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Prepare for Worlds 2005 outside the USA

It is hard for foreign players. We in the USA are finally getting sets as the japanese get them. For the longest time, Japan would get sets, then USA, then the rest of the world. good luck to you brazil
 
thank you, i'm really working hard this year (woha, 7 years playing, time to win something big), but now Brazil doesnt have a big "delay" of new sets, hopefully.
 
Today we played in Belgium a CC, nice to see old friends again.
Even better to test the decks we prepared in case we get CC's or whatever overhere.

Still no modified tournaments announced for my country.
No answer on my email regarding this send on 11 january (and repeated jan 21st)
 
FEb 2nd, still no reply on my email of jan 21st.
No CC's announced, nothing about Nationals, not even a prerelease of the Deoxys EX serie.
 
i'm a INTL pokemon tcg player too (Scotland in the United Kingdom) and i've being contacting POP recently about methods (apart from nationals) to get to worlds. now, because there's only one league in scotland, we've only got a few people going to nationals anyway, so other methods would be useful. the reply stated that some countries may be organising Gym challenges, but we were to check. sas far as i've checked out, i don't think anywhere apart from us gets gym challenges (i might be wrong. if your country is doing it, i apologise). now, this makes things already much more difficult as us now get top 2 or 3 players in nationals, gym challenge winners, regional challenge winners and last chance qualifier winners and we get the 1st place national winners. no-one else gets worlds invites, and not many INTL players can afford to travel to US to try to get in through the last chance qualifier. i've also noticed that POP are NOT running player ranking invites this year. so really, the only thesible way for the intl players to get to worlds is to MAKE SURE that they win a city (only 1 event in some areas, unlike the US with several) or a state championship (if they have one) and then win the nationals. admittedly, the odds of some US players getting in now have also decreased due to the removal of the ranking invites, but they still get loads of chances. i'm not saying that POP is more leniant toward the US than the other entering countries, but it seems that way. :nonono:

<EDIT> Just check POP website again. in us nationals, top 4 in each age category get worlds invites and travel awards, winner in each age category in regionals and top 2 in each age category in gyms. now, this means that, if pop had just one of each of these, the us already has 21 players going to worlds. add more regionals and gyms and you can add more and more people to this. this is just becoming slightly unfair, in my opinion. it's supposed to be the WORLDS! it can't truly be fair unless all countries participating have an equal chance of winning, so an equal number of competitors is necessary. </EDIT>
 
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Gym challenges in our country, you must be kidding.
The first modified legal tournament still has to be organized since Worlds 2004.

We are told not to complain.
We are told to have patience, but not how long.

The only thing I see is that some right hands don't know what their left hand is doing.
 
Pokeguru,
You may read the article I've written in the article section of the Pokegym (article called 'Road to Worlds 2005')

It could interess you :wink:
 
pokeguru said:
i'm a INTL pokemon tcg player too (Scotland in the United Kingdom) and i've being contacting POP recently about methods (apart from nationals) to get to worlds. now, because there's only one league in scotland, we've only got a few people going to nationals anyway, so other methods would be useful. the reply stated that some countries may be organising Gym challenges, but we were to check. sas far as i've checked out, i don't think anywhere apart from us gets gym challenges (i might be wrong. if your country is doing it, i apologise). now, this makes things already much more difficult as us now get top 2 or 3 players in nationals, gym challenge winners, regional challenge winners and last chance qualifier winners and we get the 1st place national winners. no-one else gets worlds invites, and not many INTL players can afford to travel to US to try to get in through the last chance qualifier. i've also noticed that POP are NOT running player ranking invites this year. so really, the only thesible way for the intl players to get to worlds is to MAKE SURE that they win a city (only 1 event in some areas, unlike the US with several) or a state championship (if they have one) and then win the nationals. admittedly, the odds of some US players getting in now have also decreased due to the removal of the ranking invites, but they still get loads of chances. i'm not saying that POP is more leniant toward the US than the other entering countries, but it seems that way. :nonono:

<EDIT> Just check POP website again. in us nationals, top 4 in each age category get worlds invites and travel awards, winner in each age category in regionals and top 2 in each age category in gyms. now, this means that, if pop had just one of each of these, the us already has 21 players going to worlds. add more regionals and gyms and you can add more and more people to this. this is just becoming slightly unfair, in my opinion. it's supposed to be the WORLDS! it can't truly be fair unless all countries participating have an equal chance of winning, so an equal number of competitors is necessary. </EDIT>
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Largest fanbase is in the USA I believe.

But just wondering if you guys have nationals and winner gets a trip to worlds....if there are not many players in your country does that not increase your chance of winning the trip? If at our Nats we have 300 people and at your you have 12...your chances increase dramatically. I'm not disagreeing with you or anything - I'm just curious if that is the situation.
 
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If we had the change to do league and CC's etc we would have between now and summer 100-150 players active and thats only us.

WE could easily have 300 players at our Nationals.
Our simple tournaments (private without any support of OP) have more attendance than most CC's in the USA.

But you know, our distributor doesn't want to work with us, they have another view on how a playersbase should be build up and maintained.
That view has offered the Dutch players ZERO modified tournaments and ZERO legal FUN tournament and ZERO prereleases for the 2004-2005 season.
All 4 tournaments in the ranking after Worlds are illegal, not according the floorrules but with full knowledge of our distributor.(knowledge that they are not according floor/tournament rules, heck the distributor even sanction them themselves)

Can we compete with such a Superpower in OP, NO never, because they have to full support of PUI and according to that they cannot fail.
And if you try to point out mistakes, you are treated with accusations and lies, mud and more.
 
