Mike: 0:07

Welcome to the Trashalanche podcast. Uh, we are sponsored by Dragon Shield. Shout out to them. Uh, my name is Mike Fouchet. I'm here with Brit Pybas. We do not have Brent or Caden this week. Brent is trapped in jury duty and I think Caden is still in school today. So, uh, you just got Brit and I. Um, it'll be a pretty short episode probably. We just want to talk about the results of Portland this past weekend and kind of just some of our thoughts heading into Connecticut in two weeks and what we think of the meta game and whatnot. So, Brit, you watched a bunch of the stream this weekend. Yeah.

Brit: 0:48

Yeah, I really did have a fair amount. It definitely, like the time zone being West Coast compounds the difficulty, it was just me being at my computer at a good time. So like, I'm like, I'm always saying the EU events are always like in the morning, which is when I'm always at my computer for the most part. Mm-hmm. Um, but yeah, I did, I did get to watch a fair amount of streams. I caught the, the, the, the live, the Covid for one in the Giratina VStar. I caught that play live. Um, among, amongst other things. So, yeah. Yeah, I saw a fair amount, a decent amount of games here and there. Um, and yeah, I sort of curious, I, I think like, I'm not sure where you would wanna start necessarily, but I feel like our, our meta game predictions at least, uh, for day one were like 100% spot on. I mean, not to say that it was necessarily hard to call, but just we sort of had a, a good conversation wondering, you're speculating like how. You know, to, to what extent can we add, you know, local results, cup results and things like that. Factoring that into our, our regionals sort of forecasting as we've just kind of never been able to do that before, weirdly enough, as you know, it's just kind of a staple of how the games works, at least, you know, in the modern era. But since. You know, since the inception of the podcast and things like that, we've, we've had online results and, you know, the regional of the week and not, you know, nothing else to pull from. And, but just based on that, we, we speculated I think, pretty, pretty strongly that Garda war would be the most played deck. And it, it definitely was with kind of like Lugia and Mew, kind of down to similar levels with all the lost box and, uh, GJA and so on, sort of filling in, um, everything after that.

Mike: 2:25

Yeah. Yeah, I agree. We were, we were pretty accurate. Lost box. I'm not, I'm, they've been splitting lost box into like two categories, I think usually on the graphics, but I'm still uncertain whether, uh, This graphic that was shared. I, I dunno if you saw this one. Um, but I don't know if this one shared is them combined. Uh, so Gardevoir was like 20%, a little over 20%. It says lost own box was 19.9%. That could include Sard, but I assume not. I'm not a hundred percent sure. I think I just, I would

Brit: 3:02

assume, yes. I would assume by pulling GDR out. That they would list. I, I, I don't think charar itself, like six percentage wise, like, you know, it probably doesn't have as much as gure overall, but like I, it's hard to say, you know, it really could go either way. I would, I would guess that they're all lumped in together and the fact that. Udra, you know, is its own thing. Like perhaps they would list Giratina as its own deck. Were, were it, to have had enough play on its own to, to warrant a, a place on the chart. Mm-hmm. But again, it, it really just speculative,

Mike: 3:40

I. Yeah. Um, and then, yeah, like you said, Lugia and Mew. Mew is about the same as it's always been 11% and Lugia did drop down to that level. Ma ride on making the top six most played decks top five, most played decks is not something I would've expected. Um, considering how poorly it did, I mean, it did make one top eight spot in the U I c, but other than that, it was very bad. Um, and it kind of did the same thing here, like one top eight and then. Nobody else really. Um, which is funny. And Gure basically chugging along at the same percentage. So yeah, agreed. And then, but then the day two meta game, a lot different, right? Um, Lawson did very well, really good conversion rate. Lugia had pretty good conversion rate. Gardevoir really bad conversion rate. Um, Mew, more or less the same. Arceus Giratina, very good con, I mean, hard to say exactly that had a really good conversion rate, but it certainly had plus certain Mew Plus and then Gure about the same. Um, so Arceus Giratina ended up taking down the event. Uh, this is two Arceus wins in ARO now. Um, I'm not surprised to see Arceus doing well. At this. I'm not surprised that it did well at this morning, but I am a little surprised that it won. Um, but I know you really liked Arceus Giratina going into this event, Brit, so you wanna talk about

