 Hi everyone it's MJ the fellow actuary and in this video we're talking about Pokemon the trading card game and the reason why we're doing this is because in August there is going to be the 2023 world championship happening in Japan. Now what makes this really cool for us in South Africa is for the first time we're going to be having two special event tournaments based in Cape Town and Johannesburg in the month of June where the winner gets all expense paid to go represent their country in Japan. So that is very very cool so if you've ever wanted to go to Japan the birthplace of Pikachu you can now go play in one of these tournaments and if you win boom you're in Japan. So how are we going to do it? Well we don't have years of experience but hopefully we can use our actuarial ability to assist us with this game. So I only started playing competitively in the month of April so I know it's a bit ambitious but I'm bringing in some actuarial strategies for instance lost distributions to just understand the opponent's decks as well as hyper geometric distributions to build our own decks. But in this video we're not going to be talking about the actuarial science behind it. No in today's video I want to show you how to play and invite you to come join me at these tournaments in Cape Town or Johannesburg and play with me. And what you're going to see is that Pokemon trading card game is kind of like a combination of poker and chess. Poker because you're playing with cards and there's a big luck element but chess because there's a lot of strategy to be played as well as before you start the game how you build your deck will determine your odds. So if you like chess if you like poker you're definitely going to love the Pokemon trading card game. So what I want to do in this video is just explain the basics talk a little bit about some of these decks that I've made and like I say I want to invite you to join me in Joburg on the 10th of June or Cape Town on the 17th of June because yeah let's make a team let's go I've already got a couple of friends involved but you know the more the merrier so let's jump straight into it. I am going to be using wiki how they've got some images which I decided to pull in order to make this video on how to play Pokemon. Now how I like to start teaching anything is to start with the purpose the objective the goal what are we trying to do so in Pokemon what you want to do is to win and you win by taking six prize cards. Now the natural question arises well how do you take a prize card you can take a prize card by knocking out a Pokemon and what we're going to see is that Pokemon have got different prize values you've got your basic Pokemon which count for one prize those Pokemon can evolve into a stage one and then into a stage two they're still one prize for knocking them out but then there's these v cards now the basic v cards take two prizes the v stars which evolves from the v takes also two cards ex cards also take two prizes but then they are these things called v max cards which take three prizes so they're like the big strong Pokemon but let's maybe go through that a little bit quicker oh sorry slower one prize cards this is an example of a basic Pokemon you can see it then evolves that's a stage one and then that is a stage two so they kind of look similar but right on the top left hand corner you can see if it's basic stage one or stage two like I say knock out any of these and you'll get one prize card when it comes to two prize cards there's the basic v cards there's the v star cards which evolve from the basic v and there are these ex cards again they will say it right at the top and they'll say it at the bottom you'll see there's the v rule the v star rule and the Pokemon ex rule that says when this Pokemon is knocked out your opponent takes two prizes that's the nice thing about Pokemon is that the cards literally are the rule books like they explain everything as you go along and then three prize cards is if you can take out a v max v max cards very very powerful very very strong but you can see that rule right at the bottom that when your Pokemon v max is knocked out your opponent takes three prize cards so yes you can play with these cards and they'll be very aggressive but if you get knocked out you're going to be losing a lot of prizes to your opponent and essentially the first person to take all six prizes wins the game so you can put in strong Pokemon but then it's very risky or you can put in weak Pokemon cover your risks but then you're not going to hit that hard and for those actors out there you can really see the whole risk and reward kind of playing out in this game but I think that's the staple of many of these trading cards so now we want to ask ourselves okay we need we need to get prize cards we get prize cards by knocking out Pokemon how do we knock out a Pokemon well if we look at the Pokemon card we will now see in the top right hand corner there is this thing that says HP hit points health points whatever you want to call it but 60 is the key word there what we need to do is reduce that to zero and we can reduce it to zero by attacking it so our attacks reduce the hit points and once it goes down to zero that Pokemon has been knocked out so wait our Pokemon can attack yes so let's look at how we can attack so in the middle of the card you'll have the attacks so here we have this thing called memory skip the damage is 10 so if this Pokemon was to fight against a very similar Pokemon like an identical one it would require six turns to knock it out because 10 10 10 10 all the way to get to 60 but what you'll see with these attacks is sometimes they come