Quakesberg Tournament!

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The crowds have gathered here at the Quakesberg Arena for the second major tournament of the Bohren Circuit! The Arena itself is built in one of the largest known caves in the Bohren Region. The stands are full of spectators, carrying posters with messages to their favorite competitor, "Go Agito Go!" and "Skyler, Skyler she's our man!" just to name a few. Rumors have been flying around about the mysterious Medic and his great win at the Lumeloch festival. Will he take home the Quakesberg Ribbon? And another grand prize?! Who knows!

Of course, this tournament is proving quite a difficulty for some trainers. Each trainer has received a fossil, chosen at random, which they were given two hours to train with. They are only allowed to use that Pokemon for the entire course of the tournament. So far one trainer was carried off into the depths of the tunnel system by a feisty Aerodactyl and another trainer received a Pokemon that has not been discovered yet! Of course, he was given a new one as Pokemon researchers quickly scooped up the mysterious new Pokemon in question for research. No ladies and gents, I do not have a photo or video of it, so don't ask.

After the first round preliminary battles we have 14 trainers standing strong allowed to compete here at the Quakesberg Arena. Remember each of these trainers had to battle it out with the resident gym leader Shawn and earn the Fissure badge to enter the tournament. So these remaining competitors are truly the best of the best of the Bohren Circut. Ah! And here it is! The updated bracket now!


Second Round Preliminary
Round One
- WINNER! Tarvek (sivalesvendetta) with Omanyte VS. Loser, Emily (npcmadeofnpc) with Dunsparce
-WINNER! The Medic (shoothimfirst) with Swinub Vs. Loser, Joey (npcmadeofnpc) with Lileep

Round Two
- WINNER! Bri (srslyimagirl) with Corsola Vs. Loser, Atlas (notagrunt) with Aerodactyl
-Loser, Dist (thereaper) with Kabuto Vs. WINNER! Jade (in_dignation) with Tropius

Round Three
-WINNER!, Agito (sky_shark) with Tangela Vs. Loser, Milla (demhips) with Relicanth
-WINNER!, Skyler (dudeihaveagym) with Anorith Vs. Loser, Sniper with (headshotsavvy) Cranidos

Round Four
-Loser, Saori (needsteaplz) with Shieldon Vs. WINNER! Armonde (serpentmaster) with Bronzor
- WINNER, Ash (nicepartner) with Baltoy Vs. Loser, Viktor (pain_split) with Lunatone


Quarter Finals
Round One
-Loser, Tarvek (sivalesvendetta) with Omanyte Vs. WINNER! The Medic (shoothimfirst) with Swinub
-Loser, Bri (srslyimagirl) with Corsola Vs. WINNER! Jade (in_dignation) with Tropius

Round Two
-WINNER! Agito (sky_shark) with Tangela Vs. Loser, Skyler (dudeihaveagym) with Anorith
- Loser, Armonde (serpentmaster) with Bronzor Vs. WINNER! Ash (nicepartner) with Baltoy


Semi Finals
-The Medic (shoothimfirst) with Swinub Vs. Jade (in_dignation) with Tropius
-Agito (sky_shark) with Tangela Vs. Ash (nicepartner) with Baltoy


FINALS
-??? Vs ???


Where are we starting?:
You have won the first round of the preliminaries. This tournament is noticeably smaller in comparison, since the Fissure badge is required.

SHODDY USERS REMEMBER: Shoddy requires you to have 6 Pokemon on your team to battle. Please put the Pokemon that was given to you as your lead. Set the Level to 100 as well as all EV's to 0. Make sure you use the move set provided. When that Pokemon faints (WITHOUT SWITCHING OUT) the battle is over. Feel free to exaggerate a little to make your post go longer if you'd like. If you want to work out Plot with competitors please do so here.

Plot:
One trainer (NPC) received an Aerodactyl, who is...um...rather unpleasant. Said trainer and Pokemon will occasionally be flying through the Arena during mid battle. Members of the RTF will be attempting to assist said trainer, but to no avail, he will not be rescued until after the tournament is over. Please feel free to use this within your own battles. This can either be used for hilarity or effect the entire battles outcome. Both members of the RTF and quakekid well be attempting to catch said Pokemon, so if it does appear, please be open for those players to jump in.

Let's get to it!

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2nd Prelims, Round 2, Battle 1

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Bri (srslyimagirl) VS Atlas (notagrunt)

[srslyimagirl]

Bri had glanced over her matchup for this battle and was looking forward to facing this trainer. He wasn't someone she'd met on circuit yet, and she liked battling new trainers. Maybe he would have a strategy she hadn't seen before.

She carried her Corsola in her arms as she took her side of the field, the pokemon wiggling happily to see an arena. The pokemon was cute - not at all keeping with her image of someone who would run down criminals with her pokemon, but cute.

"You ready to battle?" she asked.

