Scavengers Official Hunt Thread (Old)

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Reserving an official for November 8th, 2016 at 5:00 PM EST (10:00 PM GMT/2:00 PM PST)

I'm pokemonvortex btw

Winner: terrapieseven
Second: Rory Mercury
Third: xfix
Fourth: Meicoo
Fifth: IrritatingGolbat
Q1. In Kirby Super Star's Great Cave Offensive, treasures based off of the four seasons were changed to different ones in the remake; this is the only new treasure that was not originally from the Kirby series.
A1. Gold watering can

Q2. This item can be found where the player rescues the only permanent resident of Resort Gorgeous.
A2. Silk scarf

Q3. This Pokemon has the highest HP out of all the Pokemon found in the newest playable stage in Pokemon Shuffle that is not a special stage.
A3. Mega Metagross


Thanks to Flerovium for QC and Hosting and ashiemore for QC
 
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Flerovium

In my element.
10:30 PM GMT, 9th of November, 2016.
Winner:
Brawl MK
2nd:
coinboy
3rd: TheWhoDoctor
4th: terrapieseven
5th: Awkole EC
Consolation prize to: Panda, Darthakin, IrritatingGolbat.
Solutions: carnivine, pikachurecords, level50elixir.

Questions:
1) This Pokemon with Levitate would take not very effective damage from Ground-type moves without the ability.
2) This vanity label, named after a Pokemon, releases Pokemon music.
3) In Wizard101, this is the most expensive elixir in terms of Crowns.

Thank you to Rory Mercury and Meicoo for QCing! <3
 
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Reserving for an official hunt for Friday 11/11/16 @ 5 P.M. EST (10 P.M. GMT 11/31/16), roughly 2 days and 40 minutes from this post! Quality checkers are AnonymouzLSB and Rory Mercury, the latter of which is also going to be the host!

no school Friday hehe

Friday 11/11/16 @ 5. P.M. EST
First Place
: pokemonvortex
Second Place: 6Infernapes
Third Place: coinboy
Fourth Place: TheWhoDoctor
Fifth Place: MeButYou82
Solutions: Whaaaat? I can't tell a thing!, Lord Crump, Deep Colosseum
Questions:
1. The Cianwood seer will say this line if she is presented with a Pokemon that is not from the game she is from.
2. A location in Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door has more than 1 hidden block (if multiple, use the 1st alphabetically). In that location, who is the boss?
3. In this location in Pokemon Colosseum, the highest leveled Pokemon is Kingdra and the base level of the Shadow Pokemon that can be snagged there is 45.

Grats to all finishers! Sorry for the slight error with Q1, this page in Bulbapedia (http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Faraway_place) was wrong.
 
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11/10/16 @ 9:30 PM GMT-5

Winner: La'Porsha Renae (Brawl MK)
Second Place: CloudyNatu
Third Place: Panda
Fourth Place: terrapieseven
Fifth Place: WhirlwindBulbasaur
Consolation prize to: keeping it icy, 3.14dgeot-Mega, SergioRules, broil, ScarfWynaut, ptoad
Solutions: supersmashcon2016, 209, bellydrum
Questions :D
Q1) Super Smash Bros. player ZeRo earned his worst placing to date in a Super Smash Bros. for Wii U tournament at this tournament. (Give full name)
Q2) How many extra Pokémon can the player put in the PC in Generation VI, if they are to catch one of every Pokémon and deposit it in the PC?
Q3) If a Pokémon uses this move while a certain stat is at its maximum, it may fail to lower the stat when it otherwise would.

Thanks to Rory Mercury and lotiasite for QCs, and thanks to everyone who came for participating! n_n

[20:48:02] Panda: curse, if you've been hit with forests curse and your "ghost" stat is at maximum
[20:48:05] Panda: >.>
[20:48:16] Painter Espeon: what
[20:48:27] Panda: it won't lower your speed in that case
[20:48:32] Panda: because you're as ghost as you can be

[20:48:32] @Painter Espeon: to panda: ghost is not a stat
 
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11/12/16 @ 9PM EST

Winner: pokemonvortex
Second place: adiass
Third place: Litt♥Eleven
Fourth place: chupps
Fifth place: avenged angel (castaways)
Consolation prize to: 3.14dgeot-Mega

Solution: doubleteam, lobbytohjo, shyguyfallswariosgoldmine

Questions:
1.
This avatar's name is also a status move.
2. This public room has two room aliases. One of which is a location in Kanto (minus the latter word). Name the room and the alias. (Format: RoomAlias)
3. Which courses in Mario Kart 8 can Shy Guys be heard singing along to the soundtrack on certain parts of the courses? (alphabetical, ignore console for Retro courses if any)

Thanks to Rory Mercury and Flerovium for QCing.
 
