This is the e-mail I received today (translated to English, sorry for the mistakes):

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Come and face the Elite Four in the Animecon!

You, Gameboy Pokémon trainer, already earned all the Kanto & Johto badges?
Judge all opponents from Gold/Silver/Crystal simple stuff?
Think you are good enough to defeat any challenger?
So, there is no big challenge for your abilities, right?
Wrong!
Prepare yourself because the best tournament of all time is coming. The earth will shake during the Elite 4 Challenge.
If you think you're good enough, bring your team to Animecon, the biggest anime & manga event of Latin America, having the chance to face the best trainers of all ages, not mentioning the oportunity to battle PokÉvolution Magazine's Elite 4. The winners will be prized with Game Boy Advance and the rarest original Mew from Nintendo - with exclusive serial number and certificate, as well as a raffle of the newest Nintendo GameCube.
So? Will you give up or try?

Animecon:

- GB POkémon League & Elite 4 Challenge:

October, 12th, 14th and 15th
Subscriptions on the Conrad Publisher stand, from 12h to 14h.

Requirements for the subscription:
1 Game Boy
1 Pokémon Gold/Silver/Crystal
1 Game Link Cable (optional/recommended)

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Venha enfrentar a Elite dos Quatro na Animecon!
Você, treinador Pokémon do Game Boy, já conquistou todas as insígnias de
Kanto e Johto? Considera os adversários de Gold/Silver/Crystal simples
obstáculos? Considera-se bom o suficiente para derrotar qualquer desafiante?
Então não há nenhum grande desafio para suas habilidades, certo?
Errado!
Prepare-se, pois a maior competição de todos os tempos está por vir. A
terra vai tremer durante o Desafio à Elite dos Quatro!
Se você se acha bom o bastante, traga seu time para a AnimeCon, o maior
evento de anime e mangá da América Latina, tendo a chance de enfrentar os
maiores treinadores de todos os tempos, além da oportunidade de enfrentar a
toda poderosa Elite dos Quatro da revista PokÉvo! Os vitoriosos serão
premiados com Game Boy Advance, e o raríssimo Mew original da Nintendo -
com certificado e número serial exclusivo ­, além do sorteio do novíssimo
Nintendo Game Cube!
E então? Vai desistir agora ou vai encarar?

Animecon:

- Liga Pokémon GB e Desafio à Elite dos 4:

Dias 12, 13 e 14 de outubro
Incrições no estande da Conrad Editora, das 12h às 14h Requisitos para a
inscricão:
1 Game Boy
1 Pokémon Gold/Silver/Crystal
1 Cabo Game Link (opcional/recomendado)

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Stay tuned here! Hope to keep this post until the tournament is finished, with all its details.

If you're a regular subscriber to the magazine I would go through old copies and see what they have to say about the game, tips, tactics, etc. If the "Elite Four" are from the magazine staff then they probably have revealed some hints as to how they battle.

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Originally posted by JP Nogueira:
Do you know how big is Brazil?! Saying someone is here sounds like someone is in the USA. :P

But it would be very interesting to face him around here.

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Brazil is like the 4th or 5th biggest country in the world, and about 75% to 80% the size of the US. You can't just say "He's in Brazil" and expect things to work like that.

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And yes, they´ve talked about their battle style numbers ago. A quick description: Nintendo Power people

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Y'all are going to so rule them in battle!! Do us all a favor. Right before you faint their last Pokemon say, "It's all in the DVs," and watch them look confused.

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Anyways, Canada will always be bigger and better than the US... Our previous Northwest Territories were aroudn 5/12 the size of the US, alone! Stupid small, overpopulated countries with nuclear capabilities (And crap leaders)...

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Brazil-just slightly smaller than the US, and a company that is not affiliated with Nintendo in any way is running a (probably large) tournament available across that entire nation!

U. S. A.-most technologically advanced nation in the world, and the company that MAKES THE GAMES can't even find a way to run any decent tournament!

Sorry for nothing posting anything before, but this is a friend`s computer. So, I can`t spend much time here.

DOn`t worry! I`m writting notes about my opponents and about the others players.

