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Houston Regionals - April 17 (Main thread)

Hmmm Danny, unless I'm mistaken, your first major tourney judging was Regionals 2005 yourself! (Or perhaps your first tourney judging period? Correct me on this one.) At that event I remembered you having to make some super-tough calls, so I'm sure you know the feeling!

Nice to see everything's all lovey-dovey though.

P.S. To the judges at the event: I've heard down the woodwork that the penalty that was given out for not setting prizes was a prize card penalty. Is this true?
 
I am getting the Regional Champion Trophy with Poke-edge(TM) photographed and will have the link here later today. Poke-Edge(TM) is a process whereby a pokemon trophy is rendered ultra functional by creating sharp edges on the bottom corners. This then allows the trophy to do a lot more than just sit on the fireplace mantle. For Example:
1) A burgler enters your house, you grab a regular trophy from the fireplace mantle and hit the burgler over the head with it. This only further angers the perpetrator. In contrast, the trophy with Poke-Edge(TM) can be flung like a frisbee from a safe distance and its sharp edges will bring down perpetrator.
2) You are watching your favorite show on TV, and notice you have a hangnail. Rather than go all the way upstairs and look through the drawer for a nail file, you can just walk over to the fireplace mantle and take care of that problem with your trophy with Poke-Edge(TM).

Poke-Edge(TM) - The future is now.
 
mfgoodsale said:
I am getting the Regional Champion Trophy with Poke-edge(TM) photographed and will have the link here later today. Poke-Edge(TM) is a process whereby a pokemon trophy is rendered ultra functional by creating sharp edges on the bottom corners. This then allows the trophy to do a lot more than just sit on the fireplace mantle. For Example:
1) A burgler enters your house, you grab a regular trophy from the fireplace mantle and hit the burgler over the head with it. This only further angers the perpetrator. In contrast, the trophy with Poke-Edge(TM) can be flung like a frisbee from a safe distance and its sharp edges will bring down perpetrator.
2) You are watching your favorite show on TV, and notice you have a hangnail. Rather than go all the way upstairs and look through the drawer for a nail file, you can just walk over to the fireplace mantle and take care of that problem with your trophy with Poke-Edge(TM).

Poke-Edge(TM) - The future is now.
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You guys are the definition of "The glass half full." :lol:
 
I PUT THE PICTURE OF THE POKE-EDGE TROPHY IN THIS SITE UNDER 2009-2010 REGIONALS PICTURES, but it still needs to be approved by somebody so we can see it, then I can add the link.

In the meantime, People are asking – how did the trophy get broken? - whose fault was it exactly? Well, I am not here to play some type of blame game, but, I will give you the list of suspects and you can draw your own conclusions as to who is responsible:
1) The tournament organizers – for handing out the trophy
2) The Senior Winner – because when he received the trophy he was heard telling the tournament organizer ‘don’t take it out of the case I don’t want it to get broken’ thereby jinxing the trophy and virtually guaranteeing its eventual destruction.
3) The dad – for balancing the trophy precariously on top of a bunch of stuff in the hatchback when he knew he should have put it on the bottom so it couldn’t get damaged (this guy seems innocent to me).
4) The 2010 Texas States Masters Champion(name withheld to protect the innocent) – who was standing next to the trophy box when it mysteriously fell (could it be that he was jealous of the color)?
Feel free to vote for suspects 1, 2 and 4 as often as you like.
 
mfgoodsale said:
I PUT THE PICTURE OF THE POKE-EDGE TROPHY IN THIS SITE UNDER 2009-2010 REGIONALS PICTURES, but it still needs to be approved by somebody so we can see it, then I can add the link.

In the meantime, People are asking – how did the trophy get broken? - whose fault was it exactly? Well, I am not here to play some type of blame game, but, I will give you the list of suspects and you can draw your own conclusions as to who is responsible:
1) The tournament organizers – for handing out the trophy
2) The Senior Winner – because when he received the trophy he was heard telling the tournament organizer ‘don’t take it out of the case I don’t want it to get broken’ thereby jinxing the trophy and virtually guaranteeing its eventual destruction.
3) The dad – for balancing the trophy precariously on top of a bunch of stuff in the hatchback when he knew he should have put it on the bottom so it couldn’t get damaged (this guy seems innocent to me).
4) The 2010 Texas States Masters Champion(name withheld to protect the innocent) – who was standing next to the trophy box when it mysteriously fell (could it be that he was jealous of the color)?
Feel free to vote for suspects 1, 2 and 4 as often as you like.
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hmm... I think that I should vote for the #3 three... :lol:
 
Well that's not nearly as bad looking as I was expecting from the story. Gives it an almost antiqued look.

