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There's some interesting discussion on social media today about what is considered a "broken game state", and when the penalty of Game Loss should be invoked. Imagine these at a Tier 2 Regionals event. 1. The primary situation was a player accidentally played Colress as their second supporter...

This advice was just posted on another Web site: The Rules document does give this direction for a judge to use to determine a winner for an unresolved match: "If one player was late to the match or was away from the match without a judge's permission for any period of time during the round...

FYI, since many of you wanted to know ahead of time, there will be no scheduled lunch breaks at Worlds. Either on Friday during the LCQ, or Saturday during the Main Events. There are concessions planned on site, but if you want to pack a lunch, etc...plan ahead.

This was posted on Facebook by a community member, re-posting here with permission... WORLDS & WASHINGTON DC GENERAL INFO THREAD: With all Nationals in the rearview mirror, players are turning their heads to worlds, which, luckily for me, is in my own backyard. I'm going to try and provide as...

This has been bothering me over the years, and I'd like to understand better why it went down this way. I thought it might be better to abstract it out, leaving out details, but the instructions are to include as much detail as possible, so here it is... Worlds 2011, Junior Division, middle of...

I thought this could be a good discussion topic: Why? My son and I built a rogue Nationals-winning deck with trainer lock, so that biases my personal opinion. If trainer lock is bad for the game, I'd really like to understand why.

Servine uses the attack Wring Out and flips heads against a Virizion EX with a single grass energy attached. It deals 30 damage, and the grass energy is discarded. Can the paralysis Special Condition be applied? Card references: http://labs.pokegym.net/card/LTR-7...

This will be kept up throughout the year, as they come and go for the various League seasons: http://labs.pokegym.net/tournaments?pes=78201

I figured this was newsworthy enough for this forum... In addition to the online code card we've gotten used to, the Chespin League season supplies include promo Skyla! http://i.imgur.com/kNKGfmql.jpg

This image from a Japanese publication will start to get some buzz today, which reveals Xerneas EX, Yveltal EX, Venusaur EX, Blastoise EX: http://i.imgur.com/wqTMIBm.jpg It is also showing something mysterious, in that arrow pointing to the question mark card. First thought: what if it's...

Go to http://support.pokemon.com/ and look in the Downloads section. The most interesting... 2014 Play! Pokémon TCG Rules and Formats New Section 8 called "Match Resolution during Swiss Rounds" Section 8.3: Determining the Outcome of an Unresolved, Best-of-Three Match Game 1 • If the last...

This information about the structure of rounds at the upcoming Regionals is from Professor_Dav. It will be published in tournament documents soon, but I mentioned players have been craving this information so here it is. NOTE: the pertinent information for Regionals, in particular for Masters...

This just occurred to me. We wanted Best of 3 Swiss because of donks and in general having "bad starts" and games finishing too quickly not really letting the better player win. Now with the X/Y rules (meaning a hardly-played Pokemon Catcher and going first can't attack) we're going to have...

PokéBeach reported that changes are coming to the TCG rules soon...taking effect on 11/8 for Japan, if not for the rest of the World too. http://www.pokemon-card.com/howto/new-rule/index.html#anc15 That is the official Japanese Pokémon TCG Web site. Here is a picture of the rule changes...

If you happen to have a pack of new Diamond & Pearl pre-release sleeves, the blue Lucario ones, I'll gladly buy it from you. Standing offer: $25 including shipping, I would want tracking information. $20 if you want to sell to me in person whenever we meet up. I want to have spares, so I'm...

Finally getting critical mass of number of sanctioned tournaments, so here is the list: http://labs.pokegym.net/tournaments

I hope I'm not the only one who can read your response two ways... Are you saying: Shedinja's Ability takes precedence in that it is applied first, so prizes taken goes from 1 to 0, and then Lugia EX's Ability increases it from 0 to 1? Shedinja's ability is absolute, like Darkrai free...

You all probably know which Pres you typically go to already, but here is the master list in case anyone is curious: http://labs.pokegym.net/tournaments?pes=85

This year Pokemon.com has the Regionals organized into a single premier event series, so this list encompasses all of the Fall, Winter, and Spring Regionals: http://labs.pokegym.net/tournaments?pes=88

I've seen two people recently claim that coin flips can result in heads > 50% of the time. The most recently claim was 8 times out of 10, and that they wouldn't reveal their secret. Really, what secret is there besides practice? Or even technique? At best, I imagine it's like shooting a...