From the Organized Play website: Pokémon Organized Play Seasonal Format Change Effective: 9/1/2008 In the interest of maintaining a healthy tournament environment, Pokémon Organized Play removes older sets from the Modified format at the beginning of each new tournament season. Each rotation challenges existing players to create new strategies while allowing new players to get into organized play with a minimum investment. The following Pokémon TCG sets will be removed from the Modified format for the 2008–2009 tournament season: EX Holon Phantoms EX Crystal Guardians EX Dragon Frontiers EX Power Keepers POP Series 4 Promo Cards POP Series 5 Promo Cards All Black Star Promo Cards numbered 037-040 As this change does not take effect until the end of the current tournament season, the sets listed above will continue to be tournament legal through the 2008 Pokémon TCG World Championships. New sets will become tournament legal when they are released, per the Pokémon Organized Play Tournament Rules. http://www.go-pokemon.com/op/tournaments/docs/2008-2009/modified_format_08_09.pdf Kind of duh, but nice to know for sure.
wow... so sad to see castaway gone, and stevens advice which i've grown to love dissappears...no..not my copycat.
I was just saying to myself today that I thought they were going to release the new format for next year, and wow, I didnt expect to be right. :lol: I think everyone realized that this was going to be the format. Drew
A format where my DP collection can shine YAY! I will miss Steven's though, and Crystal Beach, and Shuppet
Nice to see this. Meaning now it's time to really start selling the extra cards and clearing out for the format.
NOOOOOOOO! There goes Infernacatty. :frown: I've been dreading a DP-on format, but I guess we all knew it would happen. Goodbye, Delcatty.
Awesome. But i woulda been superhappy if they let us keep PK. Absol Ex with yanmega and zong and spiritomb was one of those things i was thinkin of for the rotation if for some rreason we kept pk.
Oh? And everything PK- is inferior? The league is going to go haywire when I bring the news (for those who haven't heard of my local league, all the kids (noobs) think PK- is worth less than nothing.):nonono:
You know...every time around this time of the season, I always start to wind down a little. But every time I see the new format announcement, it just makes me so much more excited about the next season. Man, I gotta organize all my cards now!
If anyone wants a list of all the trainers that will be illegal (unless reprinted in LA), here it is: Battle Frontier Bill's Maintenance Buffer Piece Castaway Celio's Network Cessation Crystal Claw Fossil Copycat Crystal Beach Crystal Shard Drake's Stadium Dual Ball Energy Recycle System Energy Removal 2 Glacia's Stadium Great Ball Holon Adventurer Holon Circle Holon Fossil Holon Lake Holon Legacy Holon Mentor Island Hermit Master Ball Memory Berry Mr. Stone's Project Mysterious Fossil Old Rod Phoebe's Stadium Pokemon Fan Club Pokenav Professor Birch Professor Cozmo's Discovery Professor Elm's Training Method Professor Oak's Research Root Fossil Scott Sidney's Stadium Steven's Advice Strength Charm TV Reporter Windstorm edit: And Special energy that won't be legal: Boost Energy Cyclone Energy Dark Metal Energy Delta Species Rainbow Energy Double Rainbow Energy Heal Energy Holon Energy FF Holon Energy GL Holon Energy WP Holon's Castform Scramble Energy Warp Energy
