meh I kinda feel like it is the writer's fault, should they get upset over this. Don't post a list on the internet, or a site that has 250+ members.
When you look at this from another angle though, take a look at big game review corporations like IGN and
Gamespot. They are both free sources of information for the gamer community, and most of them have information regarding games WAY in advance. These guys have games from the developers as early as a month before release, and they're sworn to secrecy on what they give out to the public until launch. They're allowed previews, but we don't see Reviews of the game at least not until the launch or a little before or after. Gamestop gets their games before street date, and they're not allowed to break street date under any circumstance. Same goes with Target and Wal-mart and pokemon TCG items (Even though Target has broken street date countless times)
Josh and Chris put their information up here in a section of Sixprizes that has user agreements and terms of service, people have to pay for this information, and using this information to give to everyone else is kind of cheating the system and Sixprizes out of how they work. In essence, its "breaking street date" of decks that people could be playing at nationals. I'm sure neither Chris or Josh wanted the entire mainstream community to know of their decks, and I know I'd be mad myself if that happened.
This undergroundinformant unless I'm mistaken had like no posts, so its either a new member of these forums or someone with an existing screen name already here who didn't want to be caught. IMHO, if you're not going to use your real account, its apparent this person knew what he was doing is wrong, which speaks of my opinion on the matter.
Do I approve of netdecking myself? I'd be lying if I said no. When I made top cut at Nationals during the GG season, I actually was browsing Pokegym a couple nights before and found someones list of Banbliss. Now, it wasn't the same list everyone suddenly started playing, but it was a list I liked and did everything I wanted it to do against GG. Is it wrong? I don't think so. There are a lot of people who are not skilled at making decks, and this is a good base to base your decks off of, maybe even to help you find out what your decklists could look like in the future. I make decks for people at my league all the time. They put no work into it except for buying the cards, can that be considered netdecking if I put my time into making a list for them that they can't make themselves?
All in all, theres a reason that information is paid for. Those of you calling the decks hash and stupid, you likely don't realize that the people who have made these deck lists are widely revered across the pokemon community. Chris Fulop is one of the most extremely skilled players in this entire game, and I dare you to speak otherwise. I've played enough games with him (and I'm not a bad player by any means) and lost enough games to him to realize that he is in a completely different league of play. His decks are impressive and full of creativity. I don't know much of Jwittz other than that he's "Kind of a big deal" across many forums and he's known pretty well for his statistical input and that he plays Sablelock similarly to myself. Technically, by posting these on the forums, you've pretty much ripped off all the people who got their information legitimately by paying for it, which is not a pro move at all.
UndergroundInformant perhaps took it too far, but I wouldn't be surprised to see Underground topics find their way onto other forums.
I actually did a search on the Beach and other major TCG sources and found them to not be around. The only other source we could consider it reaching is Facebook, and usually by word of mouth, its probably all over the internet by now off of that alone as you can't really track that unless you're friends with people who have UG content.
who cares. the decks were bad anyway.
I lol'd.
