HappyHaunter
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Yeah I was expecting some more coverage/discussion but oh well. I'm happy for the winning deck though!
So are the Masters done now too? (so hard to find current info! >.< )
You know, the last time I missed US Nats, this page was over 1000 replies and 20 pages. It only hits 20 posts this time? Embarassing.
^ Float Stone
Using Darkrai to retreat Gothitelle was slow and clunky.
that is a good question.So the question is... why?
I would love it to be because people like me realized we didn't even have enough information to achieve our normal levels of mediocre speculation and thus should remain silent, but even that hinges upon there just not being much to discuss this year due to lack of information.
I think it's absolutely terrible that we don't have coverage of this event. Last week I briefly attended a big Magic event - Grand Prix Miami - and when I wasn't at the event I was at their website, refreshing and getting all of these updates on big decks/cards seeing play, feature matches between the game's big name players, and then on day 2 we had deck lists of the top 8 as well as detailed play by play.
What do we get with Pokemon? Nothing.
I don't know why I even bother playing this game anymore... if the people running this don't take it seriously, why should I?
I think it's absolutely terrible that we don't have coverage of this event. Last week I briefly attended a big Magic event - Grand Prix Miami - and when I wasn't at the event I was at their website, refreshing and getting all of these updates on big decks/cards seeing play, feature matches between the game's big name players, and then on day 2 we had deck lists of the top 8 as well as detailed play by play.
What do we get with Pokemon? Nothing.
I don't know why I even bother playing this game anymore... if the people running this don't take it seriously, why should I?
In other news: more evidence to show that this site is slowly dying.
Nothing too surprising from what I'm seeing from the updates, the amount of people that showed up is kinda cool I guess.
Let's stop comparing the Pokémon TCG to Magic: The Gathering. The target demographic, the market size, and the revenue involved is in a different ballpark. In that Grand Prix Miami, 1,258 players paid $40 each to play. That is over $50,000 in new revenue (not reallocated from profits elsewhere) to produce an event. It makes sense why a 3rd party company (StarCityGames) has the reason and motivation to self-promote with streaming and more live coverage for players at home.
Serious improvements TPCi did year:
- Structure the schedule so each of the Final matches runs separately on Sunday
- Video equipment so spectators can watch the gameplay
- Audio equipment for live commentary from notable community members (and preventing the players from hearing it)
- Last Chance Tournament on Sunday for people who need more points
- TOM operators publishing online pairings for all of the events
- Adding a third vendor (Top Cut Central)
- Allowing Top Cut Central to run side events all day Thursday before the main events begin
that is a good question.
My first response would be "is there another site that is posting coverage of the event?" I looked around but was unable to find anything. On pokegym, where are the people posting lists of updates? Is it the players? Do the players simply not care enough to advertise their own performance? Maybe it isn't that they don't care but instead that none of those expect(ing)(ed) to well made it far enough in the event and so just didn't advertise it? Either way, the lack of demand for information here doesn't give much of an incentive to want to supply any. Virginia was following its players and posting their results because there was a request for it, so it looked like Virginia players had the best coverage even if they all had a rough time at the event.
My next response is "do people just not come to pokegym for information?" As you said, there wasn't enough information to achieve normal levels of speculation. Where is the discussion about vendors? In previous years, we would know their buy rates ahead of time and what merchandise they were planning to bring. Was that information posted anywhere or was it just absent ahead of the event? Look at this board. Where is the information for anything about the event?
Those are great improvements, but not the main one the community wants.
And it's not difficult to get the stream rolling. Seems like a big miss on P!P's part to me, and many others. Especially when we don't even have to compare Pokemon to MtG, but we can look at other Pokemon events. Canada Nats, other Nats, several Regionals, several States have streams.
Twitter, Facebook (specifically HeyFonte), **********, etc. all get more community discussion than what happens on the 'Gym, and it's not just about Nats coverage. Recently, all the big news stories have gotten more play on other sites: cheating, declumping, larger time limits, etc.