Alpensee eSports

Friendly-season continues, as we faced off against Team Switzerland last week! ⛰️
After a rough start we gave them a good fight, but they still managed to eke out the win. Onward and Upward! 🌊

Worlds is just over a week away and what better way to prep than a dedicated Alpensee bootcamp! 🌊
@im-ryo.bsky.social, Sela and Choc got in some serious prep with support from @paulkoll.bsky.social, Markus Hamann, Baked and Incineroar Jr. himself.
Now we‘re ready to make big moo-ves! 🐮

We want to give players the opportunity to prep for Worlds, so our Wednesday tours will remain in Regulation I until then 🌎
You can join our tour discord to keep up to date with any news and receive reminders for sign-ups, check-in etc. ➡️ discord.gg/fJBVMmmdDH
#pokemonvgc

Locked in for Worlds prep? Struck by off-season boredom? That's prime time for some friendly matches! 🔥
Our first opponents at IlluminaVGC gave us a hard time, but losing is the fastest way to improvement, right? 🌊
We already have some more matches lined up so stay tuned 👀
#PokemonVGC

Proudly presenting our 2025 World Championship Invitees! 🏆
Choc, @im-ryo.bsky.social, Finabas and Sela worked hard to prove their skills and earn their place among Europe's finest 🌟
Now it's time to finish the season with a bang and make some waves on the big stage 🌊
#pokemonvgc #playpokemon

Hunting for those final points at #NAIC 🏅
@shmon.bsky.social fought tooth and nail, even winning the friendly fire match, but fell just short of the goal.
However, @im-ryo.bsky.social managed to secure his last-minute invite to Anaheim! 🎉
Time to lock in and prep for world-class competition 🌊

We brought the content to Bologna! 🎥
A spectacular stream match from @im-ryo.bsky.social, a feature interview with @shmon.bsky.social and Choc taking the secret sauce all the way to a Top 64 finish 🐢
And that's a wrap on EU events for this season, but we still have some invites to lock 🌊
#pokemonvgc

Love it or hate it - if you want to go to Anaheim, there's no way around the GC 🎮
Our players pushed through all the highs and lows of disconnects and CTS cheese to make it this far, so check out their total CP gain and best finish in this season's Grand and Global Challenges!
#pokemonvgc

Utrecht Results 📝
The end of the season is closing in and we are on the hunt for those final points with four Day 2s and a Top Cut Win & In for Choc!
Only Bologna and NAIC left to lock our invites 🌊
#pokemonvgc

The goat of VGC Math @paulkoll.bsky.social returns with another blogpost, this time explaining why Urshifu Rapid Strike sits at 40% usage while Single Strike is nowhere to be seen.
Well, not really, but you might learn something interesting about the way damage is calculated!
#pokemonvgc

Am 10. Mai darf ich endlich meinen ersten eigenen Double Header hosten 🥳
Mainz liegt super zentral und ist auch von Frankfurt fix zu erreichen, also kommt vorbei!
Um 13:30 ist Einlass, Voranmeldung ist nicht zwingend nötig (aber hilft mir planen) 🥰
#pokemonvgc
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Strength Sap recovers a Pokémon HP by an amount equal to the target's atk stat (before the drop). This allows you to check the atk stat by using strength sap with a pre-damaged Pokémon and calculating the difference in HP.

Regulation I has officially started and Caly-Shadow has already established itself as a top tier threat 🐴
Catching a min attack Calyrex in-game can seem like a hassle, but did you know there's an easy way to check Atk IVs before throwing the ball?
Here's how! 🌱
#pokemonvgc #playpokemon

No European major without Alpensee!
Our lone warrior @paulkoll.bsky.social went all the way to Spain to do us proud, recovering from a 0-1 start to play in his second ever win-and-in 🙌
Now he can finally leave Reg G behind to join our double-restricted prep for Utrecht 🌊
#pokemonvgc #playpokemon

Chi-Yu’s Graph of Ruin: How much inaccuracy can you afford? Using compound probabilities to estimate how much RNG is acceptable in a tournament setting.

