PreyingShark
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During the first weekend of May, Japan had an online tournament called the Japan Cup. The top 50 qualified for Day 1 at the World Championships. However, TPC put up a notice stating that people who were caught using edited save data and shit like that were DQed.
The kind folks at NB did some checking and found out how many people lost their Day 1 Worlds invite:
What's shocking isn't how many people cheated in some form or another. It's that TPC/Game Freak actually did something for once. Holy shit.
Update:
The kind folks at NB did some checking and found out how many people lost their Day 1 Worlds invite:
What's shocking isn't how many people cheated in some form or another. It's that TPC/Game Freak actually did something for once. Holy shit.
Update:
As an FYI, there was a follow up from a Japanese player that the 15 disqualified were using hacks that were detected. There were those who were using save file manipulation to repeatedly lose to other game cards by queuing up at the same time on multiple 3DSes to try and hit themselves that are still in the rankings.
https://twitter.com/ShinonVGC/status/733532300021895169
Japan's qualification system is fully under the jurisdiction of The Pokémon Company (Japan head branch) so it differs from other regions which are under the jurisdiction of The Pokémon Company International. Unfortunately Japan has used this awful online ladder-based qualification method since 2012 and this is the type of crap it leads for.
For those unfamiliar, the top 50 get a Day 1 invite to the Pokémon World Championships. Top 32 get an invitation to the Japan National Championships. To do this, they had one weekend to play a maximum of 40 (maybe 30) battles on a special in-game ladder and hope their Elo would be in the Top 32/50. The rest of the world plays in an offline circuit like the Capcom Pro Tour or any card game circuit..