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I get the hate on San Francisco - I don't think it is nearly as bad as you are saying. Certainly a much better option than Hawaii from a money standpoint for travelling.

TPCI better start putting more regionals in Canada or more events just across the border. It's already confirmed that japan companies hate canada. Hunter is bang on, jr, sr's and masters that arent WFH or nepo's dont get all the time and money in the world to go to events. Disagree with him and his stance on the rich fucks but ok. Cant wait to only see azul or tord winning every event because no one will be able to afford to go to anything.

I’m curious when ID’ing will occur in the new Swiss system. Do you ID if you’re undefeated towards the end of day 1 to guarantee a spot into day 2 or do you absolutely save your IDs until day 2

A lot of people essentially bought an invite this year by being able to go to every major. I think they should've done something like 1 ic finish and 2-3 regional finishes to avoid people just purchasing an invite. I think top 125 is fine but they should've made bfl's lower for majors cause a certain portion of the top whatever will just be the people that could go to all three IC's. This is a step in the right direction tho, worlds shouldn't be achievable for people that just started playing and haven't even fully learned the game like it has been in the past. It's not an achievement if that's the case

I think one noteworthy thing about less rounds = harsher bubbles is that there will be less people in day 2. This makes the bubbles less harsh than you’d initially think. (They might still be worse, just not as worse as you think)

No free scoops to anyone. Never scoop to anyone ever.

Another episode!

It's funny . To think a circuit of tournaments around the world is somehow elitist for thinking that you have more time and the ability to travel to them gives you an advantage... What do people expect. And what reality do you live in where if you compete more in a competition you don't have an advantage

Elo is a name, not an acronym.

Hey, could u guys test iron thorns against Chieu pao?

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We love DDG content in this household

Imagine being a top player and having to use a "gentlemen's agreement" because either the format is too slow or your a clock dr. cant wait to sit in my computer chair and watch a bunch of 1-0's all the way through worlds, it will be such entertaining content for everyone /s

Sad that pokemon and yu gi oh have the same problem for anything above the local level regarding time. Games take too long and top 8 is still timed in 2024. TPCI needs to go untimed top 8 and judges should be 100% on top of slow players. I thought pokemon was out of the shadow of being known as the game where players game the clock and it sucks to see that it hasnt changed after hearing about the problems years ago. Cant wait to watch worlds top 8 and see a bunch of garbage sudden death bo3's because players refuse to actually play the game at a reasonable pace.

As regards Gardevoir's Charizard matchup, it's actually pretty favored if you play Devo and double Munkidori. You can set up damage with Flutter Mane and double Munkidori, and then use TM:Devo to wipe their board. There's nothing they can do after that. And Dusclops will only make that line easier. You can do similar things against Chien-Pao and the mirror. Because of this, I think that double TM:Devo is very strong in the deck going into Worlds. Furthermore, to combat the rise of Jamming Tower, I think Hyper Aroma is optimal. It prevents the turn 1 Jamming Tower into brick scenario, and makes the deck more consistent. Also, to combat Jamming Tower, one Nest Ball should almost certainly be cut for a second Artazon.

WE ARE SO CRACKED

The judge at 7:46 🐈‍⬛

Congrats, i love playing my lost box decks, his is amazing especially since ive been playing my Tina build

Goat!

Congrats on the W! It's great to see the talent in the top players!

Yeah it was Hermanni and Sharni that I hit on ladder that actually leaked the Iron Thorns😭😭

Buddy is the reason for everyone at my local shop playing Lostbox the next few weeks. Haha adding that Jirachi to my bulld. Congrats to Andrew!

Andrew played a lot and had excellent matches. Congratulations on the great tournament. 🏆

Ties should really just be double game loss like they do in Japan. Gets rid of all this garbage of people trying to play the clock to win 1-0 because watching that shit as a spectator is anti-climatic and boring af. They should also just make top 8 untimed and be harsh on slow play warnings. One day TPCI will include parts of the TPC rules and finally integrate MTG's comp REL time rules for top 8.

I'm not sure we have the same reading of how the Day 2 Top Cut works. The 8th seed doesn't face off against someone just to enter a Top 8. Top Cut isn't even necessarily eight people. At the end of Swiss, ALL players whose match points equal 8th seed will enter Top Cut, in a single-elim bracket. The top seeds would enjoy byes (which maybe is what Jake meant), until the bracket numbers even out, at which point they begin playing. But Cut could be up to 32 rather than 8.

very good, apparently

Aged like fine wine. Major congratulations to all of you!

Congratulations Hedrick and DDG! Awesome deck list and gameplay. You guys really trained a lot and it showed!

Moffitt had a shit attitude this whole podcast. Who pissed on his cereal

Lol yes please everyone play it.

Does anyone saw that umbreon crossing the board?

Why not Rosanne’s backup over cyllene in dragapult. You are mostly using it to get neo upper back, well rosannes guarantees you get it back instead of maybe getting it back. Also get to grab extra cards as well

can you do garde vs dragapult

Nice video! What sleeves do yall use?

Wellspring ogrepon is amazing in lugia

the list at the beginning of the video is different from the play, there is only 1 carmine in the list and you used it twice

Really enjoy the tabletop testing vids. I've been testing Pult for a couple weeks and I've found the most consistency with a similar list, with a few differences; I opt Alakazam instead of Zard, and Hawlucha with a Jamming Tower

Love your content! Question, what sleeves do you use?

Great discussion. I hope everyone techs for Gardy...

What is cologne for?

All of day 2 of Japan was best of three. They tried out a new point system

Congrats for the video! A feedback if I can, it would be great if the episode were posted on a podcast plataform like Spotify. Btw, I follow the channel there as well.

Yo thanks for the goated meta manipulation

Not sure if it matters, but game 2 was an illegal play half way through. Evolved the charmander that was buddy buddy poffin'd that same turn. Just pointing out for educational experience. Keep up the content. 👍🏻

Glad to be back :)

Hunter rulez

I’m hype for the lugia talk ,wish I could have gone to NAIC cause lugia was definitely the deck I was gonna run and definitely 2 fish in lugia ,if you playing 1 you wildin lol😅.Great episode yall

Great video!

I love watching/listening to these :D a small suggestion tho, could you put timestamps with topics? Would be helpful to go back & rehear specific portions