Slight correction about the Mew ADP legality timeline thing at the end circa 1:07:55 - Chip was correct about Mew and ADP not existing at the same time, but Fusion Strike actually came out in between Evolving Skies and Brilliant Stars rather than Chilling Reign and Brilliant Stars - rotation was right after 2021's "pog championships" (online "worlds" and the first Sword & Shield on format was Sword & Shield - Evolving Skies though no irl majors happened until Brilliant Stars
My second ever slam dunk in guess that flavor text, first was feraligatr. Also I had an idea about the point system, I think you all should reset each season at worlds, and make some sort of a silly prize to play for, and for Azuls sake count the tournament picks as well 😂.
Top 256 in the US was equivalent to 601 points, which is one more than the requirement of 600. If it is 256 next season, it will be just as hard. Additionally, the reduction in BFL evens the playing field for people who can't travel a lot.
@@greninjaboithis isn’t the best way to think about the difficulty next year. It will cut more than half (131) that would have qualified under the system from this year. I expect that will make the point chase more competitive. People will need to attend more events to grab good finishes which could inflate the points over 660. The other sad part is that it means a goal of so many, to earn a words invite, will require more travel - expenses rise as does time away from work, school, family. This goal just may not be a feasible thing for as many people to pursue. It’s difficult to tell how many folks will just decide that unless they spike an early event or two, the pursuit for the year isn’t worth the cost/potential payout.
So we (as in the west) never played with Mew+ADP in the same format since we would rotate “early” after when worlds would occur whereas Japan and presumably the rest of Asia had always been on the “first set of the year” rotation so they had a few months of what would’ve been the equivalent of Team Up-Fusion Strike. Guessing China is similar to the latter.
This is a guess that flavor text I was able to get pretty easily, the phrase trimming fur and elegance is what tips it off for the entire gimmick of that pokemon. Pretty dirty selection by Chip considering even tpci has seemingly forgot this pokemon.
I love what Azul talks about no one caring about what the meta is at the moment because it is seriously true, right now most of us just don't care what's going on right now, we're waiting for the next set or the season to kick off properly
Changing from a threshold system to a top X system shifts the uncertainty from the organizers to the players. One can argue who should shoulder that uncertainty, but I would like to note that top X is more resistant if there are suddenly more or less tournaments available. A bonus IC or one that is cancelled could easily mean 100 extra/fewer players getting their worlds invite. Similarly, if something like a lower BFL has a wildly different effect than they expected, worlds would still be neither overcrowded/deserted.
I think the thing for me is in the current format, getting a worlds invite/600 champ points seemed like an attainable goal. Not easy, but attainable, with the right investment of time, effort, money and a heap of luck. And while yea, if they only take top 256, I know that sits at ~600 points right now, but #300 or so is also sitting at ~600. The competition for that 255th/256th spot will be brutal, that it could be a back and forth leap frog of players, hypothetically, that you end up with #256 having 700+ champ points, or even worse, with reduced BFL and potentially fewer regionals, #225-#275-ish having the same number of points. (I.e., less opportunities to create point differentials) Idk.. it's all assumptions for now, but I could see top X being more competitive, which is good, but also more cut throat, which could make it more toxic maybe? And it could price some people out of competitive TCG, and dishearten new players who want to work towards an invite.
I'd love a reduction in BFL. If you want to travel the world and play for prizing and better finishes then more power to you. I think for the people that don't have the freedom or funds to travel the world shouldn't get punished. Say someone makes top 8 and two top 64's at their only regionals plus wins all their cup/challenges, and there was someone who traveled the world and went to 12 regionals and made day two once or twice, and doesn't have their cups/challenges capped out but has more points than the previous player, it makes it caters to the person who can travel more but have way less quality of finishes and that doesn't seem like world championship caliber to me.
