Pokémon TCG: Sword and Shield—Brilliant Stars

Wi-Fi Tournaments added to Championship Series

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cadethian

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Source: http://gonintendo.com/?mode=viewstory&id=192291

Here's the especially interesting tidbit:

BELLEVUE, WASH.-December 5, 2012-The Pokémon Company International announced today it is adding Global Battle Union (GBU) Wi-Fi tournaments to its North American 2013 Video Game Championship Series season, making it easier than ever for video game players to step down the road to the Pokémon World Championships. Beginning with the 2012 VGCS Winter Battle, taking place December 13th through December 17th, top finishers of the Wi-Fi tournament will earn byes at live tournaments, including January's Pokémon Winter Regional Championships. Top participants will also receive Championship Points, bringing them one step closer to potentially earning invitations to the 2013 Pokémon World Championships in Vancouver, British Columbia.
 
No offense to Pokemon, but it would be nice to find out about this more than 4 hours before the advertised sign up time starts.

Oh yeah, and finding it out from pokemon.com wouldn't hurt either.
 
I agree- I miss a good amount of info for stuff like this to post in here BECAUSE Pokemon.com does not post anything in this manner.

Believe it or not- I tend to find stuff like this on other sites, and for almost the last year: Pokemon.com is the last site on my list to check/look for any info at all.

Like, the 2013 VGC rule/format-- not yet on Pokemon.com, unless you go into support to download the info. The "general public" wouldn't know to do this, and they don't make a page availible to simply just have it posted to see with a simple advertisment/notice at all.

The amount of time I spend looking for info is crazy..................... seeing info posted everywhere but an offical site: just wrong.
 
How often do people find TCG information first on Pokemon.com?
 
Well, so far as I remember, the TCG format for this season was announced via pokemon.com

As it is, it has been announced here and on Nugget Bridge, but not on Pokemon.com.
 
At RB Golbat:

Yeah, Alpha Zealot posted the info onto here, but the link was broken and so I "spruced it up a bit" to get the info on here as I could not even find it on Pokemon.com until another member pointed out WHERE to find, through SUPPORT-
Really? Find it through support? How many people know to go into the support area of a site to find stuff like this?

Like, why not do a simple page post on the VGC news on the site's main front page for the Video game area?
Plus having to download the info?

meh........... I hope that they get better at getting info like this out like how the TCG info gets out.

One thing to consider is that VGC is now getting mixed into the events, they are still trying to fine tune the news/info stuff into their routine to get it out regularly when it comes to VGC.
 
I think AlphaZealot's post was meant to be a preview before the document when live with the wider community. I don't think there's anything wrong with this since it lets them catch errors like the missing Soul Dew rule.
 
What TRE said. Stuff takes time go live on the official channels. This way the hardcore get info earlier and can help them catch anything that might be out of place.
 
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