PJT ’14 – Last Minute Changes & Alterations

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It’s no lie that we’ve been working towards launching our tournament for a while now. We’ve carefully considered formats and rules to make the best experience we could and we’ve made several changes over the last few months to get the tournament to exactly how we want it. However, we’ve decided to make some fairly substantial last minute changes.

Groups Stage Changes

Last week we announced the listings for each individual group within the tournament. these groups each contain 5 people who will all battle one another in an attempt to gain the most points and proceed to the elimination round. Alongside these group listings we announced the dates slots each group would need to compete in order to have their scores counted.

We realised it was perhaps a little unfair that some competitors would have longer to work on their teams as their group didn’t need to compete until later in the month. As such, we’ve now decided that all groups will battle in the same period. From July 24 until August 7 every competitor in each group much complete all necessary battles to have their points count. A reminder of your group can be found below.

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Group Listings

Lavender Group

FrostByte, Gangplank Olaf, Chandelure16, MenacingCascoon, RocketClauncher

Driftveil Group

LoarkHD, ShinyTrapinch, Yveltal’s Minion, Chicolombia, regidudeam 

 

Canalave Group

DefensiveBastiodon, MissMilotic, Chaos, Roksyth, primalwulf

Fallarbor Group

premiertrainer, Lasgorndalf, Miniryu-Ninja, rawbread, Rheneas 

 

Sunyshore Group

LaserDragonX, Marko XY, EarthenWarrior, jotawonka, Jordinite

Ecruteak Group

Gentleman of Sinnoh, Maple, AliceXVI, Spetsnaz, Zeromyraid

 

Undella Group

UmbreonLifts, simkenno, HeavyMetalFairy, Edgaroth, RIOspeedwagon

Lumiose Group

Themightywyvern, SilverRioluALPHA, ShinyLickitung, Sexystarbits, SlipperySceptile [/spoiler]

Team Submissions

We’ve always known that we would require all participants to submit their teams before competing. Now is the time to do that. Below is a form asking participants to submit details of their team before competing. It’s important all competitors do this before beginning battles so we can store the information and us it should any disagreements or claims of cheating occur. No one other than selected staff members has access to this information.

Submissions for teams must be submitted by the 24th of July CST. The tournament will officially start later that day, or earlier if all competitors submit before the soft deadline. Any delays in submitting your team will simply mean you lose the maximum amount of time to compete you battles within.

Rules

As one more reminder to our readers, the rules for the tournament can be found below. Failure to follow these rules will result in disqualification. Disqualification will also occur if we find any competitors actively being deceitful or lying to others, cheating in any way, deliberate disconnecting or any other nefarious behaviour – including in the site comments and chat. Rules breakers will lose the match and will be disqualified completely.

Pokémon

When choosing Pokémon to take part in the PokéJungle Tournament, it’s important they all conform to our rules for entry, as seen below.

  • All Pokémon must be legitimately obtainable in Pokémon X & Y. We are allowing transferring of Pokémon from older games through Poké Transporter
  • The following Pokémon are banned: Mewtwo, Mew, Lugia, Ho-Oh, Celebi, Kyogre, Groudon, Rayquaza, Jirachi, Deoxys, Dialga, Palkia, Giratina, Phione, Manaphy, Darkrai, Shaymin, Arceus, Victini, Reshiram, Zekrom, Kyurem, Keldeo, Meloetta, Genesect, Xerneas, Yveltal, Zygarde, Diancie, Hoopa and Volcanion. Mega Latias and Mega Latios are also banned.
  • Species Clause: No two Pokémon can share the same Pokédex number
  • Two or more Pokémon cannot have the same nickname in a team
  • Pokémon cannot be nicknamed using the name of another Pokémon. (For example naming a Sewaddle “Snover”)
  • Pokémon able to Mega Evolve are allowed to do so
  • Any Pokémon used by players that are above Level 50 will be lowered to Level 50. Pokémon below Level 50 will be raised to Level 50.
  • Players will be required to use 6 Pokémon throughout the tournament. These Pokémon will remain the same through the entire tournament and cannot be changed.

General

  • All matches will be played in the Singles, 6 VS. 6 format
  • Item Clause: No two Pokémon can hold the same held item
  • Your Pokémon team must remain the same through the entirety of the tournament. No changes are allowed unless we state otherwise
  • An intentional disconnection from the battle will result in an automatic forfeit

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We’re now incredibly close to the tournament starting and we hope that all our competitors are ready, or almost there. We will provide an launch post on the 24th with details on how to arrange battles and kicking off the tournament.

Finally, as we always like to do, we want to ask our readers to submit any questions they may have about the tournament; or raise any problems or issues they may have. Don’t forget to Like us on Facebook and Follow us on Twitter where you can contact us and get the latest Pokémon news and updates!

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1,758 thoughts on “PJT ’14 – Last Minute Changes & Alterations”

  4. WHOAH i just realized somethinf

    in b2/w2 caitlyns room doesnt allow you to leave her room till you talk to her and beat her
    also caitlyns room has a bed in her room

    she is trying to seduce

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  8. Recently, I have been watching some episodes of the Hoenn anime and watching videos where people show their movesets for contests. Then I got to thinking, what if there was a type of pokeblock that could reset all of your contest stats? Similar to the reset bag in X and Y. What do you guys think?

