What do you think about Young TCG players?

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I don't mind them, I just usually don't battle them.

What does annoy me is that they don't pay attention to the game. And that I have to explain EVERYTHING, especially with my habit of using complicated decks.

Kid: What now?
Me: *Sigh* I poisoned Mightyena with Poison Structure on Skuntank since I have BTS in play, which activates it's Cold Feet Pokebody which lets me attack for no energy and since I have an Expert Belt in play and Buck's I do 110 damage.
Kid: OK...my turn...
Me: I already won.
Kid: What?
Me: ...*Repeats everything all over again, slower*
 
GHJamesGH said:
I love them because they make aweful trades. RH Claydol for Blastoise PL FTW!
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Well IMO that's just being mean and taking advantage of the kdis to rip them of...
 
Well sometimes I get good trades off of new players, but if that's the card they want, it's what they want, and if it's what I want, it's what I want. What am I supposed to say, "No, you can't have the card you're desperate for, and I can't have the card I'm desperate for?"

But I never try and rip them off. I've been ripped off before (Actually they tried :p) and not even they fall for it, unless you threaten to kill them or something.

So overall it's not really mean to trade them something they want, but it's mean to pure pressure them.
 
So its ok as long as you don't get any chance to make it upto them, well aren't you such a kind caring individual, the only virtuous point is the fact that PL Blastoise isn't a bad card
 
Actually, I was a junior last year so I know how it feels. I remember my first (and only) league day. My dad never took me anywhere ever again because some creepy old guys were playing Yugioh and they were braging about how much money they spent on cards. I wish I could go again... Remember kids, make sure that your organizer is only hosting Pokemon so that it is an environment that is "kid friendly"

Alexmon
 
Dr.empoleon said:
Sorry but that post makes you seem like a bad sport. You know, Do you want the game to continue? If so then why not Spend your time HELPING them, Rather then complaining about them in a pokemon friendly forum! and helping them would obviously show that you do care about the game, and im guessing your leauge leader will commend you on it.

Help the new kids!

don't hate on em!
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I'm bad at teaching.
And most of them wouldn't listen to me, they would be planning to trade cards that they don't need.

Ophie said:
I'd also like to say that some parents are either incredibly busy and don't have time to teach the kids how to play, are not interested enough in what their kids are doing to teach them how to play, or are for one reason or another unabe to understand the rules (such as them not speaking English). Sounds like some of you here have some very attentive parents who will take a lot of their time and get themselves involved in what you are doing.

Not all parents are like that, and not all can be like that. It all comes down to the jobs they have and the style of parenting they have, and how they lived earlier in their lives.

I had a friend in high school, for instance, whose parents can only speak Spanish. (He can speak English fine though.) They are also so busy that he had to take care of school-related matters as his parents were always running around because of their jobs. They care about him deeply, but they know there is only so much they could help him with. He doesn't play the Pokémon TCG, but if he did, he would have had to learn entirely without parental help. (He's smart though, so he likely wouldn't need parental help in the first place.)

Really, a lot of families have both parents working 8 hours per day every day of the week, maybe except Sundays, which they use their reduced hours to relax. This means the kids are left to their own devices most of the time, and in turn, this means the parents need to find something, anything, to occupy the kids. Pokémon League happens to be one of them, and the same goes for Pokémon card tournaments that happen to be in the area.

I like that there are kids at my local Pokémon League, and if one has trouble, I will help them learn to play the game as I enjoy helping people. In addition to there being new blood to keep the game alive, and that they're there to have fun, there is one more beneficial thing to being here: They are here to have fun, and you can be thankful they're not spending their time having fun in more destructive ways. I don't know about other places, but here in Los Angeles, gang culture is strong. At my middle school, most of the kids wanted to join gangs to beat up cops and spray graffiti and all that. That's because these kids never found a hobby or something they truly have fun doing. The kids going to Pokémon League and these tournaments have found an outlet that doesn't inflict harm or is illegal in any way. If you react hostilely to these kids, you may scare them off and send them on a slippery slope. Every kid in your Pokémon League is one fewer kid being taught how to smoke by his older friends. (My father used to run a liquor store, and this was a common problem.)
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Then the parents could assign the kid to read the rulebooks while they can. It's not like the kids have any work to do.

Tyraniking said:
I don't mind them, I just usually don't battle them.

What does annoy me is that they don't pay attention to the game. And that I have to explain EVERYTHING, especially with my habit of using complicated decks.

Kid: What now?
Me: *Sigh* I poisoned Mightyena with Poison Structure on Skuntank since I have BTS in play, which activates it's Cold Feet Pokebody which lets me attack for no energy and since I have an Expert Belt in play and Buck's I do 110 damage.
Kid: OK...my turn...
Me: I already won.
Kid: What?
Me: ...*Repeats everything all over again, slower*
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Exactly what happens to me.
One of them asks if it is his turn yet, when I had just started my turn.
It gets really annoying when they are talking to their other friends while I am close to winning.
 
