Here is the Google Drive link for the rest of the Worlds pics since there's so many:
If you see someone you know please tag/show them!
ロンドンWCS2022で、沢山の選手を写真を撮ってみた。知ってる人を見ったら、是非タグを付けてまたは見せてください!
when it comes to trading, there seemed to be a disconnect between westerners and japanese people on demand/culture, so I want to give one perspective as someone who did a lot of trades (and as a collector + worlds competitor). bit of a long thread:
🧵 1/?
when it comes to trading, there seemed to be a disconnect between westerners and japanese people on demand/culture, so I want to give one perspective as someone who did a lot of trades (and as a collector + worlds competitor). bit of a long thread:
🧵 1/?
played in the WCS2010 tournament today, had some unfortunate bricks so didn’t place too well but had a lot of fun!
got to meet (and play against) the 2010 world champion, yuta, and even got an uxie signed 😭
also got to take a picture with the legendary imakuni?!
at what point can we all agree to stop babbling in great detail about whatever happened during your last game in between rounds at events
i don’t actually give a fuck and tune you out after 1 sentence yeah your opponent threw & you got unlucky like let’s do anything else man 😭
0-2-1 to 10-3-2 for t32 in portland. had no expectations since I hadn’t played for months and had to learn everything on the spot, and frankly wanted to lose fast so I could do literally anything else instead. s/o olliver for the list & everyone I borrowed cards from
+$700
this is awesome because english speaking venue security came up to us with our stuff laid out, mid trade (for other products - no intention of selling or any words exchanged to suggest so) and told us word for word “no trading”
3rd seed day 1 into bubbling 9th/1061 at Toronto after a long slump of chokes and lost win and ins. had my expectations low but it still hurts. gave me some renewed confidence tho and it’s still a decent finish so I’m happy about it regardless. I definitely should’ve put in 1/?
Pikachu & Zekrom-GX is the dominant archetype advancing to Top 8 of the third
@LimitlessTCG
Online Qualifier. Also noteworthy: *almost* eight different countries in Top 8.
11/985 at vancouver regs with optimal miraidon
2/2 on day 2s this season and kept my 100% day 2 -> cash at regs (still couldn’t convert, though…)
s/o
@Triplea9870
for same 60 & ending t32 and
@kayan_oladi
for the 🔥 homemade breakfast
+$2000 (1400 after tax YAY!!!)
@BenryBrand
It is something you are born with and cannot be learned. If you cannot properly sequence naturally you are destined to never grow as a player. Give up now.
after a couple rounds of reading my own cards I have gone from 0-2-1 to 6-2-1. I am being punished with 6 more meaningless rounds of this god awful game tomorrow. Fuck
Regretfully, the decision has been made to cancel the Yokohama Open. Please look forward to participating in fun side events and activities throughout Worlds weekend.
“Is the Celebration Fanfare for your opponent to use by accident (thinking it’s a Festival)?”
“Yes!”
(similarly to festival, it heals 10 from everything, but it ends your turn if used 💀)
on second thought the significant increase in prizing is probably going to cause a wave of horribly obnoxious egomaniacs to join the game and will also probably see yet another increase in cheating
hopefully that will actually be punished this season
5-2-2 for another mid finish at portland BUT mid is all I needed to lock up my 8th worlds invite 🥳 excited to compete again in yokohama after taking a bit of a break the past few seasons
thanks to
@GeminiSSBM
@NathianBeck
for the list and
@TheJoelStroeve
for the swag candies
also all my opponents were amazing but I wanted to shoutout Piper (congrats btw) and Anthony Bruno in particular for not sharking me when I accidentally drew 5 off a Marnie, big respect
lost in t4 of a cup today for my first cp of the season after bombing 2 in a row
mental is completely boomed and already feel tempted to cancel my registrations and eat the absurd “processing fee” and quit for the season
cups and challenges are genuine psychological torture
Tate is a boring and unfunny idiot
Ability:
Prevent all effects of attacks from your opponent’s Pokémon done to all of your Pokémon that have Energy attached.
[GG] Colony Rush 80+
This attack does 40 more damage for each of your Benched Pokemon with Grass Energy attached.
wanted to get started on a "new" ptcgo account since it's looking like I sent mine to the shadow realm for all of eternity by going to tcgl.
at $0.25 a code, 4 MONTHS after set release, a single ONLINE VIRTUAL (NOT REAL) deck is gonna run me $50-60 USD????????????? Bro.
everyone panicking over the low cap needs to remember how poor and horrible at planning the average player is, most americans don’t even know what a passport is let alone have like $1500 for a weekend in beijing, canada
We hope you're ready for Vancouver, because registration opens one week from today on January 24 at 7pm Pacific. It's going to be bigger than ever! Info in the replies!
Initial caps:
TCG
Juniors/Seniors: 200
Masters: 800
VGC
Juniors/Seniors: 40
Masters: 500
GO: 256
The Pokémon World Championships is my favorite event not just because of the intense and exciting battles we see each year, but because of the amazing people I get to meet and new friends I make every year from around the world. Looking forward to seeing everyone soon in London!
8-1 had an unfortunate series vs tina, he ran near perfect g3 but I played too greedy and got punished for it. really can’t complain about that run though, will do my best for tmr
after a crazy run day 1, had some rough games to start day 2 and was able to win out to 11-3-1 but bubbles 9th in the end. I didn’t expect to get so far, or to even have a chance, but being so close and whiffing still stings. longer post later; I have to try harder next time
9-5-1 for t128 at EUIC after a nuts 8-1 start day 1, incredibly disappointed with the finish but it’s still more than I expected going into the weekend. huge props to
@TrevoreRead
for the t8 with same 60, deck was legitimately horrible but a fantastic meta call. 310/350
@LiamHalliburton
@DanTheTrainer25
Extremely Elitist Take. There Are So Many Underprivileged Unknwon Players With Worlds Winning Potential Who Can Only Attend Localization Tournament
10-4-1 27/837 at San Diego with another boring Lugia list. had some pretty unfortunate mirrors preventing me from going all the way but still satisfied with a back to back money finish. thanks to Trevore Read &
@ConndorTCG
for the Horn idea, clutched a few games. +60 CP +$250
Gym Battle promo: Moonlight Hill (Stadium)
Once during each player’s turn, that player may discard a Basic [P] Energy from their hand. If they do, heal 30 damage from each of their Pokemon.
it’s interesting how japan continues to get expanded support to this day yet over here in the west tpci will send armed gunmen to your door for simply owning battle compressors and ace specs
I just want to play my broken degen format man
finally finished a deck! super close to a bunch of others as well (luxchomp is only missing a promocroak, gg/cursegar missing shiny duskull). gonna keep scouring rakuten and and try to finish off the rest
i’m so excited and so nervous for japan
i should have gotten a japanese tutor and studied harder. i’m so embarrassingly bad at speaking i feel like i’ll just awkwardly default back to english