#[America Server] Discussions
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oh
😭I want anemo vision


Who pinged me?
everyone with qixing tag apparetly got pinged
i got the 10 win in a row
meanwhile here I am with my final record of
18-17
which is somehow 17th right now

I don't know what it is about this meta but I just cannot

me with the keq whale patch
it happens
wtf god player
i played 8 and lost 5 and gave up

😼
Time to end my run in 5th place so I can play Mirai in top 8 
only for proxy to take their place on last day and play you 
what the


bro manifested and it actually worked
u simply have to believe hard enough
@quick star my game crashed after we finished sorry I didnt get a chance to say good game
No worries I get it, I kinda figured
I’ve met lots of newbies so far this tournament, which is exciting


crab
I agree new card back is a great incentive for new ppl
I want a blue dragonspine card back purple isnt suitable with its theme
:lmao
Oh
I’m just happy I won 5 matches and got the primos and card back 
4-1 5-0 4-1 3-2 2-3 4-1 4-1...
Today was my first day playing, I played 12 games 
dont you only need 3
Yes, but you get a primo bonus at 5 wins
paypal me 5000 primo
Paypal me your soul
paypal me your entire fortune

I haven't played in a while and I missed yesterday's matches bc I had a lot of hw due so I was wondering what this means? I thought I had to make up matches
everyone gets up to 35
i think u already did all 35
Oh okay thank you
Yup I did
Nope I didn't make it to the top 16
unlucky
Gl to you tho since u did
thank u
it seems everytime i swap decks the next opponents deck it just a counter to mine, wdf
i like your pfp
Thanks i laid it myself
💀
Quick question what happen when ur match is tied due round limit?
Ty I did that
Why NA lb scores so low
lacking players ofc
where my si and ting
busy with tft

Play heated

Only 5 minutes
TFT?
Teamfight Tactics, aka the better-advertised LoL spin-off
we can lose a few pro players to it sometimes unfortunately
QwQ
I didn't realize there was such overlap between playerbases.
anybody got a deck that is viable these days, its been a while but just need the cardback lol
Within less than 6 weeks, Hoyo might nerf crab
but crab isnt even the problem. it is cyno
if they nerf cyno it go back to layla crab and that version of crab has a lot more weaknesses
😨
cxn
crab is not the problem, yumka is
yumka let crab win a lot of match up that's supposed to beat it
Shann sees the light
that is why you mull for Yumka to steal the card back
this was my first time really getting deep into tcg or playing pvp, I'm excited to keep playing whenever crab out of meta
and if both side do it, then you are at the advantage cuz both side wasted 3 dices and you can scale.
yep like sayu wgs
you either stole gilded or wgs
also if crab go first you can stole countdown and destroy their float
could u clarify?
They’re referring to electro cicin mage, xiangling, nahida
thank you
bruh
cringe deck i got high rolled by this
double talent opera calx start 😭
I cant seem to get a match after several queues, just wanting to get my cardback tho...
welcome!
Well this is the most balanced patch ever
I feel like crab is good, but there are still many good decks in environment compared with crab.
I came to assume the opposite seeing all the complaints about crab lol
I do know it's not the first time tho, like, whale happened
because yoink is just very annoying
regardless of the deck playing it
but since crab is also very meta
you got both mixed
crab is not even close to as dominant as whale was
Yeah players used to complain the same thing to yoiayaka, mmec, din, aec, finaly, jeht and whale.
crab is not even close to as dominant as its former
environments change
indeed, gonna be tougher for me to get the cardback hmm
just 3 wins
raiden quicken seems to be good, they use updated action cards though
This patch has been as good as 4.6
New decks were rapidly created but non of them asserted dominance for a long time
We have crab stall, fatuizan, mes, double dragon, kuki yaoyao, newer kuki Kiara, and then xiao lithic
Well one complaint early was how dominant yelan otk was at early patch when treasured was Included
But it was nerfed just after one week and we got a good patch
4.7-4.8 was a hot mess for no Ban tournament
How is the crab main got to say this 
I’m surprised people think this patch is good it seems horrible to me
why do you think so?
just curious 
I’d rather not
People speak of diversity but I see none
People also speak of balance but I see nothing there either
As expected of my Kevin
based
Archetype is kinda diverse by play rate
But not win rate
One deck kinda wins everything
I don’t even know how it’s triangle. There are 6 meta decks now

i recommend queueing sooner (like in the first 5 days or so). if you're more casual, that's where you have the best chances to find opponents. hard to find people in the last 2 days who only play for the cardback + many mostly finished their games already, so queue is dry naturally
which 6?
makes sense, having starting a full time job, been busy as heck
ill be doing that next time
do you have any decks that you recommend?
you could try xianyun cryocube kuki
but it's hard to say if it'll still be viable next season
Cyno crab
Kuki xianyun
Bennett
Apep turbo
Wriomiya
Magic(?) (HSC)
Considering Kevin’s cope hypermagic decks like herald sayu, there’re even more
yeah i think this patch is so balanced, crab is not invincible, so many decks can beat him and no one is invincible

is this the tcg god KevinZ who did 30 games in two days with a 27-3 score
lost to cyno crab
Cyno crab can beat wriomiya though

