Pokemon Championship details

CianRyan

I should be grand for getting out to the airport.
One of my parents should be leaving me and my OH out, and maybe one or two of my mates.
The prices of flights is up to €117 now but only €70 if they leave on Sunday instead... They're not quite sure what they're doing yet.
Buying tickets on the day was an idea because flights do usually go way down but that is really risky.

I told them they should have bought their tickets ages ago.:rolleyes:

Buzzthebatgirl

San Fran's final Seniors http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXwtRTsTeFw
Arizona's Seniors final http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GADuhpElX8A

It's us on Saturday ^_^

wobbles

wow that battle from arizona was great. Loved the giant pikachu wandering around in the background of the first video

Buzzthebatgirl

wobbles wrote: »

wow that battle from arizona was great. Loved the giant pikachu wandering around in the background of the first video

That mascot is going to be there, make sure to bring your camera ^_^

CianRyan

Making a note of Tyranitar using protect at the end... I might just swap hyper beam for protect.

CianRyan

Wet and cold for Saturday, Trainers.
Dress accordingly.

TheChrisD

CianRyan wrote: »

Wet and cold for Saturday, Trainers.
Dress accordingly.

I think that means Cooltrainer/Ace Trainer territory, and not player character territory amirite

Buzzthebatgirl

CianRyan wrote: »

Wet and cold for Saturday, Trainers.
Dress accordingly.

Pikahoodie FTW!

Is everyone that's going got everyone's phone number for the epic meet up at the airport?

Perhaps I should suggest meeting in the Landside (before security) at the Mezzanine Food Court (top floor above the check in and security) since that's always got seats and 24 hour tea/coffee shops. But after 5.30-5.40ish I (dunno about anyone else) will leave to catch the flight

Is anyone else EXCITED?!!!?

elekid

Buzzthebatgirl wrote: »

Is anyone else EXCITED?!!!?

Excited, scared...

Good idea setting a meeting place now, it'll save us wandering around the airport.

I have my team sheet printed and filled out, but I'm still second guessing my teams moves

Atavan-Halen

Buzzthebatgirl wrote: »

Pikahoodie FTW!

Is everyone that's going got everyone's phone number for the epic meet up at the airport?

Perhaps I should suggest meeting in the Landside (before security) at the Mezzanine Food Court (top floor above the check in and security) since that's always got seats and 24 hour tea/coffee shops. But after 5.30-5.40ish I (dunno about anyone else) will leave to catch the flight

Is anyone else EXCITED?!!!?

Well I have yours and Cians numbers so I should be ok. Anyone wants mine just drop me a PM

Yes very excited! My uncle is going on holidays at about the same time too on sat so I'm just going to go in the taxi with him as I can't be arsed driving Good place to meet, is that where McDonalds is?

Also going to throw together a sort of new pokéteam tonight and grind like hell as I'm not happy with the one I had =/ Aaah fast decisions! Although if I win I win, if I lose I lose. 'Tis only a bit of craic at the end of the day

CianRyan

Where do you get the team sheets to fill out?! I completely forgot about that!!

That meeting place sounds good to me.
And since I'm in no way protective of my phone number...
0851164373

elekid

Here is the link to the team sheet

Buzzthebatgirl

elekid wrote: »

I have my team sheet printed and filled out, but I'm still second guessing my teams moves

I've still not written my out yet, something to do when I have a cup of tea later on tonight

atavan-halen wrote: »

Good place to meet, is that where McDonalds is?

Yes and it has a 24 hour Starbucks and two other random 24 hour coffee shops

atavan-halen wrote: »

Also going to throw together a sort of new pokéteam tonight and grind like hell as I'm not happy with the one I had =/ Aaah fast decisions! Although if I win I win, if I lose I lose. 'Tis only a bit of craic at the end of the day

My final team member joined when I was in that kind of mood, hopefully he'll come through for me. We'll go and have good craic anyway!

CianRyan wrote: »

Where do you get the team sheets to fill out?! I completely forgot about that!!

