Pokémon Black/White International Challenge

Has everybody seen this?

Looks like, similarly to last year's Autumn Friendlies, The Pokémon Company are running a worldwide Wi-fi tournament! Very exciting for those of us likely to be thrown out of the VGC in the first round, and even more exciting for those in our number who have got the Skillz to pay the Billz.

The Tournament will run from March 22nd-26th, and registration begins at Midnight on March 15th. I assume, like the Autumn Friendlies before it, the tournament will consist of players trying to achieve a good standing on the online leaderboards. And of course, being subjected to many, many "Rage Quits"... ;)

Looking forward to seeing you all at League on Sunday! Happy training.

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!