Updated. Extended end date & added tons more things to do. contestants who finished have their times on the entrants list.

First one to achieve the following goals and proves it according to the rules wins.

Terms of Victory:
- Collecting all badges
- Completing the Sinnoh Dex(Meaning you have to have all these pokemon [link] added as "Seen" in your pokedex)
- Obtaining the National Dex (talk to professor rowan after completing the above goal)
- Having the following pokemon registered as Owned in the pokedex: Rotom, Uxie, Mesprit, Azelf, Giratina(Those be legendaries + rotom)

Proving Victory:
-Take a picture or screen shot of your character being located at the battle frontier. Include with this, a picture of your trainer pass and/or hall of fame PC showing the time at which you defeated the Elite Four and a picture of your pokedex proving you have obtained the national dex and the required pokemon.

Useful Advice:
-Many of the difficult to obtain pokemon on the Sinnoh pokedex are carried by trainer throughout the region. I suggest thoroughly checking everywhere you go and battling every trainer you meet to ensure you obtain the pokemon's data and won't have to search areas multiple times.
-Whereas staying in a single area to train your pokemon more efficiently is a good idea, try to remember this will be a race and spending too much time dawdling will cost you. Train pokemon AS you progress through the game for better times
-retraining stronger pokemon later in the game is a good idea, however, it is also very time consuming.
- even pausing the game doesn't stop your play counter. if you're done playing make sure you close the DS or turn it off.

Important Notes: READ THESE!!!!!!!!!!!!
-I will absolutely tolerate NO HACKING! If I suspect that anyone has done this I will ask them to prove me wrong and if they cannot then they will also be disqualified. please play fair!!
-If you're entering, pay close attention to this journal as I may call for us to battle amongst each other at individual points to see who has trained their Pokemon better mmkay? losers of these little duels may or may not be disqualified.
-Time you beat the game in is based on your in-game play time, not real world time. This is to be fair to people with less free-time and those who get the game late.
- All entrants must finish before May, 4th 2009. Date Extended
- NO TRADING POKEMON OR ITEMS OVER FROM PREVIOUS POKEMON GAMES!!!! Doing this will be considered CHEATING and you will be DISQUALIFIED. Please note that it IS allowed for you to trade pokemon over and then trading them back to platinum for the sake of evolving them.
- This contest is intended to be for those with the NTSC (USA) version of pokemon platinum, however, anyone with the JAP (Japan) version may also enter as long as they are aware they have to start a new game, resulting in the loss of their previous game data.

Please let me know whether or not you are willing to participate. Winner will receive Pokemon-themed art of their choice and even other in-game prizes!!

Yes I do realize this is kind of sudden, but that's why it's fun

Entrants:
Finished with time of 38:57


Finished with a time of 38:16

:devdragonman-of-oi: is currently in the lead.

That is all. Trainers, move out!