Pokémon Video Game Championship 2012: UK Nationals

Hey all, Neil here with a short post to flag up the fast-approaching UK National leg of The Pokémon Company's official video game tournament. The tournament is dated for the 3rd March and will be held at the Birmingham NEC. Full details of the event can be found here on the Pokémon official website. Excitingly, the top placing contestants of each age division win an expense-paid trip to the World Championship event in Hawaii!

Already during League sessions we can see that video game play is on the rise, and also that many of us are aiming to participate this year. I'd hope that in the league sessions to come we'll have the opportunity to practice battling with each other, talk strategies and generally psych up for what is sure to be an entertaining tournament.

Over the next few weeks, I'll post up some VGC '12 related blogs (team building thoughts, training methods, strategies etc.) and i may also post up the blow-by-blow "war story" of my first-round defeat that i wrote last year, to show that it's the taking part that counts...(sigh)

For now, i thought that those looking to participate could post up their Pokémon Black/White Friend codes in the comments so we can get some wi-fi practice in at some stage.

Here's my friend code for Pokémon white:

(Trainer name: Nen) 1764 4739 3201

Happy training, all!