This is probably the part I like the most, something cool for 100/200 points, etc. As a parent with kids who can't really make it to worlds, making some prizes along the way would be great
I actually appreciate what these changes are gonna do for the level of competition overall. For me personally though, I'm probably not gonna compete for Worlds now. The set goal of 500 points seemed achievable and was motivating, because it was only tied to my own success. Now I would need to go to more majors, spend more money, to get as many points as possible and would still not know if it's even enough. That uncertainty is very daunting. I'm slightly above average, but not good enough for multiple Top 32s or something, which is fair enough. If they want the competition for Worlds to be only for the Top 500 players in the world, that's fine, but it's not for me anymore. With my goal of getting a Worlds invite gone, I'm probably only gonna play in one or two locals a month and only two Majors, because I ain't driving 3 hours to a Challenge with nothing on the line. With playing less in general, I can see myself slowly and passively quitting the game over time, which is unfortunate. Worlds was my main drive in this hobby, but I have too much else going on to commit to such a high level of competition. Just the perspective of a slightly above average Joe, which is very understandable for nobody including TPCi to care about.
Overall, it looks like the changes are alright. Not too happy about the small cap of players who can qualify from OCE as an AUS player, though. To put it into perspective, there were 120 OCE players who qualified this year, which means they're cutting the qualification pool to 1/6th of the size from this year. Not to mention all of this after we lost our IC
@@kreslomartin Yeah while it sucks OCE has so few slots and probably 10 or so will be filled up by super competitive players. The region is tiny compared to NA/LA/EU so this change still gives them more invites proportionately.
One thing that Azul is saying that i feel like is important is that if you are putting your full effort into playing well at 1 event and do well then you can get a ton of CP or even win and get an auto invite. This should be peoples goal. Playing events to just try to get enough 250+ finishes and locals to qualify for worlds is not making any progress in the game... Nor does that make you a player even capable of winning worlds. It would make sense if everyone at worlds is capable of winning worlds.
Honestly not really. Not everyone competing at the Olympics, various Opens and Cups, etc., is realistically capable of winning. But they're still the athletes/competitors with the best *records*. Worlds is as much a stage as it is a competition -- the players most dedicated to the craft and the game deserve a spot along with the "best."
@sirvaniss comparing card game players to Olympic athletes lol. You don't need talent to be to be the world champ in ptcg... you can develop all the skills you need with time and effort to be a top tier player. If the average Joe wanted to be an Olympic athlete and win gold there are things not in their control that might hold them back from doing that.
Seems like they think Worlds has gotten too big/open, and I wouldn't say I exactly disagree. While yeah, it stinks for players who now won't make worlds anymore, this ensures that the tournament is full of higher-caliber players who have demonstrated their skill consistently throughout the season. In my opinion, people shouldn't be competing in a tournament directly deciding the "World Champion" if they've only placed top 64 at a few regionals and ICs. This also helps the event organizers know the rough size of the tournament, which can be very hard to gauge when it's just a CP limit. If they overshoot and way too many qualify, they can't really increase the limit mid-season without some uproar. While I wouldn't be opposed to reintroducing some form of LCQ, maybe in the form of another tournament at worlds that's only open to players past a CP limit that feeds into this championship, I think this kind of format will be a better choice than the CP limit was in the long term.
Just feels like the Pokémon company are trying to price people out of the competitive side of the hobby. Not everyone can afford to attend and compete in 5-6 regionals a year.
Unless you were consistently getting top 64 at the regionals you went to, you wouldn't have gotten enough CP in the old format either by only going to 3-4 regionals
I suspect that if they would not gave switched to top X, they would have raised the points threshold to reduce the number of people qualifying for Worlds. I.e. I think that qualifying for world would have become harder either way. I am not sure how many regionals there will be, but looking at the new points system, you probably need 2 top 8 finishes or 4 top 16 finishes to qualify (topped of with some top 256, and some points from leagues). To me, those seem like fair requirements to enter a world championship.
Went two regionals last year for PoGo. Plan on at least going to one or two this year for the TCG. The fact the payouts for just placing top 32 can cover a trip is awesome and I don’t think any other card game is affordable with actually good winnings for doing well.
exactly cause people are floating away from Yu-Gi-Oh due to the poor prize toppings and moving to Lorcana and One Piece and Pokemon cause of the better prize toppings.
