Jan. 31, 2025
TRAINER'S EYE #130 - "Flash Fire Into Competitive Pokemon" ft. BeccaBaddest
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In this Pokemon interview, we are joined by BeccaBaddest, a Pokemon Trainer and competitive battler in Pokemon VGC.
BeccaBaddest shares her Pokemon journey starting by watching TikTok videos of people opening Pokemon card packs. This sparked her interest to begin collecting and searching her area for Pokemon card packs to open and complete her collection. She eventually dives into how she transitioned from being a collector into giving competitive Pokemon TCG a try.
Eventually, BeccaBaddest shares insight into her transition from Pokemon TCG to Pokemon VGC. She shares her motivation behind the change and compares the two competitive scenes, giving reasons behind why Pokemon VGC was a better fit for her preference.
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Transcript
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I'm Becca Baddest and this is my Pokemon story.
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Welcome to, as the Pokeball turns, where we interview people about their experience with Pokemon.
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My name is David Hernandez.
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I'm joined by Becca Baddis, a Pokemon TCG player and Pokemon VGC competitor.
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Becca, welcome to the podcast.
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Hello, David, and hello, audience.
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Thank you so much for having me on the show.
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I'm super excited to be here.
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Absolutely.
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And I love people who kind of dive into Pokemon more recently, which people are going to kind of find out because.
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You bring a new, fresh perspective for compared to us people who've been in, maybe from day one, I want to ask like, what got you started into Pokemon?
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What was it about Pokemon explicitly that one made you dive into this franchise?
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Yeah, so, if anything, I consider myself kind of a COVID baby when it comes to Pokémon.
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I found the hobby through TikTok.
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I remember kind of just scrolling on the app and it was during the time that the 25th anniversary was approaching and they started to do the first partner packs.
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They were like jumbo Pokemon cards and it came with two special packs.
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I think there was every month they released a different partner pack leading up to the 25th anniversary and it was also the time where they started to have the Pokemon promo codes in McDonald's.
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So, those were two videos that kind of like stuck out to me.
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And my mom has always been a collector.
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I've always seen her collect many things growing up.
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And I thought to myself, hmm, you know, not much is going on.
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Maybe I should try to pick up a hobby, something that I can kind of focus on and keep me distracted from what's going on on the outside.
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And then we took a trip to McDonald's.
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We took a trip to several McDonald's actually, because I think the first one we went to didn't have any more packs.
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But the one that we did go to they told us one happy meal each I didn't realize the hectic mess I was getting myself into during COVID because it was like super difficult to get Pokemon cards during this time but I think that just kind of made me so much more eager and Excited to get into the hobby because now I was like on the hunt for Pokemon cards
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Wow.
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So it was like that exclusivity that you perceived, especially, you know, during the COVID times, Pokemon cards were more difficult to find that kind of made you engage and want to get into the trading card game.
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Yeah, exactly.
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It's, it was literally like I was hunting for Pokemon.
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And there was a couple of different sets out at the time.
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I think it was like Darkness Ablaze, Vivid Voltage, Battle Styles.
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Which is so funny thinking back, like Battle Styles was kind of like the reject set.
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No one really cared for it.
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Yeah, I remember those booster boxes once upon a time for like 70 bucks and that's like so unheard of but It didn't matter to me.
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Like whatever I saw in the store I was super excited to just grab it and then do like a little pack opening on tik tok.
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That's kind of how my creative content Started was I was doing like pack openings for whatever I found in stores
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and it's awesome.
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How you also got connected through Tik TOK and it's, you know, one of the more newer platforms.
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How important was it to kind of see that Pokemon content on that platform for you to get engaged with this franchise?
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Yeah, so I had no idea what I was getting myself into.
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I didn't know the extent of Pokemon cards, I guess, in general.
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And I remember we would go to the flea market.
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There's a local flea market by us, like, every Saturday.
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And I saw one of the vendors, he was selling Pokemon cards.
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And I think, like, He had some bulk too and bulk was probably like the first experience I had where it was like Understanding that there are different pokemon cards And different sets like my first tiktok video is me showing like three different magic carp cards And saying hey, could you guys like help me out?
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what is the difference between these three magic carps?
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Like I don't understand what's going on So as much as tiktok was a creative outlet for me it was also like a resource And I was really happy that the replies were not, you know, rude and mean.
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People were literally explaining to me like, oh, just look at the symbol on the bottom of the card and it tells you which set it's in.
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And then I had so many bulk cards from different sets and I thought, you know, gung ho jumping into the hobby.
