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Welcome to the Crown Tundra Safari Contest! Sponsored by the Association of Safari Zones, Chairman Baoba and Macro Cosmos! Typically, at the Safari Zones around the world we hold capture contests. As the name implies it is a contest to see who can catch the biggest, rarest Pokemon out there! Today we will be holding a special Safari Contest, here in the Crown Tundra in celebration of the World Champion Cup!

The contest is simple, in the Crown Tundra you will find many different kinds of Pokemon, from all over the world in fact! We give participants three Safari Balls to use and attempt to capture the best Pokemon they can, or you can use any three Pokeballs of their own, if you do, we do not give you any Safari Balls. [You may use one of yours and two of ours and so forth. You are only allowed to use three Pokeballs total.] You are allowed to take just one of your own Pokemon into the park to use to weaken a wild Pokemon for capture, so don't let it get knocked out! Pokemon are judged on their quality, rarity, and how well the capture was roleplayed. So are you interested? Then sign up, take your Safari Balls, and hit the grass and find the best Pokemon you can!

In the spoiler tag below is a map of the Crown Tundra with four different quadrants highlighted. You'll find different Pokemon in each quadrant and the lists for these quadrants are found at the bottom of the posts in spoiler tags. The quadrants, and their corresponding number on the map, are as follows.

1. Central Tundra

2. Southern Lake

3. Northern Mountains

4. Eastern Sea

[Map]

How to Participate:

The rules for the Safari Contest are simple. Pick one Pokemon to use in the contest, and when you post your character looking for a Pokemon use the random number generator to find out what Pokemon your character finds. Set the lowest number to 1 and the highest to 50 for all areas. Please be sure to state which area you are in at least in your first post for each area. You may travel to different areas if you wish. Once your post goes through, check to see what number you got, then, look at the list of available Pokemon, at the bottom of this post, to see what Pokemon appeared.

Then, in your next post once the Pokemon has been decided, begin battling it all in one post. But before you post your battle, use the Random Number generator again to see if the capture was successful, setting the lowest to 1 and the highest to 10, however, different Pokeballs have different success rates depending on what Pokemon or area you are using them on/in. Consult the list below to see what Pokeballs benefit this area.



[Safari Ball] 50% Success Rate on any Pokemon.

[Pokeball] 50% Success Rate on any Pokemon.

[Great Ball] 60% Success Rate on any Pokemon.

[Ultra Ball] 70% Success Rate on any Pokemon.

[Net Ball] 70% Success Rate on Bug and Water type Pokemon, 50% on all others.

[Dive Ball] 70% Success Rate on Water type Pokemon, 50% on all others.

[Dusk Ball] 70% Success Rate on Pokemon found in caves, 50% on anything else.

[Nest Ball] 70% Success Rate if Pokemon is a lower stage than your own Pokemon.

[Repeat Ball] 70% Success Rate. Allows a fourth and final capture attempt after the previous three have failed.

[Quick Ball] 80% Success Rate on your first Pokemon encountered only, 50% on all consecutive.

[Timer Ball] 80% Success Rate if it's your last Pokeball only, 50% on any prior.

[Heal Ball] 80% Success Rate on a Pokemon if you failed to capture it once already, 50% if not.

[Luxury Ball] 80% Success Rate on a Pokemon that evolves with happiness.

[Fast Ball] 80% Success Rate on a fast Pokemon.

[Heavy Ball] 80% Success Rate on a heavy Pokemon.

[Level Ball] 80% Success Rate on a first stage Pokemon (Spearow, Stunfisk, etc.), 50% on all others.

[Love Ball] 80% Success Rate on a Pokemon with only a single gender, 50% on all others.

[Lure Ball] 80% Success Rate on a Pokemon fished out of the water.

[Friend Ball] 80% Success Rate on a Pokemon that evolves with happiness.

For success rates of 50%, you must receive one of the following numbers from the Random Number generator to capture the Pokemon: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

For success rates of 60%, you must receive one of the following numbers from the Random Number generator to capture the Pokemon: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

For success rates of 70%, you must receive one of the following numbers from the Random Number generator to capture the Pokemon: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

For success rates of 80%, you must receive one of the following numbers from the Random Number generator to capture the Pokemon: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

For success rates of 90%, you must receive one of the following numbers from the Random Number generator to capture the Pokemon: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9



As long as you still have Pokeballs you may continue to hunt and capture Pokemon until you get one you are comfortable with. If you catch a Pokemon, but then choose to catch another, you must release the first Pokemon you caught before keeping the second. Once you run out of Pokeballs your time is up and the Pokemon you last caught will be the one judged.

