I started February of 2013 because a friend had told me about the game and upon joining I was a nub because I had only played pokemon yellow. I beat all of the gyms in atleast 2 days and did not know of typing advantages or evs or even ivs. So when I got to the e4 I had trouble beating them and it took me a month maybe. and after doing everything I started sitting in viridian and saw my first scammer and talked to him and he introduced me into it ( I now know its an asshole thing to do). I scammed for 2 months maybe before I realized it`s not cool or fun and trained my own pokemon. About after a month or 2 of playing after that I got bored of the game and gave away all my pokemon but came back in october with only a spoink. I asked global for assistance with helping me get back on my feet and TeamRocketHarry answered that call by giving me a lvl 100 ev trained modest starmie. ever since then I joined BLOT and left for a team named ZAMP who disbanded and became ZVIS. I now have 1200+ hours and a few lvl 100s I trained myself and am currently teamless, and stand in celadon talking to friends. P.S. theres video of me on youtube being horrible at scamming It was really funny, the guy who recorded it got on not to long ago and challenged me and my pokes I trained were good enough to sweep him with just clefable. He never posted the video though :/.