No Simulator Required – 9th Place Winter Regionals Team Analysis
Hello, my name is Leonard Craft III, aka DaWoblefet, and I am new to Nugget Bridge. Really, I am very brand-new, and that’s why you’re not seeing a team analysis that happened in January until now....
View ArticleHawaii 5-0: VGCS Winter Battle Winner & SoCal Regional Runner-Up Team Analysis
Hello Nugget Bridge! Back again since my last team analysis, which didn’t go over well with some people. I had my first chance to actually compete competitively the last Worlds Last Chance Qualifier...
View ArticleA Game of Throhs: March International Challenge Team Analysis
So here I am again with a March International Challenge report! I wanted to do something different for this tournament and have a good time with it. I had my eye on some Pokémon for a while and wanted...
View ArticleA Different Face, but the Same Old Story: March International Challenge and...
Before regionals, I was sitting at around 254 Championship Points. Everyone and their mother was telling me, “Congrats, you qualified for worlds! You probably don’t even have to try at Madison now.” Oh...
View ArticleVersus the World: An International Challenge – April Report
Greetings! I’m James Bunkley, and after lurking for months, I decided to finally step out of my shell. I’ve been playing in the Video Game Championships since 2010, when I entered the rain-infested...
View ArticleAmazing Haetae Power: VGC ’13 Korea Nationals Top 4 Team Analysis
Hello everyone! I am Korean VGC player Wonseok Jang (CROC). I think some of you may know me from the Korea vs USA matches. I am here to introduce my friend Cheol Hwan Yeom‘s Top 4 team. I think the...
View ArticleThe Prince and the Politoed: Regional 10th Place and April International Team...
Hello everyone, my name is Joseph Brummett, perhaps better known as lucariojr. I started battling competitively in ’09 when I got into top cut by sheer luck (because of the lottery and quality of my...
View ArticleThe Empoleon Strikes Back – A Utah Regionals Runner-Up Team Analysis
After a pretty disappointing start and finish in Long Beach and finishing too low in the CP standings for my taste, I knew I needed to do it big in my next regional. I decided that I was not going to...
View ArticleSlowly Hailing in the South – Regional Top 18th Team Analysis
Hey Nugget Bridge! I’m looking back on my Hailroom team that I used at Spring Regionals at Athens, Georgia. This article is long overdue, and I still debated on whether or not to write an article on...
View ArticleAll hail the Queen – A top 8 UK Nationals Warstory
Hello fellow Nugget Bridgers! My name is Ben Gould, better known online as Ben 91293 and in game as Ben 912. I placed top 8 in the Birmingham Nationals in UK the other day and took plenty of notes to...
View ArticleHere comes the sun! A Germany Top 8 Team Analysis and Nationals Report
Hello Everyone! I’m Lajos Kowalewski, also known as Lajo here on NB, and I’m proud to be part of the community since January this year. You may heard of me thanks to Pokémon Showdown!, where I battle a...
View ArticleFire the Octillery – US Nationals Report
Hello Nuggetbridge! My name is Tom, but many just call me TeeJay. One of my opponents at Nationals asked me how long I’ve been playing Pokémon competitively, and he was surprised to hear “since 1998.”...
View ArticleSeven Star Swordmasters – Top 4 US Nationals Report
Hello again, this is R Inanimate. After an intense weekend of battles at the US Nationals, I managed a Top Four finish, losing the the champion. It was an amazing weekend for meeting up with the...
View ArticlePunches of Steel: JRank’s 2013 U.S. Nationals Report
Hello everyone, my name is Jonathan Rankin, although you probably know me as my screen name, JRank (wonder how I came up with that one, huh?). As you should be able to tell from the title, I attended...
View ArticleLive and Let Live: 11th Place US Nationals Report
Howdy friends! Scott here again, this time with my annual reminder that I do play this game in addition to writing about it sometimes! While I feel like I spend more of my time writing about and...
View ArticleRed Scizor Was Here: Shiny Scizor Is a Loser
Hi everyone, my name is Aaron Zheng and I’m a competitive Pokemon VGC player. I had a great weekend at the 2013 Pokemon National Championships two weekends ago, and this article is about my team and my...
View ArticleFullmetal Steelix: 10th Place US Nationals Report
Hey everyone, this is Adib. I also go by honchkro13 on Nugget Bridge. I’m here today to talk about my team, which finished 10th place at US Nationals. Half of this team is a Fullmetal Alchemist:...
View ArticleTeam Dancing Queen: 1st Place Nugget Bridge Invitational Report
Why hello there! I’m Blake Hopper also known as Mrbopper here on Nugget Bridge, and I recently placed first in the Nugget Bridge Invitational with the following team. The original draft of this team...
View ArticleEuropean Nationals Triple Top Cut & World Masters 9th Place Team Analysis
My name is Barry Anderson (Baz Anderson), and 2013 has been the year I have made a name for myself in the VGC community. I am the only person to top cut all three European Nationals this year, and...
View ArticleGoogle: Cybertron. Did You Mean Babbytron? 2013 Junior World Champion Report
Hey everyone, Brendan “Babbytron” Zheng here. If you didn’t know, I started playing Pokemon competitively in 2010. What I will present here is the team I used to win the 2013 Pokemon World...
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