When everyone is done (a specified time will be given when the contest will end, regardless if others are done) all Pokemon caught will be judged. Each Pokemon will be judged individually in separate posts where a random number will be used to judge their quality, between 1 and 5 and the number it lands on will be its quality. The other stat taken into consideration is the Pokemon's rarity, its species. A rather common Pokemon like Spearow won't give as much points as a Pokemon like Absol would give much more. However, with quality, a Spearow could beat out a Absol.

Contestant Prizes:

Prizes will be given out to the top three contestants, as well as a consolation prize to those who don't make the top three. All participants get to keep the Pokemon they caught. The first place contestant may choose to get a Snag Emblem or additional Snag Coins apart from the normal prize.

1st place prize: 15 Snag Coins and one Snag Emblem OR 25 Snag Coins OR Rare Candy!

2nd place prize: 15 Snag Coins

3rd place prize: 10 Snag Coins

All participants who did not place receive 5 Snag Coins as a consolation prize as well as their captured Pokemon. Snag Coins can be spent in the Snag Mall.

Also, if you use a Pokemon that's not fully evolved that Pokemon will earn Evolution Points/Happiness Points at the end of the contest depending on how many Pokemon it knocked out. For Evolution Points your Pokemon gains 0.50 points for first stage (Caterpie), 0.60 points for second stage (Metapod), 0.70 points for base (Tauros), and 0.80 points for third stage (Butterfree). For Happiness Points you must battle at least five Pokemon to gain one happiness point, including a successful capture. If not catching anything then it's seven battles. You can also gain Purification Points in the same way as Evolution Points. Don't worry, the Safari Zone is protected by an Immunizer so no virus spreading here! Evolution/Purification Points will be rounded up at the end and we ask you post how many points you accrued in your final post. Bonus points (Evolution, Purification, or Happiness Points) will be rewarded to all participants at the end based on how much effort and content went into your posts. You may lose points if your battles were one liners or just in general lacked any effort.

For the purpose of training you may also use your newly captured Pokemon right away.

And that's it! Get out there and have fun!

UPDATE: Roll the same Pokemon twice in a row and you may have the third encounter be that Pokemon’s next evolutionary stage! Add +1 to star rarity.

Furthermore roll the same Pokemon three times in a row and the third one is shiny! Applies only once per the entirety of Safari Contest. First one to capture shiny gets it.If not captured others may roll a shiny.

[Central Tundra]



[Southern Lake]



[Northern Mountains]




[Eastern Sea]

His decision made, William heads to the Central Tundra and begins exploring.

As the two walked, they could see several Pokemon milling about, including a rather curious Spheal. She wasn't particularly interested in catching another Water-type at the moment, and Spooky paid the Water/Ice-type no mind. Seeing it wouldn't get any reaction, the Spheal waddled away, hoping to find a more interesting person to interact with.

Clare arrived at the Crown Tundra bundled up in rather warm clothes, knowing that they were susceptible to the cold. They carried a single Pokeball on them containing the only Pokemon they had obtained in this world so far. They'd been told this might be a good place to learn more about what the small creature could do as well as being a good chance at possibly obtaining a new one to help support them as they learned more about the world in which they had found themself.

Approaching the signup desk, they would sign their own name as well as the name and species of their partner Pokemon - an apparently recently hatched Dreepy they had dubbed Visage - and accepted the three Safari Balls they'd been given to participate with. Afterward, they'd go look at the map which showed the various zones in which they could choose to participate. "Oh dear... I'm not sure where to begin..." Releasing the Dreepy they had obtained, they'd request it's aid in making the decision. "I heard your kind are from this region... Any suggestions on where to begin?"

Visage floated up to the map and gave it a moment of consideration before eagerly pointing to one section in particular.

((I see several I like but none that especially stand out so we're going to randomize the location.))

Amber and Spooky continued walking, just enjoying the scenery as they did so. Spooky, ever on alert, actually let his guard down for a few minutes, something he wouldn't have done had he felt Amber was in any danger. That being said, nothing seemed to want to approach after their battle with the Phantump. It was like the wild Pokemon were a little....scared of them now. Amber knew that Spooky wasn't the most friendly Pokemon at first, but that was because of how he'd been treated by his last trainer. Still, it would be good for him to battle, to get some experience, since he rarely actually did any battling, prefering to leave that up to Bubbles.

