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posted November 30, 2002 12:58 AM      Profile for matthewssandslash   Email matthewssandslash    Edit/Delete Post Report This Thread to Moderators
Here's an example that shows, to me, why it should be repealed and replaced with the old one. Note that this is a contrived example, but it could certainly happen.

Billy and Susie (yes, stupid names [Wink] ) are playing, when Billy evolves his Teddiursa into a Japanese Dark Ursaring. "What does that do?" Susie asks. "Oh... see its first attack? That discards the top three cards of your deck. That second attack makes me flip a coin for each of your Pokémon, and each time I get heads I do twenty damage to one of them." This sounds reasonable, and Susie has no idea what it actually does, so the game goes on, and with his super-powered Dark Ursaring, Billy crushes Susie.

In the next game, against Bobby, Billy uses a different explanation, since he thinks Bobby might know what Dark Ursaring actually does. He says that for the first attack "it works just like an Erika's Perfume", neglecting that it works against him, too. He says that the second attack "does twenty damage to any of your Pokémon that I flip heads for." If Bobby actually knows about Dark Ursaring, Billy can just say "Oh ya, you can do it on me, too", and then give the actual definition for the second attack; he's lost nothing on this venture, and if the opponent doesn't know, he's highly unlikely to call the judge on something as "trivial" as this.


You KNOW that this'll happen. I don't know why WotC would allow this.

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posted November 30, 2002 01:03 AM      Profile for Psychic_Prof   Email Psychic_Prof    Edit/Delete Post Report This Thread to Moderators
What IS the new language rule?

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posted November 30, 2002 01:49 AM      Profile for SteveP   Email SteveP    Edit/Delete Post Report This Thread to Moderators
I disagree. Your example is outright cheating and anyone caught would/should be severly punished. I ALWAYS announce at the beginning of a tournament that if anyone has questions about what a Foreign language card does, ask the judge.

The other day in a LOTR tournament game I was playing in, my opponent purposely misplayed a card (written in English) to gain an advantage. Dumb me, I didn't read the card and let the play go by me. Later, after the tournament, I read the card and realized the misplay. Shame on me!

So, if you fall victim to someone that likes to take advantage of your ignorance, shame on you.

Psychic_Prof, FYI, under the new Pokemon Floor Rules, you no long need local language cards outside your deck when you have non-local language cards in your deck.

[ November 30, 2002, 01:53 AM: Message edited by: SteveP ]

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posted November 30, 2002 02:16 AM      Profile for NoPoke   Email NoPoke    Edit/Delete Post Report This Thread to Moderators
if any of my players tried that and depending on the players age he'd be heading for a bigtime run in with the DCI! at the very least he'd get a lecture about respect.

Everyone experiments with cheating at some time, but what you say is far to extreeme to be called experimenting.

FWIW the rule is for dci sanctioned play only.

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Doesn't WotC have a list of the text on all the cards in an easy to print format that could be made available to any player that is using the Japanese card?

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posted November 30, 2002 06:50 AM      Profile for WizPog_PokeMom   Email WizPog_PokeMom    Edit/Delete Post Report This Thread to Moderators
Situations like this is why the Oracle exists. As has been said, I make a point of telling players both at tourneys and at League that if they choose to use foreign-language cards in their decks, it is THEIR responsibility to know what that card does...and that ANY misrepresntation of that card to one's opponent constitutes cheating. I also have the complete Oracle loaded in my PDA for my own reference.

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posted November 30, 2002 09:21 AM      Profile for yoshi1001   Email yoshi1001    Edit/Delete Post Report This Thread to Moderators
Actually, what it boils down to (at least in my experience) is that it's a pain in the neck to actually locate cards for translation purposes when people don't have them (if youu haven't seen it happen you'd be amazed what a drain this this was under the old rules). So this is a good change. Of course, from the player's perspective, as it still makes more sense to use English cards as translations (even though they aren't required). Why carry the whole oracle around when you just need a few cards?

