@@lovetownsend Have to admit, pretty interesting how you can now fill up your board w/ fantastic monsters and place a time-bomb or two on your opponent's side on turn 1.
@@Nersius yeah but idk, to me it seems less strategy based and more play whatever is meta and you win theres no big brain plays spanning multiple turns its just whoever wins the coin flip and can flood their board with removal and negates first wins
Wait so she is implying 25k is a lot? If you play the champsions of Call of Duty, Counter Strike, Dota, League of Legends, you gets hunderds of thousands of dollars, if not $1M (for the team,). Even Age of Empires, or Tekken, or Street Fighter will pay you more. The media is completely blind to what eSPorts and other games represent nowadays
Nah it was the same boring shit of "omg a card game awards that much money???" LIke, CCG's are over 30 years old at this point how do you not realize this
Magic player here, the tournament bingo seems like so much fun. I’m sure we share a lot on that sheet, my kin in cardboard -adjacent same matchup -opponent complains about bricking -Getting the bye -Fail a deck check The list goes on!
this video was really nice. The whole story had this low stakes mild rewards and high tension that TCG regionals are known for. Sad the we never knew how the bingo sheet ended up.
That is exactly the opposite of what the Pokemon community is. If you aren't a part of the in group you get stepped over, cheated against, and overruled by nepotistic tournament organizers
Rewarding in terms of the emotional feeling of success, but in terms of prize money (25k) it's one of the lowest in any competition of that scale, especially in regards how profitable the game is, however it's great that you get your travel expenses covered if you qualify to worls, which can cost $1-2k if it's at Japan, so everyone receive something which is great.
This is so cool to see! I used to play competitive Pokémon tcg back from 2012-2015, travelled all over the southeast USA for tournaments and even placed top 100 at the 2014 USA national tournament! I don’t keep up with the game anymore but I’m glad to see it’s still growing!
Hey really liked this, it's nice to see behind the scenes. Haha the community is awesome, so welcoming. Haha I only got into this because of my little one and it is so addictive and loved the strategy behind it and all the different combos you can pull off.
My kid got into cards because other kids at school were trading and I got a set so we could play together. It’s even more fun than I remember from a quarter century ago, playing with my kid!
@@samuelmartin865 nice, it's such a good thing to bond over haha although it has turned into an obsession of ours now and we talk about it a lot. We are going to our first tournament this weekend she is playing chien Pao and I'm playing urshifu.
Long time TCG player, been playing magic, yugioh and pokemon for a long time and love that pokemon TCG is such an easy card game to pick up compared to others but also very very competitive as well! In my experience the pokemontcg communities anywhere you go is usually the friendliest!
@@TheAshtarr There's a leaderboard of everyone with points, and we're at the end of the season now - globally there are currently 6725 Masters, 968 Seniors, 1255 Juniors
Competitive TCG's are essentially a complicated form of Logistics. You need to find a way to get the exact cards you want from you deck into your hand under the best and most consistent circumstances possible. Those circumstances could relate to the card game directly, like needing the right cards to answer your opponents cards at the right time, or not so directly, like managing the time you spend between rounds to use the bathroom or remembering to bring a snack if there is no lunch break during a tournament.
Truly sad! This is a kids game, dominated by adults who can't grow up. And the target audience, has just one small table somewhere in the corner. Just wow.
@@trolojolo6178it’s funny how they act like this is a big event worth international attention lol. This is literally a kid’s game being played by adults yet they market it like it’s a big deal when it isn’t 😂
@@loremaster77 like... soccer/football is a childs game but grown people make a living out of it. EVERY game could be downgraded to "it's a childs game why do you play it" though even the "kids" you see at these tournaments especially the higher tier ones would mop the floor with you even if you use a competitive deck.
If someone wants to learn how to play there is an official app where you collect decks and each pack comes with a code for it. Once someone learns the rules a bit and builds a deck locals are very friendly from the ones I’ve been to.
