Welcome to Pokemon: Showderp. Since April of 2013, we have devoted ourselves to serious and insightful study of competitive Pokemon battling, pursuant to the following goals:

>To analyze the human condition through the aspects of the best and the worst players of competitive Pokemon battle.
>To promote the correct and widespread usage of "memes", as they are popularly known, on /vp/, Pokemon Showdown!, and the wider Internet, and to engage in the development of new memes.
>To design sustainable, efficient, ethical, socially acceptable, and economic methods to engage in the art of competitive Pokemon battling, and to promote its applications.

Pokemon: Showderp is a non-profit organization; our work is done for free and in the public interest.

Prospective volunteer researchers are required to provide a proof of identity (a "tripcode" is usually best -- as they are sensitive information, we request that all researchers not use their tripcodes while not experimenting) and expected to show up on time. Researchers will devise a methodology and provide 6 experimental groups to test hypotheses.

Once this is done, the researcher gathers the data required to make a conclusion and further recommendations. He or she then steps down, so that another researcher may test a hypothesis as the former thesis is submitted for peer review and final publishing.

>Succesful Experiments:
pastebin.com/0bYpM0at
memebasemon.com

>Research Notes
booru.showderp.com

>Peer Review and Editing:
http://play.pokemonshowdown.com/showderp
Please note that if you lose your key to the room, you must alert a staff member marked # or @; run cmd: "/roomauth showderp" in any room to print this information, then alert any active authority. Backdoors to the room can be found in all others at cmd: "/join showderp".

>Break Room (serves free Hot Pockets at noon):
plug.dj/showderp-1

>Current Researcher:
Sultan of Smogon !qxp/p5UW62
Experiment here: http://play.pokemonshowdown.com/battle-orasou-180216907