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Golduck
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posted March 17, 2003 02:46 AM
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Raymond Lalic
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posted March 17, 2003 05:31 AM
Looks like its going to be a good year for this game!!!
Our country will be on your backs. ![[bow]](../tcg/graemlins/bow.gif)
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Timmy Two Tone
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posted March 17, 2003 07:53 AM
Back in January, Three of us Professors here in Portland, Oregon held what we dubbed as a NW regional tourney. We had a good turn out I think 40 some players and we even did some side events. DMTM came down from Seattle and we had a blast. We drew from all over the NW. We where making plans to do another next month before or after SBZ. After the news of PTC and WoTC splitting I was not going to do it, The time and work involved promoting etc... got that why bother attitude.
However, I think that the dumbest thing to do is do nothing, so we will hold a NW Regional Tourney#2 and I hope all of you Great NW Pokemon fans will come!! The best way to keep the game alive at the local level is to provide an organized play format.
I ve seen more and more interest in the game recently and not just with young kids. Sunday we had a small tourney (unsanctioned so I could Play)and had two 13-14 year old boys play, they had gotten some new cards and wanted to get back into the game! I see it at the Wizards store we play at on Saturdays 1-2 new faces every week.
My friend holds Battlezone every Sunday at Things from Another Planet in Portland and every week 1-2 new faces, He has a steady 12-15 players each week now. If you hold a weekly event people will come and play.
Pokemon has these things going for it:
Brand new season for the TV show Pokemon Advanced 100 new Pokemon
New Gameboy games coming out this wednesday.
Pokemon 4 being released on Video this Tuesday!
New movie coming out This Summer.
The only Anime/Card game/Video game with its own store located in Prime Real Estate in New York City.
I think of this, and logicly what corporation would not provide OP to a Game that comes from a Phenomena that has all this? It would be idiotic not to would'nt it?
So with this said it is far from over my friends, It is just a new begining. So keep Organizing tourneys Sancyioned or not and whaen you do make sure to get names addresss and eamil addresses for all players and players parents. If we all do this one thing together we will have compiled a huge database of national players who will surley join a Pokemon Players Association. They already play.
On a final note when Pokegym closes why not switch to an existing website that already has name recognition such as www.pokemonzeo.com, Or www.pokeschool.com?
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Marcello-Milord
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posted March 17, 2003 11:07 AM
My 2 cents...
Surely everyone has wrote a lot of times that, but...
TPC own this game ("We don't own this game", remember?), Nintendo owns TPC.
These two are business companies, and they don't want surely to waste 5 years of world-selling.
And these sellings were made also thanks to the WoTC work, not only about expansions themselves, but on OP, tournaments, and the Prof Program too.
If they decides to take the game and say "Hey ganga, we are back, now we'll change everything 'cause we are not WoTC and you have to remember that", they would be a sort of stupid people, and this would become the baddest marketing operation of all times.
I am sure that TPC/Nintendo or the company that will ahve the manufacturing and distributing of the game will take a look at the OP, tournament organizing, and at the DCI-system too.
Probably they will save the rankings, and - why not - they'll make a good BZ-ish program, a Prof Program continuation, and maybe something new and exciting.
It is a transition moment, not a "Past is past and future is future" system.
The game is the same, we are the same, we have to not lose the community, it is important, guys. And I'm here with you, always.
And about the rules... prepare yourself to put 3 damage counters on your confused Pokémon, and to not draw a card on your first turn ![[Smile]](../tcg/smile.gif)
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professorbix
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posted March 17, 2003 05:12 PM
a suggestion.....for what it is worth. orginization among all of us is a great thing, but....... we cannot get ahead of ourselves. we really need to find out what nintendo and the powers that be have in mind. could OP and the professor program be carried over...possibly. could we get a form of THE DCI?...possibly. before we waste a whole lot of time and possibly money jumping the gun, we REALLY NEED TO KNOW WHAT IS REALLY IN STORE FOR THE POKEMON PLAYERS GLOBALLY AS FAR AS OP GOES. so thats just a suggestion....hope i don't get hit with a "swift" attack for it. because i WILL do what i can to keep OP going for as long as there are players willing to play the game.....thanx for reading,
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posted March 17, 2003 05:26 PM
sorry.....need to add a question/suggestion, a possible meet/discussion place could be done at origins?....maybe it was already suggested and i missed it...(been a long day)..........ZZZZZZZZZ
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bulbasnore
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posted March 17, 2003 06:42 PM
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Originally posted by professorbix:
sorry.....need to add a question/suggestion, a possible meet/discussion place could be done at origins?....maybe it was already suggested and i missed it...(been a long day)..........ZZZZZZZZZ
Yep, origins & gencon will be key places to discuss. I hope we have something that has already had some work put into it to discuss when we get to that time. I appreciate your POV about finding out info before jumping in. I don't think it is bad if we move in parallel, if I may say.
