you get recognition from the other pokemon players, if you want big media attention, look elsewhere. Pokemon isn't meant to be a national pastime or a bigtime sport, It's a trading card game. It get's media attention, just not headline news.
WRONG! Its that kind of thinking that is going to drive pokemon into the GROUND. Wizards wanted to keep pokemon small, it seemed like at every opportunity they were shafting the players. I was the WORLD CHAMPION and didn't even win enough money to cover my trip out there! There are games making a FRACTION of what pokemon was making that had HUGE cash prizes. Wizards wanted a lack-luster "fun" game for little kids and what they got was a loss of their contract. Good game wizards, way to RUIN the best thing since magic. Pokemon SHOULD be regarded as highly as Chess, Magic, and Poker. Good pokemon players should be regarded as HEROES. People who are good at hosting tournaments should get paid by the company to run them, not sign up to be a "professor" so they can do a ton of labor at no cost to Nintendo. Guess what folks, there are people making clothes for Kathy Lee right now getting paid more than you professors. WAKE UP! You're getting ripped off because people don't want to take pokemon to the level it should be! Are you ****** off in California because the TOs are terrible and there were 20 people at 5-2 and 12 missed the T16 cut? I'll bet NONE of that would happen if the TOs were actually getting paid for what they were doing. You get what you pay for, and with most professors, thats not much.
Pokemon needs to be BIG if you want to see anything improving. I WON THE STS FOR CRYING OUT LOUD!! REALIZE THE TRUTH! IT WAS THE STS!! DO YOU KNOW HOW GOOD I AM AT POKEMON!!? GEEZE!!!
Your mom is a puppet.
Thats strange hot carl bc when the Ghaz 1st posted a week ago or so, he bragged about winning the STS. Now, Moss is claiming to have won the STS also. Will the true STS champion please stand up??
I WON THE STS!!! WHAT DON'T YOU MORONS UNDERSTAND?!! LORD!
They BOTH did, in different age divisions, and on different days....
WRONG! We both won on the SAME day, December 2nd, 2001. Day 1 we TOYED with our opponents, letting them think they had a chance on day two with both of us ONLY posting a top4 and top8 performance, repectively. Then on day 2 we both woke up and decieded to win. Since we're JUST THAT FLAT OUT GOOD, we did exactly that! The only problem was getting through the
medal detector at the airport on the way home. Curiously, Drew Holton had no problems with it! OUI!
MEDIA attention demanded by 'playaz' who not only DO know each other, but likely _wouldn't admit to playing Pokemon_ if there WAS an interview set up, because they can't let their real-life peers KNOW they play the game?
First of all you can't see the forest for the trees! The reason we didn't want people to know was because of the reputation pokemon had-- and that's what we need to change! If you want pokemon to get big, and I mean BIG, you can't be afraid to let people know you play. Media coverage adds legitimacy and prestige to what you do. It makes celebrities out of the winners and people start getting their favorite pros just like in MTG and Poker. If you can create not only a fan base of the game, but the players within the game that's all the better. Everyone knows Phil Hellmuth because he's the "bad boy" the "poker brat" he's got such a personality that it draws you into him as a player and not just the game. Its hard to love a game as much as a person. Thats why we need MEDIA COVERAGE of pokemon to add to its legitimacy! We shouldn't have to live in FEAR of people finding out! Personally, everyone I know now knows that I played the game and a few of them actually thought it was really cool! Now I play poker and I'm
quite good at it, and its nice because its on TV and you get respect from people for being good at a game. We need that kind of thing to happen to pokemon players. The game takes skill and there are a lot of people who play it, but very few who play it well (for example the only two players on this post with ANY skill at all are Seen and myself, and yes, I saw your posts Fulop and Six, GOOD GAME!! I invented low self esteem). In conclusion we need media coverage to add legitimacy and presige to the game, it will make the game grow, add new players, gain respect for the ones that play it well (Seena and I), and put more money into the game which will get more players, etc etc. ALL GOOD THINGS! People shouldn't be afraid to play pokemon thinking their friends will find out! People shouldn't be mocked for playing pokemon in their 20s and 30s! It shouldn't be regarded as a kiddie game and come into the limelight. We need sexy models to helps us, and massive media coverage including photo ops of Seena and I holding trophies and cash w/ the models. Think about it, you KNOW you'd buy a magazine w/ that cover.
I invented Pikachu.
