The Pokemon Company International, Inc.

Yeah.

And then now TPCI has to figure out how do we, um, how does that translate to releasing elsewhere around the world?

Mm.

Right? And so it's not like TPC is, is making the set-

Yeah

... and coming up with, like, all, "This set's gonna be huge," right? So TPC's coming up with that set, and now TPCI has to figure out how do we- How do we release this?

Mm-hmm.

And I think booster boxes, i- if they're gonna remain big-

I mean, we've been around for so long.

There has to have been at least one person from Game Freak or, like, TPCI that's listened to us.

Oh, yeah.

I'm just waiting for that one guy.

I'll try and make my way out to Brazil next year, but...

Yeah, it definitely feels like a little bit of dropping the ball on TPCI's part in terms of delegating that to whoever should be doing that.

It felt like the PlayPokémon Twitter account was going to become the hub for some of that information to be shared, but definitely dropped the ball this time.

A little unfortunate for how things had been looking going into the season, but yeah, that's how my week's been.

Hopefully, we get to a point one day.

I mean, I think we've talked about this.

I think the Latin American region is like the next region for TPCI to tackle and probably fully stream all their events.

And they're starting to build up to that now, this season.

Um, and it just looks so much more impressive than the 25th anniversary one, just comparing them next to each other.

It was evident that TPCI is using a lot of the same, uh, techniques that they used for the, uh, what, for the classic collection.

The, the, like, um, what was the big box set with, like, the three decks in it with the Charizard, Blastoise, and Venusaur?

Oh.

I think one thing I just would want to say before we jump into it is really cool.

that these interviews happen and it's nice that I feel like TPCI is super protective of, you know, their behind the scenes stuff and just kind of Pokemon in general.

So it's cool to let them let Chris Brown do these to get more information to, I think for like people like us, it's like super interesting for this information.

I know for the broader public, it's probably not that interesting.

Not that he's talking towards competitive registration for tournaments, but he likes...

He says that he thinks this is the best way for things to scale when there's this much demand, right? And we can definitely get to that point with the ICs where the demand is way higher than the spots available, which would lead to maybe having to do the lottery system.

which we haven't done ever for TPCI events, but they do it over in Japan for all their major tournaments.

We see how they handle stuff like this for spectator passes at Worlds and stuff like that.

while and he might be coming back to design Pokemon.

Well, he just got hired for TPCI, I think, as a creative director.

So not necessarily directly involved with...

the games, but he has been involved in the games in a lot of different ways, and promotional artwork.

So... 30th anniversary, uh, binder collections, Pokemon, uh, been delayed until December.

The reason being that TPCI, um, a day are released.

They're pushing back from October 2nd to December 4th because it's retailer websites such as Best Buy and others as well.

Um, This caused by issues with sourcing or manufacturing one of the product components or sampling enough of the product time or shipping the product at a certain market time.

TPCI has not provided a specific reason for the delay.

It also has to do with the fact that a shipment was stolen of the product and

what's it called?

But if we don't double it, that's a whole different story, right? Like, I'm sure they would love to double or quintuple the amount of GO players that are at these tournaments.

But if we don't get to that point, there's no point doubling our world's qualifiers, right? But, like, no matter how much TPCI wants to do that, that's a bigger, like, scopely issue, I think, you know? And, like, getting more of their player base to actually play PvP.

Because I checked yesterday.

There's, like, 35 million, like, active unique players per month right now.

Like, even if you do regional winners, right? Or top two at regional.

Okay, you know, if you do top two at regional and top four at IC, you know who's not even on that list? Beale's a boy.

What you think he's worse than the people like no like he just doesn't he doesn't live in a TPCI region So he doesn't go as the main regionals and yeah, he didn't get top four either I see went to be did pretty freakin good at both, right? but again, like this is just like I Don't know.

I think it I get they're trying to make it more balanced But I think they're actually achieving the opposite of that and also just yeah, I Yeah, but anyway, that's just my thoughts on it.

One of the

things that I'm really curious to see is I'm curious to see how TPCI handles the printing of these and then how Pokemon Japan handles the printing of these because...

For the 20...

I obviously got a lot of respect for TPCI and the things that they do.

And the job that they do creating the cards for every trading card game community outside of Asia.

So they do a great job doing that.

Like if you had the Japanese celebrations cards next to the English ones, like the Japanese ones had like the hollow gold borders.

They just looked so much more high fidelity than the English ones that we got.