Heres the moment Ive been waiting for!!! Super excited to move towards the next step in my pokemon battling career! Was told sign ups started today, about a week ago, and I've been waiting ever since for this thread to come up! :D
Username: AllDayKK FB -
http://facebook.com/christian.p.moss
Age: 21
Pokemon Online username: AllDayKK
Your timezone and usual hours of availability: 7pm-12am pacific time mon-fri
Division: Masters
Tell us a little about yourself: My real name is Christian. I grew up as a small child buying Pokemon Red version in stores right when it got released. I remember it like yesterday. Then I played gen 2 and gen 3 as well. After that I pretty much moved on from pokemon and just went on to other things. Completed high school, started my own corporation and businesses, and got life moving. Also, I could never justify buying and owning a DS system. To me personally, DS is a system with mediocre design (no second analogue stick, say what you will or try and defend it as you may, there is NO EXCUSE for not including this. Even neo geo pocket color handheld back in 1999 or whenever had dual analog sticks!) plus the only game series that has ever looked appealing to me on it was pokemon.
A short while ago, I decided to give pokemon another chance when I discovered I could get the roms on my computer. I downloaded and completed white version, which just reinvigorated my love for the franchise. In addition, my friendly matches of pokemon stadium 2 with my closest friend sparked an interest in competitve battling. Since stadium is fun, but completely unbalanced and pretty much boils down to using mud slap until they miss every turn, it made me look into the competitve world of pokemon I knew must be out there.
So here I am today. Found smogon about a week ago and since then ive read almost all the articles, read up on tons of different tiers, pokemon move sets, and combinations, and have already started to play vgc style double battles on pokemon online.
I am not by any means a novice but I think I would be lying or greatly mistaken if I said I am an expert, as I still seem to get beat mercilessly when battling people who have ranked in tournaments.
If i can get some serious tutoring I am looking forward to finally buying my first DS system JUST FOR THE SOLE PURPOSE of getting black2 or white2 the day its released. The roms were fun, but with pokemon more than any other game, you reaaaalllyyyy miss out from not having the legit copy with wifi capabilities, I could really only beat story mode and a few extras and that was it. So getting black or white 2 on the system will be a breath of fresh air.
Looking forward to meeting a lot of you and making some new good friends. If someone who has ranked high in sanctioned tournaments would be willing to coach/train/tutor me, I would be ecstatic and beyond thankful.
My goal is to compete in the upcoming regionals and the hopefully world championship if I place, which I fully believe I am capable of doing. Pokemon is something I love to death and have a great passion for, and I could not care less what some people might think.
"Oh, you don't like pokemon? There's the door, bitch." Thats my policy ;)