Perhaps there is little to be done about promoting the professional scene of pokemon, what with Halo, SSBM/SSBB, and several other mainstream games clinging tightly to teh world of pro-gaming.
Granted PBR may highten the possibilities of this with it's complete online gameplay, and unique random battle aspects, but it can't be done well on an attractive level without serious consideration from the professional gaming boards that make the tournaments for everything else.
The reason I bring this up, is because I'm geting more and more dissapointed with Nintendo's flawed attempts at incorporating the standard of metagame into there own fixed thoughts to how we should play. Granted, the metagame has serious work to be done yet with D/P being so fresh. But even with competitor coming, and a few segregated, private tournaments accross the world, I would like to see somethign more. Because for me, Nettbattle got stale, and the fact that I couldn't wildly present my hard work in acquiring my ACTUAL poke's to the world. Anyone who's been can say that there is nothing like being in the actual pressence of other gamers who love the same game as you do. Talking over food with people you barely know but chatting up a storm in spite of it is one of the most exciting things I've ever experienced.
I'm a pro smasher. I've competed at several tournaments sponsored by Tournament GO and also in two MLG tourney's in Houston and Charlotte and am even helping to sponsor a tournament in Greensboro taht is statewide. I can say without a doubt that that kind of massive gathering of professionals is a wonder and it baffles me that nothing like that has happened in the world of Pokemon since Muhammad Ali's kid fought in one of the premier fights of pokemon stadium 2. Hardly professional for the game itself.
Propositions have been given time and time again I'm sure to this very topic, and it would be a waste of such great potential that this game has if it isn't taken advantage of and presented to the world in such a way other than a childs plaything. Because that is the image that's being given. All I hear from people is, "that's STILL going on?" and, "How many are there now?!"
I won't throw some melodramatic line from Braveheart out and hope for some massive level of response, but there has to be someone who knows connections in MLG who can actually give us an opportunity to present this. By us, I won't lie, I mean smogon, not teh "WORLD OF POKEMON." This is one of the most active sites around, and hell we can get serebii to join in without a doubt if we try.
Wifi is fun, I won't lie, it's a HUGE step up from competing with one or two friends at home over and over again. but it leaves me wanting more. And even my PBR is getting slightly dulled over. That may be cuase I can't read japanese but either way.
I want Pokemon to succeed professionally. It's got al the requirements: massive amounts of people who play(all ages no less), good and strategic gameplay that keeps it interesting, and speed so that any of the fights won't drag out. But we should seriously sit down and think about how this can be completed. So that's what this post is mainly for. Proposing how to propose. That being said. Lets think about this and try. It can't hurt. We have nothing to loose by trying to put pokemon on the proverbial map of pro-gaming.
That's all I got to say. See ya on Wifi.
Granted PBR may highten the possibilities of this with it's complete online gameplay, and unique random battle aspects, but it can't be done well on an attractive level without serious consideration from the professional gaming boards that make the tournaments for everything else.
The reason I bring this up, is because I'm geting more and more dissapointed with Nintendo's flawed attempts at incorporating the standard of metagame into there own fixed thoughts to how we should play. Granted, the metagame has serious work to be done yet with D/P being so fresh. But even with competitor coming, and a few segregated, private tournaments accross the world, I would like to see somethign more. Because for me, Nettbattle got stale, and the fact that I couldn't wildly present my hard work in acquiring my ACTUAL poke's to the world. Anyone who's been can say that there is nothing like being in the actual pressence of other gamers who love the same game as you do. Talking over food with people you barely know but chatting up a storm in spite of it is one of the most exciting things I've ever experienced.
I'm a pro smasher. I've competed at several tournaments sponsored by Tournament GO and also in two MLG tourney's in Houston and Charlotte and am even helping to sponsor a tournament in Greensboro taht is statewide. I can say without a doubt that that kind of massive gathering of professionals is a wonder and it baffles me that nothing like that has happened in the world of Pokemon since Muhammad Ali's kid fought in one of the premier fights of pokemon stadium 2. Hardly professional for the game itself.
Propositions have been given time and time again I'm sure to this very topic, and it would be a waste of such great potential that this game has if it isn't taken advantage of and presented to the world in such a way other than a childs plaything. Because that is the image that's being given. All I hear from people is, "that's STILL going on?" and, "How many are there now?!"
I won't throw some melodramatic line from Braveheart out and hope for some massive level of response, but there has to be someone who knows connections in MLG who can actually give us an opportunity to present this. By us, I won't lie, I mean smogon, not teh "WORLD OF POKEMON." This is one of the most active sites around, and hell we can get serebii to join in without a doubt if we try.
Wifi is fun, I won't lie, it's a HUGE step up from competing with one or two friends at home over and over again. but it leaves me wanting more. And even my PBR is getting slightly dulled over. That may be cuase I can't read japanese but either way.
I want Pokemon to succeed professionally. It's got al the requirements: massive amounts of people who play(all ages no less), good and strategic gameplay that keeps it interesting, and speed so that any of the fights won't drag out. But we should seriously sit down and think about how this can be completed. So that's what this post is mainly for. Proposing how to propose. That being said. Lets think about this and try. It can't hurt. We have nothing to loose by trying to put pokemon on the proverbial map of pro-gaming.
That's all I got to say. See ya on Wifi.
