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The game evolves as time goes by. What might be the game you loved ten years ago (yes, it has almost been ten years since it came out), might not be the same game now. Same can be said about the tournament system. POP/PUI tries new things each year, and assess how well they end up and how much people like them.

Not everything has gone downhill. Nationals is a much bigger event. Two years ago, all Nationals had was an area of tables in the middle of the tcg area. It was stuck between MTG and other card games and board games. This past year, Pokemon had the entire back area. There was an area for a league to be held everyday, a creative area for people to color in pictures, and enough room to accommodate for over 700 people for the national championships.

I find it funny that players clamor for a way to reward players for consistently doing well, and when they get rating invites, either totally forget about it and wonder why the prizes keep going down or complain that the invites are too hard to get. I know I have complained about how the invites have changed the attitude of players, but I have never seen them as a bad thing.


The game is changing, and so is the tournament structure. Just be happy that the game you and I love to play is still going strong, and hope that it continues to for many more years. To lower your fun by concentrating on the bad aspects of the game, or the things that have changed just ruins the experience. It's good to remember them, but not to keep your mind stuck in them.
 
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As I always complain. I always look at Japan, there Tournament System is really horrible. 2(3/4 Depending) a year. Spring and Summer Battle Road. and thats it. unless you win a qualify for Summer Road Championship and Worlds.

There release/products are much better than here tho.
 
Don't go overboard about how the past (in Pokemon) was so great, Pokemon is a smart company (most of the time) and won't do anything crazy that will make this card game go byebye. I enjoy every season of Pokemon no matter what, if you whine about how everything was so relaxed in the past look at yourself in the mirror. I personally find this game evolving into a more strategic game than it was before (not just card-wise but, tournament wise) and I enjoy every aspect of it. This year you have to work hard to get an invite (to either Nationals or Worlds) because of the pressure that was put upon all of us (competitive players). We may get less prizes, trips, etc. but, are these things coming out of our pockets NO!!! We should be happy with what we get (tournament seasons, prizes, etc.) and if you aren't happy quit Pokemon.
 
Some points to say here...

Top cut

I really don't what the limits are for. To save time? The top cut system based on attendance worked very well all over the years, so why change it? In a large CC, in this system its impossible to get top Four if you lose the first round. Next step in this direction would be Single Elimination.

Another thing is the prize support. Why do they set fixed amounts of prize boosters for each event type? I don't get it. We had a CC event with 65 players, and with only two displays Prize support (Germany), each player in this highly competitive event got less prizes than at a Prelease on average. People with 4-2 had to leave without any prizes, while people with 1-3 at low-attendance Cities got two or more boosters. Is this what OP means? It would be no problem to set prize support to something like "3 Boosters per player into the pool of that age group". Nealy all Premier events take part in stores who have boosters on their own and can get them back by PUI / the LD after the event if the distributed more than expected.



Rating Invites

As many other people here, I don't like this system. For those who live in Europe and don't have enough money, its worthless to get an unpayed invited. Its worthless to be one of the best European players in the Continent just to get an invite without the trip, while the winner of a 8-player-nationals has a payed flight to Worlds. Rating also makes the metagame boring. Most players don't want to risk playing a rogue deck at the tournament because they could lose rating point if it doesn't work. Gym Challenges would be a lot better I think.
 
Hopefully that new president guy will come up with some nice ideas. Sometimes it's probably better if we keep positive thoughts.
 
The thing we need to keep in perspective is that no one pays to play at a pop tournament. The prizes would be better if they charged but then everyone would complain about being charged. I say be happy that you get anything for playing for free and have fun.
 
It seems as though most everyone hates the ratings system. Because you cant play rogue, SOTG, whatever. In my opinion, ratings is a way to filter out the best to go to the WORLD championships. I think it makes the game more fun to play because it makes me feel better whenever I do well. And if one does get invited to Worlds, they should feel SO much more privleged than they would have in the 05-06 season.

By the way, Jason Klaczynski won Worlds 06 due to a gym challenge. I know because I was there.
 
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Saying Jason WON WORLDS becuase of a GYM CHALLENGE is a ridiculous statement. Yeah, Jason had to get LUCKY to win, give me a break!
 
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Yeah, because Cawthon and Kettler beating a bunch of nooblets at Battle Roads and sitting out nationals/GOING TO NATIONALS AND DROPPING AFTER THE FIRST ROUND is a lot more legitimate than winning a GC at the Northeast after winning loads of tournaments over the course of the season.

