Northern Iowa Pokémon League

[Damascus]

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=180810161191&ref=ss

Panel time
Friday
6:00-7:00 PM
Programming 5

Based out of Cedar Falls, Iowa, the NIPL is composed of eight legitimate Gym Leaders, as well as an Elite Four.  Challenges are open to all Generation IV trainers (Diamond, Pearl, Platinum, HeartGold, SoulSilver).

Debuting at AnimeIowa, you may attend our panel to get all of the information, and the entire con is fair game for challenges.  You can find League members ready to battle with a pin that identifies them.  Gym Leaders don their badge, and Elite Four will wear their rank out of four.

After that, you may challenge a Gym Leader at any time over wireless by getting their Friend Code.  You can contact any member on the League Facebook group to get their Friend Code, or be receiving it during the panel.  Keep in mind, all trainers are expected to abide by League rules, regardless of method of battle.

Challenges are very basic:  Any trainer may challenge a League member to a single Pokémon battle.  A Trainer who wins against a Gym Leader is awarded with a Badge Card, which shows the official badge, and the Leader’s name, type, and ID #.  You will also be asked to sign a sheet that shows you have beaten a Gym Leader, which will be double-checked.  The Gym Leaders may be faced in any order, as long as all 8 badges are eventually acquired.

The Elite Four challenge is standard:  all five members must be faced in order without any changes made to the team.  Before the challenge is taken, you must register your team with any Gym Leader; each Pokemon must be listed with: species, level, gender, ability, held item, stats, and moveset.

Only non-legendary Pokémon may be used.  We also ban the use of all Pokémon hacked or modified using hacks or glitches, including but not limited to PokéSav and related programs.  Anyone who breaks these rules will find themselves placed soundly on our ban list.

The first trainer to successfully defeat the Champion will find themselves the proud owner of a Shiny Eevee infected with the Pokérus!

Trainers are expected to oblige to League members checking their challenging team for illegal Pokémon before or after a challenge.  And lastly, try not to be a sore loser!  This isn’t your dad’s Pokémon League.  Only the elite few will be able to fight their way to the top!  All the others will have to deal with defeat!

Challenges will still be open during the entire con if you can find us.  And after our debut, the League remains open, and trainers can find us and challenge us whenever possible.  We hope people will be excited about this, and use this chance to really step up their skill levels, as beating us will be no easy task!

Gym Leaders
Victoria Luck
Devin Reynolds
Amy Strain
Courtney Carlson
Amber Smith
Will Kaplan
Eric Cristofferson
Kat Williams

Elite Four
#1 - Jesselyn Clapp
#2 - Zachary Lowe
#3 - Thomas Tebben
#4 - Corey Gevaert
Champion - Melissa Maday

League Rules

1: No legendary Pokémon may be used, regardless of the challenge
2: Trainers will not use Pokémon or items obtained or modified by glitches or hacks
3: No Pokémon may exceed Level 75
4: Challenges will only consist of single battles
5: Self-Destruct Clause: Applies to Explosion, Self-destruct, Destiny Bond and like moves. The user of the move loses if their last Pokemon uses one of these moves and it results in a mutual knock-out on both teams.
6: When a Gym Leader is defeated, the corresponding badge is gained
--6a: You may challenge the Gym Leader in any order.
--6b: When a trainer defeats a Gym Leader, their name is recorded publicly
7: By presenting all 8 badges, you may register a team for the Elite Four Challenge
--7a: Elite 4 and Champion must be challenged sequentially with no losses, with no alterations made in the Challenger’s team between them
--7b: With each victory, you gain each Elite's Card; when you lose, all Elite Cards gained so far are confiscated and/or nullified
--7c: If you wish to take the Elite Four Challenge again with a new team after losing, you must register again
8: If a challenger defeats the Champion, they are offered the new Champion position, and if you accept, the former Champion is deposed

Instead of handing out badges, we hand out little trainer cards that have our name, type, trainer ID, and a picture of our badge. At the same time, whenever someone beats a gym, we ask them to print and/or sign their name on a paper we have that we can always double check.  We'll explain everything at the panel, and you'll also be able to find us by finding people wearing their badge on their outfit.

