- Less wasted mony on location like Hawaii
+ one more day of competition (Grinders on thursday, DAY1 on friday, DAY2 on saturday, DAY on sunday)
Magic the gathering (not a random TCG, but the most important one, almost 20years old) has "55 minutes + 5 extra turns" matches in swiss (best of 3) and untimed Top8....
yet tournament requires 2-3 days and usually ends within sunday.
MTG'g Worlds are spread in 4 day BUT in each day 8 games are played (55 minutes each) for a total o 24 matches in 3 days + 5 Matches on sunday ( top 8 for singles and top 4 for teams).
Also: Pokemon's rulebook says that you can win in 3 ways: take 6 prizes, deck your opponent or bench him.
Winning taking 1-5 prize is not part of the rules of the GAME.
It's part of "Tournament's rules" that exist only to allow the tournaments to end in a reasonable time.
But "rules for tournaments" are there to allow to the GAME to exist in a competitive way, not to modify the game itself or the outcome of it.
In many occasions, the deck that won a Pokemon's tournament is not the deck that would have won a Pokemon game. If you are OK with it you are clearly refusing to see any reason beside "everything has always been done this way so this is the right way for the time coming".
As demonstrated by other games, the arguments supporting a timed top cut (at least in top 4-8) make little to no-sense.
BTW if some one playing at Worlds has a plane to take at sunday 6.00 PM, he clearly doesn't deserve to be at Worlds.
---------- Post added 08/18/2011 at 01:53 PM ----------
Topdecking is a part of the game (if you don't like it go to play chess)
Flipping coins is part of the game (if you don't like it g to play any other TCG games without coins)
Even T1s are part of the game (read above, or play more basics with high HP)
Not beeing able to play your second turn even if you have benched pokemons, cards in you deck and your opponent have prizes, is NOT part of the game.
Right now the winner of a sudden death is NOT the winner of a "Pokemon Trading Card Game" and to me this makes the result flawed and the tournament leaved a sour taste in my mouth (should Ross have won or beeing punished by playing a "slow-control" deck?).
+ one more day of competition (Grinders on thursday, DAY1 on friday, DAY2 on saturday, DAY on sunday)
Magic the gathering (not a random TCG, but the most important one, almost 20years old) has "55 minutes + 5 extra turns" matches in swiss (best of 3) and untimed Top8....
yet tournament requires 2-3 days and usually ends within sunday.
MTG'g Worlds are spread in 4 day BUT in each day 8 games are played (55 minutes each) for a total o 24 matches in 3 days + 5 Matches on sunday ( top 8 for singles and top 4 for teams).
Also: Pokemon's rulebook says that you can win in 3 ways: take 6 prizes, deck your opponent or bench him.
Winning taking 1-5 prize is not part of the rules of the GAME.
It's part of "Tournament's rules" that exist only to allow the tournaments to end in a reasonable time.
But "rules for tournaments" are there to allow to the GAME to exist in a competitive way, not to modify the game itself or the outcome of it.
In many occasions, the deck that won a Pokemon's tournament is not the deck that would have won a Pokemon game. If you are OK with it you are clearly refusing to see any reason beside "everything has always been done this way so this is the right way for the time coming".
As demonstrated by other games, the arguments supporting a timed top cut (at least in top 4-8) make little to no-sense.
BTW if some one playing at Worlds has a plane to take at sunday 6.00 PM, he clearly doesn't deserve to be at Worlds.
---------- Post added 08/18/2011 at 01:53 PM ----------
Topdecking is a part of the game (if you don't like it go to play chess)
Flipping coins is part of the game (if you don't like it g to play any other TCG games without coins)
Even T1s are part of the game (read above, or play more basics with high HP)
Not beeing able to play your second turn even if you have benched pokemons, cards in you deck and your opponent have prizes, is NOT part of the game.
Right now the winner of a sudden death is NOT the winner of a "Pokemon Trading Card Game" and to me this makes the result flawed and the tournament leaved a sour taste in my mouth (should Ross have won or beeing punished by playing a "slow-control" deck?).
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