Hi, this is just a response to some PEOPLE who have such a stereotype view of
kids who play TCG's.
I'm 12, so that basicaly takes me out of the picture for tournaments
alltogether. But I don't give a damn. Tell you why? 'Cause I live in Australia,
and out here down under, we don't have ANY tournaments. I get SO sick of
hearing you spoilt American guys blabber on and on about not enough
tournaments, how good Charizard is (If you wanted to know, he's crap), and most
of all, JUNGLE.
Jungle HAS been released in Australia, and I live in Sydney, the biggest city.
And guess how many shops sell Pokemon TCG? About twenty. How many sell Jungle?
ONE. ONE shop in a city of 5 friggin million people. 
So I tell you what we aussie types do? We make our own tournaments, and who
gives a stuff if the (gasp) almighty DCI doesn't sanction or grade us? We grade
ourselves!! And we have REAL prizes, like $100 and 20 Boosters.
Also, we buy our boosters for $4.95. Australian. Which is about $3 American. We
have them for four ninety five EVERYWHERE! SO suck, we get them cheaper.
But anyway, this is just to show you slick american types what australians have
to go through to get some CCG games.
Complaints and arguments (And support!) on
<mailto:samia@cherry.com.au>samia@cherry.com.au