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Sword and Shield Choice Pokéresistance
Gym Challenge season! The most exciting time of the year has come to Galar, and the whole region is turning out in force to see the spectacle. Pokémon and people alike flock to Galar's stadiums to watch the latest crop of challengers wage wild battles against gym leaders, testing whether they're strong enough to face the unbeatable Leon for the coveted title of Champion. And what a promising batch of trainers this latest season has produced! Everyone's got their eye on Bede and his team of Psychic-types, endorsed by the illustrious Chairman Rose. Rumor has it that the determined Hop is the younger brother of the Champion himself, so he's got to be worth watching! And there's plenty of buzz surrounding two relative unknowns from Postwick, Victor and Gloria, who've been sweeping through the gym circuit and look to be serious contenders for Leon's crown. Who knows which other up-and-comers might turn out to be Galar's brightest?
One of the most talked-about challengers this year, however, is young Marnie from the run-down town of Spikemuth. The chatter's less about her skill as a trainer—which, to her credit, she has in spades—and more about the unsavory characters that seem to be dogging her every step... or, rather, the steps of every other competitor in this year's challenge. Every trainer has their fans, and some fans are more vocal than others, but these "Team Yell" ruffians who claim to be Marnie's biggest supporters are quickly making a name for themselves as outright nuisances. They've been blocking the routes to stadium cities, jumping trainers with battles that wear down their teams before big matches, and otherwise engaging in various unsporting acts of gym challenge hooliganism. Marnie has made it clear that she wants a fair challenge and doesn't approve of Team Yell's behavior, but so far these troublemakers and their Pokémon remain dead-set on clearing all the other competitors out of her way.
The championship hopefuls are doing their best not to be put off by Team Yell's antics, and today a group of trainers and their Pokémon have gathered in the dusty digging town of Stow-on-Side to prepare for their upcoming matches with Gym Leader Bea. They know that there can only be one winner by the end of the journey, but for now these friendly rivals train together and support one another through their difficult battles. Only so many trainers can undertake a given gym mission at a time, so at the moment we find the group chatting and mock-arguing as they sort out who'll be the first to step onto the gym's gargantuan pinball table.
Two of the trainers compare strategies for dealing with the powerful Fighting-types waiting for them inside. Two more tease one another about who'll come out of the gym mission the dizziest. The last two smile and nod along with the rest, but every so often share knowing glances with one another and with their Pokémon. Oh, this lot'll be plenty dizzy, all right. In fact, they might well get spun right out of the gym, if Team Yell has anything to say about it...
A brief reminder of the rules and game structure:
PM me with questions or if I forgot something!
Sword and Shield Choice Pokéresistance
Gym Challenge season! The most exciting time of the year has come to Galar, and the whole region is turning out in force to see the spectacle. Pokémon and people alike flock to Galar's stadiums to watch the latest crop of challengers wage wild battles against gym leaders, testing whether they're strong enough to face the unbeatable Leon for the coveted title of Champion. And what a promising batch of trainers this latest season has produced! Everyone's got their eye on Bede and his team of Psychic-types, endorsed by the illustrious Chairman Rose. Rumor has it that the determined Hop is the younger brother of the Champion himself, so he's got to be worth watching! And there's plenty of buzz surrounding two relative unknowns from Postwick, Victor and Gloria, who've been sweeping through the gym circuit and look to be serious contenders for Leon's crown. Who knows which other up-and-comers might turn out to be Galar's brightest?
One of the most talked-about challengers this year, however, is young Marnie from the run-down town of Spikemuth. The chatter's less about her skill as a trainer—which, to her credit, she has in spades—and more about the unsavory characters that seem to be dogging her every step... or, rather, the steps of every other competitor in this year's challenge. Every trainer has their fans, and some fans are more vocal than others, but these "Team Yell" ruffians who claim to be Marnie's biggest supporters are quickly making a name for themselves as outright nuisances. They've been blocking the routes to stadium cities, jumping trainers with battles that wear down their teams before big matches, and otherwise engaging in various unsporting acts of gym challenge hooliganism. Marnie has made it clear that she wants a fair challenge and doesn't approve of Team Yell's behavior, but so far these troublemakers and their Pokémon remain dead-set on clearing all the other competitors out of her way.
The championship hopefuls are doing their best not to be put off by Team Yell's antics, and today a group of trainers and their Pokémon have gathered in the dusty digging town of Stow-on-Side to prepare for their upcoming matches with Gym Leader Bea. They know that there can only be one winner by the end of the journey, but for now these friendly rivals train together and support one another through their difficult battles. Only so many trainers can undertake a given gym mission at a time, so at the moment we find the group chatting and mock-arguing as they sort out who'll be the first to step onto the gym's gargantuan pinball table.
Two of the trainers compare strategies for dealing with the powerful Fighting-types waiting for them inside. Two more tease one another about who'll come out of the gym mission the dizziest. The last two smile and nod along with the rest, but every so often share knowing glances with one another and with their Pokémon. Oh, this lot'll be plenty dizzy, all right. In fact, they might well get spun right out of the gym, if Team Yell has anything to say about it...
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A brief reminder of the rules and game structure:
- There are four Challengers and two Team Yell members. Team Yell cannot communicate outside of the game thread.
- Team Proposal Phases last for four days, during which all players discuss who should be chosen for the upcoming mission. The Mission Leader (starting with the first player in the randomly-determined list below, then moving down and cycling back to the top if necessary) must propose a mission team during this phase. They can change their proposal if needed by posting another team in-thread. The number of players required for the mission team will be given at the start of each Team Proposal Phase.
- At the end of the Team Proposal Phase, the Mission Phase begins and the game thread is closed. Mission Phases last for three days. All players PM the moderator with one or two votes, depending on whether they were on the final proposed mission team:
- All players vote to approve or reject the final proposed mission team with Accept or Reject.
- If and only if a player is on the final proposed mission team, they vote to succeed at or sabotage the mission itself with Succeed or Fail.
- Challengers MUST choose Succeed. Team Yell may choose either Succeed or Fail as they see fit.
- Missing mission votes will be assumed to be Succeed for Challengers and Fail for Team Yell members.
- At the end of the Mission Phase, the moderator reopens the thread with a summary of the phase results. Votes for the mission team (Accept/Reject) are posted alongside the names of the players who made those votes. Players who did note vote on the proposal will be noted as such and the vote will proceed as if they were not playing for that round.
- If the team was rejected (more votes for Reject or a tied vote), the mission results will NOT be posted and a new Team Proposal Phase begins with the next Mission Leader on the list.
- If five Team Proposal Phases in a row end with rejected teams, Team Yell wins the game.
- If the team was accepted (more votes for Accept), the mission results (Succeed/Fail) will also be posted alongside the team vote results. All mission result votes are anonymous. If all votes are for Succeed, the Challengers win the round. If at least one vote is for Fail, Team Yell wins the round. Either way, a new Team Proposal Phase begins with the next Mission Leader on the list.
- There are five rounds. Whichever team is first to win three rounds wins the game.
PM me with questions or if I forgot something!
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Mission Leader List:
Keldeo
Butterfree
Stryke
qva
Panini
Chemist1422
Mission Leader List:
Keldeo
Butterfree
Stryke
qva
Panini
Chemist1422
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