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Welcome to the trash lunch. It's the only

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podcast about the Pokemon trading card

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game. Attendance is a hundred

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percent. It's Liam. It's Mike. It's me.

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We're all on Twitter too. If you wanna track us down,

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you could track us down and tweet at us.

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Nobody's left a 5 star review in a while. We

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could use a new review. If you leave

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a review, we will read it on the pod. So that's

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the thing that that happens. Dragon Shield is

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a sponsor. They send us sleeves. Liam

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got a bunch of sleeves in the mail the other day, and he appreciated

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it a lot because sleeves are

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sweet. When people complain about Dragon Shield

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sleeves, it's because everybody uses Dragon

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Shield sleeves. It's that easy.

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Guys, why don't we kick it off with the breaking,

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breaking, breaking news? Because

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I think that's, like, a little bit of stuff to talk about.

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The San Francisco Business Journal broke

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the news that the Pokemon World Championship has

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booked the Moscow and Center for

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20 26.

1:00

20 26. Is that the same

1:03

place that world was

1:04

It is not. It is the big convention

1:07

center. They were they were, like, trying to do it in,

1:09

like, the basement of the Hyatt or something.

1:11

Okay. Right.

1:13

And so the good news is, yeah,

1:15

they've booked a space that is theoretically I

1:17

mean, the Moscow Center is gigantic. It could

1:19

it could be, like, 10 times

1:21

as many people easily.

1:23

Okay. Well, that's good.

1:25

Yeah.

1:27

Mhmm.

1:27

Yeah. It's, like, pretty crazy that

1:31

This was leaked. Like, I I

1:34

don't know from who, from, like, a convention center

1:36

employee. Maybe someone just got excited

1:39

that Downtown San Francisco

1:41

has something big now with

1:43

all the negative press that it's gotten over the last

1:45

couple of years. But I think for

1:47

me, like I had always

1:50

known and we have talked

1:52

about it, that Pokemon books

1:54

these things and knows these things with

1:57

a lot of time in advance, like

1:59

2, 2 years, at least in advance.

2:02

And for some reason, they don't give us the information

2:07

4 months before. Like,

2:09

I I understand the location reveal

2:12

at, you know, the previous worlds. That

2:14

totally makes sense. But they could just release the

2:16

dates and the exact location at

2:18

the same time because they know it. And

2:20

it's kinda like, We've always known that,

2:22

but now it's very, very public that

2:25

they've known this. That's kind of for me

2:27

the big the big funny thing with

2:29

with this.

2:31

Yeah. It it's insane that they're gonna do

2:33

a big reveal for, like like, we now know 20

2:35

26. We don't know 20 25. And

2:38

yeah. It's, like, to your point, I now have exact

2:40

dates for the 20 26

2:42

worlds, and I still don't have exact

2:44

dates for Hawaii.

2:46

Yeah. Yep.

2:48

Yeah. The the dates should definitely come out faster,

2:50

but I, Something that

2:52

Jeremy Gibson brought up in our chat, which

2:54

I I think is definitely true, is that 1

2:56

1 of the, like, coolest parts of worlds is like that, like,

2:59

Well, it used to be opening ceremony, but now I guess it's closing

3:01

ceremony, like announcement. And, like,

3:03

you know, it it it doesn't really

3:05

mean, like, a ton, but I think it's pretty cool. And

3:08

if they wanna save that or, like, you know,

3:10

keep that intact that's something that

3:12

I I think is totally fine. Like, it's an hour or

3:14

a a year out still. It's It's whatever.

3:17

The date should just come, like, very quickly

3:19

after that.

3:20

Yeah. Agreed. I agree with all that.

3:22

Yeah. I can't remember when there was a

3:24

reveal of of the specific dates

3:26

that I cared about 1 Iota. I

3:29

think they've done some online stuff before, and then

3:31

they've also just updated the website. And, like,

3:34

Every time, I'm like, you know?

3:37

Yeah. Okay. Here's, here's a

3:39

question. So we know now that,

3:41

So we had Japan last year. We have Hawaii

3:43

this year. We have San Francisco

3:45

in 2 years. What's the

3:47

prediction now for 20 25? We have a

3:49

future data point, which we we

3:52

never had before. So we can maybe calibrate

3:54

our prediction more accurately.

3:57

So I I came up with some some theories

3:59

on how to answer this. Right? I I felt I I saw

4:01

some Twitter speculations. They were wondering if there

4:04

has to be, like, a European location in between.

4:06

But but my feeling is they're moving

4:09

east. So it's like Japan,

4:11

Hawaii, blank, San Francisco.

4:14

So blank is like Easter

4:16

Island. That's

4:19

that's where I'm going. Yeah. Yeah.

4:21

Exactly. It's like Juneau, Alaska

4:24

or Easter Island, and you'll never

4:26

convince me otherwise. That

4:28

is the correct answer.

4:31

Where is, like, Vancouver Where is

4:33

Vancouver in relation? Is Vancouver technically

4:36

west of San Francisco?

4:38

think it is. And I was I was thinking about

4:40

Vancouver, but Vancouver was too much of an actual

4:42

possible answer. So I

4:44

I I shied away from it. Oh,

4:48

man. Vancouver is close, but it

4:50

it is definitely I think, a Little bit west

4:52

of San Francisco.

4:56

Yeah. But, I mean, I feel like if they were doing that, wouldn't they just

4:58

pick something like East Coast for 20 26

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and then make it really easy? I do, like,

5:02

you know, San Francisco or Vancouver

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20 25, I think.

5:08

Yeah.

5:09

Yeah. No. Obviously, they could go Europe.

5:11

They could go East Coast. I mean, I

5:13

would like to think that,

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Latin America.

5:17

Like, the thing Pokemon should

5:19

do is they should have taken away from

5:21

Yokohama that having

5:23

an awesome worlds is awesome, and

5:25

then Rent it out the Javits Center and

5:28

go like New York City. Let's go. I

5:32

do not think they will do that.

5:34

I don't think so either, but

5:37

But they they tested people's tolerance for

5:39

ridiculous hotel prices, and it was like,

5:41

okay. Like, might as well go all

5:43

in.

5:44

Alright. I'm gonna make a prediction of

5:48

gonna say Germany for for 20

5:50

25. I'm gonna hop on

5:52

I'm gonna hop on the the European train.

5:55

Alright. I like it. I like it.

5:58

Although I mean, I don't know. We've they

6:00

we had EUIC in Berlin. Like,

6:03

I don't I haven't yeah. It obviously,

6:05

the the Berlin thing was at a very large

6:07

hotel. They

6:10

never had a convention center, did they?

