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🎯 Mind Over Match: Beating Tilt and Building Tournament-Ready Focus · Archons Corner

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  Speaker 1: Like a strange like a creature talk.
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  Speaker 2: You keep talking with.
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  Speaker 1: You because I create the event and type in the title, and.
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  Speaker 3: I know I know a lot of act of the brain.
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  Speaker 1: Man, what a stupid song?
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  Speaker 4: If you're not in the yoga extra?
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  Speaker 1: Do you know what that song is about?
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  Speaker 5: I heard it before.
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  Speaker 4: I don't like me You Love at Midnight?
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  Speaker 2: I figure it was an adult song that sounds like
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  Speaker 2: an adult song. Uh it is. I can tell about a.
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  Speaker 1: Guy who is putting an ad out uh to cheat
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  Speaker 1: on his wife, and then the the person that he
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  Speaker 1: meets to cheat on his wife with is his wife
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  Speaker 1: who was also looking to cheat on him.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, yeah, that's about Yeah, it's definitely an his
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  Speaker 2: old song.
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  Speaker 4: I believe they call that karma. Right.
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  Speaker 2: You think of the dirtiest song that ain't? Have you
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  Speaker 2: guys heard of that one before?
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  Speaker 4: Is a song that ain't. It's about to be exactly.
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  Speaker 4: It's about the song. It's about this weak song.
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  Speaker 2: Trust me, it's gonna be. It's hilarious.
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  Speaker 4: I the song is. I let my daughter almost pick
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  Speaker 4: a song one week and Emo Boy and I listened
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  Speaker 4: to it and I was like, I can't, I can't
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  Speaker 4: subject other.
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  Speaker 2: Fact that particular song, the dirtiest song that ain't your
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  Speaker 2: daughter can listen to it because they won't get it.
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  Speaker 2: All the stuff is censored, like your mind fills it in.
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  Speaker 4: The dirtiest song that ain't well.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah from Voltaire. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I keep looking at your picture and I can't lose
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  Speaker 4: your voice comes out of that body.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you have the picture of me in the
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  Speaker 2: altered corner.
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  Speaker 4: Thing, I know, and that's where I'd stemmed from, And
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  Speaker 4: I was like, that's his voice. I was like, it's
• 2:37
  Speaker 4: got to be a microphone thing like it's it's got
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  Speaker 4: to be shaped up somewhere.
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  Speaker 2: It could be. This is not a good microphone.
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  Speaker 4: What's funny? I was digging through my ship and I
• 2:49
  Speaker 4: found I found a microphone, which story? Why did it
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  Speaker 4: crop like that? Oh my god, I'm gonna lose my shit.
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  Speaker 4: Fucking YouTube? Why do you suck so bad that I
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  Speaker 4: don't know? I kind of corner dot com?
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  Speaker 5: Did YouTube fail?
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  Speaker 2: Again? Like? No?
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  Speaker 4: Sometimes it fucking crops shit weird, and it's just like,
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  Speaker 4: why do you know? But then it looks like I
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  Speaker 4: go and I look at it on the page and
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  Speaker 4: it looks just fine, And I don't understand, nor do
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  Speaker 4: I care, but what's going on? Everybody? I am the one,
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  Speaker 4: the only w o okay, I e I joined here
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  Speaker 4: by my normal cast of misfits. We have the guy
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  Speaker 4: who knows more than you, mister Cole Robbie, Hello, hello.
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  Speaker 4: We have the proverbial dexter or I'm sorry, he's the
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  Speaker 4: proverbial red shirt dexter.
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  Speaker 5: Hello everyone.
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  Speaker 4: And then we got the guy whose voice doesn't match
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  Speaker 4: his body Felix.
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  Speaker 2: That's cool, nice, It definitely doesn't fit.
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  Speaker 4: It doesn't It's like sssame street. One of these things
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  Speaker 4: is not like the other. One of these things just
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  Speaker 4: doesn't belong, and it's like the hell these don't match. Also,
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  Speaker 4: Felix should be on a cover of some sort of magazine.
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  Speaker 4: I haven't decided what one, but he's definitely probably the
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  Speaker 4: prettiest member of Arcan's Corner.
• 4:36
  Speaker 1: Also the prettiest member of Altered Corner too.
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  Speaker 4: Yep, that's the one that's the show we're on right now,
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  Speaker 4: Altered Corner. Both ironically, I always with our powers combined. Somehow,
• 4:51
  Speaker 4: Felix is still the prettiest member out of all of them.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know. Drascore is not bad. He's like six
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  Speaker 4: to two, so he's got that going for him.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I always thought I looked hidious.
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  Speaker 4: From who Who's told you this?
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  Speaker 2: That's just me?
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  Speaker 4: You took that picture and I'm like, it's just a
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  Speaker 4: glamor shot or what the fuck is this? This is bullshit.
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  Speaker 2: I was thearing a demo a US and somebody took
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  Speaker 2: a picture that was demo ing.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not my own goddamn podcast. Is that table flip?
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  Speaker 1: If you want to see the picture that we are
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  Speaker 1: talking about, you can just go to Altered Corner dot
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  Speaker 1: com now and see Felix's pretty face on the front page.
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  Speaker 4: But that's not what we're here to talk about today. No, Well,
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  Speaker 4: we're really here to talk about is something way more,
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  Speaker 4: well kind of important. I've been notified that by the
• 5:45
  Speaker 4: time that most of you are listening to this, stuff
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  Speaker 4: and things will have already transpired. And by stuff and things,
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  Speaker 4: I mean worlds. Worlds will be happening next week Friday,
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  Speaker 4: Saturday and Sunday, the else the Q starting on the seventeenth,
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  Speaker 4: as we move into the normal matchup rounds. Are you excited? Cole?
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  Speaker 4: When do you fly out?
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  Speaker 1: You fly out on Wednesday the fifteenth, at like five
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  Speaker 1: pm or something like.
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  Speaker 4: That cool, So we'll see if there's an altered corner
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  Speaker 4: next week. We don't really know. We don't know what
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  Speaker 4: to do in Cole's not here. We're not really supposed
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  Speaker 4: to wake.
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  Speaker 2: I'll talk about later about something maybe.
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  Speaker 4: Actually we're also not supposed to be left unsupervised. I
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  Speaker 4: don't know. It's a rule somebody put in here. I
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  Speaker 4: didn't make the rules. They just they appear and we
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  Speaker 4: follow them sometimes.
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  Speaker 2: I'm actually gonna be absent next week too.
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  Speaker 4: Ironically, sounds like a good time to take a break,
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  Speaker 4: and you guys don't have to come around here and
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  Speaker 4: you can just go to all Right, now that we're
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  Speaker 4: in this topic, Cole, where can I find a stream
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  Speaker 4: of worlds.
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  Speaker 5: LL?
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  Speaker 1: I guess this will be uh the first time I'm
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  Speaker 1: saying it explicitly out loud, but the English broadcast will
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  Speaker 1: be on the A wall YouTube, which if you've watched
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  Speaker 1: basically any major altered content in English, you already know
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  Speaker 1: where it is. But if you just type in AWOL
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  Speaker 1: altered TCG, I'm sure you'll find it. It stands for
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  Speaker 1: Altered Weekly Online League and Blue and I will be
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  Speaker 1: running the stream and we'll have some of the.
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  Speaker 4: Some damn pants?
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  Speaker 1: You want blue to wear pants?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, it bothers me for grown ass men who wear
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  Speaker 4: suit coats with shorts.
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  Speaker 5: That's just the es.
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  Speaker 2: That's the style.
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  Speaker 4: Though, fucking grow up. He wouldn't be blue otherwise it
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  Speaker 4: just so fucking grow up put on some pants. Ah,
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  Speaker 4: but those are those are my crazy stupid uh pet peeves?
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  Speaker 4: I guess is that is that the But it's time
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  Speaker 4: for the altered corner unnecessary question of the week? Boys,
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  Speaker 4: who of all the fast foods has the best French fries?
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  Speaker 2: Oh?
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  Speaker 1: And you're asking a fry expert this question?
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  Speaker 4: Oh feelix you're a fry expert because I know I
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  Speaker 4: got two people here that don't even eat fast They're like,
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  Speaker 4: what's fast food?
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  Speaker 2: Now?
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  Speaker 1: I am me, I am the french fries.
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  Speaker 4: You're the french fry expert. Okay, but you don't.
