[b][font=Palatino Linotype]BLACK HISTORY MONTH GRAND PRIX
[size=3][b][font=Palatino Linotype]appeals round
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setting
the neverend – rooftop is closed
background music
weezer - buddy holly
the introduction The Neverend... a place where only two trainers have been. Only one of those two trainers is here with us today, but that's unimportant. What is important is that we're starting a contest for a month that still has yet to arrive (it's only January 31st). Regardless, we're celebrating. There are a few spectators, three judges, and a referee. The spectators have been asked countless times to lower their voices. We may have to bring out the tasers. The judges are balding and bumbling, but their opinions are top-notch. The referee... well, let's be honest, we gave a bum a fiver to make sure that none of the "magical fairy creatures" hurt themselves. We may have to bring out the tasers. But once more, that's unimportant.
The first trainer, TheBlueAvenger, steps into the large gymnasium, avoiding the pool. Pulling a typical poké ball from his pocket, the young trainer tosses it to the ground, summoning from within one of the aforementioned "magical fairy creatures". A cleffairy, interestingly dubbed "Arven". The second trainer, still a newcomer, MeLoVeGhOsTs, also steps into the large room whilst tossing a poké ball to the floor, much like his opponent. Emerging from it is a tiny hoothoot, which promptly flutters his wings about to remain afloat. Darth Skrusti is the tird trainer. His pokémon is a clamperl - quite a fascinating pokémon to see; his name is unknown because Darth Skrusti has a history of forgetting his pokémons' monikers. The last of the first four trainers steps up; Asayake summons her large fire beast; the first fully evolved pokémon to grace the Neverend. With an intimidating stare, the camerupt, named Kung-fu Congoman, oddly enough, gracelessly enters the gym.
The first of the last four trainers is Tsuki Megumi. She, like Asayake, is one of the only three trainers lacking a Y-chromosome here. She has elected to choose her shuppet, Kokoro. Weasel Overlord, the self-dubbed overlord of weasels, steps up whilst calling upon her own pokémon - a golden shellder named Tyrus. Chris Watarimono is the only trainer to have battled in this arena beforehand; he chooses a seldomly battled snorunt, named Ferdinand. And finally, the final trainer of the final four trainers is Ozzie... better known as Andrew. The quizzically odd trainer who specializes in underused pokémon summons his staryu, which oddly enough, isn't as underused as you'd think.
The eight trainers retreat to the back of the gym as they wait for their number to be picked. The Arbiter, the host of this contest, steps up with a mic in hand, "Ladies and gentlemen," he says cooly, as if he was the coolest person in the world, "I welcome you to..."
He pauses for effect.
"...see my cute little neice! Is she not the cutest thing ever!?"
Everyone face plants. Then, someone of higher intellect bashes the Arbiter in the head with a shovel before dragging him out of the gymnasium.
the appeals
TheBlueAvenger, along with his rare cleffairy, step up to the imaginary home plate. The three judges stare, waiting for the appeal to be called. TheBlueAvenger, not intimidated by the daunting stare of the bumbling old men, issues his commands with confidence, "Arven, start off with a Bubblebeam. Then freeze all the bubbles with a widespread Blizzard. Finally, make the iceballs dance in the air with Psychic manipulation."
Arven readies herself; gathering some breath, she quickly spits out several, almost fifty, watery bubbles up towards the roof. Then, before they can even pop, Arven summons a storm of cold ice. The water becomes solidified as the cold air effects it. Interestingly enough, ice is the only solid that is lighter than it's liquid counterpart. The several frozen bubbles then stop in midair as the clefairy, with closed eyes, puts them in a trance. She bends the will of the inanimate ice bubbles, forcing them to dance about to her will. The audience is impressed, but their opinions are invalid. The judges, looking amused, jot down some notes and nod in approval. Arven's psychic manipulation ceases as the several bubbles come crashing down upon the arena floor, leaving some ice shards upon the floor. TheBlueAvenger, along with Arven, step away from the judges.
MeLoVeGhOsTs and his hoothoot, Hermes, step up, ready to appease the judges. "Hermes start off with a good old and fascinating Featherdance! Show the crowd all the beautiful feathers. Next use a Psychic to manipulate the feathers into a tornado, but let the tornado hover in mid air horizontaly! Then use a fast and powerfull Aerial Ace to sweep right through the tornado!"