Also the decks in Pokemon TCG are dirt cheap for a deck that can top. Along with the fact that the meta is healthy enough because there are good amount of decks that can top.
I think the biggest change is the reduced rounds and the day 2 threshold. Requiring x-2 or x-0-3 or better to get day 2 seems pretty steep. I do think day 2 requirement being reduced by 3 points would have been fine, but i think as is, the day 2 requirement is pretty steep. The play in for top 8 i think is pretty dope. Gets rid of tiebreaker nonsense and allows more decks/players to get more chances for top 8. The worlds changes i think are inconsequential. Worlds should always be a chase goal that the vast majority of players aren't going to be able to make. So the fact that the number of players qualified is slightly smaller i don't think will have that much of an impact. Worlds should be the best of the best, and the reduced cut just encourages that.
Looking at today's leader board 125 place is on 660 points. So looks close to what it is now. But I think you hit the nail on the head in not knowing what you need to get a placement so it might put off people travelling to an event near the end of the year. Lets say before you was 100 points off cutoff and so you know what you need to get placed so to qualify. Now you won't know if that will be enough and so might put you off travelling to an event
looking at the CP points achieved by the top 125 is like 650ish in the US and 550 in the EU which is roughly an extra 50 but... if players need to play every event to try and avoid being kicked out of their invite, this will be a lot higher, it will be interesting next year to see what the CP of the lowest person that makes it in im expecting like 750-800 in US
Top 20 in Australia just feels bad, especially when we have 3 majors and no ICs. Time to gear up to beat Brent at a regionals and earn my ticket taking 1st place i guess.
Issue for Europe is that cap for regionals is usually small and sold in 10 seconds. It is not easy to buy a flight, book a hotel and then be not able to register
@AzulGG but now the person who can fork out more money for travel gets an advantage over the ones who can put out just enough to make points. Not everyone is flying over to Stockholm for EUIC to attempt to boost their points. So even if I try to get the points, someone else who can go to more has way better odds to land in the top 125 vs it just being a flat threshold to make it. This is why people are discouraged from even trying.
So because there was a goal of a certain amount of points, the past 5 years or so the top 125 was about 50-60 points above the invite threshold. But with there being straight top X will be a bit tough to gauge but I’m gonna guess around 750-800 will be the minimum points to get an invite not including auto-invite.
As a new player, this change does make me feel uneasy about trying to attempt and take the competitive scene of this game seriously. Though, I do believe Worlds should be more prestigious to the top and best players throughout multiple regions. I think it may be best that they follow that structure while accumulating points as well. Lock the point accumulation to each players base region. It doesn’t seem fair that someone who is great at the game and does really well at 1 or 2 regionals & their region IC but isn’t as qualified for an invite as someone who does okay at 5+ regionals and all ICs in the season because they had the means for travel and expenses. If someone can take the spot on a NA invite over someone else just because they couldn’t make it to EUIC makes it seem like it’s less about having really good players in their own region and more of just having attentive players at the biggest event of the season.
Definitely, being able to go to an out-of-region IC is an insane advantage over other competitors in your region, even if you only make Top 512. Since only 6 Regionals count, a second IC is basically free points that other players can only make up for by having considerably better finishes than you in total
If they expanded it to where it was top 8 in regionals and top 16 in ICs auto-qualified I’d be fine with limiting the number of people who get in off points, but this system makes it so price-exclusive to compete at a high level when a lot of people who switch from other card games to Pokémon do it specifically because it’s cheaper
This only rewards players who can afford to travel to a ton of events, not sure how this is healthy for the game. I understand that players will need to travel to a handful of events to really compete for a spot but this over values IC events which are typically more expensive for folks. Obviously you have to perform regardless but this will stop a lot of people at the door and for good reason.
something that needs to be said, its alot easier for him to talk as someone who has all the time and money to go to all events. The thing about pokemon that makes it good is the fact that you see new faces and people making it to the top. With these changes, it basically will hurt the growth of the game. Why as someone who works a 9-5, attend all these league cups and challenges if you know that no matter what, you won't qualify cause of the people who can afford (time and money) to? Azul is so outta touch on this one. The low cap per region also makes it 100x more difficult. I was gonna try for my worlds invite this year but now knowing i have close to no shot against the full timers i wont. Theres no point in league cups and challenges anymore. Youre are gonna see the same faces every year and i predict the scene dying down a bit
I believe that play points should come back and play a roll for registration to ICs. I would like to go to London and New Orleans but even if you max out cups and challenges and attend regionals you could get screwed and miss out going to ICs because registration is open to the whole world in waves. Each challenge, Cup and regionals should award you play points for attending and when IC registration opens it should be in waves based off play points.
