>>29924592http://www.pokemon.com/us/play-pokemon/worlds/2016/pokemon-world-championships-prizes/I'm pretty sure you are wrong friendo. You can cash out your prizes if you are +18 since last year. Wolfe got a nice 10k for winning Worlds.
This year supposedly even has 250k on prizing support.
>>29924621The problem. this time is that the entry-fees went from 10 bucks to between 40/50 per event, furthermore, between the kickers determining how much CP is being given, the CP being given being smaller than the amounts given last year and last but not least the CP line being also bigger than last years making it to Worlds is harder than it's ever been.
You can argue that this makes it so that only the best of the best will qualify for worlds, and it's not wrong, but between the high-entry fees and overall high difficulty to earn CP it discourages no-name players from trying because why bother if Wolfe or Ray or Billa is gonna be there and kick your ass if you are paired with him?
Obviously, the pay2win argument is not flawless either, no matter if you go to literally all the international events it'll be meaningless if you aren't good at game but what if you are both good and also have plenty of money to waste? From top of my head fitting this description there's PokeAlex. Furthermore, top placing players from last year on the CP rankings are getting their trips for the international events paid as a prize of sorts for topping them, while you can say they deserve it, it's an advantage they also have over the common player.
The entry-wall is exceedingly tall this year for the new player, between all these issues and VGC coming from VGC16 which was exceedingly unpopular as a format turning people away it wouldn't surprise me if numbers don't pick up this year.
>>29924643Tell us more about how the TCG side of things TCGbro. 99% of the time we only hear about VGC-players. Any fun stories or things like that? How's the community there in comparison to VGC?
