Announcing the PokéJungle Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Tournament!

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Mario Kart 8 Deluxe was recently released for the Nintendo Switch and we know many of our readers are currently offering everything the game has to offer. Today, however we’re please to announce something fun for the site: The PokéJungle Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Tournament. A bit of a mouthful, right?

Our tournament will start as a one-off event, with the possibility of running weekly tournaments depending on the turn-out! We want our readers to decide the possible date for the first tournament, and as such we are proposing the following dates and times:

OPTION 1
Location Date and Time Timezone
Tokyo (Japan) Sunday, 7 May 2017, 00:00 JST
London (United Kingdom – England) Saturday, 6 May 2017, 16:00 BST
New York (USA – New York) Saturday, 6 May 2017, 11:00 EDT
Los Angeles (USA – California) Saturday, 6 May 2017, 08:00 PDT
OPTION 2
Location Date and Time Timezone
Tokyo (Japan) Sunday, 14 May 2017, 00:00 JST
London (United Kingdom – England) Saturday, 13 May 2017, 16:00 BST
New York (USA – New York) Saturday, 13 May 2017, 11:00 EDT
Los Angeles (USA – California) Saturday, 13 May 2017, 08:00 PDT
OPTION 3
Location Date and Time Timezone
Tokyo (Japan) Monday, 8 May 2017, 00:00 JST
London (United Kingdom – England) Sunday, 7 May 2017, 16:00 BST
New York (USA – New York) Sunday, 7 May 2017, 11:00 EDT
Los Angeles (USA – California) Sunday, 7 May 2017, 08:00 PDT

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We will keep our poll open for 24 hours, after which we will formally announce the dates of our tournament. In the meantime please fire off in the comments below with any questions you may have and we’ll do our best to answer them!

See you on the racetrack!

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2,513 thoughts on “Announcing the PokéJungle Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Tournament!”

  4. Trying to resist buying it out of peer pressure
    Maybe if I scrounge up 70 bucks in the next week or two ill get it

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  5. Ooh Is there anyway to post the races on Youtube. I want to see this tournament. How ill the race work exactly? 1v1 race? 4player races? Is it single elimination bracket? So many questions. Not enough answers. I wish I could enter, but racing games are too advanced for my style. 😀 Have fun.

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  6. Sorry for the double post, but I just saw an amazing post Mega Hydreigon (based on its original concept)
    http://aminoapps.com/page/pokemon-sun-and-moon-amino-community/2518891/mega-hydreigon
    If youre too lazy to click on the link:
    Steel/Dragon
    Wonder Launcher
    Cool Updated moves (IE: Water Pulse/Ice Beam/ Aura sphere)
    Atk: 125 (+20)
    Def: 100 (+10)
    SpA: 165 (+40)
    SpD: 100 (+10)
    Spe: 118 (+20)
    http://pm1.narvii.com/6437/4d0af883ef4e23ce371f59a431eba988fa2b3da5_hq.jpg
    Check this guy out. It draws and makes some amazing stuff.

    http://aminoapps.com/page/pokemon-sun-and-moon-amino-community/2538306/seandewar47 (full credit to him)

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    • maybe for the next Psudo
      my Mega Hydreigon would be monstrous and crazy
      it’s main had is bigger meaner and has longer teeth and a pair of ram horns arm heads grow larger and more vicious, it even grows another head on its tail and feet, each of its wings also grow an eyeball and become more bat like, a row of jagged spines sprout from its backside and lastly it grows two more arms with heads

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        • dude what’s so complicated
          4 arms with heads
          1 main head bigger and meaner
          1 head on the tail
          (maybe i’ll ditch the feet head and just make it a pair of jaws)
          6 bat wings with a eyeball pattern

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    • While I feel that it fits more to be an evolution rather than a Mega, this is by far the best Mega Hydreigon I’ve seen.

