BBQ Pulpit Contest !!



AAhh! The smell of charcoal and the grilled foods that lie above them, being cooked to perfection. Children run free and kites soar, while adults reminisce. Summertime music in the air, yeah this is the life, huh ! BBQ Pulpit contest time, and I'm your delighted host, DL. *Scarfs Hot dog and Kielbasa in one bite*

First round is a standard appeal, and we'll switch up the order a bit here. Well, here we go!

#1: Mystic Clown and the Fool, Mime Jr.
Shadowball~Mud-Slap~Psychic

Coming off the picnic table first will be Mystic Clown. He gives em a signal telling me to wait..as he swallows some potato salad. Finished, he and his Pokemon (who mimics his exact exaggerated belleh dance stance) come to the designated area, and the conglomerate of grillers and their families watch with anitcipation.

The Fool starts off by spinning around and dragging a dark shadowy wisp of air behind it. Pulling it towards himself, he balls it up, and makes it expand. In his right hand, the hand he was dragging, there is also a nice swath of mud. He then throws the both skyweard, the mud starting to fray, as the Ball shoots skyward. Kids cringe as the mass gets near their kites...but then both objects stop. Fool acts as if the ball is tethered by a rope, and he pulls it back a bit, until its near the Mud's height. He then makes the Mud rotate around it in a orbit, and the kids clap, seeing a planet around their kites. Everyone applauds, and Fool then psychically moves the planet until it can rocket off into space. Which it does.


#2: Mew Master and Cerunnos, Aron
Dragon Rush~Rollout~Dragon Rise

Next is Mew Master. He eagerly gets up while holding onto a cheeseburger. By the way, give it up for our own Contest chef this contest, Chris 2.1 !

Anyway, Mew looks down his the little Iron clad Aron and tells it its commands. Ceru nots and immediartly begins Rushing diagonal to the congregation of grills, so as not to hit any of them. He curls in a ball as he rushes foreward, attaining a great speed. Once he's at the edge of the field, he rolls back -backwards and stops right in the middle of the path he traveled. The crowd watches as the hyperrevolving iron ball begins to rise, obtaining a munch of oohs and aah's from the folks in general. He then lands, and applause commences.

#3: Houndoom Lover and Ruff Ruff, Growlithe
Aerial Ace~Flame Wheel~Double Team

Our reigning champ is third and she comes gliding down from her last match with Ruff Ruff. She scoops up a burger and points to the middle of the area, where Ruff Ruff rolls around and looks pretty danged sad. But, as the kids try to get close to play with him, he shoots up and before he falls, he explodes into a fiery mass of flames. But the flames don't weave out far, they kinda shoot out in a stitch pattern, or a spider web effect. Huh.

Well while the small flames help to keep him aloft, it looks like he's shimmering. Whoa, he just popped out another Growlithe. And another, and anohter, whom all seem eager to play with him! About 7 pups fall from the Fiery sunwheel, which then runs out of energy and Ruff falls in the mudst of all the other pups, and bounds around with them. The folks clap and the kids run in to try and play with the puppy, but Ruff Ruff makes an escape and the kids all get to play with clones that evaporate the second they touch them.

#4: Chaos_redefined and Lapras
Surf~Psychic~Ice Beam

Our newest member, Chaos, comes forth, holding a glass of lemonade and eating what looked to be a bratwurst. A Lapras is revealed, and it slides over across the soft grass to a nice spot not too far away. Using its sea powers, it forces the water to come rushng over from a neraby pool. THe water thunders over and before it crashes into Lapras, and subsequently the grills, it is stopped by a massive psychic wall. The Psychic wall then pushes in and molds the water into a odd twisting, twirling shape, 15 feet high.

When the shape is complete, Lapras fires off an Ice Beam and moves up the structure slowly, freezing it into a complete and ready working Ice slide! Lappy slides down it, and then the kids freak with joy and run over, eager to try it out. Its cold, but Lapras left enough water so that they can slide down it without getting stuck.

#5: Rossymore and Sohnanau, Wynaut
Splash~Charm~Mirror Coat

Rossy comes over next, quite happy for the kids and releases his lil blue baby. Sohnanu immediatly runs for the small water puddles an begins Splashing around with them, to the enjoyment of both adults and children alike. He rolls about and shows off his playful Charms, enamoring the crowd. It's almost hypnotic, as Sohnanu begins to shine, his blue coat becoming a veritable raimbow of color as the Mirror coat reflects the light bouncing off the water on hs skin. The kids clap and the adults nod in approval.

#6: MeloveGhosts and Ise Nanao, Meditite
Shadow Ball~Mind Reader~Focus Blast

Next up is MLG and his Meditite floating close behind. Both eat a hamburger before starting. Ise then walks over all funkylike on her hands and forms a Shadowball with its feet. She then tosses it up as if it was rubbish and sits to meditate.