I will have two spare team sheets on me and they will have team sheets at the event, it's just easier to have it ready to go and not have to nerves making your hand writing look like Onix tracks...

DON'T FORGET YOUR POKéWALKERS EVERYONE!!

wobbles

best of luck tomorrow guys.

Atavan-Halen

So I think I have my team now, only one poké needs to be leveled up. Been scouring through all the gba games to see what I got

Atavan-Halen

So we're stuck in Birmingam airport :P Not really, our flight has been delayed by an hour so not too bad, but we're all tired

All went well though!

Buzzthebatgirl

I'm still as tired as I was last night, but still made it to Cork anyway ^_^

My mind has been working overtime all morning and came up with an idea of going to at least one more of the VCG Europe legs (costs of flights/trains/buses and accomedation pending of course), would anyone be up for it?

And I also had another thought on Imprison stuff:

Smeargle@Focus Sash
-Water Spout/Explosion
-Protect/Transform
-Dark Void
-Imprison

Note:upon using Transform the new moves are also Imprisoned

Atavan-Halen

Buzzthebatgirl wrote: »

I'm still as tired as I was last night, but still made it to Cork anyway ^_^

My mind has been working overtime all morning and came up with an idea of going to at least one more of the VCG Europe legs (costs of flights/trains/buses and accomedation pending of course), would anyone be up for it?

That would seriously depend on costs for me

CianRyan

Yeah, as I said earlier, I'd love to go but It depends on how much money I can make.

A thought, has a ferry/train been taken into account?
I know they're mad expensive with a car but no idea what they're like just walking on.
Probably still mad expensive actually...

CianRyan

Oh yeah, I've a new Rhyperior. Really nice attack and hp and he's only at level 54, with out EVing or any performance drugs.
I'm going to give him.

I'm thinking.
Earthquake
Protect
Trick Room
Fling - Iron Ball.

I'm not sure about Trick Room though, I may teach that to Lugia and use it in my team... I hate Legendaries but I have learnt my PalkiaLesson! :mad:

I've also got a Scizor now, nothing special so far.
There's a Wailord here, but I'm breathing for good natures.
Same with a Snover, a Seadra and a Hippodon.

I want to evolve my Houndour and train my Probopass and Bronzong.


A lot to be done, but I will be taking the next time round A LOT more seriously.

Buzzthebatgirl

CianRyan wrote: »

A thought, has a ferry/train been taken into account?

That was something I didn't think of actually. I forget that option exists since I can't drive.

Can someone look into the cost of hiring a car and getting a ferry (if possible) to:
Colonge, Germany
Lyon, France
and
Madrid, Spain
please and thank you in advance ^_^

CianRyan wrote: »

Probably still mad expensive actually...

My awesome future husband priced up flights earlier today the cheapest we (he) could find were all Aer Lingus and details are as follows:

Lyon, France:
Travel out Friday afternoon and return Sunday afternoon/early evening @ €158.10
(it's an extra €10 if you don't have a Visa Debit card)

Madrid, Spain:
1 seat left @ €78 leaves Saturday @ 06.40 or so
Other seats are €10 more same day at same time (same flight)
(it's an extra €10 if you don't have a Visa Debit card, again)
Returns Monday @ 10.30am, but you can return on Sunday evening for an extra €70

THESE TRIPS CAN NOT BE DONE OVER NIGHT

We still need to price a place to stay. I've been informed that Hostel World offers good prices. I'm going to bed as soon as this post is up (since I've only had about 6-7 hours sleep in the last two days and I am totally wreaked), could someone please have a look there. I will check it out myself once I've used REST

TheChrisD

Hmmm, I dunno if I can spring THAT much for continental Europe meetings. I need to try starting to save a good amount of money for the anime conventions this year...

elekid

^ I love that Imprison strategy, very clever.

I'm going to give the other legs of VGC a miss this year, I've already used up all of my annual leave in work and I want to save my money so that I can buy a mountain of Pokémon merchandise in Japan in October!