6:13

I don't think I have a sense of what the convention center situation

6:15

in Germany is like. Although, I'm sure there's a gigantic

6:17

convention center.

6:19

Yeah. I'm sure there is.

6:22

You know, what what I will say I'm excited about

6:24

is I mean, Japan

6:27

was a, like, big

6:30

travel commitment. Like,

6:32

both of the last couple of worlds, it's

6:35

been, We're gonna plan our entire

6:37

summer vacation around worlds.

6:39

London, Japan, Hawaii,

6:43

like, you're in it to win it.

6:45

Like, that's just a thing you're gonna do. San

6:48

Francisco. Yeah. We can fly out for the weekend,

6:50

get worlds done. It's been great.

6:53

Yeah. That's

6:54

slaughtering it. Like, it's it's not gonna be

6:56

the, like, massive all in commitment

6:58

for North Americans that I

7:00

suspect the last several world's championships

7:02

have become. And in that respect, I'm

7:05

I'm grateful that I'll

7:07

get to pick where we go on vacation for

7:09

a year instead of Pokemon.

7:11

Pokemon.

7:13

And that's I mean, if they say Germany, I'll be

7:15

like, man, Pokemon, Stop picking

7:17

my vacations. I already been to Germany.

7:22

So there you go. Although,

7:25

maybe I will not be going to the next world championship

7:27

after Hawaii. Liam might just go.

7:30

Is that a thing that could happen? I don't know.

7:33

I don't know how I don't know how his mother would feel.

7:36

She she might see, that's Germany. She would

7:38

probably be like, yeah, Liam. That's fine.

7:41

Tampa and Cisco, not so much.

7:43

Well, I mean, if they you know

7:45

what? If they were like Sydney, mommy

7:48

would be like, We're all going to Sydney. Let's

7:50

go, Liam. Get your invite. Quick. If

7:53

if they were, like, Beijing, Connie

7:56

would be like, okay. We're all going to China for

7:58

Pokemon. Let's go. But

8:00

if they said Barcelona, although

8:02

I assume they would not say Spain because that's got

8:04

the whole SPE problem.

8:07

Yeah. Exactly.

8:08

it's not gonna be Spain. It's gonna be, like,

8:10

Germany or England if it's in

8:12

Europe. But but

8:15

Connie wants Italy or Spain,

8:17

and that's just not gonna happen.

8:19

Yep. Those are not gonna happen.

8:22

Alright. Guys. Let's quickly talk about

8:24

the Azul money match thing. Azul

8:26

Azul had the most viewers ever on

8:28

the Bradner Gearhart

8:30

throwdown. So he had to bring it back

8:33

with now it's like Australia versus

8:36

Team Bradner?

8:38

Yeah.

8:38

It's Bradner, Reagan, and

8:41

John versus Natalie,

8:44

Brent, and

8:46

James?

8:47

James. Right. Right. Right. Right. James.

8:50

I forgot about James because, like, yeah, he is

8:52

Australian, but he's been in EU for the last

8:54

couple years. So yeah. That's why I

8:56

forgot. Should be cool. Best of

8:58

9 conquest. For those of you that

9:00

don't know what conquest is, that means you

9:03

bring so each team will bring

9:05

5 decks And they have to win

9:07

with all 5. Once they win

9:09

with the deck, they can't bring it again.

9:14

So that's a it's a pretty fun format. It's

9:16

a super popular it's it's

9:18

like the the standard format for

9:21

Hearthstone. Hearthstone does 4

9:23

decks. Yeah. 4 decks,

9:26

and your opponent banned 1, and

9:28

then you have to win with all 3. So

9:30

this is a little bit different, but

9:33

same same

9:33

work in, like, a 3 v 3? Like,

9:37

So my presumably, they're just gonna

9:39

play, like, Even though it's 3 v 3,

9:41

it's like all 3 of them are playing 1

9:43

game.

9:44

Yeah. Okay. That's what I thought.

9:46

Yeah. But

9:50

it should be, I don't know, should be cool.

9:52

I I hope and I imagine that

9:55

both

9:56

Brandon's clear, man. What? Oh my god.

9:59

I hope that, like, both groups also

10:02

stream it. And so,

10:04

like, we could hear their discussion

10:07

or at least they have, like, their

10:09

their chats open so Azul can, like,

10:11

you know, swap between them. And

10:13

we can, like, hear from them every now and then too.

10:16

Because it's gonna be a long like, last 1

10:18

was really long, and Azul does a good

10:20

job commentating, but, like,

10:23

It's a long time for him to just fill

10:25

the the,

10:27

Yeah. No. If we if we could get in their chats, that'd be

10:29

really sick. Azul's probably not gonna let

10:31

them stream.

10:33

Yeah. Yeah.

10:35

That's fair. I I

10:37

I think the conquest format is cool, but

10:39

it's like I don't know how well

10:42

it works in Pokemon when

10:44

Pokemon is so matchup

10:47

dependent. Like,

10:49

if you just like, if you bring Snorlax and

10:51

let's say 1 team brings Snorlax and,

10:54

like, game 1, you just randomly queue

10:56

Snorlax into Charizard. Right?

10:58

Like, Snowballax

11:01

gets the dub, even if Snowballax loses to all of

11:03

their other decks.

11:04

Yeah.

11:06

So

11:07

How does how does it work if you,

11:10

Like wait.

11:16

What what is Liam confused about?

11:18

Sorry. I'm I'm trying to think about this. I'm not familiar

11:20

with the conquest format. I've I've never played it.

11:22

But, like Yeah.

11:26

Because Pokemon's so match up dependent, like,

11:28

how does it work if, like, say the Australians

11:31

bring, like, 5 decks that all

11:33

are, like, a hundred 0 into. You know?

11:36

Like, Bradner has to play lost scene at some

11:38

point. He has to win with it. Right? And he has to play it into

11:40

each of the 5 decks even if they lose with those 5

11:42

into, like, everything else. Like

11:46

So this is this is like a

11:48

a a strategy that you can take. It's like target

11:51

a deck where you just bring, you

11:54

know, 4 in in Hearthstone, it was like, bring

11:56

4 decks that are favored against this

11:58

1 popular deck. And if they have it,

12:00

You're just super favored to win the whole set.

12:02

And if they don't have it, you're

12:05

yeah. Exactly. So my guess

12:07

is they're not gonna, like, go super

12:09

crazy with any high level strategies

12:11

like that. They'll probably just bring, like, 5

12:14

meta decks.

