Pokemon HI?

[BrockSondrup]

one of my students just did a pokemon book and won the tournament, it was only a local tourney but it might be worth a look. http://www.amazon.com/Attack-Prehist...6884978&sr=8-1 that is the link for the book that he choose, although this company does most of the episodes so you can choose your own

[batman930]

The kid in Indiana that did it, Jack Deuberry, was on my team. He graduated last year. He used the book version of one of the episodes. I don't remember which, though. It was fantastic. He had to change it before Sectionals/Districts/State because every once and a while he'd get a judge that hated the piece selection. So he went with a safer bet. It's doable, but ridiculously hard to make it connect with the audience all the time.

[JDeuberry]

Hi, I'm Jack Deuberry. I did Pokemon, like people have said. If you're still interested, I have the book with ISBN entitled "Pokemon: I choose you". I also have my cutting. I took the first episode part of the book and cut that, it seemed to be the easiest to do. I do have to warn you, like most people in speech...the humor isn't entirely in the book...meaning some of it is from the TV show that I took off of, or some of it is just made up. LMK what you wanna do with it, but like everyone's said..it was hard for me to pull off. It often earns you a 1-1-6, which is the problem I had with it..and caused me to switch to Actor for Sec/Dis/State.

[jayman]

Most states do not allow for transcribing a show and using it as published material. Illinois definitely does not allow it.

[thelukesituation]

Jack was doing a book. And he changed it because, while some (most) people loved it, it was too "dumb" for sectionals and state, if I remember correctly.

[JDeuberry]

I didn't transcribe a TV show. As I said, the book is called Pokemon: I Choose You, it is a childrens book which has summaries of episodes into around 12 pages with some paraphrasing and a lot of direct quotes. It's legal, definitely. It's when final round comes around that you add the lines you knew weren't in there to get the extra laughs.
It would get last place everytime when I got an older judge who did not understand the humor of the material. It was way more of a national style humor, rather than Indiana's conservative traditional style of humor. Ex: Pikachu being mentally handicapped, Misty being black, Gary gay, and James using a sock puppet as Ekans.

[jdennison]

If you can cut it well and find a decent novelization that would be amazing. Good golley gosh do it.