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  Speaker 1: I I don't eat McDonald's. That doesn't mean I don't
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  Speaker 1: eat fast food.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, that's that's the same here. That's legit. Okay, So
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  Speaker 4: who's got the best French fries around?
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  Speaker 1: Okay? And you said fast food, it's.
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  Speaker 4: Got to be fast food. It's got to be. You
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  Speaker 4: can't be like there's a small diner next to this
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  Speaker 4: hole in the wall place that I've gone to that
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  Speaker 4: I go to every week, and it's owned by this
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  Speaker 4: little old lady and she's got the that that don't
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  Speaker 4: count because the average listener can't go to that place, right, Well,
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  Speaker 4: I guess they could, but they would be highly exclusive.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you didn't say the best chain restaurant the best restaurant,
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  Speaker 1: because that's difficult, all right, Well if you so, pries
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  Speaker 1: have tears, right, So I there's what I lump all
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  Speaker 1: fast food in and the winner of fast food is
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  Speaker 1: most likely Wendy's. Yes, when they're good, exactly, I will
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  Speaker 1: say for most consistent, like almost never are bad. Jack
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  Speaker 1: in the.
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  Speaker 4: Box, which is really just Arby's.
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  Speaker 1: Right, Uh, No, Arby's is actually not very good.
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  Speaker 4: Really makes some bomb ass curly fries. Maybe that's just
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  Speaker 4: my Arby's, right, I've never had a bad fry from
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  Speaker 4: the Arby's by my house, never, not what the curly
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  Speaker 4: they're always crispy. Oh they're fantastic, They're just I could
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  Speaker 4: go back.
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  Speaker 1: In the Box has more than just curly fries, though.
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  Speaker 4: I know they go well, so does Arby's. Arby's has
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  Speaker 4: regular fries too, I don't know I've ever eaten a
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  Speaker 4: regular sometime. Now. No, that's a lie. Twenty years you
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  Speaker 4: could get you always could get regular fries at Arby's.
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  Speaker 4: Just nobody does.
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  Speaker 1: You're lying.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think Soole's google this. How long has there
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  Speaker 4: had two types of fries?
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  Speaker 1: It's not even real.
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  Speaker 4: Oh no, they didn't have crinkle cup before. They just
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  Speaker 4: had like regular ass fries.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, crinkle cut is what do you mean?
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  Speaker 4: Crinkle cut fries aren't real.
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  Speaker 1: They're right there, They're not real fries.
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  Speaker 5: They're fine.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Anyways, above fast food, above fast food are places like
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  Speaker 1: mu Yah or Twisted Real or five guys, those kind
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  Speaker 1: of places.
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  Speaker 5: Five guys fast food.
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  Speaker 4: Five guys fries are always so damn bland.
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  Speaker 1: You gotta get the Cajun fries.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, five guys. Cajun fries are good.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not a spy. Their regular price should be salted.
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  Speaker 1: So maybe you're five guys.
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  Speaker 4: Just yeah, because I don't know, I'm not a huge
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  Speaker 4: five guys expert. I don't go there a ton.
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  Speaker 3: I'm now realizing how little I go to fast food
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  Speaker 3: places because I haven't been to like any of these places.
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  Speaker 3: The Windy's are a jack in the box or any
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  Speaker 3: of these in probably like years.
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  Speaker 4: I went like the only in the box once and
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  Speaker 4: that was when I was at gen Con last year.
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  Speaker 4: Last year. I was so hungry I was. I was.
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  Speaker 4: I was like, I'll fucking I will eat anything like it,
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  Speaker 4: because I had place tie in Alliance and they had
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  Speaker 4: all eaten without me because I placed tie an Alliance,
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  Speaker 4: and I was like, I will literally eat anything right
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  Speaker 4: now like it. It doesn't even matter as long as
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  Speaker 4: it's like somewhat okay. And little did we know from
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  Speaker 4: where we were staying there was literally a five guy
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  Speaker 4: our five guys. There was literally a jacket a box
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  Speaker 4: three and a half minutes from where we were staying.
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  Speaker 4: Just instead of turning right to go to the Indianapolis
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  Speaker 4: Convention Center, you turned left and it was right there
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  Speaker 4: the whole time. And I don't even know what I ate,
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  Speaker 4: but I was so hungry. I ate it. I had
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  Speaker 4: a burger and surprise and it was really good. But
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  Speaker 4: also I was really hungry because I had not eaten
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  Speaker 4: at like all.
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  Speaker 5: So yep, because being hungry does taste.
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  Speaker 4: Better, tastes way better. Yeah, that's true. Because I was
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  Speaker 4: going to say, because like old school burger King fries
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  Speaker 4: used to be the best. I don't know what they changed.
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  Speaker 4: Like peak burger King fries is like two thousand and five.
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  Speaker 4: I remember because I used to get a lot of
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  Speaker 4: Burger King because it was right now.
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  Speaker 2: I always got the tater thought a Burger King.
• 14:02
  Speaker 4: They didn't, they didn't always have tater tots. Now you
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  Speaker 4: can get half in half. I didn't know that half
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  Speaker 4: half and half. I found that out the other day
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  Speaker 4: when I was going to Burger King. There's a burger
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  Speaker 4: King by my work that I refused to go to
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  Speaker 4: because they that place could screw up water. But I
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  Speaker 4: had to because that was all that was available and
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  Speaker 4: I had gotten I'd gotten half in half. It was good. Felix,
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  Speaker 4: what what are you saying? What's the top? What's the
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  Speaker 4: top French fries?
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  Speaker 2: I was actually gonna say Wendy's as well. So yeah,
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  Speaker 2: they feel they're they're thicker, they have stilled the skin
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  Speaker 2: on them, so it's yeah.
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  Speaker 4: When they're good, when they're bad, they are badly. Well
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  Speaker 4: that's going to do it. Tell us what your favorite
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  Speaker 4: French fry is in the comments section down below. Glad
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  Speaker 4: to always hear from you, but the main topic today
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  Speaker 4: that we are going into I like how, I like
• 15:03
  Speaker 4: how you put this in here. I said tilt, And
• 15:07
  Speaker 4: the first question I got is what is tilt? Do
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  Speaker 4: I need to give the technical response that I gave Cole?
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  Speaker 5: Is that what I give us an intro of what
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  Speaker 5: tilt is?
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  Speaker 4: So how how tilt is defined? Right is a state
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  Speaker 4: of mental or emotional confusion or frustration in which a
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  Speaker 4: player adopts a suboptimal strategy, usually resulting in a player
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  Speaker 4: becoming overly aggressive. Now, I don't know about you. I've
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  Speaker 4: been there, right, played a lot of card tournaments. I've
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  Speaker 4: I've been in tilt before anybody else.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, times, quite a few times, I would say, without
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  Speaker 6: the aggressiveness tilt For me, I normally don't get aggressive,
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  Speaker 6: but yeah, I spiral and then I make a whole
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  Speaker 6: bunch of other mistakes and then get super stressed out
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  Speaker 6: and annoyed it myself and then don't have a.
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  Speaker 5: Great time at the event.
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  Speaker 2: That's a big one.
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  Speaker 1: Spiral is a good way to put it. Like a
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  Speaker 1: curly fry.
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  Speaker 4: Just like, just like curly fries. See how this all
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  Speaker 4: gets together? God, we're good. Oh man, we should get
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  Speaker 4: a better sponsor. This whole thing, totally plan this whole thing,
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  Speaker 4: so biggest thing. And I've i have experienced tilt. And
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  Speaker 4: I've also experienced people who are tilted and not knowing
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  Speaker 4: they're tilted. Maybe they do know it, but they have
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  Speaker 4: a trouble. I guess getting out of it is the
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  Speaker 4: best way I can put it, because it is a struggle, right, Like,
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  Speaker 4: once you're tilted and you know you're tilted, there's usually
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  Speaker 4: what is it the seven stages of coping or whatever
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  Speaker 4: it is, what are the stages of coping? You get
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  Speaker 4: that anger, grief, whatever, denial, denial, because usually it's like,
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  Speaker 4: I'm not tilted, I'm not tilted, I'm not tilted. If
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  Speaker 4: you are telling everyone you're not tilted, you're probably tilted. Okay,
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  Speaker 4: I'm glad we all agree. Speak, feel free to speak
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  Speaker 4: at any time. Guys, got it, and.
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  Speaker 1: You guys are the experts. I'm I'm taking it.
