Apprentice Program - Round Thirty Nine

[Blue Kirby]

We are ready to begin Round Thirty Nine of the tutoring program; if you wish to get a tutor for this round all you have to do is post your profile in the format below. Tutors will be an excellent resource for you to learn Pokemon team building and battling strategies, as well as someone who can help "initiate" you into the Smogon Community. We are here for you...so take advantage!

The first 16 people to indicate interest in placement in the next apprentice tournament will be given a place in the eighth official Battling 101 tournament, which will be commencing later this round.

NEW! We now tutor the UU and Ubers tiers rather than just the OU tier. Please do not forget to indicate which tiers you would like to learn in order of preference, and we will accommodate you as best we can.

This round will last until April 20, 2009.

Shoddy Battle nick:
Age:
Time zone:
Regular Online Hours (Eastern only!):
Do you want to play in the tournament: yes or no?
Experience level:
Tiers I need help in (in order of preference):
A little about myself:

*You don't have to be good...just willing to learn. So, don't be shy; Sign up now!

YOU MUST BE ABLE TO USE SHODDY BATTLE TO PARTICIPATE!

If at any point during this round you encounter a problem (difficulty getting together with your tutor, etc.), let me know and we will work to resolve the issue.

Round Thirty Nine Match-Ups

Aeroblacktyl - xXGengarXx
Articanus - .Ghost.
august - PlasmaDragon007
Bologo - Objection
Brawley - 1-up
Calciphoce - Drunk Bidoof
darkie - cyberzero
DawnBringer - Mingot
Elevator Music - Zari
Gouki - Mr. Happy
Great Sage - Valantaro
Kevin Garrett - ReVeRb
Limitless - blue cheez
maddog - Upsided0wn7
moi - sasami
RB Golbat - Darkness Wolf
TAY - jstout
jrrrrrrr- Dimidium
Twash - SkyNet
Twist of Fate - Black Eye
Ace Matador - shagster 1
Astamatitos - Minirizzle
Beej - DogFish44
chaos 9 - -Qwertycal-
Colonel M - thehumanstain
Fabbles - zocho
kd24 - Solidus
Legacy Raider - Alphacme
LonelyNess - birdie
Mekkah - xXMasterSealXx
Olie - TCoz
reachzero - Macle
Sapientia - Pokemon Red
scofield - foibles
Seven Deadly Sins - Veedrock
Stathakis - 13blue101
Vashta - everydesire
Plus - Depressio
SoT- rambull

 

[Kenesei]

Assigned to august

Shoddy Battle nick: Yoz
Age: 23
Time zone: GMT -5
Regular Online Hours (Eastern only!): Almost all days starting at 9-10 AM, except Sundays (I'll probably be online only since, like, 2 PM) and Mondays (I'll be online starting at 5 PM).
Do you want to play in the tournament: Yes
Experience level: Novice
Tiers I need help in (in order of preference): OU, UU (OU and UU prefered), Ubers.
A little about myself: Just someone who want to play a fun game.

 

[Valantaro]

Assigned to Great Sage

Shoddy Battle nick: Mr.T
Age: 14
Time zone: GMT -5
Regular Online Hours (Eastern only!): Mon, Wed, Fri: 4-8pm Tue, Thurs: 6-9 Sat, Sun- All day
Do you want to play in the tournament: Yes
Experience level: Moderate
Tiers I need help in (in order of preference): OU, Ubers, UU
A little about myself: I've been in a few rounds of Battling 101. I've been active in UU as of late, but I want to get back into OU, and of course, Ubers.

 

[cyberzero]

Assigned to darkie

Shoddy Battle nick: cyberzero, cyberia, CZ
Age: 16
Time zone: EST
Regular Online Hours: All week, 4-11, varying
Do you want to play in the tournament: Yes
Experience level: I've been playing OU for about a year, but have been mediocre to decent in that time. I've been tutored last round by Beej, who was an amazing tutor and definitely helped my game, but I'm still looking to get better and get different views. I've passed 1500 on the SU ladder.
Tiers I need help in (in order of preference): OU, UU, Ubers
A little about myself: I've learned about Smogon through the Create-A-Pokemon project where I am very active, and I am a server regular. I consider myself sociable and am always willing to help.