Brit: 5:10

that? Yeah, I, I mean, it's complicated to say. I wouldn't say my interest in it necessarily had anything to do with a meta game forecast. I think that in general, the deck has like, Pretty, pretty neutral matchups across the board. I would even go as far to say, like a lot of them are probably even something closer to 45, 55, you know, to, to the point where you're probably not favored, but you, you're always in, um, you're, you're in every matchup, generally speaking. And kind of the, the main reason why I started talking about it, and the main reason I really started chewing on it and thinking about it over the last week is, you know, we've talked a lot about, you had good conversation last week about battle v i p pass and sort of how a lot of. Power of these other decks is sort of compounded in by your capacity to, to get rid of them. You know, whether that's Kirlia a discard, whether that's chorus, experiments choices and things like that. But anyways, all that to say that I've just been frustrated playing and playing v i p decks and just like kind of, you know, spinning my wheels from turn two if I, if I don't see the, the v i p pass right away. And so I really like that. Oricorio Giratina in particular, just really, I think it kind of does two kind of. Two, two really big parts of the format right now. Arceus, Giratina, I think, kind of navigates very well. One is the v i P problem and it just, it just doesn't play them and kind of is consistent enough with four level ball or not level ball, four ultra ball and four nest ball, and then, you know, just the raw power and, and simplicity of R C s. You know, we saw Succeed not just in Giratina but with Embryo, which was really cool. That was actually something else I was thinking about, just like Arceus and things just seemed really good to me. And the other thing that the deck does really, really well is just Path Judge and path over and over and over again. And so, just a frustration I found playing the Lost Box decks is that it feels like, you know, no matter how good your starts are, you know you have to. Hopefully start, start off pretty well, but at a certain point in a lot of matchups, like the Lugia matchup, the Gardevoir matchup. Certainly, I know, I know some players. I think were going up to like the second copy of Judge, uh, you know, or maybe judge in Roxanne and things like that. Just the, the, the, the additional hand reset in Gardevoir to help against. Lost box and I like just, and obviously m a lot of muse power is just that. It's the path and prey deck, you know, talk to Pablo about sort of how successful that strategy was for him at L A I C. And I just, it does. Both of those things at the same time. It, it, it is the path aggressor or what have you, it is the, the player playing the most judges. It doesn't have to deal with v i p passes. And it, and also another good, maybe big third point here is that it's pretty judge proof itself and that's sort of a big problem of the lost box stacks. Um, there's just no solve really for. Judge, like you can, you can play, you know, you can thin your deck to the best of your ability and so on, and things like that, and try to get it really, really thin. But as a lost box player, you're just always going to have a really big hand. There's just nothing. There's not a whole lot you can really do to, you know, get down to only a couple cards. So the judge is, you know, never bad. Again, you can, you can play it to the best of your ability, but you. Our, I, I find a lack of sort of agency there and that feels bad, whereas Arceus just has the bi, it's ready to go. I, I really like that. Again, as another thing here where a lot of matchups, I, you know, from the tournament report a couple weeks ago where I felt I like played two guardians and Swiss and I beat the one where the judge didn't work and I lost to the one where the judge did work and having these matchups that are just, Uh, you know, maybe overly simplistic, overly reductive, but just having like a simple, just like check like that, just like, all right, you know, we, we do, we do our little dance for a couple turns, but the only thing that mattered the whole game is this one judge. Like that never feels good for either player, I don't think. And Arceus it, it has good answers to all these just sort of inherent problems that I, I'm not a fan of. And at the cost of, like I was saying before, kind of just being even ish against everything else.

Mike: 9:17

Mm-hmm. I mean, that all sounds accurate to me. Um, did you get, did you look at the, uh, the other Arceus list that made top eight?

Brit: 9:32

Yeah. Yeah. The, the one with embryo and, and a bunch of other, a bunch of weird cards. Bunch of weird

Mike: 9:38

cards. I feel like it took the idea of Arceus pile to a, to a new level. Like it had embryo, I think it had Aldon too, right? Yeah. Yeah. Aldon. But then it had the Radiant Aza and Halluc, which I think is like a funny combo. I think he said that the, the main idea was to. Punished Dragonite and lost box. So like when they hit with Dragonite, they put a bunch of damage, then you can move around, uh, damage. And I think one more easily KO the dragonite. I think that's probably the primary thing. Um, but also I'm sure you can make some cheeky plays where you, you know, move all the damage to a comfy and then you get an like one free prize before the end of the game. Yeah, it's