@strawwpurry you shouldn't have to travel to multiple different countries to play in their events to qualify something that is supposed to be a tournament full of the best in the game. Whether you perform in your own country or all over your finishes should solidify you, not how much you can play
@@zombieboyxx you are a world champion cuz you win the world championships where the best players from around the world gather to win. Your ability to travel and your purchasing power literally doesn't matter if you beat the best players in the world
Speaking as someone who has only been playing since the start of this season, the rumoured change would basically kill my interest in the competitive scene. When I first got into the TCG it was incredibly motivating to know that if I hit a point threshold, I can go to the world championships. Granted I didn't come close in the end but all I've been thinking about is how I'm going to make it happen next season. I don't have the time or the money to go to each regional or IC, I can afford an IC and maybe 2 regionals a season and from the people I play against that's about average for people who are looking to get more competitive and want to go up a level. I get people want more exclusive tournaments but that's not how you grow the game, if I hear I have to come in the top X players next season I probably just won't bother because there's always going to be someone who has way more time or money who can hit a tournament every week and go to every regional. The flat CP requirement was a really inclusive way to allow absolutely anyone to qualify for Worlds assuming you can hit the threshold whereas making the top X players feels way more arbitrary and like the goalposts are constantly shifting.
I’m really interested in the impact of the prophesied top x cutoff - this season we had 271 NA qualifiers, if there was a cutoff of 271 instead of a 600 point threshold, would you have been discouraged from making an attempt?
@@ArsTheurgiaGoetia I'm not in NA, but to answer your question, it's as Chip/Azul said, when there's a point threshold it feels like you can plan out where your points are going to come from and how you can qualify whereas a top X player threshold feels far more nebulous and like I'm less in control of if I qualify for worlds. If I meet the points threshold there's nothing anyone can do to make me lose my worlds invite whereas having to stay in a top player bracket makes me feel like I'm constantly in race against other players who probably have more time and money than me to commit to this.
@@TheWillrocks51 I’m the same way. I like playing the game but would only commit the resources for traveling to a bunch of regionals/ICs if I thought I would have a real shot at reaching worlds. Otherwise I’d probably just go to my local regional and IC with meme decks. Though in my case if they made it like a top 256 I wouldn’t feel the target was too different from this season. I’d certainly not like the uncertainty toward the end of the season if I was on the edge though. This season I qualified in April and went ahead and booked Worlds accommodations. I don’t know if I’d have been as confident if there was a hard limit.
As a competitive card player of many games over the last 30 years I will say that ladders are awful when compared to tournaments. There are a lot of reasons why but there is an article that Richard Garfield (Magic's creator) wrote a couple of years ago detailing many of them. Not just as a form of entertainment but also the effects they have on communities. If PTCGL gets a ladder, it means nothing to me. Limitless existing is significantly more important to me. That being said if someone enjoys ladders, I would be happy for them.
as a player living in hawaii i will say i hope they expand on their event location and have some typer of bigger criteria on getting an invite to worlds because flying out to any locations (especially to the east coast) is extremely expensive. I would like to see hawaii (personally) and i know it may sound a little selfish but hawaii to have a separate point bracket kinda like Oceania so players here can have a decent chance of qualifying for worlds. most people here only attended one regional on the west coast and that was only the few that could afford the travel and lodging costs to get out there on top of registration fees, etc. since it seems coming out to hawaii is such a money intensive cost for a lot of people i would like to see the pokemon company make a change and make hawaii its own section and perhaps to prevent from other people taking advantage of trying to claim slots from here the points qualifications are only for hawaii residents but the tournaments are still open to anyone who wants to travel here to compete similar to japan is only for japanese with the exception that our local regional type tournaments that could perhaps happen be open to anyone
I actually know the answer to your confusion about ADP and Mew VMax! Rotation in 2021 coincided with the release of Evolving Skies, so ADP rotated out one set before Fusion Strike released. That also means it's possible there were online events etc when neither ADP or Mew VMax were legal
Probably get lost in the comments but I think it will hurt the younger divisions and long term growth. My son just missed worlds (he’s 9 and a Junior) and is already asking about 2025 worlds. If you want to grow competitively in 5 yrs you need to hook the Juniors. I don’t know if my son would still be playing competitively if he didn’t think he could make worlds.
they can also improve the invitation, but if the people who play the game does not growth with the pokemon market there are other problems... Probably first most people collect without playing it, so there aren't interested people to play the game, so probably the game is not fun. Than local tournaments probably are not worth to play, if i have to play 6hours for 5 play pokemon packs, meh! wtf I feel I wasted my day also if I had fun. Yes, i don't play for money, but I think better rewards increase the ammount of people that start to play it more seriously!
