Introduce yourselves!

[Riestal]

Hello PAX! I'm Ken, and Pokemon Red was the first video game I ever played. It was the catalyst for the person I am today. I love competitive battling and strategies, but most of all I enjoy the challenge of taking pokemon that people consider "bad" (Pokemon in the lower tiers, especially RU) and proving that, with strategy and effort, they can kick some ass! Just ask my OU Trick Room Slowking team =P I am VERY far behind on Gen V(Haven't beaten White yet!) but hopefully I'll be up for battles soon! Anyone cares for a battle, or to just get to know me, feel free to send me a PM. See you all at PAX!!!

[FatherVenom]

Howdy all you Pokemaniacs! I'm a big fan of Pokemon. Back in the day it was such a huge upgrade over any other portable RPG and it's still a great game series to this day.

I remember back when they were doing the "big" Pokemon 2000 tour. I spent weeks training up my team to compete. Got to the event. Had a little trouble getting the official Mew onto my Red cartridge. Quickly swapped out to my Yellow one to get it. Ten minutes before showtime I find out the faulty transfer wiped the data off the cartridge I'd been working on for so long, put some much affection and effort into. Being a sensitive teenager at the time, I was understandably upset. I quickly cobbled together an inferior team on my yellow cartridge and strode forth to what I was sure to be a quick defeat. The format was a simple two round pods of 16 10 min time limit per match to cycle through the large turn out as fast as possible. You get to look at your challengers team makeup and then choose three of your six to battle with. I chose Mewtwo, Dragonite, and Aerodactyl. I proceeded to STAB/recover with my Mewtwo versus an opposing Mewtwo who didn't have recover. 8 minutes into the match his Mewtwo finally fainted and I had very few pp left for Recover, but he never overcame the loss of his Mewtwo. It was a tough battle, but it really cemented my love of the game. For a video game to inspire such feelings of devotion, such highs and lows, I knew I was onto something. It was a long rest of the day, but on top of that great victory I ended up winning round two and upon confronting a convention enforcer about having my cartridge wiped out I was awarded a brand new red cartridge with all 151 Pokemon on it.

Personally I'm a borderline casual/serious player. I've let my knowledge of the meta slip over the year with new games and maturing into adulthood and responsibilities, but there's always a special place in my heart for Pokemon.

[Asahshi]

Haaaaai!! I'm Mark!

Pokemon Blue version was the very first game I ever got when I was in second grade and I loved it with all my heart. I've been a passionate Pokemon player ever since. As a kid I was obsessed with it. I played the games all the time, collected the cards, watched the show, saw the movie, you name it. I remember thinking that nothing could've ever been better than Pokemon Blue version. Or at least until Silver version came out. Best game ever right there. I did kinda have a falling out, so to speak, with Pokemon shortly after Ruby and Sapphire came out though. The games never really did it for me, the show started getting boring to me, and I just sorta stopped playing Pokemon for a good few years afterwards though. Ever since Diamond and Pearl though, I've been playing again and regretting the decision to ever stop.

I'm not much of a competitive battler, but the PAX Pokemon League is absolutely fantastic. I was at PAX for one day this past spring and managed to get 6 badges over the course of the day. Barely did anything but try to track down gym leaders. Applied to be a gym leader myself this year, and I didn't get accepted unfortunately. But I've spent the day since then planning out what I'm going to do for my team, and I just can't be bummed out anymore doing that. Something about putting together a new team that just brings out that sense of childlike wonder in you. Gym Leader or not, I can't wait to be at PAX and I can't wait to challenge the league and earn some new badges for my collection.

[Tulnekaya]

Hi there, name's Karlyn. The first Pokemon game I personally owned was Yellow as a wee child, though some of my fondest memories surround the 2nd Gen. I had my copy of Silver (eventually Crystal!) and my oldest brother never failed to beat me with his team on Gold. Ever. I'll admit that for the longest time I was a 2nd Gen purist, outright refusing to believe the other generations existed. A previous boy-thing of mine, however, taught me the very basics of IV and EV training and gave me a glimpse into modern play after I bought my long awaited SoulSilver. Eventually Riestal, Asahshi, and Dragons_Umbra convinced through a bit of badgering to give 5th Gen a shot.

... I ended up beating my White version before Riestal. Damn procrastinator <3

Anyways, I'm a somewhat obsessive breeder that almost outright refuses to use Pokemon that don't fit my personal standards of favoritism. This means I'm likely to have quite a few Rarely or Never Used on my team. The fun is in making them work. (Ex: I still have a Dragonair I need to breed and test. Theoretically she can kill most Dragonites :3) While I am aware of the meta, aware of "better" options, it's just not my style. I'm just happy to make genetically superior spawn of my favorites and train them until my eyes bleed at 1AM.

[Heleor]

Glad to see you all!

(Wow, the introductions are becoming more and more like essays, are they!)

[Tulnekaya]

Don't be hatin' on the walls of text =D

[Kai]

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesssss. Non-cookie cutter teams please me.

[Bitera]

Hello, I'm Bitera, though I also go by Ein or Bit (the Bitera part is more distinctive, hence why I use it as my main username). It is only an alias, with the Ein part coming from the character of the same name in Pokemon Colosseum. Anyways, I've been playing pokemon since good old red and blue, when it quickly became a large part of my life and never really stopped. This will be my first time at PAX, and when I noticed the thread for this on the PAX forums, I was interested right away. I'm not very good at competitive battling, so I just threw together a team of some of my favorite pokemon and will be training them casually until PAX East. I hope I can beat at least one of the gym leaders, but I won't worry about it too much. I'm sure there will be plenty of people besides to battle. And I don't mind losing that much. It'll just be nice to have some people to battle. Anyways, looking forward to it!

[Propriety]

[Kai]