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  Speaker 4: In all your you're taking well, you're judging. I don't
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  Speaker 4: even know. Can you get tilted as a judge.
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  Speaker 1: I am, I'm not judging.
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  Speaker 4: You can now you're you're just streaming.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah no, yeah, he's streaming.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, Yeah, I prefer casting.
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: I'll be judging at Packs unplugged.
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  Speaker 4: Though, nice, I will not be up packs it.
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  Speaker 1: What are you gonna judge not altered Marvel Champions.
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  Speaker 4: It has a that has a it has a o
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  Speaker 4: P system.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I will be honest and say I have no
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  Speaker 1: idea how you be a floor judge for Marvel Champions.
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  Speaker 4: But the Marvel Champions a co op game.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a it's a living card game. So I
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  Speaker 1: think it's mainly just being there for like hard interaction
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  Speaker 1: answers and stuff. But the game is yeah, the game
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  Speaker 1: is very like TCG centric, like there's.
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  Speaker 4: Totally yeah, I thought this was a miniature game.
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  Speaker 1: No, that's oh what is what what is that one
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  Speaker 1: called Crisis?
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: I mean the Crisis Protocol? Yeah, it was all right,
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  Speaker 4: So what are some of the signs? You're tilted? Feelix?
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  Speaker 4: What do you what do you got? What do you think?
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  Speaker 4: What are some of the science you're tilted?
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  Speaker 2: So the ones that comes to mind a lot is
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: I did I played a lot of Final Fantasy for
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  Speaker 2: a little while, and I remember forgetting triggers. I remember
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  Speaker 2: forgetting to play a certain card, playing things in the
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  Speaker 2: wrong order, and you start getting depressed. It's like, what
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  Speaker 2: did I do? Or can I go back? But then
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  Speaker 2: at the same time you started thinking to yourself, I
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  Speaker 2: can't ask my opponent to go back. This is a
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  Speaker 2: competitive game that's for championship points on the line. So
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: depression and desperation is a big one, because now you're
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  Speaker 2: trying to fix the problem that you started, and you
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  Speaker 2: don't want to look weak in front of an opponent
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  Speaker 2: pretty much, but sometimes it still gets to you. You
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  Speaker 2: get educated.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, it's a it's an irritability or anger, right. Usually
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  Speaker 4: when a revenge mindset, you're playing to h like, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: to get that mistake back or to prove you know,
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  Speaker 4: you're trying to for something. Yeah, oh I made this mistake.
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  Speaker 4: Now I'm tilted, and now I'm trying to I'm trying
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  Speaker 4: to overcompensate.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, So there's two, and there's two levels of it.
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  Speaker 2: The one that I've suffered the most is more internal depression,
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  Speaker 2: just being angry with myself and getting to a point
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  Speaker 2: that the game starts being fun and I just want
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  Speaker 2: to quit and just pretty much just just walk away.
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  Speaker 2: So that's the one that happens to me, but it
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  Speaker 2: doesn't as well to me. It happens as well that
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  Speaker 2: and I've seen it where players get frustrated and like
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  Speaker 2: you said, revenge do you want to make it very
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  Speaker 2: very difficult for your opponent, even if you're not going
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  Speaker 2: to win, you want to make them angry. And I've
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  Speaker 2: seen that happen before as well.
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  Speaker 3: Yep, being on tilt can definitely make you become a
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: rage baiter and try your hardest to make your opponent.
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: Matt, Yes, but you start getting me, you start making
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: more more shark calls for judges. He started, they started
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: making They start playing slower in a way to overcompensate
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: for that anger that they.
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: Have, or faster. Yeah, sometimes you're you're playing just speed
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: because you're like, well it's over and you just want
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: to get it done.
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, right, that happened to me. Ironically, that same thing
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: happened to me with Universes. I was playing out a
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: regional one time, and I was playing against an opponent
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: who's a streamer, so like people know him and then
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: he's super popular in the streaming community for Universes and
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: I beat him one game with a really under like
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: a really rogue character, and he got pissed. You can
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: tell that he started playing faster. He started misplaying and
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: stuff like that and he started doing things that he was.
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: Not allowed to do.
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and that was all on stream. And then he
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: didn't say goodbye when the event. When when the games ended,
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: he didn't say goodbye. He just left, just picked up
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: his stuff and left, no handshakes, no sportsmanship, because he
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: wants to keep that image of him, because what it
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: looks like to me is that his image got destroyed.
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's it is tough. I will tell you, as
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: being someone who's been in the light, I guess of
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: you know, especially for key Forge, not so much altered,
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: but for key Forge, you want to put up a
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: good showing, right, especially in the early days, right as
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: when you're getting started, you want to you want to
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: keep that well, you know, I I am the end
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: all be all, but the in reality focuses number one.
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: We're all subject to the same mistakes, loss of focus,
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: you know. I mean, shoot, my last tournament I went
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: to I I I was, I got two bounced, right.
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: You get I think as you get more used to
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: just being in a light and realizing it's not the
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: end of the world, it's still just a game. And
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: the more you've been in the game, you realize, well,
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: this happens to everyone right, like literally, but you're playing
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: a card game, right, And I think the biggest thing
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: you have to kind of come to the realization of
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: is no matter what you do, you are still somewhat
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: at the mercy of RNG. No matter no matter what
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: it is, right, you can still get a bad draw.
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: Bad things can still happen to you, no matter how
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: much you've spent on a deck, no matter how many
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: times you've played a deck, No no matter what it is,
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: RANG sometimes just kicks you in the pants and and
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: you know, gets you down. Does suck people.
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: A lot of people have some communication problems too that
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: if they see their opponents getting tilted, they try to
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: calm the situation that they use wrong words. It has
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: happened before when I'm judging and stuff like that. For
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: other events where you have a player get ready tilted
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: and they lost against the control deck, and the control
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: player says, that was a good game, but it was
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: insanely one sided. You on the side lines use you
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: can tell that the game was insanely one sided. You
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: can tell that they were not having fun. And the
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: controller set player says that was a good game. So
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: I don't know either you're insanely like Gullible or you're
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: doing this on purpose. So and at a high level
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: competitive event, that is a strategy to some people use.
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: I mean it removes some of the competition. So luckily,
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: from my experience, Altered does not like that so far,
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: at least not in the States. I can't say about
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: how it is in Europe, but it is something that
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: people need to learn how to cope.
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: Right, and it's not easy.
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah, there's there's a couple communities that seem to get
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: a little more heated in competition. Overall, Altered is is
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: pretty pretty nice and friendly. It was great at the
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: Dallas event to see everyone like at a World's qualifying
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: event for a trip to Paris, laughing and you know,
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: playing together and stuff.
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: So what helps is the fact that the game does
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: not end the one turn. You cannot end the game
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: in a one turn, so your opponent will always have
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: a chance to backswing or have more multiple turns to
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: play things out. But if you play something like Magic,
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: or you play something like Pokemon or you gi oh,
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: the games can end in a turn, and that really
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: triggers people because they don't get a chance to respond
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: or actually play. The game so often has that going
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: for it that it does allow for more playing than
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: other games you can generally do.
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: But a lot of mistakes and alterns still still even
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: right like, they have game lasting effects. I guess that's
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: the way I want to put it, because you, yes,
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: if you make a wrong turn, or if you make
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: a wrong decision on turn two or whatever, you know,
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: the case may be, it can't affect further down the line, right.
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah, If you lose one turn and you have nothing
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: to go in for you you're just lost the whole game.
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: Sometimes, right, so exactly.
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: Sometimes I mean it feels like it's the end of
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: the world, but right is read not until you make
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: it the end of the world, and that's.
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: Different, right, So typically on a lot of situations, How
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: do you guys, I mean, I guess, especially Felix Dexter,
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: how do you guys you've come to the realization I'm
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: tilted right, what are your next steps to going into
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: that to kind of get yourself out of that mindset?
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: I guess we'll go in round, right, because there's there's
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: stuff that I definitely do in round, and then there's
• 27:42
  Speaker 4: stuff I'll do out around because I mean, sometimes you
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: are so tilted in a game, right, and yep, I
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: made that mistake and that mistake did cost me the game, right, Yeah.
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: I mean, if the mistake is bad enough and I'm
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: in a mindset that's terrible, just forfeit at that point.
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: And I've done that once or twice where I just
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: made a really bad mistake and I didn't feel like
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: playing out the rest of the game, so I forfeited
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: that game.
