Hi

Hi, I'd just like to talk about some of the things I've seen and heard at Tournaments, and a few personal bugs of mine.

Like any TCG Player, I enjoy the more than occasional Tourneys, and thrive on the competition. Out of several CCG's, though, Pokemon would have to be my favourite, mainly because there are not as many broken cards.

However, Pokemon is not without it's exceedingly annoying quibbles. Some of the most irritating and common are:

It was fun for a while. But now it's getting out of hand. With the release of Fossil, Aerodactyl and Muk only add to this Deck's complete swamping of others. The thing that bugs me is that peoply actually use Aerodactyl and Muk, and continue to use Haymakers. I used to use one, but it terribly boring.

And that's another thing. People that only play in Tournament's to win are simply unbearable. They use the same unbeatable Haymaker week after week after week, and never let any new ideas enter the Pokemon TCG area.

These are the same people who used to use Mewtwo-Mulligan Deck's back when you only needed 4 Basics. This is basically the same thing, a victory with no skill. I mean, a newbie with no experience could totally decimate an experienced player with a Haymaker.

I have no problem with Damage Swap Decks, as long as their aim is not to deck their opponent out, but to actually win. What bugs me is people with Psychic decks that think that they're so good because they won against almost everyone.

WHat they preffer not to think about is the fact that the game they've won by decking out doesn't show who is the better player, who has the best strategies, who keeps their cool in panick filled situations.

All it shows is who can make a potentially exciting game long, boring, and just plain pointless. The point of TCG's is to have fun, not to make games long and boring.

Bad translations can cost you a tournament. For instance, in a non-DCI santcioned tourney I recently went to, a man thought that Blaine's Stadium let ALL fire Pokemon ignore their weakness to water, not just BLAINE'S. I told him this was wrong, and he called a Judge over. The Judge looked in this magazine, and said that he was right.

I was more than slightly annoyed. Just the previous night, I had checked a spoiler for the Japanese GYm set, and it said what I thought. I ended up losing the match 6-5. Later that day, I checked several spoilers. Guess what they said.
Lousy magazines!

Also, the cards aren't even legal, yet all non-DCI sanctioned tourneys allow them. I'm thinking that the shops that hold these tourneys just want people to buy the more expensive Japanese cards.

FOrget that, I'm not shelling out $20 for a booster of cards that I can't even read.

Promo Mewtwo is broken. Forty damage Second turn is exceedingly frustrating. At least with Scyther and WIgglytuff you either needed to evolve or DCE. WHat I'm saying is that WOTC needs to think more carefully before creating the Promo cards jsut so that more people will go to the movie, which equals more $$.

WELL! That's all of the bad things out of the way. Now for the good things.

This is one thing that I love. In Magic: The Gathering, every tourney I went to, I played a person who cheated. It was either more than four of one card, putting more than one land down per turn, etc etc etc.

With Pokemon, most of the players I play are very nice to talk to and never cheat, just make honest mistakes.

One thing I hate seeing is young people collecting the whole set, and a week later, it's classed as 'boring', and they try to sell them all. This makes me quite depressed to see this. As David Buchanan (I think) said, 'I'll keep my cards until I die". Amen to that.

We should all follow his example, especially you. I'm pretty young myself, I guess, but I'll keep playing until armageddon occurs or there's no people left on Earth. And if that happens I'll play with my dog.

Also, I love seeing adults come to tourneys. It just shows how addictive Pokemon is.

With Magic, I've played games that lasted longer than three to four hours, and just get more pointless by the minute. With Pokemon, it's rare for a game to reach forty minutes, and the games are lively and exciting!!

There's hordes of people like me out there on the net, and I'm sure they'll support me on my crusade to free Pokemon of the boring Stall and Haymaker Decks!!

PoJo, if you liked reading this, I'm sure lots of other people will enjoy it, too. Put it into any section, but could you please make it stand out a little? It took me about an hour to type, and my fingers hurt.