ONM Pokéforum
ONM Pokeforum is a sub forum of the UK magazine Official Nintendo Magazine's forums dedicated to Pokémon. The majority of its members are of British origin. Some of the best British pokemon battlers have come from this forum, such as Havak and Twash, who are now well known in the Smogon community.
Competitive Battling
Most members in the ONM pokeforum focus on wifi battling, following the Smogon standard rules. However over the past few years the use of Shoddy Battle has increased, and may become the main source of competitive battling on the forum. The forum has two main threads dedicated to battling, which are the Online Communications thread and the Battleshop thread. The pokeforum also has a number of Gyms which can be challenged, as well as offer a fair amount of tournaments.
Battleshop
The pokemon battleshop has been running for many years on the pokeforum. It is currently in version 5. Battlers in this thread battle each other for points, which they then use to buy IV breed pokemon, EV trained pokemon, or shiny pokemon. The other methods of getting points to spend is either by donating pokemon or by defeating the ONM Gyms. Some members have devoted themselves to getting more points, rather than actually spending the points, and in this sense, the battleshop has become a sort of ladder. The battleshop often has double point weekends and such to encourage the forumers to battle. The battleshop thread keeps the Pokeforum active in competitive battling between the tournaments. The battleshop currently has over 120 members.
ONM Gyms
The ONM Gyms thread is currently in its seventh version. There have been many versions before, but all have been closed due to lack of challengers or inactivity of the gym leaders. The current gym thread was made after the previous had ran out of its character limit. Some of the current gym leaders have been leaders since November 2008 after the gym thread was introduced back into the pokeforum due to popular demand. Although the current thread sees periods of activity and inactivity it has consistently had enough challengers to keep it open.
The Official ONM Tournaments
The Official ONM Tournaments have been going on since the pokeforum was created. The tournaments are normally reffered to as 'ONM' with the number of the tournament on the end, e.g. 'ONM2' for the second of these tournaments. There have currently been six of these tournaments in total. They normally have 64 combatants and the rounds are done in single elimation style. The games are played using the smogon standard ruleset. Despite the fact there have been six tournaments, there have only ever been three champions, due to Havak winning it four times. The tournament currently normally occurs every 6-12months.
ONM Champions
- ONM1: Murphy
- ONM2: Havak
- ONM3: Havak
- ONM4: Havak
- ONM5: Monty123
- ONM6: Havak
Forum Wars
The ONM pokeforum has taken place in quite a few forum wars. With some of the more notable adverseries as Marriland and The Elite Connection. The pokeforum however tends to lose more than it wins when it comes to forum wars. The ONM pokeforum also took part in the Team Uber interforum tournament, where it lost in the first round to Gamefaqs.
Other Pokemon Topics
IRC
The ONM Pokeforum has its own IRC #pokeforum on the synIRC server. This IRC normally has between 10 and 20 people in it, and helps to keep the forum active.
Pokemon Game Topics
These tend to be formed after a new version of pokemon is announced, such as Heartgold and Soulsilver. The threads give the members of the pokeforum the opportunity to discuss the latest discoveries and rumours about the various games.
The Official Favourite Pokemon Thread
Each month the members of the pokeforum vote on who is their favourite pokemon. This thread started in august 09, and in its first month had a four way tie between the four pokemon; Mewtwo, Charizard, Espeon and Scizor.
ONM Forum Fan Game - Pokemon Obsidian
A few members of the pokeforum have been working on their own fan game for over a since 2008. It is being run by ?Alistair? and had made progress since its conception. The game has its own map, and hopes to add 120 new pokemon.
ONM Sprite Threads
There have been a number of sprite threads in the pokeforum in its existance.
Staff
Moderators Of The Pokeforum
- Wrathy
- Sparkle
Admins of the Pokeforum IRC
- Silverlight
- Wrathy
Moderators of The Pokeforum IRC
- Sparkle
- GiantEnemyCrab
- Swifty
- Chained_Teapot
External Links
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