Maybe call it perspective from being less involved with the game for a couple of years; but, the rules haven't changed since my days of judging; revealing cards mid shuffle is against the rules. It’s been against the rules for as long as I’ve been reading the TCG Tournament Rules. As much as I...
No Ugly Cup 2012
Although, I appreciate Bidier's support here. I thought I'd at least explain the reason why I decided not to run the Ugly Cup this year. For that I probably need to rehash some history.
In 2008 the first Ugly Cup was run. When I first conceived of the event as a...
We ran Lanturn Throughout Cities with a couple of Top Cuts and a couple of Bubble misses. Here's some general comments.
Lanturn / Zekrom is a good combination, but suffers from some issues that need addressing through tech's and a carefully thought out trainer line. IMO, this deck does...
This would be the fourth Cities attended by myself and my eldest Son. I've played Speed Donphan in the first Cities and Switched to ZPST for the second two. My son in Senior's had put together a Lanturn deck to run at all of these Cities and after a very rocky 0-5 start with it (because of...
To me, there is not much of a moral case to be made for scooping the last game when paired down. The one thing about the tie-breaking system that I've always liked about Pokemon is that after you've played an opponent and either won or lost, you really mean it when you wish them good luck in...
Sorry to be missing all the fun, being stuck in the Ukraine on start-up of the Pokemon season is really no fun at all. Maybe make the Brampton BR just to give it the old college try.
Ugly Out
Good seeing you at Nats sir... Congrats on your finish.
After watching from the judging perspective, can't agree with you more, that the current format would benefit greatly from a no damage until both players have had a turn. This would take the luck factor down significantly and lead to...
OK
I have no idea what actually won, because once the banning was done, there wasn't much of anyone's orginal decks left. But it would appear that Zoroak and Cincino survived in most of the final decks and carried the day.
The actual winners of the Ugly Cup Tournament were:
Allen X...