12:16

It's a little hard to find 5 decks that beat

12:18

beat something. Like,

12:19

Yeah. Yeah. That's true.

12:21

about meta decks, like and they're they're hard to beat.

12:23

Yeah. Right. Right. Right. They're the meta decks for a reason.

12:26

Like, Tina's, like, not a great example,

12:28

but, like, maybe you could, like, bring

12:30

5 decks that, like, are super favored into

12:32

Charizard. Like, that's a deck you could probably, Build

12:36

for.

12:36

probably 1 of, like, least likely in NetedX, I think,

12:38

for, you know, like, them to

12:40

To bring? Yeah. Yeah.

12:43

What so if you're just bringing 5 meta

12:46

decks without thinking too hard

12:48

about it, what 5 Would

12:51

you bring? I

12:53

think definitely Guarditina. Yeah.

12:55

Guarditina. You think Mew as well?

12:57

You would not bring Chen Pao, so that's

12:59

a thing.

13:01

We know Bradner and we know Reagan's bringing

13:04

Chim Pao.

13:04

Yeah.

13:06

So yeah. Guarditina, you, I can

13:09

Isaiah Isaiah gonna get him over the head. No.

13:11

No. Uh-huh.

13:13

Charizard? Question mark?

13:16

Yeah.

13:17

Probably. Then you could then there's, like, a lot of options for

13:20

kinda that 1, you could bring Roy Moon, you could

13:22

bring Miraidon, you could bring Snorlax.

13:25

It's gotta be a Roaring Moon. Right? Roaring

13:28

Moon's a beta now.

13:30

Yeah. Mine's pretty good. I

13:33

don't know. I think I think you know both groups are gonna

13:36

bring Guardio, which is,

13:37

Yeah. Both groups are definitely gonna bring Guardian Tina,

13:39

like for sure. You

13:41

got Bradner and John. You got I

13:43

mean, the whole,

13:46

all the, the whole Australian crew is in love with Gardie

13:48

Yeah.

13:49

And Brent clearly likes

13:51

I'd definitely bring Snorlax. That's

13:53

what I'd bring.

13:55

Should be cool. I almost wish it

13:57

was just, like, the same matchup over

13:59

and over again again. But I wonder if they're just

14:01

gonna be, like, single games as well, or I

14:03

guess it probably is just, like, single

14:05

Yeah. That would take forever, right, if they're

14:07

Yeah. Yeah. It's already a multi hour adventure.

14:09

Right?

14:10

Yeah. That's true.

14:13

It's impressive that Braden was able to raise a is

14:15

it, like, a 1600 dollar prize pool?

14:19

You mean as

14:20

Azul, sorry.

14:22

Mhmm.

14:23

Yeah. Like, go sponsors. It's nice to

14:25

see a sponsor pony up that kind of money for a

14:27

Pokemon thing online. But

14:29

I feel like there's not there's not the

14:31

same amount of beef. And in

14:34

that respect I I wonder how popular

14:36

or not popular So end up being like,

14:41

obviously, you're gonna see absolutely

14:43

top tier play. Will you see better play than

14:46

Bradner

14:49

Yes.

14:50

versus Gearhart. Yeah.

14:53

I mean, there's no question. Obviously, both these teams

14:55

have people who are extremely, extremely

14:58

good at the game.

14:59

doodle. Yeah. Like, 1 v

15:01

1 between any of them is obviously the

15:03

highest level of play, Like, that

15:05

you'll probably see in a 1 v 1 or,

15:07

like, you know, maybe, like, Barntord or

15:09

Azul. And then, like, now

15:12

they have, like, 2 of the other best

15:14

players in the world checking all their moves.

15:17

Yeah.

15:17

the the the level of play is gonna be, like,

15:19

very, very high.

15:22

Yeah. I mean, is that enough to get people to watch it?

15:26

Yeah. I'm I'm probably gonna watch for

15:28

sure. But yeah.

15:30

No. I I think that the Jake 1 was also, like,

15:32

pretty funny, which is, like, you know Twitter

15:35

trash talker gets pounded live

15:37

by, Like, you know, best part,

15:39

like, best part that I I just wanna

15:41

feel like, you know, was

15:47

So we should also say so this is happening

15:49

on Saturday, February 20 fourth.

15:51

So About a

15:53

week and a half after this airs

15:56

at 2 pm Pacific time,

15:58

which is 5 pm Eastern.

16:01

Hopefully that's a relatively okay

16:04

time for the Australians. That

16:07

doesn't sound like it'd be great for them.

16:10

It's probably,

16:11

I I think that's, like, midday for them. Let's

16:13

see.

16:14

Well, see.

16:16

5 PM EST to Melbourne

16:19

time. It's like okay.

16:21

It's like 9 AM. That's

16:23

not that bad. I thought it was gonna be, like, 6

16:25

AM.

16:26

Do they have to accommodate James as well?

16:29

So, like, That's, like, crazy time

16:32

yeah. If you if James is still in Europe,

16:34

that's like

16:35

It's, like,

16:36

it's like 11 PM. Yeah.

16:38

mean, Obviously, it's not a great thing,

16:40

but it's, like, it's acceptable.

16:42

It's for the kids. It's for the kids.

16:45

A lot of accommodation. Right? Mhmm.

16:47

Yeah.

16:49

Yeah. So block It out on

16:51

your calendar, people. I guess that's the thing people

16:53

do. Speaking

16:55

of thing people do let's talk about cups and

16:57

challenges for the past week or so.

17:00

Because I know Mike, you

17:02

were saying you went to 2, and I'm sure

17:04

many people saw Liam tweet that it was time

17:06

for him to get on his local's grind.

17:09

And he he went out and grinded. Mike,

17:12

what were you up to?

17:14

We had 2 challenges. 1 last

17:17

Wednesday evening and then 1

17:19

just last night. I played Tina

17:21

to Bolt. The first 1 didn't do so well,

17:23

went 3 2. Last night, I was

17:26

4 0 going into the last round and then

17:28

lost. So I got second

17:30

both with Tina, which

17:32

was good. I hadn't played Tina in a tournament

17:35

in a while, so wanted to get some games in

17:37

before it rotates. Tina's great.

17:39

It's really good. I don't wanna get too

17:41

into the details of this, but we had this

17:43

dude show up last night that was

17:46

just Crazy.

