Now to all those who say that this whole year's format has been complete and utter garbage, I kind of agree with you, but maybe I'm crazy but look at some of the top players (I've never seen Pooka up there before... ohh wait). Granted the format was bad, but top players were still consistently winning most of the major tournaments. However, with this new format I see there as being almost no chance of that happening.
Scenario: Top ranked players in the world enter Nationals play against random local (first tournament of course) but heard about this great deck that runs this guy called Sableye and they proceed to win the game turn 1, obviously they clearly out predicted and outplayed the higher ranked players the win was fair (ohh wait.....).
I know I was seriously debating sitting out Nationals if the format is MD-on, and I imagine I wasn't the only one (I was going to play some VGC ohh yaaaaaa). However, with this possible change I'm really really really excited to actually try out different decks, playtest and all these other things I honestly have not needed to do in a few years because the format was pretty cut and dry and had such a huge luck factor that I did not even see the need to practice.
To actually get back on topic (sorry...), the OP seems a little bitter about a midseason rotation, but even just changing the rules to BW rules causes a pretty major shift, and yes they are counter able but as others have said they just increase the speed of a game that was already getting much too fast.
I actually stopped to think about what Pokemon was like the season before GG and Claydol, and I realized there wasn't as much search power as there is now (Yes there was Pidgeot I'm aware), and yet still the games went on people generally didn't take 10 minute turns using all of their powers and such, and this new format HGSS on looks to be something similar. There is no Uxie, no super crazy draw that lets you go through YOUR ENTIRE DECK in 1 turn (how is that fair, i'm pretty sure in almost no other TCG's does that ever happen), and yes I understand that may be rare, but you can currently build your deck around just doing that. If implemented this format looks like a whole lot of fun, and would definitely make me think that whoever wins Nationals or Worlds 100% deserves their victory (I'm not saying the previous National/World Champions don't deserve it, but I'm still bitter watching that Uxie Lv. X being top decked like that......).
So ya, wall o' text doubt anyone will really read it, but new format =good
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