"Corsola!" the pokemon said excitedly, and she set the little coral down as it sprang into the water on Bri's side of the field. Bri took another moment to glance over her list of moves and smiled - she fit almost perfectly with Bri's normal strategy. This would be a good battle.

She wasn't in uniform for this battle, rather she took the field in civilian clothes - she was hoping to keep her identity as an agent secret.

2nd Prelims, Round 2, Battle 2

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Dist (thereaper) VS Jade (in_dignation)

[in_dignation]

Fate was a rather strange thing, Jade reflected. He'd only just recently found Dist again, after years of pursuit, and had even more recently battled him...and now here he was at the tournament, having been assigned to face off against him once more. Clearly either a weird cosmic sense of humor or a curse was responsible.

Jade's assigned Tropius had walked itself into the arena, still absently chewing some leaves from a tree outside. He'd done his best to train the dinosaur, and while he believed he'd had some effect - at least it obeyed his commands - he hadn't exactly made much of a connection to it. The Tropius was rather aloof and barely seemed to pay attention to its new trainer's existence beyond doing whatever Jade ordered so it could go back to its own business(which was usually eating); Jade couldn't tell if it was genuinely disinterested or, perhaps, merely stupid. He'd never heard of dinosaus having the biggest brains.

Jade suspected that if he were a Pokemon, his attitude might be similar, which had mollified his feelings regarding the Tropius' attitude...somewhat. Anyway, if he'd learned anything in his years of learning to train Pokemon properly, it was that he could hardly expect to have won the thing's respect and enthusiasm properly in two hours unless it had already been naturally inclined to give them.

Now to wait for Dist...he was probably raising a huge fuss at the registration desk, having heard who he would be facing.

[needsteaplz]

Saori still had time before her battle to watch a few of them. It was rather fun to see what sorts of Pokemon were resurrected from their fossils. However, none caught her attention more than the pokemon Jade brought in. After quickly scanning it with her Pokedex, she made a mental note to find one of her own.

There was something about that Tropius that she liked. Maybe because it was clearly a grass type, or maybe it was because it was something she never saw before. Regardless as to why she liked it, she was determined to get one and was going to watch this battle closely.

2nd Prelims, Round 3, Battle 1

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Agito (sky_shark) VS Milla (demhips)

[demhips]

Milla was not excited for this battle. She was half hoping that she would have lost the last one. The Relicanth, which she was now lovingly referring to as Feio. She was not used to work with Rock type Pokemon. Especially something as...different as this one. The had barely made it through the last battle. Not to mention its move set was...not what she was expecting. The other Pokemon were so shiny! And graceful! And Exotic...this was...WHERE WERE ITS HIPS?!

She sighed and took her place on her side of the field. Lovely refused to be put away and insisted that it be allowed out to watch the battles with her. Sitting to her side she eagerly waited for the next competitor to enter the field.

[sky_shark]

Well. Of all the Pokemon that could've been revived, Agito had not been expecting this. The Tangela was overly affectionate, clinging to his legs with her vines and happily following him everywhere. It was like a Grass version of Gia, except she seemed to like Agito just as much as Akito.

Speaking of the light, he was paying very close attention to this tournament. For good reason.

'Agito, I really hope you win...I don't want to give her up after this! She's so cute...'

The dark sighed in annoyance, shaking his head. Outwardly he was annoyed about this whole mess, but since Akito was in his head, he knew Agito was slowly taking a liking to the small Grass Pokemon. They both wanted to win.

Once he'd taken his place, the Tangela obligingly let go and padded to the field. Agito eyed the Relicanth, pleased with this. Rock/Grass type meant this should be a very fast match.

2nd Prelims, Round 3, Battle 2

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Skyler (dudeihaveagym) VS Sniper with (headshotsavvy)

[dudeihaveagym]

Skyler sauntered to her side of the field, looking it over. The Anorith at her side scuttled after her, Azumarill on her other side patently ignoring its presence.

She looked over the field - someone had been kind enough to already program an environment for Anorith, of some marshy waterside with shallow pools of water. Skyler knew that this pokemon was a ground-type, but to her delight it not only knew a water move but loved playing in the water. Constance had immediately taken a liking to the other little fossil pokemon - even if Azumarill thought it was a complete nuisance and avoided it.

Anorith scuttled out onto the field and immediately buried itself halfway in the marshy mud, looking supremely content. "Well okay," she said with a laugh, "but you know we have to battle pretty soon here, right?"

[headshotsavvy]

Elijah was having a much harder time with his Craindos than Skyler seemed to be having with her Anorinth. From the moment the Craindos had been revived, it had been ornery and confrontational (he was nursing several bruises, mostly on his legs, from that ridiculous skull). He had to nudge it out onto the field with his boot -- it was much more interested in trying to break down the nearest wall.