with a little bit of a story they tell you exactly what it can do but more importantly to the left you will see the symbol over here and this is an energy cost so you need to attach an energy card in order to do this attack now these energy cards are are interesting because you can only attach one per turn from your hand so if you want a really really strong Pokemon that requires a lot of energy it's going to take a couple of turns to get them ready or and we'll look at this a little bit later in the video you can attach trainer cards that will allow you or play a trainer cards that allow you to attach more energy cards and you can sometimes have Pokemon that can assist each other and this is where you start seeing that the game is very interconnected because other Pokemon can support your attacking Pokemon and in one case they can do that is they can give it energy now like I said strong attacks need lots of energy so let's look very quickly at a common little strategy and the common strategy involves these two Pokemon working together so Zyken V will be the attacking Pokemon and Godavar will be the supporting Pokemon on the bench and if we look at the attack of Zyken we see that it does 60 damage plus 30 more damage for each psychic energy that is attached to this Pokemon now you can attach as many energy as you want to the Pokemon now Godavar has got this ability that says as often as you like during your turn you may attach an energy card as long as it's in your discard pile we'll also talk about that a little bit later to one of your psychic Pokemons if you attach energy to a Pokemon in this way you also have to put two damage counters or 20 damage on that Pokemon and you can't use this ability on a Pokemon that would be knocked out so essentially what you can do is you start off with the base damage of 60 and then you can put on 10 damage well attach 10 energy to Zyken and take you know 200 damage so that it still has 20 left and then boom my maths is correct you're doing 360 damage to the opposing Pokemon now you very rarely will attach that many energy to the Zyken because what you'll want to do is look at how much health your opponent has if they only have 200 no point doing 360 damage and hurting your Pokemon more because like I say if you've only got 20 HP remaining you're going to be very vulnerable to your opponent's turn when they come to attack you but what we're seeing here is I'm going a little bit quickly is we're looking at how so maybe just quickly to recap to when you need prize cards to get prize cards you need to knock out a Pokemon you knock out a Pokemon when its HP goes to 0 you can reduce its HP to 0 by using an attack but by using an attack you need energy and you can attach energy either from your hand or use other Pokemon's abilities to support you so let's maybe recap where we are so this is something like what your what your hand would look like and I know we've been talking about discard pile and active Pokemon so let's point out all of these things when you're playing the game this will be your board setup you've got your prizes to the left of you given by this blue arrow you've got your deck of cards given on the green on the right and then just below your deck where little squirtles hanging out over there where the red arrow that is your discard pile so whenever you play cards or Pokemon get knocked out they end up in the discard pile now with that previous strategy we saw that that Pokemon can pull energy from the discard pile other Pokemon can pull from the deck so it's important just to be mindful of where those energies are coming from and then in the middle we have our Pokemon in play and we'll see that we've got our active Pokemon that's positioned right at the top and then the bench you can have up to five Pokemon on your bench and what we can see is a good setup for the God of War deck is to have this icon in the attack of roll you've got God of War who's getting you know the energy to to Zykan however it needs to pull from the discard pile and this is where this other Pokemon called Kurilla comes in it says you may discard a card from your hand in order to use this ability once during your turn you may draw two cards so not only is Kurilla drawing cards into your hand which is a good thing gives you more options but you can also choose a card to discard most players choose to discard that psychic energy because now that it's in their discard pile they can then move it into Zykan and allow it to attack and what this deck also sometimes has is a mana p and it has an ability called a wave veil and this is prevent all damage done to your bench Pokemon by attacks from your opponent's Pokemon and this is just to protect your Kurilla because you can see with only 80 HP she's quite weak so you want to make sure that she's protected so that she can do refinement get those energy cards into the discard pile then God of War can support Zykan and you can start to see how all the cards are pretty much connected and that's what makes for a good gameplay so when you see people playing the game and all of that you want each and every single one of your cards to contribute to your overarching strategy and that's going to make you very very effective but for now let's maybe just go through some of the basics like how would you know what do you do per turn so you've set up your prizes you've you know you shuffle your your cards so you'd start your draw seven that's going to be your starting hand you make sure you've got a Pokemon then what you do is you place six cards face down those are your prizes and now your turn will start once you've placed your active Pokemon so what