Pokémon TCG: Sword and Shield—Brilliant Stars

A response to those wanting details on decks played

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meganium45

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I know it must frustrate some of you to read deck reports that have decks that have and the winning deck was a Garchomp variant, or a TRUK deck, or some other nonsense that you do not understand.

For you all, I would simply say, it is the right of a deck player to post, or refuse to post any information he or she wants to about their deck.

Furthermore, I am a bit dismayed at a few people who seem to take the attitude that it is their right to know what was played. It is not your right, it is your privelidge.

Some people are proud, "Hey, I still won with Infercatty" and others have worked hard to develop a deck that they feel is cutting edge.

If you want to know the contents, PM them about it. Ask one of their opponents, or whatever.

What will end up happening, is people will stop coming on the gym to brag about their wins. It will just turn into too much harassment.

This is far too small a game. If a deck works well, it will leak around, and when it does, all will know.

I have a standing order with my judges. You can report the winners, but as for the winning decks, leave that to the players. If they want to report, GREAT, if not, then that is cool too.

I know this probably flies in the face of some of the other mods feelings on the 'gym, but so be it.

Vince
 
I personally think it's lame (even for my buds on HB, sorry :X) to "hide" information which was already made public knowledge (by actually playing the deck around other people). However, it's even lamer to criticize others for behavior...yet offer to give away free cards for those peoples' deck information!

/end vague, mildly-offensive jab.

HOWEVER, this is a free speech board: if your message abides by the ToS, you should be able to say, or not say, anything you want to. This is about the overall tournament experience, and as long as you convey that, then your report is functional. I can't say or not say what's been functional as of late, but congrats to Meg for starting this thread.
 
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If it said "this is a garchomp variant", then that would be fine.

Gee we're in agreement!
By the way, what Pokemon is TRUK? I haven't seen that one released yet.
The report is not even mentioning Blissy!
I'm sorry, but if even that piece of info is a state secret, then don't bother posting.
 
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Vince on the flip side to that...

People do want well written tournament posts. If the report of each match is "I donked a newb", then people will quit taking time to actually read the tournament reports.

People do have the right to keep the contents of their decks to themselves, but do they have the right to disclose the contents of someone elses deck in the report without their permission, especially if they are unwilling to reveal what they played as well?

Clay
 
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one of the 'gym rules is 'write to be read'.

if you're going to write a 'tourney report' that no one except your little 'in group' will understand, then WHY BOTHER? IMO such posts are SPAM, and will be deleted or locked. i don't see anyone asking for a list, i see people wanting to know what matched up with what. if you're going to keep stuff that much under wraps, then don't post it here; you're not informing the community of anything, just rubbing your 'secret' in people's faces. in other words, trolling.

'mom
 
Here, this is an example of a tourney report of the PokeGym dated 1999:

Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 08:38:59 -0700 (PDT)
From: Gordon Kane <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Report - Rama Llama - 7/11/1999

Sunday at Rama Llama - WOW! What a turnout.
Registration was halted when 60 people signed up. We
also had at least 8 participants in the 15+ age
bracket.

Round 1 found me sitting across the table from Ralph
Prion and his Water/Fire/Colorless deck. Ralph is a
parent who decided to get off the sidelines and get
into the action. We're glad you join us, Ralph. I
had a hard time scrambling out of the way of Ralph's
Fire Pokemon - but I removed that threat to my Grass
Pokemon pretty quickly. Ralph had better success
with his Water Pokemon staying on the board, but his
Water energy hid from him - so his Blastoise never
really posed a threat. Confusion from Koffing and
Venomoth kept him locked down, and once I got
Venusaur out I was able to clean up. An advantageous
Pokemon Center and a couple of Gust of Winds kept me
in control the whole match.
Match record: 1-0

Round 2 found me sitting across the table from David
Sturlic and his Grass/Lightning deck. Unfortunately,
David got a bad draw consisting of only Voltorb. I
put out Koffing, and by the 3rd turn, Voltorb was
KO'd with no bench support.
Match Record: 2-0

Round 3 found me sitting across from (who else!?!?)
Scott Gerhardt. Scott was campaigning a
Psychic/Fire/Grass/Fighting/Lightning deck with Mr.
Mime, Ponyta, Scyther, Hitmonchan, and Electabuzz.
This deck runs no Fire or Grass energy, but does have
Double Colorless energy. Scott got Ponyta and a DCE
out early and scorched his way through my deck.
Match Record: 2-1

