I would love to work for POP or Pokemon USA when I graduate from collge.
Hey!!! Don't steal my job!!! :wink::tongue::biggrin:
I think POP > wotc. By a lot. Besides, why would you be in a tourny just for the prizes? Of course everyone loves prizes (especially when it comes to winning a trip to Hawaii ;D ), but it's about having fun. Yes, that sounds cheesy but it's true. I can come in dead last at a tourny and have a blast getting to meet new players, trade cards, and play the game.
Same for being far away from tournaments. I live in the middle of nowhere trust me, I'm surrounded on all four sides by farms. Like my boyfriend says, to get there you need to drive to the edge of nowhere then go to the middle of it. I only have the opportunity to make it to some premier events, but it makes those events seem even more fun and worthwhile to me because I don't get to go a lot. Yes, my premier rating isn't that high but once again it's not about the prizes. After all, if you are a really good player then you should be able to get in the top at nats and get an invite anyway, no problem.
I own a league, and everyone gets a lot of things for free. I don't charge players to join my league and everyone gets POP packs and badges and it's a blast. We have so much fun and we like to plan trips together for tournaments (six of us are going to nats, wee!). I also drive nearly 2 hours almost every Saturday to host the league. It's worth it. =)
I would love to work for POP or Pokemon USA when I graduate from collge.
~Rachael
Does anyone miss WOTC? Everything seems to have gotten so much edgier since they stopped running things, and the game has lost a lot of fun, although I think the DP series might remedy this.
Prize support, for example, seems awful. When I went to a WOTC tourney, I entered and ended up not playing-very last place-and won a full box of cards. Now at a huge event like Nationals, you still have to be pretty far up there to even win a couple of packs. I'm going to spend a ton of money coming up this year, and I might walk away with nothing. This will also surely happen to plenty of others as well.
The ratings system too seems flawed, because not everyone can go off to every tournament around them. I think each premier event should only be counted once. (Actually I'd prefer regioned tournament be open only to citizens of that area.) But that's not going to happen, so at least they could only count one tournament score for each event. It's not fair to others who can't afford it.
Back in my WOTC league, it cost nothing to play, and you got free cards and such every month.
Hmm. But what do you guys think? Were things better under WOTC? Thanks for reading anyway.
Could you explain? It's not really clear what you're saying here.I think each premier event should only be counted once. (Actually I'd prefer regioned tournament be open only to citizens of that area.) But that's not going to happen, so at least they could only count one tournament score for each event.
The Premiere tournaments are all free.Prize support, for example, seems awful.
I'm surprised nothing happened to you when you showed us a sneak peak of the Professor Cup "trophy" for this year . So bad :lol:I can't post what I think about your post because I'll get banned.