TCG Tord Reklev Vs Kamal Crooks Valdez - 2024 Pokémon Peoria Regional Championships Swiss R9

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[@SpacePlastic420]

I could tell this was a Tord gameplay video just by the video length lmao

[@winwi000]

Why is that? Seems a normal length to me

[@SpacePlastic420]

@@winwi000 Because Tord routinely slow plays his matches to time and no one does anything, watching his games are like watching paint dry.

[@DaZeroHero]

The round last 50 minutes that’s a bad take. He also didn’t slow play and actually attacked when he had no need to in game 2 he wasn’t slow playing stop making accusations because you can’t day 2

[@DaZeroHero]

And if you watched and payed attention his opponent has 4 ties shows who was more likely to have played slowed during this event?

[@NeonTownExchange_Jack]

Tord is the only player to not get time violations.

[@anthonymarquez5357]

One of the yugioh legends Kamal! Cool to see him also playing Pokémon.

[@plotwiist6817]

of course using a auto pilot deck lmao

[@charlieshand8067]

@@plotwiist6817 What does that mean? Yugioh is significantly harder to play than Pokemon. Lol

[@ihaveanamewow1983]

@@plotwiist681790% of pokemon decks are autopilot if you know what you are doing nobody giving u a medal for noticing one deck is like that 💀

[@colonel101]

KAMALL!!!! Its good seeing more yugioh players playing pokemon. IMO pokemon is way more fun at this current time

[@AdMar64]

I agree with you. Pokemon gives me more fun than yugioh rn

[@plotwiist6817]

auto pilot deck ofc

[@huntsolo2411]

@plotwiist6817 bro are you that salty that your going on every post about Kamal playing auto pilot? Lmao

[@kiwi2257]

Pokemon has been more fun since forever tbh. Way more diversity in the metagame and way, WAYYYYY less bullshit. Yugioh has been a total mess of nonsensical powercreep for over a decade.

[@kep2871]

Tord was definitely not playing excessively slow imo. Gardevoir just takes a long time to win sometimes

[@immeasurable]

kamal needed a break from yugioh 😹😹

[@asleepydude5941]

💀💀💀LMFAOO

[@Thatguyonsax4557]

Kalal could’ve won the first game when gardevior ex was in the active he could’ve quick searched for vitality band to do the 10 more damage to gardevior wich means he could’ve used vitality when he didn’t twice

[@oliviervincent7365]

someone have the decklist of kamal 🙏

[@maddenmike4994]

The purely god

[@ThePipeMax]

Best Slow Player 🥰🥰

[@prestiapreciousmetals2475]

last time I played Kamal I beat him.... lmao

[@nebulaboi4798]

Honestly the whiff on the zacian by 10 could have at least a tiny bit of good considering tord cant add any more energy to it so its not as much of a threat and is also a bench lock but at the same time the prize trade just isnt worth it

[@tiodragonclovis9611]

Como ele conseguiu jogar pesquisa de professor no primeiro turno da segunda partida?

[@yimfor8950]

Kamal so passou o turno, fazendo nada

[@JoelMartinez-po4jj]

Hope he doesnt slow play his opponent to a draw again💀

[@coolyeh1017]

Ironically Kamal is also known in Yugioh as a slow player, just so happens he goes against THE slow player of Pokemon.

[@adamfrazer9490]

Can’t stand everyone all over tords “slow” play everything he does is within the rules it may be a lil unsportsmanlike but playing within the rules that have been set

[@keirvine07]

Please explain... second round. Kamals first turn he uses rare candy to evolve charmander to charizard.... rare candy says you can't use your first turn? Please explain

[@MarcosBurgosR]

He went first and passed, without doing anything. So you might have thought it was his first turn.

[@JoseRodriguez-kw9ez]

They should include free memberships for people who get top four in worlds

[@yeyoyeyoify]

How did he play Iono and boss on the same turn lmao?

[@Atilakus]

He didnt. Iono was in hand as emergency

[@datamarulp1875]

Didn't he play Lumineon to get Iono from deck, then use the boss from the Gardevoir draw?