El Nick

So how did you guys in the Senior Tournament fare on Saturday? My son went through "green" and "orange" stages and got knocked out in "purple"...

Given that we arrived at 8ish and queued in, queued for the tournament registration and then queued for access to the battlezone, I couldn't hack queuing for the senior tournament as well given that I wasn't as keen as you guys going in anyway. We ended up leaving around midday.

Apparently my girlfriend met everyone while I was watching the wee man, though - shame I didn't. Be really interested to find out how ye did!

Rocket Butch

It'd take somewhere between "all day" and "all weekend" to get to Cologne, Lyon, or Madrid by car (from Dublin, Madrid 33 hours, Cologne 14 hours, Lyon 24 hours)

Rocket Butch

I tried to put it into a train booking system but it blew up.

Well that's not strictly true. If you leave Dublin port at 0845 on Friday the 4th you'll get to Cologne for 0744 on Saturday morning, but the timing and changes are utterly cruel.

Then I tried to get the price, and the system did blow up

SamIAmNot

Looking at some hostels €18 per night for a room for three, with private bathroom ensuite http://www.hostelworld.com/availability.php/Equity-Point-Metropol/Madrid/3156.

there is also a video of the place on the same page.

Rocket Butch

The €78 flights to Madrid are gone; it's now €88 with 4 seats left at that price. The next price will be €98. [€10 more if you don't have a Visa debit card.]

Rocket Butch

SamIAmNot wrote: »

Looking at some hostels €18 per night for a room for three, with private bathroom ensuite

That's €18 per head per night, which is certainly a good price.

SamIAmNot

Plus ensuite bathroom!! No nasty group showers.

Buzzthebatgirl

I'm booked in on the flight, I've booked the aformentioned Hostel that SamIamNot found. I only had to put one name on the booking for the three. Since SamIamNot has confirmed with me that he is coming we have one more spot to fill in the hostel. So come on who's up for Boards.ies going to Madrid?

Details:
Flights €80-€90
Fly out Saturday, back Monday
Hostel €40ish for 2 nights (service charge may apply)

Prices may change rapidly, so it's fastest finger first

CianRyan

I'm not going to be able to get money quick enough, I don't think so any way.

I will have an awesome team for Nom Con though.

TheChrisD

CianRyan wrote: »

I will have an awesome team for Nom Con though.

Has it been decided what format Nom's tourney will be?

(Also, currently trying to drag along my friend, seeing as that tournament is what's dragging me along to nom!)

Buzzthebatgirl

TheChrisD wrote: »

Has it been decided what format Nom's tourney will be?

(Also, currently trying to drag along my friend, seeing as that tournament is what's dragging me along to nom!)

Doubles, Flat Battle, no legends, Species clause, items clause and Dark Void is banned. I'm the one running it, that is when they get the al' act together and get the info up on the site

Atavan-Halen

I'm reeeeealy wanting to go to Madrid now I'll still have to sort some stuff out though but hopefully I can make it

Also if I do go, I'll need to sort out my team ASAP!

Buzzthebatgirl

atavan-halen wrote: »

I'm reeeeealy wanting to go to Madrid now I'll still have to sort some stuff out though but hopefully I can make it

Start busking on Grafton Street!

atavan-halen wrote: »

Also if I do go, I'll need to sort out my team ASAP!

Teams can be worked out, many hands make breeding go easier. I am available Friday so if anyone wants to do epic team grinding in town or random PBR battles at my gaff ^_^

I'm finally back at my gaff so here's my photos from VGC with my travel sized mascot Nicky the Devil in tow.

My Photobucket is fail tonight so enjoy my Facebook collection

elekid

Here are my photos:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=223834&id=708716293&l=4dfdc60e4d

El Nick wrote:

My son went through "green" and "orange" stages and got knocked out in "purple"...

A few of us were cheering him on when we heard him say he's from Ireland. He did good!

Atavan-Halen

Buzzthebatgirl wrote: »

Start busking on Grafton Street!