• 28:09
  Speaker 5: But most of the time, when I get tilted and.
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: Like the game is still recoverable, I'll just like make
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: a mental note, slow down, make sure you don't make
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: any more mistakes, and I like think, try to make
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: sure I think about my plays a lot more so
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: that I won't mess up again and get even more tilted.
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: That's true. I'm so disappointed. Inn't you so so disappointed?
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: I mean, I what did I stay wrong? I really
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: can't say I've ever conceded a game, right, Number one.
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: Never conceded If you're losing the game. What's the point
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: of continuing in.
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: A tournament setting.
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a lot of prizing involved in rewards. Generally
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: you don't want to concede.
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah, what are those times that I conceded. We're in
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: a much smaller tournament where the prizes didn't really matter,
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: so I didn't really care at that point. In a
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: bigger tournament, I won't do.
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I can't say that in a tournament setting. I
• 29:04
  Speaker 4: have ever conceded if it's me and you and it's
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: like yep, that's the end of that. Yeah, I'll concede,
• 29:09
  Speaker 4: right if it's just for funzies. But we're talking more
• 29:13
  Speaker 4: tournament setting, because I'm not going to concede in a
• 29:15
  Speaker 4: tournament setting, right.
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: Is very different than one hundred person tournament, is what
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: I'm saying.
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: That's I think in the alternate wouldn't matter though, if
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: you're in the game and you can see it's still
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: just a loss. Are are you saying, don't concede because
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: you might have a chance to.
• 29:34
  Speaker 4: Win, I'm saying, don't concede, right, I mean a ten
• 29:39
  Speaker 4: person tournament. My assumption is, you know, if you've made
• 29:43
  Speaker 4: a mistake that badly, right, and you've realized that, I'm
• 29:48
  Speaker 4: assuming you're realizing on the spot, you're going to be
• 29:50
  Speaker 4: able to be like, hey, I made a mistake, and
• 29:52
  Speaker 4: we roll it back, and nine times out of ten
• 29:55
  Speaker 4: nobody's gonna say boo about it, right.
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, unless you're depending at a local local Yeah.
• 30:04
  Speaker 4: Right, at a local yeah, I guess. But you know,
• 30:07
  Speaker 4: we're talking a larger tournament setting than a ten person setting. Right,
• 30:12
  Speaker 4: I've done what it needs for me to get here, Right,
• 30:15
  Speaker 4: I'm not just gonna concede. I'm gonna play it out right,
• 30:18
  Speaker 4: because you number one, got to keep that mindset. You
• 30:22
  Speaker 4: never know what's going to happen. You don't. You can't
• 30:30
  Speaker 4: tell me, you know, Well, yeah, I screwed up. I
• 30:32
  Speaker 4: can see. That's the end of the game.
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: I mean, well, if you're against your opponent and they
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: have like twenty amber and you have no amber control,
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: you're gonna lose the game. Is there really a point
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: in playing three more turns?
• 30:46
  Speaker 5: Maybe until they win?
• 30:48
  Speaker 4: Maybe? I mean, look, look, I've got a deck that's
• 30:50
  Speaker 4: just like that, but it can otk right, So I'm
• 30:55
  Speaker 4: gonna try. I'm gonna do my best, right, Number one,
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: You owe it to you. Don't ever play yourself down. Right,
• 31:03
  Speaker 4: You're you're here, you're having fun. Number one. You you
• 31:06
  Speaker 4: paid money to be here, more than likely, so you're
• 31:10
  Speaker 4: you're here to play the game. Get your money, My
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: biggest thing to get your money's worth. That's how I
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: view it, get your money's worth, because I mean, how
• 31:22
  Speaker 4: much did like the the Dallas Qualifier costs to be there?
• 31:31
  Speaker 5: Entry was like thirty dollars or something?
• 31:33
  Speaker 4: And then did you have to buy.
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: A pack get to pay advias as well on top
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: of that?
• 31:38
  Speaker 4: Yeah, so I don't know.
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: I think the total was. I think the total for
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: everything was like forty five bucks or something like that.
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 31:46
  Speaker 4: I mean, so you spent fifty dollars in this economy,
• 31:50
  Speaker 4: you spent your thirty.
• 31:51
  Speaker 5: More for parking.
• 31:52
  Speaker 4: Oh geez, yeah, the parking.
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: The parking was what was awful.
• 31:56
  Speaker 4: We're getting crazy. So never give up on yourself. But
• 32:01
  Speaker 4: some of the things I will do. In round number one,
• 32:07
  Speaker 4: you recognize you're on tilt, slow down, right, yep, unless
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: you're under some major time crunch. You recognize you made them.
• 32:18
  Speaker 4: You made a mistake. It is maybe a game, maybe
• 32:21
  Speaker 4: a game altering mistake. Take a breath, slow down, review
• 32:28
  Speaker 4: your plays before you make them. I again, I will
• 32:32
  Speaker 4: never in a large tournament setting, I will never just concede.
• 32:36
  Speaker 4: That's just giving up and it's not something I in
• 32:40
  Speaker 4: my life believe in. I've been in a lot of
• 32:43
  Speaker 4: bad scenarios, but I've never given up.
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: There's there's kind of two camps. There's people that would
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: if they see no way out of a game, they
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: would rather you know, concede and refresh and move on
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: to the next one.
• 33:00
  Speaker 5: I know.
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: I think there are some TCGs where like technically, if
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: you do things a certain way, like your tournament points
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: will be different. The closest example I could think of
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: is like an intentional draw, which is actually not allowed
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: and altered. But there there are some other things. But
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: there are times in altered where you probably should concede.
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: But I yeah, yeah, the only way out of a
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: hostage setup is just to concede or you're just going
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: to be wasting your time and an hour, yeah, the
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: opponent's time.
• 33:51
  Speaker 4: But yeah, I remember they chose to play that.
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but you have no you can't what I was
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: gonna talk about, You can't, You literally can't do anything.
• 34:00
  Speaker 4: Well but I but Dexter's like, well, you're wasting The
• 34:05
  Speaker 4: only person's time you're wasting is yours. At that point, Yeah,
• 34:08
  Speaker 4: saying like wasting your opponent time is kind of a weird,
• 34:12
  Speaker 4: weird setup because it's like, well, they chose to play this,
• 34:14
  Speaker 4: so they they knew what they were getting into.
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I would just rather not play a painful
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: losing game if I can concede and go play a
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: different game, or just like spend my time doing something
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: else that's more fun instead of just painfully losing a match.
• 34:31
  Speaker 4: But but all that, you don't consider any of this
• 34:35
  Speaker 4: like some sort of lose it or like learning experience.
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: Lookie, if I got wristring gun tis locked out, do
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: I want to just sit there for thirty minutes and
• 34:47
  Speaker 3: watching my own in solo play.
• 34:48
  Speaker 4: I guess that's on you. But for me, yeah, I'm gonna.
• 34:52
  Speaker 4: I'm gonna. I am going to make you play it.
• 34:57
  Speaker 4: I'm not just gonna give it to you. I just
• 34:59
  Speaker 4: don't believe even giving people the win.
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: Ever, it does happen that you think they your opponent
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: has the win and they misplay.
• 35:09
  Speaker 4: It can happen.
• 35:10
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that is possible.
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: It did happen to me. Well, I'm just saying like, oh,
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: I got this and I played a card to the
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: wrong order and boo, that was it.
