no worries. if you find your way over to southampton for a league cup there's a good chance i'll be judging or playing it.

yeah i'm around all day! think the venue is a bit too large for a chance encounter hahah. i've got standard, GLC, and SUMLOT decks with me if you wanna meet up and play some games :)

0-4 at EUIC. a bad day at the races. yuck.

so i managed to get two of these stupidly oversized black bolt and white flare boxes from costco earlier, and to prove i'm not a scalper, im going to open this one

pleased to announce i have finally pulled something worthwhile from a prize pack

the real prize at regionals is playing old formats on the second day. sumlot my beloved. zororoc <3 best deck ever imo

yeah! some healthy time away and recalibration. i've dabbled with locals but more as judge than a player lately. after today's testing the waters i think i'm ready to enjoy the hobby again. i look forward to seeing you in london :)

finished with a middle of the road 4/4/0 record for my first regional in six years. i played Dawnzard badly and i had a wonderful time seeing so many people again. strangely enough this gets me 20 CP and i don't know why.

it is clear from the first five rounds of the first pokémon regional i've played in six years that i lack the mandate of heaven

pleased to announce i am, after some considerable time, doing a regional

twitter is dead, bluesy is dead, the internet is dead

everything is AI and nothing is worth reading anymore

No matter how bad things are at least you aren't a member of the labour party

unfortunately I have reactivated a twitter account, mainly cos I want to share my thoughts on Australia with the world when I spend three weeks there

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Unfortunately folks I do think the colourful prints of items and tools in the new set are going to be far superior against the gold prints from the last block

Opened a booster box of mega evolution. I shouldn’t complain about 11 hits + 4 illustrations, and a tonne of playable bits and pieces, so I won’t.

After several months of trying I finally won my local GLC night with this janky fire deck last night. Some thoughts:
+ don’t run skeledirge - I just like the pokemon
+ silent lab isn’t helpful
+ put more consistency / draw cards in, and maybe one or two more resource recovery (stretchers)

as someone who was pretty big on all that before the unpleasantness, you have missed absolutely nothing of note. It lifts right out!

I’m in Brizzy for a good chunk of time including the show (10th to 14th) but staying with a friend so should be able to get out and about!

umm. sure. that’s fine

excellent - well my schedule is kinda nuts but I’m visiting all the five cities Metallica are playing in so if there’s anything cool to do let me know 🤔

doing a pre release today lads

I definitely knew a few Aussies back in the day on twidder ? but like now ???? Hello?

Anyway. In like 3 and a half weeks from now I’m going to Australia. do I still have any connections to Australia in Pokémon? I’m coming to visit

new Taylor Swift album is full of lyrics that make it seem like she’s been kicked in the head by a horse. how can you write something as beautiful as all too well and turn out absolute slop

Reactivating my Twitter just for the clout

You’ve manifested it now haha

Mostly just doing cups and challenge judging but might make it to majors in 2026 because it looks like a quieter year for Metallica touring. Maybe.

if you’re wondering what my connection to the hobby is these days I’m much more comfortable in a judge / TO role with a bit of casual collecting and playing (ideally GLC) mixed in. it’s the right mix for me when I don’t have the energy or drive to chase Worlds like I did back in the day.

Some absolutely class pickups at my pre release today. Pulled the marshadow from my judge packs and traded for one of my favourite cards in the set, the greyscale steelix. one of the coolest arts released in a very long time imo, love it when they do this with unpopular or deep cut pokemon

Finally running our first Mega Evolution pre release tonight and one of our locals secured the goods