Competitive gaming

[ZeroAX]

The closest thing I have ever gotten to competitive gaming is the recent Magic the Gathering Tournament I was invited to. Let's just say I am not really made for it. (At least not MTG)

TCG players are either super friendly or super pricks that trounce you in 3 rounds and then look at you like you are inferior to them

These games should really have newbie tournaments.

[PixelPixii]

These games should really have newbie tournaments.

True. LOL

Everyone learns somewhere. It would have been better to just show up to a general gaming night instead of a tournament. As it being a tournament they needed to beat me to progress, so I really did not have a chance.

[ZeroAX]

Everyone learns somewhere. It would have been better to just show up to a general gaming night instead of a tournament. As it being a tournament they needed to beat me to progress, so I really did not have a chance.

Once I went to this WoW TCG tournament, it was ladder based not knockout rounds, and in my first game I beat the guy (best out of 3) who 95% of the time won these tournaments (and he got second place cause of me ). Everyone was looking at me like, wow he must be pretty good. Then I went and lost every other game I played, one of them to a 10 year old . Goes to show that beginner's luck does exist

[Bradtemple87]

Everyone learns somewhere. It would have been better to just show up to a general gaming night instead of a tournament. As it being a tournament they needed to beat me to progress, so I really did not have a chance.

Once I went to this WoW TCG tournament, it was ladder based not knockout rounds, and in my first game I beat the guy (best out of 3) who 95% of the time won these tournaments (and he got second place cause of me ). Everyone was looking at me like, wow he must be pretty good. Then I went and lost every other game I played, one of them to a 10 year old . Goes to show that beginner's luck does exist

This reminds me of the kids that destroy at pokemon

[PixelPixii]

Everyone learns somewhere. It would have been better to just show up to a general gaming night instead of a tournament. As it being a tournament they needed to beat me to progress, so I really did not have a chance.

Once I went to this WoW TCG tournament, it was ladder based not knockout rounds, and in my first game I beat the guy (best out of 3) who 95% of the time won these tournaments (and he got second place cause of me ). Everyone was looking at me like, wow he must be pretty good. Then I went and lost every other game I played, one of them to a 10 year old . Goes to show that beginner's luck does exist

I wish I had your stroke of luck! I was beaten mercilessly by everyone. They were not mean... I was just that bad.

[ZeroAX]

I literally won the last match thanks to one card I drew at the last round. I guess the heart of the cards is real

[Erik_Twice]

are you assuming, or do you have any actual knowledge to back that up with?

Duuude, calm down, no need to be so aggresive!

That you stopped having fun because people were making money doesn't mean that the game stopped to be fun. It stopped being fun to you, and only you.

I don't want to get into dick waving about competitive achivements so I won't.


A single tournament held for games with no competitive scene with a single million of dollars as prize doesn't mean that anyone is "making millions". You can earn some money but not "millions" by a long shot.

Also there's a typo. Some players get enough to live on but they are few. I meant "many" not "any"


@Alienjesus

But, in the end, Sleep Powder is all it has. Speed doesn't matter when you are going first anyways while not having to invest any EVs in that stat.

Jumpluff's typing is also quite worse as Flying adds very little. You resist fighting attacks but at the cost of not resisting electric, being quad weak to ice and losing 25% of your health each time you switch in.

Jumpluff is my favourite Pokemon but I think it has been outclassed quite hard. Specially since Jumpluff doesn't have many tools while Erufuun has Switcheroo, Worry Seed and that stuff.

[J T]

I made it to state semi-finals in the Nintendo World Championships of 1990. That's my little claim to video game fame.

Cool! You should tell us the story one day.

They made a movie about it called The Wizard.

I'm joking, but it was a little like that. You first played in large batches of kids, then they would narrow that down through a few rounds. After surviving that, I was called up on stage with two other kids. There were three giant screens behind us, each one showing a different kid's screen. There was an announcer with a microphone doing running commentary about our playing in front of a crowd of people. You've probably heard of the NES World Championships cart before because it is worth a lot of money now. We played on those. They start in Super Mario Bros. World 1-1. You have to collect 100 coins as fast as possible. After that, it switches over to Rad Racer. You race the first track as fast as you can. After that, it switches over to Tetris and you play that for the remainder of your 10 minutes to collect points.

I had copies of Super Mario Bros. and Rad Racer to practice on at home, but I had only rented Tetris in the past and it was rented out during the championships, so I didn't get a chance to practice on that before the competition and Tetris was clearly my weak point. My Super Mario Bros and Rad Racer skills were impeccable though. I had practiced until I knew the fastest route to quickly build 100 coins and I practiced that route repeatedly until I could run at full sprint grabbing coins and only stopping for needed coin boxes along the way. I also could make record time on Rad Racer. I was the first to get to the Tetris round, but my Tetris skills were only good, not great. Still, I beat the two other kids on stage and was called back for the semi-finals heat. They gave me this nifty VIP sticker, that I keep on my trusty old NES. It's kind of worn out and dirty now, but it's authentic.



When I went back for the Utah state semifinals, I didn't make it very far. Other kids seemed to have memorized which Tetris blocks were going to fall. They were slamming down stacks of blocks so fast, it was insane. I was still one of the best at Super Mario Bros. and Rad Racer, but I was crushed in the final Tetris round and was eliminated from the competition. I didn't get to go on from there. I had a lot of fun at the championships though. Aside from the competition, I also got ot play a lot of new games befroe they were released. I remember playing the NES version of Wizardry and Jackie Chan's Action Kung Fu long before they were released. I played a bunch of other games as well, but don't remember what they were any longer. I had a blast though.

[PixelPixii]

That is an awesome story JT! I was never into Tetris when I was younger. It was too slow paced for me.

I would love to see some pics from that experience you had!

[Bradtemple87]

Awesome JT