As far as I know, nothing in the art contest rules said AI wasn’t allowed. So, since their statement didn’t specifically mention AI, I’m not sure that’s what the disqualifications were over. What I do know is that the rules said each person could only submit 3 entries. And 6 of the top 300 entries were submitted by the same person using slight variations of their name. That’s clearly against the rules. Coincidentally, those 6 submissions are also the ones that are most obviously AI generated. I’m interested to see if it’s only those 6 that get replaced or if the other suspected AI submissions also get replaced. While I’m hoping for the latter, I’m not sure that will be the case. Future art contest will likely have rules specifically banning AI submissions.
@@jaydee5312 I agree. But I also assume that the Pokemon Company can’t remove people for doing things that weren’t explicitly against the rules, you know, for legal reasons.
Azul was spittin some heat this episode.I really hope they don’t change the structure much next season and hopefully they do more with the top 8 for people (like me ) who can’t go to every single regional ,with wife ,kids ,etc it’s kinda hard to be really competitive at the game.Ill be looking forward to the new season and Azul was talking about the hyperbolic time chamber from Dragonball z lol 😂 great reference and great episode from yall 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾
I feel like if they change to a Top X system people in Central America are at a huge disadvantage compared to those of South America (TPCI considers Central America and South America as 1 single region) ALL of the LATAM regionals are in South America with the exception of the special event in Mexico and LATAM IC is 9 times out of 10 in Brazil so IF they do Top X then they need to separate the Central America and South America ladders. For Example, I live in El Salvador and we have at MOST 2 stores that run the 1 cup per quarter and they run 1 challenge a month or every other month and they are also not located in safe parts of the country, not having regionals in LATAM countries like Costa Rica or Mexico is terrible since we either have to look for regionals in South America (where travelling is not as accessible or straight up way too expensive) or nearby ones in the US like Florida or Texas to have a fighting chance compared to players in South America/Brazil who have a myriad of stores running weekly challenges and have the pick of the litter when it comes to cups.
Never tried for worlds, life always in the way, but having a road to worlds and doing that grind, for me would make the invite the prize. Being a part of something bigger is the draw for me. Literally an IP about anyone working towards that dream. Imagine cynthia telling ash hell never be good enough and don’t deserve to be there
I just don’t understand why people care so much about World invite structure. No matter how they change it, two facts never changes: 1) ptcg is only a hobby for 95% of players 2) the purpose of playing is to have fun and improve as a competitive player no matter which level you are at
more like pokemon doesn't have as much prize as other tcg games. So world invite became the ultimate goal of playing. If pokemon pay out more event exclusive prize like how japan does it then yea world invite is whatever 😂. Just need more prize for local Hobbie player to get more heat in the game
I mean you're taking average in it's literal meaning there. I mean the people who don't have endless time and money to go around their respective region going to regionals and ic's. Even just a trip to go a league cup somewhere else can end up being more expensive than you first thought. Having points to aim for was more inclusive than "you must be top X to qualify"
@@1990jonmotionit’s the world championship brotha it’s not meant to be inclusive, if you made this argument in any other hobby, esport, sport, competition ect you’d be laughed at
Kinda fucked up from Azuls part, the ideas shouldve/couldve been used to help this podcast improve but here we are. Just shows you, you cant trust everyone, everyone is always looking out for their best interest.
