This really needs to be reversed, this isn't good for the game.
I disagree. I'm not going to champion it, as I don't think it's all that important for the game, but it removes a lot of the luck factor in picking prizes. I can see how some would say it was bad for the game, though. I just disagree.
from the psychological aspect of the game, taking notes is counterproductive. the information you're writing down is always worth less than the information you give to your opponent by simply "choosing" to write them down. At least that comes from my experience in other games where the psychological part of the game is much, MUCH more important.
I don't agree with this either. I'd gladly give my opponent the information that something worthwhile is in my prizes in exchange for being able to pull the Poke Turn out of them instead of the energy I didn't need. Plus, it's not as if most people only write down their prizes if there's something good, typically I write my prizes down every time, regardless of what they are. Unless that's not what you were getting at.
This is seriously a stall tactic. I've seen 3 players do this as the new rules have changed and guess what, they are NOTORIOUS slow-players! I've seen someone even write down what their last two prizes were! Who can't remember two-prizes!!? And how did everyone get by using Time Walk before when they weren't allowed to take notes? (I think it took something along the lines of skill! Short-term memory is a fundamental skill outside of pokemon too you know.)
Yeah, people using the rules to their advantage is totally lame! If only there was some way that somebody who was an impartial judge could've been called over to the table to observe if your opponents pace was too slow! Oh darn!
If anyone takes longer than 5 seconds to pick up a prize then I'm calling a judge over cause that person is stalling.
I don't think most judges are going to call 5 seconds stalling. Lifting up my notes and reading them might take 5 seconds, and then picking the prize might take another 2-3. I can see 10-15 seconds, but not 5. =\
Seriously 30 secs costs the other player a whole turn or even 2! When I only have 30 mins to play my match this is huge! Its cool when the opponent plays at a fast pace anyway...
Wait, your turns take 15 seconds? And you don't regularly make misplays, and you play at a competitive level? Wow. You are a luckier person than me.
...But I'm talking about NOTORIOUS slow-players here, which coincidentally are the only people I ever see write down prizes. Its a rule that is easily exploitable for people who play decks that focus on taking quick easy prizes (luxchomp, turbogar, etc). Everyone else pretty much time walks and remembers what their prizes are (just like it used to be!). I've asked countless players if they take notes during their matches (and illustrate the time walk example) and almost all of them say its too much of a hassle and it eats up too much time.
If you're choosing not to write down your prizes, you are choosing not to give yourself every advantage available to you. It's not only slow players who write down their prizes. Also, the rules have changed. Just because a rule used to be one way doesn't make the old way better, or more legitimate.
The only way I can see this being far without being detrimental to the opponent is if the player only takes note during his opponents turn. Would it be cool for me to time walk and have it take 30 seconds on my turn?
A 30 second Time Walk isn't all that bad. The physical action of lifting up your prizes and reading all of them has to take what...5 seconds? I can easily see 25 more seconds being taken up by putting them in the write order, making sure which ones go where, etc. Not to mention writing them down, etc.
This is a stall tactic at best, I disapprove this easily. I know if I was a judge, saw someone writing stuff down, no matter what id tell them not to write down info. I wouldn't care if it is allowed. If both players approve of it, then i'd consider it, only if it was for tourney reports, not notes. That is what league is for, playtesting.
So if you were a judge, you would break the rules and be a terrible judge because you think a ruling is dumb? Wow.
lol i love stalling, oops i meant using all the tools, to win tourney matches too. 20 sec bebe searches, minute long cyrus,' and 30+ second time walks while writing notes are some of my favorite plays!
Again, I think most judges would agree that 20 seconds is a decent time for a Bebe's Search.
Did I mention my deck is luxchomp and I mainly focus on getting up 3 prizes and then stalling, oops i meant "playing at a lively game pace," my opponents so I dont let them comeback?
Oh, right. If only there was some kind of new rule that gave each player an equal number of turns after time was called, therefore making your stall tactic much less useful. I guess you've fooled us again!