No, this the tcg fraud KevinZ who did 30 games in two days with a 27-3 score and lost 3 more times than needed

What's a good alternative to a jeht deck. Is there something that can create a bunch of dice or shields?
Maybe I gotta use the extra old liben and paimon as the only alternative?
I had good results with HSC tbh, does well into crab
yoink is annoying turn 1, but they have to go first and also draw it
And if you go 2nd you can try to play around it
hsc has a 16% win rate against crab in cn tournaments
CN players are just bad

maybe because of robbery
useless timaeus
or you stole the wgs
U see the light
apep turbo surely does not belong here 
it doesnt
not me leaving matches until the last moment and then getting daylight savings'd
lovely country I live in doing daylight savings at random times lmao
I do say to a certain circumstance it still can beat crab
Hold up daylight savings is this weekend??
But with a decent roll at least
for me they were last weekend
I didn’t even
What
How did I not notice
I’m so confused
GOOGLE SAYS ITS November?!

Oh well 
im not american 

grapple is the stupidest card in the game and should be nerfed
Grapple? U mean yumka?
He meant yoink
Bruh no one here for tcg ?
Wdym
Yeah, yumka is yoink
Do we know if this cardback will appear again for next preliminary stage?
not sure if i can win 3 by tonight
it will till further notice
oh so until this seasons over? (as in until 6.0)
not clear about how long but the card back has high chance to rerun in next CTG in the next patch i think
sounds good, feel a little bit better now
got injured and have been unable to play for the last week or so hopefully i get 2 wins in by tonight
unlikely considering queue but we'll see...
ill be def playing too, hoping for your wellbeing as well as winning 2 more
i need to get 3, fun times
shoot i shoulda thought of that you're a genius man
Yoink yoink 🤔
Yoink yoink 
🎩How many business days take to get the rewards and the back!?
Had a brain issue, wasted my arcane for 0 benefit, and my wifi crashed
Top tier end to a run

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i fought against the same guy twice and both times they conceded is there something i was supposed to do orr
unless theyre intentionally feeding u the win
i would send mod mail tbh, i accidentally accepted one so i sent a mod mail
asking doesnt hurt and records your efforts
but according to the rules, you got the win? lol
i took their tenacity t1 and they noped out LOL
ic maybe i will do that when i have time
i dont remember the guy's discord but i have their uid does that work
should be, any info works
theyll work with u
👌
all your matches are saved in the thread in the preliminary-queue
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this is true
bcz i aspire to be better than him
no actually i am
but i want to see fourpeat
He’s still playing eu
Congratulations to @wise shale and @shadow sonnet the two only TRUE NA players in this season to get to LB
Everyone else is just taking a place of someone who should be there

i'm N.A.
lieil NA
i'm not a citizen but i'm natural 
OK my bad not knowing 3 of you
But how bout Dio whom literally went to Asia pc last season?
everyone else is not from NA
Or Anzu or Meo? Or every other alt that I don't know
i think anzu might be native too but idk for sure
We bring this every season cause some ppl feel hurt bout this and nothing is done bout the organization
would u rather see a cringe leaderboard with very little good player