• 35:19
  Speaker 4: I lost the game and the completely Maybe again this
• 35:23
  Speaker 4: is just me, right, but even on you know, yes
• 35:27
  Speaker 4: it can happen, they misplay and you win, right, Does
• 35:30
  Speaker 4: it happen a ton? Probably not? But you know, maybe
• 35:34
  Speaker 4: there's an old life lesson in here that my old
• 35:36
  Speaker 4: man taught me, and that's nothing in life is free, right,
• 35:41
  Speaker 4: So you're going to earn your win against me, not
• 35:45
  Speaker 4: just going to give it to you. You and I
• 35:48
  Speaker 4: have both learned nothing from this experience if I just
• 35:51
  Speaker 4: give you the win. I don't know. Maybe this is
• 35:52
  Speaker 4: old man barking at clouds at this point, and we're
• 35:56
  Speaker 4: getting a little bit away from from tilt and coping mechanics,
• 35:59
  Speaker 4: but I just for for me. Yes, I'm tilted, I'm angry,
• 36:04
  Speaker 4: I'm gonna take a breath. I'm going to reset kind
• 36:08
  Speaker 4: of myself mentally. You'll probably see me sit back in
• 36:12
  Speaker 4: my chair, maybe take a sip of my noss because
• 36:15
  Speaker 4: that's definitely there. And uh, I'm I'm going to do
• 36:22
  Speaker 4: my best to recover what I can. Right. If that
• 36:26
  Speaker 4: results in a loss, it results in a loss, and
• 36:29
  Speaker 4: that's that's on me. Take take my little mental note
• 36:34
  Speaker 4: right that, like, hey, don't do that again, and move
• 36:39
  Speaker 4: forward and move to your next next thing. And alters
• 36:42
  Speaker 4: a little different than than key Forge because KeyForge is
• 36:45
  Speaker 4: a little more strict on how many losses you're allowed
• 36:48
  Speaker 4: to have because once you have once you have two
• 36:51
  Speaker 4: losses in key Forge, you're done for the day. Like
• 36:54
  Speaker 4: there's no like, well, at least I got like four
• 36:57
  Speaker 4: more rounds to just kind of have fun. Like you're done.
• 37:00
  Speaker 4: It's over for you, like you're not playing anymore. Key
• 37:03
  Speaker 4: Forge you can go into some side events, but your
• 37:05
  Speaker 4: your day is done. So it's a little more rough
• 37:09
  Speaker 4: than most card games where you just go to the
• 37:11
  Speaker 4: bottom bracket. All right, game is done, Well, go ahead.
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: I was gonna say as well that on knowing that
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: tilt is a thing people have to understand as well
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: the type of event that they're playing in, and that
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: the higher the more competitive an event is going to be,
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: the higher is a chance that you're going to get tilted.
• 37:35
  Speaker 4: So for like.
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: Altered World, that is going to happen. So it's a
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: matter of knowing how to cope and knowing how to
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: manage it to.
• 37:46
  Speaker 4: So I think the biggest thing for me and this
• 37:48
  Speaker 4: is what I do, And you can tell me whether
• 37:50
  Speaker 4: you guys like it or not. I do. I do
• 37:53
  Speaker 4: take that that moment of I guess self reflection is
• 37:58
  Speaker 4: the best way I can I can say it. Take
• 38:01
  Speaker 4: that moment. Breathe, right, don't forget to breathe. It's essential
• 38:05
  Speaker 4: to everything you do. Realize yep, and admit it to yourself.
• 38:11
  Speaker 4: You made the mistake. It happened, right, there's no going
• 38:14
  Speaker 4: back now, and kind of do your best to move
• 38:20
  Speaker 4: forward and play at a reasonable pace, but maybe take
• 38:26
  Speaker 4: your time a little bit more right, pay attention, focus,
• 38:31
  Speaker 4: run it through your head. And then because you know
• 38:35
  Speaker 4: that you have the tendency that if you are tilted,
• 38:37
  Speaker 4: you are going to play faster, you're going to play looser,
• 38:40
  Speaker 4: and you're going to play dumber, and try not to
• 38:45
  Speaker 4: you can at least salvage that out of everything, I
• 38:47
  Speaker 4: think you did well. And then after games typically what
• 38:54
  Speaker 4: for me you can I'll tell me how you guys
• 38:56
  Speaker 4: deal with it. I normally take my well for me,
• 39:00
  Speaker 4: I take my little smoke break right, I run outside
• 39:03
  Speaker 4: and I have my little smoke and maybe uh maybe
• 39:07
  Speaker 4: some more drink and kind of reflect and realize what
• 39:12
  Speaker 4: I did wrong, maybe beat myself up a little bit,
• 39:15
  Speaker 4: maybe not, and uh, you know, just again, breathe. Remember
• 39:22
  Speaker 4: you're here to have fun. Remember you're here and this
• 39:26
  Speaker 4: is a top level of competition, and everybody is going
• 39:29
  Speaker 4: to make mistakes under pressure and use it as a
• 39:32
  Speaker 4: learning experience for a next round. That's what I do.
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: About rewind, rewind to the very start. What do you
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: what do you do to prepare yourself for entering the
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: no tilt zone before an event?
• 39:52
  Speaker 4: So I've I don't know about you, Felix. Do you
• 39:54
  Speaker 4: have a ritual before you go into large tournaments?
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: I talked to my opponent and I just chat. I
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: just chit chat, Just talk about the day, talk about
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: how they've been, where are they from. Like, if you
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: can start a good relationship based conversation with your opponent,
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: the game is going to be fun. If you just
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: go in playing the tournament, you just sit down and
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: start playing, you're gonna you're going to tilt. So for me,
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: it always happens. If I don't talk to my opponent,
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: I don't know them. I get the feeling that they're
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: super competitive, that they're playing to pretty much destroy me.
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: That's different is if I were to talk to somebody
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: and then we're like, yeah, we're here, we're having fun
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: while you guys are up to what are you guys
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: are gonna do you. I guess I'm gonta pay any
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: side events. Opening that type of conversation, it just creates
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: a more positive atmosphere. So to me, that's what I
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: always start doing. I always talk to my opponent and
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: just chit chat.
• 40:55
  Speaker 4: Do you have do you have like a pre tournament ritual?
• 40:58
  Speaker 4: I guess that's where I was more going.
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: With it for a pre tournament before I even start. Yeah,
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: I gotta use the restroom.
• 41:07
  Speaker 4: I'm going to.
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: Go use the restroom. Make sure to drink a good
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: amounts of water because you will dehydrate, because nothing you
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: will get dehydrated at big events.
• 41:19
  Speaker 4: Nothing is worse than having to pay mid round. Yeah,
• 41:24
  Speaker 4: you're on a tia, you gotta hold.
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: It just gets the people too, So you're gonna get gassie,
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: you're gonna wanting to You're gonna have that poop feeling.
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: It's like, no, use the restroom like, that's something you
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: definitely need to do, and the audit like just pretty
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: much put the ot in on. You don't want to
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: be smelling bad. It's just gonna make things worse.
• 41:47
  Speaker 4: Well not Yeah, we're getting in a little bit of
• 41:49
  Speaker 4: tournament prep here, right, So before you even start your day.
• 41:55
  Speaker 4: For the love of Jesus of everything good in the world.
• 42:01
  Speaker 4: You're at your hotel, you're at your house, wherever you are,
• 42:04
  Speaker 4: please take a shower and put the order in on.
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: It does a difference, huh.
• 42:11
  Speaker 5: It probably makes it a lot easier for you to
• 42:14
  Speaker 5: focus too.
• 42:16
  Speaker 4: I guess, Yeah, I guess I'm.
• 42:22
  Speaker 5: Going to have a harder time to focus.
• 42:24
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I'm I'm a big guy, right, I'm
• 42:27
  Speaker 4: I'm already super focused on not smelling bad to begin with. Right,
• 42:33
  Speaker 4: So I mean I I my morning ritual. I'm starting
• 42:38
  Speaker 4: with the best shower of my life. Right. Not only
• 42:41
  Speaker 4: that you're in a hotel, use their hot water. It's
• 42:44
  Speaker 4: free there. Just saying if you're if you're a home
• 42:49
  Speaker 4: if you're a homeowner, you understand this. So I'm taking
• 42:52
  Speaker 4: a good, nice, long, hot shower, and then I'm off
• 42:57
  Speaker 4: to breakfast. Make sure you do eat something before you start,
• 43:01
  Speaker 4: because you are going to get hungry. And not only
• 43:04
  Speaker 4: on top of that, make sure you have I guess
• 43:08
  Speaker 4: fuel of some sort. Right. I typically will carry like
• 43:14
  Speaker 4: I guess, power bars, like normally like granola bars or
• 43:20
  Speaker 4: protein bars, something in my backpack that you know, you
• 43:25
  Speaker 4: get a little peckish. And this was my mistake at
• 43:29
  Speaker 4: gen Con. I got a little peckish and I didn't
• 43:32
  Speaker 4: have jack And that was the worst, right, because you're
• 43:36
  Speaker 4: that's gonna yeah, you're still compact.
• 43:42
  Speaker 2: Even if you know you're gonna have a lunch. Being
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: hungry will make you angry. Yep, it will definitely distract you.