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posted March 17, 2003 07:16 PM
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Originally posted by Michel:
ScythKing, you're right.
There is a big difference between what we'd like to do and the budget we have.
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We'd love to go to Indianapolis too - if there is a tournament I don't want to miss it's Indianapolis - but we'll have to find the budget.
Three plane tickets Brussels-Indianapolis ? 3200 USD ! Without eating, lodging, ...
I think we're not alone in that case. We don't see many people going abraod for other tournaments than qualifiers.
Ha! You are NOT alone. I struggle to budget how my son and I will get from California to Ohio for the PKMN TCG tourneys at Origins, but this is for his Middle School Graduation present. And, we are not flying.
Would that I could take a vacation trip to England, Norway, Belgium... if I did, I guarantee to bring my decks and I would try to arrange time just to play in a weekly league or tourney let alone a big event... but I am dreaming.
Corporate sponsorship of 'abroad' trips is fine...for the very very few people who win the tourneys (and heartfelt congratulations to you, and them). What matters most are the local OP events. After that the regional. Yes, the STSQ & GC type events were regionals, but both local and regional can be done by players (see other posters in this thread with big tourneys in UK and N.W. USA & others?). I think there is some experience in the world that shows players will gather for large events that aren't qualifiers (though this is not universal, I'm sure).
However, we're getting ahead of ourselves when we talk about OP & regionals from a players association. BUT, given all the experience we've had in the last three years, a players association, formed just to have a collective player voice with the vendor, seems worth it to me. I'm not just assuming the worst! I think such an association could also work well with a responsive & flexible vendor! However, at this point, we don't know what we'll get. I say, let not 'just see what happens', but let's 'get together and see what happens'.
Cheers!
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posted March 19, 2003 10:49 AM
check this out, when decipher lost star wars, the players formed a committe."The Committee is a non-profit organization of Star Wars CCG players and promoters that was established in February 2002 to carry on tournament and other support of Decipher's version of the Star Wars game"
Deciper later donated $1 million to the committee, check it out here http://www.madal.com/decipherstarwarsccg.htm
"When Decipher’s license to make Star Wars card games expired, they could easily see that thousands of players would continue to play their games for years to come, namely the original Star Wars CCG. To aid in this future, Decipher commissioned the formation of the Star Wars CCG Player’s Committee. The function of the PC is to plan Championship events (both on the local level and around the world), address the rules questions that players have, to teach the game to new players, and to keep the game fresh through the creation of “virtual cards”. To find out more about the PC and virtual cards, please visit the PC’s "
i think we should get info about what the Star Wars CCG Player's Committee did since they were able to keep their game alive. the committiee's website is http://www.swccgpc.com/
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posted March 20, 2003 04:58 AM
20 players at league last night, ran an 18 player swiss tournament, prizes, fun, loads of smiles and laughter.
Nintendo with Decipher Guy -- bodes well for prize support and OP.
Professors organizing, players happy, game still being produced .. heck I think we can see signs of life ![[Wink]](../tcg/wink.gif)
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bulbasnore
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posted March 20, 2003 01:06 PM
Nice intelligence TrekkieFive. Not much chance we can get $1M, but still good. I couldn't find much about their charter or organization structure on that site. You got any pointers on that kind of thing?
Yes, 'pro things are looking good. Let's keep things rolling locally & globally. Looks like there could be good people to work with an Nintendo (and Wizards) if there were to be a players association. Good signs. The play environment (from a card/deck variety point of view) seems like the best ever. Good times.
