The Ohara Incident

About 8 years before the Surfloat Storm, a Weezing hosted PokéPowered unleashed a deadly poisonous cloud at a Pokemon League Champion match featuring reigning Champion Gary Smoke and an unnamed challenge. The incident resulted in multiple casualties and forced the Pokemon League to renege their support for PokéPowered people, although it failed to actively condemn them.

Team Mystic was said to have been formed in response to the League ceasing its PokéPowered support programmes.