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Even if you don\u2019t play competitive Pok\u00e9mon<\/em>, you may be familiar with the move Metronone, which sees a monster wave their fingers back and forth until they hit their enemy with a random attack from the wider compendium of moves. It\u2019s a fun move in theory, but not a particularly effective one, because you can\u2019t predict what your Pok\u00e9mon will do and whether or not it will take advantage of your rival\u2019s weakness. And yet, last weekend, a handful of top-tier competitive players all walked into the finals of an official Pok\u00e9mon<\/em> tournament equipped with Metronome. And the only way they could have coordinated something like that was to have hacked the monsters themselves to know the move, meaning the cheating was wholly intentional.<\/p>\n

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Why do such a thing? They were upset and wanted to send a message to the larger league. As one of the banned players explained in a Twitter post, there\u2019s been increasing tension over how tournaments are run, their format, and whether or not they occur in person. Players feel that the current \u201cbest of one\u201d format is not good for competition, because the outcome of a single match may not always reflect a better player in a game that has random elements. And there\u2019s been grumbling about how much the league, which operates in Korea, loops younger players into the larger proceedings. <\/p>\n

Competitors also cite alleged<\/a><\/span> problems with online tournaments where players have intentionally disconnected to force a win, or worse, where connectivity issues have made it so that both contestants couldn\u2019t compete and ended up being disqualified. Players say they don\u2019t like how uncommunicative the league is about what\u2019s going on in it, either. It\u2019s a complicated situation which is broken down by one of the banned players, NashVGC, right here<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n

Why did these top Pok\u00e9mon players get banned?<\/h2>\n

Frustrations reached a fever pitch in early June, however, when a player was allegedly banned from a tournament without being told why. Kotaku <\/em>has reached out to The Pok\u00e9mon Company <\/em>inquiring about the situation. But players who were in the tourney got so upset that they got together and coordinated what happened next. Competitions ask players to send the Pok\u00e9mon who make up their teams in advance, and that\u2019s exactly what they did. Normally, as with any competitive game, you can expect to see some broad similarities in teams between different players, because they\u2019re all anticipating the same \u201cmeta\u201d tactics. But this was something different: the players all<\/em> sent in teams with Pok\u00e9mon that knew the same move. And that move was Metronome.<\/p>\n

The next day, all four players received an email telling them they were disqualified from the proceedings. The broken rules cited were \u201cAn act of causing harm to other participants or giving an offensive image\u201d and \u201cOther actions that Nintendo Ltd. and TPC (and its subsidiaries) deem inappropriate.\u201d <\/p>\n

What\u2019s worth noting is that not every Pok\u00e9mon can know Metronome, and even if a monster is capable of learning it, the chances that four players could all raise (or rent) entire teams that know the same move in such a short period of time is extremely unlikely. Pok\u00e9mon<\/em> is a game where there are widely available tools that allow you to create monsters by dictating the stats without having to actually raise them in-game, however. <\/p>\n

NashVGC, one of the players who was banned for submitting a Metronome team, says that the entire ploy was an effort<\/a><\/span> to raise \u201cawareness\u201d of the larger situation with the competitive circuit in Korea. In a tweet, they explain that \u201cThere are still people who do not know what\u2019s happening. Once enough people realize the issue, we may be able to move on to a movement. Be it online or offline, we\u2019ll have to demand TPC of fair circuits and respect for players.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe players deserve better,\u201d Nash said in a YouTube comment<\/span>. <\/p>\n