jdos said:
UDE says that you cannot make a manual change if the battle position has been changed for any reason already in that turn. That's what it is until they say otherwise.
Oh yes, I quite understand this, and the whole deal behind the Hallowed Life Barrier arguement. We do get the cards printed over here after Japan, and they're supposed to be corrected and erratta'd as necessary, and my understand is that in Japan, the card text is suposed to be wrong on Hallowed Life Barrier, and correctly printed over here. Which is one of the points I'm trying to figure out, does Japan not release card errata or something, if this is the case, and the card was misprinted over there?
I have no qualms at all about following these rules, or any others, that I've heard here, it was the whole reason I came here in the first place. I live in the middle of nowhere, so I have to travel miles and miles just to play actual human beings, or use an online program obviously. Sometimes the only practice I get is the video games. If I had the opportunity, I'd love to sit down and just watch people play with all different deck types for hours, if not days at a time, just to even see what they do. I've been playing games since I was 3. I can be entertained for hours just watching people play, even if I do nothing myself.
The main issue I've been addressing here, is not really the fact of a card text, but more along the lines of an entire game mechanic. The position change by an effect, and the manual position change. It seems highly disturbing to me that two different parts of the world would play a mechanic entirely different, so I'm hoping to bring awareness of this up, and perhaps get it changed for either the US, or for Japan (if they do indeed play the mechanic differently). I firmly believe in as much information as possible being available to the public, and I also feel like a teacher many times, my 13 year old brother, some of his friends, and my 24 year old friend. That's what I definitely do not want to teach them improper ways of playing the game, yet when there's so many sources out there (games, other players and even judges, reports on certain tournaments, etc.) that play this mechanic differently than the way it's supposed to be played, according to UDE, it can really lead to some rather bad feelings, especially to an aspiring duelist who wants to do more than just play certain games.
I don't know where the World Championships are held and all, this year, or any year, but I would hope that judges from every country would be available there. By having proper communication on issues, and coordinating rulings and such, common mistakes such as these can be addressed by all parties equally, without one country siding for one side, and another country siding for the other, which could really lead to bad tensions and what would appear to be favoritism.
Mainly, it's things like that I'm trying to prevent here, by everything I've said, and done. I've seen the cards flipped by their own effect or Book of Moon from face-up attack to face-down defense, then flip-summoned immediately afterwards far too many times in the rather limited amount of human duelist contact I've had, and then even read about online and such. That's why I wrote a polite letter and thread forward to Mr. Okagawa, Mr. Schultz, and UDE Entertainment themselves already, and will probably do the same for Konami of Japan later this afternoon. I honestly don't care which way the rulings would be correct, but they obviously both cannot, and yet when so many people play certain cards in one way, there's definitely a miscommunication problem. My mission here is to try and make some offical public knowledge to the US, Japan, and the rest of the world, on how they are played correctly, and hopefully clear up any future confusion.
My only real fear though is that being an unknown nobody, noone will even bother to take my request seriously, because they themselves think they know more than some schmuck from the backwoods, who's just trying to get some more information as public knowledge.
I'm poor, I sure can't buy most of the cards I'd need if I wanted to be competitive in many aspects of the game, yet I strive hard for my own personal goal of maybe not winning the Nationals, or even going for that matter, but to at least get an invitation, and to prove that it doesn't take money, but brains and skill and heart, to let a person win.
At the last regionals I went to, I dueled against someone who already has a nationals invitation, and is obviously rich enough, as he had 3 Royal Decrees in his deck/side deck, and I just barely lost to in the final game of the match. He shook my hand and told me that he may have lost a couple games today to bad luck, and won a few to good luck perhaps, but he hadn't dueled anyone as tough as me in months, and definitely not in that tournament at all. That really makes a person feel good, to be told someone like that, when they're virtually unknown, but playing with cards that just don't see play. The funny part was in game three, his friends, who had all finished their games by this time, had all gathered around, and so intrigued by my deck, that they wanted /me/ to win, someone they didn't know, instead of their own friend.
It's good sportsmanship and friendship like that, that this game should promote, especially between countries, which is why I feel this is such a serious matter, as much as it's misplayed. I'd like to see it corrected everywhere, including in the games themselves.
Sorry to go off so long and randomly, I'm just trying to show my whole reasons why this issue nags me so much. It's really quite the bother.