For now, I`m happy about telling you that I was Friday`s Champion with my Curselax

And Saturday`s champion won using a Belly Drumming Snorlax.

Today we will have another champion, then both will face the Elite 4. After that, there will be a Champions Tournament, between we three. The winner will earn an original Mew, with certified.

Ah, I won a GBA on Friday for being the champion.

More news on Tuesday, when I arrive home.

One funny thing: Destiny Bond Gastly took out two mewtwos and a Curselax Thanks people!

Ooookaaaaay!
I arrived at Animecon and went right to Conrad Editora Stand, to know about the tournament. They said it was going to start around 2pm, but before that I had to fill the subscription. Here it goes:

Name:
ID:
Gender:
Adress:
E-mail
Site:
Age:
City:
Favorite Pokémon:
Favorite Type:

Equipment:
Game Boy: Classic/ Pocket/ Color/ Advance
Pokémon: Gold/ Silver/ Crystal
Brought Link Cable? Yes No
Wich others version do you own?

Team
(this info was needed for all 6 pokémon)

Pokémon/ Gender/ Level/ HP/ ATK/ DEF/ SATK/ SDEF/ SPD

Rules:

General
- Only for Gold, Silver and Crystal
- It was not allowed two pokémon of the same kind, or two items of the same kind.
- Only Pokémon with levels between 2-100 (min and max).
- Cheaters & Sharkers were going to be banned.
- It was not allowed any modification in the team after subscription

First Stage
- 3 on 3, with maximum sum of levels equal to 200.
- 15 minutes for battles.
- Key champions go to the second stage and cannot enter the tournament the next day (this was banished later).

Second Stage
- Same rules from the First Stage, but
- 6 on 6, with maximum sum of levels equal to 400.
- 20 minutes for battles.

Soo, the Second Stage held Semi Finals and Final too. The prize was a GBA, and the people who reached Second Stage earned a little pokémon doll.

I arrived at Animecon around 10am, and went right to Conrad Editora stand, where the subscriptions were being held.

After filling it up, I saw a guy who seemed to be 18. Since he was playing pokémon, I asked him if he wanted to battle. His name was Jonatan, and we started a little cup battle.

My team: Kabuto, Elekid, Abra, Eevee, Chikorita, ??? (can't remeber which one I used)
His team: Squirtle, Bulbasaur, Charmander, Jigglypuff, ???, ??? (can't remember too :P), all were shiny.

It was not a hard battle, but was cool! One funny thing: he forgot that Dragon Rage deals fixed damage. I would be screwed up!.

Around 2pm they started to give numbers for the players, and also ban illegal players. Around 100 players had subscribed, but 5 were banned. I got number 93 (waited a lot :P) and then sat down, waiting for the battle keys (don't know if this name is right in english).

While that, a boy came to me and asked my number. He showed me his number 2, and suggested a battle, since our numbers didn't seem to combine in a battle key.

We started battling according to the tournament rules. He sent out Porygon2 and my Gastly went out. I tried Destiny Bond, but didn`t work and it fainted. So I brought out my Curselax lv90. He kept attacking with Ice Beam & Psychic, and around 3 Curses later I Rested + mint berry. Quickly I defeated him this way (he had also a Snorlax with Mega Kick) and we talked about moves and TMs. We became pals this way (his name's Ricardo), and walked around to face anothers trainers.

I saw a girl playing near a wall, so I asked her if she wanted to battle. She agreed (her numbers was 01) and we started. She had Heracross, Miltank and (I think) Pidgey. Hera was standard, and Miltank had Attract & Swagger. While we were battling, the organization called all the trainers to announce the Battle Keys. So, we had to turn off our GB.

Surprise! Battle Key 1 held numbers 1-20 and 75-94, what means that the matched battle followed the sequence 01 vs 94, 02 vs 93... see? Ricardo became worried, but I told him to calm down. It would be just a battle!

The battle started! Ricardo knew what I was going to do, but couldn't do nothing to counter my Snorlax. I noticed that low level pokémon were the way to pump up Curselax, and Gastly should've been used only against high level pokémon. Some players were using low level only against low levels.

