The 2011 Video Game Championship Discussion (VGC 11 JPN Rules Info Announced)
NEWS:
RESOURCES:
VGC Style Pokemon is a unique brand of battling. As such, many players who are used to Standard or Tiered play sometimes have a hard time adjusting. As such, here are a few good resources that really helped me become successful at VGC.
NEWS:
- Full Confirmed 2011 VGC Rules, Dates, Locations
- FIRST CONFIRMED VGC '11 RULES ARE UP MAN THEY'RE UP THEY'ERER UP GO CRAZY MAN GO CRAZY
- teammagma.net is holding VGC '11 Practice tourneys every Saturday (unless another tourney on another site is holding one too). Linky.
- The 2011 Pokemon Video Game National Championship will be held in Indianapolis Indiana on July 8-10.
- Pokebeach has released info on the 2011 VGC Rules for Japan (which will probably be the same for the US, as has been in years past). They're basically the same as 09 (Doubles, Item/Species Clause, High BST Banlist, etc), but only allowing Issu mons. There are still many unknowns and the complete specifics of these rules have yet to be announced.
- 2011 VGCs will be played exclusively on Pokemon Black or White Carts.
- The 2011 World Championships will take place August 12-14 in San Diego California.
- Ray Rizzo, and Yasuki Tochigi both have paid invitations to the 2011 World Championships.
RESOURCES:
VGC Style Pokemon is a unique brand of battling. As such, many players who are used to Standard or Tiered play sometimes have a hard time adjusting. As such, here are a few good resources that really helped me become successful at VGC.
- A MODEST COLLECTION OF VGC '11 STYLE VIDS
- INTRODUCTION TO COMPETITIVE BATTLING
- EV GUIDE
- THE BEST, MOST IN-DEPTH, COMPREHENSIVE POKEDEX OUT THERE
- DOUBLE BATTLE PRIMER
- VGC ANALYSIS FOR NUMEROUS POKEMON
- B/W RESEARCH THREAD (CHANGES FROM PRIOR GENERATIONS)
- SMOGON 5th Gen RNG THREAD (LEARN TO RNG / GET HELP WITH PROBLEMS)
- POKEMON ONLINE (BATTLING SIMULATOR)
- #SMOGONWIFI (AN IRC CHANNEL WHERE VGC STYLE TOURNAMENTS ARE HELD ON SUNDAY AFTERNOONS. CLICK THE LINK, PICK A NICKNAME, AND PRESS GO.)
- #SKARMBLISS (AN IRC CHANNEL WHERE LITERALLY 90% OF THE ENGLISH SPEAKING TOP VGC COMPETITORS HANG OUT, CHAT, BATTLE AND TALK STRATEGY. CLICK THE LINK, PICK A NICKNAME, AND PRESS GO.)
- VGC 2010 EVENT INFORMATION(AS A REFERENCE)
- VGC 2010 RULES (AS A REFERENCE)
- VGC 2009 EVENT INFORMATION (AS A REFERENCE)
- POKEMON ONLINE, SKARMBLISS VGC '11 SERVER USAGE STATS (WHAT IS BEING USED, HOW OFTEN, WHAT MOVES/ITEMS ETC)
- PLAYASIA.COM (A SITE WHERE YOU CAN IMPORT THE JAPANESE VERSION OF POKEMON GAMES)
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