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  12. Ok, I think my team is ready, just last minute adjustments and I’ll probably submit it a little later, or first thing in the morning.

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  14. Here’s what needs to happen: Nintendo needs to step up it’s game and release a fully HD handheld. Idc about the whole 3d gimmick they tried to push with the 3ds, that needs to stop bc it has no real future the way it’s going. All I want is an oled screen to play Nintendo handheld games on. Then GF can finally go all out now having a handheld worth making an open world Pokemon game on and all will b happy!!!!!

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    • honestly i want the next handheld to be the size of gameboy advanced SP.
      XD
      this is how i see it though as far as graphics
      GameBoy-NES
      GBA-SNES
      DS:N64
      3DS:Gamecube

      thats how it seems to be for me

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    • LOL. They’re not even pushing the 3D Gimmick anymore. I mean, they gave us the 2DS and XY’s overworld is in 2D.

      Funny story. I was shaking my bro’s 3DS for Play Coins, and accidentally activated the 3DS Feature. I was shocked as to why this happened, and later told myself, “Oh yeah. The 3DS can do that”. XD

      I don’t see a new console coming anytime soon. Not for another three years or so. The 3DS is just THAT good.

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      • But that’s the thing it’s not just that good. Nintendo is the only competitive handheld maker out there right now. It’s not that they couldn’t do better, it’s that they don’t have to. Which is y I’m sad that the PS Vita isn’t being handled properly bc it’s much much better than the 3ds. The only thing wrong is that Sony isn’t doing a good job getting games to it.

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        • Because that’s hard to get. When a game company goes out of their way to try and get better “next-gen” graphic, they often ignore other qualities. For example, the reason why the 3DS is more successful than the PSVita is because the PSVita focused too much on engine power and lack a library of good games, while the 3DS is not as powerful, it has a great library of good games to choose from.

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          • It’s not hard tho……….It’s just a smaller console….. Nintendo is a huge company, r u saying they wouldn’t be able to make an hd handheld while releasing quality games?

          • I’m not saying they’re incapable, I’m saying it’s impractical. Nintendo is very successful with the 3DS with the way they handled thing so far. HD on a handheld, while it is desirable, will cost more than it’s worth, for both the company to produce and the consumer to purchase.

          • That’s the thing tho think about the original cost of both the Vita and the 3DS…….Both were 250. They both had price drops, but the 3ds (which is the lesser of the 2 in terms of hardware) cost the same as the better handheld so what really helps the consumer? at least in the initial launches that is.

    • The thing is, Nintendo games are so good and original, they don’t need HD. Who wants to see Pokemon or Mario in HD quality? :/ That’d just look weird.

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  16. OMG i just had an idea

    what if like those wifi events of one of the vgc champions pokemon, we mass clone the champions signature pokemon and distribute it to the participants!

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  17. HD on a handheld is a waste of money. It’d look bad and the battery would drain so fast. If you want HD, just use a console.

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  20. People creating Sinnoh remake rumors, lol.
    Fake but, here’s for all you Sinnoh lovers to specualate about.
    So my Dad’s uncle works for Gamefreak and, for my twenty first birthday, leaked to me some information in regards to the Gen 4 remakes that are currently in development. Naturally I threw up my proxies and need to share this information with /vp/ first

    What I know so far

    The names are going to be “Solar Diamond” and “Lunar Pearl” a spin off the primary themes of the game, Arceus awakening and blending night into day

    The game takes place after the events of X and Y, where the mere charging of the ultimate weapon convinced Arceus to purge the Sinnoh region, so that it’s own weapon could never be utilized. The player must scrounge together the few remaining members of team Galactic and ally with either Primal Dialga or Palkia to stop the impending destruction.

    The team of this game is Team Galactic, now reformed under the leadership of a man named “Oram” as a group dedicated to preventing the legendary disasters seen in the Hoenn, Kalos and their own regions. They believe that it is not humans or pokemon that cause the worlds problems, but rather the governing of Legendaries and their extraordinary power.

    Many older pokemon are receiving new forms or megaevolutions, including Staraptor, Luxray, all of the gen 4 starters, Tentacruel, Hitmonchan and lee, Weavile, Spirtomb, and Bronzong, Primal forms for both Dialga and Palkia, and an “Original Form” for Arceus, this being the form you fight him in.

    Many pokemon are having their movepools vastly expanded, including the creation of thirty more TM’s, the introduction of many new moves, and learn-pools being enhanced, such as Garchomp learning Dragon Dance through breeding, and Gyarados learning Crunch.

    Eevee will receive two new eevolutions, of the dragon and ghost type, these are also the first eevolutions to be done via trade.

    Contests are going to be greatly expanded upon, using the 3D models to greater effect and giving new attack animations for each of move.

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  22. Since I have tasks higher up on my priority list, I may have to settle with any of my other 6 competitive teams instead of 7. I’m currently training my 7th team.

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