Second battle: Ricardo was upset, but stayed to see this battle. My opponent arrived as soon as he heard his number, and we started. He sent out his Pikachu (!) lv 98 and there went my Gastly. Thunder worked. Sent out Snorlax and started cursing. He used Surf, and I asked him how he got it. He mumbled something and continued to battle. I Earthquaked his Pikachu and he sent out a Spearow. Body Slam (sorry, my lax don`t love me :P) and he sent out a Scizor. Fireblat (!!!) and Earthquake. Beat Up (!!!!!) and Earthquake. Extreme Speed & EQ. He lost and I started bragging about his sharked pokémon. So, he runned away from the tournament.

Third Battle: This one was my BK's last battle, and my opponent came to me. His name was Ivan. Mewtwo vs Gastly, and Destiny Bond came first! I shouted "Gaslty lv5 kills Mewtwo lv100". People started to ask how, and I told them. One staff member said "He is good!" and I continued battling. (thanks again Azurians). Curselax took out Snorlax & Spearow quickly after 3 Curses.

Fourth Battle: Since my BK was finished, I was sent to another one. There I was told to battle Fernando. Hoot Hoot & Gastly, Snorlax & flying Hoot Hoot, Curse, Curse, Curse beating the bird, Snorlax and Tyranitar. Ah, I rememered a funny thing! Almost all the times my Curselax was Body Slammed, he became paralized.

Fifth Battle: When my opponent's number was announced, Fernando told me that it was his friend numbers. So I realized that there were some groups of friends in the tournament: two from São Paulo and one from Internet (err.. I mean.. who know each other from the net). Marco came and we started battle, but he was complaining about his bad team (like Fernando did too!). I told him that I already won 50% of the battle if he would'd not changed his mind.(argh, sure this is supposed to be grammatically wrong...). No big worries. His team was Spearow, Lugia & Tyranitar. Curselax took down Tyranitar & Spearow, but Aeroblast forced me to use Rest two times. Curse then helped to KO it down.
When this battle finished, I was told that the staff people was the Elite Four itself! The 12 years old girl who was organizing my BK asked me to do great battles representing her BK, because I was already in the Semi Finals.

Semi Final: Surprisingly I met Jonatan here! He became nervous when saw me. I congratulated him and talked a little before the battle, since the staff (or E4) was supposed to tell us when to battle.
Both of us wished good luck and the "pancadaria" started. 6 on 6, 400 lvs total. I sent my Koffing first against his mewtwo, but didn't work (since it had other item than Quick Claw). KO'd out and Gastly came in! IT WORKED AGAIN!! Jonatan cursed the game and sent Rattata out, while I've sent Curselax. A serie of Lugia, Ho Oh and Snorlax tried to take him down, but I used to Rest in the right time. Lugia had Psychic, Surf, Recover & Aeroblast. Ho Oh had Earthquake, Sacred Fire, Recover (didn't see the last move). Snorlax has only used Fissure, but didn't work and Curselax BS'd it. The last poké were Rattata & Geodude (think)but offered no resistance. This was I went to the Final Battle.

Final Battle: Since my last battle was fast, I had to wait for my opponent. While that, the Elite Champion started to talk with me about the next battles, against E4 and him himself. He liked the way I was batling(remembered Azurian Gastly and was really hoping that I would be that day's champion.
I chat more with E4 people and discovered that all them have Max Stat pokémon (what they call "Top"). Also each one of can use one legendary, and the Champion can use all of them.
At last my opponent came from the other Semi Final.

Thiago: Lapras, Gengar, Umbreon, Snorlax, Ho Oh, Lugia.
Me: Koffing, Gastly, Snorlax, Machamp, Tyranitar, Lugia.

Por que raios tou falando inglês contigo?! )

hey..the last fight had:

Here we go!

Second Day

When I arrived at Animecon, Ricardo met me and we chated for a moment. Then he challenged me for a fight, lv 100. I accepted and thought about using my old Blue team. That was a 5-5 battle, so:

Ricardo: Kangaskhan x2, Mew, Snorlax, Lugia or Dragonite (can't remember exactly).
Me: Venusaur, Rapidash, Golem, Lapras, Exeggcutor

I do know these Kangaskhan were Missingo, but no complains... he said that he like Kangaskhans a lot! : ) Since my old team were used to combos like Toxic + Fire Spin, they perished easily.
Deep in my mind I couldn't afford to lose to him, so I asked about a GS lv 100 battle. He said that was his only lv 100 team. So we started...

