July 19, 2023
TRAINER'S EYE #47 - "Breaking The Articuno Ice" ft. Katy46
In this Pokemon interview, we are joined by Katy46, a Pokemon GO Trainer from Alaska as she shares her incredible journey of exploring the game through the thrilling realm of Player vs. Player (PVP) battles starting with the Silph Arena before transitioning toward visiting regional tournaments on the Play Pokemon circuit.
Katy46's passion for Pokémon GO extends beyond the virtual world. Through her dedication and effort, she has succeeded in breaking barriers and building a strong Pokémon GO community in Alaska. She opens up about her commitment to fostering inclusivity and camaraderie in both in-person as well as her Twitch community.
Trainer's Eye is a series where the stories are real and people still play this game. From PVP to Shiny Hunting, each person's Pokemon GO journey is unique and we dive into each journey here on As The Pokeball Turns!
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Chapters
00:44 - Introduction
01:48 - Interview with Katy46
15:31 - Intermission Skit
28:52 - Thank You For Listening! :)
Transcript
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My name is David Hernandez, and you're listening to As the Pokeball Turns.
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Welcome to As the Pokeball Turns, where the stories are real and people still play this game.
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One of the interesting aspects about Pokemon Go is that it brought down barriers.
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Pikachu could arguably be a universal language around the world.
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It's one of the most iconic characters, maybe even iconic mouse next to Mickey Mouse.
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Usually, There are groups of people that would never integrate with one another due to age, location, socioeconomic class, or even common interest.
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While some barriers still exist today, Pokemon Go paved a way for many to unite under the umbrella of Pokemon.
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It allowed the possibility of building bridges and connecting with each other.
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It's why often times people refer to the community as the best part when it comes to playing Pokemon Go.
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It might even explain why the world felt at peace during their first days of the game's launch.
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For my guest, She emphasizes how Pokemon Go helped bring down barriers for people within both her community and across the world.
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From Alaska, here's her origin story into the world of Pokemon Go.
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This is Katy46! I'm joined by a Pokemon trainer from Alaska and a member of the greatest team ever, Team Mystic.
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Katie 46, welcome to the show
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Hi, thank you so much for having me.
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I'm so happy to be here.
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without a doubt.
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And I want to start off with just asking, like, why did you choose team mystic?
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Why did you choose the greatest team on planet earth that was blessed by Niantic?
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Right, exactly.
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I'm so happy.
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I'm such a proud member of Team Mystic and, it's for so many reasons, but I'll step back and tell you at least how it started for me, staring at the team choice screen, right?
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We see all 3 lined up in front of us.
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We have team valor and mystic and instinct, which 1 do you choose?
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my friends had already chosen yellow.
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but I really like the color blue.
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I'm not going to lie.
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I was being a little bit basic about that choice in the beginning, leaning into my favorite color choice, but.
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it was a tough decision, I stared at that screen for a couple minutes and then I realized the crests behind each leader were the legendary birds I'm a genuine trainer.
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I love Articuno if for some reason choosing team mystic meant that I was only gonna get Articuno and like I only had that one choice, then I was gonna take it.
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Articuno is absolutely the reason I am Team Mystic and ended up being my choice.
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It's also my favorite Pokemon, so have been rock and team mystic for a long time and I'm very happy to be team Blue.
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It's very interesting because, of course I'm team mystic without any bias or without any doubt for anybody listening.
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I chose Team Mystic for the same reason.
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We didn't know what the game would be nowadays back then.
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we didn't have raids, we didn't have legendary birds, we didn't even know how we were going to get a legendary Pokemon.
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And I'm like, no matter what, I want to make sure that I get Articuno.
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Which is why I chose Team Mystic, because I felt that, however Niantic was going to do the legendary birds, I would think that they would at least guarantee the legendary birds would go to the team that you chose, if that makes sense.
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yes.
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I was on the same mindset as well.
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But yeah, great minds think alike, right?
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I know, right?
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It's the person coming from the best team on planet Earth.
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It's great.
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Gotta lock in that Articuno if it was our only chance,
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Oh, yeah.
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Now, you said your favorite was Articuno, so you find your favorite?
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Was there a story behind that?
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I started out playing the game with Pokemon Blue.
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definitely for a long time, my favorite was Squirtle, cause that was the first starter that I chose, so Squirtle's near and dear to me, but when it comes down to it, thinking about, what I really liked, I liked using Articuno in battle, of course, to, just flexing in battle using very powerful Pokemon, was something I really enjoyed a lot and drew me to, to Articuno being my favorite, especially being able to use it and, late game battles, and also to just.