Round 4 found me sitting across from Chen Ho and his
Grass deck - Scyther, Pinsir, Venonat/Venomoth. My
Koffing started his problems early and my Venomoth
reinforced his problems. Venusaur then jumped in
(added by a Pokemon Center) and cleared his bench of
the remaining Pokemon.
Match Record: 3-1

Round 5 found me sitting across from Mark Woodworth
and his "Spring Time Fresh" Haymaker (standard +
Scyther). I got a horrible draw (Koffing, Breeder,
Ivysaur, Venusaur, Venomoth, Switch, Grass Energy),
and once I got enough energy to attack, Mark removed
it. I remained energy screwed until I finally got a
Bulbasaur - after Oaking, and I didn't last long
after that.
Match Record: 3-2

Round 6 (Yes - we went 6 rounds today) found me
sitting across from Chris Ly and his Grass deck. His
Weedle vs my Koffing. I get him confused, but he
flips his way through it and gets me poisoned. After
a couple of turns, I have to retreat Koffing and
promote Scyther. I also drop a Venonat on my bench.
Chris evolves to Kakuna and poisons me. I evolve to
Venomoth, retreat Scyther to stop the poison, and
promote Venomoth. Next turn, Chris evolves to
Beedrill and poisons Venomoth. I retreat Venomoth to
stop the poison, promote Scyther, play energy on
Venomoth, retreat Scyther, promote Venomoth and
attack. Arrg! The coin flips are not going my way.
We continue dancing our free retreat Grass creatures
when time is called - we both have one prize
remaining, and I only have 4 cards in my draw pile.
In the next 3 turns, I can play enough energy on
Scyther to KO his active Pokemon. He answers with
Energy Removal. I still have a chance, but on his
next turn Chris Gusts one of my damaged bench Pokemon
and takes the win.
Match Record: 3-3

No one went undefeated this week - but Scott won
none-the-less. He was rewarded for his efforts with
a $25 gift certificate.
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This is how it's done.

Does every report need to be as detailed?
No.
But it needs to be more than
"I played a deck with stuff and I'm not even mentioning one single card.
I beat some people, one guy beat me.
I won.
Yay"

That is not a deck list.
That is spam
 
That's not a tournament report either, it's bragging and like PokeMom said, it's rubbing their "secret" in the face of the readers on this forum.

We all enjoy a nice tournament report. We are not asking for a list or a group of cards in your deck. We just want a competent report that someone that wasn't playing the game could comprehend.

That is not too much to ask, and I agree 100% with the locking of the reports.

M45: You said, "This is far too small a game. If a deck works well, it will leak around, and when it does, all will know."

Which is the best reason possible why NOT to hide your information. The idea is already public, and will be known by all sooner or later.
 
TheDarkTwins said:
I am pretty sure that TRUK is Rampardos from MT. I am not 100% certain of it, but I am pretty sure.

Drew
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Which is exactly the point.
If the reader of a report doesn't even know the main attacker of a deck, forget all the techs and the engine that is used to get that attacker out, then it's not a report.

No one is asking for the techs and the trainer engine.

If someone is asking for that somewhere else, that has nothing to do with this discussion.

Is is Blissy? Is it Rampardos?
If that's too much info to give out, then it's not worth even posting.
 
Look, here is a fine report:

http://pokegym.net/forums/showthread.php?t=60543

All that we find out about his deck is that it is a Blissy deck and he reveals these other three cards:
Hapiny (duh), Chansey (double-duh) and TV Reporter (heavens, now I know the trainer engine!)

[edit]Oh, and I forgot, Boost! How would anyone think to put Boost in a Blissy deck on their own?[/edit]

But this is a fine report.
We can follow the action as he describes it.
Does he give away the deck construction? No, not at all. Once you know it's Blissy, those other three cards are all logical and obvious choices.
The parts of the deck that make it work better than someone else's deck are all still secret.
What is hard to understand about this for some people?
 
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Prime said:
The idea is already public, and will be known by all sooner or later.
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Not all the TRUKs are public knowledge yet, first of all.

Secondly, the secretive player's mindset is "later rather than sooner." He doesn't want to spill the beans about his deck choice, but at the same time he wants to have a little fun by posting a tournament report. So what is this player to do? Why, give his deck a codename, of course.

Reports featuring codenamed decks are being locked now. They've been determined by the Admins/Mods here to be spam, and have been dealt with as such. So why are we still raising a fuss about this topic? The issue has been resolved. =/
 
meganium45 said:
I know it must frustrate some of you to read deck reports that have decks that have and the winning deck was a Garchomp variant, or a TRUK deck, or some other nonsense that you do not understand.

For you all, I would simply say, it is the right of a deck player to post, or refuse to post any information he or she wants to about their deck.