You didn't mention the percentage of places lost for different regions. Oceana had 125 players quality this year. Down to a max of around 24 or 25 with auto invites. That's a 200% loss in the number of players. That's pretty obscene. Especially considering OCIC was also canned. TPCI clearly is not interested in Oceana competitors. Definitely not a good thing for the region.
How many qualified is probably a large reason for the changes. That's almost half the amount of players that qualified in NA, while they represent a playerbase that is less than 1/6 the size.
Only thing i am not happy about is the shared BFL for Regionals and Internationals. With the amount of points an International gives, it should have an BFL of 1. Everything else is just pay 2 win.
Youre probably the first american ive seen on this, not crying about how "unfair" it is that the whole US and canada count combined as 125. Im impressed.
I personally think it’s the worst decision ever here’s why…. There are competitive players who have a limited budget who could make a top 125 in a 2000+ regional but can’t go to multiple regionals a year plus worlds. I think winning worlds should be harder than a regional or IC not just getting to worlds. I think it can push players from pushing in Pokémon and moving to a different game where they can compete and also think it can discourage new players from playing if they want to compete but can’t afford the travel and decks constantly changing.
That’s not really a change though. If you got 125th at a regional or ic previously, that would not be enough to qualify without traveling to additional events
Why not have a goal of getting top 8 at a regionals and make some money instead of Qual for worlds. Too many people are not trying to get better at the game. The change is good because it's rewarding people who are taking the time to play at a high level consistently and not just be doing the bare minimum. They are raising the bar of what is takes to be at that level. The old system was not sustainable.
@@kelseydoyle7920 not the point I’m making. It’s only allowing the top 125 players in points from each region plus those top placements. What I’m saying is it’s not necessarily putting the 125 best players in it’s giving a huge advantage to those who can travel to 3 if and as many regionals as possible.
@Smurffed If you can't travel to at least 3 regionals you aren't gonna be able to qualify anyway... even if the system was the same. Unless you finish very well you barely get any points. If you don't make day 2 at an event and that was the only regional you could go to, it's impossible to qualify for worlds.
This is a horrible change ... I work full time . I can't travel to a ton of events to just keep building points .. I could grind till I hit a specific number and then work like an adult but this makes it so only the Rich who can afford to travel to every event even have a chance ..
I genuinely think that a lot of people complaining for the sake of complaining or haven’t thought it through properly. Who’s the better world champ: the player who beat 100 casuals or the player who beat the top 10 players? I like that the number of players is capped; makes it easier for TPCI to manage logistics of worlds. These changes also don’t prevent casual players from still enjoying the game - you can go to league cups, you can still play with friends, etc so these changes shouldn’t affect enjoyment of the game in anyway. I will say though that it does seem like it makes it extremely more difficult for LATAM and Oceania players to qualify, not because there are better players, but because travelling and opportunities to earn points does seem to be drastically reduced. It will be interesting to see how it affects the game, but I think the new format has a lot more positives than negatives.
The players who just squeeze into a worlds invite would be weeded out by round 2 of swiss regardless. It's not like a player like Azul is going to play 9 mediocre players Day 1 of worlds.
It's not about the grind issue, it's the making enough tourneys to gather enough cp to compete with the likes of Tord, Azul, etc that can travel even overseas to gain CP...it's a budget issue. Worlds is pay-to-win now...
I personally think it’s the worst decision ever here’s why…. There are competitive players who have a limited budget who could make a top 125 in a 2000+ regional but can’t go to multiple regionals a year plus worlds. I think winning worlds should be harder than a regional or IC not just getting to worlds. I think it can push players from pushing in Pokémon and moving to a different game where they can compete and also think it can discourage new players from playing if they want to compete but can’t afford the travel and decks constantly changing.
