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    VGC Premier Challenge VGC '15 Premier Challenges - Work towards a Worlds invite at 100+ local events across the globe

    Hey guys, for those who haven't seen yet, Premier Challenges for this season have started and over 100 organizers have already signed on board to run them. Premier Challenges are entry level tournaments that hand out a fairly large chunk of Championship Points. Championship Points are what you...
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    2013 Pokémon World Championships and Livestream

    This weekend is the 2013 Pokémon World Championships! Top players from around the world will be participating in the invite-only tournament this weekend in Vancouver, Canada to decide this year's Pokémon World Champion. This year's players hail from Australia, Austria, Canada, France, Germany...
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    Apex 2013 - Cash Prizes for Pokémon at World's Largest Smash Bros. Tournament

    Apex is an annual tournament held in New Brunswick, New Jersey that has become the largest Super Smash Bros. event of the year. In addition to being the World's largest Smash Bros. tournament, it is also a Major in the FGC featuring top talent in games like Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade...
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    Has anyone ever broken into your home and pointed a gun at you?

    Just wondering as this seems to be really common in the United States according to internet arguments and television reports!
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    Pokemon Facebook Timeline Cover Images (also Smogon Facebook wants help)

    Hi all, you might be aware of Facebook's new Timeline layout which allows users to set a cover image for their profile or page. Smogon's Facebook cover image was cool with a fun gimmick when we first upgraded to Timeline, but now it's ugly and terrible. That's where you come in. I'd like to...
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    Penny Arcade Expo - Seattle, WA - August 31st to September 2nd, 2012

    So last year it took 22 days to sell out of 3 day passes. This year it took maybe four hours. This is your alert to say that if you wanna go, you should probably snatch up those three single day passes for $105 while you still can. Someone tell me when video game nerdom got so popular because...
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    VGC '12 World Championships - Kona, HI, USA - WON by BlueCookies & Dimsun!

    Hilton Waikoloa Village [ Map ] 69-425 Waikoloa Beach Drive Waikoloa, HI 96738 +1-808-886-1234 or +1-800-HILTONS Registration: TBA The ever thoughtful Pokemon Company have put this year's World Championships in Hawaii so you can justify the trip to yourself by saying it's a vacation all...
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    Guys, an Audiosurf sequel got announced

    I am so happy right now you will not even believe. I can't believe I didn't see any news on this for the past seven days. http://air.audio-surf.com/ There's a beta signup there. Oh jebus. I will play the crap out of this game at any price.
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    VGC '12 Canada National - Toronto - WON by Chinese Dood

    DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel - Toronto Airport [ Map ] 655 Dixon Road Toronto, ON M9W 1J3 Phone: +1-416-244-1711 Registration: TBA The first ever Canadian Video Game National Champion will be decided on Canada Day! Taking place the same weekend as the US Nationals, the Canadian Nationals...
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    Pokémon Black 2 and White 2 (DS, June in JP, Fall in EU/NA/AU) - Updated May 12th

    So far they've announced there will be two new forms of Kyurem. They've also confirmed a new game will be announced. Update: Pokemon Black 2 and White 2 have been announced and are due for June in Japan. I am not sure on platform. Doesn't make much sense to be DS again to be honest. Kyurem...
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    Coverage of US/CA Regionals - See post #9

    Ok, with less than a week left to go we should organize some coverage again. What would be tremendously awesome is if there were TVs and someone could get a livestream going. If you do get one going, let me know on either IRC, Twitter, WhatsApp, or on the forums so it can be tweeted out to our...
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    Event Shiny Larvitar for European and Korean VGC Events Announced

    via Bulbanews: Press Release: Link about Korea: http://pokemonkorea.co.kr/html/WCS/wcs2012.asp
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    Nintendo Direct February Edition

    Roughly three hours from now, Nintendo of Japan will stream their third Nintendo Direct conference. With Masuda's recent remarks, there's a good chance that Pokemon Grey will at least be mentioned at this conference (if not, wait until Pokemon Smash this Saturday). Four hours from now we'll be...
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    Ace Attorney 5 Announced. AA Movie Seeing Worldwide Release. AA 123 HD Pack on iOS.

    http://twitchfilm.com/reviews/2012/01/iffr-2012-review-ace-attorney-leads-the-witnesses.php http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2012-01-29/ace-attorney/gyakuten-saiban-5-game-announced-by-capcom I feel like my avatar.
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    Nintendo Q3 Press Briefing - Wii U to be released by end of 2012 in JP, NA, EU, & AU

    http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/library/events/120127/index.html Summary from Michan of NeoGAF: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=460453 [/LIST]
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    A World Record Performance - Play! Pokemon article on IN Regional Senior Winner

    Looks like they're not going to stop with an article per division and have continued on to post a team from Indiana. You can check out the article about Ryan Arnold's team on the official website! http://www.pokemon.com/us/news/op_regionals_vg_strategy_4-2012-01-16/ Previous Topics Summon...
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    Vancouver, BC Area: BC Provincial VGC 12 Side Event - March 17th - WON BY R Inanimate

    Central City Shopping Centre [ Map ] 10153 King George Boulevard Surrey, BC V3T 2W1 Registration: Up until the beginning of the second round of TCG Swiss. So approximately 9:30 AM to 11:30 AM. Get there as early as possible please. The British Columbia TCG Provincial Championship will be...
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    Word of the Day

    It has recently come to my attention that a lot of Smogon users do not know the definitions of every day words. I think it's time we changed that. So let's do a word of the day, even if it only lasts a day! Today's word is "quit".quit [kwit] Show IPA verb, quit or quit·ted, quit·ting...
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    Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2012

    Hi. CES is on. Let's post stuff about really cool shit that may or may not come out in the near future itt. Follow along here: http://www.theverge.com/ces Don't link to gizmodo or engadget they are terrible websites written for terrible people. Schedule of Conferences (in PST) I cannot...
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    Congratulations to the Arnold Family on their Guinness World Record!

    From Smogon Home Page: Thanks Cybertron for the full listing of their accomplishments btw. Edit: Guinness Article and Video: http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2012/1/video-worlds-most-prolific-pok%C3%A9mon-family-make-it-into-guinness-world-records-2012-gamers-edition/
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