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NA professor cup: Wormadam Sandy Cloak BANNED

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Nice move PUI. Now I wont see Wormys in my sleep and X number of rounds in the Prof Cup. **shuffles off to put Wormys back in binder**

Keith
 
Wormadam dominates one FUN event and Gardevoir and Gallade dominate the better part of a season and make things unplayable, but yet what gets banned? I'm not saying GG is going to win everything, but I don't get it.
 
GG has viable counters. Wormadam (in the Professor Cup format) does not. Also, Wormadam never should have been part of that format in the first place.
 
not to mention that i'd dare say it's a lot easier for OP to ban a card in a single, unsanctioned, 'for fun' event than in OP as a whole, no?

'mom
 
Wormadam and the Professor Cup
The OP team has had a long discussion about Wormadam and the impact that it had on the European Professor Cup. This event has thrived on being a fun, creative tournament, where players feel comfortable using off the wall decks. That's what makes the event so enjoyable for so many people, POP staff included.

Considering the options available in the Professor Cup format this year, we don't see any reasonable, reliable answer to this deck. Our great concern is that we'll see 95% of the players using this deck, resulting in a terribly uninteresting Professor Cup.

That said, Wormadam Sandy Cloak is not permitted for use at the North American Professor Cup.

The Professor Cup FAQ will be updated tomorrow with this information, and we'll look at sending out an email blast about this as well. Please distribute this information to as many Professors as you can.

I apologize if this causes players to scramble to build new decks with only a handful of days until the event. We did not make this decision lightly, and we strongly feel that it is for the best.

Thank you for your understanding.

Michael Liesik
Organized Play Coordinator
Pokemon USA, Inc.
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just goes to show that complaining gets you everywhere. i am suprised that gardevoir,galade,magmortar,and empoleon havent been banned yet.
 
I know there's counters, but I think a lot of people would agree with me that Gallade doing 170 T2 on someone takes the "fun" out of our events, too. Keep in mind this is coming from someone who has won a major event WITHOUT GG.
 
For what it's worth, I'm sure if everyone was playing this format say for nationals or worlds, people would find counters to Wormadam or anything broken. (I don't even know what Wormadam does). There are less people testing this format though, and not much time, so it sounds like it could've been likely that Wormadam would've just dominated without a counter found YET.
 
ultimatedra said:
just goes to show that complaining gets you everywhere.
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I guarantee this decision had little to do with the complaining. Mike, Dave, and Pete from POP all played in the Euro Professor Cup. They witnessed first hand how much it ruined the spirit of the event.

Pidgeotto Trainer said:
For what it's worth, I'm sure if everyone was playing this format say for nationals or worlds, people would find counters to Wormadam or anything broken. (I don't even know what Wormadam does). There are less people testing this format though, and not much time, so it sounds like it could've been likely that Wormadam would've just dominated without a counter found YET.
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There truly isn't a counter to it, because of the limitations of the Professor Cup format. It's a deck that consistently does 70 T2 in a format largely populated by 80 HP Pokemon, with no way to slow it down other than sheer luck (T1 Cessation Crystal).

Believe me, lots of people have tested lots of stuff against it. The best I managed was a deck that was 40/60 against it -- and that was a pure Fire deck. It's GG times ten.
 
*Sigh* you guys have such a negative outlook on life...

This format isn't a limitation - if anything, it's an expansion! :thumb:

...And Wormadon was not as absurd as everyone thinks it was, but that's fine.
 
Phazon Elite said:
IDGI . . . why would Wormadam Sandy Cloak be so hard to beat in Common Play?
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A multitude of reasons...

It's got energy acceleration where most decks simply don't.

70 for 3, upgradeable indefinitely.

Ignores Resistance.

Card acceleration.

Disruption (if played correctly).

Basically, it's got everything that makes GG good. But, the format doesn't have any hard counters to Wormy like GG has in Banette.
 
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