Ives - your hypocresy is UNBEILIVABLE! seriously you're the best lyer (sp?) I've met my whole life.
Everything regarding OP for the last 6 years is true. I cannot vouch for Nationals as I did not attend it, BUT I can certainly vouch for EVERYTHING WeRo said. It's easy, take for example my only CC win this season, there were at most 30 people in the tournament, I went 2-2 and the judge got us to play between the 4 2-2 players for the 4th spot in Top 4 as he OBVIOUSLY could not figure out tie breakers AND Ives was not there. Well I won the 4th spot, and went on to win the tournament. Ives uploaded as if I had gone 8-0 undefeated with a 90 person attendance, and this is NOT a mistake, I can honestly say in the name of my life, my family's and everything I have that every single City Championship AND State Championship was uploaded with increased attendance. Ives lists around ten 10- players at every tournament, when in a CC I attended the single 10- won by going 0-5 as he was the only one. We brely ever have a 10- or 11-14 attendance except at Nationals and Gyms and they keep appearing out of nowhere in the tournaments Ives uploads. Add to that that he alwasy get the opponents wrong etc.
And yes before you all start saying email PUI, I already have, and as far as I can see nothing has been done and I dunno how they're investigating or what, and I am afraid speaking up might increase my suspension, but I will not let my friends and the mexico players be treated like this. I have heard from 40+ different people who attended the event who have said the same exact things, and notice everyone how he is making up things, 50+ people will not agree on lying about the same thing. I have been looked upon as a resource to get things straightened out as I am a fluent english speaker and can voice the opinions of these people who barely know english.
Also Ives claims in the Mexico TCG forums this tournament structured was agreed upon since the GAMA PUI meeting or whatever, well why weren't the players informed BEFORE the tournament to avoid confusion etc. and from what I hear, how come every judge had his own set of rules and the group that had the players Ives hates most had the most strict time limits and had 60´+ players disqualified.
(Notice how Ives has not said this is untrue, and now he will say it because I mentioned it, or else he wouldnt :wink
My final point beign, NOBODY likes Ives other than his judges whom he feeds for free every tournament, if people dislike the bags, take the hint and DONT make them, invest that money in better judges, a better site (where 11-14 guardians can ACTUALLY go in), a MICROPHONE to announce every corrupt thing you're going to do, at least then the players will know how badly they will be robbed and maybe just skip the tournament as a whole.
I can think of so many people who could do his job a billion times better, but PUI has not listened to me, hopefully this will open your eyes.
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SteveP said:
If pods weren't grouped randomly, that's a problem. Although, showing up to register is somewhat random, groupings still shouldn't be based on when you register.
But, that problem, by itself, is not serious enough to cause PTOs to get fired. Maybe a "slap on the hand," and a warning to do pods more randomly next time.
Regarding qualified judges, we don't have a "certification" program for POP judges. I'm pretty sure Ives did his best to hire "test-certified" professors, but if they weren't available, he had to ask non-professors to help out.
I find that many players who are very good and knowledgeable, prefer to play rather than judge. When that happens, PTOs are stuck with hiring less-knowledgeable judges. That's just life.
I support Ives and have seen him in-person as a staff judge. I don't know how he is as a manager trying to run a tournament of 400 people. That would be a difficult task for ANYONE to manager without the help of quality staff.
If the same lame *** judges didnt judge the same tournaments then that statement might hold some truth, but he really does NOTHING for the game in Mexico, it is the independent tournament organizers, who run fun weekly tournaments for people to attend that make this game grow, not some lazy dude who SLEEPS through a tournament and not by mistake or him being tired, but him actually taking a bed to the tournament area.
