{"id":17333,"date":"2025-01-17T13:37:23","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T12:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/17\/experience-im-a-world-champion-pokemon-player\/"},"modified":"2025-01-17T13:37:23","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T12:37:23","slug":"experience-im-a-world-champion-pokemon-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/17\/experience-im-a-world-champion-pokemon-player\/","title":{"rendered":"Experience: I\u2019m a world champion Pok\u00e9mon player"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chile\u2019s president invited me to the palace and asked to see some of my cards<\/p>\n<p>I started playing the Pok\u00e9mon Trading Card Game (TCG) around 10 years ago, when I\u00a0was seven. My older brother, Marco, had already been playing with my dad for years. At first, the three of us just played at home. For me, Pok\u00e9mon TCG is a family activity \u2013 it keeps us close. I\u00a0think that\u2019s important, especially nowadays when everyone is on their phone.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m from Iquique, a city in the north of Chile. We have a strong Pok\u00e9mon community here, and several local shops host tournaments. The game is two-player, and involves each person preparing a deck of 60 cards \u2013 each card represents one Pok\u00e9mon, with different abilities and powers. You then battle your opponent with your cards; whoever has the more powerful combination of cards is the winner.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2025\/jan\/17\/experience-im-a-world-champion-pokemon-player\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/2f5cd704edbff42856c14a5ea46c9a3026da5c24\/0_0_7134_4280\/master\/7134.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=64d807b6a125dc957f2877179d1765e7\" title=\"Experience: I\u2019m a world champion Pok\u00e9mon player\" \/>Chile\u2019s president invited me to the palace and asked to see some of my cards<br \/>\nI started playing the Pok\u00e9mon Trading Card Game (TCG) around 10 years ago, when I\u00a0was seven. My older brother, Marco, had already been playing with my dad for years. At first, the three of us just played at home. For me, Pok\u00e9mon TCG is a family activity \u2013 it keeps us close. I\u00a0think that\u2019s important, especially nowadays when everyone is on their phone.<br \/>\nI\u2019m from Iquique, a city in the north of Chile. We have a strong Pok\u00e9mon community here, and several local shops host tournaments. The game is two-player, and involves each person preparing a deck of 60 cards \u2013 each card represents one Pok\u00e9mon, with different abilities and powers. You then battle your opponent with your cards; whoever has the more powerful combination of cards is the winner. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chile\u2019s president invited me to the palace and asked to see some of my cards I started playing the Pok\u00e9mon Trading Card Game (TCG) around 10 years ago, when I\u00a0was seven. My older brother, Marco, had already been playing with my dad for years. At first, the three of us just played at home. For &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/17\/experience-im-a-world-champion-pokemon-player\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Experience: I\u2019m a world champion Pok\u00e9mon player<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":17334,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17333"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}