If possible, I'd like to be tutored by someone I know; namely, SoT, Bass, tennisace, Plus or darkie, please.

 

[xXGengarXx]

Assigned to Aeroblacktyl

Shoddy Battle nick: ZeroGeass

Age: 16

Time zone: PST (GMT -8)

Regular Online Hours (Eastern only!): 6PM - 3AM, Everyday. PM me and xZerox for a meetup.

Do you want to play in the tournament: yes or no? No thanks

Experience level: Some, I've been battling on DPPt Wi-Fi, PBR Wi-Fi, and Shoddy for quite a while now. I could use some improvement, in Team Building and Prediction. I registered too late last round, so I missed an opportunity there.

Tiers I need help in (in order of preference): OU

A little about myself:

I just turned 16 a few days ago, but that's beside the point. I may still be a Sophomore in High School, but I'm still a die-hard Pokemon Fan in general. I always love battling and watching other people do it, so I can learn even more!

 

[macle]

Assigned to reachzero

Shoddy Battle nick: Macle
Age: 16
Time zone: GMT - 6
Regular Online Hours (Eastern only!): 4-10
Do you want to play in the tournament: yes or no? yes
Experience level: Medium
Tiers I need help in (in order of preference): Ubers, UU, OU
A little about myself: Been in a few rounds. I play sports. Usually on #smogon or #biuret

 

[Reverb]

Assigned to Kevin Garrett

Shoddy Battle nick: Colaterallized
Age:15
Time zone: eastern
Regular Online Hours (Eastern only!): 3pm to 10 pm on and off mon-fri, saturday afternoon
Do you want to play in the tournament: yes or no? yes
Experience level: I'd say I'm above average. I've played competitively for a couple monthes and I'm 1450 apx on shoddy standard
Tiers I need help in (in order of preference): OU
A little about myself: I live in NY. I like politics, poker, and chess. During the winter I ski every weekend. I'm on a freestyle ski team. I want to get better at pokemon and get to the people at the top of the leaderboard.

 

[Drunk Bidoof]

Assigned to Calciphoce

Shoddy Battle nick: The Queen, Drunk Bidoof
Age: 14
Time zone: GMT -8
Regular Online Hours (Eastern only!):
Do you want to play in the tournament: yes or no? yes
Experience level: Average
Tiers I need help in (in order of preference): OU
A little about myself: I've been playing the game for over the year, and have been mostly a lurker. I don't have any interest in other tiers besides OU for now, but that may change. ~_~

 

[mingot]

Assigned to DawnBringer

Shoddy Battle nick: Mingot
Age: 35. I have shoes older than you.
Time zone: GMT - 4 (EST)
Regular Online Hours (Eastern only!): 8-11
Do you want to play in the tournament: yes or no? yes
Experience level:Beginner
Tiers I need help in (in order of preference): UU, OU
A little about myself: Been doing a little too much breeding and a little too little battling. Need to be more rounded, plus the few battles I have had were fun.

Requesting Dawnbringer please :)

 

[hellmonkey]

Assigned to Gouki

Shoddy Battle nick: HellMonkey
Age: 17
Time zone: GMT -6
Regular Online Hours (Eastern only!): I'd say around 6:30PM-12AM
Do you want to play in the tournament: yes or no? Yes.
Experience level: Gotten to ~1450 on the ladder.
Tiers I need help in (in order of preference): Mostly OU. Wouldn't mind some Ubers, though.
A little about myself: I love this game. I want to improve not only on teambuilding, but also on the mental aspect of the game. I was on a previous round, paired with CaptKirby; however, I got caught up in schoolwork and did not make the most of the opportunity. So, having the time available now, I'd like to devote some of it to improve so I can enjoy more this game that I love.