17:48

Like, for a league challenge on a Monday night,

17:51

he was wilded in. He

17:54

was like a ex

17:56

Yu Gi Oh player, and he took

17:58

a KO 1 turn

18:00

against a Charizard deck. He was playing

18:02

chi impao, so he was used to using iron hands.

18:04

But he took a KO with a chi impao

18:06

against like, a charmander, took 2 prizes,

18:09

Shuffled his hand. They realized it almost

18:11

immediately. And, you

18:14

know, the fix is to

18:16

take a random card

18:18

from his hand, put it as his prizes,

18:20

and then give him a DPL. Like, that's that's,

18:22

like, the best you can do, to

18:25

maintain the the board state when you have no

18:27

idea what the card is. And he just,

18:29

like, flipped out.

18:31

Like, he It's like I can't play anymore.

18:33

Like, I'm conceding. He'd, like, dropped

18:35

from the tournament. He was started

18:37

passive aggressive and then got to really aggressive.

18:40

Wasn't really a fun thing. We just

18:42

like, everyone was so confused. Like

18:45

so not a not a great experience with

18:47

ex Yu Gi Oh player

18:48

about to say I was about to say the fact that you led with Yu

18:50

Gi Oh player.

18:53

Yeah. Well, and act the

18:55

only reason I know that is because as he was

18:57

setting up he was sitting right next to me. As he was

18:59

setting up, he was kinda like making chitchat

19:01

with the people at the table. And

19:04

He's like, yeah. I used to play Yu Gi Oh.

19:06

I was the best player in the world at some point,

19:08

so I had nothing left to prove in that game.

19:10

So I came over to Pokemon.

19:12

Yeah.

19:13

so, like like, I wouldn't have even have

19:15

mentioned that he was a Hugo player, except he

19:17

was, like, really, you know,

19:19

trying to sell

19:20

important to his internal narrative that people know

19:22

he's a Yu Gi Oh player. So so we might

19:24

as well.

19:26

Yeah. Yeah.

19:28

Not great. What about you, Liam? How was your

19:31

challenge slash cup experiences?

19:33

I I managed to go

19:35

to 2 on both weekends, Saturday and

19:37

Sunday. Saturday,

19:41

I went 4 1 and got third.

19:43

Both both events on Saturday, I played

19:45

Garde, And then I went o 2 drop real

19:47

quick out of league the league cup. That was at

19:49

started at, like, 6 PM. So at least I got

19:51

out of there fast.

19:54

A leak up started at 6 PM?

19:57

It was it was really late.

19:59

Do do do. So here here yeah. here you go, Mike. Here's your

20:01

choice. You have a choice between, There's

20:03

2 league cups. 1 league cup

20:06

starts at 4 PM. The

20:09

second league cup Starts at

20:11

noon, and their advertisement is,

20:13

this is our first league cup ever. We

20:16

were like, we're gonna skip that first league cup and go

20:18

to a challenge at the same time, and then we're gonna

20:20

hit the 4 PM cup and see how it goes.

20:23

Okay. Alright. Seems reasonable.

20:25

What store, like, what store or

20:27

where was it, the 4 PM 1? Do I

20:29

know it?

20:30

I have no

20:31

No. It was it was some some place in Northern

20:33

Virginia. But the the the

20:36

noon it's our first league cup ever 1 was in Ellicott

20:38

City.

20:40

Oh, okay.

20:41

So so we we had a choice. We could

20:43

really afford to attend 1 of those because

20:45

they're they're, like equidistant from our

20:47

house, but in opposite directions.

20:50

Right. Right. Right.

20:51

said we could double dip on the challenge and then the

20:53

late cup. But yeah. How many

20:55

rounds were they gonna go, Liam? Do you know?

20:59

Yeah. I think I do. I think it was, like, 5 and then

21:01

top cut.

21:02

Man, oh, man. Yeah.

21:04

So he it it was a it was a 4

21:06

PM start, and and Liam

21:08

was done by 6. And we were like, yay. we've

21:12

been binge watching mister and missus Smith at home.

21:14

So

21:15

Oh, nice. Yeah. We started watching that too,

21:17

actually.

21:18

hype hype. It is it is

21:20

1 of the better things that streamers

21:22

streaming content people have produced of late.

21:26

I agree. And did you play something in Sunday

21:28

as well?

21:29

Yes. I played 2 challenges

21:32

on Sunday. The first 1, I played Velasina,

21:35

and I won that 1. The

21:37

second 1, I played Intel, and

21:40

I got, like, third no. I didn't even or,

21:43

yeah, I think I got, like, third at that 1

21:46

Okay. So you got so you got a First

21:48

in 2 top fours in challenges.

21:51

Alright. Are

21:53

you done with are you filled up with challenges

21:56

yet?

21:57

We'll see. I mean, dude, the the

22:00

I I think if you count the top fours, I

22:02

am.

22:03

Mhmm.

22:04

But counting top fours is, like, pretty weird

22:06

because, like, if you think this the, like, the 8 points

22:08

that you get off the top 4 is good, you

22:10

just try to change it to a first because you get 7

22:12

points. So,

22:14

Well, what? Top 4 is 10 and

22:15

it's tough for 10? Okay. That's a little bit

22:18

of that.

22:18

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Top 8 is 8.

22:21

That's like, That's that's what you gotta replace

22:23

for sure if you have those. I feel like

22:25

I feel like the the 5 difference

22:27

from top 4 to first is, like,

22:29

not really worth chasing like, if you have

22:32

6 top fours or better, it's probably fine.

22:34

Yeah. I yeah. Because I I really

22:36

don't wanna go to another challenge, man. You don't get the

22:38

The best of 3. Yeah. Fun fact, the 1 I

22:40

won, that was a best of 3 challenge, which

22:43

was obviously kinda brutal, but, you know,

22:47

It's best of 3, man. It's it's, like, easier

22:49

to win.

22:50

That I mean and and let me say, that

22:52

was not in the advertisement for the challenge.

22:54

They gotta, like, tell people that stuff.

22:57

Yeah.

22:58

we know not to go.

23:01

So why did you switch decks so many times?

23:05

To Guardian scene are, like, pretty boring to play,

23:07

man. Like

23:10

See, I feel the exact opposite. Those are, like,

23:12

the I have the most fun playing those

23:14

Or, like of course, they're fun, but, like, you know,

23:17

doing the same thing over and over is just, like, not.

23:19

So, you know, wanted

23:22

to switch it up a little bit. And, like yeah.

