#pokemon tournament

[elbdot]

ON APRIL 4th 2024, Nintendo will officially shut down its online service for the Nintendo 3DS.

So...what if we had one last special tournament until then?

CHALLENGE CHAMPION EL from MARCH 6th TO MARCH 13th on DISCORD!

Ever wondered who would win if your trainer got to challenge El to a Pokemon battle? WELL NOW YOU CAN FIND OUT!

For a limited time, I am offering FREE 7-DAY TRIALS on my Patreon, thus opening my Discord server to EVERYONE who wants to challenge "El" aka my original Pokemon team to a battle! :D I hope we can have a lot of fun battles and I get to accept as many challenges as possible until the online service shuts down in April!! Looking forward to meet you guys! 😊💖

Get your free trial and join the challenge today! Patreon.com/elbdot!

[giant1v1poketourny]

Hello, and welcome!

I know what you're thinking, there's been numerous pokémon poll tournaments like this already. What makes this one any different?

Well, the biggest and most important difference is the timing of the tournament, and by extension, the number of contestants. As of the full release of Pokémon Scarlet and Violet (version 3.0.0), there are almost exactly 1024 total different pokémon! That means every single match can be 1v1 without the need for preliminaries, round skipping, round robins, or any other weird thing that needs to be done to make an irregular bracket work. Just ten rounds of pure 1v1 elimination all the way through.

"Hold on, you said almost exactly, not exactly." Yes, there are actually 1025 pokémon, which can be turned into 1024 if I treat both nidorans as one pokémon. These guys were introduced before gender was a mechanic and there have since been single pokémon with more extreme sexual dimorphism, so it's fine.

Oh, but that's not all! This tournament will also be seeded using the Ultimate Pokémon Tournament's round 1 results. Were any of the other pokémon tournaments seeded? No, because the hosts of those tournaments are sane and don't hate themselves! I, however, have already put in the work for this because I'm really interested in finding out how this setup changes the results, if at all.

Oh, and it's double elimination too. I don't recall any "every pokémon" tournament doing that either, also for good reason.

So if you liked the other pokémon tournaments and aren't tired of them yet, or if you're, like me, the type of autist who'd feel immense satisfaction from participating in a tournament with exactly 1024 contestants, then you've come to the right place!

4 polls are posted a day at 12-2pm utc (8-10am est) and reblogged 12 hours later.

@tournament-announcer

[ourpokemonteamtournament]

Ex Sewaddle

Normal Shiny

Tournament PSA: Normal Sewaddle won its round and is still in the tournament.

If you vote please reblog to help us get as wide a net as possible. Propaganda is highly encouraged. Round 67 Masterlist

[orez-suke]

Commission for DualDEATHlucario

[best-pkmn-battle-ost]

Frequently Asked Questions

What is this tournament about?

As the name implies, this tournament is here to decide which Pokemon battle OST is regarded as the best in the community!

What OSTs are eligible?

This tournament is for game battle OSTs only! A battle OST is a song that plays while you battle someone or something (Pokemon, Pokemon Trainer, Boss, etc.) in the game.

Both mainline series and spin-offs are accepted (Mystery Dungeon, Ranger games, mobile games etc.). No anime only OSTs! If an OST has an anime version but it debuted as a game OST, you can submit it.

What about songs that have a lot of versions?

If an OST has multiple versions, only the most submitted one will be admitted into the tournament. This is to prevent over saturation of OSTs that have many versions.

Where do I submit OSTs?

You can submit OSTs here!

How many submissions will be in the bracket?

That entirely depends on how many I receive! If the number will be too much, I will trim some to get the most popular in.

When will the submissions close/bracket open?

The bracket is open! Round 1 is all up, you can see all the polls here.

[alyo]

Oh man, I really need to catch up on drawing for the Pokemon Regionals and other tournaments. Here's the winning team from Pittsburgh, but right now it looks like competition is heating up in Lille! Good luck players, can't wait to see who wins!

[rohalussworld]

BOYS.

We are ballin' with a trainer in Drafthole Battle Association who drafted a team under pseudonym "According to All Laws of Aviation, There Is No Way A Bee Should Be Able to Fly"!

This is my logo sketch submission for them based of a Mega Beedrill! I hope anyone who is in the tournament have fun with it, and have a good laugh with the logo and the name!

[nerdytreasuresbyamy]

Honolulu 2024 Snorkel Pikachu commission! Lets go Kai 🙌

[secretlyroxxyrogue]

Are you a fan of pokemon? How about prizes?

Join me at Furnal Equinox this year for the official Pokemon TCG Tournament! Hosted by lil ol me. This will be held with decks using cards from Sword and Sheild and newer, with a Prize of $100 CAD.

Interested in participating? Register to play here:

[charliewouldkillformanaphy]

Mimikyu being one of my fav pokemons >>

I love ghost type so much fr

congrats to mimikyu for winning the pokemon tournament! @ultimatepokemontournament​

(art by me)

[pkmn-go-to-the-polls]

[elbdot]

i love how everyone else is making specific teams to take down individual party members NAH NAH NAH if im gonna do it its gonna be a comp team i already have for fun fuck it we ball (sand) its gotta be my favs vs ur favs ur using lumineon i got archeops im a believer

I LOVE THAT APPROACH, ABSOLUTELY BASED

Gonna be real here, the CLOSEST any of the new contenders has come to defeat me, was a trainer with the exact same approach: FAV POKEMON ONLY, his OG TEAM, he wanted to take me down with THEM and THEM ONLY AT ALL COSTS. So it was my favorite Pokemon against his favorite Pokemon. By the end of the match we were BOTH down to our Partner Pokemon on low HP. The level of intensity was UNREAL. That was hands down one of my favorite matches I ever had. Trust in your favs guys, they're stronger than you think.

[sillydrifloon]

Silly Drifloon vs Infamous Trainer

Amoonguss is the bane of my existence now.

Full video on YouTube!

[ourpokemonteamtournament]

If you vote please reblog to help us get as wide a net as possible. Propaganda is highly encouraged. Round 63 Masterlist

[kiisaes]

mixed signals

[which-is-the-very-best]

🎊This is the Final Round! The winner will be crowned The Very Best !!! The other two will take 2nd and 3rd place respectively!!🎉