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2013-2014 Season Information?

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This information should be released in a way more timely matter. U.S. Regionals are in less than two months and there is no information whatsoever about them. What about the people that want to travel for these prestigious events? Wouldn't they want to know what they can win? With each passing day that people are left in the dark, the potential attendance for these events is lessened.

Battle Roads have traditionally started in September and there is no information about them or any potential replacement. Today is August 20th and they would be just weeks away. Again, with each passing day attendance becomes a factor.

This looks like a whiny post, and well it is! Worlds even awards Championship Points to top finishers now, so that would make announcing next season's information even more relevant before the current one is over. Magic: The Gathering has their event schedules planned out way in advance. It can only help our game if it were to do the same.
 
They also need to get the online "Modified-Legal Reprint List" updated quickly, since there are so many cards in the just-rotated sets which were later reprinted and are therefore still tournament legal. The online list at pokemon.com hasn't been updated since March 2012 (though there was an updated list last year on pokegym). The rotation date was announced as August 28, which is only a week away. If local communities are holding a modified "grassroots" (sanctioned, non-premier) tournament, they need to have a current official Modified-Legal Reprint List.
 
Pikabruce said:
They also need to get the online "Modified-Legal Reprint List" updated quickly, since there are so many cards in the just-rotated sets which were later reprinted and are therefore still tournament legal. The online list at pokemon.com hasn't been updated since March 2012 (though there was an updated list last year on pokegym). The rotation date was announced as August 28, which is only a week away. If local communities are holding a modified "grassroots" (sanctioned, non-premier) tournament, they need to have a current official Modified-Legal Reprint List.
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Working on this tonight!
 
I would like to know as well! It is important for our plans for fall regionals and if we should commit to going after an invite this season.
 
I think it's safe to say, it wouldn't have been a difficult feat for the pokemon officials to announce that fall battle roads of the 13-14 season will "Begin week X of _____ Month and end week Z of ______ Month, and fall regionals held in the US and other counties will be held from week X to week Z. That would be the common sense thing to do just a sneak peek release for the going away ceremonies at worlds. They could give a broad 3-4 week time frame and then come back and iron out dates & locations a few weeks later to at least give us a better idea of what's going on. Common sense.
But then again we are talking about the corporate world where common sense is all but rare in the decision making of anything corporate.
 
Would love a more timely update in the future as well, because I've already had many questions about when the new tournament cycle starts and have sadly not been able to give a reliable answer.

Also I'd like to point out that the format rotation news was not impossible, but at least improbable to find on the Pokemon.com website and after searching for it again just now, I can only find the March 2012 Modified list, which is obviously wrong, as stated before.

Just found out that the "card database" function on the Pokemon.com website seems to still use this 2012 list as well when searching for all Modified legal cards.
 
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Aren't the Fall Regionals up on the event locator, though? It just hasn't been officially announced yet. All but one is being held on the last weekend of October. The other one is a weekend before, I believe.

Can't explain the Battle Roads thing. Wish we had the information, too. :(
 
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Stop trying to assume they will ever care about the health of the game as much as MTG. It's never gonna happen.
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Yes, because the guys up top like Biggie and Exobyte totally don't care about the health of the game. Do you realize how insulting that is?

Since no one else seems to have thrown it out there I will. There always exists the possibility that things are currently up in the air, what with the impending release of the upcoming games. It's no secret that Nintendo tries to keep a lot of control of the launch of their new games, and with the worldwide release of X and Y in a little less than two months, and that probably means that the guys up top at TPCi have more hoops to jump through than usual. I'm certain that if they could've released the season's information they would have, but it's a weird year for them and a little patience shouldn't be too far out of the question.
 
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Yes, because the guys up top like Biggie and Exobyte totally don't care about the health of the game. Do you realize how insulting that is?

Since no one else seems to have thrown it out there I will. There always exists the possibility that things are currently up in the air, what with the impending release of the upcoming games. It's no secret that Nintendo tries to keep a lot of control of the launch of their new games, and with the worldwide release of X and Y in a little less than two months, and that probably means that the guys up top at TPCi have more hoops to jump through than usual. I'm certain that if they could've released the season's information they would have, but it's a weird year for them and a little patience shouldn't be too far out of the question.
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I don't really care what reason they have for being delayed. Battle Roads should traditionally be starting in 2.5 weeks. Regionals is 2 months from now. For the most part people have to take off days early, they can't just decide the day before they they can take a weekend off. Players might also not want to attend a regional that they have to drive multiple hours for if Pokemon decides to reduce prizes again.

All this really should have been announced at the same time the rotation was. As it stands right now, we'll rotate cards but have no tournaments set for the new format.
 
TheRolesWePlay said:
Since no one else seems to have thrown it out there I will. There always exists the possibility that things are currently up in the air, what with the impending release of the upcoming games. It's no secret that Nintendo tries to keep a lot of control of the launch of their new games, and with the worldwide release of X and Y in a little less than two months, and that probably means that the guys up top at TPCi have more hoops to jump through than usual. I'm certain that if they could've released the season's information they would have, but it's a weird year for them and a little patience shouldn't be too far out of the question.
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Roles, I'm sure TPCi has lots going on. But this is the third year in a row in which information for the new season has been painfully slow to come out. I currently have no idea what the new season holds other than the cards I'm allowed to use.