if u remove all the invaders u gonna see ppl with like 14 losses on leaderboard
What's fair it's fair
so like few same ppl is just gonna dominate every patch because skill gap
Or they make a total overhaul of the tournament format
That's already happening
it's not happening if it introduces competition
We seeing 3 alts classifying in top 16 in 3 regions
rn u can't predict who's gonna end up in the finals because similar skill range
That's less total different players
What should be 48 different players is reduce cause some are the same
better than seeing cope at knockout
alright
Imo, competition can never be completely fair. For example, you can argue that less skilled players winning tournaments simply because most of the other skilled players play in other regions is equally unfair.
Let's say CTG doesn't exist and we have one big tournament that includes all 3 regions. If we assume 48 people reach knockout stage, do you really think it will have 16 EU, 16 America and 16 AS players?
You can make an argument that some players playing in two or three regions is unfair, since they have 2x or 3x chances to qualify compared to single-region players, but its not like they are given special privilege to play in multiple regions. Anyone who has time for it is free to do the same.
America server got two times more gold cardbacks than EU server (last year, there were NA and LATAM Prince Cup compared to one EU Prince Cup). That is not fair, so should we take some gold cardbacks from them and give it to EU players? Obviously, no.
But clearly ppl in this server can't see what this is
If you came to CTG to win, looking for the excuse in invaders won't raise your skill level.
If you came to CTG to have fun, you will be met with meta decks whether or not you meet invaders (This is no longer early TCG scene, where everyone brought their own decks. Meta decks are easily accessible everywhere and many people participating in tournaments obviously want to win)
If you came to CTG to improve, facing invaders will help you more than facing less-skilled players.
If you came to get primogems, you are already wasting time and sanity playing 35 games against whale.
If you came to CTG to get 3 wins for the cardback,... Nvm, you probably don't even know invaders exist
That being said, if you don't like invaders, I fully support voicing your opinion and asking for change. However, I encourage you to voice it in a civil way and not resort to personal attacks. Both people who agree and disagree with you will be more eager to listen to your suggestions if you present them in a respectful way.
holy pasta
dvdpasta
i love 🍝
🤌
then stop bringing it up
everybody heard you already
Sorry but I can't be quiet seeing something is not right
bro
hey... i came to this CTG to get my 3 wins for the cardback
pshhh
this is so narcissistic ngl
where is my lia on leaderboard
anyway guys, please break it up
no one is going to convince the other party to see it another way
and things probably won't change so easily
you keep bringing this up just becauss you think your opinion is the only right thing
yo already voiced your opinion
it's good to give feedback and rally people for your cause
but this happens every seasons in discussions
i think it's inevitable
the best thing to do is probably to ignore the conversation when it happens if you're not interested
the same thing is being said over and over again because one person thinks they have the supreme opinion
this is what feedback boxes were made for
technically, tavern's stance is that they strongly discourage the use of alts. but they don't have a good way of enforcing it as a rule right now
all i'm trying to say is that both perspectives are understandable considering the state of CTG
and we have to find a way for them to coexist while being respectful
idk how this guy still thinks he needs to announce the same thing over and over again when they alr have a copy pasta made for them
I dont care bout invaders, they can beat me, but I can beat them too
Soo...it depends really on ur skill level)
and luck, yeah
you are the sole reason why this copy pasta was made
we hear you
we cared for your opinion
and we responded to it
but had to make a copy pasta because you cant stop bringing it up
and its text never changes
because its always the exact same topic
have you tried like, just maybe not responding to it? can just let it be
I wanna backread the actual NA discussions tho
but they get filled up by one guy
but sure cya when the seasonal rant is over
when this dude stops holding NA discussions hostage
To be fair your copy pasta is way longer than any of their messages
Bro why do you think I'm do it here? Why do I ping qixing? Cause I'm an idiot? Well maybe I am. But majorly because I already wrote several times for qixing and nothing is done bout this issue. And as more time pass less ppl complain bout maybe cause they don't care anymore, but i do, and apparently I'm the only one right now doing. It's a issue about the organization not about the players. I think u didn't understand that, I don't come here to harss players, I come here to share my point of view w the community that I already shared w the organization, and that can be the same view of some ppl that simply chose to be silent.

considering even NA residents themselves don't really see it as a problem often means it's not a majority
a few ppl seeing it as a problem isn't going to make it enough of one
the simple solution is to get gooder
also it's not like you checked all the ones who's NA
you mentioned 2 ppl but didn't check everyone else
it really seemed like just ppl you knew
@runic thicket i still remember the game where i lost to u cuz i made a dumbass mistake
I think I lost to you once because I misplayed too
And I did a losestrike (0-4) in last day cuz of massive skill issueing
Idk why but it happens
ugh
oh you didnt make it this season

