“no one actually plays the game” -investors/scalpers justifying themselves. meanwhile in San Antonio…
by NarutoFan1995
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“no one actually plays the game” -investors/scalpers justifying themselves. meanwhile in San Antonio…
by NarutoFan1995
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Blind guy here.
Currently trying to figure out a workaround to be able to play.
Sadly jumbo cards and braille on cards are not tournament legal ;(
Happy to see it. Great place to trade as well.
Bro. It just kept going and going and going and going and going. Holy fuck that’s amazing
I do wonder how the place smells though not gonna lie
I love seeing this. Gamers lead the way.
Clearly that one open spot is justification enough to buy everything in sight
I didn’t even know this was going on rn. I love the size of HBG but I didn’t know they’d host a tournament on this scale. This is sooo awesome!!
The game is bigger than ever. All of those regular double rare EXs, normal holo and holo rare trainers are used. All the Illustration rares for the collections. I play the online TCG game almost daily
If you think there is no community for something, you just aren’t part of that community.
I wish there was something like this in Michigan, and if there is it must not be near the rock that I’m living under
Meanwhile in any tournament anywhere in the world. A shop opened up next town 2 years ago and it now has like 30 people consistently every tournament, and those are just locals. Haven’t been to a regional event but I imagine the amount of people is massive.
I’ve never played the actual TCG in person. This makes me want to make a deck and start!
Who said no one plays the game lmao, I’ve never once heard that
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I play pocket & the tcg app pretty much all night after the wife and kids are in bed.
A lot of people play. Like myself. I enjoy ripping packs to collect but also to find reverse and alts for play. When an ETB is triple the msrp it really sucks.
I don’t even play, and this was cool to see.
Just curious, what is the average age range of Pokemon TCG players?
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Not only that, that, the TCG is getting more popular with each event, with consistent record breaking attendances in recent years.
That, and 10, 15, 20 years ago in particular when Pokémon was just normally popular and a part of the childhood cycle of growing up after Pokémania had died down, players and regular collectors that weren’t in it for profit were much more predominant and the TCG survived just fine. Investing has been a progressively growing, and now dominant proportion of the hobby. But PTCG is not dependent on them, and historically hasn’t been dependent on them either.
Although it is amiss to say that they don’t have huge influence on the hobby now, seeing as all the biggest ‘content creators’ are focused around the money making side of the hobby.
I got back into collecting because of TCGPocket, and I learned how to play the game largely from there. And recently I bought a Battle Academy and taught my little brother how to play, and he instantly became obsessed with playing. Even wanted to go through my collection and build some of his own decks.
Now we just need to find out if there are any TCG meet-ups nearby to play with other people…
I can’t say I’ve ever said no one plays the game but I have said that it’s crazy how this is the only TCG that people collect the cards that don’t ever play the game.
They wanna be the very best
I didn’t know people play pokemonz in africa
Pokemon event attendance has gone up consistently year over year. Most regionals sell out of player registrations within minutes of online registration opening.
I’m not sure how you could call yourself a pokemon investor and not know that if cards do well in tournaments they go up in value. Knowing about the meta is part of collecting. I don’t think scalpers get that but any normal investor should. I learned that the first week I got into cards way back when. Every new regular set release effects the meta.
Any one that play in Alberta Edmonton area ?
I played today? Didn’t do well 😅
I play too, just saying it out loud for the people in the back.
actually refreshing to see so many women playing. when i was younger, it was just all gross older dudes.
They don’t think they need justification, they just want to end the conversation.
Man, those chairs at the San Antonio Regional look so much more luxurious than the hard plastic folding chairs at the Baltimore Regional. My ass is STILL sore thinking about it! 😓