cfalcon and I are most likely going on Sunday, August 12 (with school and work and tests and birthdays and moving and other infinite amounts of bullshit, that seems to be the only good day). If any of you at all remember a member known as Stan the Bug Man, he might go, too. Our next plan is to try and get Mr. K to come up to Gainesville, and then go with us to Atlanta Saturday night.

Is there anyone else who could possibly make it that day? We get kind of depressed when we hear about other Azurites getting together across the country, while we're stuck down here in Florida...

But seriously, I'm busy for the next 2 weeks.
*lurks away*

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Originally posted by pkthunder:
WarTortle32: Are any other Florida Azurians interested in a weekend tournament/competition/get-together/hangout/party/etc. ?

Yes.

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I can't give a definite yes for myself. For me, it's really conditional on how often and where.

The Nintendo rep I talked to was pretty definite that they were going to be doing Celebi giveaways ONLY at Six Flags, so I wouldn't hold my breath for a mall tour. Either bite the bullet now or forget about getting your legal Celebi, I reckon (although this may change when they release Pokemon 4 here)...

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Are any other Florida Azurians interested in a weekend tournament/competition/get-together/hangout/party/etc. ?

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It was pretty much like what Thom said. cfalcon and I got in a couple of link battles, but nothing too exciting. I battled this girl who had mostly mid-level pokémon, which meant one lvl-64 Lugia (without Recover) and 5 more between lvl 24 and 50. And her new lvl 5 Celebi. So I put it my working team (for playing the game) that was mostly between 55 and 63. She was doing really well, knockit out most of my Pokémon in one or two hits, but without Recover, I eventually wore her down, and won. She left right after we were through. I think she came just for a Celebi, and wanted to get in one battle. She wasn't prepared at all.

They had trivia, and I asked the cute twenty-year-old rep girls if I could participate, too (being three times as old as most of the other participants). She said sure I could, so I answered a question right and won this HUGE blow-up Pichu doll. The question I correctly answered was "How do you get Amnesia Psyduck in Stadium 1 for Pokémon Red and Blue?"

The Lugia car is sooooooooooooooooooo cool!! I've been lusting after the PT Cruisers, but the Lugia one was just too neat. It even had a large television and N64 built in to the back.

Hmmm... something like this requires planning. I used to be good at planning things, but I can't really anymore. Not since I've been hanging out with people (:cough: cfalcon) that can't plan anything more than a week in advance.

Orlando is actually a good place to meet. Centrally located. Plus, I think at some point in time we were thinking about doing a theme-park thing with Mr. K. But like I said, I haven't been as good at planning as I used to be. Plus, I don't have any money.

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Originally posted by Thom Burr:
The Nintendo rep I talked to was pretty definite that they were going to be doing Celebi giveaways ONLY at Six Flags, so I wouldn't hold my breath for a mall tour. Either bite the bullet now or forget about getting your legal Celebi, I reckon (although this may change when they release Pokemon 4 here)...

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I got to ride the Cyclone on Coney Island, too. Nothing like a nice rollercoaster built in 1927 to knock the krap out of you.

Thom Burr: The two Nintendo reps were good-looking girls in their early twenties but they seemed to know almost nada about the game.

There were a lot of these at the mall tour, too. Hot chicks who didn't know a Voltorb from a Magnemite.

...a pic with Pikachu would have been surrealtistic as hell...

I have a pic of me with Pikachu. At least he was in an air-conditioned mall when I saw him.

The actual event site was nothing more than a semi-deserted tent canopy...

Lame.

The Nintendo rep I talked to was pretty definite that they were going to be doing Celebi giveaways ONLY at Six Flags...

I wouldn't take anything these guys say too seriously. I think they know about as much about Nintendo's plans as the guy cooking fries at your local Mickey D's knows about McDonald's expansion plans in China...

Anyway, thanks for the reports. Good work on winning the Pichu, pk.

It took about 5 1/2 hours to get there from Gainesville, I think. Maybe 6 hours with stops. Then we spent some time driving around trying to find a hotel and ended up spending way too much because Atlanta is stupid.

We spent about 1 1/2 to 2 hours actually at the thing. cfalcon wanted to spend a little more time there, but we figured it probably wasn't worth it. The chances were slim that anyone else was going to come up and want to link battle, which is the main reason he wanted to go in the first place.