I have been thinking about this for the last 30 hours and need some advice.
I want to receive an invite to Pokémon Worlds in London next year.
I recently graduated college and have a lot of spare time on my hands. I love the TCG and want to go big or go home. I’ve never immersed myself in the local leagues, etc… but I’m an avid player of the game and would relish an opportunity to receive an invitation (not to mention a nice side-trip to Europe with my wife.)
Anyways, my question: On a scale of 1-10, how difficult is this to achieve? I hear it requires at least 500 Championship Points (Masters Division). I’m not really sure what that means but people in South Africa only need like 200.
I am by no means an 18 year old kid who stays up at night wondering how many fairy energies should be in his deck, or who is a wizard shuffling his deck in .0004 nanoseconds.
Does anyone have any experience with getting to worlds? And if so, how did you pull it off?
Another reason of going would obviously be to join y’all and be in the E4 community. I just think being a player on that stage would feel like MJ in the finals. Anyways, comment away!
I think it will be difficult, but go for it! Get into good habits that will increase your ability to play from even or unfavorable positions, because that’s where you’ll learn the most.
It is difficult but definitely do-able!
Especially now since rotation has hit, everyone will basically be starting over from scratch anyways both for VGC in November and then for TCG when the newest sets come out!
If you can’t get an invite the other thing that you can do is sign up for the open tournament that happens at worlds.
At the very least create a personal thread and keep us up to date on the progress; It’ll be a journey worth recording!
Last year, we had somebody (I believe from Germany) on this forum (the name completely escapes me; I’m sorry) writing down the progress for the TCG-journey as well. I always found it exciting to read those posts.
Just go for it and see how far you’ll get! Good luck!
I am also attempting next year, World’s being in London is just too good of an opportunity to try make a dream come true for me.
League Cups hield 50 poinds, Challenge hield 15. Then you have regionals and international/continental that hield more (don’t know for sure).
Practice practice practice. Try to learn and understand the meta. Go for tier 1 decks and then tech them to matchups you find harder. Then practice some more
Maybe we will all compete against each other, and that would be amazing!
It’s difficult to achieve because it requires a year of somewhat consistent effort. I usually do one of the first regionals tourneys and then decide if I am capable of keeping with it. League cups will be your bread and butter so be sure to have those dates saved and be aware of quarterly point limits. Let me know if you’re planning on going to Atlantic City, it would be great to see another E4 member.
