[VG] My Thoughts on Recent "Rule-Bendings"

(Artist: pickles-4-nickles)

Some people love everything TPCi does for or against us. Some people can find reasons to hate absolutely everything. Some people are just the devil's advocates and some other people are just egoists. In this year alone, I'd probably see myself as a bit of everyone of those.

[VG] 2014 International Challenge May Review

This marathon was something else, I feel. Lacking something else on my game, I just used my Bochum team again. Read on for how it went and some fun stuff. Also, these Battle Box pictures from the Global Link are really cute, so here's mine (click to enlarge):

[VG] Ich bin der Krähenkönig... (My 2014 German Nationals Report)

Well yeah, and that's it for me already in this (official) season – on the day it started, it ended. The tournament was both good and bad for me in various ways and I mostly want to get it all out of my system so I can move out without thinking too much about it easier. Spoilers: I went 6-2, which is obviously a lot better than all of my previous year but still not enough for shit. Whatever... Have fun with this informal report.

[VG] Introducing My First Competitive Team on XY

The blog wasn't supposed to be in-game only, and now, also with the US Regionals for XY kicking off, is a good time to start bringing content related to the official VG Standard format. This weekend, I played in the Inoffizielle Deutsche Meisterschaft 2014, which is with 306 participants the biggest online Pokémon live tournament both Germany and Europe have ever seen. (For reference, the top 32 thread.) Also, congratulations to Naruto Uzumaki 97 (bad name, why do tournament winners always have bad names) for taking it all, as well as 13Yoshi37 for making the finals, reigning World Champion Mean for taking 3rd place and all the rest that did well!

For me, it unfortunately didn't go too well... Got a tough second-round group and ended up just going 1-2 in it and be eliminated. That's the way of the IDM sometimes/always, and eventually it just had to hit me rather than other people again. I'll probably write a short team analysis and report soon, but before that I think I deserve at least a half week break from this game, so whatever. This is what I used in overview, my very first team on XY. Take care.

Tyranitar @ Tyranitarite ~ Rock Slide ~ Crunch ~ Dragon Dance ~ Protect	Meowstic @ Sitrus Berry ~ Psychic ~ Charm ~ Light Screen ~ Safeguard	Bisharp @ Choice Band ~ Sucker Punch ~ Iron Head ~ Night Slash ~ Brick Break
Gyarados @ Gyaradosite ~ Waterfall ~ Earthquake ~ Dragon Dance ~ Protect	Amoonguss @ Occa Berry ~ Giga Drain ~ Spore ~ Rage Powder ~ Protect	Rotom @ Choice Specs ~ Thunderbolt ~ Overheat ~ Hidden Power (Ice) ~ Volt Switch

[VG] First Batch of Battle Maison Videos

I'm done uploading everything interesting enough using that terrible team I just introduced. I didn't put many comments to what happaned on YouTube because YouTube is, with my resources, not the ideal platform for doing that. Thus, I'll do it just here and now, have fun.