Regardless of how changing worlds invite next year to be harder affects players, the fact that people who go to worlds get an IC worth of championship points to head start the season however anyone who just missed out on worlds invite doesn’t get the opportunity and now has to also try and get their invite next year with even more points is just completely rubbish.
@@UncommonEnergyPodcast I got told from Australian worlds players that it works the same as any other premier event with top cut of the kicker getting points
I'm so ready for competitive pokemon to be done. I've gotten to the point in life where I just can't dedicate all of my time to grinding matchups and keeping up with the meta. Instead I enjoy playing casual pokemon with friends and family and I think I hit the jackpot on a format I like to call Simplified Pokemon or SP. I'll just drop the rules here if anyone is interested: In your 60 card deck you have to play 2 of each card except item cards. You cannot play Tool cards, Special Energy, Triple Prize Pokemon, and Single Prize Rulebox Pokemon, except BREAK Pokemon. GX, BREAK, and MEGA Pokemon can evolve the turn you play their previous evolution and evolving a MEGA Pokemon doesn't end your turn. This is where the format really gets "simplified": You can only play Pokemon that have a maximum of 1 sentence per attack or ability, 2 sentences per item card, 2 sentences per supporter, and 1 sentence per stadium. "Flip a coin.", "Then, shuffle your deck.", "Shuffle your deck afterward.", and all text in parentheses do no count towards sentence count. At the end of time, if this ever gets to a tournament structure, the player with less prize cards wins. Ties go to sudden death. The SP format follows Expanded's card list including ban list.
It's going to be hard to continue playing this as a competitive hobby with the way the structure is...and a top X unless it's 1,000 likely will keep me from competitively playing at all just with the time commitment that it does truly entail.
This new structure will kill competitive Pokemon for me and my friends, there is no point in playing, spending money on trips where I'm going to get 20 points possible and is making the game all about money. Looks like I'm going to be a local merchant and going back to collecting the shiny cardboard.
@@mandy1339 how does quick selection or magic wand work? How about filters? My point is technology propels the arts forward and AI is just the next stage of tech
generative AI is not at all comparable to a color fill tool. This is a false equivalence and a bad faith take in general. generative AI has no place in an illustration contest. period
Thank you for adding chapters to the video!
Slight correction about the Mew ADP legality timeline thing at the end circa 1:07:55 - Chip was correct about Mew and ADP not existing at the same time, but Fusion Strike actually came out in between Evolving Skies and Brilliant Stars rather than Chilling Reign and Brilliant Stars - rotation was right after 2021's "pog championships" (online "worlds" and the first Sword & Shield on format was Sword & Shield - Evolving Skies though no irl majors happened until Brilliant Stars
Completely agree. 29:13 top 100 invited + top 8 at regionals or IC auto invited would be great.
My second ever slam dunk in guess that flavor text, first was feraligatr. Also I had an idea about the point system, I think you all should reset each season at worlds, and make some sort of a silly prize to play for, and for Azuls sake count the tournament picks as well 😂.
Top 256 in the US was equivalent to 601 points, which is one more than the requirement of 600. If it is 256 next season, it will be just as hard. Additionally, the reduction in BFL evens the playing field for people who can't travel a lot.
It's top 125
@@boxkid759 The comment was made before the announcement. Top 125 is 660, or only 10% harder, so not too bad.
@@greninjaboi I know.
@@greninjaboithis isn’t the best way to think about the difficulty next year. It will cut more than half (131) that would have qualified under the system from this year. I expect that will make the point chase more competitive. People will need to attend more events to grab good finishes which could inflate the points over 660.
The other sad part is that it means a goal of so many, to earn a words invite, will require more travel - expenses rise as does time away from work, school, family. This goal just may not be a feasible thing for as many people to pursue. It’s difficult to tell how many folks will just decide that unless they spike an early event or two, the pursuit for the year isn’t worth the cost/potential payout.
So we (as in the west) never played with Mew+ADP in the same format since we would rotate “early” after when worlds would occur whereas Japan and presumably the rest of Asia had always been on the “first set of the year” rotation so they had a few months of what would’ve been the equivalent of Team Up-Fusion Strike. Guessing China is similar to the latter.