Please continue making competitive TCG content! The scene (especially MTG) is very fun and inclusive and full of some VERY interesting people! This video was very well made, I love the idea of talking to a single player before and after the tournament and following them through the circuit. Also the host for this one is adorable! Hopefully she learns the game soon and has fun doing it.
Never got into the competitive side of Pokémon TCG but I absolutely love collecting. The competitive side has always worried me that I’ll look at cards differently from being these little collector pieces of art to what they truly are (disposable cardboard meant to be used lol)
@@hexiy_dev people collected stamps, wines, cars, watches, spoons, plates and god knows what for ages. Stuff is meant to be enjoyed*, whether that means playing it or collecting it (and you're not the one to decide which one others should do lol).
25,000 is nothing for the pokemon company. Metazoo, a competing card game, has 1st place prizes of 50,000 every month and a 1.2 million dollar prize pool for their upcoming world championship.
Even losing, getting to Top 8 out of 200 players is a huge result, this shows that even being a "luck" based game, if you have the skill, you can have a good result no matter the odds
oh man now I want to see you do this with Flesh and Blood and Mr. Michael Hamilton, the humblest and current Us National and reigning World championship.. think this is in my mindset because worlds was just announced today for 2023 in Barcelona!
A little weird seeing an outside perspective. Been playing the game for well over a decade now. A little late to the game but damn is it fun. Sadly there are only a handful of ways to play without the physical cards. They recently shut down the best online version of the card game in favor of a broke mess.
pokemon players, there is a pokemon game on warcraft 3 The Frozen Throne. its a custom made game from the warcraft 3 map editor. the game is called Pumpkin TD. its a tower defense game that uses pokemon for the towers. i have been playing it for years, its very addicting. im just now realizing that the Pumpkin TD game is heavily based on this pokemon card game. its partially luck based and you play against other people. go try it!
The worst part about day 2 is trying to get sleep. I usually had to bring over the counter sleeping pills to force my brain to go to bed for a huge day 2.
Just wondering, as there are so many different sets out there and new cards always coming out. What particular card set are they playing with? Or can you use any cards from all the years since release?
The sets legal for standard play are based on a rotation schedule set by Pokemon, currently legal cards are any with the regulation mark "E" and on in the bottom left of the card!
@@Cat-zc8njidk anything about Henry so not saying he does this but generally players are responsible for keeping the board state clean even if your opponent is making the mistake. Letting your opponent make a game state breaking mistake and not stopping it intentionally before it gets there then calling a judge for penalties is rule sharking and technically illegal but impossible to really prove/punish
MTG rank 1 , Yugioh Rank 2 and Pokemon Rank 3 imo I played all 3 tearlaments is my fav yugioh deck , and mono green or selesnya , and pokemon calyrex ice rider with pilka
I dont know much about price pools for TCGs but 25k seems a bit low. I mean you have to buy the cards and probably several decks over the year, then you have to pay travel costs most likely, because I Pokemon TCG has a point system for Qualifying right? So I think if you win the 25k you probably just made the money back you already spent, or am I wrong? Kinda insane to me, if you consider that pokemon is the biggest videogame brand in the world and even "smaller" esport games for example have way bigger price pools, even tho they make way less money than pokemon company is
25k is high for tcgs, usually they arent that much and they have a spread of prizes of thousands for the top 32-64 sometimes at like worlds up to like 500k in value. Still think it should be more but considering tcg like yugioh does nothing its still pretty good but you never play to make money really anyways
I'm 35 years old... I think as a child I held every card. fuck sakes I was too young to retain any halo... Then I hit high school, and kept my entire halo Yugioh deck lol.. I have yet to sell it... lol maybe soon...
Pokemon: here's 25k if you win
Yu-gi-oh: take these playmats
Love yugioh dearly, always have a place in my heart but quit 4 years ago. Powercreep got insane.
@@lovetownsend Have to admit, pretty interesting how you can now fill up your board w/ fantastic monsters and place a time-bomb or two on your opponent's side on turn 1.
