I've discussed about competitions with a personal take that I'm also able to include Pokémon with my participation in them. To even things out, now I'd like to discuss actual Pokémon competitions (tournaments) and a particular personal aspect that applies to them. That aspect is related to having friends - certainly who also like and enjoy Pokémon - participating in them, and in fact could participate in them in more than one way. There is a certain intrigue to the aspect as I've described, and that makes it fitting for the discussion.
Those friends could certainly participate as competitors, meaning that I'd be going up against them sooner or later. It's obviously a universal problem: even my TCG friends (from the same group) go into major tournaments together and sometimes invariably meet one another at some point during a tournament's progression - both preliminaries and finals. And then there was me in the past with Pokémon Go PvP tournaments, though this was also helped by most of them being local tournaments.
Meanwhile, some friends may have the enterprising chance of becoming referees or judges for the competitions or tournaments in question. That has been the case for the Pokémon Go PvP tournaments, again thanks to some of them being local ones. More recently and going back to the TCG again, a friend of mine and others in my local group passed a test for becoming one and was drafted to become one for a major faraway tournament... which then someone else in my group attended. The expected encounter happened, and the rest was history.
Other friends may not participate directly in them, whether as competitors or moderators, but they do so indirectly by providing support for them. I've known friends who own the venues where tournaments are held, or are otherwise involved in a certain element in the venue (such as being a food vendor), and they're only happy to serve the people involved when the tournaments occur. Still others are just happy to be able to facilitate the happenings of the tournament, and that may be all that they need.
What can be abstracted from the above is that participants of competitions or tournaments - in particular related to Pokémon - like me are surely in the company of friends and other cordial people. Some of these people may just be as competitive in taking part in the action, or as happy as competitors are happy by providing the facilities for the happening. Both kinds of people are surely needed in the great big world of Pokémon competitions or tournaments, and continued Pokémon presence will keep their supply.
One year ago: Closure: Pokémon Go Wild Area 2024 (Global), Day 2
Two years ago: Circular Species of My Heart
Three years ago: Chow On, and Thank You
Four years ago: Challenging New(ly Returning) PvP Happenings
Five years ago: Contemplating Abilities (or Their Absence)
Six years ago: Cosplay: CHoCoDays 2019
Seven years ago: Cosplay: Art and Culture Exhibition 2018
Eight years ago: Catching Them All
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