However, her body enters the trance state and she points with a finger gthe trajectory of the ball. As it falls, her left hand raises and begins to glow yellow. When the ball looks as it its going to slam into her left hand she opens her eyes and the Shadowball is caught and compressed, and engulfed by an even larger Focus Blast. The bright blast shoots onward through the sky, like a fat comet. Folks clap and Ise waddles away.


#7: Asilynne and Little Red, Vulpix
Fire Spin~Double Team~Energy Ball

As the grills are fired up one last time for the first round, Asi bounds out with her new acquisition, a Vulpix named Little Red. The Vulpix finishes eating a bun with..somethng in it, and Asi claps, Red gets to work, and fires off a Fiery stream. It spins as the two tendrils of fire seem to coil and wrap around each other, sustaining themselves as a fiery net of sorts.

Running to one side, Red suddenly splits ito 4, and two clones stay back. She's joined by one other and she wags her tails. Everyone is intrigued, and then begin cheering as they figure out its a Volleyball match!

An Energy Ball is grown out of the ground by Red and she delivers the first Spike. One clone hits it back over, only to disappear, The clone on her side runs up to spike it, and she does, spiking it right on the second clone. Both those clones disappear, adn the Energy Ball falls right to Red, whom merely catches it on her nose and holds it there. Everyone applauds, and Red runs off to destroy the ball safely.


#8: Crazy Elf Boy and Lt. Kickass, Ralts

Last but definitly not least, we have Elf and Lt. Kickass. Ha, and of course Elf's eating a grilled steak. How did I guess? Anyway, the Liutenant walks over and begins to Calm himself. As he calms himself, the crowd feels that blanket of Calmness enter their minds. They listen as well as watch, as Ralts then looks up. Aiming for in between the kites, he begins to charge up a blackish sphere first.

Everyone could hear the effort Lt Kickass was putting into this and watched intently. That sphere was fired and directly after a thinner yellow bolt was sent after. The two objects moved at the same speed, so it looked like a Purple comet with a yellowish tail. It streaked across the sky to everyones approval.

That's round 1!!

~~Scores~~

#1) Mystic and Fool
Score: 8.6/10

Great way to start. A little iffy around the kites, but Fool's imaginative way of reeling the sphere back in was great. Making a Planet kite to associate with the kite flying was a great idea as well. All in all great appeal to open ths contest with.

#2) Mew Master and Cerunnos
Score: 8.7/10

Wasn't a bad appeal. Not at all. Little metal floating ball is always cool to watch for a short period of time, and you did just that. You didn't try to add anything more to it, and it helped keep the anitcipation high for the rest of the Contest.

#3) Houndy and Ruff Ruff
Score: 8.2/10

I think you were going for too much here? No, that's not what I wanted to say. it's more of, You went big, when you really did not have to go so big. The Flamewheel was cool in its own right, but I kinda felt the whole clone popping out of it was kinda eerie, and then falling out of the flames into the clones was supposed to be playful but it looked very mismatched.

#4) Chaos and Lapras
Score: 9.5/10

THAT. Was awesome. You and that Lapras did a swell job. It was simple enough, just build an Ice slide, but what got you such a good score was because its on a hot day like this, where kids can use it-that's an added benefit. Great way to work the crowd into it.

#5) Rossy and Sohnanu
Score: 9/10

And following on his heels is Rossy! Again. Simple and very eye pleasing. Use of Mirror coat here was crucial to your score, as it had a mesmerizing affect, with all the colors and the water lying about from the Ice Slide. Splash looked so much better with actual water aruond.

#6) MLG and Ise
Score: 8.4/10

Well, the concept scared me, since I was thinking an explosion was going to occur. But Ise had me fooled. The beginning was great, with an awkward Shadowball, and then prediction of when it would land. But having the Focus Blast fly up in its place was unexpected and awesome to watch.

#7) Asi and Little Red
Score: 9.3/10

And the other fire starter! Thsi one was more engaging, as the Clones had a purpose-and a fun purpose at that. I liked the whole game setup you created there, that was very engaging and fun to watch.

#8) Elf and Lt. Kckass
Score: 8.4/10

Now. This got a high score, but it was a strange appeal. Having everyone hear you charge up was....kinda weird to me, but the audience ate it up. They loved seeing how much effort Ralts put into this. The shape of a Kamehameha was almost achieves, with the streaking purple ball giving the Charge Beam some much needed size to work with. But it didn't have that kind of staying appeal, especially since it went flying away.


End Notes

This was a great round, no one got a Score under 8, which is fantastic in its own right

Well. We now drop to 4.

Chaos, Rossy, Asi and Mew all move on to the next round.

The Next Round is a Super Appeal, so that means 4 attacks.

Thanks to everyone that participated, and dun worry....with the way this Contest is flying by, we might have another one reeeeeal soon! .