Brit: 10:21

really good. I, I really like the halluc in general too. Like it's, it's not obviously as good as, uh, Zigzagoon, but that's something I felt like I would play, or at least if I, I would try, I would test it if I were messing around with these rcs experience, especially when you got the belts and things like that, just to like return to last year and R c S's power, you know, a lot of it came from that turn too, being able to always chase down any v that it wanted with just using the star ability for like boss and, you know, one other piece of the puzzle that you needed and. I mean, I think in general that we're just like, you know, not just here, you know, these last two events, but, uh, the, when rcs Gja won the regionals earlier in the year, it was like, uh, kind of a quiet, a quiet win for rcs two. It just feels like maybe in general we lose sight of just how strong the consistency of RCS is. Just this kind of guaranteed computer search on top of just being so, Minimal on like the resources that it's needs. You know, you barely, you need, you need rcs and you have four, three rcs and double turbos and consistency cards that every deck's already playing. So it's like, it's just easy to fit. I mean, pile, you know, you just, you tech it out, you take it, you know, to the wazoo with pics and dal down and embryo and you know, you just keep going. Maybe, you know, peek at you, so on. But yeah, it seems really strong to me and like, I don't know, like I think it will just always, or at least me similarly, I'm really looking towards like next format and just really kind of trying to see if I can find an RCS concept. Just to really, really sort of like refine and pin down that, you know, answers the format in the way that these decks have. It's just something about the concept is particularly appealing to me right now.

Mike: 12:01

Yeah. Yeah, I mean that makes total sense. Um, Arceus also, just to shout out, Friend of the pod Lee, he started 10 oh and then couldn't, couldn't get the last like win and then tie to to make top eight unfortunately. So he made top 16 and then there was another Arceus Giratina also in top 16. So four Archeops. In top 16, Arceus had a really good showing overall. And I think part of that is kind of the other big story of the event is the reemergence of Lost Box. Um, going into U I C, it was very well accepted that Lost Box was the best egg in the format. Um, I think probably because of that, a lot of. And very good players did not opt to play the Mirage Gay Greninja version of Lost Box. Um, we saw like the Azul group play, the Radiant Charar version. Um, pretty much just the Australians a as far as like really, really elite players brought it, um, and didn't do too hot. Um, and that could have been a lot of different factors, but going into this event, it was the second most played deck. And, you know, very by a very slim margin. And then super successful, I think, again, in large part because very good players played the deck. Um, grant made top four, uh, Andy Gantner made top four. Uh, Alex Schlansky played the Kio, the kind of the more Nick Moffitt version, but, um, still, you know, Mirage Gate, lost box, uh, and made top eight. Um, Isaiah Williams got 10th. Azul lost a winning in and ended up getting 19th, but he, if he won, he could have made top eight. Uh, Cal Connor got 20th. And then it's kind of interesting because then there's like not that many mirage gate lost box in day two until you get to like the bottom. So I feel like that kind of speaks to the, uh, skill cap of the deck. Like you have the same people and or. Just very good players, uh, doing very well with the deck and then a lot of the other people that made day two. Not that they're bad players, but I think it's a significantly harder to play that deck in day two when you're playing against. Everyone's pretty good. Uh, And you can, you make one mistake with that deck and it's, uh, you could just lose the game immediately. So, um, it'll be interesting to see how that change or like the, the, the change in success of what was previously thought as the best deck and maybe is the best deck in the format. How that affects, how, how that changes going forward to Hartford. I think personally, I think it'll kind of end up somewhere in the middle of E U I C and Portland where a lot of people will say, oh, okay, I can play this deck now, but do I wanna play it? It just did really well. Maybe it's gonna get countered again. Um, and as we were just talking about with Arceus, Arceus is pretty good against Lost Box and the other deck that got, uh, top two in the finals, Reagan. With Lugia. Lugia is also pretty good against Lost Box. Um, obviously Landon and Reagan beat the two lost box in top four. Um, so it, it, it's kind of interesting. Um, do you have any thoughts on Mirage Gate, lost box? Um, nothing

Brit: 15:28

really. I mean, it's, it's so hard to. You know, look past just the power. I may just take Azul and Grant, grant in particular, just have played it for, you know, so long, so many months now, and it's just always so strong. Um, always just, yeah. I mean, I guess I keep saying this about every deck, and maybe that just speaks to the format. Mm-hmm. But, you know, every, uh, you're in every game, you know, at least. Mm-hmm. If you, if you have the, you know, comfy v I p or you know, even just like comfy netball, start. Um, you're in every game. But yeah, it feels like kind of we've, I think like after, you know, months of iteration and things like that, it feels like we're pretty solved on the Mirage gate. Like you, you pick, you know, you, you answer yes or no to kayo and you know, that answers a couple things. But beyond that, it just feels like we've really sort of like locked down the. I mean, I guess the main question too is just between is your seal stone answer, you know, whether you play both, whether you just play forest and, um, I think the split seems to be winning out, generally speaking. Um, no, no, no, no real insights or thoughts. It's just mm-hmm. It's so strong. It's just gonna, it's always going to be, I think, very powerful. Yeah. Um, until