rewatched that games, and man, i usually never did such stupid mistakes
yeah i think so cuz idk why u didn't just go sayu and sweep
instead of action on herald
but my mistake was just stupid
i literally miscount the dmg
💀
honestly I went through CTG having wrong mindset against XY
was playing like they are kenki/HSC stuff
need to just sac herald
changed mindset but was too late anyways
yea but I did even more stupid stuff trying to keep things alive/random swapping
just need to sac herald and race
not do random swap
either way I fixed those issues now so I know more properly how to play against XY but it was too late by then anyways
I only really had enough practice against crab decks
and I did pretty good into all of them
I think only losing twice
a lot of the decks I lost to I had wrong mindset/didn't really meet them enough times to practice it
If my si and my ting were not addicted to tft
competition is like life
it's not fair
since im a god
i can bend reality
but nah
i like seeing ants struggle
I'm sorry Runa it's my fault
I started the TFT brainrot during the music set
how can it be Lia Lia’s fault
If it has to be someone’s fault, then it’s Kevin’s fault
let’s just bully Kevin
I live in NA and I see it as a problem. But it doesn't matter anymore. People who care already left the chat is mostly made up with "secret" group now. Which is fine I guess eventually the community will die and the 20 or so people can fool around with each other. That said I am proud of the 5 legit NA who made it. Might tune in to the stream now if they get into finals.
you only see it as a problem bc you don’t win buddy 
paypal me 1000$ meowing fee
you can participate in asia as an invader too
It seems like the concept of the best player winning a competition looks outdated to some certain players
Some ppl here doesn't know and doesn't care about sportsmanship is bout
I can agree that participating in multiple regions isn't ideal and would be better if fixed
I'm not lecturing anyone who's teasing me
But calling that unsportsmanlike doesn't really make me sympathetic to the argument
You can blame the system all you want but as soon as you make it about the players you've lost me
I'm an NA resident and I do see it as a problem, but I also don't have enough energy to argue about it today
if there's like a vote or something I'll cast one in that
but honestly my performance this season was plainly bad, and people from other regions were not the reason for my poor finish
true
I think many of us are only doing this because it isn’t prohibited
if one day they decide to change the rule I’ll just stop
remember the finalization hasnt happen yet. There were a bunch of people with errors the top 16 can still shift
Sports and competitions are a challenge against your self, a challenge against your rival and more important some to have fun with it.
Competition is some to enjoy with others and for that we have sportsmanship, the attitude you must have in competition.
Besides all rules sets for the game or to enter the competition there's something more than only the rules. There's where sportsmanship became important.
Sportsmanship can also be called the spirit of FAIR PLAY and in addition to be fair and just sportsmanship also mean you don't do things that make you look bad.
If the organization strongly discourage to do why do it?
And what's worst is everyone is praising it.
It's not my text btw
Quote to Gran Turismo
The thing is that's a subjective opinion at best. Someone else's definition might be entirely different and there's no reason yours is more correct than the others
I don't know anyone is praising it necessarily
My only problem is the stuff directed at players
I agree with the overall sentiment and point
But not how it's being pushed
It is similar to how there are kiddy leagues, high school leagues, college leagues, women leagues, national leagues. If every sport only had the best of the best entering every division. You are not going to build any community or foster any growth. But this is a message for the staff and for them to take it into consideration if they want to promote the mode.
To me the players are doing what is the best EV for them competively, which is to participate in the tournaments they have time for and win more
I mean yeah you can call that selfish or whatever, how you interpret it is really up to you
Ok but that's my point that analogy is flawed because it's not the players enforcing that system is it? Those leagues do have restrictions on who can take part
not by much
i dont think itll affect my bracket
😭
iirc one of the previous times this came up, someone said that they think of CTG as three concurrent, separate, tournaments
and not one tournament split into three regions
Well imo fair play shouldn't be subjective.
Having 3 tickets while most have only one it's not very fair, imo
how can I have 3 tickets?
Bro cmom...
If u can't fix the deal just join them?
this is my main discord. I need it for everything I do. I can't just log into to something else. also where would I get other accounts in other servers?
go against tos and buy them?
grind them up yourself, assumedly
assuming you're using a pc or mobile you can just switch which region when you're creating a new account
for playstation it's more complicated but I don't think impossible
come on just admit you are exploiting a loophole that the average person cant even do
it's an issue of time investment mostly
I don't have an alt because it would be extremely inconvenient to use and I also don't have the time to grind that up
but, like, several people do and that's not necessarily bad
It would be much easier if they just fix this issue by doing little things. Raise AR n world lvl. Raise tcg lvl.
whether to use both accounts at the same time to compete is a separate question
u start a account like a normal person
and grind the cards on it
like what every invader acc do
problem is it takes like a week of doing nothing else to even grind up to AR32, longer if you have a life
at which point you then have to do the grind for cards which is real-time gated
every invader has gone thru that process
Bro ar32 to play in tournament it's a joke. It's a real invite to invaders. Make at least ar55 wl8. At this point everyone had play enough genshin and are far beyond that
u realize not everyone likes to play genshin or at least not anymore
and might not necessarily be ar55
not every tcg player absolute loves to play genshin
there also another one of my paranoia of sus behavior especially toward the end of the week and this is done by "invaders" but I won't talk about it here since I don't have evidence of it yet.
what?
is it fair that the people who have time to grind accounts in multiple regions and then compete in multiple reasons have an advantage, with more opportunities to succeed?
is it fair that people who have more time to practice the game and increase their core skill level have an advantage? Obviously it is.
what makes the two different, really? It's time investment both ways
Yeah I've met genuine players from their respective region who's like AR45, AR52 and such
^