The only thing that gets to me is when someone tries and tries again to trade their entire dog eared common collection for your TSD. Other than that I can't stand the kids who are clearly insane, I donked a guy at my MD prerelease and he threw a deck box at me while I was collecting my prize at the end. I swear if the TO wasn't there I'd have gone for him :p Then again I play warhammer too and there's always a few psychos in Games Workshop.
 
I'll leave this open for more discussion.

dmaster out.
 
Ugh.

The kids at my league know very little about Pokemon. When I started to play, I read all the rules and asked many questions, so I didn't get in trouble. If the kids at my league would sit down and read the rules, maybe I would play them more often. That's not what bugs me though. The kids that know nothing, act like they know everything. They make up false rules to hide their mistakes, and they get very braggy if they win. Not just excited, "Look, I won!" but", "Ha ha! You lost! Hey, look how I won!" Even if you get a fluke hand, they still rub it in your face. That's why I don't play them any more. The only problem is, is that my league is infested with kids who are just starting, and know nothing. It's very vexing...
 
Well I also have respect for some juniors. I got severely PWNT by some kid after my last prerelease. I swear his deck speed was insane, or it could be that I'm still playing an ancient gallade deck :p
 
Last time, there were some new kids on a league I sometimes go to, and I was asked to teach them some stuff. They were actually more fun to play with than some of the more experienced players, who are very likely to disregard normal conversation and speak only in #MIND HAX. So yeah, it´s fun, but the games you play with them are not very educational, since they often make strange choices a Master would not normally make. Still, it´s good way to spend the time nonetheless.
 
err... dude... Pokemon is meant to be a game for kids. deal with it.... not all kids are stupid. and pokemon leagues are so you can learn how to play and get better. i'm sure that at some point you weren't too good at the game either....
 
I'm mixed about it, I mean sure it is great more kids get into the game but they seem to always go to me to fix their deck as soon as I go over their deck and tell them they should slim down the number of Pokemon they got...I have lost them to ADD and im not really the type to teach people the ins and outs of the games anyway but I really do attempt to help a junior after I beat them in a game but as I said everything I say seems to go in one ear and out the other, then they start bragging how good their DP Palkia is. That's why I normally only challenge the Seniors and Masters who I know play on my level because I really take no pride in trouncing a little kid in a card game.c

But I do sympathize as they are inexperienced to strategy and probably don't get the money to make top tier decks, I suggest you recommend they make a SF Gyarados Deck, it's really powerful, comes in a structure deck, and really easy to play.
 
That's what im getting at. If the young players don't know much about Pokemon, then that's fine. I wish that they would learn more, but I can't help that. My problem is, is that they spend 2 minutes explaining the supporter they're using, and their turns take 10 minutes, at least. Then they go a brag about a card they have that isn't great.

As supersonic711 said, new players are good to have, but they make for nuisances when they don't know the game.
 
When I played Pokemon way way back in the day, I remember being like 10-11 and I don't think I ever annoyed anyone.

What I don't like are kids who have like no manners thanks to their inattentive parents. You know, the kids that'll grab cards out of your folder or deck, or will step all over you and your stuff to get somewhere.
 
sturtle said:
Ugh.

The kids at my league know very little about Pokemon. When I started to play, I read all the rules and asked many questions, so I didn't get in trouble. If the kids at my league would sit down and read the rules, maybe I would play them more often. That's not what bugs me though. The kids that know nothing, act like they know everything. They make up false rules to hide their mistakes, and they get very braggy if they win. Not just excited, "Look, I won!" but", "Ha ha! You lost! Hey, look how I won!" Even if you get a fluke hand, they still rub it in your face. That's why I don't play them any more. The only problem is, is that my league is infested with kids who are just starting, and know nothing. It's very vexing...
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My friend at school told me about my first league (Which is now closed, so I go to a new one)
I think I said this before in the thread.
I read the rulebook MANY times before I went. I knew that I didn't need a large pile of cards, where to put starters, when I can evolve, and that I needed a strategy. The only thing that I had wrong was that I didn't know about illegal cards. I did ask questions as I went along, but only if I had little chance of figuring something out.
The little kids at the league I go to usually come in enthusiastic, optimistic, and uneducated. The parents took little time teaching their kid about Pokemon, and look like they would rather be somewhere else.
The kid comes in with a stack of random cards and starts to battle me one day. I tell him that the deck is illegal, and he should check with one of the professors.


DarkPkmnTrainer said:
When I played Pokemon way way back in the day, I remember being like 10-11 and I don't think I ever annoyed anyone.

What I don't like are kids who have like no manners thanks to their inattentive parents. You know, the kids that'll grab cards out of your folder or deck, or will step all over you and your stuff to get somewhere.
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One kid takes ten minutes to finish his turn, and asks me if I'm done with my turn each thirty seconds.
Another interrupts battles with immature and annoying noises every time he goes.
Another plays without knowing the rules, but pretends he does.

Only about two have any manners.
 
Dmaster, I can't believe you let this go. All this thread is is pointless complaining and bickering.

If you can't stand little kids, quit going to league. At tournaments, you'll be separated from them by age devisions. That is, unless you are a junior or a senior which nulls your point. All you can do is be friendly and help them learn to be good at the game and acceptable. If you do not to that, then you probably don't care as much as you let on.

Eh, *clicky*
 
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