They also mentioned an upcoming reward program that will be tied to Championship Point thresholds but didn't give any specific details on that
This is probably the part I like the most, something cool for 100/200 points, etc. As a parent with kids who can't really make it to worlds, making some prizes along the way would be great
I actually appreciate what these changes are gonna do for the level of competition overall.
For me personally though, I'm probably not gonna compete for Worlds now. The set goal of 500 points seemed achievable and was motivating, because it was only tied to my own success.
Now I would need to go to more majors, spend more money, to get as many points as possible and would still not know if it's even enough. That uncertainty is very daunting.
I'm slightly above average, but not good enough for multiple Top 32s or something, which is fair enough. If they want the competition for Worlds to be only for the Top 500 players in the world, that's fine, but it's not for me anymore.
With my goal of getting a Worlds invite gone, I'm probably only gonna play in one or two locals a month and only two Majors, because I ain't driving 3 hours to a Challenge with nothing on the line. With playing less in general, I can see myself slowly and passively quitting the game over time, which is unfortunate.
Worlds was my main drive in this hobby, but I have too much else going on to commit to such a high level of competition.
Just the perspective of a slightly above average Joe, which is very understandable for nobody including TPCi to care about.
Azul: I want a ranked ladder!
Monkey paw: curls
Pokemon: top125 ranks get invitations
miserable mankeys after this video indeed
That’s the big word here: AFFORD
Fun idea for the podcast: tier list of all the changes/decisions they made.
They would all be f
@@THATGUY12210 probably not.
Tier lists, how original.
Which podcast 🤔
@@20eyesmisfit yeah. Nothing wrong with them honestly
Overall, it looks like the changes are alright. Not too happy about the small cap of players who can qualify from OCE as an AUS player, though. To put it into perspective, there were 120 OCE players who qualified this year, which means they're cutting the qualification pool to 1/6th of the size from this year. Not to mention all of this after we lost our IC
Not enough is being made of what has happened to Oceana. Losing an IC was bad enough.
It wasnt fair when 20% of oceania players qualified bit only 0.3% of NA players, if you look at the amount of points required, its fine
@@kreslomartin Yeah while it sucks OCE has so few slots and probably 10 or so will be filled up by super competitive players. The region is tiny compared to NA/LA/EU so this change still gives them more invites proportionately.
One thing that Azul is saying that i feel like is important is that if you are putting your full effort into playing well at 1 event and do well then you can get a ton of CP or even win and get an auto invite. This should be peoples goal. Playing events to just try to get enough 250+ finishes and locals to qualify for worlds is not making any progress in the game... Nor does that make you a player even capable of winning worlds. It would make sense if everyone at worlds is capable of winning worlds.
Honestly not really. Not everyone competing at the Olympics, various Opens and Cups, etc., is realistically capable of winning. But they're still the athletes/competitors with the best *records*. Worlds is as much a stage as it is a competition -- the players most dedicated to the craft and the game deserve a spot along with the "best."
@sirvaniss comparing card game players to Olympic athletes lol. You don't need talent to be to be the world champ in ptcg... you can develop all the skills you need with time and effort to be a top tier player. If the average Joe wanted to be an Olympic athlete and win gold there are things not in their control that might hold them back from doing that.
@@kelseydoyle7920 I was comparing world competitions to world competitions, but go off I guess
Seems like they think Worlds has gotten too big/open, and I wouldn't say I exactly disagree. While yeah, it stinks for players who now won't make worlds anymore, this ensures that the tournament is full of higher-caliber players who have demonstrated their skill consistently throughout the season. In my opinion, people shouldn't be competing in a tournament directly deciding the "World Champion" if they've only placed top 64 at a few regionals and ICs. This also helps the event organizers know the rough size of the tournament, which can be very hard to gauge when it's just a CP limit. If they overshoot and way too many qualify, they can't really increase the limit mid-season without some uproar.
While I wouldn't be opposed to reintroducing some form of LCQ, maybe in the form of another tournament at worlds that's only open to players past a CP limit that feeds into this championship, I think this kind of format will be a better choice than the CP limit was in the long term.