23:24

I mean, Tina

23:28

Tina Tina is, like, a pretty lame deck,

23:30

bro. She's, like, comfy,

23:32

comfy, comfy, comfy. Roxanne

23:34

Path, attack. And you just attack, attack,

23:36

attack, attack. Like, that

23:39

doesn't do anything cool, bro. Guard

23:41

is kinda cool, but, like, it's it's just so much work,

23:43

man. And you just,

23:44

a lot of work.

23:46

for no reason for no reason

23:48

too. Intelers

23:52

was, like, the easily the most fun deck I played all

23:54

weekend. Probably gonna be playing it more in the future.

23:57

Just testing and stuff because yeah.

24:00

I think it was like dude, it's so fun

24:02

to play an engine where all you have to do is play

24:04

supporter every turn. Like,

24:06

That's fair.

24:07

Not having to use, like, 15 abilities.

24:10

And, like, of course, you're using abilities with Intellersh, but,

24:12

like, not using, like, all these draw abilities, especially ones

24:14

where you have to discard stuff too, It's like

24:16

it's so freeing. You just play every card

24:18

in your hand without thinking. And then

24:22

and, like, cool thing about intelligence

24:24

is you do that, and it actually still does cool stuff.

24:26

You don't just hit face. Like, you know, you're, like,

24:28

still doing cool stuff while just, like, mindlessly

24:31

dumping every card in your hand. It's,

24:33

like, so cool. It was

24:35

a really fun deck to play.

24:37

So do you guys have I feel like in this

24:39

area, all of the

24:42

Quarter 3 cups are basically in

24:44

this half of the quarter. So, like, from mid

24:46

February until the end of March. There was no

24:48

cup there's been no cup since the New

24:51

Year? Is it kinda the same with you guys? Is there

24:53

a bunch of cups over the next 6 weeks?

24:55

Yeah. I think I think the I think the cup grind is

24:57

kinda starting up. That

25:01

that is that is definitely true.

25:04

so He gotta he gotta

25:06

he gotta play until then to all these cups

25:08

to him. Gotta win some win some

25:10

cups with intelian on. I'm

25:14

running my cup on Saturday, so that'll be good.

25:16

Should be fun.

25:19

Best

25:19

the aforementioned Yu Gi Oh player does not

25:21

show up.

25:23

mean, he he's got nothing less to prove than any other

25:26

sport. Why not,

25:27

Yeah.

25:28

You know? That's how that's how it be.

25:32

You

25:34

Uh, so so So you're running a

25:36

cup. What what deck would you play if you were

25:38

playing in a cup?

25:40

I mean, I'd either play Garde or Cena. I don't

25:42

know. I'd probably, like, coin flip it. I

25:47

might go to a I'll probably go to 1 or

25:49

2 cups in March because there's 2

25:51

that are very close to

25:53

me in March. And I'll probably if I go to 2,

25:55

I'll probably just play Guardian 1 and TeeNet

25:57

1. Split

26:00

the difference.

26:01

Well,

26:04

Oh, dude. I'm looking at Twitter, man. Liam

26:06

Liam Williams dropped his his take on the worlds

26:09

thing. It's basically the same as mine. Who

26:11

cares where worlds is you degens are

26:14

going to book Thursday to Sunday and aren't going

26:16

to do anything except walk back and forth from

26:18

hotel to convention center?

26:21

That is a pro that's an accurate

26:23

take for 98 percent of

26:26

the people that attend worlds.

26:28

Oh, I hey. I I mean, I think I just said

26:30

he he could say it's degenerate, but, like, that's

26:32

my goal, man. Like, the last

26:34

That's the

26:34

had to book a whole vacation. didn't

26:38

wanna be doing that. But

26:40

now I can just Book Thursday

26:43

to Sunday and, like, declare

26:45

victory and feel like it was totally

26:47

fine. It's

26:49

gonna be amazing. It's

26:51

not gonna be the center of my entire

26:53

summer. It's just gonna be 1 of the things

26:56

I did this summer. And it's gonna

26:58

be such a welcome change from

27:00

all the prior world championships. Absolutely

27:03

goated. Absolutely goated. Those

27:06

Let's talk a little bit about, the

27:09

the general meta game and some results

27:11

and tournaments coming up

27:13

as well. So we had The

27:15

Dortmund Regional Championship this past weekend

27:18

second biggest in Europe,

27:21

I believe, just just under

27:23

Liverpool, Had over 1300

27:26

masters. Owen

27:28

cameraman, the other cameraman got

27:30

first place With Chi and Pao Chi and Pao

27:32

taking its first big dub of

27:34

the Paradox format and maybe

27:37

just ever. I don't think it

27:39

won an event before Paradox came out.

27:42

And Goldango coming in

27:44

second place. So

27:46

the final was Pretty cool. I don't

27:48

know if you guys watched the tournament at all. I watched a decent

27:50

amount. The final was decent

27:53

final. I think Owen made a

27:55

a mistake at some point, but was not punished.

27:58

There's probably more mistakes than that, but there

28:00

was 1 obvious 1. And then

28:02

other than that, I

28:04

think Garde had a really good tournament overall.

28:07

3 made top 8. Yeah.

28:10

how how often do you think regional champions

28:12

get described as the other something?

28:17

That's it's also unfair to

28:20

call Owen the other Cameron. They've

28:22

both had pretty similar levels

28:24

of success. Brendan just

28:26

much more recent has had a lot more.

28:29

Yeah.

28:29

mean, I you know, Liam, I could tell you the answer

28:31

to that question, and and it's related to

28:33

another question. Will there ever be a

28:35

time that people will say, Alex

28:37

Szymanski is not the worst Szymanski? What

28:42

what

28:42

Dude, it's like the I assume that happened

28:44

at some point with, like, the Shemanskys and the stable

28:46

houses or something, But maybe

28:50

not. I don't know. Before my time, I guess.

28:54

There there's there's no question that that is

28:56

a that is a thing. Right? I

28:58

mean, Alex, for all

29:01

his success, is will

29:03

will be the least well known Shevansky

29:06

almost no matter what he does.

29:08

I bet I, you know, I bet

29:11

When Ryan Sablehouse won his first

29:13

regional, he was probably described as

29:15

the other Sablehouse. Kyle

29:18

was a bigger name at first

29:20

Really? Yeah. I mean, I guess

29:21

Yeah.

29:23

he's the elder. he's He's

29:24

He's the elder. Mhmm.

29:27

Did they start as juniors? They strike me as

29:29

people that started when they were, like, 6 years old.

29:34

Yeah. They started right around the same time I did.

