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Announcing the first Unplugged Champ!

Here it is, the moment you’ve been waiting for! Meet our Champ, Marshall:

 

Marshall, the Battling Breeder!

Strategy:  Achieving battle synergy through incompatibility.

Leader’s Pokemon: One big dysfunctional Poké-family!

Leader’s Message:  “All Pokemon can learn to love each other! Some just take more time than others…”

 

Defeat this guy, and win yourself an officially unofficial PAX Pokemon League diploma, and a spot on the first Unplugged Hall of Fame! Quite the honor, I say. Trainer! Believe in you! Gather your deck, and join us these weekend for history-in-the-making at the first ever Tabletop PPL!

 

That’s all folks! See you Friday!
~signed, Justice AKA Mayor Karp, Nov. 16, 2017

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Unplugged 2017 Leader Reveals 3: the Final Wave

The last in our line of Leaders, we have someone fishy, someone shadowy, and someone who can hear the voices beyond the grave! Remember, you need 6 badges to challenge our Champ! Can you find and defeat these Gym Leaders before PAX Unplugged ends?

 

Mayor Karp, the Fishy Mayor!

Strategy:  Jumping over the competition by fishing up what he needs!

Leader’s Pokemon: Do these Pokemon seem fishy to you?

Leader’s Message:  “Oh! Looks like you’re causing quite the Splash!”

Badge:  Splashy Badge

 

Undefined, the Shadowy Silhouette!

Strategy:  Hide in the shadows.

Leader’s Pokemon: Legendary Pokemon with a darker feel!

Leader’s Message:  “You may feel lost in the shadows during this duel, but find the light to conquer the darkness  and you’ll emerge with the Shadow Badge!”

Badge:  Shadow Badge

 

Maxwell Graves, Diviner of the Discard!

Strategy:  Gaining power by discarding!

Leader’s Pokemon: Just as dangerous in any zone!

Leader’s Message:  “Huh, and all these years I’ve just been using cards to tell fortunes…”

Badge:  The Seven Star Badge

 

 

Later tonight: the Champion reveal!

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Unplugged 2017 Leader Reveals 2: the Search for More Badges

The next set of Gym Leaders is here! Tonight we’ve got a flashback to the 90’s and not one, but two dragon Leaders—wait, is that Kaiba?! He knows we’re not playing Yu-Gi-Oh, right?

 

Seto Kaiba, the Dragon Duelist!

Strategy:  Overwhelm the the opponent with the most powerful attacks ever seen!

Leader’s Pokemon: The first fire breathing dragon!

Leader’s Message:  “Nobody will stand in my way when I claim my title as the true King of Games!”

Badge:  Believe in the Heart of the Cards, and you might prove yourself worthy of the Duelist Badge!

 

Udrys, the Dragon Fanatic!

Strategy: Show you the true heart of his Dragon cards!

Leader’s Pokemon: The brothers and sister of his Dragon Family!

Leader’s Message:  “I will teach you the bond of my Mighty Family!”

Badge:  Show me the strength in your heart to become part of my family by earning the Family Badge!

 

Classic Sean, the Leader from the Past!

Strategy:  A classic Pokemon battle!

Leader’s Pokemon: A look at what the 90’s had!

Leader’s Message:  “Back from the past!”

Badge:  90’s Badge

 

 

Hmm, Classic Sean appears to be using old WotC cards, I wonder how those will hold up in 2017? That’s it for today, check back tomorrow for the rest of our Leader Reveals!

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Meet your Unplugged 2017 Gym Leaders!

Our Gym Leaders have been hard at work tuning their decks for this weekend. You’ll need to find and defeat six of them in order to challenge our Champ! PAX Unplugged is just a few days away, so with great pride we present the first Leaders on your quest to become the very best!

 

Prof. Hardwood, the TCG Researcher!

Strategy: Stay a while and listen…

Leader’s Pokemon: Simple and clean.

Leader’s Message: “To be the best, you  must first understand the basics!”

Badge: Toot Oriole Badge

 

Crazy Carl, the Milling Maniac!

Strategy: Your Discard Pile will soon be larger than your deck!

Leader’s Pokemon: They just love making your cards disappear.

Leader’s Message: “Wooooo-WEE! Time to throw out them garbage deck, y’all! Let’s git sum!”

Badge: Recycle Badge

 

Faegan, the Fairy Fanboy!

Strategy: Flaunt your Fabulous and Faithful Friends!

Leader’s Pokemon: The Finest and most Fantastic of the Fey.

Leader’s Message: “My Ferocious Fairies will never Fail!”

Badge: Finish the Fearsome Faegan to Find yourself the Fantastic Fairy Badge!

 

That’s all for now, but check back later today for the next round of leader reveals!

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Time to meet our Champion for Aus 2017, Rai the Rain Guy!

With PAXAUS starting tomorrow, there’s only one secret left to unveil, and that’s your new Champion for 2017! And one final reminder to stop by the HandHeld Lounge where the PPL is most plentiful, especially during Leader Swarms, occurring 2pm daily!

Rai, the Rain Guy

After his defeat to Champion Hugh last year, Rai was looking forward to a revenge match with the title of Champion once again at stake. However, Hugh mysteriously disappeared from the country after the conclusion of PAX last year. Rai sailed the seven seas in search of him, but to no avail. With a stormy cloud in his heart, he dons the Champion title this year and awaits the day he can meet Hugh again in battle.

Until then, it’d be up to you guys to distract Rai from his troubles with an exciting Double Battle! Defeat his newly acquired Water Pokémon, and the Rain Badge will slip out of his hands into yours… as well as the opportunity to obtain the Secret Rain Badge!?

