Pokémon has all the time been promoted as a family-friendly sequence, and on the World Championships final weekend, a competitor within the Buying and selling Card Recreation match was instantly disqualified after successful his quarter-final match.
This happened within the Masters bracket (the highest division for gamers 16 years and older), with competitor Ian Robb thrown out of the highest 8, which was dwell streamed on Twitch and YouTube. In line with an official assertion shared with Comicbook.com, The Pokémon Firm Worldwide issued Robb with a match loss for “unsportsmanlike conduct”.
Whereas The Pokémon Firm did not elaborate on this, the supply notes the way it’s “doubtless as a consequence of Robb making a gesture” together with his hand after successful the match. You possibly can see the edited match video (which removes this) above, however clips of this scene are nonetheless doing the rounds on social media. What’s even crazier is that Robb’s opponent Fernando Cifuentes really went on to win your complete match! It is believed Robb has additionally “probably misplaced out” on prize cash.
Fortuitously, the match continued on, and in the course of the closing ceremony, a number of sport bulletins and updates have been shared concerning the Buying and selling Card Recreation and the cell pocket model of it even locked in a launch date.