you're going to do is to start you will draw a card from your deck make sure you don't forget to draw a card from your deck and you can then play some trainer cards which what we're going to talk about in the next slide and then after you've played your trainer cards you can then interact with your Pokemon and we're going to see that there's a variety of things that you can do to interact with your Pokemon so playing trainer cards this way it does get a little bit a little bit confusing but again the cards do tell you exactly what they do so for instance you get item cards and this is for instance a ultra ball this ball if you just got another two cards from your hand you can then go into your deck and find any Pokemon you want again this can work really nicely with that deck we saw earlier you discard some energies because you want the energies in the discard pile you can then go find God of War out of your deck place it down boom and you're ready to to cause some havoc then there are also tool cards tool cards can only you can only attach one tool card per Pokemon unless you have a special Pokemon that allows multiple tools but most of the time one tool per per Pokemon and then they'll tell you exactly what they do so in this case you've got the choice belt the attacks of the Pokemon this card is attached to do 30 more damage to your opponent's active Pokemon V so if you're playing against a Pokemon that's and when it says Pokemon V is talking about these V stars V maxes so for me I like this card because I look at the loss distribution of all the health points of the various cards and if one of my attacks can't meet the damage or a pure knockout I'll maybe include a choice spell in my deck to make sure that I can't knock out that Pokemon you know prevent it from from hurting me by taking it out quickly so those are tool cards so tool cards you attach to your Pokemon item cards you just play and you do what their their effect is you can play as many item cards as you want and as many tool cards to as many Pokemon as you want supporter cards though you can only play one per turn and this is what makes them interesting because they're a lot stronger you can see in this case this person can oh and supporter cards normally have human characters so you search your deck for an item and a Pokemon tool card you can then reveal them and you put them into your hand so what's nice about Arvan is you can play Arvan you can then say oh I need an ultra ball to find a specific Pokemon or I need that choice belt in order to wipe out my opponent so supporter cards give you a lot of options but you can only play one per turn so you want to not have too many of them because there's no point having 10 in your hand and you can only play one per turn so supporter cards are very powerful but you need to use them wisely also be aware that your opponent might use it to disrupt your play or they might use it to to help them find that very card that they need and then you have something called stadiums and stadiums I find them very annoying because they keep ruining my gameplay especially this one called path to the peak it says Pokemon with the rule box in play have no abilities so if you've got a Pokemon v a Pokemon v star and someone plays path to the peak you can't use your really cool super ability but what's lovely is if you look in the bottom in that green part it will tell you how the rules work around stadiums it says this stadium stays in play when you play so you play it and you keep it on the on the table you only discard it if another stadium comes into play and you can't you know have a stadium with the same name replacing that stadium so my defense against this path to peak is to have another stadium of my own and play it or there is Pokemon that can destroy stadiums there also are supportive Pokemon supporter cards like one called worker which discards the stadium and play and draws three cards so you want to make sure what your weakness is and then make sure you are able to you know retaliate and make sure that you can yeah something like path to the peak doesn't ruin your game so make sure your deck has enough of these Pokemon or supporter cards that can help you continue playing so these are your trainer cards but then I said you also end your turn by interacting with your Pokemon now what you can do is you can put a Pokemon from your hand onto the bench sometimes that's a really good idea especially if they've got a nice ability and you want to support your other Pokemon or if they're a basic and you've got a stage one you need them to be on the bench in order to get them up but just realizing or just realize that if you play a Pokemon on your bench you're then exposing it to risk I know that's your real term here because what your opponent can do is they can sometimes attack the bench Pokemon so you just want to make sure that it doesn't get wiped out by a surprise attack but you're benching your Pokemon from your hand is one of the first things you want to do when you're interacting with your Pokemon to if you've got an evolution play and it's the second turn that that Pokemon is being on the bench or in the active spot you can then evolve it into a much stronger Pokemon so evolving Pokemon is quite a fun thing to do then don't forget I see new players forgetting this all the time to use the ability of their Pokemon some of them can even be used from the bench this is what really makes your deck very powerful of course it does open up that weakness to path of the peak stadium card and I think that's what I like about Pokemon is that every powerful strategy can be counted and we're going to exploit that a