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Talking about an actual mall, with a bunch of stores set up indoors. Not an outdoor strip mall.

Also specifically about going there for the purpose of buying something from one of those stores, not seeing a movie in an attached theater. It does count if you went to a store and bought something to pass time before/after your movie, though.

Food court visits count.

My last shopping visit to a mall would have been last year, when a friend took me to a candy store so we could sugar up for a D&D game. But it had been a very long dry spell before then.

Let's be honest: Things are looking pretty bleak for CE and GameFAQs as a whole right now, somebody's got to step up and be a hero. So against my better judgment/free time, it's time to start up the Best Pokemon Tournament.

Here's how this one is going to work. It's still going to be 128 Pokemon in the final bracket, but obviously with 1025 Pokedex entries, that's going to be a tight fit. So we're going to whittle that number down bit by bit, choosing one Pokemon out of each group of 10 to make it. The groups will be sorted in Pokedex order; this is to help keep things orderly and prevent a Pokemon from slipping through the cracks, but also to make sure that each generation is represented proportionally with how many of the little bastards were added in each set of games.

For Pokemon with alternate forms under the same Pokedex entry, such as Unown, Rotom, Wormadam, or Deoxys, all of those forms will be counted as one entry for the sake of keeping the proportional representation intact (and to make sure there aren't too many of a single species on the bracket). Megas, Gigantamax, and any other alternate forms that are only seen during battle are also considered as part of the base species. Regional forms, such as Alolan Exeggutor or Galarian Weezing, are considered as being separate, and will be part of their respective generation's set. Legends: Arceus is considered as "generation 8.5" for the purposes of this tournament.

That brings things to a grand total of 1080 Pokemon that qualify for bracket spots, which will break down to a nice even 108. The final twenty bracket spots are "Wild Card" positions, and each generation will have two more chances to get a representative on the bracket. The top 20 non-winners from each generation will be split into two further groups of ten, and those Pokemon will then compete for the remaining spots.

I know it might seem confusing when it's all written out like this, but trust me, it will work. I hope.

But, as I mentioned in the opening of this topic, these are dark times and the future is uncertain. I'm going to do my damndest to keep up on this so we all have something to look forward to, but I'm going to need everybody here to help out with that by voting. When I ran a temperature check the topic got up to about 50-60 votes, which I felt was fine, but since CE's numbers are only going to dwindle moving forward I will end this tournament early if I feel like the engagement isn't high enough for me to bother putting the time and effort into it anymore.

So, please, vote.

Anyway, with that out of the way, here's round twenty of the preliminaries! Here's to a (hopefully) great fourth tournament, everyone!
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/2/2d71d7a0.jpg

PREVIOUS WINNERS
Round 1: Charizard (25.64%)
Round 2: Pidgeot (28.36%)
Round 3: Sandslash (25.71%)
Round 4: Nidoking (30.99%)
Round 5: Diglett (19.7%)
Round 6: Arcanine (50%)
Round 7: Alakazam (46.75%)
Round 8: Victreebel (17.19%)
Round 9: Farfetch'd (29.03%)
Round 10: Gengar (51.39%)
Round 11: Cubone (20.55%)
Round 12: Rhydon (34.33%)
Round 13: Gyarados (29.41%)
Round 14: Lapras (23.53%)
Round 15: Mewtwo (33.33%)
Round 16: Mew (36.92%)
Wild Card: Blastoise (26.42%)
Wild Card: Scyther (31.91%)
Round 17: Crobat (45.1%)
Round 18: Mareep (28.21%)
Round 19: Ampharos (38.46%)

GEN 2 WILD CARD NOMINEES (22/20)
Feraligatr - 26.15%, 17 votes
Pichu - 23.08%, 9 votes
Sudowoodo - 21.15%, 11 votes
Furret - 19.61%, 10 votes
Xatu - 15.38%, 6 votes
Noctowl - 13.73%, 7 votes
Lanturn - 12.82%, 5 votes
Typhlosion - 12.31%, 8 votes
Hoothoot - 11.76%, 6 votes
Politoed - 11.54%, 6 votes
Azumarill - 9.62%, 5 votes
Totodile - 9.23%, 6 votes
Ledian - 7.84%, 4 votes
Marill - 7.69%, 4 votes
Togepi - 7.69%, 3 votes
Togetic - 7.69%, 3 votes
Chikorita - 4.62%, 3 votes
Bayleef - 4.62%, 3 votes
Cyndaquil - 4.62%, 3 votes
Bellossom - 3.85%, 2 votes
Jumpluff - 3.85%, 2 votes
Aipom - 3.85%, 2 votes

In the event that more than 20 Pokemon are in the Wild Card category at the end of a generation, I'll use a randomizer to decide which Pokemon tied for the lowest qualifying score make it onto the polls.

