Tokyo Tom
Somewhere between psychotic and iconic
you just chose the wrong people to ghost you, idiotI didn't even know hydreigon ran taunt in uu
you just chose the wrong people to ghost you, idiotI didn't even know hydreigon ran taunt in uu
Let's suppose ladder will be more important than tournaments. Do you really think people won't ghost/get ghosted on ladder?he's saying that ladder might be a better competitive environment and that people going off about how ladder sucks and tournaments are the real thing should reconsider what they're saying. nowhere did he claim that you should scrap tours and that's it. did you read his post?
Just to clarify; I wasn't the one implying that.Let's suppose ladder will be more important than tournaments. Do you really think people won't ghost/get ghosted on ladder?
You're all dreamers if you really think this
he hasnt been caught so did he really chose the wrong people?you just chose the wrong people to ghost you, idiot
Basically pathetic people doing pathetic things. When it's more important to be perceived as "good" by a pokemon community than just having fun playing the game, something needs to change in your life, no lie.People ghosting really pisses me off. I'm probably gonna sound super cringey here, but I just want to say it anyway so please be nice.
Pokémon is a game. Games are designed to be fun to play. If you would go as far as cheating just to win, quite frankly you are not only compromising your own integrity, the integrity of the person or people who ghosted you and the integrity of the tournament you are playing in, but you are also compromising the integrity of Pokémon as a game. If you are playing the game in such a way that is not fun for yourself and/or your opponent just for the sake of winning some silly online tour then it stops feeling like a game. This is not the intention of the tours, and it is not the intention of the game either. If you don't find Pokémon or any format fun to play, don't play it it; if you do find it fun and choose to enter tours like this, instead of having other people build you teams and tell you what to do every single turn you should learn to play the format you are playing and get as far as you can by your own hand. If that hand is not enough, practice it more so you can get further the next time you compete. Don't find other players to play for you. It baffles me that people who are too lazy to learn the game they are playing sign up for these tours just to get someone else to play for them, and if you have this attitude then you need to grow up and realise that what you are doing is utterly selfish; getting ghosted and ripping away the chances of people who actually have put in the effort to learn the format and play to the best of their own ability completely defeats the purpose of a tournament and just acts as proof that you are an utter asshole.
There is a new punishment for all future ghosting of a full year tour ban, 3 point infraction and a custom banner to shame them, as well as them being ineligible for managerial positions in SPL/WCOP for 2 years. This was put into place on Monday.I said this in the OST thread and I'll say it again here. I don't think this punishment is severe enough. It's been 3 times in this calendar year alone that a major tour winner has been stripped of a trophy for ghosting, and another in Classic playoffs last year. What I think needs to happen is a cultural change (considering there have been a number of accusations of ghosting in the past, true or otherwise), and someone needs to say that this is not okay, and bring down the hammer on any future offenders. I, personally, think it should be a permanent tour ban for all parties, but that's not my decision to make.
Also, GSlam can keep its format imo, it's just the bad apples that are screwing things up.
i can't attest to grand slam's format but the smogon tour format is already subpar, people complain about each one taking too long as it is, and that a better alternative would be to use PS automated tour system. i don't think that cookie cutting a currently unsatisfactory system is the best way to go about thingsWhy not doing a different stours format with like Ubers | UU | OU/RU instead of Gslam