>almost 800 people attended this event just in masters VGC alone
>registration reached its cap at about 100 minutes
>not even including the other age divisons or GO/TCG, or their respective age divisions
That’s easily 1,000+ people. What’s crazy is the next regional in Pittsburgh is supposed to blast these numbers
My question is why? I went to a regional back in 2012 cause it was in my home town and 300 was considered huge. I would go but I’m far to outclassed. I used to qualify for worlds regularly but now I can’t even make day 2 consistently anymore lol.
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>1000 people
That's literally nothing
People really take VGC seriously? DAAAYUM son
>My question is why?
Despite what the sub 1100 elo nerds claim competitive pokemon as a whole is growing an an unprecedented pace. TPCI hasn’t adjusted by making more events so as a result you get regionals being attended by 1,000+ people regularly.
>cant even make day 2 consistently anymore lol.
That’s because the more people join the more naturally talented people are bound to start playing. Also lots of people who only played singles moved over to VGC and the skills translate
>justin tang
>good singles player, well known in the smogon community
>wins 1st regional he went towins another back to back
>sempra
>started doing limitless tours and top cutting them regularly
>10 months later he won 1st regional he went to
>finished 5th at this years worlds as a 1st year player
>Michael Kelsch
Was known as one of the best singles players of all time on showdown
>number 1 in randbants with 92% GXE as of this post
>won multiple smogon cups
>moved over to doubles just this year
>gets 2nd at worlds
Competition is always getting better. If you aren’t then you will fall off hard. Just look what happened to Ray Rizzo.
Bet you the guy that wins this event will be a 1st year player. We’ll probably have a couple in the top 8 that are in that same situation.
Ray Rizzo qualified for worlds this year but was uninvited on a technicality with his account.
The rest of what you say is basically correct
the fallacy of vgc is that you can never be the very best like no one ever was, which is the whole point of competing if some stupid newbie can easily dethrone you the next year
nobody wants to play any tourney except manchildren with no talent that pretend they will be "masters" for one year and also think that will make them somebody, nobody cares who won ealier installments
Now proceed to say "le skill issue, le 1100 elo" or whatver copes you invent, you will always be a nobody, no mater how good you are at a KIDS GAME
skill issue and 1100 elo
show me any pro player that achieved better social status or a better job or anything remotely valuable for winning the vgc, and cope forever because none of they did anything in their lives.
>My question is why?
There's more people playing videogames than ever before.
And even if injecting is still easier, making a team in-game has never been easier before. Plus, there's more resources for competitive available than ever before as well.
You just said so. 2012. It's been a decade since then. Just look at the internet as it is now. It's the same reason as to why the amount of fanart a popular character introduced back then would be a pittance compared to that of a popular character introduced now. Why? Because now there's more drawgays than ever. And the oldgay drawgays all grew up and created resources that the new generation can benefit from.
There's plain and simple more people doing things nowadays because there's more ease of access and way more resources to doing and learning how to do those things.
Wolfe has milked the frick out of his World's win to ridiculous extents and is now a very big Poketuber.
Cybertron works at TPC now. So does Ray.
That said those are probably the biggest examples of that.
>poketuber
lol lmao HAHAHA
well cybertron and ray got actual jobs out of it. and adam dorricott as well in fact adam move to the stats to be a full time caster and scott glaza works for the marketing department for TP.
Content Creator.
He is in the Media business.
Today anon learns the meaning of "hobbies".
complete mental moronation, sub-1000 elo
>the fallacy of vgc is that you can never be the very best like no one ever was, which is the whole point of competing if some stupid newbie can easily dethrone you the next year
The same goes for any kind of competition of any kind of thing all the world over, homie.
There's been not a single person in all history that remained undefeated and the very best like on one ever was no matter the subject.
Are you moronic?
99% of the people who go to these events are normal ass people with day jobs and go to these events for fun. some are even married with children.
>normal ass people with day jobs and go to these events for fun. some are even married with children.
moronicly untrue, I've seen who still plays Pokemon Go.
nobody cares *forever*, unless you milk it for all its worth like Wolfe
it's a credential, which is a means to ends in this content-driven era rather than an end in itself
winning a Pokemon tournament isn't like winning an Olympic medal, it's like winning a bet: people will listen to you because you made it happen, not worship you by itself
is the new TCG fun?
Look alive, boys, sign ups are going up in 18 minutes.
you have to be ready, signups for the event in pic rel closed in about an hour and a half cause they reached capacity so fast. and this event is supposed to be bigger so they will close faster.
NAIC filled in minutes.
i feel so dumb sitting on my laptop with my debt card in hand refreshing that page
One thing that really bolstered the amount of people going to regionals this year is the complete lack of Premier and Midseason events. TCG gets away with less since a lot of locals are still good for play points, but even the busiest regions of the US don't feature points for VGC.
Hell, the event tracker for VGC has like one local registered in Pennsylvania that isn't even for points.
This year you're basically forced to attend as many regionals and nationals as possible to get VGC points. It's gonna be brutal.
Also the requirement for Worlds is higher this year (500 instead of 300). There is a huge economic barrier to actually going to Worlds. You basically need to be a college kid on rich parents' dime. No one poor, or no adults with a full time job and a family are going to realistically be able to fly all over the country or world just to farm points for a video game tournament.
Holy frick 500 is insane. I think winning a regional gets you like 200-300, what were they thinking making it that high?
Maybe they want to deter a lot of people from going to events?
>don't even bother, you won't get enough
Pokémon Players don’t know how to drive
i do
O FUG THE PAGE WENT DOWN
https://rk9.gg/tournament/PI2qO2IQ3eq5RHED1oJj
overload went down, but the tournament is on LULZ, good luck homosexuals
see ya boys in pittsburgh
RK9 IS ALREADY FULL ON MASTERS VGC WHAT THE FRICK
What part of
>NAIC filled in minutes.
didn't you get? VGC events are becoming concert/convention tier in that you need to be mashing refresh right when the sites go live just to get in.
god fricking damn i was lucky
kek
Good luck VGCbros.
Make sure to mention us on stream and report on the livewatch threads.
Genuinely malding I missed signups for a shit in the toilet
nooooo anon.
Did you also not take your gameboy to the toilet when you were a kid? What a dummy.
I missed the Secaucus regionals last year by not realizing these events fill in minutes, not hours or days. Just learn from your loss and be ready next time.
this. we learn best from experience. Make sure you are free when registration opens.
I'm in.
I'll have to gen a few teams though, and see which one I want to use
D-Don't cheat!
Everyone who participating in this thing is genning
Anon I was joking I thought the stutter was making it obvious.
It's only cheating if you get caught. That said, we know how home trackers work now. Inject into the origin game, send it to home, send it to sv. If you trade from a trade bot right to sv, it nulls out the home tracker, meaning it will look like the pokemon was natively caught in sv. Sending the pokemon to home won't fix it either, as its initial home tracker will still show it originated in sv.
Because we didn’t know how home trackers worked before it was considered cheating. But now it isn’t? Because we haven’t caught you…Anon I..
We vaguely knew about the home tracker, but the fact it was never used in hack checking meant it didn't matter. We now know it matters.
the cap might be increased, shitting anon stay alert
I AM ALERT
its dumb that it was only 400 cap anyways. especially since every other regional event had 700+ people in masters alone
where can i see how many ppl signed up?
417 ppl. It capped we don’t know if they will find enough HORI stands to increase the cap.
Stop cheating.