runa is always looking out for me
they put in a extra 15 hour+ worth of grind just for another ticket
give them that ticket cuz its not even against the rules
it’s a never ending discussion 
well tbf, i don't think it will change so easily
to enforce no alts, you would need some form of ID check
and registration for CTG is super simple - yet efficient
what's interesting to me is, using multiple accounts within the same server is already a bannable offense
they probably aren't planning on scaling up matters here to be able to make those changes
even though that has the exact same limitations for enforcement
yeah that’s basically the only way to try to guarantee that people can only play one region
yeah that's true. but i guess they have to draw a line somewhere
the fact that the same isn't banned across different regions indicates that it's deliberate
yeah
i brought up a suggestion many moons ago that you could ID check before KOs starts
and then from KOs, you have already vetted those players from SS
like let people participate on alts until KOs
if they want practice
but KOs/top 16 gets filtered to that region only
i think there would be a lot less activity though unfortunately
and so maybe they will never fully enforce it even if they find the means to
because they want the numbers showing people are playing the game
to justify the prizes
btw this is all my personal speculation
but i think
TCG would need to be more popular, and CTG as well
Yeah I know that what's make me sad. Sorry to venting all out cause I know it's a lost cause
to justify extra enforcement
Hm that does make sense 
we dont need anything so complex. Like I said before ID checks for prize redeem. That would stop all invaders. It is fair for tax reasons as well
you love the game like the rest of us and that's why you care so much. unfortunately the problem is that we don't have the playerbase and our numbers will slowly dwindle, just like official support will. if the numbers were there it might be a different story.
i understand how you feel though
it's just a symptom of a larger problem
if y'all wanna really problem solve, try to figure out how to make GITCG go viral
I can't even recommend this tournament to my other discords and followers anymore. Cuz literally what they told me as well is they facing ar 30 people and getting destroy and it is not worth their time. Before I can at least get 10 or so people to join to collect card backs cuz we mostly completionists.
the 3 tickets also come with 3 time investments. Those players also just simply have more time to put into the game and frankly I think it's fine that they get out of it the time invested.
I think this is fundamentally just a difference in how like, the super competitive players approach the something like this vs someone who is more casual/community oritented. I 100% agree this isn't ideal for community building and I would 100% prefer it was not like this, but I still don't get behind this is somehow the players' fault or that it's because they lack integrity.
if u get destroyed by ar30 ppl what makes it diff if u get destroyed by ar60
i guess what they're trying to say is that there's more skilled players in one server accumulating than there should be? so the chances of running into someone of equal skill is decreased, which is discouraging.
something like that
A proper ranked ladder that's MMR based embedded into the game would fix a lot of problems
And probably also entice people to try
there are definitely more average player than top skill player that plays in this tournament
else it wouldn't make sense for every KO player to have 75% win rate

I'm not putting anyone integrity in question, tho just saying it's not fair. But I've made enough noise for one day and for the entire season.
I'm sorry if anyone feel bad.
All I wanted was what Lia said, let them play but if they can't prove be resident don't let them play the top 16.
But anyway maybe just my skill issue
lol let them play just dont give them money unless id check. the problem would solve itself
To me calling into question sportsmanship is a bit of an attack on the players. If that wasn't your intent that's fair and I know this conversation has dragged on.
That said I think the frustrations are important and I think it's fine to bring them up - I would actually hope the recurring discussions are noticed by the TO's as a hot topic and leads to some change myself - and I would prefer to have them repeatedly if that's what's needed
but isnt it also reasonable to assume if they have the time to exploit, make alts and do all this stuff in a "mini side mode" they would also have bad sportsmanship and resort to other sus behavior?
not really?
personally i befrieded alot of cn players
they seem chill for the most part
no that is not reasonable at all
elaborate sus behavior?
"Sus" behaviors such as...? 
is it reasonable to assume that someone who uses that same amount of time to just grind and practice, would be somehow less likely to have bad sportsmanship and resort to sus behavior?
there's no need to elaborate. It's already a completely unreasonable stance and that's that
i dunno you all called me crazy when I said there were people doing multiple accounts in 1 server. But staff eventually found them. I just leave it at that.
I don't remember that. That's always been a possibility and is solidly against the rules
I never had doubts people would try to do something like that
my first game in this season. was a guy who try to play me with an account different than the uid listed in the match page. They clearly made a mistake and log into the wrong discord account. He cancel game right away. But ya sus behavior
your question wasn't whether there was sus behavior
so this example is pretty irrelevant
i actually remember when i first brought it up about multiple alts people said no one would waste time doing that and I was crazy. I don't remember you supporting me back then.
if I didn't then it probably had something to do with also trying to use that as justification to make an attack on players within the rules playing in multiple regions, like you are now
hopefully you see how those two things are not equal
Yes it’s my fault I take the blame
Bad eyebrows
I got too busy and didn't get 3 wins- my card backge nyooooo
it is fine they be using this card back for the rest of the year as a reward
kevin isn't even part of the problem this time lol
I don't see Proxy or Quagsire on NA or AS leaderboards
and this is why we got 5? 6? NA this time. 🎉
i didn't even finish this time to much crabs cyno and mirrors taking +1 hour
how many games were you off by?
9
we had so many days though. were you close?, cut off at 9 losses it was over for me by day 4
we don't all have that much time though
esp on the west coast I assume, where morning queue is simply not reasonable and evening queue is already halfway over by the time you're home from work/school
😭 yeah
morning queue I can get maybe one match in during my free period at school and the evening queue I'm like over an hour into when I'm just getting home and getting dinner
I would suggest removing morning queue altogether and moving the extra hours to the evening queue (extend till midnight). Would also help to discourage some invaders I think, but mostly because its really hard to play in the mornings (for both students and working people). Even on the weekends I'm not waking up by 9am 
why not make prelim stage open 12 hours a day
I would guess because some mods needs to be on
They kinda do need to extend the hours, as catching up if you miss a day or two is limiting to the meta forcing you to use non stally decks. 5 hour windows should be better.
in order to resolve cases like player not confirming
you can't make it 12 hours a day because prob not enough staff to take care of such issues
longer queue windows mean worse matchmaking
and some people already have problems with that so I don’t think it’ll change
This. And if you’re someone like me who works evenings, I miss evening queue all together
Like I start work at 2pm most days and work until midnight.
I’m getting my sleep in the morning queue, and working in the evening queue.
The only time I can participate is my days off.
I was only able to participate in a single day of queuing. I only was able to play 12 matches.
I’ve been wanting the queue to be extended a For a long time
but I digress
🥱
I wanna get prelim score like roonatoobio

