Announcing: the We Have Pokémon at Home battle tournament!
We are proud to present the follow-up to the Pokémon Battle Tournament: the We Have Pokémon at Home Battle Tournament! In this tournament, monsters from the monster taming/battling/collecting genre that are explicitly Not Pokémon will duke it out in a one-on-one battle tournament. This tournament will take on the same format as the Pokémon Battle Tournament, asking “who would win in a battle?”. For this tournament, we are taking submissions for which monsters to include. Monsters from non-pokémon franchises, pokémon parodies, fakémon and beta pokémon are eligible. Your own fakémon creations and unique outside the box suggestions are especially encouraged.
Submissions are closed, thanks everyone for submitting!
Answers to any questions you may have under the cut.
Q&A:
Which monsters can I submit as contestants?
Monsters eligible to be included in the tournament are:
Monsters from another monster taming franchise. A non-exhaustive list is included below, monsters from other franchises are eligible as well.
In-universe Pokémon parodies (think, for instance, of the Voidcritters from the Sims 4) are allowed and encouraged, provided individual species are documented somewhere online.
Fakémon are allowed and encouraged. Especially your own creations are encouraged as a special treat. Mons from published fangames are allowed. Fakémon variants of existing Pokémon are allowed. Fusion designs are allowed.
In the light of the recent leaks, beta versions of Pokémon are allowed. For leaked pokémon, any link to a post discussing the leak is sufficient as documentation.
Anything else you can think of that fits the criterion of “we have Pokémon at home”. Outside the box suggestions are encouraged.
Monsters ineligible to be included in the tournament are:
Official Pokémon or any of the canon variants thereof.
Monsters that lack an image or online documentation of an individual species.
Monsters not submitted as individual species.
What do I need to submit a monster?
To submit a monster, you need an image link and a link to information about the monster, preferably a wiki page or an introduction post by its creator.
How many monsters can I submit?
As many as you like. Go nuts.
Which monsters will be included?
As many as are needed to round up or down to the nearest power of 2. Preference will be given to a variety of origins, so if a specific franchise or fakémon creator dominates the submissions not all of them will be included.
When are the submissions due?
Submissions will run for two weeks, until December 20th. Depending on the rate of submissions, I reserve the right to cut off submissions early if the number of submissions runs in the thousands.
When will I know if my submission made it?
When the polls for round 1 go up! A huge part of the fun of the first round is, to me, the element of surprise, so you will find out at the same time as everyone else who is in the tournament.
The pre-approved non-exhaustive list of franchises from which monsters can be submitted is as follows. New franchises may be added to the list as submissions come in:
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