Let's be honest: Things are looking pretty bleak for CE and GameFAQs as a whole right now, somebody's got to step up and be a hero. So against my better judgment/free time, it's time to start up the Best Pokemon Tournament.

Here's how this one is going to work. It's still going to be 128 Pokemon in the final bracket, but obviously with 1025 Pokedex entries, that's going to be a tight fit. So we're going to whittle that number down bit by bit, choosing one Pokemon out of each group of 10 to make it. The groups will be sorted in Pokedex order; this is to help keep things orderly and prevent a Pokemon from slipping through the cracks, but also to make sure that each generation is represented proportionally with how many of the little bastards were added in each set of games.

For Pokemon with alternate forms under the same Pokedex entry, such as Unown, Rotom, Wormadam, or Deoxys, all of those forms will be counted as one entry for the sake of keeping the proportional representation intact (and to make sure there aren't too many of a single species on the bracket). Megas, Gigantamax, and any other alternate forms that are only seen during battle are also considered as part of the base species. Regional forms, such as Alolan Exeggutor or Galarian Weezing, are considered as being separate, and will be part of their respective generation's set. Legends: Arceus is considered as "generation 8.5" for the purposes of this tournament.

That brings things to a grand total of 1080 Pokemon that qualify for bracket spots, which will break down to a nice even 108. The final twenty bracket spots are "Wild Card" positions, and each generation will have two more chances to get a representative on the bracket. The top 20 non-winners from each generation will be split into two further groups of ten, and those Pokemon will then compete for the remaining spots.

I know it might seem confusing when it's all written out like this, but trust me, it will work. I hope.

But, as I mentioned in the opening of this topic, these are dark times and the future is uncertain. I'm going to do my damndest to keep up on this so we all have something to look forward to, but I'm going to need everybody here to help out with that by voting. When I ran a temperature check the topic got up to about 50-60 votes, which I felt was fine, but since CE's numbers are only going to dwindle moving forward I will end this tournament early if I feel like the engagement isn't high enough for me to bother putting the time and effort into it anymore.

So, please, vote.

Anyway, with that out of the way, here's round nineteen of the preliminaries! Here's to a (hopefully) great fourth tournament, everyone!
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/c/c422ce7c.jpg

PREVIOUS WINNERS
Round 1: Charizard (25.64%)
Round 2: Pidgeot (28.36%)
Round 3: Sandslash (25.71%)
Round 4: Nidoking (30.99%)
Round 5: Diglett (19.7%)
Round 6: Arcanine (50%)
Round 7: Alakazam (46.75%)
Round 8: Victreebel (17.19%)
Round 9: Farfetch'd (29.03%)
Round 10: Gengar (51.39%)
Round 11: Cubone (20.55%)
Round 12: Rhydon (34.33%)
Round 13: Gyarados (29.41%)
Round 14: Lapras (23.53%)
Round 15: Mewtwo (33.33%)
Round 16: Mew (36.92%)
Wild Card: Blastoise (26.42%)
Wild Card: Scyther (31.91%)
Round 17: Crobat (45.1%)
Round 18: Mareep (28.21%)

GEN 2 WILD CARD NOMINEES (19/20)
Feraligatr - 26.15%, 17 votes
Pichu - 23.08%, 9 votes
Furret - 19.61%, 10 votes
Xatu - 15.38%, 6 votes
Noctowl - 13.73%, 7 votes
Lanturn - 12.82%, 5 votes
Typhlosion - 12.31%, 8 votes
Hoothoot - 11.76%, 6 votes
Totodile - 9.23%, 6 votes
Ledian - 7.84%, 4 votes
Togepi - 7.69%, 3 votes
Togetic - 7.69%, 3 votes
Chikorita - 4.62%, 3 votes
Bayleef - 4.62%, 3 votes
Cyndaquil - 4.62%, 3 votes
Igglybuff - 2.56%, 1 vote
Flaaffy - 2.56%, 1 vote
Sentret - 1.96%, 1 vote
Meganium - 1.54%, 1 vote

In the event that more than 20 Pokemon are in the Wild Card category at the end of a generation, I'll use a randomizer to decide which Pokemon tied for the lowest qualifying score make it onto the polls.