tournaments
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Nine Tips For Women (And Anyone Else) Attending Their First Fighting Game Tournament
Illustration by Angelica Alzona Are you are a woman who wants to compete in a fighting game event, but you don’t know where to start? Maybe you’re worried you don’t know enough or aren’t good enough. (Probably not true.) Or maybe you just want to know what these events are like ahead of time. Which…
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Official Pokemon Tournament Only Allowed Monsters With Many Weaknesses
Source: Wikia Last weekend, the weak inherited the Pokémon world for an official online tournament. Much like last month’s Tiny Tournament, players could only use a subset of the game’s hundreds of options. The Weakness Cup’s restriction, as its name implies, only allowed players to use Pokémon with five or more weaknesses to the game’s…
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The Conflict Over Custom Loadouts In Arms Tournaments
Image credit: Nintendo Arms has been a surprise hit on the Switch, but the competitive-minded players who have latched onto it are having difficulty establishing a standard format for high-level Arms matches.
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Australian Player Becomes First Woman To Win International Pokemon Tournament
Last weekend’s big Pokemon tournament in Australia saw many famous players, including two world champions, duking it out for the top title. Australian Zoe Lou, a player with no previous major finishes, stunned and thrilled the community by rising above competition. In doing so, she has become the first woman to win an international Pokemon…