Chip taking the shot at Azul for the Yapping show Azul has been doing with Grant was hilarious
thx for the time stamps
Time stamps my favorite segment of the podcast
This is a guess that flavor text I was able to get pretty easily, the phrase trimming fur and elegance is what tips it off for the entire gimmick of that pokemon. Pretty dirty selection by Chip considering even tpci has seemingly forgot this pokemon.
I love what Azul talks about no one caring about what the meta is at the moment because it is seriously true, right now most of us just don't care what's going on right now, we're waiting for the next set or the season to kick off properly
All I gotta say is LETS GOOO WE GOT CHAPTERS FOR THE PODCAST
I would totally watch a retro tournament vlog on the second channel.
Changing from a threshold system to a top X system shifts the uncertainty from the organizers to the players. One can argue who should shoulder that uncertainty, but I would like to note that top X is more resistant if there are suddenly more or less tournaments available. A bonus IC or one that is cancelled could easily mean 100 extra/fewer players getting their worlds invite. Similarly, if something like a lower BFL has a wildly different effect than they expected, worlds would still be neither overcrowded/deserted.
I think the thing for me is in the current format, getting a worlds invite/600 champ points seemed like an attainable goal. Not easy, but attainable, with the right investment of time, effort, money and a heap of luck. And while yea, if they only take top 256, I know that sits at ~600 points right now, but #300 or so is also sitting at ~600. The competition for that 255th/256th spot will be brutal, that it could be a back and forth leap frog of players, hypothetically, that you end up with #256 having 700+ champ points, or even worse, with reduced BFL and potentially fewer regionals, #225-#275-ish having the same number of points. (I.e., less opportunities to create point differentials)
Idk.. it's all assumptions for now, but I could see top X being more competitive, which is good, but also more cut throat, which could make it more toxic maybe? And it could price some people out of competitive TCG, and dishearten new players who want to work towards an invite.
How do you feel now?
Mic sounds great, Chip!
Hey chip, which kind/brand of mic you bought?
I'd love a reduction in BFL. If you want to travel the world and play for prizing and better finishes then more power to you. I think for the people that don't have the freedom or funds to travel the world shouldn't get punished. Say someone makes top 8 and two top 64's at their only regionals plus wins all their cup/challenges, and there was someone who traveled the world and went to 12 regionals and made day two once or twice, and doesn't have their cups/challenges capped out but has more points than the previous player, it makes it caters to the person who can travel more but have way less quality of finishes and that doesn't seem like world championship caliber to me.
but you also can't be a WORLD champion without traveling.. the title of world champion has been watered down for people who wins a few regionals
@@zombieboyxx No one is saying no traveling just less traveling
@strawwpurry you shouldn't have to travel to multiple different countries to play in their events to qualify something that is supposed to be a tournament full of the best in the game. Whether you perform in your own country or all over your finishes should solidify you, not how much you can play
@@zombieboyxx you are a world champion cuz you win the world championships where the best players from around the world gather to win. Your ability to travel and your purchasing power literally doesn't matter if you beat the best players in the world
Speaking as someone who has only been playing since the start of this season, the rumoured change would basically kill my interest in the competitive scene.
When I first got into the TCG it was incredibly motivating to know that if I hit a point threshold, I can go to the world championships. Granted I didn't come close in the end but all I've been thinking about is how I'm going to make it happen next season.
I don't have the time or the money to go to each regional or IC, I can afford an IC and maybe 2 regionals a season and from the people I play against that's about average for people who are looking to get more competitive and want to go up a level.
I get people want more exclusive tournaments but that's not how you grow the game, if I hear I have to come in the top X players next season I probably just won't bother because there's always going to be someone who has way more time or money who can hit a tournament every week and go to every regional. The flat CP requirement was a really inclusive way to allow absolutely anyone to qualify for Worlds assuming you can hit the threshold whereas making the top X players feels way more arbitrary and like the goalposts are constantly shifting.