@ancient spindle who did you lose to in asia
"The tournament schedule isn't good because it isn't tailored to me" is what I'm hearing.
I think they've done a good job. A narrow queue slot means better matchmaking. Furthermore, they have limited staff/resources so them covering both mornings and evenings is commendable.
If players in each regional tournament belonged to the region in which they were competing, it would sit better with me both as a player and as a fan of the scene. It doesn't feel right that the best player in the Americas server is not from the Americas region. That's my 2-cents.
But they are doing it after end of preliminary. They watch all messages/reports, and make decisions...
I mean if the opp doesn't confirm you can't queue at all
end of prelim is for score stuff
i thought we can gi cancel that ?
do you just gi cancel and then you get score again later?
and somehow end up with a extra quota
there's a gicancel for AFK players so i think its doable
not sure because from conversations here we just told them to contact qixing
when that happens
but you dont get the point at least I didn't get it. If they do add it later it is at the end but I already did all 35 games so what they going to do give me 36 points?
you mean when using gicancel ?
if you cancel you get another quota
yeah but the game should be counted right cuz it happens during the room existence
one of my games I told you the person I played's uid didnt match. They just press gicancel and the thread was locked.
yeah thats just normal gicancel without a game taking place
You cancel + report player with all screenshots needed and continue queuing
If you finish the match and the opponent doesn’t confirm, you can just cancel and report. This 10 point and 1 EXP will be added to you by Qixing after the prelim stage ends
Prelim stage is never a problem for runa. Her main problem is she can only master one deck at a time so she can never win bo3 or bo5

that's true though, what's stopping from address verification when they send the cash prizes in knockout 
i mean its only eight players in that case too
People surely play multi regions for money
im several hours late 2 the discussion but i think there's a severe lack in resources to help u learn in eng tcg scene thats why the invaders can kick our asses, im a chinese speaker but joined the game in na day one, and when tcg came out i went to cn community to learn how to play it because the guides r very comprehensive, i think the best thing 2 do is not to bitch abt invaders but rather learn from them or translate their content but also i get that not everyone is bilingual
Maybe it’s better to have id check tbh, just to give locals more opportunity
i would love 2 be a translator for cn tcg content but i do not have the time nor the skill (in tcg) lol
i can't tell if this is sarcasm but i'm inclined to believe a majority of the better players (who have won in the past) do
i personally don't have the biggest problem with invaders in preliminary
It’s not sarcasm
I don’t either. They help us queue faster
But considering local players’ concerns, maybe it’s better to have id check to make the local tcg community thrive
yes, my idea is just ID check the top 16
if invaders want to get in some practice games with no reward, thats fine by me

True true
Wait if they have id check starting next patch, this is my last chance to beat that Kevin guy
😞stressed
There was never a chance for you to beat this Kevin guy