Not long before they left Freezington did Sub come across his first wild Pokemon in the contest; a Magby. The small Fire type was entertaining its self by melting snow with its Ember, the young creature quacking with glee as the snow melted to reveal grass underneath. Mildly surprised to see a Fire type out here the man thought about it a little more and came to the conclusion there might just be a volcanic mountain nearby, furthermore Fire types weren't bothered by the cold weather anyways so it wasn't all that surprising.

Looking down at Hemlock Sub realized this was a very poor match up for his Oddish. True, Hemlock had moves that were at least effective against a Magby and Hemlock was fairly strong for an Oddish but alas it was a frail creature in this stage and even a Magby would be enough to give it trouble. Deciding not to bother it the pair kept moving forward.

William is stopped early in his exploration by a wild Audino, and responds by releasing his Gossifleur, Hydrangea. "Oh, wait, neither of you have Fighting-type moves," he said, his features contorting with worry. "Let's hope it doesn't have any moves you're weak against. I suppose we'll have to play the long game with this one. Use Stun Spore."

Hydrangea complied, and the move hit. Unfortunately for William, the Audino managed to push past the onset of paralysis to use Disarming Voice, though that didn't do much to harm Hydrangea.

"Okay, now use Leech Seed," William ordered. Hydrangea launched some seeds from her mouth that, on impact, started growing vines around the wild Audino and began sapping its health. The Audino attempted to react to this, but was unable to push past the paralysis.

"Good, this is going well so far. Now, use Substitute," William commanded. Hydrangea tore some of the leaves out of her body and made a totem of what she thought she looked like, then placed that in front of her so she could hide behind it. The wild Audino did not approve of neither the craftsmanship, nor the turtling tactic, and in a fit of rage, screamed at the top of it's lungs, assaulting Hydrangea's ears with its voice and its life essence with Hyper Voice. The energy of the move tore through the totem doll and struck at Hydrangea herself, though not with near as much oomph as it would if Substitute wasn't used. The leaves that were torn out, however, had already started to grow back.

"Augh, my ears," William whined, holding his hands over his ears in an attempt to shield them. "Go on the offensive! Razor Leaf!" he shouted, unable to tell how loud he was being. Hydrangea used Grass-type energy to pick up the leaves from the shattered Substitute and to sharpen them to a razor's edge before launching them at Audino. The Normal-type tried to dodge, but froze up due to paralysis and got hit by the attack.

"Okay, let's see if that did it," William sighed, taking his hands off his ears so he could throw a Safari Ball.

Amber and Spooky had just walked toward the water's edge when something caught her eye, and she turned to see a Pokemon she'd thought extinct. A rounded, spiral shell, with tentacles and eyes coming from the shell marked this Pokemon as a Omanyte. She'd only heard of the fossil Pokemon, and hadn't expected to see one here, of all places. Perhaps the scientists here in Galar were more successful at restoring fossils, or perhaps Pokemon they'd originally thought extinct weren't really extinct, but had been hibernating or living in places humans couldn't reach.

Either way, she couldn't let an opportunity like this pass her up. "Spooky, let's see if we can't catch this one, too, shall we?" she said, and the Shuppet gave a nod as he readied himself for battle. The Omanyte, on the other hand, didn't seem to notice them, at least, not until Spooky fired a Shadow Ball at it. The Omanyte, angry at its peace being disturbed, quickly turned to Spooky and retaliated with Bite. Spooky, seeing the move coming, tried to dodge, but got caught by the very end of the attack, so he did take some damage. Amber, seeing the super-effective attack land, even if only just a little, knew they couldn't let that hit again. "Use Spite!" she called, and Spooky obeyed, effectively lowering the number of times Bite could be used.

Bite is an egg move for Omanyte, isn't it? Amber thought, watching the battle closely. Perhaps we can lower its defense, or hit it with a status effect. As she was thinking this, the Omanyte went for a Bite again, but Spooky was ready for it this time, veering to one side and using a point-blank Will-O-Wisp. The Omanyte cried out as it gained a Burn, anger in its eyes as it honed in on Spooky. "We've made it angry, Spooky," Amber said. "Watch what it does next, then use Hex."

The Omanyte, deciding it was done fooling around, fired a Rock Blast. Thankfully, it only hit twice, but it still did enough damage that Spooky growled irritatedly. Following Amber's orders, he used Hex, and with the Burn it had sustained, this did quite a bit of damage to the Omanyte, who cried out in pain again. Amber, knowing this was her chance, tossed a Dive Ball at it, hoping that she would be able to catch it.