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  7. MK8D tournament huh? All the dates are fine with me. May or may not join tho depending on how busy I get those days. Anyway this is apparently a new merch promotion for next month. It’s title “Look upon the stars” “Stars” huh? Hmmmmmm lol https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/3edebebca639a7e1816df8d79750e5134ebc5abb04458dcc3fbd5c57a6fe70ae.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/8f02bf4bf65740f7a9e7f5dca1cdb3468578cb211e43ddf851923a1f74c140f7.gif

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  11. This sounds like a good idea! Id love to join in on the racing tbh. Ill just have to make sure I dont work or have school thay day. Either way seems like a fun time 🙂
    Also I really love the new background, its very cute

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  12. Looking forward to this! I hope I don’t spend too much time playing the game today. I only had a chance to play a little bit on Friday, because my life is ridiculous right now.

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  13. Anybody know anywhere I could share this dumb fanfic thing so all of you could read it if you want? Not touching a dedicated fanfic sight with a barge pole btw

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  14. Got some fanfic terms

    Magic – Thanks to the presence of the crystals, humans can manipulate magic. Unlike Pokemon, this magic isn’t an integral part of them, and thus they don’t have types. Humans are ‘typeless’ although certain races have a higher chance of having affinities to a certain set of elements of single element.

    Races – Different types of humans, caused by the isolation of the races after the First Great Crystal War, which was only truly resolved after the Second Great Crystal War. The races we know of in real life are just differences in appearances in this world, and aren’t treated differently at all. Racism stems from these magical races.

    Crystal Affinity – What magic the person is best suited for. Everyone has a ‘prime affinity’, but have varying affinities for all crystals, from innate mastery to not being able to use that form of magic.

    Nought People – People who can’t easily be sorted into any group. Tend to have an affinity for any crystal, but crystal affinity seems to be passed along though families to some extent.

    Cross People – People who are mixed race, combining assets from their origins including crystal affinity.

    Earth People – Tend to be bigger, and either muscular or fat. Tend to have an affinity for the three earth based crystals, especially the Ground Crystal.

    Fire People – Tend to be all shapes and sizes, bit are tanned, as well as usually freckled. Tend to have an affinity for the fire aligned crystals, especially the Fire Crystal.

    Water People – Tend to come in all shapes and sizes, but are paler than others tone wise regardless of their skin colour. Tend to have an affinity for the water aligned crystals, especially the Water Crystal.

    Air People – Tend to be tall, lithe, and athletic. Tend to have an affinity for the air aligned crystals, especially the Flying Crystal.

    Fair Folk – An extinct sub species of humans, mutated due to the magic aligned crystals exploding and reforming many, many years ago. Whilst the Psychic Crystal exploding caused psychics to be born into the many races, and the Ghost Crystal caused mass death, the Fairy Crystals infused humans with the ‘Power of the Fairies’ . They were hunted to near extinction and time finished them off, but there are five remaining races that are descendents of them. They had odd eyes (unique to each individual, influenced by family), vestigial wings which were used as status indicators, and pointed ears. They could use Hexes and Charms freely with mastery. They’re better at magic then normal humans, but must receive regular exposure to raw crystal energy. Their crossbreeding with humans made this need for crystal energy less devastating, with refined crystal energy being sufficient and required less regularly.

    Pixies – Fair Folk/Naught crossbreeds

    Nymphs – Mixed race Fair Folk descendants

    Gnomes – Fair Folk/Earth crossbreeds

    Undines – Fair Folk/Water crossbreeds

    Salamanders – Fair Folk/Water crossbreeds

    Sylphs – Fair Folk/Water crossbreeds

    Crossbreeding between races is still illegal in some places, and some countries treat different races differently. However, out of fear, Fair Folk are often discriminated against – and as of late, are banned from the Earth Continent, with all refugees being sent to the Neutral Continent.

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    • Yes because tbh if we don’t get any new Megas for the remainder of the franchise (which has at least another decade or two left imo) then it just goes to show GameFreak aren’t as great at game design as people think they are

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      • Why? I don’t really think that’s a bad thing. They’ve turned the “new form for old pokemon” aspect into regional forms and the “once in a battle” into Z-moves (that probably will turn into something else in gen 8). I don’t really miss new Megas.