• 43:51
  Speaker 4: So make sure in your in your pack you got
• 43:54
  Speaker 4: like you know, I mean, you can get you can
• 43:57
  Speaker 4: even on a budget, you can get you know, some
• 44:01
  Speaker 4: granola bars from Walmart on the super cheep hop Tarts
• 44:06
  Speaker 4: granola bars. You know, something prepackaged that you can kind
• 44:10
  Speaker 4: of just take along with you, right, Aget a baget? Yeah,
• 44:14
  Speaker 4: that'll if that fits in your backpack.
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: Absolutely be eating so many bagets a week from now,
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: you don't even know.
• 44:23
  Speaker 4: I mean. And for me too, especially, I not only
• 44:26
  Speaker 4: that I carry extra deodorant on me. It is it
• 44:29
  Speaker 4: is in my backpack at all times during a large
• 44:33
  Speaker 4: event because it is going to be hot no matter
• 44:37
  Speaker 4: where it is, no matter what the ac is set to.
• 44:39
  Speaker 4: There are hundreds of people here and you are all
• 44:42
  Speaker 4: crammed into a tiny area. It's gonna get hot. So
• 44:46
  Speaker 4: I carry deodorant and I typically carry either. I used
• 44:52
  Speaker 4: to carry cologne on me until it broke, and then
• 44:57
  Speaker 4: my whole backpack just reeked of cologne, which wasn't the
• 45:00
  Speaker 4: worst thing in the world, but it also wasn't the
• 45:02
  Speaker 4: best thing. But I now carry like an axe spray
• 45:07
  Speaker 4: or something, you know, axe or I'm an old spice
• 45:10
  Speaker 4: fan because I'm an old man, right, so I use
• 45:13
  Speaker 4: I have a lot of old spice, usually swagger if
• 45:17
  Speaker 4: you need to know my preferences, but just something you know,
• 45:22
  Speaker 4: and if you're feeling a little underfresh, you can always
• 45:25
  Speaker 4: go to the bathroom splash a little water on your face.
• 45:28
  Speaker 4: This also helps with tilt and kind of again refocus yourself,
• 45:35
  Speaker 4: freshen up a little bit. I do like to also
• 45:39
  Speaker 4: carry I don't know if I don't, I don't really
• 45:41
  Speaker 4: know what to call them. Those toothbrush things, right, they're
• 45:44
  Speaker 4: like the toothbrush all in one. They're little, they're tiny
• 45:48
  Speaker 4: little guys, and they got like the toothpaste in the bristles.
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: I just don't know the name.
• 45:56
  Speaker 4: I don't know what they're called either, but I like
• 45:58
  Speaker 4: to have those on me, along with some and some gum. Again,
• 46:03
  Speaker 4: just something to keep yourself in mind. Busy out of
• 46:06
  Speaker 4: not what you know anything about what you're doing. You know,
• 46:10
  Speaker 4: in case you get a little over over stimulated at
• 46:14
  Speaker 4: any point, you can have some gum or some mints
• 46:17
  Speaker 4: to kind of focus yourself, help yourself out. These are
• 46:20
  Speaker 4: all my tips and tricks. You what are your, guys?
• 46:23
  Speaker 4: I mean my because that's this is my ritual right now.
• 46:25
  Speaker 4: Because I'm gonna go get a breakfast. I'm gonna pack
• 46:27
  Speaker 4: my bag right. Typically breakfast is in the hotel, but
• 46:31
  Speaker 4: get a breakfast, pack my bag off off to the show, right,
• 46:38
  Speaker 4: and then before I start, I typically I'm I'm gonna
• 46:42
  Speaker 4: have a playlist. I usually have a playlist with me
• 46:46
  Speaker 4: for every event I'm going to, right, and I might
• 46:49
  Speaker 4: be in different moods at different times, but I'm gonna
• 46:52
  Speaker 4: pop my my AirPods in and I might I might
• 46:55
  Speaker 4: jam out for five to fifteen minutes before before where
• 47:00
  Speaker 4: the event starts, and just kind of get myself in
• 47:02
  Speaker 4: the right mindset to make some good decisions and uh,
• 47:06
  Speaker 4: hopefully everything goes well.
• 47:10
  Speaker 5: I do actually have like a whole ritual, absolutely, I
• 47:13
  Speaker 5: do you do? I just wing it.
• 47:16
  Speaker 3: I mean I'll normally come in with like some snacks
• 47:19
  Speaker 3: and prepare a little bit, but most of it I
• 47:22
  Speaker 3: don't do that much. I just hope everything goes well.
• 47:27
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I half percent have a ritual. I mean you gotta.
• 47:30
  Speaker 4: I'm old man too write when you're young like Dexter.
• 47:34
  Speaker 4: How old are you, Dexter nineteen? Yeah, I mean you
• 47:39
  Speaker 4: you can wing it, but like I need some sort
• 47:42
  Speaker 4: of ritual. I need some sort of structure, right, especially
• 47:46
  Speaker 4: I It's like, I'm if I want to do well
• 47:48
  Speaker 4: or if I look at look at the worst outing
• 47:51
  Speaker 4: I've had this far in a tournament setting. I didn't
• 47:53
  Speaker 4: follow any of my ritual or any of my structure, right,
• 47:58
  Speaker 4: and I had a bad showing. And you want to
• 47:59
  Speaker 4: know what I was cool with that? I scrubbed out.
• 48:02
  Speaker 4: It happens. It happens to everybody. It's going to happen
• 48:05
  Speaker 4: to you. The faster you come to the realization it's
• 48:08
  Speaker 4: going to happen to you one day and guess what
• 48:12
  Speaker 4: tomorrow is going to come and nothing really too big
• 48:15
  Speaker 4: is going to come of it, the better off you are.
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: Yep, you don't want to You want to know something
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: very very sad but probably important. Most of us here,
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: besides Dexter, are in our thirties plus, right, yep.
• 48:35
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I need to start stretching every day, especially leading absolutely.
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: Like an event or a lot of travel or anything,
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: because my body now likes to just get stiff and
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: sore just from sleeping. It's wonderful.
• 48:56
  Speaker 4: So yep, ye, welcome to your thirties where shit starts
• 49:00
  Speaker 4: to break down and you go to the doctor and
• 49:03
  Speaker 4: they go, yeah, this is just kind of how it
• 49:05
  Speaker 4: is now. Yeah.
• 49:12
  Speaker 2: I'm not there yet, but I do.
• 49:15
  Speaker 4: A lot.
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: I was gonna say, Felix is very active already.
• 49:21
  Speaker 2: I'm doing backflots and stuff like that, so yeah, pretty active.
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: I am a tall person, right, which is actually kind
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: of a curse that I don't wait on anyone.
• 49:37
  Speaker 3: Being much taller than six foot is not very good
• 49:39
  Speaker 3: for your health.
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so I have. I actually have stretch marks on
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: my knees, and it's not because my knees are fat.
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: It's because it's because I grew too tall too fast.
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: Fun fact, when that happens, you wake up as a
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: kid screaming in pain because of growing pains. So that
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: was also fun. I promise looking up stretches and doing
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: very specific stretches goes a long way, because like my
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: left knee gets really bad sometimes and if I just
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: do those, like actual targeted stretches for my knee, it
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: feels a lot better.
• 50:26
  Speaker 4: Well, I guess I kind of did leave out a
• 50:28
  Speaker 4: portion there. Typically, I typically, if the hotel I am
• 50:33
  Speaker 4: at has a gym of some sort, I will go
• 50:38
  Speaker 4: do a few free weights. Yep, I will. I'll go
• 50:43
  Speaker 4: hit up. I'll go hit up the free weights, and
• 50:45
  Speaker 4: I'll go hit up the treadmill. Nothing too crazy. I'm
• 50:48
  Speaker 4: not running a mile. I know some people do. I
• 50:51
  Speaker 4: know my my doctor sheep like runs a mile and
• 50:55
  Speaker 4: I'm like, that's too much for me, It's all. But
• 50:57
  Speaker 4: you know, I'll go I'll go on the treadmill and
• 51:00
  Speaker 4: do a little walk, do a little free weight, you know,
• 51:03
  Speaker 4: kind of get the get the blood flowing right. Stretching
• 51:07
  Speaker 4: is definitely important, though, you know that the best stretches
• 51:11
  Speaker 4: are those stupid stretches that they make you do in
• 51:14
  Speaker 4: in uh, you know, like your team safety meeting. You know, yeah,
• 51:19
  Speaker 4: those are the weird story. Those are the best ones
• 51:22
  Speaker 4: to do.