I would have beaten you if I didnt play your sayu
oh my god a Quagsire truther
seriously though, the only problem is that we don't really have a lot of people who tick both boxes (can understand Chinese and willing to dedicate time to helping the non-CJK community)
I'm saying non-CJK because it seems like somehow the Japanese and Korean scenes can consume CN content just fine
of course some progress has been made (e.g. Summoners' Summit) but there's still a lot to do
When can I beat Kevin
yeah im just saying this might be the root of the problem bc they aren't inherently better than us they just have more resources and more ppl to play against seriously (me i don't know where to go to practice bc co op is filled with noobs and tcg servers seem dead lol)
would a tighter range on the q hours solve the long q time? If it was only 2 hours. Sure we probably cant fit all 5 games per day but we be able to find games instantly.
I think English tcg community is pretty strong though. We have this Kevin guy cooking meta decks too
In fact cn meta this patch, the crab cyno is originated from Kevin
Why this Kevin guy so good ੭ ᐕ)੭*⁾⁾
we have A SINGLE QUAGSIRE
Even if crab mirror takes more then 40mins?
and that Quagsire says we need more Quagsires

even if it takes 40 mins you have 2 q time slots and extra days
i have never had queue time problem ever, 2 hours is ridiculous
either youre starting too late or... i just don't understand it
I think people are exaggerating cn players’ resource
I think we should assume players will only be able to play in 1 of 2 timeslots every weekday
In fact when I play cn tournaments, many players use meta decks but don’t know how to play it



Omg they're just like me kind of 
In fact in cn community, there’re only a few people who can cook real decks
but then where does the avg na player go to practice though (genuine question bc im struggling to find a place to practice and also learn abt my mistakes when i play)
find a good friend
just one is enough 
Practice with friends and review the games. That’s more useful
yeah lol ive made a few friends this tournament (thanks guys)
Kevin doesn’t even practice with real people. He just practice with npcs
why only 1 find a dozen ✅
will u be my friend 🥺
what's your current rating btw
I think I just dropped to 2900 bc I was playing Kevin’s cope decks.
used to be phantom but I think low phantom players are easier than 2900 people because 2900s are where players want to win the most
what are the in-game rewards you get over there for climbing the ratings?
No rewards
iirc not much really, but starting from 5.0 it is an official pathway to regional major
wait so those mora and book pictures were fake?
i would be glad theres a ranking system in global tcg
other than rewards
rewards in tcg will just make people hate the game more

what mora and book pictures though? 
Where do you see em
I don’t get any
They hate this game anyway
Thank god this helps me kill time
do you plan to get back to phantom any time soon? 
Why would I
not everyone cares about it. I met AFKay when I was 2700
he was testing decks and not caring about scores at all
He can get into fonta cup with tournament scores anyways
Falcon, zzf, AFkay, kkami, ink. These five are the only cn players I personally think can cook real meta decks

who was the people that cook
2 hydro cyno
and apep turbo
pretty sure apep turbo was laobo's dish
so have they each cooked at least one meta deck in the past
that we would recognize

i am curious
They and Kevin cook every meta deck every patch 
I’ll call them Genius 7
Really
idk, he came up with the character lineup really early
but the whole list could be different
its like bennett herald cube was a thing i and rev cooked in 4.7 but CN peeps renovated it in 4.8
so i still considered that their sauce
Idk I think rev is talented too, but these 7 people are frequently and regularly cooking meta decks every patch. Some meta decks may be from others, but these people cook the most
so why are there less than 7 meta decks every patch
/j
I played that deck in 4.7
Even a few games in ctg
lol, i won against conwhale with that
Buy the list is totally different
unless serpent snipe my bennett with adeptus R2
it was winnable
iirc
i also played that against you
but it didnt work
lol
wouldnt any decent conwhale player do that
0% wr is mainly player’s issue
I was just too tired about losing conwhale mirror that day
i know it was a joke
conwhale peeps in ctg
was sth else
And get an even worse WR
That was my favorite patch
because people don’t know how to play mirror
but inzhagi still managed to beat a plenty amount of conwhale with double dragon consistenly
They like serpent burst too much. I can’t understand it
But then I lost to Kevin because this guy baited me to play his herald sayu against him
You can't stop them oneshot something
sniping 1 character sound so funny instead of doing actual progress to buff whale
scorp burst is mostly better
but it was funny
there would be situation where serpent snipe become relevant
10 demage going first on t2 is too attractive
but not like mostly
5.0 crab mirror and 4.7 conwhale mirror has a lot of matchup similarity
it still based on sth people can predict
4.8 keq whale miror was
idk
topyas/lutine gambling 
for me it always discard tada
Who was the guy that cooked hypermagic
Thats the real cook right there
Cooked so hard they break the game and dev had to nerf it
Which is based as hell
jeht?
Yeah
That deck was cooked really early
But no one thought it is stable enough to bring it to competition
i first heard of hypermagic deck through a meme on reddit
falcon brought a xingqiu chong razor list without lotus
Yeah Im surprised no one brought to ctg
and they made a meme that food is overrated
Maybe not yelan tho
because hypermagic is sth that go boom boom boom 1 single round
then it become a dead deck
sure u can lose 1 character and at worst 2, u still can win with your main carry
My falcon is riding camel and enjoying life now
falcon migrate to saudia arabia? 
He went to xinjiang
🦤
to be fair, with all of my desire, i would want for there to be a global invitational instead of 2 PC per year
asia invitational was goat

