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Worlds 2025 Activities and Side Events Announced, Including First-Ever “Pocket” Championship!
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I mean, why would they be?
Don't understand why there is no single battle tournament at Worlds after all these years...
Interesting and somewhat odd that they now have a sisterhood league. Cool that they are acknowledging it but it’s weird they are mentioning that it is a safe space (somewhat meaning that everything else isnt). It’s nice though that it is an official thing now.
If you want singles go to GO
You have to realize for a long time this kind of events are male-dominated because for a very long time were not seen as a place/hobby for women. High competitivy and toxic behaivour can gatekeep a lot of people out of the game. Pokemon has gone a looong way, now values and perception have changed (from the early 2000's until now) and TPCi has a lot of non-discrimination clauses in their Core Values. Generally all pokemon events I've went were safe spaces but table dynamics change when all people playing are women/queer.
You wanna see more people at your locals? These are the correct steps, specially in the waves of current social political misoginy/transphobia, let them bloom and enjoy it, and also I reccomend to any woman or store owner reading this, try to do some activities like this in your community, they have increased the playerbase A LOT in here because this kind of events give a blank slate to any woman curious with the game. I still read transphobia in every twitch chat during the events and makes sad as hell, even when specifically this community is more queer friendly than others
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What is GO ?
Pokemon GO. Still the bring 6 use 3 singles format. Doing singles in the VGC cuts a lot of the deep dynamics, GO can use singles because short battles and quick switches
Ah yes I see. I don't want anything to do with GO though. I want VGC single battles
To be fair, Pokémon balances their game design around VGC these days, and as a result, singles has to deal with things like Adaptability Basculegion, a sweeper who leaves no survivors thanks to its Last Respects boasting a base power of 600 after your teammates are gone. There would probably need to be bans.
sisterhood groups are critical to the health and expansion of any community, especially for ones very masculine in population. it creates a comfortable space for women/feminine-leaning/nonbinary persons to play among people of their demographic. while the pokemon community tends to be more open and accepting of LGBT+ and women in the space, there's a lot of very negative influences within it (like niel patel in VGC, who posed as a teen girl in a tournament for a joke, and held transphobic views; it was his loss at a tournament to an amoonguss that started the Amoonguss Trans Rights memes), even at an official level (such as the judge two years ago who stalked a group of trans women/nonbinary people out of the venue to a private dinner).
as a trans man in the competitive community, i see (and face, though differently) the pain that these women and nonbinary folks go through all the time. they frequently recount the fresh, painful encounters they face when they're just there to press buttons or play cards. they deserve their own dedicated spaces and to know that they're among people who understand them. they deserve to know that there's an official capacity to welcome them and get them engaged in the community just as much as anyone else. even when the dust settles and TPCi punishes the bad actors, it's necessary for them (and any community!) to follow it up with further support for marginalized groups to help them regain a sense of trust and safety that they can be in these spaces, that they belong.
(and just in case, i don't read any malice in your message. i think you pose a perfectly valid question and it opens up a good venue for discussion.)
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Very sure Showdown is unofficial, Nuzlock(e) would take too long.
Mate what are you on about Unlisted Leaf’s Card Party?? That’s just like…a card convention? Also, correct me if im wrong…didnt DPM (deep pocket monster) start Card Party and not unlisted leaf?
Yeah, unfortunately the official Twitch chats are awful. It's one of the main reasons I love Azul's restreams, in addition to his higher-level commentary.
Misogyny is very rampant in every male dominated hobby and Pokemon is definitely no different, and it can make women feel uncomfortable or unsafe. Having something marketed towards them as a space where you are "okay" despite being a woman is very important especially for newer players who want to enter the hobby without having nasty comments flung at them just for their gender
Well, not really the First-Ever "Pocket" Championship, cause it was already tested during the Stockholm Regionals this March, with the exact same Double Deck format. It wasn't the most popular side event tho - with total of 4 players.. I'm guessing it will manage to gather more people this time, especially since it's been already announced.