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leading me into the battling lifestyle of Pokemon,
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what's interesting, though, is you said your favorite color is blue.
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And you really suck to it, because you got Pokemon Blue.
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Favorite Pokemon is Articuno, and then Team Mystic,
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right?
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Yeah a theme a little theme there.
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Yeah,
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so you said you were day one with just Pokemon in general.
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did you play Pokemon right when it first debuted back in the early 90s?
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yes, I did you know I started I had the card games in elementary school and I watched the anime and I saved up a bunch of money in order to get A game boy pocket and, convince my dad to take me to target and allow me to buy this with my saved up birthday and Christmas money and get Pokemon blue.
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I very much was just buying the game boy, so I could play Pokemon blue.
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There was a gap of time, you know, teenage years, late preteen years, and some of college where I wasn't playing, but, came back certainly and picked up the main series again, not so much, T.
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C.
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G.
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but I still like opening packs.
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I I like to watch people opening packs as well and, I don't know.
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I think maybe we'll get back into TCG eventually, but, I definitely very casually play, the video game series and like that a lot.
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I always feel like the TCG openings are like Christmas Day each time you watch them because you never are too sure what you're going to get.
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Right.
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Yeah.
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And it's so easy to be happy for other people too, when they're making the pull, you get those feelings as well.
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and then too, just even if you don't get anything amazing, the art is so nice to look at too.
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I'm just a big appreciator of the art and the cards.
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So if you're going to do a playthrough for Pokemon Blue, obviously Articuno would be one of them.
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Who would be your other five Pokemon you would use?
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Oh, gosh, yeah, that's a tough question.
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but I think you're going to, I think you're going to see a theme.
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we're definitely going to have Blastoise on there.
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we're going to have Vaporeon but then, we do need to balance the team out.
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We can't have, just a bunch of water and
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I mean, this is your team.
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You can choose whatever you want.
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So I'm not going to judge you.
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right?
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but we probably have, have some more Eeveelution.
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we'd probably go with Flareon as well and Jolteon.
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I'm a big, big Evolution fan, Then we're going to go, we have to have, Mewtwo on there.
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I mean, is Gen 1, Mewtwo
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big one, right?
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The best Pokemon in the first generation.
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You can't forget it.
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yeah, as big as the, the legendary birds are, of course, Mewtwo just holds
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So, Pokemon Go comes out in 2016.
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What was it like when the game first debuted for you in your area.
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it was an exciting time.
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even though I come from, maybe more rural area than other trainers, I had very much the same experience, that everyone had of just, getting out there with the community and just this intense excitement and being a part of it.
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I started officially on day 2, so I just missed being able to call myself a day 1 trainer, But yeah, I locked it in on day two, just barely as well.
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I, I think I downloaded the app at 10.
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30 at night, sitting in my bed, and I, leapt out of bed to, catch my first Charmander.
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for some reason, when I loaded the game, only a Bulbasaur and Charmander displayed, I didn't get the option
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They censored Squirtle for me.
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Yeah, I know I didn't get it, but, it is what it is, we know what the early games were like.
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After that though, it just became a lot of, running around, with my close friends at first.
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but then we got to the point where we started selecting teams, right?
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And, it became very fun to have that rivalry.
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I tend to be a pretty competitive person, did a lot of, team sports growing up.
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We start seeing this big growth of Valor, it's pretty common, there's a lot of Valor, trainers out there, a lot of people choose it, but we decided we need to do something about it on Team Mystic.
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I got, with a friend and we bought all the blue bandanas in town, we could find, and we bought sticker paper and printed up a ton of, these crests, that were, posted on Facebook, did a local meetup at a bar downtown and just handed out bandanas and stickers to people like,"have you chosen a team yet?
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No, please join team mystic, you won't be disappointed.
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It's the best team out there and just did a lot of recruitment.
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And I have to say that the effort that we put in went pretty far because we have just about as many Team Mystics here in this town as Valor, but it was certainly really fun just getting to meet people first and a great way to talk to people, in the early game to try to do this team building, but, Just also the reality that everybody you saw on the street, everybody you talked to on the sidewalk, they were playing that game too, so it was just a fun time to be out.
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So y'all basically went around town recruiting people to not only come play Pokemon Go, but to also make sure they choose Team Mystic on the team screen?
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Yes.
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Yes, exactly.
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They would join us and, it actually became a really beautiful thing.
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because it just embodied, one of the goodness of the people around you, the goodness of the people in my community, but, it started becoming this trade there was somebody that was on team mystic that knew how to print T-shirts.
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So, I'd had given them stickers and bandana and they made me a t shirt for free and they would, go out to these events with us to try to get people to buy t shirts for Team Mystic.
