POKEMON CONTESTS

Pokemon Contests are competitions where Pokemon and Coordinators, trainers who specialize in Contests, put on dazzling displays and performances for roaring crowds of fans and spectators. Pokemon Coordinators aim to collect ribbons by winning Pokemon Contests. When a Coordinator obtains five ribbons, they may participate in the Grand Festival – a massive Coordinator Contest that brings all of the best Coordinators from around the region to compete for a chance at the Ribbon Cup. The Coordinator who wins the Grand Festival wins the Ribbon Cup, a beautiful trophy made out of solid gold, and the title of Top Coordinator. While Top Coordinators do not have any specific duties to fulfill, they have a ton of fame and recognition in the Pokemon world, and it’s not surprising for a Top Coordinator to have swarms of Coordinators seeking them out for guidance.

Stellara has its own Pokemon Contests, and just like its Pokemon League, the Contests are nothing to scoff at. In fact, it’s known that if you cannot perform at your absolute best, then you will have no chance of ever getting close to winning a Stellara Pokemon Contest.

Pokemon Contests are held at Contest Halls; there are numerous Contest Halls scattered throughout the Stellara Region. Whenever a Contest is hosted, there will be a two to three day sign-up period where you may register to participate in the Contest. Pokemon levels work a bit differently in contests; in order to make the Contests fair for all participants, Pokemon who outlevel other Pokemon by more than fifteen levels will have their levels brought down to where they are at minimum fifteen levels higher than the other Pokemon. This prevents extremely powerful trainers from sweeping the entire competition simply by straight-up knocking out the other Coordinator’s Pokemon and ignoring the whole point of a Contest to begin with. Once the sign-up period has passed, the Contest will begin!

Contests are divided into two rounds: the Performance Round and the Battle Round. In the performance round, the participating Coordinators will have to put on a display showing off their Pokemon’s skills as visually appealing and technically sound as possible. In RP terms, members will have THREE days to construct a post describing their performance; it can be as creative as you want it to be so long as it makes sense. For example, don’t go out there, and blow up the entire Contest Hall with your Pokemon performance. Once the two days have passed, the performances will be judged and given a numerical score based on different criteria such as content, expression, creativity and mechanics (spelling, grammar, etc).

After the Performance Round, the Battle Round will start. All of the participating members will be randomly matched up with another member to battle. During the Battle Round, members will battle once another just like any ordinary Pokemon battle; however, there are special conditions. For one, it’s not all about winning the battle itself; Coordinators and their Pokemon need to make sure that that their battling has style, appeal and overall entertaining! While one way of winning the Battle Round is knocking out the opponent’s Pokemon, the more common way of winning is putting on a better battling performance than your opponent! During the battle round, each member will post six times before the battle is declared over; if a Coordinator’s Pokemon faint before that, then the match ends as well. After the Battle Round is over, members will be judged on their battles in the same way as the Performance Round. Then, all of the members’ Performance and Battle Round scores are added up, and the member with the highest score is considered the winner of the Contest! In some Contests, the top two members will receive a Ribbon. PD and EXP are rewarded to all participants as well with higher scores earning more PD and EXP. This encourages participation in Contests; even if you don’t win, you definitely won’t be leaving empty-handed!