In the distant future, a diabolical villain is sent to Earth to kill the Pokémon TCG with a sneaky 3-part plan: 1. Eliminate local events 2. Make regionals unaffordable 3. Deter new players from joining 😈😈😈

BREAKING: Pokémon Regionals entrance fees are plummeting! Is the game finally dead? 📉

Last tournament before Lost Origin, so I had to run it back with my favorite deck in Baltimore. Day 2 didn’t go great, but still made some new friends and had lots of fun. Giratina officially kills this deck, but Pikachu will be flying in my heart forever. 🐭⚡️🎈84/1,088, 140 CP

Players 10 years ago used to drop at 5-0 at U.S. Nationals to protect their ELO for Worlds. They would forego a great chance to top Nats just to *play* at Worlds. Now we have people pretending like “making Worlds” isn’t the ultimate goal of playing Pokémon for MANY players. 😵‍💫

MFW I leave for Peoria Regionals in two days but half the cards I ordered still haven’t arrived 😨

0-2 start hitting Phinn Daniel Lynch and Rahul Reddy (レッディー ラフ-ル) in the first two rounds. The deck is good, but playing two mirrors and prizing a bit poorly is bad. Also could’ve played better in one of the games. Still a fighting chance though!

Pokémon Drinking Card Game 🍻

I guess testing for LAIC is going pretty well 😅

It's Pokemon not Pokeman.

I got 14th at San Diego regionals! Can’t complain at all given I played a suboptimal list because I found out decklists were due early while on the plane. 🙃 Regieleki is the best Regi because we have the same skin color. ⚡️ 330/500 CP toward Yokohama!

To whoever at Team Northwest that insists on making decklists due 8pm the night before Regionals, please stop hurting me. 🥲

I’ve played in hundreds of Pokémon tournaments in my life. Please, Play Pokémon, stop this “decklists due the night before” nonsense. Some of us have to travel on Friday to get to your tournaments. 🙃

As promised, I wrote an ~800 word e-mail/essay to Play Pokémon 📍 NAIC. I’m cautiously optimistic that they actually care about the player experience, so we’ll see. Fingers crossed. 🤞

I hope it isn’t lost on you that 17 hours later, not only did your tweet get ratioed, *every* single comment so far is in support of Saturday morning decklist submission. Please do right by your players Team Northwest 🙏

How it started How it’s going

Giving my AzulGG cosplay another go to crush Regan Retzloff in OCIC finals prep. I can’t believe I’m missing the Australia casino party to play *more* Pokémon with this ungrateful child. 😡

9th place at Oceania Internationals with Rahul Reddy (レッディー ラフ-ル)’s exact list! Shoutout also to Regan Retzloff for beating the crap out of me in testing to force me back to Regis. Australia was amazing as always and I can’t wait to be back. Oh, and I got my Worlds invite! 530/500 CP 🇦🇺🦘🌏

I made day 2 at the World Championships after finishing 6-1 with Mew! 🏆 I’m so excited to be competing and representing the US (and Taiwan) in tomorrow’s main event. Wish me luck! 🇺🇸🇹🇼

Made day 2 at EUIC with this cute orange dinosaur 🦖 This gives me enough points to qualify for Worlds! 615/600, see everyone in Honolulu 🏝️

It has been a long wait, but... Betty and I are on episode 6 of Trainer Tour! 😃 We had a great time and played some Pokemon, so please check it out on Prime Video. Shoutout to Andrew Mahone and Meghan Camarena for being amazing hosts. See everyone at Worlds in 2 weeks! #PlayPokemon