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procrastination_alley
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posted March 25, 2003 10:12 AM
Ok, I’ve been following this thread for a while, but nothing has been suggested to increase traffic in the individual gyms, just pokemon in general. I am willing to help out with the players association from up here in Canada, but I believe there are better candidates for heading up the Canadian contingent than me. Perhaps one of the 3 current master professors. I have only been in the game for 1-˝ years and a professor for 7 months or so, whereas they’ve been at it from the beginning. What I can offer is some suggestions that we up here are working on implementing.
This suggestion started in another gym in the Toronto area called the Emerald City Gym and has spread. Let’s use the competitiveness to our advantage. Those that are able can make up badges to be used as a prize for defeating a gym leader 2 out of 3 battles. That’s somewhat like how Ash got his badges in the series. Ask MTM or DMTM about their badges. So far there’s been made a weedle badge, a gengar badge, a mod chip badge, a phoenix badge, and others. We’re working on making a green grasshopper badge (from the fable of the grasshopper and the ant showing the evils of PROCRASTINATION), a red fire bug badge, a yellow preying mantis badge, and others because we are called the Neo Prism Gym. Hence the colors. Lots of kids think it’s great when they beat a gym leader. It’ll keep us on our toes and help them to work on their decks.
Another suggestion is we charge $5 Canadian to get into the tournaments, which automatically entitles each participant to get a booster pack of their choice. This helps the store to sell product and helps generate a few younger players interest to get the newer cards. Not only that but helps them to get more modified decks even though we currently run unlimited. Any left over from the price goes to a draw for a pack at the end. Also we have a deck garage where we pick apart a deck (constructively of course) to see what can be improved, what works well for it and what would work well against it. The owner of the deck gets a free pack as well because everyone knows his strategy now, and he gets his deck fixed, or suggestions, for free. So there was one instance where a young fellow for $5 ended up with 3 packs!
We also are working on a wall of remembrance. Professors get their picture on the wall. If you attend and participate in 10 or more of our tournaments (in house) you get a picture on the wall. Also memorable moments get put up there as well such as when one of our participants got dead last out of 67 at Superbattlezone (he laughed harder than anyone else). These are only a few of the things we’re working on specifically for our gym, to help keep things interesting for the kids, and attendance going.
Hopefully with the new changes after wizards things will be even more exciting. Thanks wizards for all the fun of the past few years.
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posted March 25, 2003 11:21 AM
procrastination_alley,
It's good to see someone being so proactive .. keep up the good work ..
And don't let any perception of inexperience stop you.
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14,000 deck boxes yeah we'll take all of them .... what have I done!
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DMTM
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posted March 25, 2003 02:50 PM
and a very nice badge it is! Thanks for the Great Gengar badges..perhaps I will give out some at Origins/GenCon!
DMTM
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JDGloom
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posted March 25, 2003 05:53 PM
Ahh... last week of classes and I can get back to running the ECG... *flexes in anticipation*
Proc - very cool that you guys are working out your own badges. I might just come up and visit you all on a date to see if I can get my lil' paws on any. ;D
DMTM - Glad you're enjoying the badges. It was an honor to present them to you and MTM - I think they're some of FiX_R's best work.
It's true that a gym system really keeps the game going very strongly. Right now, even without two of the three gym leaders present to keep things going smoothly, the ECG is pulling in pretty good numbers for weekly tournaments - not bad considering that some of our usual players have been kind enough to take up TOing and judging roles in my absence. The only reason it's still going strong is the dedication that its members were fit to show, even in a rather crisis-like period (two gym leaders being snatched from their positions on the same weekend, on the fly). A big thanks to Fix, Dooley, and others who've really stepped up to keep our community going in the way we've always run it.
Proc is right. If you want to keep a high level of play in your area with lots of players, start a gym. You don't need badges, although that seems to be a very popular attraction and a nice way to distinguish those who've given a lot to the community. Originally that was begun as a way to appease the younger members of the ECG (most of whom are now departed) who liked the badge system of Years 1 and 2 in the Pokemon League promo, but it quickly became alot more in our gym. Now, earning a badge ranges from "pretty cool" to "a pretty huge deal" depending on whose it is, and earning the right to be a badge-carrier is something we bestow on our own members, or admirable individuals like DMTM and MTM, as a sign of respect and gratitude for dedication to the game.