"C'mon now, luv. We got this far, eh?" Usually through no work of his own, of course. The Craindos refused to follow most of his orders, meaning that he'd gotten this far into the tournament through sheer luck. "Just concentrate, awright?" Right. As if asking nicely would work.

Craindos just gave him a look, and then launched itself onto the field, posturing and stomping. At least it had some enthusiasm?

"You ready, Skyler?"

2nd Prelims, Round 4, Battle 1

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Saori (needsteaplz) VS Armonde (serpentmaster)

[needsteaplz]

Saori walked into the arena with her newly acquired Shieldon. Fortunately, the fossil pokemon was very easy to get along with after a few poffins and spoiling it rotten within the two hours she was allotted. Though it wasn't the usual grass or bug type she was familiar with, she was still going to give it her best and maybe even keep him if she did win.

2nd Prelims, Round 4, Battle 2

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Ash (nicepartner) VS Viktor (pain_split)

[pain_split]

Viktor was not going to enter the tournament. He had already told himself that he was going to assist Shawn with organizing and referring. But as he entered the Arena, he was instantly given a pokemon by the member of the League, informing him that they had an odd number of entrance and that 'HAD TO ENTER FOR THE LOVE OF GOD VIKTOR PLEASE.' so he did. He liked the Lunatone. There was something utterly ghostly about it. The first battle was a breeze. He had only half the time to train with the Pokemon.

He waited on his side of the field for the next competitor. The Lunatone sleepily levitating back and forth and around Viktor's head.

Quarter Finals, Round 1, Battle 1

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Tarvek (sivalesvendetta) VS The Medic (shoothimfirst)

Quarter Finals, Round 1, Battle 2

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Bri (srslyimagirl) Vs. Jade (in_dignation

[in_dignation]

So far, so good. Jade wasn't going to believe that beating Dist and his Kabuto was a particularly credible sign that he would do well in the rest of the tournament - being a gym leader hadn't made Dist any smarter, or changed the fact that Jade could beat him easily - but it was still a good sign. His Tropius seemed to be warming up to him, as well, or was at least paying more attention to him than on grazing now. He doubted it had much to do with their last battle(certainly defeating Dist and Kabuto had hardly showcased Jade's skills as a trainer), and was more due to their becoming better acquainted.

And, he'd decided, Tropius wouldn't be a bad addition to his team with some work. Not a permanent fixture, perhaps, but worth bringing out for specific instances. He didn't have many Grass Pokemon at all. That only inspired him further to try to win.

His opponent, he'd heard, was a fellow RTF officer, though he hadn't heard much about them otherwise. He waited alongside Tropius for their arrival.

Quarter Finals, Round 2, Battle 1

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Agito (sky_shark) with Tangela Vs. Skyler (dudeihaveagym) with Anorith

Re: Quarter Finals, Round 2, Battle 1

[dudeihaveagym]

Skyler grinned when she looked up at the tournament board - looks like she was matched up against Agito again. Somewhere along the circuit, she'd figured out why the kid was so serious battling, and had just shrugged. Some people had weird things. Who cared.

Anorith scambered onto the field, eager to bury itself in the mud again. "Okay, come on. Once was funny, even if you did win that battle."

Anorith declined to answer. Its eyes were even shut.

Quarter Finals, Round 2, Battle 2

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Armonde (serpentmaster) with Bronzor Vs. Ash (nicepartner) with Baltoy

[serpentmaster]

Armonde was getting awfully annoyed with this tournament. The Bronzor was about as cold as he was and the two barely spoke to one another. Armonde had taken his place in the green room of the Arena, watching the battles unfold, waiting to see who his opponent was. He had heard of Ash Ketchum, all of Team Rocket did. Those fools had been tracking him for years trying obtain his legendary Pikachu. Was it really that powerful? If he could catch the Pikachu he could probably get those two jokes out of commission for sure....

He took his place on the field, Bronzor hovering over him. He waited patiently, eyeing the field he found Wormadam hovering toward the top bleachers. He nodded, and she nodded back. No...not this time, it was still far too soon. He put his arm up and scratched the back of his head, Wormadam vanished.

Semi finals, Battle 1

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The Medic (shoothimfirst) with Swinub Vs. Jade (in_dignation) with Tropius

Semi finals, Battle 2

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Agito (sky_shark) with Tangela Vs. Ash (nicepartner) with Baltoy

Semi finals, Battle 2

[sky_shark]

Here again huh. Agito looked around the arena, ignoring the mutterings of the crowd about who knows what (probably that loose Aerodactyl).

Tangela clung to his leg, chittering away happily. She was so close to actually getting to stay with him! That was all she wanted, since seeing all the other Pokemon being taken away was. Bothersome. She wanted to stay with Agito as long as possible.

The dark was ignoring her partly, wondering when the trainer he was against would show up. He wanted to get the show on the road already.