Envisioning More Local VGC Tournaments

Even though I'm not quite proficient in VGC-style battles, and will probably never be up to snuff in the near future, that doesn't mean I don't have anything to say about it. One of the things I wish to discuss about it now is the series of tournaments that my national group holds, of which the online tournament back in February was a part. Included in the series are a few live tournaments where players come down, meet in person, and play against each other. This part is perhaps one of the more expansible parts, and more and greater local (live) VGC tournaments could possibly conceived as part of the expansion.

It's not hard to see how this can work out. In Australia, there are a few regional VGC tournaments in different cities, and many players come to compete in each one. There are also larger tournaments that draw even players from outside the country. This is an impressive sight, let alone an undertaking; I'm sure some of my colleagues who have been to these can testify. This grand situation is the vision of what the tournaments might develop into, but it seems things are just not quite there yet.

As I've mentioned in a post about friends last year, many of the colleagues in my national group are actually located close to the economic center. Perhaps as a result of this, the live tournaments only hover close to that center. If anything, the online tournaments (at least the one I took part in) show: the majority of players are also close to the economic center, which means the interest is also pretty high among them. And that is what it may come down to; if the interest isn't pretty high elsewhere, then expansion is pretty much foregone. This becomes the next problem to be solved, though not easily, as it involves finding the players who do have the interest and are willing to band up so that a tournament might become attractive to be held locally.

In any case, the tournaments go on, especially for this year, where with every passing week, the series draws near to a grand finale. This is part of the situation of the "now", with online tournaments and only a handful of live tournaments. But there's always the situation of the future, where live tournaments have expanded to other places and are just as prevalent, as well as even grander than before. At that point, there exists the possibility that I may be able to come down without hassle, play, and experience Pokémon battles in the most supreme of ways. It's a grand situation for a grand future, even for someone whose current skills are not too grand, at least not yet.

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