Q&A: Which monsters can I submit as contestants? Monsters eligible to be included in the tournament are:

Monsters from another monster taming franchise. A non-exhaustive list is included below, monsters from other franchises are eligible as well.

In-universe Pokémon parodies (think, for instance, of the Voidcritters from the Sims 4) are allowed and encouraged, provided individual species are documented somewhere online.

Fakémon are allowed and encouraged. Especially your own creations are encouraged as a special treat. Mons from published fangames are allowed. Fakémon variants of existing Pokémon are allowed. Fusion designs are allowed.

In the light of the recent leaks, beta versions of Pokémon are allowed. For leaked pokémon, any link to a post discussing the leak is sufficient as documentation.

Anything else you can think of that fits the criterion of “we have Pokémon at home”. Outside the box suggestions are encouraged.

Monsters ineligible to be included in the tournament are:

Official Pokémon or any of the canon variants thereof.

Monsters that lack an image or online documentation of an individual species.

Monsters not submitted as individual species.

What do I need to submit a monster? To submit a monster, you need an image link and a link to information about the monster, preferably a wiki page or an introduction post by its creator.

How many monsters can I submit? As many as you like. Go nuts.

Which monsters will be included? As many as are needed to round up or down to the nearest power of 2. Preference will be given to a variety of origins, so if a specific franchise or fakémon creator dominates the submissions not all of them will be included.

When are the submissions due? Submissions will run for two weeks, until December 20th. Depending on the rate of submissions, I reserve the right to cut off submissions early if the number of submissions runs in the thousands.

When will I know if my submission made it? When the polls for round 1 go up! A huge part of the fun of the first round is, to me, the element of surprise, so you will find out at the same time as everyone else who is in the tournament.

The pre-approved non-exhaustive list of franchises from which monsters can be submitted is as follows. New franchises may be added to the list as submissions come in:

Digimon

Monster Rancher

Shin Megami Tensei

Spectrobes

Bakugan

Bugsnax

Coromon

Dragon Quest Monsters

Neopets

Robopon

Telefang

Temtem

Yo-Kai Watch

Monster Hunter Stories

Nexomon

Yu-Gi-Oh

Palworld

Slime Rancher

Casette Beasts

Ooblets

Loomian Legacy (Roblox)

SquisherZ (Hypnospace Outlaw)

Fossil Fighters

Voidcritters (The Sims 4)

Played and enjoyed:

Nexomon and Nexomon Extinction (SO AM GETTING NEXOMON 3!!! I've enjoyed this series so much!!)

Coromon (So am getting Rouge Planet once it comes out. Highly enjoyabled)

Monster Hunter Stories 1 and 2 (Am so READY for TWISTED REFLECTIONS!!!)

Cassette Beasts (Played but never finished. I will be finishing it).

TemTem (Played but never finished. I will be finishing it).

Dokimon Quest (Played but never finished. I will be finishing it).

Monster Masters (Amazing competitive game).

Kardmi (Please come back 😭)

Evocreo (Highly enjoyabled. Need to continue Evocreo 2).

Legendino (I love Dinosaur King and Fossil Fighters sooo).

Gem Battle Ponies (My Little Pony meets Pokemon. Pretty Nice!)

Played but forgot about:

Duel Revolution (Forgot existed).

Bakugan: Protectors of Vestroia (Hard. Also rare game nowadays).

Yo-Kia Watch (I love this but BRING BACK YO-KIA WATCH(

May be getting that's on my list:

Roco Kingdom (looks amazing).

Monster Rancher 1 and 2 DX (Started watching the anime lol)

Bagdex

Elestrals Awakened

MonsterPatch (LWA Pokemon sounds amazing)

Tamer Town and Road to Tamer Town

Coromon Rogue Planet (First game was AMAZING)

Disliked:

Monster Crown (Laggy glitching mess and the game scared me?! (Had a few triggers in the game including religious triggers) It was fun but the story didn't sit right with me and was a little weird. Hence why I stopped playing and probably will stay away from the game and the Sequels) I don't wanna be traumatized again lol.