I’m really interested in the impact of the prophesied top x cutoff - this season we had 271 NA qualifiers, if there was a cutoff of 271 instead of a 600 point threshold, would you have been discouraged from making an attempt?
@@ArsTheurgiaGoetia I'm not in NA, but to answer your question, it's as Chip/Azul said, when there's a point threshold it feels like you can plan out where your points are going to come from and how you can qualify whereas a top X player threshold feels far more nebulous and like I'm less in control of if I qualify for worlds.
If I meet the points threshold there's nothing anyone can do to make me lose my worlds invite whereas having to stay in a top player bracket makes me feel like I'm constantly in race against other players who probably have more time and money than me to commit to this.
If them changing the structure is the thing to get you out of it, you didn’t really even like it lol.
@@TheWillrocks51 I said it would kill my competitive interest, I didn't say it would stop me playing entirely.
@@TheWillrocks51 I’m the same way. I like playing the game but would only commit the resources for traveling to a bunch of regionals/ICs if I thought I would have a real shot at reaching worlds. Otherwise I’d probably just go to my local regional and IC with meme decks. Though in my case if they made it like a top 256 I wouldn’t feel the target was too different from this season. I’d certainly not like the uncertainty toward the end of the season if I was on the edge though. This season I qualified in April and went ahead and booked Worlds accommodations. I don’t know if I’d have been as confident if there was a hard limit.
As a competitive card player of many games over the last 30 years I will say that ladders are awful when compared to tournaments. There are a lot of reasons why but there is an article that Richard Garfield (Magic's creator) wrote a couple of years ago detailing many of them. Not just as a form of entertainment but also the effects they have on communities. If PTCGL gets a ladder, it means nothing to me. Limitless existing is significantly more important to me. That being said if someone enjoys ladders, I would be happy for them.
as a player living in hawaii i will say i hope they expand on their event location and have some typer of bigger criteria on getting an invite to worlds because flying out to any locations (especially to the east coast) is extremely expensive. I would like to see hawaii (personally) and i know it may sound a little selfish but hawaii to have a separate point bracket kinda like Oceania so players here can have a decent chance of qualifying for worlds. most people here only attended one regional on the west coast and that was only the few that could afford the travel and lodging costs to get out there on top of registration fees, etc. since it seems coming out to hawaii is such a money intensive cost for a lot of people i would like to see the pokemon company make a change and make hawaii its own section and perhaps to prevent from other people taking advantage of trying to claim slots from here the points qualifications are only for hawaii residents but the tournaments are still open to anyone who wants to travel here to compete similar to japan is only for japanese with the exception that our local regional type tournaments that could perhaps happen be open to anyone
I actually know the answer to your confusion about ADP and Mew VMax! Rotation in 2021 coincided with the release of Evolving Skies, so ADP rotated out one set before Fusion Strike released. That also means it's possible there were online events etc when neither ADP or Mew VMax were legal
i think jellicent was for pyroar
Reading some of these comments I can't help but feel like people overvalue worlds big time.
hopefully they use the free time before words to record some evolution series
31:16 Chip with the auto hit hahaha
Probably get lost in the comments but I think it will hurt the younger divisions and long term growth. My son just missed worlds (he’s 9 and a Junior) and is already asking about 2025 worlds. If you want to grow competitively in 5 yrs you need to hook the Juniors. I don’t know if my son would still be playing competitively if he didn’t think he could make worlds.
they can also improve the invitation, but if the people who play the game does not growth with the pokemon market there are other problems... Probably first most people collect without playing it, so there aren't interested people to play the game, so probably the game is not fun. Than local tournaments probably are not worth to play, if i have to play 6hours for 5 play pokemon packs, meh! wtf I feel I wasted my day also if I had fun. Yes, i don't play for money, but I think better rewards increase the ammount of people that start to play it more seriously!
As far as I know, nothing in the art contest rules said AI wasn’t allowed. So, since their statement didn’t specifically mention AI, I’m not sure that’s what the disqualifications were over.
