ShawofMordor
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i dont believe in australia
Actually I agree with just about all of this.
In defense of team M, you really should separate mock bravado and stuff that is meant to be spoof, from people being genuinely big-headed. Usually it's posted in people’s reports etc. to back each other up and generally promote comradely – not to do down others.
Now on the other hand things like the Claydol ex at US nationals is sad and wrong, I might well keep good information to myself, but deliberately mis-leading others is pretty low
Your points about individuals small minded bickering about pointless issues is very true. In the UK we had a bit of derision last year about a North/South divide in the game – it wasn’t good for anyone but after our LD failed to make any cities count to rankings till March, we united and our nationals were in my opinion played with a better spirit than 2006.
I disagree with your specific point about Team M, but your other points in general are valid.
Originally posted by FriedBlaziken:
this thread has become discussion about australias op and such.
I think there is still a North/South divide between players and have my reasons.
It's beginning to become like Yu-Gi-Oh what with powers that block other powers.
hahaha so true
but Pokemon is a lot more strategic than YGO
that is a joke right?
Yugioh is FAR more difficult of a game than pokemon
because of the amount of randomness involved with lucksacking.
Pokemon has a standardized metagame which allows people to strategize their moves and build their decks around these metagames, and Archetypes.- at least, thats the one good thing about Australia, our best 2/3 format really helps this.
Yu-Gi-Oh! either has a metagame of 3-5 decks, and encounters absolute randomness from there on out. You can't afford to strategize and build your deck properly based on the metagame, because there's too much netdecking involved.