Just feels like the Pokémon company are trying to price people out of the competitive side of the hobby. Not everyone can afford to attend and compete in 5-6 regionals a year.
Just get top 32, get the money and travel to another and repeat
The pricepool in the top cut is huge if u compare it to yugioh for example. And other card games are very expensive to play competetive
Unless you were consistently getting top 64 at the regionals you went to, you wouldn't have gotten enough CP in the old format either by only going to 3-4 regionals
Maybe the one thing missed was EUIC was moved up over a month. Hopefully that means our rotation is more inline with Japan this year.
I suspect that if they would not gave switched to top X, they would have raised the points threshold to reduce the number of people qualifying for Worlds. I.e. I think that qualifying for world would have become harder either way. I am not sure how many regionals there will be, but looking at the new points system, you probably need 2 top 8 finishes or 4 top 16 finishes to qualify (topped of with some top 256, and some points from leagues).
To me, those seem like fair requirements to enter a world championship.
Went two regionals last year for PoGo. Plan on at least going to one or two this year for the TCG. The fact the payouts for just placing top 32 can cover a trip is awesome and I don’t think any other card game is affordable with actually good winnings for doing well.
exactly cause people are floating away from Yu-Gi-Oh due to the poor prize toppings and moving to Lorcana and One Piece and Pokemon cause of the better prize toppings.
Also the decks in Pokemon TCG are dirt cheap for a deck that can top. Along with the fact that the meta is healthy enough because there are good amount of decks that can top.
I think the biggest change is the reduced rounds and the day 2 threshold.
Requiring x-2 or x-0-3 or better to get day 2 seems pretty steep. I do think day 2 requirement being reduced by 3 points would have been fine, but i think as is, the day 2 requirement is pretty steep.
The play in for top 8 i think is pretty dope. Gets rid of tiebreaker nonsense and allows more decks/players to get more chances for top 8.
The worlds changes i think are inconsequential. Worlds should always be a chase goal that the vast majority of players aren't going to be able to make. So the fact that the number of players qualified is slightly smaller i don't think will have that much of an impact. Worlds should be the best of the best, and the reduced cut just encourages that.
That's what we have in South East Asia. I give up competitive because of the system.
What’s the purpose of even awarding points to regional winners and IC top 4s if they get their auto invite anyway?
It still counts towards travel awards, stipends and potentially but not confirmed tiered worlds invites
They mention a reward program (last sentence before the charts begin) based on earned CP.
Looking at today's leader board 125 place is on 660 points. So looks close to what it is now.
But I think you hit the nail on the head in not knowing what you need to get a placement so it might put off people travelling to an event near the end of the year. Lets say before you was 100 points off cutoff and so you know what you need to get placed so to qualify. Now you won't know if that will be enough and so might put you off travelling to an event
looking at the CP points achieved by the top 125 is like 650ish in the US and 550 in the EU which is roughly an extra 50 but...
if players need to play every event to try and avoid being kicked out of their invite, this will be a lot higher, it will be interesting next year to see what the CP of the lowest person that makes it in im expecting like 750-800 in US
Don t forget that a lot of people stop playing events when reaching the points to world. Then I think the total for Europe will be 750 and not 550
@@jimmyserment agreed think europe will be like 750 again maybe 50-100 less that the US
Red arrow in thumbnail meta in 2024 is insane
Top 20 in Australia just feels bad, especially when we have 3 majors and no ICs. Time to gear up to beat Brent at a regionals and earn my ticket taking 1st place i guess.
Issue for Europe is that cap for regionals is usually small and sold in 10 seconds. It is not easy to buy a flight, book a hotel and then be not able to register
Towards the end of the 2024 season Events capping was less of an issue and I think we will see a big change in terms of that going into 2025
@@AzulGG i have a question for seniors do we need the same cp as master to qualify for the world championships?
This makes worlds pay to win...not everyone can afford to travel to multiple regionals and ICs to that degree...
Worlds has always been pay to win to some extent
@AzulGG but now the person who can fork out more money for travel gets an advantage over the ones who can put out just enough to make points. Not everyone is flying over to Stockholm for EUIC to attempt to boost their points. So even if I try to get the points, someone else who can go to more has way better odds to land in the top 125 vs it just being a flat threshold to make it. This is why people are discouraged from even trying.