[@MB656]

You are correct, the lumineon took the IONO but then the guardevoir got him the zacian before using iono @@Atilakus

[@MisoraRyuu0921]

Waifu deck >>> Charizard

[@machiya69]

リザードで殴る意味あった？

[@mohammedal-hammadi5133]

yay finally a match that has my faviorte player tord reklev

[@AngelsVault]

idk how kamal couldnt win with CHARIZARD EX omg...

[@DaZeroHero]

It’s a 50/50 I beat 2/3 charizards with gardy during the same event

[@Hella_Animations]

Idk why you were under the impression zard could constantly beat a good garde player

[@DaZeroHero]

Kamal also threw hard as hell and gave Tord an easy game one

[@frzy970]

@@DaZeroHero yeah all he needed was the vitality band lmao

[@Slasherx28]

Tord Reklev needs to be BANNED from Pokémon TCG. He is a known slow player and therefore a cheater. People need to STOP featuring him and actually do something about his manipulative play. WATCH his match against Alberto Vengeva where Tord INTENTIONALLY slow played when he knew he couldn’t win. TERRIBLE sportsmanship. Tord is NO CHAMPION in my books

[@mr.fluffypantz4150]

Too harsh. Yes he is being a problem. However I’ve sat and timed every action in several of his stream rounds. He almost never takes more than 15 seconds on actions, probably as often as most players. He does everything “within the rules”, he just plays in an absurd way, considering his hand for 6 seconds before playing a nothing card for 10 seconds, shuffling 8, considering hand for 6, and doing a nothing card again. He has quite obviously planned out how long he can take on each action to not trigger a slow play call. It’s very hard to point to a single action that is too slow, the problem is his play on aggregate uses one of the most turbo action heavy decks, and the strange playstyle with nothing fast is enough to make games take upwards of 35-40 minutes. I believe his play should result in penalties, but the problem isn’t him, it’s the judging staff and more realistically the rule book. The rule book gives quite vague definitions of slow play. Tord seems to have somehow convinced himself that his weird action maximizing isn’t slow play. It definitely is a different type of slow play than what we’ve seen before. I should be clear that you’ve never been required to take prizes. If I am up 1-6 and my opponent isn’t conceding, I’m super allowed to thin my deck for iono proofing and pass. Tord’s play is closer to that than taking 30 seconds per action. I think it’s wrong to do, but the judging staff seems to agree with him. What really needs to happen is either the judging staff needs to start giving him warnings or they need to modify the time control to make this sub-optimal. You can’t blame him for doing something the judging staff seem to have decided is okay. If they make a statement and start giving him penalties, I have enough faith in him to think he will stop having been told it’s against the rules. If they explicitly don’t do that, you really can’t blame the guy for coming to the conclusion it must be within the rules. It’s poor sportsmanship, and it definitely degrades my opinion of him, but there are much more healthy and less toxic steps to addressing it instead of raw dog banning the guy. He’s a really sweet person just making some decisions I don’t like and nobody with power is telling him it’s wrong.

[@Slasherx28]

@@mr.fluffypantz4150 you’re right too harsh and your analysis is much better than my emotional and overactive response. Thanks for this.

[@mr.fluffypantz4150]

My second comment, tord’s opponents are doing a terrible job as well. I’ve watched several of them play lost game states for an extra 15-20 minutes to the final prize. If they concede with enough time he can’t stall them out, he will play quickly because he doesn’t want to tie. They also need to get over best player syndrome and call a judge and voice that they think he’s slow playing. Nobody does either of those things seemingly

[@TwistedxGamer101]

@@mr.fluffypantz4150 It’s kinda funny starting to watch and enjoy competitive Pokémon TCG from being an avid MTG fan. People playing MTG competitively will use anything and everything they can to get a win. It’s caused some controversy over the years with people trying to rules lawyer too much, but man it seems absent in Pokemon to call a judge

[@coolyeh1017]

​@@TwistedxGamer101usually because it is agreed that all players do it even if it is infrequent (i.e. taking like 15 seconds longer to play than normal). Once you rule shake be prepared to be rule sharked into oblivion. So most of the top players just don't bother unless the judge watching thinks it is outrageous.