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12/13/16 @ 9 PM EDT

Results:
First Place:
pokemonvortex
Second Place: keeping it icy
Third Place: Devoxys
Fourth Place: 3.14dgeotMega
Fifth Place: GoodMorningEspeon
Consolation Prize to: Meicoo, NinjaDog13, Panda

The Mario series antagonist Antasma is first fought in a certain area. According to a member of the sentient Block species, this area is knows by this specific name.| Zeeppelin| Out of all of the moves Pinsir may have in Pokemon Go, this one had the highest Base Power in the actual Pokemon series. (If multiple, name the last alphabetically)|Xscissor| In Pokken Tournament, there are 5 tournaments to partake in. Out of them all, which has the least amount of participants, and how many participants are in it? (Include the word 'League' in your answer)| GreenLeague40


Thanks to lotiasite and Rory Mercury for QCing.
 
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Flerovium

In my element.
10:30 PM GMT, 14th of November, 2016.
Winner:
Meicoo
2nd: Rory Mercury
3rd: 3.14dgeot-Mega
4th: TheWhoDoctor
5th: xfix
Consolation prize to: pokemonvortex
Solutions: metapod, darkrai, razihel.

Questions:
1) In the anime, this is the only evolved Pokemon that the first Character of the Day had.
2) This Pokemon's official reveal took place in the 86th month of the 21st century.
3) This person, part of an act who made an official remake of Marshmello's song, Alone (released under Monstercat), had already released music on Monstercat under a solo name at the time the remake was released. What is this person's solo name?

Thank you to ILRB and Manaphy286 for QCing!
 
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Reserving an official on November 15th, 2016 at 9 EST!

QC'd by ashiemore and QC'd and Hosted by the great Meicoo !!!


Winner: Panda.
Second place: brawl'◡'mk.
Third place: TheWhoDoctor.
Fourth Place: pokemonvortex
Fifth Place: chupps
Consolation prize to: castaways, kierant3hz, 3.14dgeot-Mega.

Questions

1. This Pokemon TCG card has a tip on how to throw it as far as you can
2. These 2 areas in the Great Cave Offensive in Kirby Super Star share the same theme, which is a remix of Green Greens. (list in the order you complete them in)
3. This character in the Pokemon anime becomes King of his (unnamed) village for a year.


Solution: imakunisdoduo, crystalareagardenarea, hank.
 
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Meicoo

cool quiz
is a Battle Simulator Staff Alumnus
Official on 11/17/2016 at 9:30 PM EST.

First Place:
Wan the Avatar
Second Place: FrostyTimp
Third Place: Panda
Fourth Place: chupps
Fifth Place: BrawlMK
Consolation prize to: none

Solutions: Salvia, Baugh, CrunchMunchChewChewSnuffleSlurp

Questions:
1)In the Pokemon Anime, Dawn gets one of her Pokemon from a character who looks identical to her. Name the identical character. (Name only)

2)This NFL player holds the average yards per punt record among qualifiers for a single season. (last name)

3)In Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky, at the end of most days the Pokemon in Wigglytuff's guild eat dinner together, and the sound effects of their eating are described by six repeated words. What are the six words?


Thanks to Painter Espeon and Rory Mercury for qc'ing!

Hope y'all had fun!
 