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I'm going to master set everything.
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Little did I know that was going to be thousands of cards.
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So I dropped that idea real quick and then I kind of just.
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Shifted towards collecting my favorite cards from each set and then I shifted more so to like collecting cards of my favorite Pokemon
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It's interesting because I experienced the same thing even as a longtime Pokemon fan.
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So, I'm more familiar with the, classic sets.
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The ones that first came out, the base set, the jungle, and the fossil.
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So, I know how to read those.
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But when it came to modern, I had no idea, like, what was the difference.
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How do you keep track of which one is which set?
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And somebody had to sit down and explain it to me, and I found it so confusing.
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But it's great that, same with me, I had a positive experience to where they didn't mind teaching you.
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They didn't mind that you didn't know.
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Which is rather refreshing, because sometimes people expect you to be like, How do you not know this?
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I'm like, I don't know, dude.
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I ain't collected Pokemon cards before.
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Yeah, exactly, exactly.
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And I think also during that time, it was just like, a very nostalgic time period for everybody.
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You know, everybody's locked up inside and they might be going through boxes trying to entertain themselves and then they might have found their old Pokemon binder and been like, Ugh, remember when?
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And then it kind of just re sparks that fire that people had in them.
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You said you collect cards of your favorite Pokemon.
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What is your favorite Pokemon?
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So, I wanna say it's a hard tie between Canto9tales and Casform.
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Casform, I know, is gonna get me like a slight side eye.
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I know there's a big Poketuber that loves Casform as well.
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But, in one of the sets, it was chilling rain.
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There was the artwork for Castform.
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He was just like a little knitted ball and I was like, oh my god He's so adorable and i'm a sucker.
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I'm a sucker for adorable pokemon So that's why Castform has been one of my favorites and trying to pick a favorite form Uh, I think the rain is so cute.
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I really
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That's a good one.
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Yeah And, uh, you said Ninetales was your other one.
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I'm get You said Kanto specifically.
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What about Kanto and Ninetales compared to the other one that you like about it?
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I think generally When it comes to my favorites, I think I gravitate more towards like fire Pokemon when I played the TCG I really liked the Charizard deck when I played BTC I really loved using Arcanine.
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Arcanine was on my first BTC team that I used when I went to compete So I feel like I kind of just gravitate more towards fire types.
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The Alolan Ninetales has grown on me though Especially like I said, just playing, BGC competitively.
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You just kind of like see what fits better on teams and stuff like that.
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But I have love for both Ninetales forms.
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Now you mentioned how, you know, you started doing the VGC side, I guess at some point you got into the games.
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What was your first Pokemon game?
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So, when I was collecting, someone I went to high school with also was collecting and we kind of bonded over that.
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And then he had asked me one day, have you ever, tried to play the card game?
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And I was like, uh, no, I, I didn't.
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So, I learned how to play the game.
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I learned how to play the TCG.
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And the first deck that I ever played was Flying Pikachu and Arceus.
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And it was fun.
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It was, it was cool, but it was a little stressful at the same time.
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When you compare TCG to VGC, I feel like VGC is a lot harder to learn.
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There's a lot more information that you should know off the top of your head.
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As opposed to TCG, the cards are right there.
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You can read a card if you don't know what it does.
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So it was a lot easier to kind of learn.
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but it was more stressful to play.
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In tournaments for TCG you have to do a best of three in 50 minutes and depending on the deck you play, depending on how your opponent plays, how fast or slow they play, you might not be able to finish in those 50 minutes.
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So it was just a little bit stressful and I knew that I didn't want to leave the competitive scene.
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I've been like an athlete my whole life so the competitive nature in me was just like find something else to do and that's how I kind of segued into BGC you.
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And I had my Switch, I got my OLED as soon as it dropped, but I, I didn't really play it.
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So I have Sword, and I played it, For about an hour, and then I got bored, I guess you could say, and then I stopped playing.
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Right.
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And then when I said that I wanted to switch to VGC, It was, I think it was at Hartford Regional, when I did like really really bad playing in CCG, and I was like, You know what?
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I'm not gonna give up Pokemon.
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I'm gonna play VGC, and I think that weekend in Hartford, I bought My Scarlet copy at the GameStop over there and I was playing in the venue day two because I didn't make day two So I remember playing and then my friend who had recently just tried to play VGC for fun was like, oh, yeah So, you know all about the tear up mechanic.
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I was like what?
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What does that mean?