That’s fair
So because there was a goal of a certain amount of points, the past 5 years or so the top 125 was about 50-60 points above the invite threshold. But with there being straight top X will be a bit tough to gauge but I’m gonna guess around 750-800 will be the minimum points to get an invite not including auto-invite.
As a new player, this change does make me feel uneasy about trying to attempt and take the competitive scene of this game seriously. Though, I do believe Worlds should be more prestigious to the top and best players throughout multiple regions.
I think it may be best that they follow that structure while accumulating points as well. Lock the point accumulation to each players base region. It doesn’t seem fair that someone who is great at the game and does really well at 1 or 2 regionals & their region IC but isn’t as qualified for an invite as someone who does okay at 5+ regionals and all ICs in the season because they had the means for travel and expenses.
If someone can take the spot on a NA invite over someone else just because they couldn’t make it to EUIC makes it seem like it’s less about having really good players in their own region and more of just having attentive players at the biggest event of the season.
@@DarkLordofTheRizznah man, ur just weird
Definitely, being able to go to an out-of-region IC is an insane advantage over other competitors in your region, even if you only make Top 512. Since only 6 Regionals count, a second IC is basically free points that other players can only make up for by having considerably better finishes than you in total
Para los mexicanos será casi imposible clasificar 😢
Para 99% de los de Centro America
Thanks for this breakdown, I like that pokemon are making changes, even if I don't like some specific decisions. Looking forward to the new season
If they expanded it to where it was top 8 in regionals and top 16 in ICs auto-qualified I’d be fine with limiting the number of people who get in off points, but this system makes it so price-exclusive to compete at a high level when a lot of people who switch from other card games to Pokémon do it specifically because it’s cheaper
(Or maybe like top 4/top 8 but still make it semi-realistic for someone who can only go to 3-5 major events)
This only rewards players who can afford to travel to a ton of events, not sure how this is healthy for the game. I understand that players will need to travel to a handful of events to really compete for a spot but this over values IC events which are typically more expensive for folks. Obviously you have to perform regardless but this will stop a lot of people at the door and for good reason.
something that needs to be said, its alot easier for him to talk as someone who has all the time and money to go to all events. The thing about pokemon that makes it good is the fact that you see new faces and people making it to the top. With these changes, it basically will hurt the growth of the game. Why as someone who works a 9-5, attend all these league cups and challenges if you know that no matter what, you won't qualify cause of the people who can afford (time and money) to? Azul is so outta touch on this one. The low cap per region also makes it 100x more difficult. I was gonna try for my worlds invite this year but now knowing i have close to no shot against the full timers i wont. Theres no point in league cups and challenges anymore. Youre are gonna see the same faces every year and i predict the scene dying down a bit
I believe that play points should come back and play a roll for registration to ICs. I would like to go to London and New Orleans but even if you max out cups and challenges and attend regionals you could get screwed and miss out going to ICs because registration is open to the whole world in waves. Each challenge, Cup and regionals should award you play points for attending and when IC registration opens it should be in waves based off play points.
Its crazy how most people complaining about the new system dnt even grind it
You didn't mention the percentage of places lost for different regions. Oceana had 125 players quality this year. Down to a max of around 24 or 25 with auto invites. That's a 200% loss in the number of players. That's pretty obscene. Especially considering OCIC was also canned. TPCI clearly is not interested in Oceana competitors. Definitely not a good thing for the region.
How many qualified is probably a large reason for the changes. That's almost half the amount of players that qualified in NA, while they represent a playerbase that is less than 1/6 the size.
Asymmetrical cut introduces a huge number of problems
Only thing i am not happy about is the shared BFL for Regionals and Internationals. With the amount of points an International gives, it should have an BFL of 1. Everything else is just pay 2 win.
Of course the year I try and go for worlds it gets even harder than it was before
same 😥
Same, had a big group too who all now want nothing to do with it
Same with our group. 3 of us were planning to push hard this year to gather the points, but it just won't happen now...killed the desire to try.
Youre probably the first american ive seen on this, not crying about how "unfair" it is that the whole US and canada count combined as 125.
Im impressed.
Then you've literally watched no one. Most are keeping a neutral take for sake of thier video
Could be worse magic the gathering 2024 world champs is 128 people total. But they also have a million dollar prize pool as well.