 

[Blue Kirby]

Assigned to Plus

Posting for someone who dropped me a PM almost as soon as the thread opened with account problems. I don't see why that should stop anyone from getting a tutor, so here goes! Note: I don't want anyone else posting on someone's behalf - I'll only be doing this myself in rare cases.

Shoddy Battle nick: Depressio (same as forum account name - can still send/receive PMs)
Age: 16
Time zone: Central
Regular Online Hours (Eastern only!): My schedule varies, especially near the end of the month, but usually 7-12 p.m EST.
Do you want to play in the tournament: Yes
Experience level: Beginner: I’ve been researching competitive battling as much as I could in the past month or so, watching YouTube/Shoddy Battle and looking up guides on movesets/EVs/IVs/prediction/etc. I haven’t battled competitively, but I’ve been trying to make teams while analyzing them as best as I can.
Tiers I need help in (in order of preference): I’m split between UU and OU, but for now I’ll go OU, UU, and Uber
A little about myself: I’m editor in chief of my school’s newspaper and spend quite a bit of my time working on it. I also tutor and play the violin. During downtime, I play video games (RPGs, shoot-em-ups, visual novels) and go on the Internet. So yeah.

 

[Zari]

Assigned to Elevator Music

Shoddy Battle nick: Zari, ZariFE
Age: 16
Time zone: GMT-8
Regular Online Hours (Eastern only!): 4-6 PM weekdays, free whenever on weekends
Do you want to play in the tournament: yes or no? No thanks
Experience level: Still new to competitive Pokemon, need help with teambuilding
Tiers I need help in (in order of preference): OU, Ubers, UU
A little about myself: Lately I've delved more into composing and drawing, but my battling abilities have not grown much. I hope to rectify this with this round of tutoring. Otherwise, I'm a laid back kinda guy who plays a lot of strategy outside of Shoddy and loves to learn new things. I kept missing my tutor on shoddy in round 38, so i want to try it again.

Requesting Elevator Music if possible.

 

[foibles]

Assigned to scofield

Shoddy Battle nick: foibles, skittyonwailord
Age: 14
Time zone: pacific
Regular Online Hours (Eastern only!): 20:00 - 1:00 my schedule is quite variable due my involvement in drama stuff among other things, so I won't really be on every night.
Do you want to play in the tournament: yes (why the hell not? I do have the time)
Experience level: beginner-moderate? (not really sure)
Tiers I need help in (in order of preference): OU, ----(far down the list)----- Ubers not really interested in that much else atm.

A little about myself: I consider myself an okay battler, but have never attained a very high rating on shoddy or anything in that vein. I have not really done any serious battling since the platinum metagame developed due to school issues, and i consider myself pretty poor at team building, so i could really use some help with that. IRL i enjoy recreational soccer, sorta competitive swimming, and just hanging around with friends.

 

[Solidus]

Assigned to kd24

Shoddy Battle nick: Solidus
Age: 17
Time zone: EST
Regular Online Hours (Eastern only!): Monday - Thursday: 5 PM-11 PM, Saturday - Sunday: 7 PM-1 AM. Not really available on Friday since I just relax that day.
Do you want to play in the tournament: yes or no? No
Experience level: Recently, I have been performing poorly in OU. My team building skills can sometimes be off and I need some work with that also.
Tiers I need help in (in order of preference): OU
A little about myself: I'm a senior in high school. I play sports, mainly football. I like to hang out with my friends, chill out by myself when I'm tired, and play Pokemon in my free time.

 

[xXMasterSealXx]

Assigned to Mekkah

Shoddy Battle nick: xXMasterSealXx or Blastfire156 (usually the former)
Age: 15
Time zone: GMT+8 ("Hongkong" time)
Regular Online Hours: Random times but usually 9pm to 6am EST (prolly online in yahoo messenger and standing by in shoddy/nb) or 10am to 7pm in GMT+8
Do you want to play in the tournament: no
Experience level: had played for quite a while and i think i'm not really great at it
Tiers I need help in: OU, UU, UBER
A little about myself: i'm quite new in here, but i know a bit of d/p. I just need to be better at team building and prediction (and maybe improving in the battling itself).

