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Ross Gilbert

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  • Joined Sep ’10
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Bio: Hello, my name’s Ross and I probably like the Pokémon TCG a little bit too much. I play a lot in the UK and am currently in my third season. I’ve cut a few times and won a couple smaller tournaments but the highlight so far was grinding into Worlds last year!

I also run a weekly podcast called PTCGRadio (google it) all about the Pokémon TCG. I’ve made a lot of friends through this game and am going to keep playing for a little while so if you see me, say hello! I’m trying to get into Worlds in a less nerve-wracking fashion this year, wish me luck!

Turn the Page

A Quick Guide to the 2014-2015 Season Rotation
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Good morning or, depending on when you’re reading this, good afternoon, good evening, or good night. Now despite doing an ENTIRE PODCAST about the rotation, people keep asking for a list of what was rotated. So, consider this an answer. Below I shall go set by set and look at what was reprinted, the fringe […]

Plucky Ploys

Postulating the Particularly Perplexing Pyroar Problem for Plasma (with the Podcast Person)
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Good morning or, depending on when you’re reading this, good afternoon, good evening or good night. I didn’t intend to write another article so soon, but I am currently… somewhere… doing… something… and I have some time to kill and a laptop that isn’t connected to the internet. So, let’s do this. For those who […]

Back on Air

Crunching the Inter-Nationals Numbers and a Personal Favorite Pick
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Good morning, or depending on when you’re reading this, good afternoon, good evening, or good night. Now, it’s been a little while since I wrote for this lovely website and for that I can only apologise, but for this coming season I shall be aiming to write more as well as start properly expanding my […]

Chillin’ Out, Maxin’, Relaxin’ All Cool

Quad Snorlax Deck Analysis
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Hello again, it’s been a while. I missed you. Anyway, I haven’t written for a while because I’ve been busy with PTCGRadio. If anyone reading this doesn’t listen yet then I would direct you to go check me out on SoundCloud or the archives on WordPress. You could also subscribe on iTunes. Anyway, today I’m […]

My Little Penguins

Regionals and Cities Reports
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Good morning, or depending on when you’re reading this, good afternoon, good evening or good night. I figured I should have a uniform opening to my articles and this’ll do for now. Might as well put this at the start too: I run a weekly podcast, and please check it out. I meant to write […]

My Little Battle Roads

Tournament Report
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Good morning, or, depending on when you’re reading this, good afternoon, good evening, or goodnight. It’s how I start my podcast and I wanted to see if it worked in a written article. I think it does. And yes, it IS a Truman Show reference. I haven’t written for a little while, what with a […]

What’s That Coming over the Hill? Is It a Podcast? (Yes.)

News
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Hello. Hopefully some of you on this fine website have read some of my articles before. Hopefully you even enjoyed them. The short version of this article is: I have started a podcast, I think it’s awesome and I’d like you to give it a go. Links at the bottom. If nothing else, PLEASE go […]

Donk, there it is!

Tournament Report
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In Autumn of 2011 I went to 6 Battle Roads, had lots of fun, and took home 3 Victory Cups. This Spring, however, was not being so nice. I’ve only been to 2, though I did make Top 4 with Kyurem. There was, however, a chance to hit up 2 more over one weekend. On […]

Don’t You Forget About Me (We’ll Miss You Kyurem) (Top 4 Report)

Tournament Report
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Now don’t be alarmed, but I actually did some preparation and research for this article. I know! And I’m not even an Underground writer (hint hint). I had been playing Mewtwo EX / Regigigas EX for a few tournaments and despite some success (winning a Cities, 33rd at ECC, top 4 at States), I had […]

Durant Durant (Hungry Like the Gigas)

Tournament Report
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Last weekend I went to Exeter and it went ok, but once again I missed out on points by the narrowest of margins. It was frustrating to narrowly avoid top 8 and the 5 points that guaranteed by one opponent’s win, especially after being paired-down last round, but I couldn’t really be too upset as […]

I have more Mewtwos than you! ECC report and all the gossip!

Tournament Report
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In an article written recently, I explained the reasons why I love the Pokémon TCG. One of these was that it gives me the motivation to travel all around this wonderful country I live in. There’s only so much fun to be had in England though and so last week I got on a plane […]

Mewtwo, I Don’t Choose You. GO HOME! (Stupid Clone)

Other
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It seems common nowadays to align yourself with particular card stores. One well-known video series has stop2shop.com. Another, until recently, had Collectorscache.com. Now we all know people in the US generally use Professor-oak.com (PO) and Trollandtoad.com (TT) almost exclusively, but far be it from me to suggest that people merely promoted these sites for financial […]

It’s Good, But It’s Not Quite Right

Tournament Report
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESOGyiZbUrc Exeter Cities – Sat 14th Jan 2012 I got the feeling I had become a tad boring being a teacher and all, so while my girlfriend and many of my friends popped down the road to Sutton Coldfield for Cities, I decided on what I would coin as my “epic Cities journey,” taking in […]

Thanksgiving and Christmas Cheer

Other
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I like to see myself as part of this wonderful community of this game we love. I get myself around to many tournaments, I go to league every week, I help new players with deck lists and help them to build decks (especially when they need commons and uncommons that I have buckets of cluttering […]