Mike: 16:47

it cycles. The only, the, the only additional thing, uh, with the seal stone stuff is I feel like if you're playing kyo, you probably don't play the sky seal stone. But if you're not playing kyo, then you could definitely consider sky seal stone. Um, I know personally for me, I, I. Man, Kyo just is like so brutal to play, man. Like, uh, Andy Gantner did not play Kyo, but Grant did, and Azul and Isaiah did. And then obviously Alex played the more dedicated kyo. Um, K is just so brutal to play. I don't think, like, I know that I can't do that for whatever, 15 rounds in a tournament. Like that's, But respect, very much respect for the people that wanna do that to themselves. Um, I don't think I want to though. Um, I feel like Mew and Lugia had about, like we said, they were played at about the level we thought, I think they had about the success that we thought there was one of each and top eight. Um, a little bit more Lugia, uh, in like the top. 16 than Mew, but there's a bunch of muse just outside of top 16. Um, so I feel like both of those decks are still quite strong. And kind of going back to your, your comment of every deck kind of feels in it. I, every deck is like really close against each other. Like every deck kind of has anywhere from like 40 to 60, you know, 40, 60 to 60 40 matchups. There's really not a whole lot of blowouts in this format. Um, Even Gardevoir against Lost Box is like, not that unfavored. It's probably one of the more unfavored matchups in the format, but it's not much worse than like 35, 65. Um, and I guess that's kind of the other thing that I wanted to talk about is the lack of success of Gardevoir. Um, none in the top eight. Not one in the top 16. And then there was, you know, a handful in top 32 and whatnot. Um, but Gardevoir did not do as good. Uh, and I think that could be a combination of the players that played it. Um, obviously the success of Lost Box definitely heard it as well, but if you look at like, you know, any random Gardevoir. Actually, I'm looking at a rent. The, the, the guy that got top 16, his losses were, uh, one lost box and then tied two lost box, and then lost to a, uh, ArcHa. Giratina. So, He definitely got hit by lost box for sure. We even saw some players, some good players play the The Guardian Mewtwo variant. I think in anticipation of lost box being popular. Grant Chen made top 32 with, uh, the Gardevoir Mewtwo and most of his losses or half of his losses were to mirror Gardevoir. So I guess that's kind of the trade off. You're like taking a worse mirror match to play the Mewtwo V-Union. Um, I still think Gardevoir is a very good deck. Uh, it's, it's good, it's like favored into pretty much everything else except lost Box. So it's kind of like everything else in that, you know, it, it has game against everything. Just not as much against Lost Box. Um, I'd be pretty confident, uh, with it into like, not Azul and Grant, uh, but against them, I, I, you know, probably gonna take the loss there.

Brit: 20:37

Yeah, definitely. I guess like it's, it's harder, at least it feels like we should be like, or at least me or in general, um, like praising the format, it seems like, oh yeah, it sounds like, isn't this exactly what you want? Like a lot of decks where everyone's in it and like, Yes. Like, you know, of course I think the answer to that is yes, but it just still feels like, uh, outside of certain things going wrong, it feels like these things are just all so, so much decided on like, the start, you know, on the first couple turns, whether you, and I guess I think that's another thing that like rcs, um, not that it can necessarily play from behind, but it, it needs very little, you know, you can kind of start with, you know, again, you don't play the v i P passes. You can just have like rcs into rcs and kind of eventually get going from there. Where it feels like with Guardian, it's like, oh, I don't have a full bench on my second turn. Like, like things are gonna get bad really fast. Yeah, that's true. Um, but yeah, I mean I do think it's shaping up and I'm hopefully optimistic about the next

Mike: 21:35

format. So I know you're thinking more and more about the next format, and I am also excited about it too. If you had any, I know you're not gonna Hartford. If you were going to Hartford, do you think you would probably jam an Arceus deck?

