Hey guys, just your 2002 World Champion Alex Brosseau stopping by to put in his 2 cents, no big deal...
Ok, its kind of a big deal.
Since taking a break from pokemon last year to stabilize my personaife, ive constantly been hit with this feeling of emptiness at nights before bed. I miss the game and I want back in quite badly, but my schedule makes it quite difficult to get to tournaments. Fortunately, I was able to move some stuff around and attend the klaczynski open, my first tournament in over a year. While I did have a great time, id like to point out a few slightly disturbing things that stuck out in my mind:
1. In a match against a 13 year old kid, he would literally shuffle my deck after every search. Not necessarily a bad habbit, but it felt like a lack of trust. Id expect it from a lot of masters and not care, but athis age its sad that hes already paranoid about cheating or has already been exposed to it. (On a side note this kid is awesome and I have no ill feelings toward him)
2. Another 13 year old kid (both of them beat me Btw, I 5-0ed vs masters including beating Dustin Zimmerman on National television but 0-2ed vs the little ones) would utter the words "make a play" every time I took a few seconds to read a card (hadn't played in over a year) which didnt seem right coming from someone so young. Again, a lack of trust and possibilities that hes been exposed to stalling at such a young age. (Again, awesome kid and great player, no problems).
3. In another game I attempted to frost spear a turn after blizzard burning (first tournament in over a year) My opponent informed me that I cant attack, my bad. Ok ill just lazer for the ko or switch and retreat... JUDGE! Its ruled my turn ends immediately. While thats the right ruling, back when I played people let you take that back 100 out of 100 times. (No hard feelings again, im cool with everyone)
My point is, when did this game become so serious? Are there really that many lowlives running around that everyone, including the kids have to be on guard 24/7? This is not an atmosphere that I would like to return to.
my advice to everyone is try and develope a better sense of what kind of personality certain people are going to have. I love that I can essentially peg anyone from a mile away and be right about what kind of person they are 99% of the time. Pick the good ones, associate with them, and stay away from the bad ones.
ive never met Jon before, but Gino? Seriously? People still associate with this guy? At what point in this persons life has he ever done sonething that would give him any sort of credibility? Hes a self proclaimed "thug" and thats what thugs do: they lie, cheat, and steal. All you have to do is take 1 look at this kid to know hes bad news. While theres no absolute proof that he stole the laptop, its pretty safe to assume that its very likely, but my question is why is Mees hanging oug with him in the frist place. If you hang around bad people, bad things will happen. Live and learn.