@@Nersius yeah but idk, to me it seems less strategy based and more play whatever is meta and you win
theres no big brain plays spanning multiple turns its just whoever wins the coin flip and can flood their board with removal and negates first wins
I love Yugioh that's why this hurts very deeply lol
@@lovetownsend felt that in MTG. Worse yet is the greed creep.
It’s really awesome to see Vice cover the competitive side of the TCG! Thank you! 🙏
More Pokemon content right?
Wait so she is implying 25k is a lot? If you play the champsions of Call of Duty, Counter Strike, Dota, League of Legends, you gets hunderds of thousands of dollars, if not $1M (for the team,). Even Age of Empires, or Tekken, or Street Fighter will pay you more. The media is completely blind to what eSPorts and other games represent nowadays
@@achille295she was more of surprised you can make money from pokémon card game
She reacted like 25k is a million
Yea, it's surprisingly low for that kind of competition. At this very moment she probably just didn't grasp the scale of the competition.
Still watching but do they explain that the competitors are given highly sought after cards which can be more valuable that the prize lot itself ?
@@TKKCollector They don't explain the card is worth 50k at least
Nah it was the same boring shit of "omg a card game awards that much money???" LIke, CCG's are over 30 years old at this point how do you not realize this
That's like peanuts for the popularity of pokemon
Magic player here, the tournament bingo seems like so much fun. I’m sure we share a lot on that sheet, my kin in cardboard
-adjacent same matchup
-opponent complains about bricking
-Getting the bye
-Fail a deck check
The list goes on!
"Livestream runs flawless" XD
@@iFUCKINGpEvent starts on time :p
What do people do if there’s a rules infraction or discrepancy? We Magic players raise our hands and yell, quite loudly, “JUDGE!”
Pokémon is the most valuable media franchise of all time. Doesn't pays the judges
they also can't put out a game that runs at a stable framerate
@@_cooldad don’t play games and haven’t played Pokémon since Diamond and Perl. Does consistent frame rate actually matter in a modern Pokémon game?
Shoot i haven’t played a Pokémon game since sapphire and ruby released 🤣
Stopped playing on gold/silver. Looks like I win the "oldest/eldest" trophee in here (at least my back says the same...)!
@@carlossouza6256 I've played sapphire the most and second to that was silver. Never played red/blue. 0_o
He uses a plain black playmat. Like a madman.
this video was really nice. The whole story had this low stakes mild rewards and high tension that TCG regionals are known for. Sad the we never knew how the bingo sheet ended up.
Seems like a really nice community of people having fun and making friends, that’s awesome!
That is exactly the opposite of what the Pokemon community is. If you aren't a part of the in group you get stepped over, cheated against, and overruled by nepotistic tournament organizers
@@VerlisifyCorrect...and notice they didnt cover it in the u.s. Theyd need body armor, and pepper spray.....oh and deoderant. 😂
must be incredibly hard to win a world championship but so rewarding
Rewarding in terms of the emotional feeling of success, but in terms of prize money (25k) it's one of the lowest in any competition of that scale, especially in regards how profitable the game is, however it's great that you get your travel expenses covered if you qualify to worls, which can cost $1-2k if it's at Japan, so everyone receive something which is great.
@@danielbrunsch4196 you only get that if you are in the top 20 or so in the world. Otherwise you have to pay everything yourself.
@@danielbrunsch4196 way better than yugioh's prize pool lol xD
@danielbrunsch4196 hey at least it isn't smash tournaments. Basically have to play for your plane ticket back
@@danielbrunsch4196 actually, if you sell the no1 trainer card you get for winning you make quite the bag
This is so cool to see! I used to play competitive Pokémon tcg back from 2012-2015, travelled all over the southeast USA for tournaments and even placed top 100 at the 2014 USA national tournament! I don’t keep up with the game anymore but I’m glad to see it’s still growing!
dude that's crazy Vice ran a piece on the PTCG!!
