ryanvergel
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Has anyone else tried to book a hotel room for Nationals?
Incredibly hard. It's looking like a much worse nationals already, but this fact is only compounded by the expected format for the event. The FAQ describes the format tersely- "MD-on".
What does this mean?
I am sure many of you have been contemplating and playing, goldfishing, and theorymoning the impact of the rules changes. Some are just silly- they change rare candy into pokemon breeder, and there's a great poke ball swap going on. A friend of mine asked a great question, "why not just print the card the other card instead of changing every card into one that already exists?" Who knows.
Sableye is incredible, and without a first turn for the opponent to use call energy, try to draw or use attacks like pitch dark the possibility of losing on your first turn is even more prevalent. The days of old flippymon will be back, and more games than ever will be decided on the flip of the coin. Stage 2 decks are inherently disadvantaged by the change in rare candy, so it seems it will be an even more lopsided favoritism towards basic-based decks. We will probably see another basic deck vs basic deck at Finals in Nationals for the THIRD YEAR in a row. Luxray in the top 2 finals for 3 years running is more domination than Gardevoir, and nothing was really learned from that.
I don't want to dish out a lot of money on a room close by, or have to be inconvenienced by the distance and other more modestly priced available rooms just to lose multiple games before I even get to draw a card. I am sure others feel the same way as I do.
If I had to choose between Nationals and Worlds, I feel like I would just choose Worlds now. To make it to the top 8 to even earn an INVITE (and not a trip), you have to win 5 rounds of single elimination, (assuming a total of 128 participants in a top cut). If there are 8 invites given out in the grinder, which is also single elimination best of three, then why not just try to push the 7 rounds and best a field of potentially 512 players and clinch a top 8 invite for the next day? Seems easier than wading through 8 or 9 rounds of swiss and needing to win 5 or 6 rounds to get the trip/invite anyhow.
I feel like this will be the worst Nationals I have ever been to, and this is not the kind of feeling I want to have when playing a game. A lot of my friends and fellow players feel the same way. This is the lowest point they have ever seen the state of the game at, the least amount of fun had in a number of years when playing, and with a stagnation of playable decks that makes us all gag.
It's time to start finalizing plans to go, and I am unsure if I really want to. Anyone else?
Incredibly hard. It's looking like a much worse nationals already, but this fact is only compounded by the expected format for the event. The FAQ describes the format tersely- "MD-on".
What does this mean?
I am sure many of you have been contemplating and playing, goldfishing, and theorymoning the impact of the rules changes. Some are just silly- they change rare candy into pokemon breeder, and there's a great poke ball swap going on. A friend of mine asked a great question, "why not just print the card the other card instead of changing every card into one that already exists?" Who knows.
Sableye is incredible, and without a first turn for the opponent to use call energy, try to draw or use attacks like pitch dark the possibility of losing on your first turn is even more prevalent. The days of old flippymon will be back, and more games than ever will be decided on the flip of the coin. Stage 2 decks are inherently disadvantaged by the change in rare candy, so it seems it will be an even more lopsided favoritism towards basic-based decks. We will probably see another basic deck vs basic deck at Finals in Nationals for the THIRD YEAR in a row. Luxray in the top 2 finals for 3 years running is more domination than Gardevoir, and nothing was really learned from that.
I don't want to dish out a lot of money on a room close by, or have to be inconvenienced by the distance and other more modestly priced available rooms just to lose multiple games before I even get to draw a card. I am sure others feel the same way as I do.
If I had to choose between Nationals and Worlds, I feel like I would just choose Worlds now. To make it to the top 8 to even earn an INVITE (and not a trip), you have to win 5 rounds of single elimination, (assuming a total of 128 participants in a top cut). If there are 8 invites given out in the grinder, which is also single elimination best of three, then why not just try to push the 7 rounds and best a field of potentially 512 players and clinch a top 8 invite for the next day? Seems easier than wading through 8 or 9 rounds of swiss and needing to win 5 or 6 rounds to get the trip/invite anyhow.
I feel like this will be the worst Nationals I have ever been to, and this is not the kind of feeling I want to have when playing a game. A lot of my friends and fellow players feel the same way. This is the lowest point they have ever seen the state of the game at, the least amount of fun had in a number of years when playing, and with a stagnation of playable decks that makes us all gag.
It's time to start finalizing plans to go, and I am unsure if I really want to. Anyone else?
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