Ever Grande Conference

The Ever Grande Conference (Japanese: ホウエンリーグ・サイユウ大会 Hoenn League Conference) is the Hoenn League general championship competition. All Pokémon Trainers who have earned eight Gym Badges from the Hoenn region are eligible to enter.
It is held annually in Ever Grande City. Competing Trainers are housed in dorm rooms in small villages. In Eight Ain't Enough, informed about the tournament, which took place from Saved by the Beldum to At the End of the Fray.
==Competition==
===Opening ceremonies===
Registration for the conference closes at 5 pm on the day before the opening ceremonies. Trainers are given a food and restaurant guide for the venue upon registration. Charles Goodshow, President of the , oversees the opening ceremony.
Like at the Indigo Plateau Conference, the opening ceremonies consist of a torch lighting ceremony. Select Trainers run with the torch containing the flame of the and carry it to the top of the stadium, where it is used to light a much larger torch. The lighting of the large torch marks the official opening of the Ever Grande Conference.
===Rounds===
====Preliminaries====
Each Trainer participates in one preliminary battle. Only one may be used during the battle and the winner advances to the qualifying rounds. The losing Trainers are eliminated from the competition.
====Qualifying rounds====
During the qualifying rounds, the Top 256 Trainers take part in three Double Battles. If all three are won, the Trainer moves on to the finals.
====Final rounds====
The final rounds are a series of Full Battles with the Top 32 Trainers participating in the standard sudden-death tournament style. The theme of the battlefield is randomly chosen before each match from four different possibilities: rock, water, grass, and ice. After a Trainer's first three Pokémon are defeated, there is a short intermission during which there is a field change.
The winner of the Ever Grande Conference is the Trainer that wins all of the final rounds, meaning they must win five Full Battles in a row. When a winner has been decided, that winner is awarded a gold trophy from Mr. Goodshow.
===Battlefields===
Ever Grande Conference preliminary battlefield.png|One of the battlefields where the preliminary and qualifying rounds are fought
Ever Grande Conference main stadium.png|Main stadium
Ever Grande Conference rock battlefield.png|Rock battlefield
Ever Grande Conference water battlefield.png|Water battlefield
Ever Grande Conference grass battlefield.png|Grass battlefield
Ever Grande Conference ice battlefield.png|Ice battlefield
==Known contestants==
 	Place
 	Winner
 	Top 8
Morrison	Top 16
 	Top 32
Johnny 	Top 64
Clark 	Top 64
Dominick	Top 256
Gavin 	Top 256
 	Preliminaries
Vivica 	Preliminaries
 	Preliminaries
===Other participants===
Trainers here participated in the conference either before or after the conference participated in.
* of Littleroot Town
* Paul of Veilstone City
==In the manga==
===Ash & Pikachu===
The Ever Grande Conference was featured in Start Of The Pokémon League!!, adapting Ash's battle against Morrison.
==Trivia==
* With 256 s known to be participating in the qualifying rounds alone, this is the largest Pokémon League Conference to date.
* This is the first League Conference:
** To focus on any of 's rivals' battles.
** Where Ash does not use any of the Pokémon he keeps at Professor Oak's Laboratory.
* This is the League Conference where Ash had the most Full Battles, with a total of three against , Morrison, and .
* This is the only League Conference:
** That featured Double Battles.
** That did not feature three-on-three battles.
** Where Ash's ranking does not change compared to the previous League he challenged, with his ranking being Top 8, same as the Silver Conference.
==In other languages==
==Related articles==
Category:Hoenn competitions
Category:Pokémon League Conferences
de:Hoenn-Meisterschaft
es:Campeonato de la Liga Hoenn
it:Campionati di Hoenn
ja:ホウエンリーグ・サイユウ大会
zh:彩悠大会