Losers bracket 4th round: LyleJeffsIII vs LNDsKourlash. LNDsKourlash sneaks an astonish in as Jeff’s game lags, which flipped the game and gave LNDsKourlash the match. After a lengthy review, judges forced a replay, which LNDsKourlash wins to make into the Top 4; Jeffs is out. LNDsKourlash played well, but there is no doubt Jeffs would have won without the glitch. I thought somehow Niantic would have a clean version of the game ready to not embarrass themselves at nationals. I thought wrong.
by smrad8
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All 3 people that care about pvp and this torunament are in shambles
it’s pokemon go what do you expect
What was the glitch?
This is great. More of these common bugs on the global stage. Maybe they’ll be fixed.
I understand wanting a bug-free game and I would like Go to have as little bugs as possible, but it’s unfeasible to be completely bug-free whether it’s due to latency and low tick servers or poor code. I don’t know any game that is without a single bug.
I think this was a fair solution for both players. They’re competitive players and it probably isn’t their first time facing a game-deciding bug. It sucks, but the fact they were able to replay the game is the best anyone can ask for.
What solution would you have liked?
Is there a VOD somewhere? This is amazing
It is also worth mentioning that LyleJeffs benefited from a similar glitch in a previous round against Patoman. Rather than replay the match, LyleJeffs conceded that without the glitch he would have lost and gave Patoman the win.
But pvp is super competetive and there are no bugs… some say. It is all about skill. It can’t be your connection, it can’t be lag and bad gaming design.
Hey Trainer,
Sorry to hear about your loss at the world championships. I’ve investigated this issue and can see that you did indeed lag during the battle. To remedy this I’ve credited 50 Pokéballs to your account!
Thanks for playing
LI^
surely at some point in a matchup, there is a mathematical certainty of who should win (given expectable game play), esp if everyone is on their third mon. and if the rematch is done with the same mons then one player again will have a massive mathematical advantage from knowing mons and moves.
You thought this game would be working properly? Haha that’s funny.
I still don’t understand what the point of PvP is in go. It’s so much tapping.
This is the problem making a real time combat Pokemon game competitive scene. You NEED it to work flawlessly, like a SMASH tournament. And frankly I haven’t seen any mobile games at that level.
Apparentl6 they announced a 45 second switch timer. The only mechanic this should be updating at this point is fixing game deciding bugs
I think the idea of an officially sanctioned championship of a game with such a bare bones and glitchy combat system is stupid. Tokken deserved a championship way more than this one.
insane that people still engage in pvp. genuinely less depth than 20 year old games of the same series. whats the end goal?
So, do the players half bail from the app to avoid 1 turn bring in lag at nationals?
> I thought somehow Niantic would have a clean version of the game ready to not embarrass themselves at nationals. I thought wrong.
I’m sorry, what? We’ve had multiple years and multiple championships. GBL has been a thing for over 5 years. Why would they fix anything before this one as opposed to all of the previous ones? You were extremely wishful thinking here.
Has LyleJeffs considered playing on strong network connection and referring to the troubleshooting guide? Hope they compensated him with a premium raid pass!
/s
It still baffles me that they have championships at all for an undercooked mini game.
When GBL was pretty new, I spent maybe a couple weeks where I tried to get a bunch of pokemon at exactly 1500 or 2500, and spent a lot of time playing GBL, every match would have some lag related or just outright “cheating” problem with it. Then more info started coming out, with the best mons to use, and what moveset you should spend 10 TMs to get, and how that if your Pokemon isn’t 0-1-4, then it’s inferior and will never win anything. I’m all for figuring out how to max things in video games, hunting for the elusive ____, practicing something until you’re perfect at it, knowing your opponent’s next move before they do and having a counter response, all of that is fun. What’s not fun is if I spend 6 months catching the perfect team with the perfect stats, using resources to hit the right levels, moves, etc, and then lag ends up beating me, or the game crashes, or there’s a known bug exploit where the other guy can keep your charge moves from firing, etc etc…i quickly determined that there’s absolutely zero point in going through all that effort when the game isn’t stable enough to work how it’s supposed to. What’s the point of “my Pokemon will deal 48 damage across 4 moves in 5.2 seconds, and then the charge move will…”when you’re going to sit with the charge meter full and tap it about 4 more times with nothing happening before your mon just dies. I’ll start playing GBL when it works consistently. So far I’ve been waiting for however many years it’s been out as a feature. I’m not holding my breath.
Love the game (and ya’ll) but this is not something I’d recommend as an esport either to play or watch.
I’m curious, they must be handing out competition handsets for them to avoid any cheating right?
The Salty Road strikes again.
Anti PVP people in here but we are literally collecting glorified stickers
Shocker.
And this is exactly why the game shouldn’t be in the competitive scene
the only embarrassement was lyle being that close to losing on the glitched match after a favourable lead and safe swap
dude was completely manhandled by kourlash
It’s cute that people actually play this not only competitively, but professionally. Lol. Since Go Battles first came out they’ve always been buggy and the limits set on specific moves charges and how long others take to charge, along with only having a single fast move and two strong moves that require time to charge, it’s just pure jank.
It used to be a fun time waster to have a few battles here and there but the frustration that spawned from lag, glitches, and people only using the same pools of Pokemon during the various seasonal leagues just led to a terrible and unenjoyable game environment.
But kudos to any of you who find genuine fun and enjoyment with this game mode. 🙂
If you thought they would ever make the game clean by now idk why. It’s been shoddy the entire time gbl has been a. Part of the game. Rampant with lag and glitches, losing fast attacks multiple times in a match to it.
So because of the glitch he lost the first match. But the judges decided on a replay and then he lost legitimately? So the win wasn’t “stolen” because he got a do over and lost.