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11/19/16 @ 9PM EST

Winner:
pokemonvortex
Second place: loti '◡' asite
Third place: Devoxys
Fourth place: castaways
Fifth place: terrapieseven
Consolation prize to: no-one

Solution:
zhu, 1to63weretaken, academicsdebatesanddiscussions

Questions:
1.
In Super Smash Bros. Melee, the original Wombo Combo was performed on this player.
2. The second user still registered on Smogon has this as their custom title.
3. What two rooms were merged to form the Scholastic room? (alphabetical)
 
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Flerovium

In my element.
10:00 PM GMT, 20th of November, 2016.
Winner:
Meicoo
2nd: Spearit Shackle
3rd: Seafaring
4th: coinboy
5th: 3.14dgeot-Mega
Consolation prize to: Brawl MK, Devoxys, Cynthia612.
Solutions: comfey, skyarrowbridge, funtcase.

Questions:
1) Of the moves that Bellossom learns by level-up, all of them start with the same letter as another of these moves except for one. Of all the Pokemon that learn said move, which is the first Pokemon alphabetically that does not get STAB on it? (Don't count Smeargle.)
2) This location in the main-series games contains the longest stretch of land that the player can walk along without actively turning.
3) This is the current professional name of British musician DJ Dose.

Congratulations to all the finishers and thanks to Dylas and Rory Mercury for QCing! <3
 
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Reserving an official for Sunday, November 20th at 9:00 pm EST.

QC'd by ashiemore and hosted and qc'd by Rory Mercury


Winner: Panda.
Second place: adiass.
Third place: terrapieseven.
Fourth place: chupps
Fifth place: DarkShinyGiratina
Consolation prize to: keeping it icy.

Solution: 1024, grandmastershiverburn, threehundred.


Questions
1. In Generation III, how many steps would you have to take to hatch a Magikarp egg, with a Pokemon with Flame Body in your party? (number form)
2. Because they share background files, these two galaxies in Super Mario Galaxy 2 have three mysterious figures that can be seen. (alphabetical order, do not include the word "galaxy"
3. How many days are in the Discount Calendar from Pokemon (spell out)?

Grats to all finishers and thanks to Rory Mercury for qcing and hosting and ashiemore for qcing!
 
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Reserving for an official hunt for Tuesday 11/22/16 @ 7 P.M. EST (11 P.M. GMT 11/22/16)! Quality checkers are ashiemore and Gleeb, hosted by Meicoo!

love Thankgiving break

Friday 11/11/16 @ 5. P.M. EST
First Place
: Rory Mercury
Second Place: Panda
Third Place: adiass
Fourth Place: terrapieseven
Fifth Place: kierant3hz
Consolation Prize: Devoxys, pokemonvortex
Solutions: Skull Bash, Underground Maze, Willow
Questions:
1. This attack that Pikachu uses in Super Smash Bros. Melee can deal the most damage percentages.
2. This stage in Adventure Mode in Super Smash Bros. Melee feature characters from the universe of the Legend of Zelda.
3. The only legendary Pokemon that has been a playable character in the Smash Bros. series is unobtainable in a game where all but 6 of the Pokemon of its generation are obtainable. In that game, who is the professor (exclude "professor" in your answer)?
 
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11/21/16 @ 4:00 GMT-5

Winner:
3.14dgeot-Mega
Second Place: Panda
Third Place: pokemonvortex
Fourth Place: chupps
Fifth Place: BigPimpin12
Consolation prize to: Flerovium, coinboy, terrapieseven
Solution: smog, blessed lance, erika's ivysaur


Questions
Q1) Out of all damaging moves with less than an 80% accuracy, which one has the lowest base power?
Q2) In official artwork for Fire Emblem: Fates, Azura is depicted as wielding this weapon.
Q3) What “Trainer’s Pokémon” TCG card can use Razor Leaf twice in one turn? (Do not include expansion name.)

Thanks to lotiasite and Rory Mercury for qc, and thanks to everyone who participated for participating! Sorry for late n_n
 
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11/26/16 @ 9PM EST

Winner:
pokemonvortex [BLITZ]
Second place:
Meicoo
Third place: PK Aero
Fourth place: Spearit Shackle
Fifth place: brawl'◡'mk
Consolation prize to: Devoxys

Solution:
typenull, cosmoem, leffen

Questions:
1.
Out of all the Pokemon with spaces in its name (/dt), this one doesn't share any word with the others.
2. This Pokemon has the largest weight to height ratio.
3. This player is currently the only one to have taken at least one tournament set off of the Five Gods of Melee. (Super Smash Bros. Melee)

Thanks to Rory Mercury and lovemathboy for quality checking.
 
