Theme ideas for Prime 2012?

[RoxasEmoQueen]

I love double battles! But having a league centered around doubles is hard because A LOT of people don't like doubles because there's not a lot of information on the internet about it. I'm saying this being a doubles leader once too. I demolished pretty veteran players just because the meta games are radically different.

I do like the trainer card with different conditions on it, it puts less strain on leaders.
]Also, anytime anyone would ask me to ref a rival battle I'd just say 6v6 doubles because that's my favorite and the rival matches I did oversee were when I was battling.

[Bitera]

I do like double battles, though I guess you're right that it would probably be too much for every leader to do it. Still... I forget who it was that offered to let me challenge them in a double battle this year, but I should've taken them up on the offer. I mean, that's why my Swampert knows muddy water instead of surf.

Not neccesarily having battles be the requirement for getting whatever the equivalent of the rival badge would be sounds like a much better idea actually. Then, even if someone can't make it all three days, they still have a chance of earning that extra badge.

[UWorlds]

First off, this past weekend was my first ever PAX, and my first time challenging the PPL. It was a blast, and I just wanted to thank all of you for running it! (for those of you who I was able to challenge, I'm the one who was running the rain team with Politoed, Toxicroak, and the shiny Bronzong, if any of you remember me =P )

I had an idea that just came to mind, in regards to the Orre theme mentioned earlier. It would have definite room for improvement/tweaking, plus I'm unsure how plausible it would be to implement, but here goes:

Each of the leaders could play the role of a Cipher Admin, each with their own unique shadow Pokemon. This shadow Pokemon would be on their team's roster when challenged, and if the challenger is victorious, he/she would effectively "snag" the Pokemon. The challenger would receive the shadow Pokemon in a trade, along with instructions on how to purify it. Purifying methods could include things such as:

*leveling it up (i.e., lv30 Shadow Pokemon could be purified if it is raised to lv40 or so)
*teaching it a certain move
*evolving it (i.e., a leader could pass out a Shadow Machoke (holding an Everstone of course), and the challenger must find someone to trade to evolve/purify it)
This is just a small list of ideas that come to mind at this time. I'm sure you guys could think up of many other zany purification methods to make the PPL fun and exciting ;p

Once purified, the challenger would return to the leader he/she received the shadow Pokemon from to confirm the purification. Once confirmed, the challenger would receive their badge. The resulting purified Pokemon could then be trained however seen fit, possibly being able to compete in some events/challenges in which trainers would use their "purified" team instead of their standard team.

I'm not sure how easy it would be for this theme to be run by the leaders, plus it'd be a chore to fill up several boxes worth of shadow Pokemon to hand out to challengers. However, I figured I'd at least share the idea anyways to see what you all think.

[Ktywf]

I apologize in advance for being the devil's advocate here.

Heavily themed ideas such as this are great for getting people active and involved and it sounds like it could be very fun. But why complicate a system that's so simple you can explain it to a child in three seconds? Imagine trying to explain to a ten year-old what they have to get their badge via "purifying", either by randomized card or Shadow Pokemon. It's just not practical. Not to mention the PPL makes its home at a convention and competes with hundreds of other interesting things to do. Slowing down the process (and especially making people do stuff they might not want to) would almost definitely lose us challengers.

I don't want to discourage ideas like Shadow Pokemon. I actually like it a lot. Unfortunately, the League is in need of simpler concepts to keep in line with the original, simple concept.

[SandstormS]

[Snorkus]

You could do a region based prime. Kanto would be a cool idea.

[SandstormS]

[Snorkus]

replace rivals with retro leaders? maybe after the different regions are beat you get the equivalent of a rival badge[/quote]


or you could make the regions classify as, the veteran, intermediant, and casual.

[Quilliam]

[Blackfox138]

Been playing around with a few ideas while I wait for sign-ups, And now I unleash them.


Little Cup, all the leaders are dressed as babies or youngsters, badges are now binkies.

Stunfisk League, all Stunfisk all the time. Lose all the speed ties.

Magical Swap Fest, create your team and start the battle, then switch ds's. Who can troll who harder?