East 2014 News

Hello all you lovely challengers! The League is slowly getting back on its feet after its multi-day nap, and we’ve put together a survey for you to take to help us improve the League in the future!

Click here to take it!

It shouldn’t take more than 10 or 15 minutes, and your feedback is SUPER important to us. We put together the PPL for your enjoyment, so we want to know what we’re doing right, and what we could do better!
Plus, the survey is completely anonymous, so you can give us your honest feedback!

Thanks in advance!

Now I’m going to take another nap. So tired~

A brief reminder of how to PPL, since there’s lots going on this year!

THE LEAGUE CHALLENGE:

• There are 29 Gym Leaders. Look for them wearing their bright green scarves. Find one, and challenge them to a battle! If you prove your worth, you’ll earn their badge. Remember, you can only challenge each leader once per day (unless they say otherwise).
• There are 6 Elite Six members. They will also be wearing bright green scarves (check the leader bios we posted so you know which six are Elite Six members) Collect 8 badges for the right to challenge them. If you don’t have enough badges, they’ll refuse your challenge! Defeat them in battle to earn their emblem. Again, you can only challenge each Elite Six member once per day.
• Collect ANY 4 Emblems for the right to challenge the Champion. Defeat the Champion to win the Champion Prize (a cool PPL bag) be entered into the Hall of Fame! Also Propriety will probably want to take a picture with you.
• Meetups are a good way to catch lots of gym leaders all in one place, but also keep an eye out as you walk around PAX! Leaders often go to panels and queues are a great place to find them.
  Our meetups will be: Friday at 1 PM, Saturday at 3:30 PM, Sunday at 2 PM, all in the handheld lounge.

TRAINER CARDS:

• After your first leader battle, whether you succeed or fail, if you don’t already have one, the gym leader should offer you a trainer card. These cards have a bunch of helpful info on them, including suggested leaders, meetup times, etc. Researchers Propriety and Kim will also have these, so if you don’t have one already you can ask us for one. You’ll also need one to participate in…

MEGA BINGO:

• While you’re battling gym leaders, keep an eye out. If they use a MegaEvolution while you’re battling them, and that MegaEvolution appears on the bingo board on the back of your trainer card, you can ask that leader for a sticker for that spot! If you get 4 in a row, you can come find Researcher Propriety or Researcher Kim to get a special prize pin and a raffle ticket!
• There will be raffles on Friday at 5 PM, Saturday at 5:30 PM, and Sunday at 7 PM (all in the handheld lounge, except for Sunday’s raffle, which will take place on the Westin Mezzanine), each with different prizes available. You can use your raffle ticket on any one of the raffles for the chance to win a prize! (If you use your ticket on Friday, you might have a better chance of winning since fewer people will have gotten bingo… but you also won’t know what prizes are available until the raffle! So choose wisely!)

SECRET SCIENTIST SPY:

• One of the Gym Leaders is up to no good, feeding juicy MegaEvolution secrets to Lysandre, and it’s up to you to figure out who it is! Ask the various scientist gym leaders if they know anything about MegaEvolution. Their answers put together might give you a clue that will lead you to the leader responsible! Confront them with their crimes and if you’re right you’ll win a super rare Poke-Nobel Prize Pin!
• Note that some of the gym leaders might not have any idea what you’re talking about…. don’t let them onto your sleuthing!

 

In case you are trying to hunt down a specific gym leader, here is a twitter list of all the PPL leaders who have twitter accounts:

https://twitter.com/PaxPokemon/lists/ppl-east-2014-leaders

Feel free to subscribe to it if you want all the leaders’ tweets! Also, the @PAXPokemon twitter feed will be retweeting leader tweets so you can follow that instead if you’d like (you should be following that ANYWAY).