The hoothoot then prepares himself. Hovering a few inches in the air, Hermes flaps his wings quickly as several feathers enter the arena. They dance for a few seconds until Hermes stops them in midair using his kinesis. The feathers then spin, faster and faster in a cyclone fashion. Finishing off, Hermes then let's go of the feathers with his mind in order to submit his concentration to another attack. Unfortunately, the feathers, no longer bound by psychosis, have nothing to keep them dancing. Before Hermes can even dart through them successfully, the several feathers fall lightly to the ground. The judges take some more notes, and request the next trainer.
Wasting no time as MeLoVeGhOsTs leaves, Darth Skrusti issues the commands for his clamperl, "Clamperl, you're in a pool at the moment, so...create a Whirlpool inside it. As you're swirling about in the pool, wait until you reach the very bottom, then release a beautiful Ice Beam whilst rising yourself from the Whirlpool with a Waterfall!"
From the pool, the clamperl quickly laps around whilst creating a great whirlpool in the water. The current forces clamperl deeper into the pool, which is okay because he's a water-type. As the torrent forces him to the bottom of the pool, the clamperl readies himself for a double attack. Using a water fall to dart upwards, he immediately spits out a powerful ice beam which shoots up towards the roof. The audience hands out various "ooh's" and "ahh's", but once more, it's not up to them to decide. The ice collects upon the rafters, and the judges speculate whilst calling for the next trainer to come in.
She does; "KFC (Yo! I say you he dead!"), Eruption. That will give us the rocks we need. Try to get them as high into the air as possible. Next spray a Toxic over all the rocks you can, wait until the flames are gone. Then use Flamethrower on the toxic-covered rocks to make them light on fire, and produce a meteor shower."
Grunting, the fully-evolved pokémon slams his fore-hooves onto the ground floor, causing it to rip apart as a massive amount of magma emerges. The magma shoots upwards whilst throwing several remnants of the arena floor with it (my gym!). Waiting for the fires to die down, Kung-fu Congoman spits out an acidic toxic which slaps across them. Now fueled, KayEffCee immediately fires a chain of exploded hydrogen, which reacts with the toxins along the rock, igniting them once more. As they quickly fall into various places, the judges make some notes.
We take a slight intermission while the various slav–I mean workers, clean up the mess. With the Neverend back in tip-top shape, the next trainer, Tsuki Megami, steps up, alongside her shuppet. "First, fire off a Will-O-Wisp to gather the audience's attention, then quickly, use a Thunderbolt and a Psychic to manipulate the thunderbolts into a dragon's head, and direct the dragon's head to eat the flames."
Kikoro throws her arms up into the air whilst spitting a large ball of flames into the air. The fire ball catches the eyes of the audience, as well as the judges. Whilst it remains hovered in the air, Kokoro then summons a thunderbolt; then immediately, whilst the yellow electricity is still visible, bends it's will. Struggling with the thunder, Kokoro attempts to reshape it artistically. However, because she isn't a psychic pokémon, her abilities are a bit lacking. She manages to shape the thunder into something attrocious... and while some people could call it a dragon's head, it's still pretty ugly. She then, very tired, tries to control the manipulated thunders; however, because she is so tired, she easily looses grip of it as it let's loose wildly. The fire ball then burns up, disappearing into a shallow nothingness.
Weasel Overlord, the last of the XX's, steps up with her pokémon, "Tyrus, start the round with a Rapid Spin to create a whirlpool in the water. Spin as high as you can, riding the water and follow up with a Dive back into the water. Finish the round by firing an Aurora Beam straight through the middle of the whirlpool, which should be dying down by now. It'll light up the sky with loverly rainbows!"
The golden shellder wastes no time; withdrawn into his shell, he quickly spins around rapidly as the waters slowly rise. At the paramount of his water tower, Tyrus then dives back into the water. As the sudden typhoon slowly dies down, Tyrus then shoots out an aurora beam, the light of which refracts with the water. The magnificent colors shine along the arena floor, greatly amusing both the audience and the judges as the jot down some more notes.