• 51:23
  Speaker 5: Yeah, what's a team safety meeting.
• 51:26
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Once you go into the workforce, dexter, you'll learn
• 51:31
  Speaker 4: time from marning stretches and like when your younger years
• 51:34
  Speaker 4: you're like, oh my god, I gotta do you Now
• 51:38
  Speaker 4: you're like, man, these are great. Yeah, one day you'll
• 51:43
  Speaker 4: learn dexter.
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: It's okay.
• 51:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: We're kind of repeating partially an episode we did a
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: while ago, so people we we did the tournament prep
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: or convince Chin prep or something before. One of the
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: things that we didn't really touch on that is very
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: specific to the event we're referencing is how you prepare
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: for different ormats of events. So in the show notes,
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: I do have the link to the World Championship information.
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: And what is really interesting about gorgeous? Oh my gosh, yeah,
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: people are people are.
• 52:40
  Speaker 4: Are absolutely gorgeous. Is this the participation Matt? The second one?
• 52:47
  Speaker 4: Because you've got three gold matts. I'm assuming these are
• 52:49
  Speaker 4: for because I see world I don't know. They don't
• 52:51
  Speaker 4: have anything on them other than World Championship. There's an
• 52:55
  Speaker 4: eventa one that I might spend money on. If anybody
• 52:59
  Speaker 4: gets that one, just maybe shoot me a DM. Yes.
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: So for participation you get the Chibi Uh World playmat, which.
• 53:11
  Speaker 4: Is all Ofkemon.
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so it's all of the Leviathans, but in like
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: Chibi form uh.
• 53:22
  Speaker 4: The are adorable. If you haven't checked it out on
• 53:26
  Speaker 4: the website, well look at adorable.
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: The hero ones will be able to be purchased from
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: the Pluck Prize wall, and then the winners. I believe
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: I can win versions of the playmat and like specific cards,
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: but the stamp will be different. It'll say, you know,
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: like top eight or whatever. I'm not sure if they
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: have images of those anywhere. But the the trophy is
• 53:57
  Speaker 1: also super awesome, and then.
• 54:01
  Speaker 4: They just know what it looks like because you're Cole Robbie.
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: No, it's down, it's down below the format.
• 54:08
  Speaker 4: But oh I generated.
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: So the first day will be the last chance qualifiers,
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: which will just be normal you know, best of three,
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: single elimination constructed event, but the World Championship event is
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: actually a best of three conquest tournament.
• 54:37
  Speaker 2: Ye.
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: So each person has to bring three different decks, and
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: I believe each deck has to be a different faction,
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: so you can't have like Siggy Zen and Goring because
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: those are all ortists. Yeah. And then from what I understand,
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: and each time you are matched against an opponent, they
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: can ban one of your decks and then you have
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: to win two matches with the other two, and then
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: they have a bunch of you know, more information down
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: here about what changes when it goes from top thirty
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: two to top sixteen. But if you're going into a
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: conquest format, what considerations would you guys have or are
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: you just freaking out that you have to make three
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: different decks.
• 55:37
  Speaker 4: I'm panicking that I have to make three different decks.
• 55:41
  Speaker 2: You have to invest more for sure?
• 55:43
  Speaker 4: Yeah? Yeah, okay, so Lyra Yizmir, Now what.
• 55:52
  Speaker 5: You got to pick another faction? No, I don't want
• 55:54
  Speaker 5: to place and Muna.
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I talked about the I think an episode or
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: two ago when I was talking about how people were
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: kind of upset about this format. But me coming from
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: a more esports background, you know, like League of Legends
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: or Rainbow six Siege I played for a bit, bands
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: are are like very very normal in that kind of setup.
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: And it's not always that you're banning, you know, your
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: opponent's best you know, hero or deck. Sometimes it is,
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: but sometimes you know, like, hey, my strongest deck is
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: actually a counter to their strongest deck, So I'm going
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: to ban the one that is, you know, my weakest matchup.
• 56:50
  Speaker 1: Like I've been playing, Yeah, I've been playing a lot
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: of Moyo. If I am sitting down at the table
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: and I am matched up against someone and they present
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: a Singasmar deck, I'm banning Sigasmar because that's by far
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: the absolute worst matchup for Moyo, even if the person's
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: not a good Sigasmar player. So I think really preparing
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: for conquest outside of actually building the decks and getting
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: all the cards, and you know, people are worried about
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: what is it's nine different uniques. Yeah, you could do
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: some you know research, whether it be playing games with
• 57:31
  Speaker 1: all your decks, seeing what your worst matchups are, looking
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: into you know the players in the tournament, and thirty
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: nine Cards has basically tournament results for probably ninety nine
• 57:49
  Speaker 1: percent of the people that are going to be at
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: this event, so you can kind of see what they've played.
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: If you don't track your games already and like how
• 57:59
  Speaker 1: they are into certain matchups, you can definitely start. And
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: we actually do have a free template on our Patreon
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: for anyone. I realized the other day that I need
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: to update it to include the new heroes.
• 58:16
  Speaker 4: So when I do that, versions stuff going to be
• 58:21
  Speaker 4: at World. I'm sorry, I'm just checking this out. Yeah, ship, Yeah,
• 58:27
  Speaker 4: I think giving me the fomo. It really really really
• 58:33
  Speaker 4: is like number one. I see this sealed three v
• 58:36
  Speaker 4: three sealed team events are always fun no matter what
• 58:41
  Speaker 4: game you're in. I don't know exactly how Altered does it,
• 58:50
  Speaker 4: but like they're always fun to do. Two v two
• 58:54
  Speaker 4: not so not as much fun as a three v three.
• 58:56
  Speaker 4: There's nothing, buddy, There's nothing better than sitting down with
• 58:59
  Speaker 4: two of your friends to just other people you know,
• 59:02
  Speaker 4: and and if you're being able to ask for help
• 59:05
  Speaker 4: and well, how would you play this? How would you
• 59:07
  Speaker 4: play that? Key for used to do team events and
• 59:12
  Speaker 4: always always a great time, uh to kind of poke around.
• 59:16
  Speaker 4: I'm looking at I don't know are these stickers. I
• 59:18
  Speaker 4: don't know what these are if they're stickers or pins,
• 59:21
  Speaker 4: but they're kind of cool. The pins very very cool.
• 59:24
  Speaker 4: Sleep they are pushing these sleeves. I think the sleeves
• 59:28
  Speaker 4: are probably like the weakest thing I've seen on here.
• 59:31
  Speaker 4: I mean cool, look at sleeves, but like out of
• 59:35
  Speaker 4: the week like them. The mats are all awesome.
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: People people go crazy for those ORBS sleeves though, to
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: be honest, yeah, I think it's because every set has them,
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: so people are like different too. I want the ORB sleeve.
• 59:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I think.
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: They're slightly different too, they Yeah, yeah, every set has
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: a different ORB back. Yeah, so I think honestly as well,
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: this set of ORB sleeves will be even.
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 4: More three boosters. Yeah, I hope, I hope. I hope
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 4: they're sliding of you. Those are pretty dope. I don't know,
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 4: I don't ask me why. I'm all about the chib Yeah.
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 5: Uh.
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: Those are just the ope boosters that you can get
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 1: from playing anywhere with OP.
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 4: So oh there in cheap.
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 2: Yep yep.
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: So every yeah, every set they do a different theme
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 1: for the OP boosters. Last set was everyone at an
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: alternate convention, so you had like pascife selling minotar flushes, which,
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: if you don't know, Pascifey is the mother of the minotaur.
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 1: So it's pretty cool. Yeah, this set is Chibi Leviathan's.
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 4: Ah.
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: But yeah, very very cool stuff they've They've done very
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: well with prizing. There will be artists there, there will
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: be lower events. There's also events for younger kids, which
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: is super cool.
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 4: Yeah. I saw that there is a dojo, what do
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 4: they call it, Kodama's.
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: Dojo, Podama Academy.
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Kodama Academy. Yeah, that's that's cool getting having that tier.
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 4: I've always thought that more more games should have that
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 4: kind of that bracketed tier. Pokemon does it. They do
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 4: a good job of it, where like there's like each
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 4: age group has like kind of their own events. I
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 4: don't know if Altered could pull that off. Just I
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 4: don't know if there's a big enough player base to
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 4: do that.
