The eight gym leaders have been announced, as well as a new project that is coming soon. Feel free to discuss these here.

Is there going to be an Elite four? Cause I wanted to be in the league.

I'll admit it: Looking over that list, I did lose it for a few seconds when I saw my name up there (and 6 up, no less!). Other than that, I'd like to congratulate all of my fellow Gym Leaders!

Syra informed my about the thread. I saw my name and I flipped. You should've seen my outrageous reaction. x3

I just had an interesting idea. Since everyone will be fighting the Gym Leaders in order from 1 to 8, I think there could be a certain point where you can skip on to the next one if you can't beat them (e.g. 10 losses in a row). I don't know if there would be a standard for the whole league, or if every Leader would regulate that, but it's a little thing I came up with.

Whilst I didn't get the part it seems, I still want to give a congratulations to those who have been selected to become gym leaders. As even though it is honestly a tad saddening to not be alongside you, it'd be even more of a shame not to be sportsmanlike even in defeat! Besides, if I was knocked out of the running, I'm even more revved up as it were to put you lot through your paces as a serious challenger!

This new project also makes me highly curious, of course. At any rate, be it as a leader, challenger or otherwise- I'm going to be part of this league and endeavour to take it by storm!

Mwhahaha!

First thing's first:
Congrats fellow Gym Leaders! This is a time to celebrate having made "the list", yes, but it is also a time to muster the utmost respect you can bring upon yourself and stick up for the trainers that line up before you. It won't be easy trying not to lose, but in the long run, you help show them what they're capable of; and that, in turn, helps you. We can be the brick wall that stops them, or falls; it does not matter. Having respect for what we're given in life is all that does.

Second:
Being the first in line isn't always a bad thing, you know. On that note, I welcome each and every one of you trainers into my Gym with a warm and anxious heart, ready to block your path to hone your skills, while at the same time feel willing to step aside at defeat and let you show how much courage you have to pursue the rest of the League. I wish you all the best of luck on your journey to the top.

i read who got selected, it said that those people battled spirit and aura. If i was to battle them i didnt recive any word about it till after i read that, and they battled people to see how good they were before being picked.

I may be wrong, or have a bad memory, but in the Guide it says you must have at least 3 pokemon of the type you represent. Was it 2 when the sign-ups started, or was I mistaken?

Okay. Time for my input on the new instructions:

1) You advise us to save battle videos to ensure nobody has cheated. In the event that we have to battle multiple challengers in a row in a short amount of time and wouldn't have the time to view any, would you suggest that we upload our videos and post them here (or rather send to them to the League Administration as to not leak information)? Or how do you want to approach this?

2) Will each Gym Leader have a thread dedicated to requests? Or will there be a single thread dedicated to Leader availability to which challengers message the Leaders?

Well... I believe that's about it... for now at least. ^^'

Okay. Thanks for clearing that up.
And I didn't know the battle video thing... ^^'

The topic is debatable. It is true that the chance of inducing sleep is only 10%, which isn't as much. We can look into it a little more. Personally, I was waiting for those in Smogon to start discussing the move seriously, as we might find reasonable suggestion for this move, but I was also too busy, so I don't know if they already did so. But I guarantee that Aura and I will discuss this thoroughly, and it is highly possible that the rule is removed.

I just noticed something... I am.. not only am I a gym leader, which makes me happy, but I'm the 8th. And because it's sequential order, that means I am the strongest. I am... what? ...What? ...What?

Both Aura and I haven't had battles for more than half a year. Even when I was a gym leader, I didn't battle people in the last month or so. We lacked information and experience of the new Pokémon. In my case, I didn't and I still don't know most of the new names, not to mention their abilities, moves, etc. So, we were rusty and we didn't perform as good against all applicants.

To tell you the truth, both Aura and I were surprised with TurtwigX. His result was unexpected, but he deserves it nevertheless. Ignoring hax and any other factors, the team was really unique, cleverly made and surprising.

Generally speaking, the last three spots occupy three impressive teams that both Aura and I wanted to include no matter what, not because they are the strongest, but because rare Pokémon and strategies are used. Keep it up! (Y)

Thanks SoT! Can I PM you some questions I have about something that might be too classified? and also "•A gym leader has the right to change members of his or her team." That's any time they feel like it??

Is the gym league active now? Or is it not open yet.

I need one member at least, preferably not a staff, to view both the gyms that have been created so far, and report here whether the images are broken or he/she can view them normally.

Are we allowed to at least like the gym pages? because well.. I like it!

I see another broken image. First image in Whimsi's gym

I'm confirming that you can like posts in threads that are locked.
Also. I am having no troubles with broken images for the first three gyms up thus far.

A question that has kinda confused me for a little while now - seeing as the level range for battles is 80-100, does that mean any gym leader could use any Pokémon within that range of levels or do we have to go from lowest level (gym 1) to highest level (gym 8)?

First of all, I want to explain this broken image problem to everyone. When a gym thread is posted, all three images will be broken because we are not using hot-linking; we are not using [IMG] codes with a link of the image. Instead, we are using attachments, but in an advanced way. This process is too hard for me to explain to each gym leader, thus, when a thread is firstly created, images will be broken. But then I am editing the threads and fixing the attachments. So, when you see Last edited by The Spirit of Time, then it means I have fixed the attachments.