Hey really liked this, it's nice to see behind the scenes. Haha the community is awesome, so welcoming. Haha I only got into this because of my little one and it is so addictive and loved the strategy behind it and all the different combos you can pull off.
My kid got into cards because other kids at school were trading and I got a set so we could play together. It’s even more fun than I remember from a quarter century ago, playing with my kid!
@@samuelmartin865 nice, it's such a good thing to bond over haha although it has turned into an obsession of ours now and we talk about it a lot. We are going to our first tournament this weekend she is playing chien Pao and I'm playing urshifu.
Wow a TH-cam video about people actually playing with the cards and not just cracking open cases for $$$. It’s refreshing
Damn this guy owns. Not a house or a car but definitely owns
Long time TCG player, been playing magic, yugioh and pokemon for a long time and love that pokemon TCG is such an easy card game to pick up compared to others but also very very competitive as well! In my experience the pokemontcg communities anywhere you go is usually the friendliest!
I'm just starting yu-gi-oh for the first time now 😳
@@rowshambowIt’s really complicated so good luck. I would recommend learning about normal monsters first because then it starts to get confusing.
@@Seraphic_Prodigyand people are more toxic
underrated asf. Not even a thousand views
The entirely of the competitive Pokémon TCG population is like 10k worldwide
@@ArsTheurgiaGoetiaits not, but also this is vice, no one expects much from them so meh
@@ArsTheurgiaGoetia i don't think it's 10k but I agree that it's pretty small
@@TheAshtarr There's a leaderboard of everyone with points, and we're at the end of the season now - globally there are currently 6725 Masters, 968 Seniors, 1255 Juniors
@@ArsTheurgiaGoetiayou know this is only TPCI, right? Which means that total doesn’t include Japan.
Competitive TCG's are essentially a complicated form of Logistics. You need to find a way to get the exact cards you want from you deck into your hand under the best and most consistent circumstances possible. Those circumstances could relate to the card game directly, like needing the right cards to answer your opponents cards at the right time, or not so directly, like managing the time you spend between rounds to use the bathroom or remembering to bring a snack if there is no lunch break during a tournament.
its all tcg in the nutshell stupid
So cute to see a kids table for the competiton
I mean, Juniors age bracket is for 12 and under so yeah.
@@icecityx1221 honestly binged the road to world series and didn't know they had different divisions :o
Truly sad! This is a kids game, dominated by adults who can't grow up. And the target audience, has just one small table somewhere in the corner. Just wow.
@@trolojolo6178it’s funny how they act like this is a big event worth international attention lol. This is literally a kid’s game being played by adults yet they market it like it’s a big deal when it isn’t 😂
@@loremaster77 like... soccer/football is a childs game but grown people make a living out of it.
EVERY game could be downgraded to "it's a childs game why do you play it" though even the "kids" you see at these tournaments especially the higher tier ones would mop the floor with you even if you use a competitive deck.
If someone wants to learn how to play there is an official app where you collect decks and each pack comes with a code for it.
Once someone learns the rules a bit and builds a deck locals are very friendly from the ones I’ve been to.
I liked for the algorithm and to hopefully get this to reach more people. Great job.
The communal sigh of relief when the judge announced there would be NO lunch break. As a Yugioh player, I felt that.
Billion dollar company and they rely on volunteers. Crazy.
Greedy people don't care
not really tho, the bigger tournaments they all get payed in pokemon products and even a payed hotel
Reminds me of them banning fan Sumer smash melee tournaments
“There are COUNTLESS professional championships every year.”
Top quality journalism there, Vice.
Please continue making competitive TCG content! The scene (especially MTG) is very fun and inclusive and full of some VERY interesting people! This video was very well made, I love the idea of talking to a single player before and after the tournament and following them through the circuit. Also the host for this one is adorable! Hopefully she learns the game soon and has fun doing it.
Inclusive to everyone that shares the same political ideology.
@@Terminator550 could you expand on this? what do you mean?