I will say that TPCi has made some awesome improvements to the game within the past year, especially with regards to streaming Worlds. This issue - the releasing of information for the new season - is one that they apparently still have issues with. I for one have my September schedule finalized, and since I have no information for the new season, the Pokemon TCG was left out. It's just frustrating, and has been for the past two years. So when it comes to patience for this very thing, I've already run out of it.
 
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Roles, I'm sure TPCi has lots going on. But this is the third year in a row in which information for the new season has been painfully slow to come out. I currently have no idea what the new season holds other than the cards I'm allowed to use.

I will say that TPCi has made some awesome improvements to the game within the past year, especially with regards to streaming Worlds. This issue - the releasing of information for the new season - is one that they apparently still have issues with. I for one have my September schedule finalized, and since I have no information for the new season, the Pokemon TCG was left out. It's just frustrating, and has been for the past two years. So when it comes to patience for this very thing, I've already run out of it.
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You keep saying TPCi, but have my entire post was trying to point out that this may be going higher than TPCi. The franchise in of itself is going through some major changes right now. I'd personally go as far as to say this generation is receiving a bigger push from Nintendo than others, and when that happens you can't expect the standard expectations to be upheld. Are you really going to tell me that you're going to blame TPCi when realistically they may be completely unable to do anything without betraying some other expectations? It may be aggravating, but being upset at TPCi not only doesn't accomplish much, but also distracts from the larger topics at hand, like what kind of changes may be coming with XY, like what precautions will need to be taken for a closer release schedule between English and Japanese sets, how will Japanese promos be handled if a syncronized release happens. All of these are issues that may be demanding their attention before they can get to the new format, because guess what. If they put it off then we may get major mid-season changes to the format to compensate instead of having it all dealt with before hand.
 
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You keep saying TPCi, but have my entire post was trying to point out that this may be going higher than TPCi. The franchise in of itself is going through some major changes right now. I'd personally go as far as to say this generation is receiving a bigger push from Nintendo than others, and when that happens you can't expect the standard expectations to be upheld.
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The franchise has gone through changes before without there being tedious delays on information. Oh and hey, you completely ignored my point that this has happened before. For the last two years, TPCi gave out important details on the season just two days or less before Battle Roads started - far from acceptable by nearly any standard. What's your response to that?

Are you really going to tell me that you're going to blame TPCi when realistically they may be completely unable to do anything without betraying some other expectations? It may be aggravating, but being upset at TPCi not only doesn't accomplish much, but also distracts from the larger topics at hand, like what kind of changes may be coming with XY, like what precautions will need to be taken for a closer release schedule between English and Japanese sets, how will Japanese promos be handled if a syncronized release happens.
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So let me get this right. Your suggestion is for me to stop focusing on something that actually affects me, and instead focus on "larger topics at hand" that have absolutely nothing to do with my schedule as of next month? Brb while I create a thread about Japanese promos that don't even exist yet. :confused:

Also, I gave TPCi credit where it was due. The streaming at Worlds was awesome! I don't see why you can't admit that TPCi is even a little at fault here.

All of these are issues that may be demanding their attention before they can get to the new format, because guess what. If they put it off then we may get major mid-season changes to the format to compensate instead of having it all dealt with before hand.
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I don't really understand what you're saying here, so please clarify. I will, however, leave you with a quote from someone that I think further explains the frustration here:

"If anything it slightly makes me frustrated. According to local PTO's Battle Roads should be beginning late September. That doesn't leave a lot of time to plan out days off to try and attend Battle Roads. If anything I would love to see the Rules and Resources page brought up to speed and the Battle Roads schedule announced along with confirming the general schedule of the entire Championship series. Just helps with the planning after all. I do believe there will be changes this year as local PTOs have hinted to me. How many changes and what, I do not know."
 
At least organizers had informations a few months before battle roads started. This time, even organizers have no idea what's going on.
 
Is it that impossibly hard to make an announcement on SOME medium saying something along the lines of:

"With the world wide release of the XY videogames, there are some big changes occurring in the company that will delay information about the upcoming competitive Pokemon season. Stay tuned for more information."

It's like people seem perplexed as to why people make complaint threads, all the while if no complaint threads are made then everything goes along as if competitive play fell off the face of the earth.

While things happen that prevent TPCi from doing things, I think some people need to focus on what they CAN do instead of what they CAN'T do.
 
FWIW I believe the structure is TPCi > Marketing > POP (dave, biggie, pete, dylan etc) > PTOs/contracted organisers > organisers/players

I doubt that POP have a lot of influence over TPCi brass.
 
Huge difference between this year and last year is that this year, we don't even know when BR are. We didn't know what they gave us, but at least we knew they existed.

This year we don't even have that.
 
The only thing I can think of is that they've pushed it this far back because they're considering implementing ptcgo into the championship point structure and are still evaluating testing of that to see if they're going to include it as part of the season or just go with a standard season.

If that's not the case it just reflects poorly on TPCI's organization, as they seem to have problems every year with this even when it's clear it makes the player base upset. Not saying the pop guys are to blame, but there is something being ran sub optimally in the company as a whole.
 
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