{"id":97955,"date":"2019-08-06T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-06T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/08\/pokemon_card_gets_banned_from_world_championships_to_avoid_player_confusion"},"modified":"2019-08-06T09:30:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-06T09:30:00","slug":"pokemon-card-gets-banned-from-world-championships-to-avoid-player-confusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/08\/06\/pokemon-card-gets-banned-from-world-championships-to-avoid-player-confusion\/","title":{"rendered":"Pok\u00e9mon Card Gets Banned From World Championships To Avoid Player Confusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/04a8800d9ded7\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/04a8800d9ded7\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"BQ3\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/04a8800d9ded7\/bq3.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/04a8800d9ded7\/bq3.900x.jpg\" alt=\"BQ3\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Pok\u00e9mon cards being banned from official tournament events isn&#8217;t anything new &#8211; usually, a card might be deemed illegal if it turns out to be too powerful or if it affects the game in an unfair way &#8211; but this new ban is a particularly odd example.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"picture embed right img-\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Blaine\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/73f999e4001ba\/blaine.large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/73f999e4001ba\/blaine.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Blaine\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Blaine&#8217;s Quiz Show<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Blaine&#8217;s Quiz Show, a card from the most recent expansion on the market, Unified Minds, has been banned thanks to the potential complications it could cause when a game&#8217;s two opponents speak different languages. Here&#8217;s the card&#8217;s text:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Put a Pok\u00e9mon from your hand face down in front of you and tell your opponent the name of an attack it has. Your opponent guesses the name of that Pok\u00e9mon, and then you reveal it. If your opponent guessed right, they draw 4 cards. If they guessed wrong, you draw 4 cards. Return the Pok\u00e9mon to your hand.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now, reading out the card&#8217;s description and then acting upon it wouldn&#8217;t usually be too difficult as translators are on hand at World Championship events; the issue actually goes a little deeper than that, as some attack names face quirky changes when translated from one language to another. French player <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lubyllule\">St\u00e9phane Ivanoff<\/a> noted the issues it could cause online (thanks, <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pokebeach.com\/2019\/08\/blaines-quiz-show-banned-at-worlds\">PokeBeach<\/a>), which appears to have resulted in the ban taking place:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Here\u2019s a simple situation: if I play Blaine\u2019s Quiz Show at Worlds, using a French Pok\u00e9mon card, should I announce the name of the attack in French or in English?<br \/>-&gt; If it\u2019s in French: unless my opponent speaks French, they probably can\u2019t guess the Pok\u00e9mon. Is this an intended effect of the card?<br \/>-&gt; If it\u2019s in English: What if I don\u2019t know the English name of the attack (since my card is in French)? Also, even if I know the name, what if my opponent doesn\u2019t speak English (say it\u2019s a Japanese player)?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;If using translators, there is one major issue: attack names don\u2019t always map one-to-one between languages. Here is an example:<br \/>Lillipup (BLW 81) and Gliscor (UNB 99) have the same attack Collect. In French, Lillipup\u2019s Collect was translated to &#8216;Collectionner,&#8217; and Gliscor\u2019s Collect was translated to &#8216;Collecte.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>If I play against a French-speaking player and announce \u201cCollectionner,\u201d they know it can be Lillipup and not Herdier. If I play against an English-speaking player and announce \u201cCollect,\u201d it can be both. This means that doing the exact same game action has different results depending on the language used.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Thanks to the nature of the issue, the card has reportedly been banned from Worlds events only &#8211; events unaffected by language barriers are still good to go. Having said that, it would be quite a surprise to see someone using the card in an official tournament anyway &#8211; <em>it seems pretty risky to us!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pok\u00e9mon cards being banned from official tournament events isn&#8217;t anything new &#8211; usually, a card might be deemed illegal if it turns out to be too powerful or if it affects the game in an unfair way &#8211; but this new ban is a particularly odd example. Blaine&#8217;s Quiz Show Blaine&#8217;s Quiz Show, a card [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}