I have just published my new article about compound probabilities in Pokémon! I explain why it feels like moves miss more often than they should, how this can impact a tournament, and introduce a tool to help players estimate how much RNG they can afford.
medium.com/@paulkoll/ch...

Know your Unown Why it is important to keep in mind what you know and what you don’t when playing VGC

I just published a new article expanding on a topic i briefly touched on in my last one: the concept of Known Unknowns and why they are important in VGC. I hope you enjoy reading it!
medium.com/@paulkoll/kn...

Latios vs. Latias: Why we play the way we play Using behavioural economics to understand how we make decisions in Pokémon VGC

I've just published a new article about applying the ideas of behavioural economics to VGC and how it can help us avoid unnecessary mistakes! I hope you find it interesting!
medium.com/@paulkoll/la...

Another great article with a fun new perspective on things to keep in mind, also introducing one of the greatest acronyms of all time.
Hint: it's a strong contender for the name of Kalosian Wynaut's new evolution

Check out this article our member Paul wrote!
It presents an overview of common traps in decision-making and pitfalls we might not always be aware of.
Has your inner Latios cost you a game recently?
#pokemonvgc #playpokemon

Stockholm Results 📝
Usually, this is where we would highlight our Day 2 players but as you can see, this was not our weekend 😢
However, being a team is about more than just celebrating success together, so we won't let this get us down 🌊
#pokemonvgc #playpokemon

A lot of our players went to EUIC and managed to get some very nice results! 📝
Congrats to Choc, who made it all the way to a Top Cut win-and-in, and Cyberman for making his first Day 2 in the biggest tournament yet! Baked did Groudon proud ☀️
See you in Stockholm 🇸🇪
#PokemonVGC #PlayPokemon

Imagine if you had Spore on your team ... it would have been so free

Won Multibattles!
Thank you @shmon.bsky.social and super-sub Cyberman for playing with me!!!

So, how did you do? Any bingoes on the board? 😎
From our side, congrats to Baked, Cyberman and Choc for crossing off that coveted bottom left corner. It's actually a bonus field, so you get to keep playing another day 🥳
#PokemonEUIC

Bingo sheet of things that are more or less likely to happen to VGC players competing at EUIC, such as "getting Day 2", "disconnect in Game 3" or "you didn't read the teamsheet well enough"

To all players competing at #PokemonEUIC 📢
We've prepared a bingo sheet for you - think you can fill in a bingo or even multiple?
We'll be checking in again after Day 1 tomorrow 👀

Plot twist: the answer is NO!
So on the online frontier, congrats to @im-ryo.bsky.social and his second favorite horse for making Day 2 in the @victoryroad.bsky.social February Challenge #2 🥳
#pokemonvgc

What a stacked weekend, does it even fit in one post?
+ 2 Cup wins: Sela 🇩🇪 and @shmon.bsky.social 🇧🇪 (BFL maxed!)
+ 2 Challenge wins: Sela 🇩🇪 and Cyberman 🇦🇹
+ Alpensee finals with Cyberman vs @paulkoll.bsky.social at the unofficial "Stratos Cup" 🇦🇹
We're locked in for EUIC 🌊
#playpokemon #pokemonvgc

"Gulpin' Gulpin"

"The roundest boi"

Our #PokemonEUIC prep continues in full force, but it's important to take breaks too!
Sooo, we turned yesterday's training into a fun browser game session to hone our artistic skills 🎨🖌️
Look at how cute these animations turned out! ✨
(more in the comments ⬇️) #pokemon #pokemonart

Team Alpensee is back for #VCL Season 5 🔥

🇦🇷 Week 1, we triumphed over freshly promoted Team Austral
🇪🇸 Week 2, we gained an early lead against Season 4 finalist PokeHornets, but couldn't quite close it out

For now, we're sitting in 4th place, but we're aiming for 1st 🌊
#PokemonVGC #PlayPokemon