little bit later on in this video then you want to make sure you attach an energy card to one of your Pokemon you don't have to do it but if you've got the energy card you might as well because you can only do this once per turn then let's say you don't like your Pokemon that's in active spot you can retreat your active Pokemon sometimes by paying the retreat cost and which in most cases means discarding energy and switch it with one of your Pokemon from the bench you can only retreat Pokemon once unless you have trainer cards that allow you to switch your Pokemon in and up and that can sometimes be a very popular strategy especially if you want to use all of the abilities and the abilities can only be used from the active spot once you've done all of that that's when you can then declare an attack if you have enough energy to do so and basically each attack will tell you exactly what it's doing now and last way to maybe remember these six steps that you can do while interacting with your Pokemon it's kind of like beer yeah okay it's it's not really a word but these are the six steps that you can do with interacting your Pokemon now if you were to read a book on how to play Pokemon they talk about this thing called special conditions in the competitive play very rarely do you see special conditions coming about but very quickly confused means if your Pokemon is confused you go to flip a coin if it's tails you do 30 damage to yourself if heads you attack like normal poison Pokemon they take 10 damage every single turn but you can retreat them and bring them back and that will recover the position in fact that does it for all of them except for paralyzed where you can't retreat so paralyzed contra treat and kind of attack asleep you can retreat and you can also flip a coin to wake up and then burned is like similar to poison but it's 20 damage and you flip to see if you recover but like I say don't worry about special conditions they very very rarely come up at the competitive level let's rather talk about weakness resistance and retreat and let me rather just get oh no we can put it up yeah um so what we're gonna see is weakness resistance and retreat so we got this new card and right at the bottom it's got this weakness dark energy resistance is the fighting energy and essentially what that means is that it will take double damage from dark Pokemon but it will take 30 less damage from fighting Pokemon Mu because Mu can fly around and is light and fluffy it's got a zero retreat cost which makes Mu very powerful for switching in and switching out what you'll also see is um oh yeah with this whole weakness thing the best card to play to to just take down Mu and I included in my deck is drapeon v it's also got this wild style ability which says this cost one less for each of your opponent single strike rapid strike fusion strike Pokemon in play so basically I'm doing 380 damage to Mu with no energy cost because how the Mu deck works is they normally have quite a lot of other fusion Pokemon on the bench supporting supporting Mu especially if you look at Mu's attack says choose one of your benched fusion strike Pokemon's attack to use so it needs a big bench drapeon comes in and takes them out now fusion strike rapid strike battles and you don't really have to worry too much about them other than the fact that sometimes they can like you saw the attack the cross fusion strike can only use a fusion strike Pokemon's attack so it has to have that little pink logo and various energy cards also only can be applied to fusion strike or rapid strike or battles but like I say you don't when it's when you're playing for your first time you don't have to worry too much about about that um we'll talk very quickly about deck building okay deck building you want to have at least one Pokemon you can only also have one radiant Pokemon radiant Pokemon or slightly stronger but you can only have one copy of them in your deck um then you can only have four copies of every single Pokemon so you know you can't have a deck of 59 Pikachu's even though that would be awesome so only four copies of a Pokemon in fact you can only have four copies of any other card so you need that variety between Pokeball supporters and all these other things one card that you can have lots of are your basic energies like I say you can have up to 59 of these ones because remember you have to have at least one basic Pokemon in your deck now this is the hardest part of the game like if you don't build a proper deck you're probably not gonna do very very well so what people do is they either copy a decklist from a champion online or they can use advanced tutorial modeling to optimize the likelihood of their strategies we're going for the second one although having said that we do look at the deck list of the champions use that as our scaffolding and then we try to refine play a lot of games online and keep improving it now let's say it's your first time um not playing decks or first time playing Pokemon and you're thinking you know I've never played this game before you know I don't have time to learn all the cards that are out there I also don't have enough cards to make a competitive deck I still don't have you know the patience to learn how to use all of these competitive decks but I still want to win that's where I come in to help you because I've created some some cheeky little decks um I've got you I've got like three very very cheeky decks one of them we're going to talk quite a bit about in this in this video uh but why do I call them cheeky decks because like I say most people come on to the internet and they see what are the top 10 decks so I play