Smogon article on Encyclopedia Dramatica

Quite accurate.

Sadly, Smogon University doesn't have an article on Wikipedia. Which means competitive Pokemon isn't notable.
 

tape

i woke up in a new bugatti
Quite accurate.

Sadly, Smogon University doesn't have an article on Wikipedia. Which means competitive Pokemon isn't notable.
I don't think that for competitive gaming in anything there's ever a wiki article for it. Fighting games... or to be less of a fanboy and say FPS games have several very, very popular and concurred forums and none are mentioned on Wiki.

Also I guess this shows Smogon is a quite e-popular.
 
We also have one on Bulbapedia

I dont read TV Tropes much. Its basically a wiki run by weeaboos and people obsessed with writing internet fanfiction.

I lol'd at the part of the article that said "typical smogonite in training".
 
I'll admit, I LOL'D more than twice. Pretty accurate from the perspective of a "no holds barred" pokemon battler. But it does sound like someone was bitter for being banned from Smogon.
 
Here is the text from the Smogon Article on Wikipedia (deleted in 2005)

Wikipedia said:
[http://www.smogon.com Smogon] is the premier website in competitive [[Pokémon]] battling. It offers detailed, well-written guides on battling strategies for both newbies and pros alike. The website was founded by chaos (one of the developers of [[Pokémon NetBattle]]) and is considered by many to be one of the best competitive Pokémon battling websites. While Smogon.com is indeed one of the leading websites in competitive battling, it focuses on the traditional [[Pokémon single battle|Single Battle]] style and fails to cover the aspect of [[Pokémon Double Battle|Double Battling]], which was introduced in Ruby & Sapphire and also stereotyped by many as "Explosion, Earthquake, Flying/Levitate, incredibly lame, and nothing else."

The term 'competitive battling' within Pokémon refers to battling against other human players using either the downloadable program NetBattle<sup>[http://www.netbattle.net]</sup> or any of a number of battle simulating bots, usually found on [[IRC]]. Both of these are online simulations of the Pokémon games, where one may build a team of Pokémon with relative ease. Experienced players, 24-hour servers, diverse communities and an oppurtunity to test out strategies are just a few advantages of online battling, but perhaps the most vital advantage is battling against sentient players rather than [[Artificial intelligence|AI]] - which requires a significant amount more intelligence and strategy to succeed.

Smogon has three primary faces through which it operates: the Smogon website and forums, #smogon on your-irc.net, and the Smogon NetBattle server.

Smogon has attracted a great deal of negative attention due to their position as being one of the fastest, and certainly the most popular NetBattle server on the registry: many lesser entities have taken to "Smogon-hating" due to Smogon's apparently monolithic dominance over smaller servers. Many of these Smogon-haters have taken to trolling or spamming the Smogon server and forums, often by use of floodbots and other scripts.

Being the most populated server, Smogon is also disliked for its inevitably high population of [[newbies]] which have occasionally repelled users and made them look for solace on smaller servers with far stricter moderation. Others simply believe the Smogon population to be immature, such as [[Serebii.net]], although their claims are questionable.

Residents of the Smogon forums are referred to as "Smogoneers" or "Smogonites" and have at one point been rumored to be [[Nazi]] sympathizers due to an avatar fad involving swastikas. At one point it was also rumored that the Smogonites would lead trolling raids on "lesser" communities such as [[Serebii.net]] and [[PokéCommunity.com]] but this fad has died down dramatically since. The Smogon motto is "Pokemon on the Internet: Let's make it happen" and their mascot is the ever-smiling Pokémon [[Koffing]], the name Smogon itself being the German moniker for this Pokémon.

Smogon is affiliated with NetBattle and many, if not most, serious competitive battlers are now part of Smogon. The SmogonDex, although currently not yet fully realized, is by far the best current option for competitive battling reference, although other Pokédex sites like [http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~psypoke/dex/index.php Psypoke] and [http://www.veekun.com/ Veekun] currently possess more information related directly to in-game interests on the original GB and GBA cartridges.

==Administrators==
* chaos
* skarm
* Vineon
* Brain

==External Links==
*[http://www.smogon.com Smogon]
*[http://www.netbattle.net NetBattle]

Edit: The page smogon university deleted in 2009

Wikipedia said:
'''Smogon''' is a website that gives strategies for competitive [[Pokémon]] battling. It offers guides on battling strategies for people of different Pokémon knowledge backgrounds. The website was founded by 'chaos' (one of the developers of NetBattle) and is a considerably well-known website, visited by competitive Pokémon battling enthusiasts.

The term 'competitive battling' within Pokémon refers to battling against other human players using either Wifi Battling via the Nintendo DS, the downloadable program NetBattle or any of a number of battle simulating bots usually found on IRC. Both of these are online simulations of Pokémon games, where one may build a team of Pokémon with relative ease. Experienced players, 24-hour servers, diverse communities and an opportunity to test out strategies are just a few advantages of online battling, but perhaps the most vital advantage is battling against sentient players rather than AI - which requires a significant amount more intelligence and strategy to succeed.

Smogons name is derived from the French word for Koffing which is also the websites mascot.

== External Links: ==
[http://www.smogon.com/]
 
Key people

Brainman, Tourneyfags, and some other admins that no one cares about.
Brain gets mentioned by name but they don't make mention to Az or firebot?
I call bias on that
 

cim

happiness is such hard work
is a Contributor Alumnusis a Smogon Media Contributor Alumnus
I think Smogon.com is approaching Wikipedia's notability standards - maybe worth another look someday.
 
The difference is that has recieved media coverage from news sources, while Smogon really hasn't.
 

cim

happiness is such hard work
is a Contributor Alumnusis a Smogon Media Contributor Alumnus
The difference is that has recieved media coverage from news sources, while Smogon really hasn't.
Yeah, that's always been the problem - but I thought with the Pokemon championships last year we received coverage.

Plus I believe we meet criteria 2 of WP:WEB
 

Hipmonlee

Have a nice day
is a Community Contributoris a Senior Staff Member Alumnusis a Smogon Discord Contributor Alumnusis a Tiering Contributor Alumnusis a Top Contributor Alumnusis a Battle Simulator Moderator Alumnusis a Four-Time Past WCoP Champion
"The site was founded in 2004 by one of the creators of Pokémon NetBattle"

chaos, secretly TVsian.

Have a nice day.
 
Also - They are a bunch of people with.... different ideas. I had nothing to say when I read some of their articles.

The site should be taken down.
 

Fishy

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favorite part: mantrain.

also it's funny to find "article" pages like this when all it is a page bashing another website. honestly, whoever spent their time creating this page spends their time far less wisely than anyone in this community! :cloud:
 

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