I wish I could post more about this right now, but I'm constantly erasing things since I'm rambling a bit (very, very tired). I think I might get an article up on zeo in a week or two. Proc, get in touch with me so we can compare notes? We should bounce stuff around a bit, it sounds like you've got some great new ideas. I also want to express how glad I am that your new gym is going so well! Sounds like you guys are doing great - after what happened back in December, Fix' and I, and all the rest of the ECG are always here for you.
I agree with proc - a good way to support the game is to run a gym yourself. Maybe we, as a world wide community, could coordinate something on a larger basis. Some sort of network of gyms? Maybe that's something to look at in the future. In the mean time, I think I'll try and get up an article soon detailing how we run the ECG if anybody's interested - it might have some little tidbits for anyone who wants to take OP into their own hands on a local, permanent basis. If anyone would like such an article to be written, drop me a line at [email protected] and I'll get one going - it seems the model works, so, might as well spread it around if people are curious.
Tired...rambling... *quiets himself so he doesn't embarrass himself further*
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posted March 25, 2003 09:30 PM
'gloom, ECG?
What are the badges like?
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posted March 26, 2003 09:50 AM
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Originally posted by JDGloom:
Proc - very cool that you guys are working out your own badges. I might just come up and visit you all on a date to see if I can get my lil' paws on any. ;D
DMTM - Glad you're enjoying the badges. It was an honor to present them to you and MTM - I think they're some of FiX_R's best work.
It's true that a gym system really keeps the game going very strongly.
A big thanks to Fix, Dooley, and others who've really stepped up to keep our community going in the way we've always run it.
Proc is right. If you want to keep a high level of play in your area with lots of players, start a gym. You don't need badges, although that seems to be a very popular attraction and a nice way to distinguish those who've given a lot to the community.
I wish I could post more about this right now.... I think I might get an article up on zeo in a week or two.
.... Fix' and I, and all the rest of the ECG are always here for you.
I agree with proc - a good way to support the game is to run a gym yourself. Maybe we, as a world wide community, could coordinate something on a larger basis. Some sort of network of gyms? Maybe that's something to look at in the future. In the mean time, I think I'll try and get up an article soon detailing how we run the ECG if anybody's interested - it might have some little tidbits for anyone who wants to take OP into their own hands on a local, permanent basis. If anyone would like such an article to be written, drop me a line at [email protected] and I'll get one going - it seems the model works, so, might as well spread it around if people are curious.
-gloom
I'm personally very glad for friends like yourselves, Gloom and Fix_r. We'd be glad to see you any time you want to drop by. Only thing is, Badges take time to get right. Fix_r did a great job on those badges and that's why I felt it was such a great idea. Hope DMTM didn't think I had anything to do with them, though I would have loved to. BTW, Fix is probably the best to talk to but essentially, he made a mould resembling what he wanted, put plaster parris (spelling?) in it, when dry popped it out, hand painted each individually, then stuck the pin backing on. Quite a bit of work in your spare time, but I'm sure well worth it.
Actually, perhaps it's just a matter of semantics, but I believe an association of leagues
would be better than an association of players. Leagues are where all the action is. If you want a say in what happens, head up a league, join those progressively working in the forefront. That way there is a little more unity, working for the benefit of your league and players instead of what each individual player wants.
As far as articles go, Gloom, I think we could all use any suggestions of how your gym functions. Any advice would be good.
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posted March 26, 2003 01:12 PM
Yeah, the badges are really time consuming to make. I think now it's a bit easier, but originally, just figuring out what processes to use was a long and arduous series of trials and errors for Fix. Basically, first the badge is described, sketched, and discussed by whoever the new badge carrier will be. Then Fix works on some plans, figures out what's reasonable (the badges are 3D, and some times effects like glow in the dark finish is added) to try and achieve effect-wise, and then carves a few prototypes out of a standard wooden circular badge blank that the ECG uses (all ECG badges, except for the Phoenix Badge, are uniformly circular). Then, the prototype is shown, the people involved all ooh and aah, changes are made if they are needed (which they basically never are...the prototypes always blow us away!), and if required, a final prototype is carved. The prototype is then used to create multiple moulds out of some sort of plastic rubber material, the name of which I can't remember at the moment. The moulds are then filled with a plastic mixture, and left to set. Then they're hand-painted, the pinbacks are affixed with industrial silicon glue (I think), and the badges are given a double layer of glaze to give them a nice shiny finish.
