The cotton on the head of this Pokémon can be spun into a glossy, gorgeous yarn—a Galar regional specialty. (Eldeoss)
Christopher’s Data Dissertation on the 2017/18 NA Masters’ TCG Regional Championships “A few key issues and trends have emerged this year that seem worth exploring: Location shifts. We saw Philly vanish; Hartford replace. We saw Seattle “move” to Vancouver. Maybe it’s just me, but I’m pretty interested in seeing how attendance moved along with those events. On the whole: growth! For the second year in a row, the circuit seems to have grown substantially. With all but 3 events beating their prior year’s overall attendance number, for many, it was a successful year. But, about those 3…Expanded as a common thread? Roanoke, Costa Mesa, and Salt Lake City were the 3 events that did…
2017 6P North American International Championships Fantasy Competition “It’s become something of a tradition in the Pokemon community to do fantasy drafts heading into the event formerly known as US Nationals. For the past few years, we at 6P have partaken in the craze. Obviously, we’re too big to do a traditional “snake” draft in an efficient manner (though, a few writers might do one before all is said and done), but, as an alternative, we’ve usually done a salary cap league. In essence, you get a certain budget allotment, choose a certain number of players, and get points for each player’s performance. This has taken a few…
Developing the Ideal Formula for Gyarados and Determining its Place in the NAIC Metagame “Gyarados has been around as a deck almost the entire season. It was a potential secret deck heading into the first Regional of the year in Orlando. I worked extensively on a list with Bob Zhang, who won two League Challenges with it in September, and was ready to play it in Orlando before I found out that everyone actually knew about it. Still, it did okay there with a Top 16 finish. Though my list with Bob focused on Octillery, the list that did well in Orlando gave us a glimpse into a different variant, one focused more on…
Powerful legs and jaws made it the apex predator of its time. Its own overhunting of its prey was what drove it to extinction. (Dracovish)