What I do know is that the rules said each person could only submit 3 entries. And 6 of the top 300 entries were submitted by the same person using slight variations of their name. That’s clearly against the rules. Coincidentally, those 6 submissions are also the ones that are most obviously AI generated.
I’m interested to see if it’s only those 6 that get replaced or if the other suspected AI submissions also get replaced. While I’m hoping for the latter, I’m not sure that will be the case.
Future art contest will likely have rules specifically banning AI submissions.
Not being allowed to summit something you didn't make shouldn't even need to be a rule in an ART contest. I think it's common sense.
@@jaydee5312 I agree. But I also assume that the Pokemon Company can’t remove people for doing things that weren’t explicitly against the rules, you know, for legal reasons.
Azul was spittin some heat this episode.I really hope they don’t change the structure much next season and hopefully they do more with the top 8 for people (like me ) who can’t go to every single regional ,with wife ,kids ,etc it’s kinda hard to be really competitive at the game.Ill be looking forward to the new season and Azul was talking about the hyperbolic time chamber from Dragonball z lol 😂 great reference and great episode from yall 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾
I feel like if they change to a Top X system people in Central America are at a huge disadvantage compared to those of South America (TPCI considers Central America and South America as 1 single region) ALL of the LATAM regionals are in South America with the exception of the special event in Mexico and LATAM IC is 9 times out of 10 in Brazil so IF they do Top X then they need to separate the Central America and South America ladders.
For Example, I live in El Salvador and we have at MOST 2 stores that run the 1 cup per quarter and they run 1 challenge a month or every other month and they are also not located in safe parts of the country, not having regionals in LATAM countries like Costa Rica or Mexico is terrible since we either have to look for regionals in South America (where travelling is not as accessible or straight up way too expensive) or nearby ones in the US like Florida or Texas to have a fighting chance compared to players in South America/Brazil who have a myriad of stores running weekly challenges and have the pick of the litter when it comes to cups.
Never tried for worlds, life always in the way, but having a road to worlds and doing that grind, for me would make the invite the prize. Being a part of something bigger is the draw for me.
Literally an IP about anyone working towards that dream. Imagine cynthia telling ash hell never be good enough and don’t deserve to be there
You can tell pokemon card players never competed for anything. Why is being a world class competitor expected from people who can't make day 2
I just don’t understand why people care so much about World invite structure. No matter how they change it, two facts never changes: 1) ptcg is only a hobby for 95% of players 2) the purpose of playing is to have fun and improve as a competitive player no matter which level you are at
super troll take bro
more like pokemon doesn't have as much prize as other tcg games. So world invite became the ultimate goal of playing. If pokemon pay out more event exclusive prize like how japan does it then yea world invite is whatever 😂. Just need more prize for local Hobbie player to get more heat in the game
@@pokemoncatcher2566 how lmao.
You sound shit at game 💀💀💀
@@pokemoncatcher2566 that's a realistic take. You're the one in fantasy land thinking you're a world class pokemon player
Chip memeing about that new show hahah
What is a BFL?
Best finish limit
Top X kills the competitive scene for the average player. If you want to make it more of a pro scene fine but at least say it and make it more elusive
The average player does not qualify for worlds anyway. How would this be different for them?
I mean you're taking average in it's literal meaning there. I mean the people who don't have endless time and money to go around their respective region going to regionals and ic's. Even just a trip to go a league cup somewhere else can end up being more expensive than you first thought. Having points to aim for was more inclusive than "you must be top X to qualify"
@@1990jonmotionit’s the world championship brotha it’s not meant to be inclusive, if you made this argument in any other hobby, esport, sport, competition ect you’d be laughed at
my influence is massive #NewportEsportsWin
+1 point on flavour text this week at 78 now
Super awkward hearing Chip talking about starting "some other show with someone else". ROFL!