The amount of testing on the glues, and when to glue (glue must come before finish), took a whoooooole lot of time to perfect, but now we have durable, pretty nice-looking, handmade badges for our gym, all thanks to Fix!
-Gloom
Oops. Edit for a moment, I forgot to answer bulbasnore's question. There are five ECG badges. The original four were Phoenix (mine, as head gym leader), Force (NovaTheEnforcer's), Crystal (Dooley's), and Gemini (shared by Fix_R and his son). Fix then made his own badge to encourage modified play, the Mod Chip Badge.
The Mod Chip Badge is defended exclusively in Modified Format play. The other four are up to the badge-carrier to decide format. Play is always done in a best-of-three series of battles so that the luck factor is minimized. Five Badge Challenges can be issued on certain Badge Challenge dates (under the year two system, there were two dates for three of the badges, and one date for the other two, per five week cycle), and special events can also garner special challenges. All badge carriers can also be challenged casually at major events like Worlds or Gencon if they happen to have some spare time - just ask Fix_R, Nova, Dooley, Jake, MTM, DMTM, or myself at a major event if we've got the time for it, and we might be able to give you a shot. Purity's Sugarshock Badge is, I believe, in the works too, once I can lift some of the workload off of Fix_R's back.
The Phoenix badge is a black, sideways oval with a green phoenix in raised segments adorning the front. This also serves as the ECG logo, and can be seen on any ECG deck skins.
The Force badge is a blue circle, with a yellow and red starburst design raised on the front.
The Mod Chip Badge is a red circle, with a motherboard design raised on the front.
The Gemini Badge is a half black and half silver circle, divided down the center, with the black side imprinted with a silver moon and stars, and the silver side raised with a yellow sun.
The Crystal Badge is a deep blue circle with a raised silver crystal outcropping on the front.
The Oingo Boingo Badge is a deep green circle with the Zeo Oingo Boingo Weedle raised on the front.
The Darkness Badge is a black circle with a raised Gengar (modelled after the pose of the holo sabrina's gengar) in purple on the front. The smirking mouth glows in the dark.
I should really get pictures of these...
whew.
-gloom
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posted March 26, 2003 05:34 PM
One word: Wow!
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posted March 26, 2003 07:00 PM
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Originally posted by JDGloom:
I should really get pictures of these...
whew.
That's amazing. Would love to see those badges.
ECG=Ekruteak City Gym?
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posted March 26, 2003 07:18 PM
ECG stands for Emerald City Gym, actually...
...yeah. It was a few hours after we named it that we realized "@!*#, that's like the wizard of oz..." buuuuut, we couldn't change the name after that, and it's grown on everybody since.
I'll see if I can include badge pictures in the article, maybe. I'll get it up, hopefully, next weekend. (me, ech, pure, and poinko are working seattle this weekend and I've got a bit of work to get done before leaving, otherwise I'd get the article up ASAP) Since Proc is finding our model to be something helpful, maybe others will too! ![[Big Grin]](../tcg/biggrin.gif)
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posted March 26, 2003 08:30 PM
So if you haven't already realized this or done so, another way to bring everyone together is to work on naming your gym. Sometimes people will come up with the wierdest gym names, but you never know. Have a sheet that people can offer sugestions for a couple weeks and set a date for voting. If you do it when you have a tournament, I bet you'll have a lot closer atmosphere henceforth. ![[Cool]](../tcg/cool.gif)
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posted March 27, 2003 04:37 AM
You had a really great idea!, I would love to see that badges, you are really helping the game, since you now give players even more incentive to keep on playiong, and the best way to keep the game going is to work together.
Well, that's all...
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posted April 04, 2003 08:37 PM
Believe it or not, I've actually had people come up to me and say, "I play pokemon with my friends sometimes but I didn't know there was anywhere nearby to join a club." Really! You'd think people would know where to find a location by now, but what this tells me is that we need to "advertise, advertise, advertise ..."
From: Utopia, Ontario, Canada | Registered: Sep 2002
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posted April 08, 2003 01:42 PM
Overhere most people even don't know that you can really play a game with pokemoncards. They find the cards a waist of money.
I worked very hard to get 20 children playing every week, without any support of a store.
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