Brit: 21:52

Yeah, I think 100%. Um, yeah. Cause I, I think like after my two cups, I, I definitely said like, yeah, I think I'd be playing guardy if I, if I had the cards or if I, you know, if I really wanted to play any Eck in the format. But yeah, I think I would play Arceus. Giratina, I think, I don't think I would mess with, you know, any of the pile options. Mashing, VMAXs and stuff together. Like, um, I mean, maybe not. Again, light did pretty well with the Dal, and I feel, I feel like the. Giratina is just neutrally strong. I mean, just the, the high damage is just a little better than needing route on to be effective or needing to hit with weakness on, um, with embryo and things like that. Um, I feel like there's maybe some direct different things you could try, or at least I'm always interested in. You know, another thing I, I'm not sure really how you could push the engine. I like, um, I don't know. I've been seeing the kind of the cool developments of the chars art list that I've seen, like Keon made. Top 16 or top 32, I think with a, a pretty cool list. And like I've been seeing like one mirage gate in some of these lists and I like that a lot. Like maybe you could play that in Giratina. If you ever get like after a couple attacks in like a cholera, you might be able to power up a Giratina out of nowhere, potentially. Mm-hmm. Um, it seems interesting to me, but yeah, otherwise it's just kind of like max consistency from there and I really, I enjoy that of course. Um, I've to think pretty hard or a little harder on like where I think the meta game would go next cuz it, you know, obviously answering that affects your, your deck decision. Um, I would, I mean maybe we come a little full circle again to something closer to you. I see, you know, Lugia being maybe a different variable there, but just it's back to lost box. Everyone's kind of playing that or figuring out how to beat that Again, going into Hartford.

Mike: 23:44

Yeah, some of my thoughts are like, I think Archeops and Lugia will see a bit more play, not like ridiculous more. But you know, coming out of Portland's first and second, I feel like those decks will both get a little bit of a boost. Cause not only are they just good decks, but they're also like the only two decks that. Take a slightly favorable lost box matchup in the format. And so if you see the overall meta game in Portland being very dominated by lost box, you gotta think, okay, I don't really wanna take a loss to that. Um, and so, so I feel like that's inevitable. Luie and Arceus get a little bit of a bump. And so based on that, Does that mean Lost box does a little bit worse? Maybe. Maybe not. Uh, uncertain. But yeah, I kind of agree. I think it'll even out. It'll be somewhere in between E U I C and Hartford. I think Garde will probably do a bit better. It should be significantly less popular. Um, Maybe down to like the Mew Lugia level, um, of like, you know, 12%, which is kind of where it was at for E U I C. Maybe a little bit higher than that. Maybe it'll be like 14, 15. Um, but it'll definitely be a lot less popular. Um, so I think people will not respect Gardevoir quite as much, which I think is fine. Um, uh, I think a lot of the decks just have their game plan against Gardevoir anyway. Um, But things that you might see differently, like Reagan played in his LucMetal list. He didn't play stone Jon at all. He only played the evil tall. And I think part of that was for, you know, the Mew and the Gardevoir matchup. Part of it is he also had the Urshifu. So the Urshifu is, um, kind of fills the fighting role if you really need it. But you might see LucMetal, this opta play Stone gurner, uh, over evil tall. Again, like that's just like a really small change that, you know, shows a little bit less respect for Gardevoir, because personally I do think Stone Joiner is a bit better. It's a little bit more flexible than Volta is, but, Al is better in, you know, those, those matchups. Um, and I don't think your me matchup is really determined by, if you play al or stone joiner, it just is determined if you get to, uh, use your VStar power or not. Um, so those are some of my initial thoughts. I personally will probably be playing Gardevoir. I've played a lot. I, I like playing it. Um, I could be convinced to play something else. I. Would also strongly consider playing Lugia? I think Lugia is a great play into, uh, Hartford right now. Um, like I said, it's one of the few decks that takes a pretty good lost box matchup. It's not ridiculously hard to play. Uh, you can finish three games, which is really nice. Um, that's another really good thing about Archeops by the way too, like, games are relatively quick. You get to play three games, you know the game, you go second and your archist gets kod on turn two before you, you know, gets it up. You just scoop, you go onto the next one, it's fine. You don't care that much.

Brit: 27:01

Um, Definitely not a lot of games or like a lost box is always just, oh, maybe I can still do it. I'm gonna come back. I'm got a lot of single prizes. Yeah. And things like that. Whereas here it is just, yeah, definitely no decision. You're just, you're, you're done. You got turn two dragonite or whatever. I'm out. Yeah. Yep.

Mike: 27:18

Exactly. Um, So for me right now, guardian Lugia are kind like my top two choices. Uh, I was messing around a lot with Mera on this past week. Um, I don't know if you saw me posting at all in that. Yeah.

