First Pokémon TCG tournament? Etiquette and routine how to set-up!

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3 жыл бұрын

Most of us haven't played with physical cards in a formal event in at least a year, so I figured a video on how to properly set-up (When to flip a coin, laying out prizes, drawing opening hand, etc) would be helpful
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@uncomonfossil 3 жыл бұрын

Appreciate these how to play videos. Signed up for a prerelease in August, which will be my 1st in person event.

@MellowMagikarp 3 жыл бұрын

Nice! I love pre-releases. Hope you have fun and if you have a trade binder remember to bring it because there will be a lot of collectors :D

@Aiger7195YT Жыл бұрын

Glad you made this I'm just now starting in the actual tcg of pokemon and I have a tournament on Sunday and this helps a ton!

@MellowMagikarp Жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful and good luck!

@leokiralla4449 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome video, my son and I started playing at informal leagues just before covid and he wants to try his first tournament once things reopen. This was a big help!

@MellowMagikarp 3 жыл бұрын

Glad it could be helpful!

@PookieBuilt 2 жыл бұрын

How’d he do? You guys go to a tournament yet?

@crios4454 Жыл бұрын

Curious myself!

@leokiralla4449 Жыл бұрын

@@crios4454 well there hasn't been anything big close to us (southern california) other than SLC I guess. He's been enjoying prereleases and league and doing well but wants to play at the San Diego regional. That would be a big test for him, he's 9 so I'm a little nervous that the grind of all day higher-level pokemon could be tough. Exciting too though!

@crios4454 Жыл бұрын

@@leokiralla4449 that's so exciting! I'm sure that's something you love to do with him.. I hope I can get my daughter into the tcg when she's of age lol.

@kstanni87 Жыл бұрын

The new elite boxes do include dice with damage numbers

@professsorpokemontcg 3 жыл бұрын

I kinda figured this all out already from watching the games from irl tournament pre pandemic, but It’s nice to have confirmation of everything because I hope I can play in my first irl event by the end of the summer.

@MellowMagikarp 3 жыл бұрын

Be sure to let me know how you do when you make it! I love IRL

@erix4erix 6 ай бұрын

Thanks

@Kritzlof 9 ай бұрын

Going to my first local tournament in two days. Thanks! :)

@MellowMagikarp 9 ай бұрын

Good luck!

@saturn7629 4 ай бұрын

Howd it go? Plan to go to my first local soon

@Kritzlof 4 ай бұрын

@@saturn7629 haha, it went fine I think. Won 1 of 4 matches if I remember correctly. Good luck!

@MrRuyjohn 3 жыл бұрын

beautiful hands

@MellowMagikarp 3 жыл бұрын

Many many thanks

@Brancus137 3 жыл бұрын

I have the habit of spreading out my prizes because my main deck was green's blacephalon and it's useful to have them spread out if you use Blazer :P

@MellowMagikarp 3 жыл бұрын

lol alright THAT is the one time that it is acceptable

@Brancus137 3 жыл бұрын

@@MellowMagikarp it was while it wasn't a well-known deck yet so the comments/looks from bystanders and judges at regionals were hilarious too when some of my prizes were flipped up and some were flipped down xD oh and it's extremely fun to use Blazer on stream with prize cam because the stream can't see your prize anymore xP

@MellowMagikarp 3 жыл бұрын

lol I can only imagine the confused looks people had at the randomly flipped over prizes

@dbzfannumber1sayian Жыл бұрын

Hoping if you could pretty please talk about Force of Will? We definitely could use more hype for the game. Would be greatly appreciated 🙏

@MellowMagikarp Жыл бұрын

Hmm, what do you mean Force of Will?

@GuitarBloodlines Жыл бұрын

you should just accept the game is dead

@ThomasAFN316 3 жыл бұрын

Do you not take the mulligan draw before you do the prizes?

@MellowMagikarp 3 жыл бұрын

Nope! You put out your prizes than take any extra cards from your opponent's mulligans once they have a basic

@10types 3 жыл бұрын

For prizes can you do six in a row or does it have to be two by three?

@MellowMagikarp 3 жыл бұрын

You can do 6 in a row, it's just a bit awkward with how much space it takes up

@ghostblayd12 Жыл бұрын

Do I put damage counters on my opponent’s Pokémon or do they do it also do i call out my moves out loud

@MellowMagikarp Жыл бұрын

You can, some people do, but most people don't and let their opponent do it themselves

@sanakethees1427 Жыл бұрын

Did you create this deck

@thonk7611 3 жыл бұрын

wait, u pound shuffle keeping the cards in your right hand?

@MellowMagikarp 3 жыл бұрын

I do, but I'm left handed so maybe I'm backwards of everyone else XD

@JoshuaHipsher Жыл бұрын

Hey there! I just learned how to play at NAIC this year and someone said fanning out to draw was technically not allowed. Is that true or is it just risky? This came up because a player mis-drew when his Japanese sleeves stuck together and lost 2 prizes because of it.

@MellowMagikarp Жыл бұрын

It's technically just risky. I've had local judges tell us not to do it but it's not like they can force it With that said, I'd also highly recommend not doing it that way 😂

@JoshuaHipsher Жыл бұрын

@@MellowMagikarp noted! It's a little harder when you have two judges who are sitting there on stage, watching you play. lol. Is that kinda something you don't really call on people? Like, if they mis-deal during a local tournament is there an unspoken thing where you just let them put it on the bottom or do folks take 2 prizes at smaller events too?

@MellowMagikarp Жыл бұрын

@@JoshuaHipsher Depends on the person. With Championship Points on the line some people will call a judge on you at smaller events still, but most won't. If a judge sees they have to enforce the 2 prize penalty though, regardless of what players want

@JoshuaHipsher Жыл бұрын

@@MellowMagikarp I went to my first league tourney yesterday and it came up where someone put the 5 cards from Colress's Experiment into their hand but I said something before they mixed them in. I still won the match but the judge almost called him on it in the moment!

@MellowMagikarp Жыл бұрын

@@JoshuaHipsher Good catch! And way to do it the right way and let them know before they made a mistake like mixing them in

@CPT_Rhino 5 ай бұрын

can you draw cards before time starts for a tournament round?

@MellowMagikarp 5 ай бұрын

You can (and should) draw your 7 to set-up, lay out your prizes and can draw any mulligans but until time starts you should not draw to start your turn

@Farrr_East 4 ай бұрын

Me who never played irl and already registered for regional league: 😶 Anyway thanks for the explanation!

@MellowMagikarp 4 ай бұрын

Good luck! Hope you have fun :)

@Farrr_East 4 ай бұрын

@@MellowMagikarp thank you ☺️

@VaultBoy-kz6ed Жыл бұрын

I lost a tournament cause I forgot to put up prizes the thing is the guy I was playing said we should finish the game to see how it would have played out but I already lost, I won😢

@MellowMagikarp Жыл бұрын

Big RIP. That sucks it happened but hopefully it means it won't happen again!

@VaultBoy-kz6ed Жыл бұрын

@@MellowMagikarpnaw I make sure I do I’m never making that mistake again