Shots fired, the subtext is real 😂😂
Kinda fucked up from Azuls part, the ideas shouldve/couldve been used to help this podcast improve but here we are. Just shows you, you cant trust everyone, everyone is always looking out for their best interest.
@@cesar.g.8543 I mean lots of musicians and producers have serval projects and bands with different members, it's just how ya go about it I guess
What is this referring to? I don't keep up with the Pokemon TCG scene much.
@@MerryMichaelmas azul has a 2nd podcast/UA-cam show called Yapping with another player
at this rate we just need a tate section of the podcast cause every other week he's involved in some sort of news/drama
i keep accidentally clicking on this thinking it's the cool podcast from uncomonfossil and 10types
Regardless of how changing worlds invite next year to be harder affects players, the fact that people who go to worlds get an IC worth of championship points to head start the season however anyone who just missed out on worlds invite doesn’t get the opportunity and now has to also try and get their invite next year with even more points is just completely rubbish.
0 championship points are awarded at worlds - Azul
@@UncommonEnergyPodcast I got told from Australian worlds players that it works the same as any other premier event with top cut of the kicker getting points
@@TheJaminator Nope
This awkward sience after Chip's joke about other podcast with different person 😅😅
Hello 👋
I'm so ready for competitive pokemon to be done. I've gotten to the point in life where I just can't dedicate all of my time to grinding matchups and keeping up with the meta. Instead I enjoy playing casual pokemon with friends and family and I think I hit the jackpot on a format I like to call Simplified Pokemon or SP. I'll just drop the rules here if anyone is interested:
In your 60 card deck you have to play 2 of each card except item cards. You cannot play Tool cards, Special Energy, Triple Prize Pokemon, and Single Prize Rulebox Pokemon, except BREAK Pokemon. GX, BREAK, and MEGA Pokemon can evolve the turn you play their previous evolution and evolving a MEGA Pokemon doesn't end your turn.
This is where the format really gets "simplified":
You can only play Pokemon that have a maximum of 1 sentence per attack or ability, 2 sentences per item card, 2 sentences per supporter, and 1 sentence per stadium. "Flip a coin.", "Then, shuffle your deck.", "Shuffle your deck afterward.", and all text in parentheses do no count towards sentence count.
At the end of time, if this ever gets to a tournament structure, the player with less prize cards wins. Ties go to sudden death. The SP format follows Expanded's card list including ban list.
Just leaving a reply here.
If they change tournament points structure to this top x whatever it's going to kill the game and the competitive scene,
It's going to be hard to continue playing this as a competitive hobby with the way the structure is...and a top X unless it's 1,000 likely will keep me from competitively playing at all just with the time commitment that it does truly entail.
Bleh. I'll just watch other people with time and money compete and play locally for free.
Do ‘x’ players still expect a huge event and huge prizing. I dont want to be yugioh or magik. I want us to stay pkmn
top x makes poke dead game
Probably not.
@@boxkid759 def yes huge decline
@@pokemoncatcher2566 I'm pinning this on my calander to get back you in a year so you can see what clown take this is after said and done. 😭
@boxkid759 alright Mr 🤡
@@pokemoncatcher2566 hey! That's just what I said! Copier.
This new structure will kill competitive Pokemon for me and my friends, there is no point in playing, spending money on trips where I'm going to get 20 points possible and is making the game all about money. Looks like I'm going to be a local merchant and going back to collecting the shiny cardboard.
There is no point in playing? World's shouldn't be the end all be all for playing the game.
The AI thing is stupid. Using a paint bucket tool in Photoshop is also AI- are we banning graphic designers and people who use photoshop too?
bucket tool is not AI.
@@mandy1339 really? How does it know the boundaries of what to fill in??
@@mandy1339 how does quick selection or magic wand work? How about filters? My point is technology propels the arts forward and AI is just the next stage of tech
generative AI is not at all comparable to a color fill tool. This is a false equivalence and a bad faith take in general. generative AI has no place in an illustration contest. period
@@Leo-ry3kx i guess it depends what the rules say and how specific they are