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So, I grinded out the video game, grinded out playing Violet for a month to, you know, unlock and catch all the Pokemon that I thought I would need for the tournament and then there I was in Ohio, just a little sitting duck for any of my opponents, but I ended up doing pretty well.
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I think I was pretty good.
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I won four games and I lost five.
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So they said at an NAIC that's a pretty good record to have but I would say Violet is the first Pokemon game that I've played in its entirety and that I beat and it holds a very very special place in my heart.
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I am not ready to let it go.
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I know everybody's excited but I'm not ready to let go of Scarlet and Violet.
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I was wondering, so, You know, as an athlete, and I don't know what sport you play, for me, I played basketball.
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And, you know, I always wanted to be a big man growing up.
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I wanted to be, like, a center or a power forward.
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And then, uh, coach got to me and was like, Dave, you 5'9 you can't be a center.
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So But what I mean by that is, when you have that competitive nature, it's hard to kind of say, like, I can't do this.
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Because you kind of want to push through it.
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But it takes some wisdom to realize I can do this though.
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And I think, can I see that similarity when you decide TCG may not be for me, but BGC that's more my jam.
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Do you feel like that way?
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Yeah, I, I totally get you, like, I'm 5'4 however, I defied the odds and I was a middle blocker in volleyball.
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Yeah, I got, I got hops, so, it's all, it's all about timing when it
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She's ready to she's ready to dunk on you, man.
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Wow.
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Yeah.
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I think when it comes to being competitive in Pokemon, like I said, it was a lot easier to learn the TCG.
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My first TCG tournament was Knoxville and I actually did really well.
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I won 5 games, I tied 2, and I lost 2.
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So back then, I think it was 19 points to make Day 2, and I had 18.
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So at my first TCG tournament, I almost made Day 2.
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I was just one point behind.
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one point shy.
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And I think that's kind of what got me was like, I just got here and I'm already so good.
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And then when I went to Hartford, I like shit the bed.
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So it was, it was funny, but it really goes to show just like any other school.
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It's all about the time that you put into it, right?
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I put in a lot of time before I went to Knoxville.
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I practiced, you know, I played mu v max and I played the version that had fusion strike energy And a lot of people were on the different version at the time.
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They were playing double turbo I was like, no, no, no, at least it's sparkle.
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At least it's sparkle.
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but I didn't, I didn't wanna leave it like you said, but with VGC, it's a lot.
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It's information overload, right?
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I am 26 years late to the game.
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I didn't play fire red or any of that stuff as a kid.
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I don't know anything about the tar type chart.
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I have to learn all this as I go.
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So it's a lot of information and even though I don't have.
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the records that I would like.
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It's taken like some maturity to realize, you know, I'm playing against some people who've been playing since they were five, you know, and I have years and years of catching up to do.
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so trying to take this in, in strides and in baby steps and accepting that I'm not going to be the world champion of 2025 or 2026 likely because I have so much to catch up on and I think that's kind of what's contributing to the journey in a positive way for me.
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It's allowing me to take the small wins, whether it's one win here at a tournament or a couple wins on the ranked ladder during stream just really taking in the experience for what it is and Understanding that you know, I'm a working adult too I don't have as much free time as I would like to invest in the game But I'm still able to enjoy it while I can and learn all that I can while I'm here
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On that note, because you mentioned, you gave some insight to just like the challenges that come with it.
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A, you're a content creator, you're creating content on the side.
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B, you have the full time job.
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This isn't your full time gig, just trying to be competitive.
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What is it?
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I guess the behind the scenes of the prep work that goes into preparing for Pokemon BGC.
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I can
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Yeah, so I The first thing, I mean the first thing you need, right, is a team.
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You have to decide your six Pokemon that you're bringing to an event and It takes a lot of trial and error, I think.
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You know, there's different play styles.
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There's people who like teams that require some setup.
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There's people who like hyper offensive teams.
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For some reason, I'm one of those people.
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I just love to see stuff go boom, right?
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the fire.
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Yeah,
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Yeah, I love when stuff goes boom.
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And then you have your slower players who like to, you know, manipulate the speed and go for trick room.
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So I think that finding your playstyle is the first step.
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That's the pregame.
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That's the warm up.
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And then picking your team.
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And then you have to kinda like, refine your team constantly.
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Like, before we got on here I was watching a little bit of Wolf's World documentary where he was talking about the process of building his world's team.
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Seeing someone who this is their full time job and how much time and effort he puts into his team, it gives you perspective at the same time where it's like, okay, you know what?
