Pokemon Christmas Bash Event REPORT!!!

From 26 Nov to 26 Dec, Tampines Mall was invaded by Pokémon! The event was at its peak when Team Robo started the Pokémon City Championship as well as the NDS VIdeo Game Christmas Bash.

Firstly, let get on to the first video game event that is fully organized by Team Robo - The battle Mall Silver Challenge.


At 1.30pm of the bright sunny day light afternoon of 18 Dec 2010, Team Robo started its Pokémon Christmas Bash Video Game Event. The Battle Mall Silver Challenge is inspired by the Elite 4 Challenge found in every region of the main Pokémon game. The registration for challenge lasted till 5pm on weekends and up to 4.30pm on weekdays; all the way till Christmas Day, 25 Dec 2010. It ended at about 8pm to 9pm everyday.

The event is led by Battle Mall Captain, Soon, Pokémon Battle Judge of Team Robo (Video Games) and 4 Team Robo Video Games Member: Ryan Loh, Max Goh, Al Nalif aka Knife and Fabian.
To allow a greater share of Pokémon Players participating in the event, Team Robo allows all versions of 4th generation Pokémon Games (Diamond, Pearl, Platinum, Heart Gold and Soul Silver) were allowed in the Battle Mall Silver Challenge. Challengers are required challenge Battle Mall Trainer at level 1, level 2 and level 3 to get 3 consecutive wins in order to challenge the Battle Mall Captain on Level 4. Defeating the Battle Mall Captain will marks the challengers completion of Battle Mall Silver Challenge.

The Battle Mall Trainers and Pokémon
There is a certain difficulty in challenge the Battle Mall Silver Challenge. Trainers are expected to defeat Elite 4 in their Pokémon Diamond, Pearl & Platinum or collected 16 badges in their Pokémon Heart Gold & Soul Silver Video Games.
All Battle Mall Trainers will only use 3 Pokémon and the total level of the Pokémon adds up to 150. As all 4th generation games are allowed to participate, battle in done in Battles for 2 -> Single Battle, No Restrictions.
On the first floor: Scientist RyanIg
They used a team of unevolved Pokémon that is often associated with Christmas. They are all level 50 and were casually trained: Snover, Stantler, Delibird

On Level 2: Team Magma Grunt KNIFE
Challengers who played Ruby, Sapphire and Emerald will immediately know who he is. Reviving the Team Magma feel, he used a team is associated with Team Magma: Houndoom*, Aggron, Groundon
*With proper EVs


On Level 3: Youngster FAB
Fabian uses Common yet dangerous Pokémon. Challengers will have a small taste of competitive battling. Team inclusive of:
Brave (FEAR) Rattata, Adamant Staraptor and Modest Raticate.
All Pokémon have very decent IVs and proper EVs.

On Level 4: Battle Mall Captain Soon

Battle Mall Captain Soon's Silver Challenge Team
Bottom Left to Right: CALEX, EARL, イヴーイ, ESTEL, PIKACHU (VENICE), KIKI
Top right: ETUM & MERIKKI

Photo credits to Allen Rui Xiang)

The battle with Battle Mall Captain uses Flat leveling function from the Pokémon Battle Revolution to test trainers’ ability. All Soon’s Pokémon team is mostly unevolved and were hardly used in most battles, but they were properly trained and battled competitively. It is dub as the Joker Team by the some fans. Some of the Challengers had their face turned blue when their exotic Legendries are being defeated by them. Some challenges felt pressured when they realize that their Pokémon can hardly touch the Battle Mall Captain’s Pokémon, while some who knows their stuff, won the Challenge with breeze.

Total number of registered Challengers: 228
Total number of Challengers that Cleared Silver Challenge: 108
*Figures does not excluded repeated Silver Challengers.

BOXING DAY TOURNEMENT
Date: 26 Dec 2010
Registration Time: 11am to 2pm
Tournament Time: 2pm to 7pm (4pm~4.30pm break)
A total whopping 70 challengers came forward to registered for the Boxing Day Tournament.
However, more than 20 trainers have their Pokémon Identified as illegal prior to the event, which hulk the already slow moving registration queue.

