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PokémonWorld
Language	English
Status	Active
Run	2004 - Present
Date opened	March 13, 2004
Creator	Pokérob
Current owner	{{{owner}}}
Forum	PokémonWorld
Mascot	Chatot
Website	Main Page

PokémonWorld is a UK based Pokémon community. It offers an alternative to Pokémon players primarily from the United Kingdom as a place to discuss anything to do with the Pokémon series in its entirety. Competitive battling is very encouraged, with tournaments held on a regular basis. There is also plenty of discussion about casual play and all other aspects of Pokémon.

History

In March 2004, Pokérob started the first installment of PokémonWorld.

Competitive Battling

As this website mainly focuses on competitive battling, it has many forums and threads which discuss these things.

Battle Shop

The PokémonWorld Battle Shop was added in September 2009, this was after an agreement with ONM's pokéforum to share this feature. The Battle Shop allows users to search for battles by posting on the thread, the players then battle it out, usually using Smogon standard rules. The winner of the match then gets given points to spend on a variety of Pokémon, usually some of which have been specially bred with good IVs or egg moves, or EV trained. There are other ways of gaining points to be spent in the Battle Shop, these are either donating Pokémon to the Battle Shop or to take part in a special competition or tournament that awards its winners in Battle Shop points.

Dragon's Den

This forum is named after the Dragon's Den from the Pokémon Gold and Silver games. This forum specializes in the discussion of teams, and the rating of teams. People post their team in this forum and other members rate it, the best advice comes from people who have been given team rating badges acknowledging their knowledge on competitive battling. Users can also post their war stories in this thread, describing their various wins or losses against other people in an entertaining and informative format.

Official Tournaments

PokémonWorld hosts tournaments regularly and while allowing its members to put ideas forward as well as direct them, official tournaments are always hosted by staff members.

Official PokémonWorld Tournament

The Official PokémonWorld Tournament is hosted once a year on a Pokémon battle simulator, currently Shoddy Battle. It is a single elimination tournament usually featuring at least 32 combatants, using the Smogon standard rulings for the Overused tier.

Official PokémonWorld Wi-Fi Tournament

In order to cater for the masses of players that prefer Nintendo Wi-Fi Pokémon battles, PokémonWorld hosts a tournament over this feature on the Nintendo DS system. Entrants can use any version of the game from Pokémon Diamond, Pearl, Platinum, HeartGold, or SoulSilver. It is a single elimination tournament usually featuring at least 32 combatants, using the Smogon standard rulings for the Overused tier.

Official PokémonWorld Tour

The Official PokémonWorld Tour has a very different tournament format when compared with the other official tournaments on PokémonWorld. Over a set course of time, usually nine weeks, a series of real-time tournaments varying in tiers will take place. It's usually between 9-18 different tournaments, with players earning more points dependent on how far they get in each one. The points will be tallied up each week and once the nine weeks of tournaments are over, the eight players with the highest points will be entered into a seeded, single elimination tournament to determine the overall winner. These seeded matches will be done in a best of three format, over three different tiers - Overused, Underused, and Uber.

IRC

PokémonWorld's IRC channel can be found at #pokemonworld on the SynIRC server and is run by user Minijinx. It's also used as the place to go to if one wants to enter the PokémonWorld Tour, so the host of each tournament can speak with all entrants at once in real-time.

SOps

• Havak
• Minijinx
• Kinneas
• Pokérob
• Ryu Shoji

AOps

• Chained Teapot
• Global Warming
• Lui++
• tblakey89

Staff

Administrators

• Pokérob (site owner)
• Havak
• Kinneas
• Ryu Shoji

Global Moderators

• Global Warming
• Lui++

Moderators

• Chained Teapot
• Minijinx
• Retr0range
• tblakey89

External Links

PokémonWorld

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