I love to learn new things, and our vacation's almost here, so we got nothing to do, and I wanna be able to do something during these very vacant and boring times =D

I love to go outdoors and play basketball, badminton and a little volleyball =D

 

[.Ghost.]

Assinged to Articanus

Shoddy Battle nick: -Ghost-
Age:14
Time zone:Pacific
Regular Online Hours (Eastern only!):10-1 weekdays all day weekends
Do you want to play in the tournament: yes or no? of course
Experience level: Some I have a fair bit of knowledge of the Ou metagame
Tiers I need help in (in order of preference): Ou Ubers UU
A little about myself: I'm into numerous activities such as Basketball, Skateboarding and ITG/DDR oh and I'm quite shy.

 

[Birdie]

Assigned to LonelyNess

Shoddy Battle nick: Jaxy
Age: 19
Time zone: Pacific (PST)
Regular Online Hours (Eastern only!): Between 9 am and 1 am, online when I'm not working.
Do you want to play in the tournament: yes or no? Yes
Experience level: Minimal, new to competitive battling
Tiers I need help in (in order of preference): UU, OU
A little about myself: I ask questions so I can learn better, fair warning. I catch on quickly and already know the fundamentals about competitive play. Read everything there is to read about it on the forums and other places, but can't seem to take it all in and have it apply to my battles. /fail

 

[Lunar Solstice]

Assigned to RB Golbat

Shoddy Battle nick: Darkness Wolf

Age: 13

Time zone: Mountain Time US.

Regular Online Hours (Eastern only!): 7-11pm almost every day.

Do you want to play in the tournament: yes or no? Yes.

Experience level: I wouldn't say I'm good or too bad, I;m about average but would always like to be better. I would like to learn from the best and become a highliner like Gouki, Earthworm, ect. The people that always win the Smogon tours. I always lose in the first rounds and would like to do much better so I would like a tutor who has been through that.

Tiers I need help in (in order of preference): OU, UU, Ubers

A little about myself: I am pretty average kid. I live in a ranch in New Mexico and have to help around my house doing stuff so I'm pretty busy. I've been playing Pokemon since Crystal, Gold, and Silver wait actually since it was barely coming out. So yeah. I'm very competitive and always want to be the best and with help of a good tutor I hope to accomplish my goals.

 

[1-Up]

Assigned to Brawley

Shoddy Battle nick: lol My Box
Age: 13
Time zone: Eastern
Regular Online Hours (Eastern only!): 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Do you want to play in the tournament: Yes!!
Experience level: I've recently gotten into competitive battling so I'm just a noob.
Tiers I need help in (in order of preference): OU, UU, Uber
A little about myself: I'm Michael and I wanna get better at Pokemon.

 

[Upsided0wn7]

Assigned to maddog

Too late?

Shoddy Battle nick: Upside
Age: 15
Time zone: PST
Regular Online Hours (Eastern only!): 10:00-12:00 EST Weekdays. Whenever one weekends
Do you want to play in the tournament: Sure
Experience level: Moderate. Played OU since Diamond release. Came back form a 4 month hiatus about 1 months ago.
Tiers I need help in (in order of preference): OU, Ubers, UU
A little about myself: Need general help all around. Nothing specific here.

 

[blue cheez]

Assigned to Limitless

Shoddy Battle nick: blue cheez
Age: 18
Time zone: eastern
Regular Online Hours (Eastern only!): 5-11pm weekdays, all day on sunday, 2pm-whenever saturday
Do you want to play in the tournament: yes or no? yes
Experience level: know all the terms/lingo/ect., reciently started playing on smogon on OU ladder, but I have trouble organizing teams and would like to learns the secrets of the trade.
Tiers I need help in (in order of preference): OU>Uber> UU
A little about myself: I can jump up a flight of stairs on my unicycle. I also play guildwars and SSB brawl competitively. I am into philosophy, anime, cross country, and theoretical physics.

