Sam Chen

Welp. Missed LA Regionals wave 2 as well, and I refreshed on the dot at 7:00:00 and submitted within 2 seconds. It really sucks to miss my hometown regional, and it really sucks to lose out on a click speed lottery. Hopefully I don’t miss worlds spectator signup. 😢

I almost forgot my favorite part of the Pokemon TCG. Sitting at my computer for thirty minutes clicking F5 thousands of times just to miss registration anyway. I’ll see everyone next season 😭

Gino finding out that deleting a text doesn’t delete it for the other person

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 @PrimeVideo. Shoutout to @enjoifriend and @Strawburry17 for being amazing hosts. See everyone at Worlds in 2 weeks! #PlayPokemon

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 🏝️

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! 🇺🇸🇹🇼

9th place at Oceania Internationals with @thefleeee’s exact list! Shoutout also to @RegannatorTCG 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 🇦🇺🦘🌏 – at Melbourne, Victoria

Giving my @azulgg cosplay another go to crush @RegannatorTCG in OCIC finals prep. I can’t believe I’m missing the Australia casino party to play *more* Pokémon with this ungrateful child. 😡 – at Melbourne, Victoria

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 @teamnwevents 🙏

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

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

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

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!

I guess testing for LAIC is going pretty well 😅

Pokémon Drinking Card Game 🍻

0-2 start hitting @PhinnLynch and @thefleeee 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!

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

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. 😵‍💫