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I've seen a couple other unanswered threads about this, just wanted to lay out all the scenarios I see. Grenijna’s Shadow Stitching vs Bronzong’s Metal Fortress Based on the Suicune ruling, Shadow Stitching appears to be a new type of effect, that persists even when something was...

Jumping in on some posts a month late but anyways… There are real ways to fix the current system, which has real issues. The 50 2/3 format makes time, game situation agreeing to not have a draw etc. too important, issues that I don't believe are 'Pokemon TCG'. These issues can't be seen in just...

I and several others like Pooka were vocal about 50+3 not making sense when it was announced last Fall. I said 50 minutes would not be enough time to finish 3 games. I said there would be lots of ties and ties being 1/3 of a win was going to make that painful. I said there would be many, almost...

Why would James Good 3 days after his biggest finish in Pokemon create a false, serious report to TPCi, especially if (as alleged) he was in reality a thief? That makes zero sense. Why would Jason K decide to end the weekend of his World championship win by overshadowing it with a false...

Beyond there being video evidence of Gino stealing a laptop after a Pokemon tournament, there is also this: http://pokegym.net/forums/showthread.php?180151-Thieves-caught-on-video-at-Worlds-TPCi-does-nothing&p=2466894&viewfull=1#post2466894 Gino deserved a lifetime ban before this event. There...

The simplest way to put it, more games means more legitimate tournaments. When games are not finishing, we aren't using our time well to make the tournaments more legitimate. Bo1 30 minutes or Bo3 60-75 uses more of the time towards games that will finish so more games overall. (Bo1 30 would...

Well, I guess I'll just disagree with you that this is a manageable situation. Yes a player who is egregiously going over the time limits again and again will get caught. It's not enough to fix the general problem, especially when there could be 100 masters matches still going with 10-15 minutes...

Carlos, to me that is one of two primary concerns. Ties are likely and players are hurt by ties in a not very fair way as you summarize well above. My other primary concern is what I said in other posts: The structure of no 'partial' games with these time limits will lead to stalling situations...

Another concise way I realized showing that this system is not very ideal: (If it is true that wins=3 points, ties=1 point) Expectation value for matches that end with 1 game done: 1.5 points Expectation value for matches that end with 2 games done: 1.25 points Expectation value for matches...

The new documents would have 8 rounds of 50 minutes in this situation. It may in reality be that you get 8 flat games to determine who makes top 8 since game 2s often won't count. I am complaining. If they went back to best of 1 30 minutes (let's say they include ties to keep time short), that...

I would rather see the 4-prize rule for game 2. 4 prizes is a significant portion of a game and that shouldn't be meaningless. If it meaningless, give us best of 1. I'm not sure if a 4 prize rule decreases ties, a 1 or 4-prize rule in game 3 would certainly do that though. However, more...

This exactly. And this problem is going to happen far far more often than donks, which seem to be the only justification for this new system. Bullados, I would very much like that change you suggested. That is probably the best 'minimal adjustment' that would make this new system reasonable...

I can understand the time of event issue. The new rules do not have to be the way they are to keep things timely. You could keep the 4 prize rule in game 2 and a 4 prize or 1 prize rule in game 3. If the game is tied at end of +3 that game counts as a tie. (So if game 2 is tied it's a...

If we're accepting the premise that 50 minutes is not enough for full 3 games (which I agree with completely), then the tie rules make even less sense. Game 3 is meaningless if it isn't complete and we're saying it's not going to be complete. Having time for 3 full games is also really the only...

This is a really poor setup I think. 50 minutes was already going to be difficult to finish 3 games or even get into a 3rd game. Now the player who wins game 1 has incentive to slowplay and not let game 2 finish. If it gets to a game 3, whoever falls behind has incentive to slowplay. During...

I think it would be better to have the day 2 entries still larger for a US nats size event. 6-3 in the first 9 rounds can still make a very good finish with 6 more rounds. Even if they don't top 8, each level of nationals is now worth a lot of points. Though US nats was already 3 days so maybe...

This decision is very disappointing. TPCi has shown in multiple prior incidents that they will suspend a player for clearly inappropriate behavior involving other Pokemon players, even outside a tournament. I can't believe given how much evidence appears to present in this case how a suspension...

I am still strongly hoping TPCi thinks better of this decision and makes an adjustment. The posts here are just a fraction of those I've seen on Facebook groups saying how disappointed they are in this decision and will now likely not play as much. I'm not sure there has been a more negative...

Reaching US nationals isn't a goal. Anyone can play in that. US nationals has over 900 players, it's a crapshoot. I don't think anyone would be happy if a 900 player US nationals was all there was to play for. Though with this system, I'm sure you'll have players check out for most of the year...

Prof. Dav, thanks very much for responding and letting us know some of the reasons behind the decision. As others have said, 10 players in North America qualified without the automatic invite of nationals or worlds. This is a far cry from the '40' it used to be with rating invites, very often...