Chris Watarimono, that crazy kid with lots of pokémon (the Tygerofdanyte of New ASB), steps up with his tiny ice pokémon. "Ferdinand! Scatter a chilling Powder Snow into the air. As they fall back down, gather them all with an Icy Wind around your monster and add on a Safeguard to complete that glowing image."
Ferdinand quickly calls forth a light, pillowy cloud of snow. As it slowly falls to the ground, he then summons a very chilling wind to collect the snow and collect around himself. As the snowflakes dance around, he then creates a silver veil around himself, which reflects off the ice making a beautiful display. As the appeal ends, Chris and his Snorunt make room for the final trainer.
Andrew, whom the Arbiter one day hopes to create a club with (we could call ourselves Andrew2!), steps where Chris Watarimono once stepped, along with his hovering staryu. Keeping it simple, Andrew readies his appeal, "Staryu, Rapid Spin with Water Gun facing upwards so all your water attacks go towards the roof before using Blizzard to freeze it all in pretty midair patterns and when it hits the ground it'll shatter beautifully!"
The unnamed staryu begins; its body parallel to the rooftop as it quickly spins about. Faster and faster, Staryu then spits from its dominant fin a steady stream of water. The water is shot towards the rooftop, spinning about in a similar fashion. Before it can fall to the ground, Staryu then creatures a chilling blizzard. Once more, the water solidifies in a crazy clockwise fashion before it falls down to the ground. As it slams across the floor, several shards of ice are shot in various ways; the judges make their final notes before giving their testamonies.
[color=#666666]the results
The judges all stand forward. The one in the center, appearing to be the only one not mute, coughs into the microphone. "We have tallied the scores for the eight appeals. The eight appeals were very well done, and although we can't approve them all, we want you to know that we really wish we could. We'll begin to read off the appeals with the lowest grade first."
dragon's head
performer Tsuki Megumi's shuppet, Kokoro.
notes The appeal, while very original, was way too complicated for anyone to perform. Using a psychic to manipulate electricity is quite tricky, and even psychic pokémon would have difficulties with it.
final score 4.5.
tunnel of feathers
performer MeLoVeGhOsTs' hoothoot, Hermes.
notes A psychic manipulation right after another psychic manipulation isn't very original, and Hermes required his full concentration to use psychic. When he used aerial ace, his manipulation of the feathers ceased, thus giving him a low score.
final score 6.0.
typhoon
performer Darth Skrusti's clamperl.
notes The ice beam really didn't have much to do with the other attacks; it was almost as if that were thrown in at the last minute. The three attacks need to collaborate better with one another.
final score 7.0.
ice shell
performer Chris Watarimono's snorun, Ferdinand.
notes While the coordination was pretty well-done, all it really did was create a bright orb around Ferdinand. It was pretty boring, overall.
final score 7.0.
northern lights (typhoon revisited)
performer Weasel Overlord's shellder, Tyrus.
notes While it was executed better, the appeal was a lot like MLG's. However, using aurora beam rather than ice beam really put it over the top. The judges enjoyed the refracted colors.
final score 7.3.
ice tornado
performer Andrew's staryu.
notes Using a blizzard to freeze the water is very similar to TBA's; the shape of the water at the time of solidification, the "ice tornado" effect was nice.
final score 8.0.
frosty bubbles
performer TheBlueAvenger's clefairy, Arven.
notes A very nice performance, indeed.
final score 8.5.
meteor shower
performer Asayake's camerupt, Kung-fu Congoman.
notes Using toxic and flamethrower to ignite the falling debris that had previously been on fire was a bit redundent, but nonetheless, a sterling performance.
final score 9.1
the next round
The four trainers heading to the next round will be Asayake (9.1), TheBlueAvenger (8.5), Andrew (8.0), and Weasel Overlord (7.3). Congratulations! To all those who didn't make it, March will be here soon.
The next round will feature four new pokémon, so trainers, PM your second and third pokémon to me. Asayake, because your appeal scored the highest, you will get to choose the order in which the next appeals will be submitted.
Good-luck.
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The February Pokémon Contest (Final Up!)
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Originally Posted by Heald
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