29:36

Maybe a year later or something

29:38

like that. Maybe not even. And Kyle

29:40

is just under

29:43

me. Like, I think he's 1 year younger than me,

29:45

something like that. So, yeah, they they

29:48

they started as, If not

29:50

juniors, then definitely seniors.

29:52

Yeah. Yeah. I don't I don't think I've seen pictures of

29:54

them as, like, adorable children playing Pokemon,

29:56

but those must exist somewhere.

29:59

Did you guy did you did you watch? Oh, no.

30:01

You guys were probably busy at these challenges

30:03

and cups that you didn't really watch.

30:07

I I was watching it a little bit at the

30:09

challenges and cups.

30:10

Okay. Yeah. There's

30:12

there's definitely some good games.

30:14

Dude, I also was able to catch what was it?

30:17

The the first, like, round or 2 of day 1,

30:19

Friday night. Or I guess it would

30:22

be Saturday morning, but it felt like

30:23

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Right.

30:27

My father's here.

30:29

The 1 of the highlights of the stream for me

30:31

was Top 8 was

30:33

Benji Pham, who's a friend, versus

30:36

James Cox. And it was the Tina verse guardian

30:38

mashup, so always always interesting. But

30:41

Benji tweeted out before Liverpool,

30:45

he played Giratina as well there, that

30:47

his main preparation was watching James

30:50

Cox videos about Giratina.

30:53

So the fact that they played in top 8

30:55

was really funny. And then Benji Benji did

30:57

win. James James

31:00

had some rough draws on stream.

31:02

He was on stream twice and like, I think

31:04

like 3 out of 5 games

31:06

just completely bricked. So

31:11

Liam, we had some Snorlax Pidgeotts do

31:13

well. There is 1 that made top

31:15

16, and then Crimasoli was

31:17

seventeenth, so just out of top 16.

31:19

Did you get to look at those lists at all?

31:21

I did. It's it's absolutely

31:23

shocking how much that list is evolving.

31:25

And I think it's, like, I think it's actually

31:28

1 of the, like, much stronger decks in format in

31:30

the format right now. When I think when people look back at

31:32

the format, they'll say, like, oh, man. That was, like,

31:34

If not the deck, like, that was a really good

31:37

deck that, like, I regret not playing at some point.

31:41

But, like, At the same time, there's

31:43

not there's not a lot of consensus on list.

31:46

It, like, changes a lot with every event

31:48

which is pretty interesting. But,

31:50

yeah, nothing too crazy about either of the list.

31:53

it because people are trying to adapt it to the meta?

31:55

Like, I didn't look at what the changes are. Or or

31:57

is it just, like, People feel differently

31:59

about what the best plays are what the best cards are.

32:03

I think everybody's just trying different junk

32:06

for Tina and, like, ending

32:08

up on, like, different

32:11

different kind of attempts. Yeah.

32:14

Yeah. So, like, Max, who got

32:16

fourteenth, he played Bouffalant As

32:19

presumably, that's kinda like

32:21

Yeah. As for Tina.

32:23

yeah. For Tina to help get

32:25

rid of some energy. There's nothing

32:27

really in the list besides that

32:29

that kind of packages well

32:32

Yeah. No. I

32:33

at least nothing, like, jumps out. And

32:36

then Krimasoli had the fire package. She had

32:38

the radiant sard.

32:40

Yeah.

32:42

And choice spell

32:44

And how do you feel about those choices, Liam?

32:47

The radiant sword?

32:49

Yeah.

32:50

That that's that's what I put. I

32:54

like the buffoon, personally, but,

32:58

yeah, Alessandro really likes the The Charizard,

33:00

and that's what I played too. The Charizard's better,

33:02

I think, in a Roaring Moon meta. Like, I think

33:04

the Buffa one's better as

33:06

tech, Christina, and as, like, a general general

33:09

card because it just it helps you deal

33:11

with slow roll strats, like, a little bit more proactively.

33:14

But, yeah, the the radiant side's really

33:17

good against Roaring Man. So I go with

33:19

the RadianceR package, like, in a heartbeat right now.

33:22

is why people just said pod right there. Somewhat

33:25

related note I saw Sander

33:28

tweet he's back for EUIC.

33:31

Oh, yeah. He was tweeting out some some

33:33

combos. I didn't really look too deep

33:35

into them, but I'm sure I'm sure

33:37

you did, Liam.

33:40

No. I don't I don't look into stuff Too

33:42

far because I have another event in Peltan. Fates.

33:44

Well, I mean, like, of course, I looked at them. I didn't really

33:46

think about them. And I always think, like, they're

33:48

obviously interesting Tools

33:52

to keep in mind. And that means I'm

33:54

gonna forget about them because I

33:56

Sandra literally tweeted out the before,

33:59

I think, EIC last year. It was, like, a few

34:01

months before. Obviously,

34:04

never considered it before EIC, and then he

34:06

showed up and did, like, pretty well at

34:09

UIC with it. That

34:11

only happened, like, once, but

34:13

it happened. And that means I'll it'll probably

34:16

happen again. We'll probably forget

34:18

about this. Sandra will do all of that at some point

34:20

maybe. But, yeah,

34:22

I mean, it's like, Nobody's

34:25

actually played any games in the meta except

34:27

for people in Japan, I think.

34:30

So, like, There's

34:32

it it's impossible to make any conclusions about

34:34

what's good or bad right now, especially for

34:36

something, like, as, like, anti met as that.

34:39

Sure. Speaking of which,

34:41

real quick shout out. There is the

34:43

first big event

34:46

in the temporal forces Says format

34:48

in Japan happening this weekend,

34:50

1 of the champions leagues. I believe Azul

34:53

will probably be streaming

34:55

it. So I'll

34:58

probably try to watch a little bit of that. Should

35:01

be good. What

35:04

else from Dortmund interested

35:06

me? There was a dude

35:08

that went 9 0 in day 1. He

35:10

was playing Ante Valiant, and then day 2,

35:13

he went o 5

35:15

and 1.

35:17

Jesus.

35:17

did not see that, but I love it.

35:21

Would you rather that or Pedro's

35:24

5 0 4 0 0 6?

35:26

5 0 4 to 5 0 10.

35:28

Yeah.

35:29

that is an amazing accomplishment.

35:33

Let's see. Who finished? Who finished higher?

35:35

The other guy finished higher. I

35:37

guess that makes sense. 9 wins is better

35:39

than 5 wins. Yeah.