Brit: 27:33

It seemed, it seemed promising to me. I I didn't keep up where, with where it went.

Mike: 27:37

Yeah. It was just like a Turbo mira on list. I got the idea actually by listening to Azul and Chips podcast last week. Um, it didn't ro run Reggie Lucky. Just Mira Raku Raichu and like a ton of energy and it was pretty good. It was running pretty well. Um, but it's not that great Intel Lugia if they play Stone Jer because they just kind of trade a little bit better. And it's really not good against Arceus Giratina because you can't, without lucky, like the only way you can take a A one shot is with ride shoot V and you can really only do that once a game, not early on. So if they go first, um, If they go first, then get a R q s VStar on turn two, like you're kind of dead. Um, so I feel like taking an unfavorable into the decks that just got first and second is not that good of an idea. Oh, and it's also not great against, it's good against Lost box in general, but not lost box Kyo, cuz Kyo will just eventually take four prizes on you. So, All three of those decks did quite well this past weekend. So I'm gonna shelve the Turbo on for now. But it was a, it was a cool deck. Um, I

Brit: 28:46

wasn't, I guess, yeah, I wasn't surprised that it top eight, like, I think like it's, it does have some Okay matchups. If you, if you draw really well, like, I think you're pretty, pretty strong into garde. Um, if you, if you're just like, Start taking prizes immediately. It's a hard matchup for them to come to sort of out trade you with if they fall too far behind. Mm-hmm.

Mike: 29:07

Yeah. The list I got top eight is actually pretty cool. You know, it has the flay, it plays one one on the stones, so one four Co, one Sky Seal. I actually got paired against on Ladder and when I was playing Lugia and I didn't, I hadn't looked at the list yet. And so I just got out the Urshifu VMax cuz it was my fighting guy. And then he just goes, ride to Sky, seal Stone, take four prizes. I'm like, all right, you got that dude. Um, so yeah. All right, well, anything else? Um,

Brit: 29:46

no, no. Nothing seems worth worth noting here. I mean, I guess, um, yeah, not to talk about it. It seems like it was not the best event to be at. Mm-hmm. Oh yeah, that's true. Obviously none, none of us were there, so, and I haven't like read, read anything. I've just seen people kind of say that it was bad. Yeah.

Mike: 30:05

Yeah, I don't wanna comment too much either, but cuz I wasn't there. But yeah, I, uh, it didn't seem like the most fun event to be at. Took a long time for sure. Um, and the stream, I know you wanna talk more about the stream maybe next week. Um, but the stream was just like real. The games that were played were actually really cool, like lots of really interesting things happened, but they're just like, Wasn't a lot of games.

Brit: 30:32

Long time. Yeah. It was really, really hard to find a game it took forever.

Mike: 30:36

Yeah. Which is unfortunate. Um, but maybe we can talk more about that next week when we got everybody here. We'll also give a more concrete preview going into Hartford. Um, I don't have any local events. Actually, I have a league challenge next Monday night, so I am excited for that. Oh, and I did wanna mention, I actually have took it taken over a league in Philadelphia. Um, it's at Redcaps Corner, which is a store that has been around for quite a while. Um, and they ran Pokegear events. Um, I don't know, maybe. Since I got back into playing like in 2015 or so up until Covid, but until, um, just a couple months ago, their league leader and tournament organizer had moved during the pandemic, so they hadn't had anything going on. Um, and so I took it over. Um, so I ran my first league session a couple weeks ago. I have another one this week. And luckily since the store has such a history, They are still allowed to run League Challenges and League Cups, so I'm gonna be looking to schedule those in the next week or two. Um, so if you are in the Philadelphia Jersey, D m v Northeast area, uh, look out for that. Uh, we would love to see you come down, uh, to red Caps. Right now I'm running league on Wednesday night, so I know that's like hard to get to, but once we have stuff on the weekends, Uh, I'd like to see people. Um, it's, I I'm interested in kind of foraying into, uh, this slightly different role of a organizer. I don't know, I don't know how much I want to emphasize being like a judge versus a player, but at least this gets my feet wet so I can kind of make that decision. So,

Brit: 32:27

Yeah, it's fun if you've never done it before. I don't. I used, used to be like a tournament organizer and, uh, judge and would run league tournaments and stuff here and there when I was younger. Mm-hmm.

Mike: 32:39

Yeah. Should be cool. All right people. We will see you next week. Thanks for listening.