A delightfully more accurate description of events, however it does not correlate to what you said previously:
What this comes across as: "He got disqualified because his deck was legal and his deck list was illegal."
As opposed to: "He got disqualified for deliberately altering his deck after...
I think I'm gonna need this clearing up:
If he's getting a DQ for a legal deck illegal deck list, why would it go to basic energies? He's just been kicked out of the tournament.
Brushing aside the first question - If the deck list was amended to include 4 extra energies, how does switching...
As delightful as that would be - It would royally screw up everyone's resistance and thus would've resulted in different pairings in retrospect. There's no way that would be fair on the other players.
I am surprised you are asking this considering the scenario you have described. Whether the incomplete decklist was a mistake or not, when it was corrected he literally went out of his way to deceive everyone. This isn't something you can attribute to any form of misinterpretation. Of course the...
Oh well, these things sadly do happen, whether it was simply a mix of misreading and wishful nostalgia or simply an attempt to grab views. Especially if the site is more popular than yours these things can spread very far very fast.
At least they added the é in Pokémon* (as well as the majority...