you might know as the SSBM EXpert.
Julia and Cats head to head, and Julia's last battle for the day.
Top 4:
Some very EXCiting matches to watch, alot of close ones that could have gone either way.
Cats got through this round and got himself a stop in the finals.
Final Battle:
I missed parts of it due to... Stuff.... but I was there in time to see his Metagross EXplode in his opponents face to Secure the Championship.
I hope someone got it on tape, or maybe I can get cats to give me a report on what happened in that battle.
Awesome work to him on not just his pokemon, but the way he battled, some very nice predictions.
And well done to all the people who competed.
The top 2, Cats and.. Didn't get the other dudes name, but well done to him on getting this far.
Cats with the Gran Prize, the Engraved DSLite.
Chrono Congratulating Cats on the win.
Dekar getting up close and personal with Pikachu.
End of the day, Dekar, Me and Chrono.
I was wearing this shirt some of you may have seen.
Fountain Gate: Day two *TEC Day*
Another day of waking up late and making my way to Fountain Gate which is like an Hour drive from my place, then the rainy weather made the trip even more interest, but enough about that, lets get to the good stuff.
Today I didnt line up straight away, I sat in the cafe and watched them line up as I trained up my pokemon in the last minute.
After I was happy with what I had, I got up to line up, I was about 4 places behind Dekar, and we were giving each other ****, saying.. "You shouldn't line up too close, you don't want to get eliminated 1st round" =P
Behind me was a day and his boy entering the comp, his son was very EXCited and couldn't wait to get in, he kept talking to me about his pokemon for the half hour we were lining up for, just cause he was behind me didn't mean we were going to battle each other.
They had this system where they just call out to anyone who hasn't played in the first round to come up and play, and they tick their name off in one book, then write down the name of the winners in the other.
Me waiting in Line.
I also got to meet Tak for the first time, Dekar was much nicer to him in Real life, then he was to him on the forums. =P
Heres the main man chrono doing his thing.
Round one:
I got matched up against some Kid who was Harry's brother, this is harry.
You might remember Him from most of the tours, he also sometimes flies over to NSW and enters in those tournaments.
I didn't know it was Harry's Brother till after his dad told me, and I felt bad for knocking him out so early, he did have a very nice Rhyperior who gave me some trouble though, well done to him.
Dekar got through this round quite easily too, and had a nice setup that was working well for him.
A few regulars also got pass first round, I dont think there was any major upsets in this round.
I think Gietz got passed this round... or Maybe not.
Gietz and Dekar going at it.
Thanks to the trivia round, Tak, Dekar and Gietz all walked away with prizes.
Round Two:
I got a great round here, I got to set up my team the way I wanted and it went perfectly, I wish all my matches were like this one, he was a good kid, and I thank him for the great game
Dekar still Kicking ass all the way, not too much trouble in this round for him.
We also got to meet Dale and Greg in this round, some of you might remember Dale as Last years Champ in NSW, the guy with the Sydney Swans top when he won.
He had some bad luck here and lost to a suspected Hacker, and wasn't too happy.
Dale knew his stuff and he knows that the outcome of the battle wasn't right, and I don't blame him, cause what happened didn't make any sense, oh well, couldn't do anything, cause it was a little hard to prove, but he got knocked out I think in the next round anyway.
Greg passed his match to make it into the top 32.
Greg, Wayne! and NSW Champ Dale on the right, great boys and helped with picking out the hackers.
Chrono During the Trivia time, getting the crown all EXCited to for some Prizes.
Some of the boys, from left to right, Gietz, Tak, Dekar and Chrono.
The guy that beat me (I need to get his name), KamiKazi, and Will who was a crowd favourite.
Round 3:
I got matched up with a regular who had a good counter for my team, and I went down in a Blaze of Glory, good work to him, he deserved the win, Poison and Protect is alittle annoying though. =P
Last years Champ Ash also bowed out in this round, not sure to who though.
Not sure if it was this round or the next that Greg (Dale's Friend) and Dekar went at it in an epic battle that could have gone either way.
Both of them had people in their corner cheering them on, it was great to watch even though it was not on the big screen.
Dekar ended up winning the match thanks to a bit of luck, skill and prediction.
Nice work on Greg for getting this far, he did awesome, and the best if not the only Kangaskhan there.
It was around this time we suspected this guy was using a team of pokemon who were hacked, cause some things didnt seem right, and it wasn't just the 2 out of 3 Shinies in his team, not to mention one of them was a Shiny Latias, now that is not common at all...
It took us a few rounds to prove it though, and thanks to the great work or Chrono, Cats, Dale, Chrono, me, this other dude who was like a human calculator, and some others they finally admitted they were hacked and were disqualified.
There was also a match stopped straight away after there was a Lv.50 Dragonite on the Main screen.
Lesson of the day....
Don't Cheat People!!
Not sure what happened in this round, I went to eat, but glad to see Dekar made it through to the top 8 for TEC.
Top 8:
Here are the top 8, only people I know are... Dekar, Marcus (Trading Card Game legend), Will (Afro), The guy that Beat me (With the long hair), and Acheront (Who I only knew it was him after I went on AN... SAY HI NEXT TIME FOOL!).
Top 8 getting ready to rumble.
There were some great matches, and I don't want to go into to much detail in case some of them are still going to battle at southland.
But then there was 2.
DEKAR v ACHERONT!:
This was a great match to watch, lots of highlights, man was dekar lucky he had Focus sash on his Gengar or what.
Then the one of Ache's Mons getting critically hit.
It was a good move putting bullet punch on the Metagross though, it came in handy.
The final two Mons came down to Ache's Starmie V Dekar's Blissey, and since Starmie had no Physical moves, it had to rely on its Surf attack and only hope for a Critical hit which it didnt get and slowly died to the posion making Dekar the Champ and TEC proud.
Nice work to both of you fella's, it was a great match to watch and funny when someone called out.. "Do a Barrel roll!".
Only way the Starmie could do a Battle Roll was if it was breed with a Fox McCloud. =P
Well thats it for Fountain Gate, I didn't have my camera so all these were taken with my Bro's phone, so no Vids either sorry.
So far, so good, everything has been going smoothly and I look forward to tomorrow, I hope you guys had fun in FG and today at Southland which I couldn't go to cause of work.
Nice work Chrono, doing a great job mate, and well done to the staff, the veterans and the new people, they did a fantastic job, even if they seemed to stress a little, not that I blame them. =P
If I can recommend one thing though is more room would be nice, Oh! and maybe some seats. X_^
Seeya guys tomorrow.