Here’s a list of who’s included:

Researcher Propriety: @Proprietous
Researcher Kim: @nyankokimi

The Champ:
Lysandre: @PPL_Lysandre

Elite 6:
Antoine: @FatherVenom
Ciro: @PaxDragonHunter
Sabrina: @tulnekaya
The Imposter Professors: @RealestOak

Gym Leaders:
Cylis: @Coffeynotcoffee
Justin and Blaire Cooper: @Cooper_Cousins
Miss Miau: @y00ty00t
Nathaniel: @CharlieFangamer
Greta: @Gigiem
Toph A Snails: @bigdumbhippy
Chef Olivier: @PPLmunchie
Pryce: @WinterTrainer
Alexander: @Aurethious
Kinchou: @loltsundere
Mudman Dan: @bootaide
Professor Kaden Chang: @ShinyWoopWoop
Sara and Stacy: @PPL_SublimeSci
Darius Nathal: @LanceMartinLTan
Imakuni?: @Lv3Bidoof
Isaac Adler: @PPL14_Isaac
John: @PPL_Ghostbuster
Patrick Pinkerton: @PPL_PatPink
River Song: @PPL_RiverSong
Calucian: @CalucianPAX
Dr. Neuro and Dr. Toxin: @YacheBerri
Oceanus: @Pax_Oceanus
Paul: @nicodemus144
Roberto Stahrs: @PPL_Volaro

 PAX passes (No, really). DO NOT FORGET THESE.

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PPL Necessities
3DS
Pokemon X or Y
Charger and Power bar (YES YOU WILL NEED THEM, DEAR GOD)

Other Important Things
Clothes AND COSTUME STUFF
Underwear for at least 6 days
Jacket, hat, gloves (for possible cold weather)
Toothbrush
Toothpaste
Deodorant & body spray
Lotion
Good walking shoes!
Vitamin C and hand sanitizer
Backpack
Poster Tube
Snacks (for waiting in line)
Water/Water bottle (Stay hydrated!)
Cell phone/ camera / laptop
Handheld gaming devices, CAH, MtG, Zombie Dice, and any other games you’d want to play

Money to give graciously to Child’s Play via Cookie Brigade.
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Also, be sure to get the phone numbers to everyone you will be meeting and rooming with! Don’t get stuck with no way to contact anyone if you get locked out of your hotel room!

Challengers who manage to defeat the Champion will be awarded eternal fame and glory by being inducted into the Hall of Fame!

More importantly, they’ll also be given one of these tasteful commemorative drawstring bags!!!*

 

 

*(While supplies last. We’ve only got 15 of them, so don’t be a Slowpoke! 🙁 )

EDIT EDIT: Keep trying! There may be some copies left!

The PAX Pokemon League East 2014 has a Guidebook!

 

Guidebook is a app for mobile phones that allows you to access schedules and information for conventions. PAX has an official one (that you should totally download), but the PPL has one of its own!

Click on that banner for instructions on how to get the guidebook app, then search for PAX Pokemon League 2014 and download our actual guidebook! It has a schedule of meetup and raffle times, as well as a list of all gym leaders so you can keep track of who you’ve battled!

(Note: because we’re not flush with cash we could only afford the free version, which limits us to 200 downloads, so if you’re not going to PAX East, please don’t download it! And if we run out of downloads, we’re really sorry! 🙁 All the information in the guidebook is available here on the site, though, so don’t fret!)

PAX is fast approaching, and one of the yearly traditions of the PPL is that we hold a meetup on each day of PAX in the Handheld lounge. Meetups are a good chance to catch lots of Gym Leaders in one place, chat and mingle with other challengers, compare badges, trade for Pokemon you’re missing… they’re not to be missed!

We’ll be holding meetups in the Handheld Lounge on:

Friday (the 11th) at 1 PM,

Saturday (the 12th) at 3:30 PM,

Sunday (the 13th) at 2 PM

MegaBingo Raffles will be held in front of Handheld Lounge on:

Friday (the 11th) at 5 PM, 

Saturday (the 12th) at 5:30 PM,

Sunday (the 13th)’s MegaBingo Raffle will take place at 7 PM on the Mezzanine of the lobby of the Westin Hotel  (the hotel that is connected to the Convention Center). There will also be a final meetup/goodbye session then. (Since PAX is technically over then!)

 

Remember, for all raffles, you must be present to win! You come to the Raffle, you turn in your Raffle ticket, and if you’re drawn, you win a prize! It’s that simple!

See you there!