35:42

That's funny. Charizard

35:44

had a better weekend than it did

35:47

last weekend, but still not great. 2 in

35:49

top 16. None in top 8.

35:51

Well, there was oh,

35:53

no. No. No. The the top 4 was a a.

35:56

right. Yeah.

35:58

Yeah. So 2 charizards in top 16.

36:00

Otherwise, didn't do super great.

36:02

Couple in top 32. But you had Robin

36:04

Schultz playing it. Oh, no. No. Robin played

36:06

something else actually this time. Robin played

36:09

La Sablezard. I assume Stephane

36:11

still played Charizard. I

36:14

don't even see him on here, actually. Oh, no.

36:16

There he is. No. He played guardian. Okay. Never mind.

36:18

None of the good players none of the very, very

36:20

top players played Charizard.

36:22

So any conclusions about how

36:24

you would think about Vancouver from this?

36:29

Right. I think, like, Guardian's back

36:31

on the radar as tier

36:35

1.

36:36

Dude, anybody who had it who dropped

36:38

it off of, like, tier 1

36:40

like, any dropped it off of The

36:42

tier under LaSantina ever,

36:45

Yeah.

36:46

massive mistake. Never do that.

36:48

Garde's, like, always been tier 1 or tier

36:50

s tier major contender every

36:52

single event.

36:53

Mhmm.

36:54

Yes. Just because Isaiah Bradner will beat you

36:56

does not send you justify the deck.

37:01

Like, I wonder how cyclical it's gonna get.

37:03

I mean, we only have the 1 Or

37:05

maybe there's there's 1 there's Vancouver,

37:07

and I think there's 1 more European event. Like,

37:09

Miraidon is great against most

37:13

of this topic. Like, it's very

37:15

good against Jian Pao. It's great against Gaarde.

37:18

It's fine against Tina. It's

37:20

not great against Tina, but it's fine. So

37:23

I don't know. Baradon could see a resurgence

37:26

if Charizard is Gonna go down.

37:28

But Charizard was still the most popular deck day 1,

37:30

so

37:30

Ryan. It's such a terrible deck to play, though, bro.

37:33

Yeah. Yeah. The problem is you would have to play Miraidon.

37:36

Yeah.

37:37

And I know I know we've officially, like,

37:39

I think Concluded we have to stop the Marietta

37:41

and slander because Marietta is not too well at tournaments.

37:44

No. Yeah. Like, absolutely, man. People just

37:47

scared around the deck, but

37:51

But

37:51

the same time, you also have to, like, factor

37:55

in a debuff, of course, for all these

37:57

kinds of decks. Every every deck actually has a

37:59

debuff except for, like, the decks I pick because I always pick

38:01

the good decks, bro. But, like

38:04

yeah, man. Every other deck just has has something

38:06

going on that is, like, It

38:08

just doesn't work the way that you think it will.

38:12

Something else I was thinking about is

38:14

I think 1 of the top 8

38:16

Gardevoirs played Moonlit Hill. I

38:18

think Gabe did, And then James

38:20

and Rowan did not play it. I

38:22

haven't played too many games with it

38:24

just a couple on live. It seems

38:26

okay to me. You you would

38:28

drop it you drop the vacuum for it. That would

38:30

kinda be the spot. And you can more realistically

38:33

play without Cresselia If

38:36

you play Moonlit Hill so I guess that's kind of a question.

38:38

Like, how big does Moonlit Hill get in Garde?

38:41

I don't know if it really affects any of anything

38:43

really besides the Garde player's

38:45

choice. I don't think it, like, affects other peep

38:48

other players' choices when they're playing against Garde,

38:50

but that'll kind of be interesting to see.

38:54

And then I don't know if anybody played that

38:56

the the new TM. Did

38:58

the top 4 people person play it play

39:00

it? No.

39:03

Nope. The guy that got the guy that got top 4

39:05

with the Sablezard just play

39:08

Brendan Cameron's same 60

39:10

from

39:11

Jeez.

39:13

So

39:14

Yeah.

39:15

So I assumed, like, that that new TM

39:18

got played somewhere, but

39:20

Yeah. I know I know somebody made a post with, like,

39:22

all the new cards that have, like, limitless

39:24

pages or whatever, and and t m was

39:26

on there.

39:27

Okay. Let's see. I'm gonna look it up real quick.

39:30

What does that team do? Again, remind me give give

39:32

us the name and the ability because or the attack.

39:34

Because I remember thinking

39:36

I

39:36

crisis punch. So TM

39:39

TM crisis punch for 3 colorless Does

39:41

280 damage, but you can only use it when

39:43

your opponent has 1 prize card.

39:46

So every single deck

39:48

that played it That made day 2 at Dortmund

39:50

was a boss box deck.

39:52

So they can use Cramorant to just attack

39:55

for free with it. So at the end of the game,

39:57

you can do 2 80 for free. It

39:59

feels a little weird. Like, half of them were

40:03

Charizard lost box, Sabalsard, and

40:05

the other half were not. It

40:07

feels kinda weird in the Charizard version, though.

40:09

Right? Because Charizard is already basically

40:12

doing that. So

40:14

it feels like kinda just like a wasted

40:16

spot. But I but in the notar

40:18

as our deck, it seems good because you

40:21

can you can have that big 2 80 finisher

40:23

at the very end of the game. You just gotta make sure

40:25

you're that you force your opponent to 1

40:27

prize.

40:30

Yeah.

40:32

I like it.

40:34

Yeah. Seems cool.

40:38

Might need to play town store to, like,

40:40

really consistently get it off at

40:42

the end of the game because, like, pretty easy to just get IO

40:44

node out of it, But seems

40:47

cool.

40:48

don't know, dude. You could probably just rip it. It's

40:52

all the Kyogre players do anyway. So,

40:56

Once you start with the assumption that that it's

40:58

just gonna happen, then you can just

41:00

actualize success.

41:03

I guess the Kyrieger players are playing for for, like,

41:05

3 turns.

41:07

I wanna shout out the Secooms,

41:10

Ferris and Sami Sekoum, they both

41:12

made day 2. Ferris made

41:16

top 32. Sami, like, 80

41:18

something. But if you

41:20

guys don't know, Sammy Seguem is 1 of the

41:22

the greats of the game. I think he

41:24

has the most worlds top eights of

41:26

maybe any player In the history of

41:29

the game, not a hundred percent sure on that, but

41:31

he's at least, like, top 3, if not number

41:33

1. And he's been playing a little bit

41:35

again. He Qualified for worlds last year. Didn't

41:38

do very well, but he's kinda back

41:40

in Ferris. This is his little brother who

41:42

has also Been playing again

41:44

since COVID, so good

41:47

stuff to them. And

41:49

then your your boy,

41:53

Mateus, played Bennett, Liam.