 

[sasami]

Assigned to moi

Shoddy Battle nick: Sasami
Age: 18
Time zone: EST
Regular Online Hours (Eastern only!): 6pm-9pm; some days I'm on from 2pm to 4pm
Do you want to play in the tournament: Yes
Experience level: Moderate. I've been playing for a while but had taken a break and am trying to get back into battling.
Tiers I need help in (in order of preference): OU and Ubers
A little about myself: I'm a college student so I'll admit that I have a rather busy schedule but I definitely have time for this. I'm a biology major with a lot of interest in animals, photography, and video games. I have a ton of pets--everything from degus to a ball python.

 

[13blue101]

Assigned to Stathakis

Shoddy Name: 13blue101 (got a new one)
Age: 15
Time Zone: Eastern (-5 hrs)
Hours On: Free from 3-6 pm est on weekdays; on weekends im free most of the day
Tourney: Most likely, yes
Experience: Moderate
Tiers: OU, UU
Personal Info: Well, nothing much to say. Ive been in 2 straight previous rounds of the Program, each giving me a greater understanding of the specifics of the game (OU then UU respectively). Im really modest about my skill and the level I play at. I always expect to lose and play horrible going into any match. IRL, I enjoy playing/watching most sports, except soccer, I am percieved as one of the smartest kids in my grade (which I personally think Im not), and Im looking into a medical profession after High School.

This will be my last round of the tutor program for a long while. I also would like to request Stathakis a Tutor since hes helped me out in the past throught the RMT section and on shoddy.

Nice avy btw BK

 

[thehumanstain]

Assigned to Colonel M

Shoddy Battle nick: thehumanstain

Age: 18

Time zone: Eastern Standard Time

Regular Online Hours (Eastern only!):
My schedule is kind of odd but I'm willing to work around my whatever time my tutor wants.
M 9pm-2a.m
T 7-2a.m
W 9p.m-2a.m
TR 7-2a.m
Fr I'm off friday so I could be around whenever
Weekends are random, so It would have to be worked out with my tutor if they wished to work then.

Do you want to play in the tournament: yes or no?
Yes please

Experience level:
I really have 0 experience in competitive play on Smogon's level.
I've played Pokemon on Gameboy since Red and Blue and recently sparked alot of interest again in Diamond and Pearl.
I've been playing PBR WiFi random battles quite a bit, so I guess that's the limit of my experience =/. I've logged on shotty several times and lurked
to check out some peoples games. I've been replicating smogon strategies on my DS in an attempt to get used to the metas pokemon, (obviously the Meta
I'm playing in is nothing like yours).

Tiers I need help in (in order of preference):
OU
UU
Ubers (I'm not really interested in Ubers at all, TBH)

A little about myself:
I'm currently a college student and spend most of my free time playing DS and Wii. I'm very serious about trying to make some progress with pokemon.
I play alot of card games competitively, currently Magic the Gathering and Yugioh, so I generally know what it's like to study metagames and such. I'm
heavily into music and I play guitar, piano and synth. I can be kind of quiet, but I'm very eager and willing to learn.
I've been lurking smogon for awhile trying to slowly gather info, I'm hoping this program can increase my progress better. I
don't know a soul on smogon so I have no preference of tutor.

 

[Minirizzle]

Assigned to Astamatitos

Shoddy Battle nick: Minirizzle
Age: 18
Time zone: GMT+10
Regular Online Hours (Eastern only!): Versatile
Do you want to play in the tournament: yes or no? Yes
Experience level: Decent amount of experience
Tiers I need help in (in order of preference): OU
A little about myself: Been playing competitively for a year approx now, I'm signing up for the apprentiship at the suggestion of Beej. Generally get a good win/loss ratio, have beat aragornbird in a battle recently.