Me: Forrestress, Shuckle, Snorlax, Machamp, Tyranitar

Thus I won

By then, the staff was already recruiting the players. That afternoon the battles were held inside a classroom (Animecon was happening inside a university). It was crowded with trainers, so I stayed outside. There were some moms there too, and we started chating about the tourney. It was funny because they were worried with their little children battling against old guys (like me . I calmed them down telling that Pokémon is a well balanced game, and everyone inside the room had chance to win (I shall die for lying!)
Unexpectedly I saw Thiago coming out of the classroom. That only meant one thing: he was out in the earlier first stage. He was very upset, telling that a Horn Driller Lapras killed his Curselax. Funny ^^
As time flew, I was invited to stay inside the room. It was very cool because the staff (E4 itself) was excited with the battles. Walking around I saw a lot of Mewtwo & Snorlax, what assured their domination. While that I also saw the most beautiful GBA ever - Pokémon Center Version. An E4 member had been in Japan and had bought one. It is purple with some special silver glitter on it (like G/S/C carts).
The Semi Finals came, but I didn't see them. 2 guys out and we had the finalists! Unlike my final battle, this one was a Pkmn Stadium 2 struggle!
They were using a big screen with N64 (one composed by 4 wide screens), but it seemed to not accept low resolutions. It was not able to refresh the battle scenes, so the staff turned it off and got a 14" television. Just imagine that...around 30 people watching the final battle on a tiny television.
6-6, same team used in the earlier stages.

Daniel vs Bruno
-Zapdos, Lapras, Snorlax, Rattata, Spearow, Mewtwo
-Umbreon, Mewtwo, Pidgey, (can't remember)

Just when I arrived there on Sunday's morning, I met Daniel leveling up his Lapras for the E4 Challenge. So I remembered that I still haven't had some Mistery Gift items, like Scope Lens & Lucky Egg. I invited Daniel to walk around a little doing MG. No need to say that I got some mails and berries...
Later, the staff announced they had opened the subscription. I went there to meet some players from the others day. It was funny because some kids were always asking if I really was Friday's champion (I also noticed that Daniel was through the same situation). Suddenly a guy challenged me, telling that he wanted to test his team (test?!).
I also needed to see if my SpikeStorm team was ok, so I accepted it.

His team: Ho Oh, Heracross, Snorlax, Mewtwo, Tauros, Feraligator

I think he never ever battled against a SpikeStorm, because he switched a lot. Ah, and remember what I've said about M2 & Snorlax?

Later I met others players talking about training, so I joined them. It was interesting because it is hard to see people who likes pokémon here in my city.

The tournament started around 3pm. Outside the room I saw some boys trading pokémon. When asked which ones they were trading, "Shinies" was the word. This way I knew about the Shiny Mafia: once you get a shiny, just clone it and trade for another one. One of these boys already had 24 different shinies. I really wouldn't like to see my gray tentacool going into this kind of business.

I walked down to the tournament room and met some staff people. Again, I saw a lot of good players going out, like Thiago. So, the Elite champion told me that a lot of kids were using Curselax after they'd seen mine.

I met Daniel again and we went outside again. A friend of mine was there, and I remembered that both of us had GBA and he had just received Mario Kart SC as a Children's Day gift (it happens on Oct 12th here). Since I have the GBA link cable, we played single pack for a moment.

While that a boy came out crying out loud, saying "but I found it in the grass!". What happened? He was banned because he was using a very special lv2 pokémon: Lugia.

The Semi Finals were set! But staff had a problem before that. One of the semi finalists used a 202 lvs team, when the limit in the first stage was 200. He was banned too, and another guy went up as semi finalist. When I noticed, Jonatan was between them! It was very cool, because I was really hoping he would become the champion.

The battles happened and the finalist were invited to play the last combat on N64. Jonatan was one of them. His GBA dream was getting closer.