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I can't beat myself up for not being great at this game because there are some people who dedicate hours.
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and hours to team building and practicing on showdown or on the ranked ladder.
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Bouncing ideas off with other people in the, in the scene and figuring out, you know, through trial and error, what's good and what's not.
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So really just kind of keeping yourself grounded in that perspective and just saying like, you know, maybe I could be a breakout star, but that's kind of like a, not in a one in a million, maybe like one in a couple thousand.
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Cause you know, Events only have like a couple thousand people but Just kind of understanding and accepting, you know what it is for me.
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Um, So a lot of times I don't go to too many events each year.
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I might go to like one or two depending and When I have a date in mind, like let's say when it's January, let's say I wanted to compete in June at NAIC, I have these months to prepare and try to figure out, okay, which restricted, which legendary Pokemon do I kind of vibe with?
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Okay, what's my play style around this specific Pokemon?
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And then I kind of go from there.
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You kind of just kind of try to build upon the team as you work through the kinks here and there.
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And you know, during this whole time, you're learning about the type charge, you're trying to be competitive in VGC.
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You're still creating content.
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Did you start transitioning your content from the TCG into the VGC?
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Like you started showing videos about that as well.
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Yes, that's exactly what happened.
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So, as my journey as a Pokemon trainer evolved, so did my content.
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So, originally I was doing pack openings, and then I started to show some of the decks that I was playing, and Do kind of like deck profiles and then when I moved into bgc Then I kind of did like pokemon profiles like pokedex entries and talking about specific pokemon I remember I did a video on hisui and arcanine at the time when he was introduced into the format I think he had won like four regionals back to back so I really like that I am kind of learning and I can share the process of me learning with other people who are probably just getting into the game.
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And I think that's kind of what my YouTube channel is centered around.
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It's like me and other new trainers getting into the game and us kind of learning it together.
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It is a little bit challenging though because I'm not someone who really enjoys talking on something that I don't have knowledge on.
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So it's a bit Frustrating sometimes when I have an idea for a video, but I can't explain it the best that I would like to because I just don't have the knowledge, right?
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So some videos might take longer than others to edit, some games when I'm playing on stream that I could have won I didn't because I didn't know whether it's a speed tier or a specific matchup, everything that I'm going through I'm kind of going through for the first time and my audience is kind of going through it the first time with me.
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So I think that is something that makes everything that I'm doing a little bit unique.
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And another thing, you know, we mentioned the community being so, like, welcoming and encouraging.
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That's something that has also motivated me, you know, going to events and hearing people say, Oh, I saw your video on BGC resources.
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Like, that was so helpful.
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Like, thank you.
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I can find all these things in one place.
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And yeah, yeah, it's, it's, it's super rewarding to see and feel what you're putting so much effort into, whether it's your full time job or not.
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Seeing the effort that you put in make a difference to someone else, you know, hearing people say, Oh, I got into VGC because of you.
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I was watching your stream.
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Like that means a lot to me.
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That means more to me than the satisfaction that I get from my full time job, Just just finding the little joy here and there and then just having those people come up to me at events It means so much to me
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You know, in a way you're almost like a Ash Ketchum in a sense to where when you think about, let me think about it, like you get your audience to kind of engage into you as a person that, Hey, I don't know everything.
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I just started playing Pokemon and this is kind of my story and it allows your audience to kind of engage and see you kind of grow through the growing pains, because it's always about the journey, right?
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Any good story, it's the journey.
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It's never the final destination.
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Yeah, absolutely
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they get to kind of ride along with that.
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road that you take to where you're learning like, Oh, I don't know if it's this or that.
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It's almost like a living blog in a sense.
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Yeah, pretty much You're gonna make that comment go to my head.
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I'm like, yeah, you know, I'm, I was told I'm like Ash Ketchum, you know.
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You're the one after third, you're gonna be, uh, Uh, not, I think it's Liko down at the end, I can't remember her name.
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Yeah, yeah, Liko.
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We talked about the Pokemon community, and you said, you know, they're so welcome, they've been so encouraging, and you got to attend live events.
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What was it like for you to attend your first live event, and be around a whole bunch of Pokemon fans?
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Was it odd?
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Did you feel kind of at home?
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Yeah, so, thinking back to Knoxville, that being my first event, I was super, super nervous.
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I had no idea what to expect because I had played with my best friend, you know, we practiced.
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Remember, sometimes we'd go to Applebee's and just like play at the table, and then I'd go to my local card shop and play a little bit there.
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