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posted November 30, 2002 10:42 AM      Profile for IPGeek21   Email IPGeek21    Edit/Delete Post Report This Thread to Moderators
I LOVE the NEW FLOOR Rule change. AND I am sure players from around the world do who CAN ONLY get ENGLISH cards for many of these new sets.

WHAT this NEW rules does is place the RESPONSIBILITY for knowing the game in the HANDS of the PLAYERS & the JUDGE.

Can;t verify an evolution or as move or an attack... call the judge. The opponent is misrepresenting their deck... GAME loss penalty. What is the problem?

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posted November 30, 2002 12:02 PM      Profile for kurobatto   Email kurobatto    Edit/Delete Post Report This Thread to Moderators
Okay, I thought of a real reason why the new language rule is bad. Say someone plays a Japanese Sabrina's Gaze or Japanese Misty's Tears, but they've had their artwork changed when they were printed in American. How can you identify either of them as what they really are? I believe I remember one of the MTs saying you can identify a card by its artwork, but these cards have their artwork changed.

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posted November 30, 2002 12:05 PM      Profile for yoshi1001   Email yoshi1001    Edit/Delete Post Report This Thread to Moderators
As I recall, that effects a total of about four to six cards, most of which are easily handled (usually the artwork's subject material gives it away).

[ November 30, 2002, 12:10 PM: Message edited by: yoshi1001 ]

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posted November 30, 2002 02:10 PM      Profile for Espeon200   Email Espeon200    Edit/Delete Post Report This Thread to Moderators
The ones I can think of are Misty's Tears, Sabrina's Gaze and NP Promo/LC Mewtwo.

I've had the Dark Ursaring one done to me. Before NEO Destiny was released one person at our league thought it was a Team Rocket's Meowth without self damage. It was even worse because I had given my copies of the translation to somebody else. Pokemom, do you have a downloadable version of Pokemon translations for Palm anywhere?

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posted November 30, 2002 02:52 PM      Profile for matthewssandslash   Email matthewssandslash    Edit/Delete Post Report This Thread to Moderators
Great, 'Mom. We'll all just upload this Oracle (which well over 99% of us, myself included before just now, don't know about) into our PDA's so that when we're judging a tournament or playing in a tournament and someone plays a card, we can call up our PDA's and show it to our opponent, and then watch as the person says "But that's not official! You made that yourself!" "But look at the official logo on the official site!" "You just forged that! CHEATER!" "No, seriously, it's linked from the main, official site!" "OH YA? I bet you forged that, too! If I'm wrong, why don't ya PROVE IT by showing me an American Dark Ursaring???" "Well, I don't have one with me..." "See? This is what it does then!" Then when we finally callthe judge, it looks like HE doesn't know! So we show him our PDA's, and he says "I don't have time to solve this! Figure it out yourselves!"

>_<

Oh wait a second! We don't HAVE PDA's, do we? And what if the judge doesn't have one either? -_- Come on.

And if you DO catch them cheating, please. A game loss? Don't make me laugh. That should be met with an immediate disqualification, if not a DCI ban. I'm not kidding. This is the worst kind of cheating, besides burglary.

Har har. You guys, remember the old days, when if you wanted to play a card, you needed to actually have it? With this... it's ruining the game, perhaps, but it's certainly opening up new possibilities for cheaters.

What you're really doing, by letting them play on your "ignorance", is letting the people who DON'T have every card memorized to have the advantage. I've yet to see anyone explain to me how that helps the game.

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posted November 30, 2002 04:18 PM      Profile for SteveP   Email SteveP    Edit/Delete Post Report This Thread to Moderators
Well matthewssandslash, you certainly have your passionate opinion. The new rule helps tons more players than it hurts. The good heavily outweighs the bad. And, we have enough decent judges and professors out there to police for such blatant cheating.

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Har har. You guys, remember the old days, when if you wanted to play a card, you needed to actually have it? With this... it's ruining the game, perhaps, but it's certainly opening up new possibilities for cheaters.

Nothing has changed here. You STILL have the card, just not a local language version of the card.

(SteveP jumps on his soapbox.)

We just defeated a ballot issue in Colorado that would have reguired English to be the language used for ALL public school classrooms in Colorado. You just can't force your language on people who don't speak your language.