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Originally Posted by Quadcentruo A question that has kinda confused me for a little while now - seeing as the level range for battles is 80-100, does that mean any gym leader could use any Pokémon within that range of levels or do we have to go from lowest level (gym 1) to highest level (gym 8)?

Idno has all broken so far :/

Something I just thought of; will Gym Leaders be able to have different teams specifically for tiered matches, or will everyone just have to do Gen 5 OU?

Plus tiers could change by the time everyone gets B/W2.

Oh ya i was woundering, if a gym did a doubles battle (If they did) would certin ubers pokemon be allowed say for example garchomp? As he dosnt do well in doubles.

I just was reading in doubles on smogon browsering the site and read this that garchomp could be used in doubles during tournaments like the VGC so i thought maybe outside that tuff he could be used.

It is better not to ask a lot about what to be used right now. Currently, we are following the standard OU. We were asked if other conditions could possibly be implemented and I said yes, but also specified that it is not the time to talk about it, especially that the League hasn't opened yet. Therefore, I would appreciate if you forget about other conditions for the time being, and focus on what the guide has specified; OU is the main and compulsory tier.

Just wondering, are we still having the rule that you can only challenge back in 4 days?

I say we edit this group: http://victoryroad.net/group.php?groupid=32

Well we got a week to go for the US release, so next sunday the league will be open yes?

I'm not so sure it'll be that soon; as even when I do get my Black 2 next Sunday, it'll still take me some time to at least attempt the game, and then transfer my Pokemon and teach the appropriate moves. (Especially given that I don't get that week's work schedule until this upcoming Wednesday.)
To my knowledge, the estimated start time is sometime November (this giving everybody, including the staff, fair enough time to prepare for everything.)

I will be announcing the release date tomorrow, for those who are interested.

Since I read that your announcement of the Gym League, I would like to ask at least a week or two to prepare our teams a little better (so that we can transfer our Pokemon and beat the game to do so).

Will the new project for the vrgl be released on the release date of the vrgl?

You guys aren't gonna make any changes because of this probably, but what if one gym leader is closed for a while causing everyone to be waiting on that one gym leader because they can't challenge any others?

As it would most obviously seem that when the League opens, it'll be dependant on me to be ready to begin; I just want to confirm that even though I have to work on release day, Sunday; I have a potential 4 days off in a row starting the very next day. Considering I beat Black in a week, I should be able to fit a majority of the story into this time frame.
In short; I should be ready when the League is.

Totally pumped for the league to start, training my team to be ready for it now.
However, I do have some questions I didn't see mentioned in the guide, though I may be wrong so feel free to answer / correct me if so;

Are we required to contact anyone in particular to sign up as a challenger for the league, or does one simply challenge the leader in their thread immediately?

Are challengers able to change their team as they please, or should they stick with the same team through the challenge?

Elite Four, Events and Tournaments. If you have any question or suggestion regarding any of these, post it here!

When a challenger defeats a gym leader, the challenger posts in this thread. The challenger's name will be listed and he/she will be given the prize if wanted. We will work on a badge system, but I can't promise anything for now. Of course, if anyone would like to have the badge he/she won in the signature, then I can provide him/her with that.

80-100 is a large bracket for levels... Is there some kind of 'norm' that we should go for? If I get all my Pokémon to level 80 will I stand a chance, or will I need to get up to the 90s?

Despite the fact that I'm a gym leader, am I still allowed to participate in the league by battling the other leaders in order? If so, I completely understand that I will not be able to be a member of the Elite Four.

This has happened on a couple of occasions with ~Whimsicott~. Whenever I try to have my battle it goes wrong and we cant properly connect. I am wondering that if we never work it out then how will I ever get anywhere in the league?

That happened with my battle with Boberry. Exiting and Reentering seemed to help.

I had an Internet problem with Bobbery once. I worked the next day. See if it works tommorow?

Ah I had a connection problem with whimsi once, remember that VR tourney? Oh bad times, bad times xD anyways, I think the only solution is to restart and exit/turn off the ds and back on again and again until it works.

Hey just wondering. Anyone who applies for the new spot, will they automatically be 5th Gym?

I have already got a PM about this...

Please do not send me any requests for badges at the time. When you are picked then I will make one for you, same with the banner. Please hold out from this right now.

When will the test part take

I believe that's how it goes.
If a gym is closed, you can challenge the next one.

That is correct, Kylce. If a gym were closed, challengers would be able to move forward to the next gym. However, I'm sure it was never brought up (I could be wrong), I wouldn't necessarily constitute that as a win and automatic badge. I believe the challenger should still have to go back, at some point, and battle the skipped gym.
I'm sure Spirit (or another VRGL admin) could enlighten us on this a little more? ^^'

Also, as Spirit had said, the newest gym leader would be chosen based on a test, but will this affect the rest of the league? Or will the newest leader simply fill in the 5th gym spot?