The Contest Spectacular!

[indigo_events]

Who: Everyone attending the Contest Spectacular! (For more information about this event, check out the info post here!)
Where: Celadon City
When: January 18-20
Log:

It’s finally here… the Contest Spectacular! The whole city of Celadon has been bustling ever since the preparations for the contest began, but now with the addition of all the contestants, their friends, and the general crowds, the town is downright packed. Hotel rooms booked en masse (good luck getting into that big fancy one near the casino-- thank Arceus there's plenty of others!), the Center stuffed with younger trainers who are short on cash but couldn't pass up the opportunity to see the first ever Pokemon Contest in this region, and generally even more foot traffic than usual.

But nowhere is it moreso than in Celadon Center, where massive, colorful tents have been erected. Pink, orange, yellow, green, and blue! There's no missing what they're for-- enormous banners advertising the Contest Spectacular fly from every corner. The streets surrounding the square are packed as well-- food carts and merch stands line the sidewalks, eager to snag a bit of the glory. Teeny tiny portions of hoity-toity restaurant food usually too expensive to buy are being hawked to passersby right alongside Pokeblocks and Poffins of varying quality, in case your Pokemon need a treat (or a little extra oomph before the show starts!). In addition to the stands selling gobs of Hoenn contest celebrity memorabilia (contest nerds might recognize figures such as Contest Idol Lisia and her Altaria, Ali, featured quite prominently!), Celadon City's many fashion boutiques and clothing lines have gotten first dibs on available space, so any contestants still looking for an outfit for themselves or their Pokemon is in luck, because there’s absolutely everything you could imagine for sale if you find the right stall. Opportunistic photographers (some official, some... not) have also swooped in to set up booths with rentable costumes and fun backgrounds, for anyone who isn't performing but wants some cute souvenir pictures of their Pokemon being a contest star anyway.

But of course, for eager audiences and contestants alike, the real attraction lays within the tents themselves. Audience members will have to wait in line for the shows to officially begin at noon on Friday, but for those who entered the contest themselves, well, that's another story entirely!

Stages of all kinds have been arranged to suit most every type of act that’s been submitted, from the more traditional wooden stages to huge tanks to little fields (the oodles of hardworking staff making all of this possible are making good use of moves like Grassy Terrain!), and the Contest Hosts’ voices can be heard presenting acts and cracking jokes about said acts almost all day long.

After registering but before checking into their lodgings (prepaid rooms at the ritzy Celadon Hotel! Lucky you!), contestants and their Pokemon will be shown behind the scenes and made familiar with all the utilities at their disposal-- small refreshments, makeup stalls, a selection of props to make use of (although, as the harried-looking staff will tell them, bringing your own unique items is really the best way to stand out!), lights, camera, and of course action! Unsurprisingly, the entire back workings of the Contest is a flurry of activity-- it's a lot of people, Pokemon, and equipment to manage; and in true, bombastic Hoenn style, there are bright lights and flashy colors everywhere you look! But contestants will still find that no matter how busy or frantic they are, the staff will still find time to help them out with special requests or technical requirements for the act. It is, after all, their job!

But ultimately, the act is on you and your Pokemon. Don't get stage fright now-- the curtain's going up any minute!

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[IMPORTANT: Please submit your contest entries here! For all other activities, feel free to make your own top-levels!]

Comments

Second hand embarrassment for myself.

[seeingeyesteward]

Contest Category: Beauty
Trainer: Ignis Scientia
Pokemon: "Dahlia" (Audino)
Move: Misty Terrain
Costume: Ignis is wearing a very sharp, hand tailored tuxedo with long tails and pink accents to match his Audino. It’s straight forward, much like Ignis. He has his hair styled down, sweeping over his scarred eye in a homage to the ‘character’ he’s playing. Dahlia is wearing a pink gown that flows nicely around her petite body. She has a crown of flowers around her head, pinned neatly behind her ears so it doesn’t fall.
Act: Ignis walks Dahlia to the center stage, where she brushes herself off gently and hands her glasses off to her trainer. They had practiced very hard, since there would be a lot of sound and Dahlia would have trouble seeing and Ignis wouldn’t be able to see at all. It wasn’t as if Oleander could join them after all.
In Ignis’s hands is a violin, which he’d been a bit out of practice before finding some private time. Dahlia was so excited about the contest, he had to put the time in. Dahlia uses Misty Terrain, setting up the atmosphere as Ignis draws the bow across the strings to start the song.
Though she couldn’t sing the words she sang the notes, little hands held before her chest as she walks cautiously through the newly misted terrain. Ignis was walking in a mirror to her, still playing, her searching and just missing him here and there.
As the song continues Dahlia begins to twirl and dance, the gown kicking up the mist so it swirls around her as she becomes more of the focus. Little petals are carefully fluffed from her sleeves as she dances and as it reaches the crescendo she turns as the mist splits. Ignis is there, and they circle one another. Dahlia still clearly chasing after him, just missing him, Ignis even stepping over her but they were getting closer.
Finally at the last note of her song she grasps the tails of his coat and and belts it hard. Ignis turns to her as the bow draws off the strings the same time her note ends and the lights drop.