Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

The winners of the coaching raffle for this month are as follows:

Ruxter, Avaltus, and RIZE. As always, they can contact me on discord to organise a session.

Closing thoughts for 2024

Thank you to everyone for your support over the past year; your contributions to the Patreon have helped us keep the site running and updated! Funnily enough, we recently found a bug where our scraper was not working, so recent tournament results haven't been going to the website. We'll fix that later, haha (and by we, I mean Boron ^_^)

This year, I've spent much time traveling, meeting new people, experiencing different cultures, and updating my perspective on the world and life. It was a nice feeling to travel to SVE tournaments and have people reach out to me about enjoying the content we've produced over the past year and a half. But also, I found it crazy earlier in the month when I attended a One Piece tournament in Melbourne, and it was kinda shocking to me how many people in that community said hi over that weekend.

It's weird because I don't produce any content for it, unlike with SVE. I'm not necessarily a top player there by any means, just above average, a couple of tops, serial splits etc, as one would expect for the level of time and effort I put into the game. But I guess I traveled to a lot more Bandai tournaments than I'd realized, and over time, those connections and interactions you make interweave with each other in ways you wouldn't necessarily expect.

And sometimes it's as tiny as just talking to your opponent and chatting with them for a bit. Or sometimes it's cause you're not an asshole that sharks the opponent on not declaring +2k on their BY Luffy leader. I think it's a concept that applies to all TCGs, don't be a dick, and you'll make a lot of friends.

Next year, especially in January, my personal focus will be largely on the One Piece Nationals and the Disney Lorcana Championship the week after that. My confidence isn't the greatest for these, but the level of competition will be high and enjoyable, with prizing that is impossible to ignore.

Next month, there will be a bunch of articles as per usual, I might start a new series where I share some of my TCG wisdom and the fundamentals that allow me to pick up various games and bring myself to a high level of gameplay at each of them. I also want to continue some of my various philosophical thoughts around card game economy and their various implications.

Finally, it's a reasonably early announcement since it's all a work in progress, but we also have a significant project in the works for 2025. While it doesn't relate to SVE, it's still likely to be exciting to those of you on the Patreon! I hope to see you guys around, and once again, happy new year!