I am SO glad US Nationals take place later, piracy (netdecking) is a sad common lifestyle here.
Is gonna be the first national where nobody will get pre-set results to choose their deck, last year was LuxChomp and Gyarados all over the top tables, with only 1 Magnezone at top 8 (from my land DoRougue, Durango).
Local metagame doesn`t matter much if you already know what wins and what fails, German and French Nationals were the baseline for our NC, I still can`t believe the time difference couldn`t stop that (by dawn at Mexico, French NC was already concluding).
I used to enjoy the game whether I lost or won, I went to only 1 Tourney a year, the NC itself, back then we were 2 random hillbillies that defied the capital`s big leagues, no previous States, BR, good cards... nothing! and we always won at least 5 rounds (my friend also became a world player last year), our only goal was to have fun, but my goal nowadays changed, and is to shut up the lame copies of International champions that we have as Top Players, I refuse to accept worlds bottom 128 and lost 32, are the best this country can offer, is the same people that has gone like 3 or 4 years in a row to worlds... and they still lose big time, only 1 top 4 prowess in 2005 won`t compensate such a WIMP performance.
You people don`t need to rely in Canada to choose wich deck to play, become an example not a copy.