Secret Rain Badge

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Beware Challengers, Sith stalk the halls

Darth Nihilus, Lord of Hunger

A long time ago in a galaxy far far away Darth Nihilus was a Sith Lord, the Dark Lord of Hunger. He fed on the Force, draining the life from entire planets, such was his power. But even the greatest of Sith fall. Consumed by his hunger, Darth Nihilus was defeated. But he did not die. The wound in the Force was so great, that Darth Nihilus fell through it, to a new universe. One filled with strange creatures called Pokemon. Now he has a team of new apprentices. Apprentices he has taught his Hunger. Taught them to feed. Taught them to drain the life of those they face in combat. How can you win, when your opponent takes your life to replenish their own?

The Hunger Badge is the Badge you are looking for.

Hunger Badge

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Introducing Kirky, the Quicky Archeologist and Green, the Obvious Fake

PPLAUS is a scant few days away! Want another peek at what we have in store for you this year? Look no further

Kirky, the Quirky Archaeologist

Kirky’s origin is mostly unknown, seemingly even to himself as he will regularly change his backstory when asked. He is currently based in Australia attempting to prove his wild conspiracy theories through his background in archeology and for this reason has structured his team both for fierce combat and assisting him in surviving harsh wasteland environments. While he isn’t much of a people person due to his isolated nature, he will never turn down a Pokemon battle. Approach with caution and be prepared.

Battle in the harsh conditions that seem to follow him to earn the Fissure Badge!

Fissure Badge

 

Green, the Obvious Fake

Green was raised among a family of performing mimic trainers but left in shame as he wasn’t so good at the mimicry always get the details wrong. So he started his Pokémon journey to perfect his team and his mimicry skills. Despite everyone seeing through his disguises Green became a great trainer and then Gym Leader. Now Green has come to PAX Australia to see if he can fool unsuspecting trainers.

If you can spot and defeat the fake you’ll receive the Counterfeit Badge!

Counterfeit Badge

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More Gym Leaders?? More?! More!!

Why we’ve got so many Leaders you’ll be wondering when the Victory Road will finish being built in Victoria. Time to fully introduce two young and coming Gym Leaders, Charlie and Wyvern!

Charlie, The Cheerful Chu Companion

When the sky is bleak and grey and you can smell rain in the air, that’s when you’ll find Charlie and his team training hard on the nearest beach. He loves to watch the storms roll in, unafraid in the slightest of the thunder and lightning. He’ll dance in the rain with his beloved pokemon, all of them relishing in weather that would send most running for cover.

Never seen without at least one Pikachu (or Pikachu lookalike) by his side, Charlie has travelled the world to hone his mastery of electric-type pokemon, determined to be the greatest trainer he can, with the ultimate goal of becoming a gym leader some day. When he heard about the formation of the PAX Pokemon League, he leapt at the chance to live his dreams, keen to prove himself just as competent an electric-type leader as legends such as Lt. Surge and Wattson, his childhood heros.

If you’re not spooked by a little thunder and lightning, come try your hand at winning the Stormchaser Badge!

Stormchaser Badge

 

Wyvern, the Confused Dragon Tamer

Wyvern has always loved dragons and pokemon, because of that he always idolised the dragon trainers, Lance, Drake, Cynthia, Iris and Alder and he dreamed to become the greatest dragon pokemon tamer ever. The only problem is he doesn’t know his types.

Show you know your Pokemon by challenging Damon and taking home the Wyvern Badge!

Wyvern Badge

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Switch, the Dance Dance Revolutionary

Switch, the Dance Dance Revolutionary

After spending the past year, “stranded” in the tropical paradise of Alola, with no recourse but to hang out with the local pokemon professors (drinking Mai Tais and Long Island Alola Iced Teas) all whilst hanging 10 off the back of a Mantine. Switch has repaired his ship for the long voyage back to Kanto, pirate flag raised, garish labcoat fluttering in the wind switch shimmies and shakes his booty as he hops port to port, stopping in Melbourne to see his friends and battle excited challengers.

Do you care to tango with this chilled out cat? Or will you mambo away from a chance to cha-cha-challenge Switch for your own Moonwalker Badge?

Moonwalker Badge

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Introducing Flax, the Bumbling Bug-Keeper!

Flax, the Bumbling Bug-Keeper

Sometimes you might come across a stroke of bad luck. Maybe you even consider yourself unlucky, or clumsy, or just not very good at life. Flax envies such people. If you follow Flax for a day it’s said you might be privy to anywhere between 10 and 72 unfortunate mishaps. Some are his own doing, some are just being in the wrong place at the wrong time, most are a flailing, zany dance between the two. Lady Luck was just never particularly fond of poor Flax. Despite this, Flax runs and maintains his own gym to this day with a smile on his face. As long as Flax has his Bug Pokemon nursery to take his mind off of life, nothing can keep the cheery lad down. You might rightly ask yourself why such a person would purposefully put themselves close to so many stingers, claws and fangs? Seeing as he’s still alive, come and ask him yourself, he’s managed to rope himself into this years PPLAus!

Take on Flax, the Bumbling Bug Keeper and his beloved hive – keep a safe distance while you earn yourself a Bumbling Badge!

“So I’m not very lucky…or coordinated, or good at battling, so? There’s more to Pokemon than being the best, same goes for the rest of life. Sure there are a few bumps, bruises and potentially fatal accidents along the way, but I’m stronger than that, you’ll see!”

Bumbling Badge

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