(SteveP steps down from his soapbox.)

Like I said before, it's every players' responsibility to know the cards they're playing and the cards being played against them. They don't have to memorise every card. If they don't know what the card says, call the judge. Now, if the judge can't or won't resolve the question, we have a completely different issue here (bad or untrained judges).

Foreign language card-usage is here to stay. Most of the Professors and Tournament Organizers know that. They must learn how to deal with it. Same goes for you players. Learn to deal with it. It's MUCH better than the "olden days" when some poor innocent kid got a game loss if he played with foreign language cards and had no local language versions of those cards.

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posted November 30, 2002 05:21 PM      Profile for Michel   Email Michel    Edit/Delete Post Report This Thread to Moderators
Cheating is, I think, not the rule in this game.

In the USA, you have English and some Japanese cards.

As Pokemon is a worldwide game, there are other countries, with different languages, where the game is played.

One example : cards are printed in French, Italian, Dutch, German, ...
If an Italian player goes to play a tournament in Germany, he needed his deck (maybe in Italian or English), and a copy of the cards in German (local language of the tournament).

The same player plays another tournament in Holland, he needed one copy of the cards in Dutch, ...

Let's imagine he's qualified for Worlds ... he has to find English copies of the same cards.

Quite expensive ... and stupid too !

The Oracle is great, ... and can be printed.
It's still possible to make copies of the cards, a page of 9 cards is perfect on a single sheet.

Do you need a Japanese copy of a card to cheat ? English cards are great too if you're a cheater [Wink] And sanctions are ready [Razz]

IMO, the new language rule is great, it helps a lot of players in many countries outside the USA.

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posted November 30, 2002 05:59 PM      Profile for IPGeek21   Email IPGeek21    Edit/Delete Post Report This Thread to Moderators
I just love how people get so IMPRACTICAL and self-centered about this.

I AM POSITIVE Michel can attest to how this is MORE helpful than not.

IF ANYONE in a DCI tournament mis-represents their deck THEY could be DQ'ed, they could have a game Loss or PRIZE penalty.

THOSE ARE the options. THE judge's call is final and YOU AS a player better know...

I guess he HAS never heard of a PRINTER... yeah I have my PDA and YEP I bust out with it WHEN I have to be POSITIVE about a ruling *i wanna keep as FEW trees being chopped down if I can help it* ... BUT I guess unlike YOUR LOCAL head judge... they TRUST me for knowing this game around my area [Roll Eyes]

Different ARTwork? Isn't this again YOUR responsibility as a player?

THAT is why foreign CARDS are not playable unless they have been released by WOtC...

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posted November 30, 2002 08:29 PM      Profile for The true lord of the pits   Email The true lord of the pits    Edit/Delete Post Report This Thread to Moderators
This kinda possible cheating has always disgusted people at my local league, so we set up a rule where if you p.ay with Japanese cards, you must AT LEAST have 1 american version in your deck, so you may switch out the Japanese card for the US one. Of course, you would shuffle your deck VERY well afterwards.

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Matthew you have missed an important point. Don't argue with the head judge! You may try to negociate, but an entrenched position especially when there is a suspicion of cheating isn't going to get any player much further than a DSQ and ejection from the tournament.

You are right that it IS a potential problem, but I personally think that the benefits will outweigh the difficulties. We have to remove the blocks that hinder the games growth at an international level.

(Biased European view there I [Big Grin] [Wink] )

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posted December 01, 2002 10:37 AM      Profile for ShadowCard      Edit/Delete Post Report This Thread to Moderators
Well, you could just buy a translation book for pokemon cards. Mines only goes threw gym challenge though, i've yet to find one that has neo and E translations. Anyway, i'm at the piont that if you showed me a japanese card that i could tell you a generalization of the attacks and pokemon powers because i've seen most of them for so long. Especially because most were raved about at some point in time that when they came up in conversation, you had to recall what card the person was talking about based on part of the attach or pokemon power. Like:" that pokemon that says you cannot brings cards back from the discard..." (talking about neo revelation parasect). While that's partially incorrect, you had to be able to recall it and corrent them. Besides, if you had a question about what you think is a false interpretation of the card used by your opponent, its your responsibility to ask the gym leader/judge before the match ends.

