Written by Adam | August 16, 2010 | View Comments | 1,344 views  Here’s the official press release on the conclusion of the World Championships this past weekend:
TRADING CARD GAME AND VIDEO GAME CHAMPIONS CROWNED AT 2010 POKÉMON WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
Elite Players from More than 25 Countries Converge on Hawaii for Ultimate Competition
Kona, HI-August 16, 2010- For nearly a year, the goal for tens of thousands of Pokémon™ Trading Card Game (TCG) and video game players around the world has been becoming World Champion, but only a few hundred made it to the big [...]
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Written by Jason | August 8, 2010 | View Comments | 1,067 views  Went to an Undaunted Prerelease today! I had been pretty excited about this set, but I haven’t really seen many of the cards in it. Well, a couple of my friends from Ackerman League (Jeff, Scott, and Aaron) and I split a ride and hit up the Granada Hills event! In the morning I explain a bit of how to make a good sealed event deck, and some of the cards I saw on PokeBeach that I thought were good (Raticate, Sneasel). Jeff gets [...]
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Written by jordog18 | July 15, 2010 | View Comments | 977 views  Hey all! I know some people have been waiting for this report, but I have been busy the past few days and have not had time to do it until now. So, here you go!
The Professor Cup took place on the Sunday of Nats when Top 16 cuts in the main event were going on. This year the format was Platinum-on and your deck could only contain 30 cards, with no more than 2 of any card in it. For game setup, [...]
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Written by jordog18 | July 4, 2010 | View Comments | 1,336 views  Hey everyone! Hope you had fun at Nationals last weekend! I arrived in Indianapolis on Wednesday with no idea of what to play. I knew I was not going to play SP because I assumed it would be played a lot, and I did not want to play mirror matches all weekend…so I thought about Jumpluff. But I played it at Regionals, and I knew that SP had somewhat of an upper-hand against it.
Expecting a LOT of Garchomp [...]
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Written by Cam Graybill | June 29, 2010 | View Comments | 857 views  So, yesterday (Saturday) I was taken to League at Six Feet Under Games by my Pop-Pop (Thanks :). After a long uneventful drive, we arrived. I played one round with my Flygon deck during League play (it took 1 hour and 20 minutes), then prepared for the tournament.
At Six Feet Under, they host Lv.X Tournaments once a month, this month the prize was a Palkia Lv.X. Also, they have a theme for the tournament, and the theme for this month was Poor Man’s [...]
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Written by Jason | June 28, 2010 | View Comments | 2,016 views  Well, I had a blast at Nationals, playing some great games and meeting some interesting people. I also have editor powers over the website now so I am helping to edit and publish articles. There is a lot of interesting stuff in the bin, some of which I put comments and suggestions in to help you get the best article you can write up there. Anyway, off to the report.
I arrived in Indianapolis at 8:30 PM, just missing the pre-registration. [...]
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Written by Jason | June 28, 2010 | View Comments | 2,531 views  Saturday begins and the day starts badly. After taking a dump Ian Chenlocks the toilet. Eventually it flushes, we have a nice breakfast, and head down to the convention center.
Round 8 vs. John Kettler (Jumpluff/AMU)
Pairings are posted for Swiss Rnd 8 and I am up with my friend John Kettler. I am a little shaky on the matchup (I had heard from my friend Ian that he was sticking with his Regionals deck) but I have confidence I can [...]
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Written by cpeterik | June 28, 2010 | View Comments | 1,002 views  So this past weekend was the 2010 US National Championship for the Pokemon Trading Card Game. Held at the wonderful Indianapolis Convention Center, the venue provided more than enough room and accommodations for the thousands of competitors and supporters. With over 850 competitors in the Masters division, I believe this was the most well attended US Nationals ever. With 9 Swiss rounds over 2 days leading up to a top 128 that would span into day 3, this was sure to be one crazy [...]
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Written by Adam | June 28, 2010 | View Comments | 1,045 views  Nationals was awesome!
I wasn’t too sure if I’d be able to make it until only a week or two before the event, but I am really glad I went. I met a lot of cool people and had a great time.
Thanks to everyone who said hi to me; it was so nice to put a face to a name and get to know a little bit about all the people I’ve conversed with the past year through the site. It was [...]
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Scheduled Posts- 9/2: The Primal Lock by Joe Bernard
- The Replacement Updates by James Hall
- 9/3: Yanphan Deck Analysis- Counting Cards by Matthew Zwicker
- 9/4: Truly Vile Pokemon – Gengar & Viletomb by Eric Clow
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