🐫
I want a global invitational too
I think PCs will still have to exist because CTG is cope 
but yeah we need a global invitational
GCG Worlds '25?
there’s an idea why region merge exist
I think about it
Yeah
It could be global inv
Last year Asia was separate into SEA/KR/JP and CN
Now all 3 initial are merged
same with SA/EU/NA
if they do it just for the sake of making competition become more competitive while limiting golden cardback
Then

To save money for sure
I don’t think that was the reason, if they want to save money, no reason would they need to invest a lot into all the marketing and promo videos, player jersey was nice too 
it’s like they are trying a new campaign or any new ideas for the tournament
developed from last year
Fonta cup also received better promo compared to dynamic cup
128 players LAN event too

You can trust what you trust minty

One day there will be the last TCG tournament due to hoyo stop funding
Then the game die as it should
If that day comes, I still appreciate the tournaments that enable me to get to know a lot of wonderful talented people
🧢
i played wriomiya before him
these type of simple decks aren't cooked by anyone
these are generalist ideas that anyone can come up with individually and simultaneously
for instance Lyney cyno was my idea before kevin decided to replace childe with yelan
but anyone can come up with it
it's nothing special
You sound strong. Are you participating ctg this patch
i got cooked this season
im an ass player
perhaps u are more familiar with this name
my minty remembered 
rev

this was the list i posted in gitcg a week into last patch
:kleesis:
putting 2 cost GT wasn't cooking 
original build i posted in hoyolab in 4.6
HoYoLAB is the community forum for Genshin Impact and Honkai Impact 3rd, with official information about game events, perks, fan art, and other exciting content.
sauce
no i already quit tcg
Rev is strong enough to get golden card back which is harder than ctg

naah ctg is harder
Nomad
Every time me get tricked

Rev didn’t acknowledge 2 cost GT

I don't practice at all
I personally think TCG doesn't deserve the doomposting it has been getting for the past year
that said
the real test starts tomorrow



That's some fair play thoughts
Hmm the person with 314 first in the leaderboard before got removed.
Who is that if I may ask? I don't pay attention to most people's scores sorry💀
This was the before picture
Thanks for the screenshot, my old screenshots don't have some players in here lol
Also kind of surprising this person got kicked. I wonder what happened
And isn't this player the one who ran a popular channel in Bilibili? 
@rose perch werent you the one reporting him or something like that?
What? I dunno who that is
Just heard some rumors
I see the same name as rank 16 in Asia leaderboard so it doesn’t look like they were banned maybe it is a drop out
I think Europe has the same display name too, now I'm even more nosy as to why only the NA one got removed (unless the one in EU & AS is not owned by the same person and I am misunderstanding things sorry
)
They are Xiao Ming a CN Hoyo Content Creator
Oh thanks for the info
the one who does all the tier lists
Wait you are right I just checked my history they used a different username before this was the person who try to play me with a different uid
🦤
I've heard a different story
The guy realized he registered with wrong data before starting the game
So they cancelled and sorted it out with the qixing
But something caused the case to be pulled up again
I never got my win for this game either
So what they conceded in the cancel and I couldn’t q the rest of the day
While it is Xiaoming's fault for not registering with the correct data, I am sure canceled rounds are not wins 
"Try to play you" 🦤
Whatever sus is sus why they even have multiple uid on na to begin with
Maybe they own 2 accounts
And decided to play on the other one
Doesnt even have to be their accounts
They could've just made a typo on their uid
Well if it isn’t his account then that is against tos for genshin
^
It wasn’t a typo both accounts exist and the number not even remotely close to each other
Well I have another one for cheesing Natlan local legends

(o´・ω・`)σ)·Д·)

I'm still waiting for this day for the first player to win 1st place in all 3 regions at the same time
Kevin almost did it
I think kirano was close to doing it back when he was still playing
paypal or mastercard ?

Kleesis payment
🦤
(o´・ω・`)σ

Mirai is too pro, we need quagsirefan
we need proxy to defeat mirai
Oh yeah NA is proxy
not the proxy 
Nooo, Darkshrine

One of my idols. Will lose to him soon
I can’t
You can 


Good luck @willow lion

I miss proxy too
There’s a correlation between proxy playing and invaders winning in NA
Coincidence?

direct correlation or inverse correlation?
It’s obviously a direct correlation
Proxy too op

causation surely 
Are you the NA CTG champion
OMG ima big fan

yay NA defended
it was a psychological warfare

Write it down write it down
EU and NA is defended
Write it down. play KO during cn’s morning

