Furthermore, I am a bit dismayed at a few people who seem to take the attitude that it is their right to know what was played. It is not your right, it is your privelidge.

Some people are proud, "Hey, I still won with Infercatty" and others have worked hard to develop a deck that they feel is cutting edge.

If you want to know the contents, PM them about it. Ask one of their opponents, or whatever.

What will end up happening, is people will stop coming on the gym to brag about their wins. It will just turn into too much harassment.

This is far too small a game. If a deck works well, it will leak around, and when it does, all will know.

I have a standing order with my judges. You can report the winners, but as for the winning decks, leave that to the players. If they want to report, GREAT, if not, then that is cool too.

I know this probably flies in the face of some of the other mods feelings on the 'gym, but so be it.

Vince
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Sorry Vince but I think there is no need to make "reports' as what we are seeing right now
It has NOTHING to do with a report.
If people want to brag about their win, there is an easy place, put it in my winner topic and your name will be displayed (with our without main Pokemon).
But don't call a topic with things like "my Mercedes run over your MG" a tournament report, because it isn't.

I have no problem if people want to keep their deck secret or not willing to let others know the main Pokemon. But serious what are you giving out if you name 1 of your Pokemon?
I also have no problem if people say I won BR XX, it's their right to be proud.
There are several reports who are a pleasure to read, even without giving heavy detailed information.
One of my favorite writers is EricNance, ýou can almost feel how it has been during that tournament.
Not everybody is able to write that way, but there is a big difference in not willing to write a decent report and therefor putting up a lot of garbage and not being able to do so.
 
Great post Meg45. I know there are few people in my area who post on Pokegym, and they won't reveal the decks I have played. Intimidation is a strategy and letting people know that a deck exists that can win is enough to throw people into disarray and create an edge for friends and teammates who have tournaments in the future. It's more intimidating to make up a codename than to post the real lines.

And Meg45 hit the nail on the head. We've been loose on AIM with the main lines in some of our BR decks (Pickup TRUK, the TRUK, Moving TRUK, Ice TRUK), as people have pretty much found out by seeing them played by our members at the tournaments down in the US.

And TRUK isn't a single Pokemon. It's a series of decks that all feature different Pokemon. So no, Rampardos isn't "TRUK". Rampardos was the original deck that APT (your WORLD CHAMP) decided to call the TRUK for some reason, which started the fad lol
 
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I am glad I have at least started a fun discussion.

Let's put it this way...a lot of people hide their decks, even those who post reports.

Steve A was happy to post winning decks of every division but his kids. Not picking on you Steve, but a perfect example.

I know all the hahaha spam and inside joke posts need to go, I am not defending those.

I am simply tired of the posts by some members who seem to demand information that they are not entitled to, because they have NOT put the work into developing a concept.

Talk with you soon.

Vince
 
desert eagle said:
Great post Meg45. I know there are few people in my area who post on Pokegym, and they won't reveal the decks I have played. Intimidation is a strategy and letting people know that a deck exists that can win is enough to throw people into disarray and create an edge for friends and teammates who have tournaments in the future. It's more intimidating to make up a codename than to post the real lines.
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There you go Vince.
Do we want the 'Gym to be a venue for growing the game, or intimidating people?
 
here are 4 truks that seem to be widely known enough that it'll clear up some confusion

pickup = blisscatty(ino its already a deck but hey, who says you can't have fun naming things =p)
moving = blissvire
ice = walrein
the TRUK=rampardos

all theses are of course on the TRUK engine
 
SHPanda said:
here are 4 truks that seem to be widely known enough that it'll clear up some confusion

pickup = blisscatty(ino its already a deck but hey, who says you can't have fun naming things =p)
moving = blissvire
ice = walrein
the TRUK=rampardos
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yep, all of the names do make sense with what the deck does (except for "the TRUK" lolol). We just had fun making up random names for them.

of course, the TRUK engine is what makes the decks tick better than regular decks but thats staying hidden =X

and theres still plenty more hidden TRUKs, and more to be created
 
desert eagle said:
of course, the TRUK engine is what makes the decks tick better than regular decks but thats staying hidden =X
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Yes! Keep the engine hidden!
Do not reveal how the deck works.
That is fine!
We do not have a problem with that. Keep what needs to be secret, secret.

Just don't go so overboard that the entire report is spam with no actual content.

Is this clear now?
 
I'de preffer gym to be intimidating, so much more fun.

AMBUSH BUDDY!

Anyways, I thought I was the one that came up with TRUK name. =( And then I thought pram put the "the" on it and then made all those other names.

Now I'm sad. =(
 
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