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Standard v. Expanded, Juniors Recaps of Salt Lake City & Roanoke, Points, and the Box-Out! “Let me start with some thoughts on the Standard format compared to Expanded. When you look at our results, it is clear that we do much better in Expanded than we do in Standard so there is clearly bias. Regardless, my argument in favor of Expanded is this: First, the variety of cards allow for more deck consistency and this should theoretically decrease variance. Cards like Colress, Computer Search, and Jirachi-EX make decks more consistent, preventing dead-draw failures. I am an advocate of ban lists as the meta evolves, but bigger card sets create more creativity as long as we…
Junior/Senior Metagame Analysis for PRC–SUM Standard Tournaments “2 M Gardevoir/Giratina-EX 2 Darkrai/Giratina 1 Yveltal/Garbodor 1 Turbo Darkrai 1 Water Toolbox (Lapras-GX/Manaphy-EX/Palkia-EX) 1 M Mewtwo/Garbodor 2 M Gardevoir/Giratina-EX 1 M Rayquaza 1 Turbo Darkrai 1 M Alakazam/Espeon-GX 1 Decidueye/Vileplume 1 Volcanion 1 Vespiquen Juniors Top 8 decklists for Anaheim and Melbourne can be found at the preceding links. The Juniors metagame seems to be shifting in Standard. Dark decks (Darkrai and Yveltal) were the focus of the division in Dallas, Athens, and Anaheim. But between Anaheim and Melbourne, we’re starting to see lots of decks that seem to be aimed at beating Dark decks. This is especially true when you consider…
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Top 64 Juniors Worlds 2016 Tournament Report “I think I have talked enough about how, when it comes to choosing decks, we like to choose the most toxic deck in the format. That means I spent a lot of time fooling around with Vespiquen/Vileplume after it was released, but we never got to the point where we felt comfortable with it. As I have always said, another criteria we have for decks is that we try to choose a deck where we can minimize the likelihood that the deck craps out on us and maximize the likelihood where we will have the chance to use skilled play…
Attendance at Tournaments, Commentating (Drama in Storytelling), the Grind, Marketing, and a Funny Story “There was some chatter on Facebook about how attendance was down at tournaments, possibly due to the Expanded format or rising prices. I wondered if there was a way to get a little bit of science applied to the problem. I asked Christopher Schemanske if he had a data set I could use for a quick linear regression and of course he did. So here is what I did: I looked at every Regional in the last three years and scored it on several attributes… Format Year Quarter (to attempt to control for “people stop playing at a certain point”)…
Brent on Parenting a Junior + a Senior, The State of the Circuit, and a Midpoint Reflection on the Season “Pokemon tournaments have never been bigger! For that matter, this is a very reasonable year to go get your invite. I have always said “mo’ is betta'” for Juniors going to the World Championship and the stars certainly seem appropriately aligned to get plenty of Juniors out there. I feel like Pokemon is reading what I am writing, because they lowered the kickers to 48 kids, essentially giving out Top 16 points at most Regionals, which is good given the “box-out” that I wrote so much about last year. Having said that, it is worth taking a moment to mention…
With jaws that can shear through steel rods, this highly aggressive Pokémon chomps down on its unfortunate prey. (Drednaw)
A Poképarent’s Guide to Getting Started in Competitive Pokémon + 2× NAIC Top 8 Juniors Report “Because I am a dad of Pokemon people, people ask me how to get their kids into competitive Pokemon all the time. I have seen lots of opinions on this, mine is “win or go home.” And here is what I mean: Winning is a three step process in Pokemon. Equipment. Have the right cards. Pokemon prints lots of bad cards and a few good cards. If you don’t have the good cards, you simply lose. Jason Klaszynski, playing a theme deck, loses basically every game he plays against someone with a top tier deck. If you don’t have the…
Thoughts on Parenting Juniors and A Gauntlet of Tournaments “Carlos Pero has been advocating a new model of top cut where there are no bubbles. I am 110% on that train, even though it is too late for my oldest son. In his final year in Juniors, we have attended seven large events, which is an extraordinary amount for us. He has made top cut at four of them. But consider this: he has only lost one round, at most, of Swiss in every tournament he has attended. A single loss in every tournament, cutting at approximately half. I am sure many Masters would agree, but it seems that…
Juniors Orlando & Philadelphia Regionals 2016 Tournament Reports “Masters get cash. Juniors do not. Getting an Amex corporate travel thing is meh. Amex charges a ton for you to use them. Essentially, Amex skims 10%+ right off the top as their fees. Scholarships are pretty meh too. My understanding is they don’t pay interest, so you can get a scholarship for 10 years in the future that just rots while someone else is making money on your money. I assume Pokemon did not realize that their awards for Juniors work out badly for all the PokeParents. I haven’t met someone who has liked winning yet. Finally, I ended…
1st Place Juniors US Nationals 2016 Tournament Report “So, I didn’t write a trip report about Massachusetts Regionals and I want to start this off by talking about why. I have a new job and it is super high travel. More accurately, it is based in New York and I live in DC. Plus in the first two months I spent a week in Orlando, a week in Atlanta, and a week in Barcelona. This travel has really impacted my Poke-thinking and my family’s Poke-testing. Plus, my job is just intense. This felt like an opportunity I needed to take even though the travel was a bear because…
42nd Place Junior World Championship Report with Manectric/Tool Drop “As I have told people previously, the Junior meta is heavily informed by the Masters meta, while lagging slightly. With so few tournaments in the post-LTC ban format, I felt like there was very little momentum behind any given deck and the format was a very matchup-based rock-paper-scissors format centering on Landy/Bats, Toad, and Mega Manectric. We spent a lot of time testing a lot of things. Here is a little commentary on our findings: Hippowdon We tested Hippos based on its performance in my deck analysis article, but found that it was surprisingly brittle. Any sort of Energy suppression broke the deck…
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