Awesome upload, keep ‘‘em coming, the Pokémon community is large and in charge.
Pretty passionate group. So happy for them
My City’s Burger King had Pokémon Card Wed. every Wednesday we had Pokémon card battles and trading!
Me in the 6th grade: I choose my Gengar Deck
Me as a 34 yr old man: I choose my Gengar Deck...
This is great, because i am just getting back into Pokemon TCG
Its awesome that the Pokemon TCG scene is still alive and well
Never got into the competitive side of Pokémon TCG but I absolutely love collecting. The competitive side has always worried me that I’ll look at cards differently from being these little collector pieces of art to what they truly are (disposable cardboard meant to be used lol)
Cars are meant to be used too yet ppl collect them, especially the rich
@@hexiy_dev people collected stamps, wines, cars, watches, spoons, plates and god knows what for ages. Stuff is meant to be enjoyed*, whether that means playing it or collecting it (and you're not the one to decide which one others should do lol).
@@hexiy_devi collect them I dont like the game
25,000 is nothing for the pokemon company. Metazoo, a competing card game, has 1st place prizes of 50,000 every month and a 1.2 million dollar prize pool for their upcoming world championship.
It's Pokémon, and they give almost nothing away for free
yeah, but metazoo is a terrible game
Metazoo isn't a competing card game though 😂
@@lukestange know nothing about the game but saw the font size on the cards and was like NOPE. Text is barely readable
I’m watching from America lol California to be exact I love anything Pokémon ! Let’s gooo
Even losing, getting to Top 8 out of 200 players is a huge result, this shows that even being a "luck" based game, if you have the skill, you can have a good result no matter the odds
Trust Australians to make a BINGO sheet with 6 columns
Ok pausing to read that bingo sheet was hilarious
From little north korea to the massive pokemon championships... Way to finally hit the big leagues vice... Congratulations🎉
Of course he sold the prize cards that's why he's there!
Henry is an awesome dude had the chance to meet him at Miluakee this season and watch him win it live!
Milwaukee*
Can confirm Henry is a g
Wait til you see the sweaty regionals of Yugioh. Hand traps, lockdown, FTK; it's all there.
I had a sh*t ton of fun at the NAIC in Columbus. If y’all are ever in the area for it next year, the tickets are only $10!
Do one for the video game side at champs! It’ll be a great watch!
she said "I still don't know how to play pokemon" had me rolling 😂
Long live the Pokemon community.
oh man now I want to see you do this with Flesh and Blood and Mr. Michael Hamilton, the humblest and current Us National and reigning World championship.. think this is in my mindset because worlds was just announced today for 2023 in Barcelona!
this is the kind of content we need
PLEASE DO THIS FOR ALL TCGS. YUGIOH, MAGIC, DIGIMON, ONE PIECE.
Im a competitive VGC player, so the video game. Nice to see the TCG players get some recognition
Interesting to see how small Pokemon Tournaments are compared to Magic the Gathering...
25k world championship but there many tournaments that oay 10k so if your good and can win just any 5 tournaments thats easily over 50
Best Vice video I've seen in years. Keep it up!
5:01 but they do get a judge promo that'll be worth 10k in 15 years.
Do one with magic the gathering tcg. Pls!!
Pokemon will never die...
“I kinda wanna learn.” Youth of today right there
Good timing on the video, as I sit here on my couch practicing my deck shuffling.
I could never do pokemon but i loved and still love yugioh cards
A little weird seeing an outside perspective. Been playing the game for well over a decade now. A little late to the game but damn is it fun. Sadly there are only a handful of ways to play without the physical cards. They recently shut down the best online version of the card game in favor of a broke mess.
7:49 nice job camera person/ edit team
pokemon players, there is a pokemon game on warcraft 3 The Frozen Throne. its a custom made game from the warcraft 3 map editor. the game is called Pumpkin TD. its a tower defense game that uses pokemon for the towers. i have been playing it for years, its very addicting. im just now realizing that the Pumpkin TD game is heavily based on this pokemon card game. its partially luck based and you play against other people. go try it!