Who knows?
I mailed our LD 2 times, 4 weeks ago and 2 weeks ago and they are not willing to answer.
I mailed International OP and got the international autoreply "ask your distributor"
 
But just wondering if you guys have nationals and winner gets a trip to worlds....if there are not many players in your country does that not increase your chance of winning the trip? If at our Nats we have 300 people and at your you have 12...your chances increase dramatically. I'm not disagreeing with you or anything - I'm just curious if that is the situation.
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It may increase my individual chances of going, but consider the fact that the US is still getting many trips to the Worlds. Admittedly, the US is where POP is ran and where the worlds are, but the only way that they can make it fair on all countries to go to Worlds is to have the same number of representitives from each country. The US would have at least 21 competitors in worlds, the UK would have 3 tops. Face it, pretty much no foreign country can afford to do Gym or Regional Championships as well as the Nationals, so we've got less of a chance of winning overall than the US. The US fanbase may be the largest, but that still does not justify POP's way of getting people to the worlds, by appearing to allow much more US competitors the oppurtunity to attend than others. Maybe POP can hold the worlds in a different country for a change in 2006, to prove that they are not favoring america? If i seem harsh, I apologise, but I still believe that POP is not really helping International players at the moment. We may be given different distributors, but POP seems to be the governing body of all of it, and I do not see how the host country should be given a numbers advantage over others. :nonono:
 
Wijkcentrum het Dok Groningen, NL 3/19/2005 10:45 AM 05-03-000038 Details
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from tournament locator as back up

Pokémontoernooi Groningen
Tournament ID: 05-03-000038
Organizer Name: Erik van Weverwijk
Organizer Phone:
Category: Fun - Unlimited - Constructed
Date/Time: 3/19/2005 10:45 AM
Location: Wijkcentrum het Dok
Address: Kajuit 4
City: Groningen
State:
Country: Netherlands
Status: Pending
Admission: € 4,-
Details:
 
from intl site

What's New in Pokémon International Organized Play?

2004-2005 Pokémon TCG City Championships
Kick off the Championship Season right, with a win at your local Pokémon
TCG City Championship Tournament!

Click here for City Championships dates and locations.

Still NO announcements for the NETHERLANDS

See ya at worlds or .........
 
Yes Yes Yes

We get one, on April 3nd there is going to be a Modified tournament.
It's a long way from home, but we are going to be there.
This is the first chance to meet and play other players in our country.

Because it's so far away we have rented a coach (bus) to give all the players in our region the chance to join.
The tournament is taking place at a gamefair in Groningen, so for parents it's also nice, they can walk around and see things, get demonstrations.

This is really good news, so any player should try to get there to make this tournament a big succes.
The organizer of this tournament is a new TO, but she has been a player from the start.
So come on give them the change and join.
 
pokeguru said:
It may increase my individual chances of going, but consider the fact that the US is still getting many trips to the Worlds. Admittedly, the US is where POP is ran and where the worlds are, but the only way that they can make it fair on all countries to go to Worlds is to have the same number of representitives from each country. The US would have at least 21 competitors in worlds, the UK would have 3 tops. Face it, pretty much no foreign country can afford to do Gym or Regional Championships as well as the Nationals, so we've got less of a chance of winning overall than the US. The US fanbase may be the largest, but that still does not justify POP's way of getting people to the worlds, by appearing to allow much more US competitors the oppurtunity to attend than others. Maybe POP can hold the worlds in a different country for a change in 2006, to prove that they are not favoring america? If i seem harsh, I apologise, but I still believe that POP is not really helping International players at the moment. We may be given different distributors, but POP seems to be the governing body of all of it, and I do not see how the host country should be given a numbers advantage over others. :nonono:
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i think it would make sense that the USA get more players in worlds than other countries because of the amount of players. in the USA when the legislative body goes to vote on something the states get different numbers of votes based on thier population(maybe this is the same in other countries but i have no clue lol). the more people they have the more votes they get. seems like POP copied that. the more people the country has the more competitors in worlds it has. you have to remember even though we get more spots we are competing against more people so it is harder for someone to get one of those spots. i am not saying everything is 100% fair just trying to show you where POP may be coming from so that maybe you wont feel as slighted.
 
I agree with what rainbowgym said about what they say and do if you point out their mistakes they try to justify it with some lame explaination but im sure if i say too much i'll get banned...and i do not want that

And then on the other hand for us in the USA they usually get the job done eventually but it gets done i am sorry that for you people in europe you have hard times with op and pui im also sorry that europe and foreign countries get such a shaft when it comes to worlds...

I hope you get more tourneys in your area

Tom
 
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@ shawofmordor, i think the american invite winners should play a qualification tournament, so that the USA doesnt stand such an unfair chance at worlds.
 
Sure the USA deserves a lot more spots per its player base etc, but should most other countries get like 1 or 2 per age group only?

Notmethinks.
 
Dom Jordan said:
Sure the USA deserves a lot more spots per its player base etc, but should most other countries get like 1 or 2 per age group only?

Notmethinks.
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great words, here in brazil we'll get 2 places for each age group, and just 1 of each age group will get the travel paid by nintendo =/
and hell, traveling from brazil to usa is something not really cheap if you understand =/
 
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