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

I wrote this on my phone so I hope its less than a 1000 lol

[borschtkot]

Contest Category: Clever
Trainer: Yuri Plisetsky
Pokemon: "Potya” (Glameow)
Move: Play Rough
Costume: Yuri has on skin tight pants with good flexibility and comfortable flat sneakers. He’s wearing a loose tank top that hangs loosely around his frame. A few necklaces, simple enough and spiked bracelets.
Potya’s collar has silver studs with lace and a sporty little leather jacket to her kitty elbows.
Act: [To the tune of Caravan Palace - Lone Digger]

The song opens to the 2 of them walking out from opposite ends. Yuri tosses a small fragile egg to Potya who catches it on her head. She rolls it down along her back in a stretch then lifts her butt so it rolls back, down one leg to be caught in her paw. She produces a marker from her jacket and makes it with a P. As this is happening, Yuri is marking another egg with a Y, showing it to the crowd before closing it into a deactivated Pokeball and sets it in the middle, forward a bit.
The egg is balanced between Potya’s ears as trainer and Glameow stand next to each other. They match each other’s steps, Potya sitting up on her back legs to better imitate the movements. Some nice, basic easy steps, passing across the Pokeball here and there which was left alone for now.
Then the chorus hit. Potya flips the egg back and it is caught in her twirly tail which she whips about to keep up momentum and maintain the egg. At the same time she’s leaping up onto Yuri’s leg as he pirouettes across the stage, shifting herself forward and back as he balances himself out.
She turns to scramble up his back as he bend’s forward and she does a winding twirl up the leg he lifts straight up into the air in a vertical split. Her tail flicks the egg up into the air and she catches it on her nose before the next bridge.
Which Yuri continues the movement of his leg, hands planting on the ground as he lits his other off, Potya balancing the egg as she walks across the length, then over, climbing up Yuri’s other side until she was on his shoulder. She tosses the egg up and jumps down, rolling onto her back to catch it with her back paws. She kicks it into the air a few times, before sending it back up into the air and rolling over, tail over head to get back up.
She and Yuri both moved forward in another few fast twirls, positioning her to catch the egg again in her tail. She gives it a little whip, sending it rolling across the stage and she gives it a chase, between Yuri’s legs. She bats it back around, where Yuri was kneelnig with his palm flat enough for the egg to bounce onto it and Potya continues batting it up onto his shoulder, across to the other end, until She was balanced on his opposite hand.
The instrumental takes and he tosses her now into the air, and she poses mid air, the egg flying up, just off her. Balanced on ear, tail, paw, nose. Different poses as she’s tossed, doing little somersaults and twirls.
The last she does a flip so she lands away from Yuri and he reaches out to catch the egg-- And misses. It splats onto the ground.
Potya doesn’t pay any mind, trotting to the Pokeball, still where it was, untouched and taps the button. Out pops the P egg and she sits proudly in front of it as behind her Yuri picks up a bit of shell that is very clearly marked with a Y.