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: Not quite yet. Yeah, there's no. It was actually kind
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 1: of interesting. Someone came into the discord and they were like, Hey,
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 1: is it okay if my daughter plays in the LCQ
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 1: she's ten? And they were like, yeah, there's no like
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  Speaker 1: age restrictions or anything, you know, just make sure she's
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  Speaker 1: prepared and whatnot. But yeah, his daughter does not want
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  Speaker 1: to play in the Kodama Academy. She wants to play
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  Speaker 1: in the big leagues.
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  Speaker 5: Nice.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, hell yeah. And I responded and I
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  Speaker 1: was like, honestly, like I usually have more problems with
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: the adults than the kids, Like sometimes kids can get
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 1: you know, a little tilted. The theme of this episode.
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  Speaker 1: But there was a kid at the Dallas PQ for
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  Speaker 1: Star Wars that was just bad mouthing everyone, but nine
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  Speaker 1: out of ten people thought it was hilarious, and I
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  Speaker 1: tried to tell him. I was like, look, this kid
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  Speaker 1: is your friend, he knows who you are. You can
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  Speaker 1: say whatever you want to him. You got to realize
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  Speaker 1: not everyone here is your friend. You can't just be
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  Speaker 1: bad mouthing everyone.
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  Speaker 4: That's bad mouth everyone. As long as you say as
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  Speaker 4: long as you say I'm kidding at the end, it
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  Speaker 4: doesn't count. Yeah, none of that.
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  Speaker 6: To say it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, some grown ass man complained about him, of course,
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  Speaker 1: so but yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: The the other events, though, which you three should be
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  Speaker 1: good at saying how you go into it, is uh
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  Speaker 1: like draft or sealed. I I don't prepare like for
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  Speaker 1: that at all. I know that there are all right,
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  Speaker 1: so Felix is out too. Do you guys prepare for
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 1: draft us at all? Is there anything you do ahead
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  Speaker 1: of those?
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  Speaker 4: I well, I mean not, yes and no. It's no
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  Speaker 4: different from my normal like kind of routine, but just
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  Speaker 4: kind of I guess more along that line. You gotta
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  Speaker 4: prepare for the worst, especially in because I guess that's
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 4: more of a sealed format than anything. Huh yeah, because
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  Speaker 4: like it's such a format of you know, I guess
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 4: the best way is to put, it is sometimes a
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 4: good sometimes a shit right, Like it's.
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  Speaker 3: Just yes, sometimes you might just good, right, and you
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  Speaker 3: have to prepare for that.
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  Speaker 4: Sometimes it's great sometimes you know, like it just it
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  Speaker 4: is what it is, man, And you just kind of
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 4: got to realize that going into those formats where there
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 4: is a little bit of luck involved, it just is
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  Speaker 4: what it is. Like you gotta roll with the punches there,
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  Speaker 4: and the better you can roll with them again, the
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  Speaker 4: best or off you'll be. You know, I I do
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  Speaker 4: practice like our sealed format, and really, honestly, like practice
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  Speaker 4: really just involves of playing a lot of the sealed format, right,
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  Speaker 4: so you kind of know you know what you're looking for.
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  Speaker 4: Like when I crack open what I'm looking at, I
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 4: kind of already have an idea of what I'm looking for, right,
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  Speaker 4: so I can use that as a base and kind
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 4: of run from there. Does that make sense?
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  Speaker 3: The best way to practice for limited is just to
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 3: play a bunch of Limited beforehand so you know how
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 3: it goes and the good combos and what to look
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  Speaker 3: out for.
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  Speaker 5: Stuff like that.
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  Speaker 3: You don't do anything specifically before each game or before
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 3: the tournament and specific but just getting lots of reps
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  Speaker 3: in with those formats is great, definitely gives you an
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  Speaker 3: upper hand over people that don't have that same experience.
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  Speaker 1: You can also if you wanted to review, you know,
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 1: cards and come up yeah, yeah, for sure strategies ahead
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  Speaker 1: of time and in altered I would say one of
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 1: the best ways to do that would be to like
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 1: go to a guy trying, you know, reveal spreadsheet or
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 1: something like that, and just you know, read through every card.
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 1: I cannot tell you how often, going into a new set,
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 1: I undervalued a card until I was more actively looking
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 1: at it or.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, when.
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 5: You get destroyed by it, yeah.
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 1: And I'm like, oh damn, that's what that card means.
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 1: Like a very good example for the new Skybound Odyssey
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 1: set is I'm pretty sure none of us put Counting
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  Speaker 1: Sheep on our list, or at least we didn't, you know,
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  Speaker 1: focus on it that much.
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  Speaker 2: I looked at it and I don't remember if it
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  Speaker 2: put it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't like it.
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  Speaker 1: If okay, this is this is a perfect example. You
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 1: look at the card and you're like, okay, you know whatever.
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 1: You can create po wooly backs and then you put
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 1: things to sleep. The thing is, if you look at
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 1: that card longer. It puts every sea card, no matter
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 1: what expedition it is to sleep that costs one or less.
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 1: You know what, also costs less than one to all tokens.
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 1: It is a very strong card.
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 2: It's one that I would consider running as a one
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 2: of when I looked at it.
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I played no Characters tournament today and yeah the
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 1: field had counting sheep and bait and it was insane.
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 5: That's so good.
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was ridiculous. So reading the cards, really ingesting them,
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 1: thinking through them, I would say it's very a very
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 1: good way to prepare for sealed and draft events.
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 4: You alrighty, well, is there anything else we want to
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 4: go over? Let me check our little note skis here. Yeah,
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 4: if you want to read ape not we'll Recapella another time. Mark,
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 4: make sure you go over to the Patreon where I
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 4: might read you a Capello one day. Who knows, maybe
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 4: we'll maybe we'll do that as a fun thing over there.
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 4: Make sure you do uh, make sure you sign up
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 4: for the Paige san you do get the shows a
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 4: little bit. Early events are as kind of normal, I guess,
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 4: except you're going to have worlds. Uh. Actually, if you're
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 4: hearing this, you're you might be there. Nobody really knows.
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 1: And as we said already, probably no episode next week
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 1: because I will be in Paris and Felix will be
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 1: doing Felix things.
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 2: No, I'll be in Saint Louis. I'll be at a
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 2: Pokemon conference.
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 4: Pokemon conference. Pokemon has conferences.
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 2: We're going to be at the American Library Association and
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 2: we're going to talk with teachers and librarians about bringing
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 2: Pokemon to libraries.
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 4: Oh, it's an.
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 2: Official program that they're pushing that got postponed due to
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 2: COVID and they're trying to bring it back.
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 4: Get those kids off the streets, get them plans Pokemon.
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 2: I mean the library league that I run has like
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 2: forty kids.
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 4: Okay, I mean that for a lot.
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 2: And there children, so they're like age seven to thirteen,
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 2: got it. So that's that's a demographic that you're pushing for.
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 2: So that's what we're going to talk about.
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 4: Make sure you go over to w dot GG, use
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 4: code draw better, get yourself a tub of energy. Maybe
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 4: they can get it to you before you go to
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 4: power and compete over there. Make sure that you have
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 4: all your hydrated and you're strong and you're heavily caffeinated
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 4: because that's what I need. And I like coffee, big
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 4: fan of coffee. I don't know how y'all feel about it,
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 4: but I like coffee.
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I drink And.
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 4: Would that be good luck to everybody competing in Worlds
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 4: as you are competing right now, safe travels to mister
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 4: Cole Robbie on his way to and from Paris, or
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 4: I should just say, France? Is it in Paris proper?
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 1: It's in Peris proper, though I think that I am.
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 4: Not because you know, like a lot of us say,
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 4: like it's close to Chicago, so it's just in Chicago,
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 4: but really, isn't like Schomberg, you know.
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's in technically uh nui morn France.
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 4: Yes, I will.
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 1: I will be in Paris at some point, so.
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 4: You would almost have to. It's like a once in
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 4: a lifetime maybe once in a lifetime experience, right yep,
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 4: at least for me. But but we want to thank
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 4: everyone for listening, and hey, we got a shout out
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 4: to send. Mister West will shout out to you. And
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 4: with that being said, we will see you all Afterworlds later, you.
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 7: Do a greci, sohy aren't you you feel like a
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 7: same time in somebody on a sidney. You're like a creature.
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 7: Penny of me till the soil. You'll live to say,
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 7: since you're like a creature.
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 2: And you tell the