Hello folks, it's me again. During the month of June, the tournament will be held using the Pokémon Video Game Championship rules. The link to the rules is found here: http://www.pokemonvgc.com/en/regulations.php

There will be a few things changed though.

• Any version of the following is allowed: Pokémon Diamond, Pearl, Platinum, HeartGold, SoulSilver.
• There will be no Junior or Senior division brackets. Just one big set of brackets.

You can use any Pokemon aside from:

151 - Mew

251 - Celebi

385 - Jirachi

386 - Deoxys

489 - Phione

490 - Manaphy

491 - Darkrai

492 - Shaymin

493 - Arceus

You can use up to two of these in your team:

150 - Mewtwo

249 - Lugia

250 - Ho-Oh

382 - Kyogre

383 - Groudon

384 - Rayquaza

483 - Dialga

484 - Palkia

487 - Giratina

Wowowow~!
So like, we can use an uber in this? =p

This is meant to recreate somewhat of a regional if we all competed against each other. It would be, if possible, the best choice for a battle representative for Victory Road, you could say.

Oh wow, awesome. I can't go to any of the VGC sites because they're too far away, but I would love a VGC style tournament!

And Quad, you can only use two Ubers on your team.

Anyways, it sounds great. I'm all for it.

So I can use my Garchomp?

Well yeah, as long as it isn't an Event Legendary, it can be used.

Sounds fun, I can use a few Ubers.

Cant garchomp be used in any doubles? Like normal battles, i know he cant be used in single battles but uber, so can he be used in any OU double battles? Also maybe i will join this just to see what this WC2010 rules are like.

I know it's not in the rules, but can we ban Wynaut/Wobbufett?

Good thing its the VGC rules, I have a perfect team all ready. I actually think we should copy all the rules to be the exact same (except the "Only HG/SS" rule).

Fair enough...
I'm glad there's finally a NORMAL tournament where I can use all my good Pokemon. I'm a newbie to competitive battling, and I couldn't train a team of Gen IV Pokemon that fast.

i know this isnt OU, I just wanted to ask if garchomp can be used in standard doubles battles outside of this tournament. (even tho this isnt the place to ask)

Hmm, seems good.
Would love to join with my Cute Little Giwatina~.
Still, anything allowed, and only 2 Ubers? What about Wobbufet and Wynaut? They're like demons.

Well, it's not any two ubers. It's any two legendaries on the list. If you want to get technical, you could have 5 ubers, but that's cheap and stupid. (2 from the list, Garchomp, Wobbuffet, and Wynaut)

so if i go rain dance style for this, shednija beasts in double battles. Well at least on youtube during the WC09 i watched them beast with him. They teamed him up with kyogre and 2 others.

It's because Shed- WAIT WHAT?!
Shedinja really? You sure it wasn't Ninjask?
Because I know Ninjask works really well in Ubers because of it being a Bug type... same with Scizor.

And does that mean people don't use stealth rock in this kinda stuff?
Because there is a lot of stuff that can beat Shedinja.

Check smogon.com, they have a complete list of things that can take it down near the bottom of the list on its page.

But when you think about it, if Shedinja isn't taken out by stage hazards, it could be awesome in doubles.
Example: Having your other Pokemon paralyze Shedinja, causing it to not get taken out by burn or poison. (Hint, hint, nudge, nudge)

if i join this i might use shednija

so do you mean no pokemon from d/p/pt/hg/ss
or something else?

Thanks for compiling that list. I'll be ste--Taking them and putting them in the rules now, so I don't forget when I'm copying into the sign up thread.

so when is this start? I forgot

Are you sure you want to disinclude the evasion clause?

It's not an official VGC rule, so it shouldn't be a rule here.

Besides, evasion is much harder to abuse in 2vs2 than it is in 1vs1.

Hmmm
Follow me + bulky double teamer = HAXHAXHAXHAX

Follow me ain't as full proof as you think. :< I think the bulkiest user of it is clefable, and multy target moves render it uselesss.

I got a good question for yas. what if someone uses smeargle and uses darkvoid? how does sleep clause work for it? Cause i just made a smeargle for double battles with this move and was planning to use it. Cause on youtube i watch some videos for the last years world championships and a smeargle uses darkvoid.

I don't believe there is a sleep clause in play.

The VGC rules do not enforce a sleep clause, so this tournament doesn't either.

sweet no sleepclause then! You better be ready for this move then I might add it or not but im really not telling u.

what is VGC?

oh, I see

So when are the brackets being posted?

Ah, didn't see that.

Well, if I find the time tomorrow I'll make the brackets. It'll be a little bit tricky to make a 32-person bracket since we haven't had a tourney as large as this in a while. If I don't post any tomorrow then can someone else (Ala or Ditto or a mod who'd like to help) make even brackets?

Hold on - Despite this being double battles with four Pokemon each, can we enter six and swap two of them between matches?

so we have to list our team to you guys?

just making sure. i did sign up cause wen i looked at the brackets my name wsn't on.

Oh ummm what if we are a few minutes late for the battle tourny?

Ok...I better set my clock then....

ummm actually i did. if u look at the sign ups page 4 5th comment. i said

WOOHOO TIME FOR PWNAGE. hvn't played pokemon in over a year. P.S. wt's does a Pokémon obtained by Random Number Generator manipulation mean. so like wts a random number generator???

I'm sorry if I didn't make it clear but that was my sign up

It's theoretically possible that I might not be able to make this tournament. Turns out I have a bike ride today, and I don't know when it'll end (I suspect around 2 PM EST, or 11 AM PST). If I can't make it at all, then feel free to disqualify me, but if not, then.... yeah. I have every intention on making this tournament.

so can it be regarded as a sign up???

^Obviously doesn't take a hint. We aren't allowing any more sign ups or replacements so stop asking.

well that's messed

So have the new brackets been formed yet?

h iam expofever is this the vgc battle tournament

I think they will be formed few minutes before the tournament[/QUOTE]

So in about 2 hours?

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