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posted December 01, 2002 11:28 AM      Profile for SteveP   Email SteveP    Edit/Delete Post Report This Thread to Moderators
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This kinda possible cheating has always disgusted people at my local league, so we set up a rule where if you p.ay with Japanese cards, you must AT LEAST have 1 american version in your deck, so you may switch out the Japanese card for the US one. Of course, you would shuffle your deck VERY well afterwards.
You can do just about anything at league play I guess. [Roll Eyes] [Roll Eyes] However, if this is happening at your DCI-sanctioned tournaments, then someone is doing a big 'no-no.'

matthewssandslash, read what the European players are saying. They, more than anyone, know how bad the previous local-language rule was.

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posted December 02, 2002 03:12 PM      Profile for matthewssandslash   Email matthewssandslash    Edit/Delete Post Report This Thread to Moderators
Then make it legal for Europe (and perhaps for European players in non-European tourneys) and most of the rest of the world. I'm sure that the benefits there exceed the downsides. But in the USA and probably Canada, if you make the new language rule legal there (which it already is!), it'll just open the way for cheaters. (If you can't get English cards over here but you can get German cards, you need mental help or something. [Wink] )

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posted December 02, 2002 03:32 PM      Profile for yoshi1001   Email yoshi1001    Edit/Delete Post Report This Thread to Moderators
Promotes cheating? I think you underestimate how much common sense kids have. In addition, this is a crummy method of cheating-it can be proven after the fact, and it takes a lot of practice to pull off. Were I into hitting below the belt (and of course I'm not), I would probably choose something easier to do.

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hey matthewssandslash, come to Worlds 2003. I want to play you with my all-Japanese deck. [Razz] [Razz]

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If you can't get English cards over here but you can get German cards, you need mental help or something [Wink] .
Have you not seen the "bargain packs" of cards at places like Target or WalMart? Multiple foreign-language boosters at bargain prices; were I in need of cards from those sets, YOU BET I'd buy the foreign-language ones and use those. In fact, I DID do that when vendors had Japanese cards for $1 or $2 per pack...same cards, PLUS a holo [Smile] ? Sounds good to me!

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posted December 02, 2002 04:26 PM      Profile for matthewssandslash   Email matthewssandslash    Edit/Delete Post Report This Thread to Moderators
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Promotes cheating? I think you underestimate how much common sense kids have. In addition, this is a crummy method of cheating-it can be proven after the fact, and it takes a lot of practice to pull off. Were I into hitting below the belt (and of course I'm not), I would probably choose something easier to do.

Actually, it can't be proven. Like the guy above me said, "they just took advantage of my ignorance"... they won't claim he cheated, and it's an unprovable claim if they DO (which they won't). This happened to me, too, when to save time I asked the guy "Do you know what Time Capsule does?" and he shuffled non-basic energy into the deck without telling me. That led to a REAL mess. Fortunately, I still won. [Wink] And you're not into cheating? Could've fooled me ( : runs away screaming) [ROFL] [ROFL] Speaking of which, isn't it a coincidence that 1001 is exactly half of 2002, where we are right now? (hint hint)

And 'Mom,...

Japanese packs are really stupid, I think, because I've never seen them CHEAPER than American (although I suppose occasionally they may be). And besides, you just proved my point about mental health! [Wink] ( : runs away screaming from both yoshi1001 AND SD_pokemom)

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posted December 02, 2002 04:46 PM      Profile for yoshi1001   Email yoshi1001    Edit/Delete Post Report This Thread to Moderators
Perhaps proof was the wrong word. More like sufficient evidence. If someone plays a local-language card incorrectly, it's simple misrepresentation. Most likely the card was just read wrong. For a foreign-language card, one has to assume the card was checked first (virtually no one will put a card in their deck if they have no idea what it says). Therefore, the player should know exactly what it does. If the person is wrong, and it benefits them, a good judge can read the scenario and determine whether the act was intentional or not.

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