:eek: I just had the most awesomest idea ever combining busking and training! Challenge people to battles and if they lose the give me money

El Nick

elekid wrote: »

A few of us were cheering him on when we heard him say he's from Ireland. He did good!

Thanks, though actually, I don't think that was my one - we were standing just outside the battle area for Elliot about to start and the woman with the microphone was interviewing that kid.

"Where are you here from today?"
"I'm fra' Caaaaaahrk!"

We fell about laughing and then gave him a cheer as well. We're Dublin, us. Interestingly the family in front of us in the queue was from Dublin as well - a German family who had their oldest daughter competing in the Juniors! I say we mount an Irish takeover of the event next year.

elekid

El Nick wrote: »

Thanks, though actually, I don't think that was my one

Oops, my mistake!

El Nick wrote: »

I say we mount an Irish takeover of the event next year.

There was talk of printing t-shirts..

Buzzthebatgirl

El Nick wrote: »

"Where are you here from today?"
"I'm fra' Caaaaaahrk!"

The true capital of the world! What a good lad, he should have won from just being from Cork!
I'm from Ireland, but more importantly I'm from Caaaaaaaaaahrk!

elekid wrote: »

There was talk of printing t-shirts..

I can design and print T-shirt transfers for those of us going to Madrid, we can get professional ones next year when the whole of Ireland goes, but these might do for what we need.

My planned design is perhaps having the Boards.ie done in the Pokémon font with the player's favourite Pokémon hanging on or off the sign. A similar idea to the Pokémon Center store logos:

I'll sketch up a design when I've done IV checks and had some sweet coffee. I'm still tired!! I did mix up my dates for my interview, it's on tomorrow, not today! I can relaxxxxxxxxxx....

El Nick

Buzzthebatgirl wrote: »

The true capital of the world! What a good lad, he should have won from just being from Cork!
I'm from Ireland, but more importantly I'm from Caaaaaaaaaahrk!

Heheheh. I'm seeing a team now... "Shandon" the Bronzong, "Blarney" the Graveller, "Bishop Lucey" the Roserade, "Crawford" the Smeargle, and then Nidoran female "Beyore" and Nidoran male "Feen" to finish it out.

I'll get my coat.

SamIAmNot

Uploaded my pics and video to facebook and youtube. But then youtube told me my video was too long and removed it... there goes 3 hours of my life

TheChrisD

SamIAmNot wrote: »

But then youtube told me my video was too long and removed it... there goes 3 hours of my life

Time limit of one frame just under eleven minutes.

Buzzthebatgirl

I've managed to track down the guy who was doing the filming at VGC, he's making a documentary for this site Videogamer.com. When it's up I'll get a link so you can enjoy watching me make a fool of myself ^_^

And before I forget here's some rough designs for the T-shirts I made while at work today. The final artwork will be coloured in Paintshop and on model, I just can't remember what all the Pokémon look like without reference . Let me know if you love/like/hate/or can't read the text. Oh and feel free to suggest some more stuff, I like to draw ^_^

CianRyan

I am very much so liking the graffiti Smeargle.
At this stage, I won't be in Madrid but I will want a cool team shirt for the next tournament.

Atavan-Halen

Yeah just found out I won't be able to make Madrid either, gutted

Kick some ass for boards though!!

Wobbuffet

I won't be able to go to any of the Europe Pokemon championships either. Which is a pity as I am liking the look of the T-shirts. Next year hopefully.

SamIAmNot

I like the Smergle one or the pokeball with irish flag on it.

Buzzthebatgirl

I'll sketch up some better sketches for the Smeargle and Irish Flag Ball in Paintshop and blast 'em up here.

Whichever the Board.ies like we can settle with. As a prototype I'll use iron-on transfers to see how it looks. You don't have to be going to VGC to get a T-shirt guys!

There is nothing stopping us getting T-shirts printed professionally, it would be a great way for new members to spot us at the Spire for our Meet Ups!