I personally think it’s the worst decision ever here’s why…. There are competitive players who have a limited budget who could make a top 125 in a 2000+ regional but can’t go to multiple regionals a year plus worlds. I think winning worlds should be harder than a regional or IC not just getting to worlds. I think it can push players from pushing in Pokémon and moving to a different game where they can compete and also think it can discourage new players from playing if they want to compete but can’t afford the travel and decks constantly changing.
That’s not really a change though. If you got 125th at a regional or ic previously, that would not be enough to qualify without traveling to additional events
Why not have a goal of getting top 8 at a regionals and make some money instead of Qual for worlds. Too many people are not trying to get better at the game. The change is good because it's rewarding people who are taking the time to play at a high level consistently and not just be doing the bare minimum. They are raising the bar of what is takes to be at that level. The old system was not sustainable.
@@kelseydoyle7920 not the point I’m making. It’s only allowing the top 125 players in points from each region plus those top placements. What I’m saying is it’s not necessarily putting the 125 best players in it’s giving a huge advantage to those who can travel to 3 if and as many regionals as possible.
@Smurffed If you can't travel to at least 3 regionals you aren't gonna be able to qualify anyway... even if the system was the same. Unless you finish very well you barely get any points. If you don't make day 2 at an event and that was the only regional you could go to, it's impossible to qualify for worlds.
@@kelseydoyle7920 3 is fine but now I think you are going to be forced into 6 regionals because of the limit
Cutting to a top 16 or top 32 I like way more
If whatever happened with NAIC registration happens again this year then there will be a whopping 0 ICs available for the average US player
This is a horrible change ... I work full time . I can't travel to a ton of events to just keep building points .. I could grind till I hit a specific number and then work like an adult but this makes it so only the Rich who can afford to travel to every event even have a chance ..
People tha live in secluded places already had to spend insane ammounts of money to even try to attempt to compete for the 600 CP, now uts impossible
is doing local tournaments even worth doing anymore???
to get cp yeah you can get around 100 cp if you get good placements i think.
hope to see you in Baltimore Azul
Tiny red circles in thumbnails is the new global pandemic.
I genuinely think that a lot of people complaining for the sake of complaining or haven’t thought it through properly. Who’s the better world champ: the player who beat 100 casuals or the player who beat the top 10 players? I like that the number of players is capped; makes it easier for TPCI to manage logistics of worlds. These changes also don’t prevent casual players from still enjoying the game - you can go to league cups, you can still play with friends, etc so these changes shouldn’t affect enjoyment of the game in anyway. I will say though that it does seem like it makes it extremely more difficult for LATAM and Oceania players to qualify, not because there are better players, but because travelling and opportunities to earn points does seem to be drastically reduced. It will be interesting to see how it affects the game, but I think the new format has a lot more positives than negatives.
The players who just squeeze into a worlds invite would be weeded out by round 2 of swiss regardless. It's not like a player like Azul is going to play 9 mediocre players Day 1 of worlds.
Honestly, it went from i'm gonna try to get an invite for the first time to not Even gonna try to go Tona regional
tbh if this is your mentality you probably wouldn't make it very far into Worlds anyways and you should just buy a spectator pass to Worlds.
Why?? Its the truth. Many cant afford this. @Fields_gg
@@Fields_ggnot really a mentality thing sadly, it's more of a budget thing being on México
It's not about the grind issue, it's the making enough tourneys to gather enough cp to compete with the likes of Tord, Azul, etc that can travel even overseas to gain CP...it's a budget issue. Worlds is pay-to-win now...
@@frisbeez1775Yep
It's a trash decision
This is just for wallet warriors.
Nice haircut, looking good 👍
LATAM = Australians xD
What are you talking about this is literally pay to win lmao
dam
Maybe first
I personally think it’s the worst decision ever here’s why…. There are competitive players who have a limited budget who could make a top 125 in a 2000+ regional but can’t go to multiple regionals a year plus worlds. I think winning worlds should be harder than a regional or IC not just getting to worlds. I think it can push players from pushing in Pokémon and moving to a different game where they can compete and also think it can discourage new players from playing if they want to compete but can’t afford the travel and decks constantly changing.