Can someone explain to me the importance of a record for a Pokémon TCG career?
for example let’s say I lose my first tournaments at local will that define me for the rest of my time playing?
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No.
Winning specific tournaments will sometimes earn you invitations to bigger, more exclusive events, but generally everyone enters an event with a clean slate.
What does matter is the knowledge and experience you carry with you from each event. Generally players who have participated and won more events are expected to perform better, because they are expected to have accrued both over their career, not simply because they have more points or titles. Those things are predictors of future success, not requisites or guarantees of it.
But even if a new player, or a player with a previously poor performance, shows up with a good deck, plays well, and the variance that is a part of any TCG (for better or worse) falls on their side, they can expect to succeed as much as any experienced, high performing player.
Locals are a great place to garner the knowledge and experience that will help you build a stronger deck and play better in more competitive events, but you are not doomed to eternal failure just because you 0-3 your first locals. In fact, that is almost a rite of passage for virtually every player.
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No, nobody cares if you lose (whatever you mean by losing) your first tournament lol
For a top career all you need is to get enough points to archive your goals… like worlds. You will perform well in some, and not so well in others like everyone else.
The more top placements you get in big tournaments the better of course... but all depends on your career goals like I said before.
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