41:55

Yeah.

41:56

Is there anything to say about that? Like

41:58

like, are I I mean, I guess people are

42:01

gonna say, oh, I guess I should maybe play

42:03

Banette at the next tournament. Is

42:05

that is that a thing people will say?

42:07

And what do you have to say to those

42:08

No. No. Like,

42:10

no nobody Nobody's actually gonna

42:13

respect the deck and

42:15

never do.

42:17

Is it something you would consider playing

42:19

for Vancouver?

42:19

Obviously, the question is, are people gonna say I

42:21

should play it because nobody respects it?

42:24

Yeah. I'm considering that for sure.

42:27

Was there anything, like, crazy new in this?

42:29

I mean, he got Turo. We already knew Turo was

42:32

Yeah. Counter

42:33

Counter catcher. Okay. Did he have the shoes

42:36

before? The shoes look new.

42:37

No.

42:40

Yeah. He's got 4 shoes. This, like, this

42:42

list is very, it's,

42:45

like, not checked out really at all,

42:47

I would

42:48

Yeah. That's good.

42:49

straightforward.

42:50

you get the you have counter catcher and Turo

42:52

now, so you can make the deck like way more lean. Like,

42:54

my Pittsburgh list played Cheryl and

42:56

Penny, And Turo is just, like,

42:58

both of

42:59

of them.

43:00

So, like, yeah. Yeah. Turo is just, like, an amazing

43:02

card. The other card that Matias isn't

43:04

playing that I I kinda like from I

43:06

don't know if it was Paradox. I think it was. But

43:08

it definitely wasn't out for, like yeah.

43:10

So it definitely had to be Paradox. But

43:13

the other card that we got from Paradox was Defines Fest,

43:16

which I think is, like, kind of cool. It lets you

43:19

survive Athena which is really good.

43:24

And then yeah. So Turo,

43:26

counter catcher, defiance best, all make

43:28

the deck, like, much better, I think.

43:30

Yeah. Makes sense. We still

43:32

had the Dreepy.

43:34

Yeah.

43:35

Seems good.

43:36

yeah. And the deck deck seems, like, much

43:39

Well, like, I wouldn't say it's much

43:41

better because, you know, you have to be careful not to over

43:43

index on these because they they definitely aren't

43:45

going to see, like, that much play, I think which is Chenpal

43:47

and Goldengo. But at the

43:49

same time, there's it's pretty easy to pick

43:51

up a deck that gets absolutely bodied

43:54

by both of those. And

43:56

losing to the decks that got 1 and 2 at the last

43:58

regional is not, like, something

44:00

I wanna do. So, you know, playing

44:02

the net seems kinda good in the to those.

44:05

Yeah. He lost

44:07

just for reference, he lost to 1

44:10

Tina, but he beat a couple others.

44:13

He lost to a Miraidon and

44:15

beat a Miraidon, Beat

44:17

2 other Maradans, and then he lost

44:20

to both Gardevoirs that he played, which I

44:22

feel like that makes sense.

44:23

Yeah, dude. But

44:27

that always seems so much better than it actually is

44:29

because, like or no. I mean,

44:34

I mean, you get a pretty big

44:35

somewhere in the middle of being

44:36

you. Right?

44:37

sorry? Yeah.

44:38

get a pretty big buff with people misplaying

44:41

against you.

44:41

Yeah. It's I always

44:44

I I like Bennett as more

44:46

of, like, a lock deck. Matheus

44:48

is obviously more aggressive. But

44:50

I always yeah, man. I always think the deck

44:52

is, like, way better if it's

44:54

in, like you know, If it's if

44:57

you cut all the consistency for tech cards, I think

44:59

it's really good. And then if you if you

45:01

play all the consistency, I always think it's, like, really

45:03

bad because none of your match It's, like, like,

45:05

work anymore. And Mathias'

45:07

list is, like, super consistent. He's obviously playing 4

45:09

shoes, and he's not playing, like, any of the techs that you

45:11

could play. Like, 1 of the more,

45:14

like, well known ones is, like, SpideOps, which

45:16

just, like, makes a lot of your matchups

45:18

a lot better if you can get it out and

45:20

still hit everything else you need. But

45:26

what is that? Yeah. It's, like,

45:28

somewhere in the middle because your opponents also do

45:30

play a lot against you. So, like, if

45:32

you're playing the, like, super consistent version,

45:35

it's, like, better than the

45:37

really bad that it should be. If

45:39

you're playing the really teched out version, it's worse

45:41

than the, like, really good that it, like,

45:43

should be if you assume your deck functions

45:47

because it doesn't really. But I

45:49

like it anyway because, you know, I have

45:51

a good plan. Absolute

45:54

like, I don't even wanna say

45:56

that because, you know, I'm the biggest advocate

45:58

for playing more consistency cards. That's, like, the number

46:00

1 mistake every new player makes is they

46:02

fill their deck with decks. But, Yeah.

46:05

I mean, when it comes to playing really slow

46:07

decks, not having the text to

46:09

win games if your opponent knows what they're doing,

46:12

so you end up losing, like, a hundred percent

46:14

of your games is, like, Pretty brutal, man.

46:17

Yeah.

46:18

Let's see. Mhmm.

46:21

Alright. I think that's all the interesting

46:23

stuff I had from Dortmund.

46:26

Yeah. Is there anything to say about EUIC registration?

46:28

Do you think E Y C is gonna be scaled for

46:30

a million people, or or do you think people

46:33

are gonna be sad? What's

46:35

the over under on that?

46:36

I say it fills up in 2 minutes. That's

46:39

my

46:39

Really?

46:40

I I I think they're gonna actually give us, like,

46:42

a lot of space, like, 2000 spots or something,

46:44

And it's still gonna fill up in, like, 2 seconds.

46:47

I mean, Liam, I I I'm sure you saw

46:50

registrations opens at, like, 2

46:52

PM on a school day. Let

46:55

me know how that works out for you.

46:57

Don't worry. It's English class for you. My

46:59

my English class is late.

47:02

And then the second 1 is in the middle of

47:04

the night for eastern.

47:08

It's it's crazy times, people.

47:10

Yeah.

47:11

Alright, guys. Hey. the John Pauls are our

47:13

outro. We'll be back next week

47:15

with How Mike's league cup went.