@TrulyEruption Because it's to any pokemon you can attach it to Mega Kang and then have the energy on board for next turn as very little in the format 1 shots it. It makes the deck better, not regional competitive, might be fun for cups and challenges.
The NeoMats (Series 1 + 1.5)
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Full color retro artworks mats. I do a work of digital restoration and interpretation of the graphic identity of the Ex era.
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Pick up at Naic is still possible!
For many years, I was a part of management of the World Barista Championships and the chair of the US Barista Championships and the single most challenging element was the judging culture.
There's a huge tradeoff that occurs when you don't pay/professionalize judging (like pro sports) where you're relying on judges to show up with incentives and motivations that synergize with everything else, instead of them needing to do a good job so they can keep their job. You attract people who derive ways of extracting value from judging, like being able to throw their weight around in their local community, selling of their sealed product giftings, and various forms of ego inflation. All of this overshadows the folks who judge out of a true sense of service to a community they value.
What makes things worse is that because the judges necessarily work with the organizers, it creates an imbalance where competitors are limited to few avenues to advocate for themselves but judges have almost unlimited access.
The judging culture eventually pushed me out of being involved with coffee competitions, simply because the top decision-makers refused to see that volunteer judges for an event with high stakes almost guarantees corruption and/or dysfunction. I developed a balance-of-power design for the barista championships and the judges threatened to quit unless my design was completely rejected. That was that for my design and for my involvement forever.
I hate to see this in the competitive Pokemon arena, but it's a simple fact: when there are high stakes, you either serve the competitor community or the volunteer judge community, but you cannot serve both. It's up to @playpokemon to choose.
I wonder if the best course of action going forward is to do written warnings signed by the player, judge that issued the warning and the head judge. Given the amount of players at regionals it's got to be difficult keeping track of all warnings handed out.