PokePopCast 16: How to Survive a Deck Check
In this episode we focus on what players can do to make sure that their deck and decklist successfully gets through a deck check and doesn’t cause them any problems in the tournament. We...
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PokePopCast 15: Prize Card Penalty No More!
Well now! Pokemon has just released the quarterly updates to Organized Play rules and regulations and with no fanfare they introduced a major change to the Penalty Guidelines! Prize Card Penalty and Multi Prize...
PokePopCast 14: Judge Seminar 2018 – Q&A
Sorry for the delay in getting the rest of the Judge Seminar edited and posted. It was in very bad shape and it took a lot of work. But I do want to thank...
The PokePopCast 13: Judge Seminar – Cheating
This is a special edition of the PokePopCast. Vince Krekeler, the TO of the St. Louis Regionals held in Collinsville IL, sponsored a Judge Seminar along with Pokemon Organized Play. Unfortunately, the streaming of...
The PokePopCast 12: Penalty Guidelines 8.2 Marked Cards (and the TX Regionals Ruling)
In this Episode of the PokePopCast, we KO two Pidgey with one stone. We go over the next section of the penalty guidelines and take the opportunity to see how they apply to a...
The PokePopCast 11: Ultra Prism FAQs, rulings, and Cyrus controversy
In this PopCast, I go over the published FAQs, the reasoning behind them, and some of the controversy over Cyrus Prism Star. I’m starting to get the hang of using this software, so we...
PokePopCast 10: Penalty Guidelines Part 2 and How to Assign Them
In this episode of the PokePopCast, we return to our review of Pokemon’s Penalty Guidelines. Aside from the review of section 6, we go over how a judge should approach issuing penalties and dealing...
PokePopCast 8: Vince Krekeler on Slow Play
Well, this is an extra special episode of the PokePopCast! We have an hour long interview with Vince Krekeler, Meganium45 on the Gym. Vince is a Stage 2 Professor and runs a number...
PokePopCast 7: Penalty Guidelines Part 1
The PokePopCast is starting a series going over the Penalty Guidelines in detail. In Part 1, we review sections 1 through 5. This also discusses how judges should approach handling issues with players, keeping...
PokePopCast 6: Major Change to “Drawing an Extra Card Penalty” and Other Updates
Pokemon Organized Play has updated all of their tournament documents. These documents can be found at the Rules and Resources page on the Pokemon website: https://www.pokemon.com/us/play-pokemon/about/tournaments-rules-and-resources/ Below is a summary of the significant changes...
