Welcome to the /vp/ Tournament. This will be a 8 man tournament. If this thread is successful and more people want to join, Then we'll bump it up to 16. The application is simple. Post a trainer Card with a trainer give a quick summary of said trainers background(You'll be roleplaying as that character) and then make an account on pokemon showdown with that Character's name.
Now here's the reason the tournament is being held. An ancient man is slowly passing away and decides that before he dies he should do something big. Through his travels he had caught himself a manaphy and thus he decided that he would give the winner of the tournament the manaphy.