Ever Grande Conference
TheEver Grande Conference (Japanese:ホウエンリーグ・サイユウ大会Hoenn LeagueSaiyu Conference) is theHoenn League generalchampionship competition. AllPokémon Trainers who have earned eightGymBadges from theHoennregion are eligible to enter.
It is held annually inEver Grande City. Competing Trainers are housed in dorm rooms in small villages. InEight Ain't Enough,Sebastian informedAsh about the tournament, which took place fromSaved by the Beldum toAt the End of the Fray.
Competition
Opening ceremonies
Registration for the conference closes at 5 pm on the day before the opening ceremonies. Trainers are given a food and restaurant guide for the venue upon registration.Charles Goodshow, President of theLeague Competition Committee, oversees the opening ceremony.
Like at theIndigo Plateau Conference, the opening ceremonies consist of a torch lighting ceremony. Select Trainers run with the torch containing the flame of theLegendaryMoltres and carry it to the top of the stadium, where it is used to light a much larger torch. The lighting of the large torch marks the official opening of the Ever Grande Conference.
Rounds
Preliminaries
Each Trainer participates in one preliminary battle. Only onePokémon may be used during the battle and the winner advances to the qualifying rounds. The losing Trainers are eliminated from the competition.
Qualifying rounds
During the qualifying rounds, the Top 256 Trainers take part in threeDouble Battles. Losers are eliminated and trainers who win three battles advance to the next round.
Final rounds
The final rounds are a series ofFull Battles with the Top 32 Trainers participating in the standard sudden-death tournament style. The theme of the battlefield is randomly chosen before each match from four different possibilities: rock, water, grass, and ice. After a Trainer's first three Pokémon are defeated, there is a short intermission during which there is a field change.
The winner of the Ever Grande Conference is the Trainer that wins all of the final rounds, meaning they must win five Full Battles in a row. When a winner has been decided, that winner is awarded a gold trophy fromMr. Goodshow.
Battlefields
One of the battlefields where the preliminary and qualifying rounds are fought
Main stadium
Rock battlefield
Water battlefield
Grass battlefield
Ice battlefield
Known contestants
| Trainer | Place |
|---|---|
| Tyson | Winner |
| Ash | Top 8 |
| Morrison | Top 16 |
| Katie | Top 32 |
| Johnny | Top 64 |
| Clark | Top 64 |
| Dominick | Top 256 |
| Gavin | Top 256 |
| Gilbert | Preliminaries |
| Vivica | Preliminaries |
| Jump | Preliminaries |
Other participants
Trainers here participated in the conference either before or after the conferenceAsh participated in.
In the manga
Ash & Pikachu
The Ever Grande Conference was featured inStart Of The Pokémon League!!, adapting Ash's battle against Morrison.
Trivia
- With 256Trainers known to be participating in the qualifying rounds alone, this is the largestPokémon League Conference to date.
- This is the first League Conference:
- To focus on any ofAsh'srivals' battles.
- Where Ash does not use any of the Pokémon he keeps atProfessor Oak's Laboratory.
- This is the League Conference where Ash had the mostFull Battles, with a total of three againstKatie,Morrison, andTyson.
- This is the only League Conference:
- That featuredDouble Battles.
- That did not feature three-on-three battles.
- Where none of the participants are based on rivals from thecore series games.
- Where all named participants outside of Ash were introduced after he obtained his eighthBadge.
- Where Ash's ranking does not change compared to the previous League he challenged, with his ranking being Top 8, the same as in theSilver Conference.
In other languages
| Language | Title | |
|---|---|---|
| German | Hoenn-Meisterschaft | |
| Italian | Campionati di Hoenn | |
| Brazilian Portuguese | Conferência de Ever Grande | |
| Spanish | Campeonato de la Liga Hoenn | |
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