I wonder how effective the cards that are popular, like the expensive cards you see on pack openings.
The announcing that the world champion lost on the speaker is so shady sksksk
The worst part about day 2 is trying to get sleep. I usually had to bring over the counter sleeping pills to force my brain to go to bed for a huge day 2.
I wish YuGiOh had cash prizes 😢
Vice really aint the same as it once was
this video got the algorithm by the throat
Worlds in August!
Wooo Pokémon TCG getting some love ❤❤
Great behind the scenes!
25 k is actuallly very low. Sponserships makes the Deal. It should be higher
I love my pokemon cards! I collect but dont play
Do Yugioh tournaments next!
nah, would be a waste
She wouldn’t be interested in playing the game at the end when she sees how extremely convoluted it is.
This is amazing.
Just wondering, as there are so many different sets out there and new cards always coming out. What particular card set are they playing with? Or can you use any cards from all the years since release?
The sets legal for standard play are based on a rotation schedule set by Pokemon, currently legal cards are any with the regulation mark "E" and on in the bottom left of the card!
This reminds me of another Vice video about the MTG scene.
It’s a good video for the time allocation. It would have been better with more of the actual gameplay. A 45 min video would have been more appropriate
of course they picked the biggest of all judge sharks to do the video on
What does that mean? Like he calls the judge for small misplays?
@@Cat-zc8njidk anything about Henry so not saying he does this but generally players are responsible for keeping the board state clean even if your opponent is making the mistake. Letting your opponent make a game state breaking mistake and not stopping it intentionally before it gets there then calling a judge for penalties is rule sharking and technically illegal but impossible to really prove/punish
MTG rank 1 , Yugioh Rank 2 and Pokemon Rank 3 imo I played all 3 tearlaments is my fav yugioh deck , and mono green or selesnya , and pokemon calyrex ice rider with pilka
FYI this is 2022 Season. Not sure why this released only now.
Yeah lol, this footage is from June 11-12 last year.
"money"... girl: "hihihihi"
I'm curios on how would he perform if he plays a video game one instead of this deck kind. I doubt he haven't played a video game one.
I looooove pokemon
25K is fuck all tbh thisTCG makes billions
This makes me want to get to playing tcg
Do one for Magic now
Than you Gavin McInnes for creating vice.
I dont know much about price pools for TCGs but 25k seems a bit low.
I mean you have to buy the cards and probably several decks over the year, then you have to pay travel costs most likely, because I Pokemon TCG has a point system for Qualifying right?
So I think if you win the 25k you probably just made the money back you already spent, or am I wrong?
Kinda insane to me, if you consider that pokemon is the biggest videogame brand in the world and even "smaller" esport games for example have way bigger price pools, even tho they make way less money than pokemon company is
25k is high for tcgs, usually they arent that much and they have a spread of prizes of thousands for the top 32-64 sometimes at like worlds up to like 500k in value. Still think it should be more but considering tcg like yugioh does nothing its still pretty good but you never play to make money really anyways
I love the Pokémon TCG.
As a pokemon card collector I love this but hate how them staff work for free
Jesus this took over a year to get uploaded to TH-cam
I can smell this video
She nearly stroked out hearing 25k. She would die if someone told her about magic or hearthstone prize pools.
Biggest regional in years, he only got a few PACKS for TOP 8? Disgusting prize support
I'm 35 years old... I think as a child I held every card. fuck sakes I was too young to retain any halo... Then I hit high school, and kept my entire halo Yugioh deck lol.. I have yet to sell it... lol maybe soon...
Only 25k?? For a company that makes multi millions every year? wow
how many decks does he bring? wish there were some more in depth questions
I have a collection & still don’t know how to play the damn game😂
I have an original unopened pack!what’s that worth?
This video was recorded more than a year ago right?
🎉🎉🎉