Yeah, Nintindo should really fix it or something. Your talking about 5+ countries across the world, there's got to be someone out there. Yes they are, I almost beat this guy and had his garchomp in the lowest red zone... yeah a garchomp XD Basicaly it was his one poke vs. my two. They both were beaten up pretty badly, but it pretty much came down to, I was going to win. PERIOD! Since even if he manage to get a rock slide in or whatever, there would be no way of him countering me and that would be the end of that. Then the horrorble notice popped up. Your connectiong with the other player was lost. He turned it off before I could give the final blow :/ How disappointing... Then I finaly get to my 5th battle and just before it starts, I lose the connection. I was then thinking, "Okay... did I scare him?" Which kinda made me mad since I had been waiting for about 11 minutes there to finally get someone. Sigh. Also no, it goes off by a ranking system. You start off at rank 1500 and it goes up or down depending on how many people you fight. To me it looks like loseing or winning doesn't hurt it too much. Since I have loose a few times and my rank went up, so it must be how many folks are left and such. You can fight as many people as you want and it goes on for X-amount of days, so untill it's over, you can keep fighting and once it's over, then they will take a week or so to figure out your score and everyone elses.