NA professor cup: Wormadam Sandy Cloak BANNED

[SD PokéMom]

just posted by mike liesik on the OP professor boards, reposted with permssion:

Wormadam and the Professor Cup
The OP team has had a long discussion about Wormadam and the impact that it had on the European Professor Cup. This event has thrived on being a fun, creative tournament, where players feel comfortable using off the wall decks. That's what makes the event so enjoyable for so many people, POP staff included.

Considering the options available in the Professor Cup format this year, we don't see any reasonable, reliable answer to this deck. Our great concern is that we'll see 95% of the players using this deck, resulting in a terribly uninteresting Professor Cup.

That said, Wormadam Sandy Cloak is not permitted for use at the North American Professor Cup.

The Professor Cup FAQ will be updated tomorrow with this information, and we'll look at sending out an email blast about this as well. Please distribute this information to as many Professors as you can.

I apologize if this causes players to scramble to build new decks with only a handful of days until the event. We did not make this decision lightly, and we strongly feel that it is for the best.

Thank you for your understanding.

Michael Liesik
Organized Play Coordinator
Pokemon USA, Inc.

'mom

[secretsof2113]

Glad to hear this. Now if you guys would ban gallade and empoleon for nats!

I think most of us realized that it was either play wormadam, or fail at countering it.

[Rew]

lolololololool that's hilarious.

[Hatter™]

ROFL!!!!!!!!!!!!!! thats funny

[Pidgeotto Trainer]

lol

Of all the times PUI could've balked and actually ban a good card, they choose a Wormadam. ;p

[Ice'Cold]

Its not funny when you design a deck to specifically beat another and it STILL can't consistently do the job without a t2 koing their only pokemon.

[Phazon Elite]

IDGI . . . why would Wormadam Sandy Cloak be so hard to beat in Common Play?

[Blaziken 1111]

If this card is banned then what will be the play. I think I have a pretty good idea but I'm not sure.

[Hatter™]

Phazon: Its technically a rare.. and there are no rares .... so T2 70 <3 ya... gl beating it =D

[Chairman Kaga]

Originally Posted by Blaziken 1111

If this card is banned then what will be the play.

Whatever you want. The Professor Cup is supposed to be about fun and creativity. Wormadam siphoned every bit of that from the Euro Professor Cup, and then stomped upon its lifeless carcass. It's good to see that Mike and Co. aren't going to let the same thing happen here.

I do feel bad for the Euro Professors, though. How different things would have been without that one silly card in the mix.

[Magnechu]

I thought this tourney was for just Commons and Uncommons, why would this be allowed in the first place?

[Serebii1997J]

The POP 7 One (17 post rule -.-)

[PokeDaddy]

I applaud PUI

This card has no place in the C/U format.

[PokePop]

Originally Posted by Magnechu

I thought this tourney was for just Commons and Uncommons, why would this be allowed in the first place?

Because it was reprinted in POP7 as an Uncommon

[dtrain]

It's in POP 7 as an uncommon
Edit POP beat me to it LOL

[Phazon Elite]

hatter: Oh, yeah . . .

Dang.

[TheDarkTwins]

Good move by POP all around.

Drew

[Muscovy Level X]

I actualy have never seen or heard of a broken Wormadam deck. What makes it so good? I looked up the card, and it doesn't seem any better than just good.
Am I missing something here?

There goes Modified format...

[SD PokéMom]

yes. the thread is about the card being banned from the *professor cup* ONLY; the format for it is modified, NO RARES..

'mom

[Muscovy Level X]

Originally Posted by SD PokéMom

NO RARES...

That's a neat idea. I always thought the professor Cup had the same rules.

[skarmory777]

No rares? Raichu will probably be big in there then.

[The Gorn]

How about Floatzel from DP Trainer Kit 1? It is a reprint of a rare also, isn't it?

[Time for Pain]

Originally Posted by skarmory777

No rares? Raichu will probably be big in there then.

it would if you could use DRE

[PokePop]

Originally Posted by The Gorn

How about Floatzel from DP Trainer Kit 1? It is a reprint of a rare also, isn't it?

They specifically excluded Trainer Kit cards.
You forgot Lucario

[Lawman]

Nice move PUI. Now I wont see Wormys in my sleep and X number of rounds in the Prof Cup. **shuffles off to put Wormys back in binder**

Keith