There are a total of 6 Major rounds in eliminating the players. The breakdown is as follows:
Round 1 to Round 3
Trainers are randomly matched up with another trainers. For any trainers that lose 2 matches in a round get eliminated.

Round 4
At the end of round 3, only 27 Trainers left in the battlefield. Round 4 involves a strict elimination. 13 pairs of trainers fighting for the top 16, the 13 winners of round 4 will get into top 16, while remanding 3 trainers who lost the matches will be selected based on the number of wins and losses in Round 1 to 3.

Round 5
With 16 players fighting for top 8, round 5 commanded straight elimination after losing a match.

Final Round
Final Round battles are done on Pokémon Battle Revolution on the Wii. 2 Wiis were setup to allow incoming connection with challengers DS at the same time. Challengers were to use their DS to search for the Wii and their DS will decide which Wii they are connecting for them.
After all players were connected, battles were done via Pokémon Battle Revolution’s 4 player tournament mode. After each wii has concluded a winner, the winners of each wii are set to fight against each other on Wii via 2 player Battle mode to decide who the winner and runner-up. Meanwhile, challenger who lost to the finalist get to battle on the other Wii to see who ranked 3rd and 4th.

Results Score:

1st: Andrew Neo Jun Lang
2nd: Allen Rui Xiang
3rd: Aidil Aqmal
4th: Cameron
Top 7: Eugene Tan
Top 7: Ryan Loh Jun Jie
Top 7: Chow Han
Top 16: Jake Tan
Top 16: Theron
Top 16: Sugi Chandran
Top 16: Phua Jun Kai
Top 16: Clement Goh
Top 16: Vinay
Top 16: Keith Kong Wei Xuan
Top 16: Ryan Kiew
DQ: Wilson

CHAMPION Andrew's Team:
MEWTWO AMBIPOM GARCHOMP LATIOS BRELOOM TYRANITAR
Andrew's Team have a sweet balance between Sweepers and Supporters. With weather changing Tyranitar, as well as Technician AMIPOM and BRELOOM strategically ruin's opponent's combo allows his main sweepers take control of the battlefield while crippling opponent's power.

RUNNERUP Allen's Team:
DRAGONITE GARCHOMP KYOGRE VAPOREON MISMAGIUS FORSLASS
Powerful Water Type Combinations and additional wide attacking type coverage allows Allen's team to sweep his opponent ruthlessly in the Battlefield.

2ND RUNNERUP Aidil's Team:
TYPHLOSION TOGEKISS GROUDON ZAPDOS CHERRIM SHIFTRY
Bright sunny day brings extreme power to Aidil's Team. By tactically using different Pokémon ability and excellent Pokémon Type selection Aidil's Team is an instant setup and sweep at free will without hurting his own Teammates.

BATTLE MALL GOLD CHALLENGE
Tournament Time:7pm to 9pm
All trainers who made it to the top 16 at the boxing day Tournament are invited to challenge the BATTLE MALL GOLD CHALLENGE by having a rematch with BATTLE MALL CAPTAIN.

Battle Rules as follows:
- Boxing Day Tournament Rules
- 6 choose 4; 4 vs 4 Double Battle with Species, Items clause
- Challengers were told on Battle Mall Captain's Line Up. Players are able to select and rearrange their Pokémon Line Up on the PBR big Screen.

About 10 trainers fought, some of the team were sweeped mercilessly by Battle Mall Captain, (4 vs 0). Some trainers gave a very good close fight.

Only 1 trainer managed to complete BATTLE MALL GOLD CHALLENGE: Trainer KAI (Top 16)
She is award with the exclusive Team Robo BATTLE MALL GOLD CHALLENGE COMPLETION Certificate, A Pokémon Kite as well as the Secret Prize - Movie 10 Celebi!

Congrats for the successful events! I really appreciated these events which gather pokemon trainers and had fun! :D
Will there be any activity like this in the future? There must be! lol.