I think it was the Seniors winner. Anyone allegedly expressing that much concern is obviously setting up an alibi for the insurance claim.

S.
 
not too bad, i like it, keep chipping away at it and it could come to look like a sweet mountain range, or something. on second thought, probably better to just leave it be. haha
 
Spotter said:
Well that's not nearly as bad looking as I was expecting from the story. Gives it an almost antiqued look.S.
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Exactly - antiqued - better than the original

Spotter said:
I think it was the Seniors winner. Anyone allegedly expressing that much concern is obviously setting up an alibi for the insurance claim.

S.
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As I said before, I am not trying to lay blame on anyone. However, I think at this point we should further explore the seniors winner as the main suspect. The senior winner was in the back seat of the car at the time, with full access to the hatchback region. He easily could have reached across and knocked it out. And, a few days before the tournanment, I caught him reading my auto insurance policy. At first I brushed this off as a general thirst for knowledge, but now I am starting to have second thoughts.
 
h0bbesteroo said:
I like it. I can see why the master player insisted on trading it.
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The Master who offered to trade never saw the broken trophy – let’s not do anything to disparage his good name.

However, since posting the picture I have received numerous inquiries from people around the world who are interest in the trophy. A Masters winner from the Northeast offered a strait up swap for his perfect condition trophy. And a junior winner currently residing in Wabash, Minnesota said he wants to trade for it if its OK with his Mom. But here’s the thing guys, there are like 10 regions with three winners each so there are about 30 winners trophies, but only one has that special ‘Antiqued’ look with the Poke-Edges. A this point, if I am going to convince the senior winner to trade for a non-antiqued normal edged trophy there is going to have to be some monetary compensation involved. Lets start the bidding at – your perfect condition trophy plus $100 for the Poke-Edge 'Antiqued' Trophy.......
 
And, on top of that, Pokemon USA just sent me a cease and desist letter claiming they trademarked the term 'Poke-Edge' back in the 70's when they unveiled the Shaving Picachu doll. I just can't catch a break.
 
It looks better than I expected it to be. And I was there. :lol: When it fell, I thought it got shattered! At least the main parts of it (the 1st Place, Garchomp, and the color) weren't harmed.
 
You're kidding right? Well, how about 'Poke-Jagged Edge' is that taken?


mfgoodsale said:
And, on top of that, Pokemon USA just sent me a cease and desist letter claiming they trademarked the term 'Poke-Edge' back in the 70's when they unveiled the Shaving Picachu doll. I just can't catch a break.
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I had a blast. The tournament seemed to fun fine - but i have no idea who that angry guy was at the end of senior top. He was just yelling and stuff. I dont know.

Thumbs up.

Gowk
 
deredd04 said:
It looks better than I expected it to be. And I was there. :lol: When it fell, I thought it got shattered! At least the main parts of it (the 1st Place, Garchomp, and the color) weren't harmed.
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Me too. I swear when it happened it was loud and it seemed like things were shattering and glass was flying everywhere. It is amazing that it only chipped the bottom corners after this thing bounced around on the concrete. Pokemon makes a pretty solid trophy. The color is intact.

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h0bbesteroo said:
You're kidding right? Well, how about 'Poke-Jagged Edge' is that taken?
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I am kidding.

Anyway, I imagine anything using the 'Poke' prefix would be copywrite infrigement. I would even think that Pokegym has to have some kind of permission to use that name? - or maybe its free speech or something.
God Bless America and Texas.
 
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Classic.

I get a warning for warning people about being careful about breaking the posting rules.

Just classic.
 
I had to turn you in – I was afraid you were scaring away business. I need the money so I can afford the Poke-Price Gouging(TM) that is going to occur during the pre-release you are throwing on May 1st.
 
Enjoy the PRs while you can, the Poké-Community sure isn't going to any great lengths to make me want to stay.
 
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