Here's what qualifies as legendary Pokemon:

[~Xion~]

Questions:

Will this follow the current tier lists?
What clauses will be enforced?
Is this limited to only Gen 4 Pokemon?

[Damascus]

1) Currently, we won't be following tier lists, only banning Legendaries for their excessive stats.  Thus, current non-legendaries considered Uber (like Wobbuffet or Garchomp) can be used by either party.  For a full list of Legendaries we're referring to, consult this list, ending at Arceus.
2) We are fairly lax on clauses, but will be enforcing the Self-Destruct Clause to break ties.  Currently, we don't have any others in mind, but may add more later, as it's still several months from the debut.
3) No, Pokemon from all Generations can be used, but we'll only be using games from Diamond and Pearl onward, making any earlier games incompatible for battles.

[~Xion~]

Alright sounds good consider me your first challenger

One more question:

Single or Double Battles?

[Damascus]

Ah, that's another good question.  Single battles only for this challenge.  Glad to have you aboard. 

And for clarification, we're going so lax on the clauses because these challenges will end up being mostly about skill.  That is to say, it's doubtful people will get far without proper strategy, regardless of what you use.

[~Xion~]

alright cool if I can think of some more questions I'll be sure to ask them



EDIT more questions

Is there going to be a spoiler for which peple will have what kind of team?
How lax are you on the hacks? (like can my pokes be from PokeSav)because I honestly don't have a lot of time to EV train

[Damascus]

Everyone will get to know what type each member uses in due time.  The types of the Elite Four are already revealed on the Facebook group, and the Gym Leaders will follow soon.

The answer to the second is that we will be very stern.  What we want to ban is impossible movesets/abilities, or a Pokemon having stats outside the possible realm for their level.  PokeSav allows you to accomplish these, so we must bar Pokemon created with it.  Not to mention, using PokeSav is just straight up cheating.  I'm sorry you don't have much time to train, but we're still half a year out from the con, at least.

[~Xion~]

Alright I'll check the Facebook group out, also I was just using PokeSav as an example seeing as it is the most common way to easily create pokemon/teams.

[KORfan]

Have you considered running an event in our gaming room?

[Damascus]

It's a good idea to have members be in the gaming room while not at the panel.  However, I can't be held responsible for most of our members' disinclination to stay in one spot for very long.  I wouldn't mind hanging out, but you couldn't nail the rest down for more than an hour no matter how hard you tried.    So, we're settling on our members wandering the halls and encountering challenges out there somewhere.

[TenTenPiemaster]

will there be second and third place prizes? *is considering this*

also on the lvl rule, i was wondering if say the level up occured during battle (Say i have Arcanine at Lvl 75 when i get there and during all the fights he becomes lvl 76) will we be dq'ed?

[Damascus]

It's only a first prize right now, but I can discuss it with the others.  It's difficult to come across prizes even close to as rare as the Shiny Eevee.    Personally, I might be spending lots of time PokeRadaring searching for more shinies, so this isn't an absolute yet. 

As for your second question, it isn't an issue, as Pokemon don't gain experience during multiplayer link battles, so they can't level up.  You have nothing to worry about. 

[TenTenPiemaster]

lol, epic! yeah i've never actually had a 2-p versus link battle since... wow... since blue so i didn't know that

and yeah but it doesn't even have to BE epic. A rare candy or something could work you know? Its just an idea so I dont care if you dont use it

[Damascus]

Yes, that's certainly true.    Of course, anyone who beats the whole league gets to be the new Champion, so that's always a prize of the title, even though it's easy to lose it.

And yeah, if nobody minds that it's not nearly as epic as a Shiny Eevee, then yes, we can certainly come up with some second and third place prizes XD

[ladyshiro]

Just checking is this DS games or trading card game?

If it is DS games count me in.
All depends on what time it is.