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        • Why would they introduce the feature in the first place if they were just planning on throwing it away?

          And Megas are meant to be a stronger form of that Pokemon and add new ideas to the base design or develop the ideas, whereas regional variants are an alternative, not an expansion.

          Also IMO Megas had cooler designs and whilst Regionals help make the world feel more alive I personally feel they’re boring compared to Megas, which had this awesomess to them because they were exclusive power ups and imo cooler than Z-Moves (which can be hella anticlimactic if your opponent does something as simple as switch)

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          • Finally someone I can agree with. Megas had a much bigger impact as a whole compared to Z-moves and regional variants (together). They were more interesting.

            I am sad that we may not get more megas, but it is starting to look that way.

  17. Pokejungle fanfic terms, part 2

    Familiars: Each mage can have three familiar Pokemon, and mages are the Pokemon trainers of this world. Their Pokemon helps them make their magic stronger, but must not fall into the trap of using them as a crutch for their magic. Battles occur to strengthen familiars, but battles between mages are also common.

    Pets and livestock: Easily domestic Pokemon used for products or to care for. In this world meat has been replaced by transfiguring plant matter into animal matter, meaning its a best of both worlds situation.

    Elemental Ascendance: Literally just Mega Evolution but with a convoluted fantasy name. Residual Infinity Energy (life energy) gets infused with Crystal Energy (elemental energy) and creates small crystals that can power certain Pokemon up, or in the case of human Infinity Energy, create the crystals that react with the Pokemon crystals to bring about the Mega Evo Elemental Ascendance

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  19. Just finished watching 13 Reasons Why and holy shit.. like… what even.

    I don’t really know…. how to feel? Like it was really good but I just kinda feel empty now after watching it. If you are interested in it, totally watch it but it gets really intense. You’re goona have to turn away from the screen a few times. I couldn’t watch the suicide scene

    I just want one more episode though to wrap things up. Bryce needs to go to fucking jail, Alex needs to survive, I need to know wtf Tyler is doing with those guns and all that, It feels like nothing got done even after all that which is probably intentional. I’ve never had to deal with suicide personally so this show helped me realize how what you do to someone really can affect them. You’re told that all the time but you don’t realize it until you watch it like that.

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    • Tbh what I like is how they didn’t portray Hannah as this ‘flawless victim’. Whilst she didn’t deserve what she got, she sometimes made things worse for herself, made impulsive decisions, and came across in general as a flawed but tragic character. None of these because she’s stupid or mean spirited, but rather because she’s flawed as all human beings are. It’s honest and I love it for that.

      Also the theory is that Tyler actually shot Alex and it wasn’t a suicide attempt and that’s the reason he took his photo down. He’s either systematically killing those he has photos of, planning a school shooting, or a mixture both. Or Alex did attempt his own life and Tyler just took the photo down because he believed he no longer had to kill Tyler himself.

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      • Yeah she was written very well. She could’ve very easily been made into a Mary Sue that was without fault. It hurts watching her do things that just pushed her down further. One thing that really resonated with me was the times she wanted Clay to stay even though she told him to leave or when Mr. Porter didn’t chase after her. Sometimes when you are in a terrible situation you just need someone else to take control even though you fight them back.. if that makes sense. It’s a terrible feeling that has no logic to it.

        Wasn’t it Justin that suggested killing Clay and making it look like a suicide? That sure sounds like some foreshadowing to me.

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  22. Well if you play Go and want Sudowodo go to college today went to Arcadia and saw one and yesterday at Misericordia saw one in its Garden

    Didn’t catch one due to being on a tour both times but yeah they seem to spawn at colleges… Yet I caught a Miltank today

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  23. “See this? This is Delibird.

    No, not “Delibird”. You pronounced it wrong in your head.

    Don’t ask how, I just know these things.

    Delibird.

    See you did it again.

    Not delly-burd but de-LIB-urd.

    Delibird.

    Delibird.

    Because it delivers things.”

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  25. I can’t help but wonder the order Game Freak would have revealed other mons if the leaks never happened

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