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Nationals is a poor way to find out player population. Think about it, the US is a LOT more spread out than places like Denmark.
 
I know, that's why I will compare our Nationals with ANY of the Gym Challenges.
Due to size and population that's more reasonable.
Also GC 1trip , our Nationals 1 trip.

While we had a poor turn out this year at Nationals around 128 players.
HOW many of the USA Gym Challenges did got that many players???
And to complete the difference.
Traveling is twice as expensive here as it is in the USA
We had to pay $13 to play the event (beside the entrance to the venue).
We almost have NO Organized Play, and other tournaments for 2 years.


And you still think the USA deserves more invites?
Meaby more than 1 or 2 per agegroup, but 60 was in no way valid.

I do think POP is going to focus a bit more on the International market.
The USA one is up and running and does have a solid players base.
Most of the other countries are 3 years behind.
 
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Rainbowgym said:
Netherlands had over 100 Players this year at their Nationals.
And Denmark around 100.
You only found the 10 and under results.

BTW Netherlands was in 2005 the 3th country with a Nationals attendance of 166.
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Sry. I just looked up the attendance on the PUI Website. It only had the 10- results up, and I couldn't find any other results for those two countries.

Ryan, I mentioned that Nationals isn't really the *best* indication of player base, merely the most convenient. The reason I say that is because I don't know how many *unique* players attendended American GCs, as the presence of traveling players skew the results slightly. Even Regionals attendance is faulty for this same reason. I know that I could have participated in 3 Regionals if I really wanted to. I chose to judge 1, play in 1, and skip 1 to help my parents sell our house. Nationals is merely the most convenient method for this particular comparison because it was a single tournament in every country, not spread out over several weeks, and due to the "Nationality Rules", there were no travelers.

Rainbowgym: I think that Regionals is probably the best comparison to Int Nationals (aside from Mexico, which compares to US Nats very nicely), mostly b/c the spread seems a little more even, but that's another argument for another day.
 
Bullados, it's not you to blame.
I do know how to find some events and also why some numbers look so weird.
Denmark had 112 players this year and 102 last year.

Yes meaby is USA Regionals vs Int Nat better to compare.
But I don't want to get into any discussion about Int. Regionals, because they were a kind of event a CC's normally would be in the USA.
 
I for one dont actaully have a problem with the new rules. I think it goes a long way to making worlds a more exclusive event reserved for the best of the best. I also like the idea of making Nationals more of a big deal. I think that POP made the right, (not the perfect) but the right move here.
 
ryanvergel said:
The way it is now, the discrepancy in difficulty for earning an invite is HUGE between different countries.
It's an obvious problem when it's many many times harder to get an invite here than in a foreign country. That means things are still not fair.

Remember guys, the US has 54% of the players in the world- if we get shafted, that means the MAJORITY of OP members get shafted. Stop thinking of the minority and start thinking of the majority.
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Lol funny you should mention that. But since we are Americans. Isn't America about protecting the rights of the minority from the majority. where we in american go out of our way to cater to the minority in our system of how we run everything. Just a thought:rolleyes:
 
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Lol funny you should mention that. But since we are Americans. Isn't America about protecting the rights of the minority from the majority. where we in american go out of our way to cater to the minority in our system of how we run everything. Just a thought:rolleyes:
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We go out of our way to equalize and guarantee rights for a minority, but we don't unjustly give a minority more rights and privilege (comparitively) than the majority.
 
bullados said:
Ryan - We don't actually *know* that 54% thing. That 54% is only of the people who signed up for a My Pokemon account. Considering the enormous language barriers seen Internationally, it's no surprise that the English speaking countries have the large majority of signups at an English website. A much better way to determine this is to compare the size of the National Tourneys (though even this isn't perfect, given the relative sizes of countries). Here's what I could find...

US - 536
Canada - 110
Mexico - 428
Argentina - 39
Austria - 17
Belgium - 59
Chile - 84
Czech Republic - 22
Germany - 130
Denmark - 39
Ecuador - 22
Finland - 59
France - 107
UK - 67 + 63 + 45 = 175
Italy - 29 + 33 + 26 = 88
Malaysia - 128
Netherlands - 28
Norway - 79 + 42 + 30 = 151
Philippines - (not reported)
Portugal - 52
Sweeden - 67
Singapore - 29
Slovenia - 26
Total = 2396
US Percentage = 22.3%

Though we had the highest Nationals, Mexico still came close, and there were 5 other countries with much smaller total populations that managed to pull over 100 people. The US might have a majority of active players, but it is not a demanding majority, nor is it particularly dominating in International events. Also, I have absolutely no idea what constitutes a "National Championships" in Japan, nor do I know the number of people in said tournament, which will definately skew the numbers more towards the US being more of a minority.
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I will fill the blank for my country(I'm not the TO). This year we approximately had 110 players, the highest we had for 3 years (all age groups).
For me, I will just have to wait how the new system works. Although it seems it favors a little to the international scene and increase the competitiveness of the game (who outside the US would not want to go to Hawaii at least for free even for just going to the game). Besides, everything has its advantages and disadvantages and we feel a resistant to change here.

If you do not want it there are many reasons and excuses. But if in favor we have ways to do so.
 
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