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11/24/16 AKA Danksgiving ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) @ 11 PM GMT-5

Winner:
3.14dgeot-Mega
Second Place: castaways
Third Place: Dylas
Fourth Place: terrapieseven
Fifth Place: Panda

lord, decidueye, 455


When you're doing an official and you realize one of your questions has an alt

Questions
Q1) In Fire Emblem: Awakening, the character Morgan can be in any class save for a select few. Out of all classes Morgan cannot be in, which one can multiple other characters have?
Q2) Gardenia states in-game she is afraid of the possibility of a certain type combination. What is the most recently released Pokémon that she would be afraid of?
Q3) A level 25 Snorlax with perfect EVs and IVs in HP has 50% of its health left. Somehow, it levels up all the way to level 100 without taking any damage or restoring any of its HP. How many hit points will the Snorlax have once this happens?

Apologies for Q2, afaik only a couple people had a problem but I forgot to add first alpha, so sorry n_n Thanks to Rory Mercury and Flerovium for quality checks, and thanks to everyone who participated for participating!
 
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Flerovium

In my element.
10:00 PM GMT, 27th of November, 2016.
Winner:
Devoxys
2nd: Broil
3rd: Spearit Shackle
4th: Iroke
5th: Rory Mercury
Consolation prize to: 3.14dgeot-Mega, terrapieseven, Seafaring, Henka
Solutions: conkeldurr, grumpig, mooonman.

Questions:
1) This is the only single-typed Pokemon ever used by a Senior Representative.
2) This Pokemon's breathing becomes heavy when it manipulates others.
3) This character from Uncle Grandpa, despite wearing a pair of regular sunglasses, actually has four eyes underneath them.

Congratulations to all the finishers and thanks to AnonymouzLSB and lovemathboy for QCing! <3
 
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lotiasite

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is a Forum Moderatoris a Top Contributoris a Smogon Media Contributoris a Social Media Contributor Alumnus
Reserving an official for 27/11/2016 @ 1AM EST. Qc'ed by Meicoo and AnonymouzLSB.


27/11/16 @ 1AM EST

Winner:
GoodMorningEspeon (10:42)
Second: Iroke (13:35)
Third: SergioRules (14:25)
Fourth: nekoramen (16:35)
Fifth: N/A
Solutions: Latias, Ditto, Proprietory

Questions~
1) What Pokemon’s species/category name is included in the names of 13 Pokemon? (if multiple, name first alphabetically for ALL questions)
2) Every move in this Pokemon’s Gen IV level up move set is of the Smart/Clever contest condition.
3) What is the longest word you can type using only the top row of a QWERTY keyboard? (Excluding medical terms)

Thanks to Meicoo and AnonymouzLSB for QCing, and grats to all the winners!
Probably one of my hardest officials yet :^)
 
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Flerovium

In my element.
[Jump Start] 5:30 PM GMT, 28th of November, 2016.
Winner:
Ninjadog13
2nd: BigPimpin12
3rd: Rory Mercury
4th: Meicoo
5th: 6Infernapes
First Hunt Solutions: latias, eevee, registeel.
Second Hunt Solutions: 4761, nobleroar, kakuna.

First Hunt Questions:
1) This was the first legendary Pokemon that could be female.
2) This was the first Pokemon with branched evolutions.
3) One of this Pokemon's sprites was once altered over fears it resembled Nazi imagery.
Second Hunt Questions:
1) Only one Water-type starter has a BST of 420; when its base Attack and Defense are multiplied, what is the result?
2) In the manga, Lysandre's Pyroar uses this move that it does not use in any other media.
3) Various Pokemon are tied for the lowest base stat total of all Pokemon that have evolved; which one shares its romanised Japanese name with its own category? (Answer with English name.)

Congratulations to all the finishers and thanks to lotiasite and Painter Espeon for QCing! <3
 
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As a follow-up to Flerovium's post, yes, Happy Birthday Scavengers! Monday, November 28th is the Third Scavengersary, and in celebration, we've all* made a whole bunch of officials to host throughout the day! Flerovium's post was the first one, and there will be several more coming later today and on the Scavengersary itself! Get ready for a day packed with scavengey goodness :3

Until all those officials are reserved here on the thread, here's a list of the officials planned for the Scaveng3rsary! Good luck, mhave fun, and happy scavenging!


