Pokémon TCG: Sword and Shield—Brilliant Stars

Why Team Galactic's Wager needs errata

PokeWisconsin said:
The card "Team Galactic's Wager" makes the players play "Rock-Paper-Scissors." This was a terrible decision by the Japanese. As a judge I already know there will be players who will do their best to avoid losing the game by hesitating to make their decision. Also, games like this should never be incorporated into Pokemon because although it seems like it could be fun, it wastes valuable time when a simple coin flip would suffice. What are your thoughts?
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The game is often played by novices as a game of chance. However, the true beauty and complexity of an RPS match becomes clear when advanced strategies are employed.
 
PokeWisconsin said:
The card "Team Galactic's Wager" makes the players play "Rock-Paper-Scissors." This was a terrible decision by the Japanese. As a judge I already know there will be players who will do their best to avoid losing the game by hesitating to make their decision. Also, games like this should never be incorporated into Pokemon because although it seems like it could be fun, it wastes valuable time when a simple coin flip would suffice. What are your thoughts?
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Write you choices on paper. How hard is that to understand? It's cheat-proof.

The difference between coin-flipping and RPS is that with coins, there are no choices to make, and therefore no chance for strategy/metagaming.
 
Instead of having pen, paper & the inevitable trash left behind, how about, on 6 spare energy cards, unsleeved or sleeved differently than your deck, have the words rock, paper & scissors written on them to use?
 
RPS isn't random because there's a human mind behind the choice of what symbol to give. Say I go to a tournament and play 4 Team Galactic's Wager in my deck. On the first Wager I go with Rock, but my opponent went with Rock as well, so we go again. My opponent shows Paper to my Rock. The second Wager I go with the same thing -- Rock. My opponent goes with Scissors and loses. He or she notices by now that I'm going with Rock every time after they play their own Wager and beat me with Paper. I play a critical Wager late game and get ready to play RPS. My opponent shows Paper, I show Scissors for the first time since we started playing. I go on to win the game because I have a Cessation Crystal lock to my opponent's small hand.

I could even go on to say that I play that opponent later in the top cut and psych them out by throwing random stuff the entire time. The point is, it's a mind game. My brother used to play RPS with me a long time ago and always said that he could never be beat. I knew what his trick was, and so I would always beat him whenever I really wanted to ("Man, I never lose RPS... okay, fine... I'll do the chores").

The flip of a coin or the roll of a dice really doesn't represent what the game RPS is about. Aside from that though, I do worry about how this card will be handled when prizes/trips/scholarships are on the line. And without any other hand disruption card, TGW will be played a lot.
 
jkwarrior said:
Hypothetical situation

I lose a game 3 in the finals at a cities because i lose RPS to John Doe(scizzors > paper)

I meet him in state finals again. We've been talking for months about how he beat me with scizzors. We are both thinking that in this game. I think that he thinks I think he'll go scizzors again, but I actually think he'll go paper to counter my rock. I decide to go scizzors to counter his paper. It turns out, he was expecting it all along and goes rock.

We meet in the finals at Regionals now. All along, we've still been talking about how he beat me with scizzors, and how I tried to counter his counter to my counter, but it turns out he countered me. John has also been telling me that if we meet in the finals again, he is 100% going to play scizzors. He wears a shirt to the tournament that says "I'm going scizzors". Then we meet in the finals. We're playing RPS in sudden death, game 3. I think there's no way he is going to play scizzors. It was all a trick. But he knows I think it's a trick, so he'll actually play scizzors. But what if he knows that I know that he knows he's going to play scizzors. Oh well, I'll go rock. Paper ftl.

Yeah that's just as random as a coin flip/dice roll.
I watched a RPS tournament on ESPN. It is not 50/50. How can we go to such great lengths to try to prevent cheating with dice rolling and then allow this card?

Oh by the way. For anybody in Texas, I'm always going to go scizzors
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But that's the point. It's not supposed to be random.
Aside from late play (which is cheating), this card is supposed to have strategy to it.
 
old man said:
Instead of having pen, paper & the inevitable trash left behind, how about, on 6 spare energy cards, unsleeved or sleeved differently than your deck, have the words rock, paper & scissors written on them to use?
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I like this solution!
Eliminates the cheating while keeping the strategy.
 
 
to those who think the card needs an errata:
be quiet
learn to keep an eye on your opponent, and outwitt those who try to cheat
look at drrty byl post on how to fool a cheater, simply use that
 
old man said:
Instead of having pen, paper & the inevitable trash left behind, how about, on 6 spare energy cards, unsleeved or sleeved differently than your deck, have the words rock, paper & scissors written on them to use?
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Sure, why not? It'd save the paper, which is quite useful. Actually, PUI/PCL have missed a trick here, haven't they? Official RPS cards to use in this way... :rolleyes:

EDIT: Even better, some future set should have the following cards:

Rock Stadium

Whenever a game of RPS is played, opponent is forced to choose Rock

(and similarly for Paper and Scissors)... :lol:
 
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For those that argue that we have to play RPS because of the strategic element in a series of RPS games. Would they penalise a player who elects to chose Rock Paper or Scizors by a random means? The standard approach with RPS is to use random selection until an opponents pattern can be discerned.

I have a mild form of arthritis which makes forming a rock or scizors a little tricky. I can do it but I'm slow as my fingers don't currently close up very well into a rock. I anticipate that I'd be easy pickings in a RPS tournament :(
 
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