Then I asked the other guy if I would see his team. He allowed me, and I was surprised how he reached the Final Battle. His team had good pokémon, but the attacks were too inaccurated. Well, I gave his GB back and sat down to watch the fight.

As I predicted, Jonatan didn't have problems, easily setting his Drumlax up. Double Edge ruled the battle and he became the champion of Sunday.

Since both champions were there (Jonatan, Daniel and me), they started to take pictures for POkémon Club Evolution magazine. The boys who were watching the battles clapped a lot. They said that all about the tournament will be on the magazine around December: in the first week there will be a special with champion's teams & strategies, and in the third week they will show up E4's teams & strategies.

Enough party! It was time to battle the Elite Four itself! So, the staff members presented themselves as E4, like the GB's E4. They are minor tournament champions or magazine staff members, what made me expect the best from them.

Cláudia: RBY Mall tournaments champion. She was dressed like a Team Rocket member, and she is around 12 years old.
Eric Araki: PCE Magazine Editor. He was dressed like a captain, and is 18 years old.
Juliana: PCE Magazine Contributor, she was dressed with a light blue dress and a white robe (like Clair) and I think she is 12.
Kazumi: GSC Mall tournament champion. He was dressing a brown overcoat and black clothes. I think he is 17-18.

Robson: GSC & TCG Champion. Elite Champion and Kazumi's friend. He is a blonde fat boy, about 6 ft tall. He was using a light brown overcoat and is 17-18.

So, since I was the champion of Friday, I started battling them. It was under the Anything Goes PS2 rules. That was the time to use SpikeStorm at full power!

SpikeStorm: Forrestress, Shuckle, Tyranitar, Machamp, Lugia, Snorlax.

Cláudia's Team: Politoed, Misdreavus, Meganium, Blastoise, Snorlax, Ho Oh.

She started with Perish Songer Politoed and I set up Spikes and Sandstorm. She changed to Snorlax just when I exploded, taking her Snorlax. Shuckle went against Meganium, and I poisoned it. She tried to set Sunny Day + Solar Beam, but my Sandstorm blocked it. Ho Oh came in and I poisoned it too.

Geez... now I realized that I was the only person to use Shuckle in the tournament!! ))

My Tyranitar came in and took Earthquake. Rock Slide KOd Ho Oh and Blastoise came. I switched to Machamp. Blastoise fainted & Misdreavus came. I forgot Dark is strong against Ghost and sent out Shuckle. Again Toxic + Sandstorm took down Mis and therefore Meganium. Politoed came and I blasted it away with Machamp. First win!!

Then someone from Animecon's staff told that our time was ending and they needed to close the building!! This made us set fights 3-3, what screwed up my team.

Next was Eric Araki!

Eric: Wobbufet, Snorlax, Raichu
Mine: Snorlax, Machamp, Lugia

Snorlax vs Wobbuffet! Curse and Counter, Curse and Counter, Curse and Destiny Bond... goes goes goes, Body Slam left Wobby with 30hp and it did Counter. Eric was so happy that he jumped over the controller cable, taking it of the 64. We needed to start again.
Curse, Counter,..., Body Slam, Destiny Bond, 24 hp left. So I made a mistake and... Destiny Bond & Body Slam. Two out. Snorlax & Lugia. Switched to Machamp, Belly Drum. Cross Chop missed. Rest, Cross Chop missed. Cross Chop missed and Machamp out! Lugia came and a Aeroblast. IIRC, critical hit. Rest & Aeroblast. Mystery berry took effect and I did Aeroblat until it woke up and KO my bird. So, I lost (should've chosen Tyranitar).

I liked the battle, but was upset I didn't pay attention when Daniel fought Cláudia, but in the end...

Lapras vs Misdreavus. Surf & Curse, Surf and Mis out. Politoed vs Lapras. Lapras tried to take Politoed down, but Curse screwed it!! This way Daniel lost to Cláudia.

The time was finished. Jonatan lives in São Paulo, so he left to face them in the next weekend ( Oct 21th). He wrote an e-mail telling that he won the first and second battle, but lost to Kazumi. Due this, he won an official Mew and the certified.