Official TPCI Pokemon Tournament 2009 | Congrats to all who participated!!

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BattleBeastEXP said:
Expert Evan, were you the man with the Nintendo shirt? And your son was wearing a black hat?
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no to both as I forgot to take pictures this year and was going to but got quite discouraged when most of us did not get picked.

My son was wearing a Padres t-shirt (hopes of going to San Diego) and I was also wearing a white t-shirt but no cap this year.
 
RandomVGC said:
Sorry to do this to you guys, but when I win Nashville, I won't tell you guys and I will claim to not be a smogoner. I am WTPT through-and-through.
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WTPT is such a boring podcast...listen to PUCL, they're way funnier, and actually don't forget half of the pokemon's names that they're talking about. But yeah, Raistmagic's got Nashville.

Anyway, hopefully next year there will be a VGC in LA, since LA is awesome.
 
VashTheStampede said:
Bianca was quite cute. And I don't appreciate being called old, I'm only 20.
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I beat him too, I believe, before I played Bianca.
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xD. By some old guy, I meant someone older than me and Bianca. And hey, if you want, sometime, could we battle? PM me for my Friend Code. Though, I'm going to make a new team - so not anytime soon.

~Sir Aaron
 
Sir Aaron said:
xD. By some old guy, I meant someone older than me and Bianca. And hey, if you want, sometime, could we battle? PM me for my Friend Code. Though, I'm going to make a new team - so not anytime soon.

~Sir Aaron
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I second the last part. I'd love a rematch sometime! just for fun :)
 
ultimatedra said:
Ok. I believe we are ALL together that the entry method to these tournaments is completely bogus.

Philly has to be a good testament to this. 600+ people, some driving more than 9 hours to attend, and sending 5/6th of the people away with nothing more than a shiny milotic.

Then people - LET'S DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!

Contact TPCi Directly! they have all their contact info here:
http://go-pokemon.com/contactus.html

The correct E-Mail to use while contacting them is:
customerservice@go-pokemon.com

Let them know how upset you are about the method of entry. Be polite and calm in your e-mail.

Suggest your ideas on how to better the entry method. Maybe bring back the online test, first come - first served, or unlimited entry.

Remember - just one voice is just one voice, but a crowd of voices turns heads.
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I hope enough people write to them about this Philly stop that they realize sending over 400 people home with nothing more than a shiny Pokémon is an absolute failure of an event.
 
This totally sucks. I'm pretty close to Philadelphia, and I wonder if I would have even got in. Does that link down there go to a petition to sign?
 
Originally Posted by Fat ultimatedra
Ok. I believe we are ALL together that the entry method to these tournaments is completely bogus.

Philly has to be a good testament to this. 600+ people, some driving more than 9 hours to attend, and sending 5/6th of the people away with nothing more than a shiny milotic.

Then people - LET'S DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!

Contact TPCi Directly! they have all their contact info here:
http://go-pokemon.com/contactus.html

The correct E-Mail to use while contacting them is:
customerservice@go-pokemon.com

Let them know how upset you are about the method of entry. Be polite and calm in your e-mail.

Suggest your ideas on how to better the entry method. Maybe bring back the online test, first come - first served, or unlimited entry.

Remember - just one voice is just one voice, but a crowd of voices turns heads.

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Did my part in the gig. advice to those responding to this mess is make sure you try to be polite. by being rude you destroy your credibility. keep it in mind when giving them your 2 cents. (just saying you know..)

thanks for the link btw ultimatedra
 
hnh said:
Did my part in the gig. advice to those responding to this mess is make sure you try to be polite. by being rude you destroy your credibility. keep it in mind when giving them your 2 cents. (just saying you know..)

thanks for the link btw ultimatedra
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I did voice my concerns for such a small margin of people getting in. And did my very best to be polite. I just feel so bad for a friend of mine who really wanted to get in.
 
I emailed them. All I really said (In a big drawn out couple of paragraphs) we need more locations, more age groups, such as

12 & Under
13-17
18 & Up

I think that would be better, it would allow more participants and help filter out some of the competition.

And definitely no more of that random selection crap.
 
I posted my complaint
Today I drove 3 hours from Connecticut to the VGS tournament in Pennsylvania with my son and neither of us got selected to participate, and it turned out only 128 out of about 600 seniors that arrived could participate. We were both Top 16 participants in last year's regionals in New York and were looking forward to participating again. I also learned that not only did we not get in, but also last year's winner from New York, another top 4 contender from New York, and also a top 4 contender from JAA Philadelphia back in 2006. The Pennsylvania event was the lone regional host this year for those from Boston, New York, Philadelphia & Washington DC all of which also had regionals within the last 3 years, and I hope your organization will expand in future years to accomodate the overwhelming interest in these tournaments. A shiny milotic as our consolation did not really satisfy us enough just to spend gas just to get to a regional that we could not participate in. Thanks for listening and hope you can improve on accomodating all of us in the future. Perhaps have more regional events on the east coast or expand the limit to say 256 or 512 depending on whom shows up to them.
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BattleBeastEXP said:
I emailed them. All I really said (In a big drawn out couple of paragraphs) we need more locations, more age groups, such as

12 & Under
13-17
18 & Up

I think that would be better, it would allow more participants and help filter out some of the competition.

And definitely no more of that random selection crap.
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I agree, that would be very good. What about a petition? I'd sure sign it.
 
Im sorry you guys didn't get in. Honestly all my opponents were very easy. I kinda agree with you but I have a feeling that I wouldn't of won if you guys got in. XD I didn't see any of you at the tourny. I asked around for people from Smogon and couldn't find anybody. I don't know if any of you stayed but the Ethan kid that won was me. My name kinda gives it away. lol
 
I just wanted to say that I too feel the event could of been held much more smoothly and that at least accepting 256 people per division would of made things more acceptable. I'm sorry for anyone who didn't make it in.

Also, Congrats to both Vash and Ethan. Ethan, you rocked my nuts in the 5th place match. I was the guy with the Wobbuffet shirt and blue hat. That battle was very close; we should definitely play again sometime. :D

Good luck to everyone going to Nationals~
 
THANK YOU SO MUCH

I posted this:

I think that there should be a better way of choosing, this is just ridiculous! EXPERIENCED People driving/booking plane tickets,preparing in advance for the tourney, arriving early as can be to be denied whilst an inexperienced player who found the tornument the night before gets in! It is just outrageous! There should be a quiz to test one's experienced, proper, competitive, knowledge of the game before letting them in.
 
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