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there's just this reciprocity going back and forth and just good sense of community.
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especially amongst the Mystic players that maybe, the other teams didn't have so well that we're so organized and, communicated and ultimately friends in the end.
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it's that type of team camaraderie that I kind miss, but I feel like a lot of that team camaraderie is missing that we don't really have it to that degree compared to when me and you first started.
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yeah, absolutely.
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I agree.
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I miss that a lot, but, in some ways it's good that the barriers are broken.
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I definitely have friends that we knew, what we had on team mystic was so good and we enjoyed playing together.
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So well, that we have people that before the team medallion, and the ability to change teams came into effect, literally started new accounts to give up instinct and become mystic so they could roll around and play with us and we would all be together, all get the same rewards.
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it's something I missed, but it's something that brought us together and, defined us in so many ways, but I am glad that we don't have such staunch lines drawn in the game, because, it is about the community in the end, and I'm just happy people are still playing, when it comes to it at the end of the day.
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you said you're from a rural area, is there like not many spawns, or is there not many places for people to go out and play, or is there a certain area y'all go to for say a community day or for raid hour?
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I live in Alaska, a small town of about 30,000 and there are no roads in or out.
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and so there's really only two cell service in the central areas of town.
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that being said, yeah, we all go to our downtown area to play, we have this great grind loop that we all do and it's excellent because, we get to see each other out and about playing and we all know each other's cars and decals on it.
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It's much more of a tight knit community here, we know everyone is.
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We didn't have problems with spoofers so much in the game, or if we did, we dealt with it together because again, they're not being roads in around of our town.
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Level 40s wouldn't just come through in the middle of winter to a little Alaska and
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just take a small stroll through Alaska in the middle of the night, you know, what's the suspicion about that?
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yeah, yeah, right.
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You know, there are just some things we knew collectively, Weren't right, or just seeing these regionals in gyms, so we would together, again, also just embrace our sense of community, put forward this will of we're going to keep this community clean, we're going to keep it the right game play style and we'll together, we'll all report and spam and make sure that this riffraff is kept out of town.
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but that being said, you see each other at all of the gyms in town, you'll know What people are doing when you're out with your other friends that maybe don't play Pokemon Go.
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You'll see a car maybe going slow through an area, and you'll be like, oh yeah, I know that's Lillian, it's, she's just out grinding, it's okay.
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it's that nice, sense of community and closeness that I appreciate so much, and I'm sure it's just not an experience a lot of people have gone to have, But it's so nice.
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I'm aware that you've helped build up your community, right?
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Like you would do things for your community besides, of course, promoting people to team mystic and try to get bandanas, right?
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yeah, absolutely.
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this started out with, community days.
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I started holding, community days through the Silph Road, but even before I started doing Silph Road, community day meetups, I would make, stickers starting at the very first, surf Pikachu, and hand them out to people, that I would see playing the game just as a way to, strike up conversation too or just good icebreaker.
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people would find me, walking around, always handing out stickers for whatever community day Pokemon was featured that day.
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But then we do meetups and those meetups for community day eventually evolved into, Silph Road tournaments, which I've had a ton of fun being a part of and have been so fulfilling for many years now.
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Do you feel like doing those stickers helped enhance the community or help make people feel like they belonged?
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Yeah.
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I think so for sure.
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and it also made it so it felt okay talking to people out in public about the game, right?
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That, I'm not this weird person, haha, doing this video game to myself like I really can be outward in, I don't know, I don't know if you want to say proud in a, in a way, but you don't have to be ashamed that you're a nerd playing a Pokemon game out in public.
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it just made it okay for people to be comfortable in their own skin and be doing this in public.
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You know, it's interesting because earlier you talked about how the team medallions was able to help break barriers, you know, allowed people to play together if they were on different teams.
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In the same way, it sounds like the stickers also break barriers because there is that stigma of people's like people, you still play this game.
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You still play Pokemon go?
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And the sticker allows people to have a middle ground.
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If so, you will to where, Hey, this Community Day is going on, have a sticker and y'all can kind of connect, I guess.
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definitely.
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I think so very much.
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cause two, you'd probably be surprised to stumble on, a woman of my demographic background that's out here playing Pokemon.
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and so it's probably a little bit surprising to you too.
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So it makes it easier to relate and be like, wow, there's all sorts of people.
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There's a huge amount of people in my community that you would be so surprised to play and they are hardcore players.
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a lot of them are people whose kids played Pokemon.
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maybe their retirees have a little bit more time on their hands, but they grind.
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They're out there playing hard, raiding hard, taking gyms, and you would just be so surprised.