The ratings system is a joke, letting cowards like Cawthon and Kettler sneak their way into Worlds instead of having to win a real tournament. Regionals and Nats should give invites, not your overall record at 7 people Battle Roads.
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Didn't cawthon Top 16 at worlds? Didnt he like also get 2nd at worlds before? Yea he definetly snuck his way into worlds. :tongue: Regionals shouldnt do worlds invites. Regionals invites are for Nats.
 
EDIT - Gym Challenge NOT Battle Road.

And no, Jason is a godly player. I was just mentioning how he got INTO Worlds. And how we dont always get noobs through old Gym Challenges.
 
GinoLombardi21 said:
Didn't cawthon Top 16 at worlds? Didnt he like also get 2nd at worlds before? Yea he definetly snuck his way into worlds. :tongue: Regionals shouldnt do worlds invites. Regionals invites are for Nats.
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Right, let's invite everyone who t16'd Worlds before to the current worlds.

He snuck his way into Worlds last year, do you disagree that sitting Nationals out to protect your record (which you earned through multiple joke tournaments) is cowardly? How about going to Nats and dropping after losing the first round?

Regionals are much bigger than most countries' nats. They should provide invites instead of your overall record at joke tournaments, simple as that. Winning a Regionals is a lot harder than winning 20-odd BRs.
 
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The ratings system is a joke, letting cowards like Cawthon and Kettler sneak their way into Worlds instead of having to win a real tournament. Regionals and Nats should give invites, not your overall record at 7 people Battle Roads.
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Let's see here, Johnny waltzes into the Southern Plain Regionals with about 100 Masters and wins the dang thing. Since when is winning the BIGGEST Regionals considered sneaking to Worlds?
 
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Here's my proposal for 08-09:

Get rid of Battle Roads - it's basically a slightly glorified League.

Get rid of the rating system - it's really ruined the SotG and taken the fun out of tournaments.

September - Prerelease

October - Stadium Challenge or something like that where there are roughly 4 spread across the country on the same day - Top 2 in each age division get paid trips

November-January - CCs

February - Prerelease

March - States spread across 2 weeks

April - Regionals which are all on the same day where the winner in each division gets a paid trip.

May - Prerelease

June - Stadium Challenge like tourney again

July - Nats where top 8 get paid trips

August - Worlds - 128 in each age group, where 8+ invites come from the grinder.

This system is basically a return to 05-06, minus the GC's. We get about the same amount of invites we do now, except they're all paid for and it rewards great play in major tournaments instead of just beating up on local competition.
 
The ranking system for this game is...well ill say "special" since idk if i can say retarded on this forum. I dont like the direction the game has gone in card wise. I also dont like how the game contradicts itself so much. Like the thing where there is a rule that says no phychological warfare, and then they make cards that make it easy to do and hard to spot.(like wager) The prizes arent very good in most tournements compared to other games.



^this is just a small chip of the complaints about this game i have. its why i quit.
 
Anyone remember paying $10 for CCs?
yeah.. O yes Pokemon Player Rewards could be better :)
I know we got ID cards back in Sevii islands. but a new card for each season would be nice.
We should get text less trainers or something ( like text less spells for MPR).
 
ARMondak said:
Here's my proposal for 08-09:

Get rid of Battle Roads - it's basically a slightly glorified League.

Get rid of the rating system - it's really ruined the SotG and taken the fun out of tournaments.

September - Prerelease

October - Stadium Challenge or something like that where there are roughly 4 spread across the country on the same day - Top 2 in each age division get paid trips

November-January - CCs

February - Prerelease

March - States spread across 2 weeks

April - Regionals which are all on the same day where the winner in each division gets a paid trip.

May - Prerelease

June - Stadium Challenge like tourney again

July - Nats where top 8 get paid trips

August - Worlds - 128 in each age group, where 8+ invites come from the grinder.

This system is basically a return to 05-06, minus the GC's. We get about the same amount of invites we do now, except they're all paid for and it rewards great play in major tournaments instead of just beating up on local competition.
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I think that's a little to early to have paid trips for worlds. After All only one set
would be released for that Current Modified and a whole lot would change by
August so and besides worlds just happened and I think people could use a Break.

Also 128 players in each Category for Worlds seems a little to much.

We have 64 getting in now right? I think it should be around 85ish somewhere.
 
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