*like maybe six of us. not all, that would require queez un-dying

ashiedit: lol "six"

pespedit: ashiepls
 
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11/28/16 @ 5:25 PM EDT
Results
First Place:
terrapieseven
Second Place: adiass
Third Place: Devoxys
Fourth Place: SergioRules
Fifth Place: GoodMorningEspeon
Consolation Prize to: pokemonvortex, Spearit Shackle, keeping it icy, nekoramen

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Thanks to Rory Mercury and Meicoo for QCing.
 
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Reserving a Scavengersary Official for The 28th of November, 2016 at 9 PM EDT!

QC'd by Flerovium and QC'd and Hosted by Meicoo


Winner: Panda.
Second place: Rory Mercury.
Third place: Spearit Shackle.
Fourth Place: pokemonvortex
Fifth Place: TheWhoDoctor
Consolation prize to: SergioRules.

Solution: eevee, sword, cottonee.


1. The capture of which Pokemon by one of Ash's travelling companions in the anime marks the first time a travelling companion has had the same Pokemon as the same species of Pokemon as a previous travelling companion? (Just the species of the Pokemon when it was capture, do not include trainer name)
2. In Helper To Hero from Kirby Super Start Ultra, what copy ability is represented by two helpers?
3. This Pokemon was traded in Twitch Plays Pokemon Black.

Thanks to Flerovium for QCing and Meicoo for QCing and Hosting!


HAPPY SCAV3NG3RSARY!!!!
 
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Reserving an official for November 28 at 4 PM EST/9 PM GMT - that is, the Scaveng3rsary
QC'ed by ashiemore and Rory Mercury
Thanks to Rory Mercury for hosting as well.

Winner: Gargoyle31
Second: coinboy
Third: Tapu what? (6Infernapes)
Fourth: GoodMorningEspeon
Fifth: Panda
  1. This person resides in the room where the player can enter passwords in Digimon World DS. (Don't include prefix)|Gure
  2. This move's romanized Japanese name is the same as another move's English name and are both the same type.|Low Sweep
  3. In Pokemon Live, it is established that this person used to work with Team Rocket despite it never being mentioned anywhere else in the Pokemon canon. (Full name)|Delia Ketchum
 
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Rory Mercury

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28/11/16 18:00 GMT -5


Winner: Panda
Second Place: 3.14dgeot-Mega
Third Place: adiass
Fourth Place: terrapieseven
Fifth Place: Meicoo
Consolation prize to: pokemonvortex, Embar, GoodMorningEspeon

Solutions: pachirisu, judgment, zurcherschlittschuhclublions


Q1) This Pokémon has the longest Category name in German
Q2) This move with 7 PP has the name $$$ in a Pokémon game
Q3) This is the first winner of the European Champions Hockey League (answer with the full name, format any weird letters as the base letter e.g: ø as o)

Thx to AnonymouzLSB and Flerovium for QC'ing. Gratz to all finishers and thanks to everyone for participating. Yes, I know q3 was evil.
(also only 1 finisher in first 10 minutes :})
 
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Meicoo

cool quiz
is a Battle Simulator Staff Alumnus
Official on 11/28/2016 at 3:00 PM EST.
First Place:
Panda
Second Place: 3.14dgeot-Mega
Third Place: Rory Mercury
Fourth Place: SergioRules
Fifth Place: TheWhoDoctor
Consolation prize to: keeping it icy

Solutions: Masanori, Green, Klink

Questions:
1)
In Pokemon Conquest, of the three stories with the objective of conquering four kingdoms, the one with the highest difficulty is led by this warlord.

2)Which NFL player holds the record for most consecutive seasons recording at least one interception? (Last name)

3)In Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity, which encounterable Pokemon in Happiness Wasteland does not have at least 1 STAB typing that is super-effective against at least 1 other Pokemon in Happiness Wasteland?


Thanks to Painter Espeon and Flerovium for qc'ing!

Happy Scavengersary!!
 
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