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And I love those people in my community.
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And it's also just so fun to be like, Oh yeah, that's my friend like you maybe wouldn't know how we met, like you would never guess.
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Oh yeah.
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I met them through Pokemon Go.
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One person in my community I can think of comes to mind.
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he plays very hard, but he catches Pokemon to trade to his grandkids and that's like his main goal.
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he'll just trade things for me, he's actually like my main Vullaby dealer, like, like save Vullabies for me.
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He really just doesn't care so much about grinding, but he plays so hard, but.
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the reason he does it is because he wants to trade these Pokemon to his grandkids or trade them to someone else so they can use them for something more than, he'll value them for.
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For him, that's a massive motivator.
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I don't think I would ever have thought I'd hear the words Volbeat and Dealer in the same sentence.
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Right.
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Yeah.
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It's amazing.
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Like I have to say, I don't have the biggest PVP community here in town, but we have a lot of passionate players, but they'll save they're Vullaby's for me and they're amazing.
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You've been listening to As the Pokeball Turns.
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We're going to take a quick break.
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We'll be right back.
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You talked about how back when Silph Arena first debuted, you used to host the tournaments, right?
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Yeah.
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I started hosting, tournaments with the very first one with Boulder cup, here in my community.
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And I happened to win that one.
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I'm very proud.
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Um,
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congrats!
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but yes, I've hosted Silph Arena tournaments for a really long time.
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In fact, I've hosted every one with the exception of Arcana and Innocent Cup.
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at the end, I dipped off there, but, But yeah, it's been so rewarding, but I was there right at the beginning.
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you said earlier you were a very competitive person.
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PvP obviously wasn't in Pokemon Go when it debuted.
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How is that for you?
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Was it like something was missing, almost?
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It definitely felt like that in some ways.
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I did enjoy battling in gyms.
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and so in many ways, that is how, I was able to enjoy the game.
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I was so into gyms.
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I need to have, be on the top.
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I needed to have, you know, the, the largest Dragonite.
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I needed to prestige them, I needed to have them all gold before anyone else.
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when that became a feature.
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but yeah, PVP, when it, changed to being more than just battling in gyms, it was like, okay, this is it, this is the real end game.
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This is What everything I've been doing works towards now I get to see how powerful my Pokemon can be
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how did Silph Arena influence your journey into PvP?
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it was pretty much almost instant.
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So again, I was already plugged into the Silph Road.
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I did the self community day meetups.
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And so it was really interesting to see this tournament system was going to be put out, for this new feature as well.
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Again, connecting with people, messaging your friends when you're still sitting at home on the couch, but you're like, hey, let's do some battles and, maybe spending an hour, just battling randomly, randomly, randomly, and over again, having that be so fun.
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of course, there was just a small gap between when PVP came out and the first Silph Road tournament, was able to be hosted, so I was very much just engaging my friends, the ones I was battling with on the couch.
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Other people I knew were, hardcore into the game at the time were also the people I was battling in gyms, the people that would, be doing raiding and things like that, inviting them to come try, test their might in this new feature and see if we can stack the cards and have some more fun and in this other competitive way of the game.
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What's your favorite league to battle in?
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you'd be surprised to learn it's actually Ultra League.
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it's not Great League, despite Silph and everything.
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I'm a little bit of an XL abuser, but yeah, Ultra League, It tends to just be a little bit less known it's pretty common people like to play in master league greatly, of course, being so accessible, but, I think Ultra League just, hits different.
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so did you have a place you would go to learn PvP?
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Like, what were your resources?
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a lot of it was just going through, to the Silph Road Reddit and, eventually it's still arena.
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It's hard to say if there was one specific PvP content creator, because I just absorb so much, Pokemon content in general.
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I think when I really started getting into it more, more locally, I started watching, WildSusanBoyle on Twitch.
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he's probably the most localized PvP content creator, to me in this area.
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aside from...
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Other people, I don't know.
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You may have heard of PokeAK.
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But, yeah, I would say Wild Susan Boyle and then I'll also, Yusei Furou is, is another content creator I watched on Twitch when I really wanted to get into more skills and, the more basic steps of how to get better,
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what's funny is that eventually you watched all these Twitch streamers and eventually you became a Twitch streamer yourself because you do PvP content, right?
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Yes.
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I do have a twitch stream.
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I started, um, we're getting close to 2 years ago.
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We're not there just yet.
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it's been a lot of fun.
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I'm getting involved in twitch and connecting to with the community there.
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it's just an opportunity that maybe, in so many ways, we wouldn't have to connect if you were just only doing it on Twitter, or other social media.
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