PokémonWorld
- For other uses, see Pokémon World.
| PokémonWorld | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Language | English |
| Status | Active |
| Run | 2004 - Present |
| Date opened | March 13, 2004 |
| Creator | Pokérob |
| 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 Individual Values 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 Johto-based 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.
General Pokémon discussion
As like any other Pokémon fansite, PokémonWorld has forums for the general discussion of Pokémon.
Spear Pillar
Named after the Spear Pillar in Sinnoh, this forum is where the users can discuss all things fourth generation related. This tends to include more complicated discussion of the finesse of fourth generation competitive battling down to a simple poll asking which Pokémon game they would rather buy.
Pokémon Center
This forum is for the discussion of Pokémon which does not relate to the main series of RPGs. This includes the anime and the spin off games such as Pokémon Ranger.
Victory Road
This forum is named after Victory Road from the games which leads to the elite 4. This forum gives its users a chance to talk about the older games, which are not part of the fourth generation. It gives the users a chance to ask questions if they get stuck in a various game, or discuss what they found best or worst in each game.
Generation V speculation
This forum is where the users of PokémonWorld discuss the upcoming fifth generation of Pokémon. It is kept updated with the latest news and gossip, and allows users to speculate on what is coming, as well as to say what they are wanting and expecting out of the fifth generation.
Pokémon TCG
The discussion of the trading card game is a fairly new addition to the PokémonWorld website. This forum gives users the chance to discuss deck building, as well as to discuss various strategies they may want to use.
Miscellaneous discussion
These forums give the users a chance to play games such as Mafia, or to contribute fanart and fanfiction to the website.
Lilycove Gallery
This forum is named after Lilycove Gallery due to the more artistic type of threads found here. In this forum there is often signature and banner competitions which normally have a special pokémon prize for the winner. This forum also gives the user to post fanart as well as fanfiction which they have come up with.
Contest Hall
This forum is where the users of PokémonWorld get to play forum games such as mafia which has proven to be an extremely popular part of PokémonWorld. It also gives people the opportunity to come up with other forum games to keep the members of the site entertained.
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
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