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European Hawaii Trips through rankings

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can anyone explain what Gatsu is talking about?

Is there a TO/LD making fake players and padding peoples ranking? Thats what i've gathered but I could be wrong.
 
Squirtle said:
can anyone explain what Gatsu is talking about?

Is there a TO/LD making fake players and padding peoples ranking? Thats what i've gathered but I could be wrong.
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Yes it seems that's what happened in Finland, 60% of the tournaments lost the PE status.
 
He added players to secure age separated tournaments, dropping them before round 1, as said here:
http://pokegym.net/forums/showpost.php?p=868353&postcount=57


Anyway, what's done is done, Finland has got their punishment from Pokemon USA. I'm so tired of visiting the Gym everyday, and all people can talk about is Finland. It's just like when Pablo got banned, or when Martin got banned, or when Lia talked about closed events in all her post. All post contains the same, just worded differently.
 
Black_jirachi said:
He added players to secure age separated tournaments, dropping them before round 1, as said here:
http://pokegym.net/forums/showpost.php?p=868353&postcount=57


Anyway, what's done is done, Finland has got their punishment from Pokemon USA. I'm so tired of visiting the Gym everyday, and all people can talk about is Finland. It's just like when Pablo got banned, or when Martin got banned, or when Lia talked about closed events in all her post. All post contains the same, just worded differently.
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NO BJ, not at all.
The adult is still TO/Prof? So tell me what punishment did he got?
Done is done? EXcuse me, that's a cheapy.

YOu know what is more worse. Master players who absolutly most have been aware this was happening and even come here on the board trying to tell us everything was oke.
 
Well, at least in Norway, attendance I think has had nothing to do with ranking invites. The interest for the game has just grown massive. That's what happens when you have very hard working TO-s, or world Champions or just great enviorment for pokemon in your country.
I haven't seen many players talk about ranking invites other than we who have had a chance all along.
 
plummet?? can we have negative attendance in the UK?

I expect that we will have ranking invites in Europe for the next couple of years. Right now I don't think there is any other practical and cost effective way for POP to hand out additional invites to us Europeans. In a year or twos time when an international judge team has been established (and is trusted) then I imagine we will have a few pan Europe tournaments with invites to worlds for the winners. But we aren't there yet. I hope for some changes in how the ratings invites are allocated next year, but whatever happens I intend to make the best of it.
 
Couldn't they do it by country instead but only give one invite that is passed down if the qualificant had won their National championship? That would be a lot fairer on the UK.
 
We should have more regions.

Separate out Finland and Norway, so that you can get off our backs, and to give you mainland europe people more chances :p

But seriously, giving out ranking invites based on country to country basis wouldn't be fair either.

In some countries, you have 10 player sworthy of playing a world championship, in some you have just the nats winner or none at all!
 
Black Jirachi, currently there is no direct way to compare players between the European countries. You can use the worlds results as a guide but you have to be very careful what conclusions are drawn from those events.

For example Miska as world champion must be the best Senior player. Several other Finn seniors are higher than him ergo they are even better. Except that they didn't place so high at worlds and are therefore worse. oops. A logical contradiction.

The ratings invites can never select the best European players because the player populations are disjoint. But then I've never believed that the ratings invites were intended to select the best players - just a few worthy candidates. Equally worthy players will be omitted for no other reason than geography. This is a feature of the system and its potential downfall without careful design of how the invites are allocated. At present POP splits the world up into [del]five[/del] four regions as a way of addressing this very issue. Separating out Finland and Norway is one approach but I would not recommend it as next year marstio wont make the mistakes he made this year and Norway will find itself locked out of the ratings invites too.

For me the ratings invites have to be viewed as a marketing tool. A prize that is available to anyone with ability.. so play Pokémon and win! If however the majority of players believe that there is no possibility of winning no matter how skilled they are then the marketing effect is a negative one and players will seek out other games such as yugioh and magic where they believe that there card skills may meet with better reward.
 
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lol make Pokemon like boxing/wrestling etc, you beat a champ, you get their title.

Technically the entire game is a marketing tool.
 
OP is the marketing tool. OP is also the justification for the high price of the cards. Without OP the cards would have to be much cheaper to compete with all the other collectibles out there.
 
NoPoke said:
Black Jirachi, currently there is no direct way to compare players between the European countries. You can use the worlds results as a guide but you have to be very careful what conclusions are drawn from those events.

For example Miska as world champion must be the best Senior player. Several other Finn seniors are higher than him ergo they are even better. Except that they didn't place so high at worlds and are therefore worse. oops. A logical contradiction.

The ratings invites can never select the best European players because the player populations are disjoint. But then I've never believed that the ratings invites were intended to select the best players - just a few worthy candidates. Equally worthy players will be omitted for no other reason than geography. This is a feature of the system and its potential downfall without careful design of how the invites are allocated. At present POP splits the world up into five regions as a way of addressing this very issue. Seperating out Finland and Norway is one approach but I would not recommend it as next year marstio wont make the mistakes he made this year and Norway will find itself locked out of the ratings invites too.

For me the ratings invites have to be viewed as a marketing tool. A prize that is available to anyone with ability.. so play Pokémon and win! If however the majority of players believe that there is no possibility of winning no matter how skilled they are then the marketing effect is a negative one and players will seek out other games such as yugioh and magic where they believe that there card skills may meet with better reward.
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That is so true. The only way rankings would be a real and fair indicator wher eif all european players played in all premier events together. And that is impossible
 
Rainbowgym said:
Yes it seems that's what happened in Finland, 60% of the tournaments lost the PE status.
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Not even close.
Tournament where premier tags was removed:
4 CC
2 SC
1 BR

So that is not even close of 60% of our premier tournaments while we had
6 CC
4 SC
11BR
3 SPE
1 NC

So 7 out of 25 is not 60% in my calculator. Its more 28%. If u only ment that is alot, i aggree with you.
Just wanted to make this thing clear, nothing else. S.M.B.

And yes, we need a European Championships asap.
 
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7 out of 25 is still 7 too many.

I can only advice you to be honest, I do think there is more you have to tell POP.
 
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