Honestly, I feel that the PokeGym is the only source for up to the minute coverage on almost any topic dealing with the card game. Pojo's Message Board, from my experience of administrating and posting there for about three years, is focused more on deck fixes and card reviews. I see more news and debates over non-gameplay issues here, I guess as a judge I eat this sort of stuff up. As well, my personal life has been quite busy lately with my mother going into surgery and this conflict also taking away my time from actually contributing to the Pojo site. Bill has been taking my place for the time being and I cannot thank him enough. I dont want to spread this onto the site itself, its not needed. All I wanted was to have an open air conversation, I wanted to hear some truth as opposed to talking personally with an individual. They could be lying to me and from some of the stuff that has occured in the last few weeks, I cannot afford nor risk it.
I also tried to reply to your email PokePop, but the address used to contact me (
[email protected]) is no longer working.
Renee, do realize that not everything I've stated was directed towards you. Aside from scheduling tournaments at the same time and same location (which hurt both events), apologies have been shared between others involved, most of what I'm ranting about is another person's recent actions. That person placed a fellow TO at the door threatening my entry, not yourself. Although some claims have been made that I posted something in this topic http:/www.pokegym.net/showthread.php?t=2464 and it was deleted? The claims have been false, since the accuser have not come forth with any comments made in that thread nor does the administration of the board probably have any logs of deleting any comments.
In the future I hope that we could work out some system allowing fellow professors to rotate out of their position as judge in order to allow others play. That was my goal, but it was put on hold when all of this started after the August R/S Challenge. We've clearly have enough support to do work something like that out, although Mrs. Craig's position is clearly going to stay static as long as she and Pokemon Organized Play is interested in keeping the Premiere TO status (which is just a fancy title anyways, only possible thing she gets out of it is some advanced knowledge of an event she cant play in). Khym and Patrick did an awesome job helping out, as did Ron, despite threats towards one of our staff members from the afformentioned individual who has been causing problems to everyone involved.
As I said before, I welcome, as I imagine Mrs. Craig does, any additional help at future Prereleases from yourself and others who are qualified. There is no other way to go about it, and those involved with the staff will remain on the staff. We're not removing anybody just to gain support from another. It would not be fair to those who have helped us in the past.
My point remains the same: let us end the exaggerated numbers without support, the erroneous information that is not constructive in helping people to make an informed decision on what event they should attend. We dont need to have Pokemon Tournaments competing against one another. They should not even have to decide, they should come to all events.
-Phil
(surprise!) We can discuss what was said that you said and any of us mods/admins can check and see if something was really there or not.