The Importance of Community Tournaments

A few of my TCG fellows are currently in a faraway place yet one that is somewhat familiar to me for two tournaments, a "community" tournament today and then an official tournament tomorrow. That reminds me of what I used to experience with Pokémon Go, albeit with more "community" tournaments and less (nary, even) official tournaments. For that, I thought I'd take a post on discussing the consideration of their importance for the Pokémon realms above as well as Pokémon in general.

By the above, it becomes evident that "community" tournaments provide a kind of practice for the official ones, even in the great absence of the latter. For those who are truly passionate about their gaming skills as in any of the current games being featured in the Pokémon World Championships, this is somewhat important, as the chance to make it to official tournaments could come any time and so does the opportunity to qualify for the World Championships, for which they are meant to provide.

If practicing for official ones isn't in order, then practicing to hone up one's own skills may be. That seems to be the very least that even the most competitive of players like the TCG fellows I mentioned can do - and in fact, a few of the ones who came today came for a competitive side event they can play in rather than the main event that they did not qualify for. For those players, then being competitive means having perfected the skills to compete, and that seems considerably just as important.

Even without all of that, the opportunity to socialize with other players is a given at the venues of the tournaments, and the "community" ones have a leg up on this aspect by their nature that tends to the informal side of things. It's not hard to expect that informal events lead to less structured happenings, and within those happenings, participants can squeeze in chances to mingle and talk with others. People are of course social beings, and that as far as things go is important, even in events.

Now, I'm sure at this point some of those TCG fellows are already gearing up for the official tournament scheduled for this day, which definitely has an importance of its own. But with regard to both TCG and Pokémon Go (by my experience) as well as any other competitive Pokémon realm past and present, the "community" tournaments can present their own points of importance, including those explained above. For me and others, those are as important as the games themselves.

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