with this Meridian Regilecki which is the seventh most popular deck with 5.5 percent people playing it it does have a very low win rate um but I don't know I I enjoy the electric Pokemon but if we look here we see that Lost Zone box at 15.38 percent it is one of the most likely God of War 10.49 percent in South Africa we even see these ratings go a little bit higher because Lost Zone box is a lot cheaper to create than a Lugia box which is quite an expensive one to make and that's why even though it's got a slightly lower win rate it's more popular because cost is also taken into consideration where yeah trying to get a Gritina or a Lugia V-Star it's very very difficult and expensive to do so so if we were to like I say focus on Lost Zone box and we click on it we can see here um how they've placed so I mean what I think it was one on the 30th of May that also kind of won but these things are just they're just winning some people coming third second and the lovely thing is we can tap on the list and we can see exactly what Pokemon they're playing with now there's many variations but most of the time Lost Box plays with this thing called Comfy which once during your turn if this Pokemon is in the active spot you may look at the top two cards of your deck put one of them into your hand and put the other into the Lost Zone now why does it want to put these things into the Lost Zone watch the Lost Zone it's like a discard pile that you can't pull out of because once Comfy comes in and it starts and they'll normally have three or four of these and they'll rotate them rotate them rotate them and they'll have a huge amount of cards in their hand and a lot of cards in the Lost Zone once they have these cards in the Lost Zone you can see they can bring in Cramorat which says if you have four or more cards in the Lost Zone ignore all energy in this Pokemon's attack cost which is really cool means this Cramorat can come in a little bit later and do 110 damage instantly but if you if you have 10 or more cards in the Lost Zone you can bring out the Sable Eye which allows you to put 12 damage counters which is 120 damage on your opponents in any way you like separated by 10 so you can put 60 on this Pokemon 10 on these 30 here and you can actually set yourself up for a very powerful attack you can either wipe out the bench and Manopee's Veil doesn't protect it because not seen as damage it's seen as damage counters which is also a little bit of a tricky interesting thing on the game but what you can do is a lot of damage and then when you've got your Radiant Greninja you can see this attack does 90 damage to two of your opponent's Pokemon so these Pokemon collectively are very very strong they all work nicely together but like I say Sable Eye requires a lot of cards to be in the Lost Zone so does Cramorat they'll sometimes have Manopee and they'll sometimes have Snorlax and then they'll sometimes end the game with Kaigo which does this Aqua Storm which is very very devastating but don't worry we will shut them down before they ever get to Kaigo because what you're noticing is that their core Pokemon all depend on abilities especially this one Flower Selecting so Flower Selecting it is the Kingpin ability now we can't just play that path to the peak stadium card which hurts me but what you'll see is that that stadium card only prevents the abilities of Pokemon Vs and above all of these Pokemon are basic Pokemon so path to the peak doesn't prevent them doesn't hurt them and also because they're all basic Pokemon they're only using one prize at a time so this deck it's really really really difficult to play against it's very slow as well and what they're doing in the meantime is they're building a large collection of various cards and I mean you can also go and like look at their their trainer cards and you'll see from their trainer cards that a lot of them allow their Pokemon to be switched around some can also put cards into the Lost Box but most of the time they're around energy applying energy and doing other cool things once cards are in the Lost Zone fortunately we have a nice strategy and the strategy is to basically play these two Pokemon so the first one I mean essentially I would I wouldn't be too bad if we just played four copies of Empolion and left our Klefki at all the problem with that is that if we don't draw Pokemon in our first turn which with only four cards is quite unlike is yeah not going to be the best best odds you allow them to build up a very big hand which is what we're trying to prevent in the first place but we don't have any other Pokemon that doesn't have this ability because then they can implement their strategy so both Klefki and Empolion have very similar abilities Klefki says as long as this Pokemon is in the active spot basic Pokemon in play have no abilities except for mischievous lock and what did we see all of those Pokemon in the previous slide were all basic none of them worry evolution and Emperor Xi says as long as this Pokemon is in the active spot your opponent's basic Pokemon in play have no abilities except for Pokemon with rule box but none of their Pokemon have got the rule boxes except for that gradient Greninja Greninja would count as a rule box so you do want to still be mindful of that but what you're doing is you're preventing the comfy the flower selecting you're basically disrupting their entire game so they can't really get up to start and by only having these Pokemon in play with Empolion's power of 130 means you can take out their Pokemon in one go they're going to struggle to take you out in one go even with Cramorat and raiding Greninja hitting you in two consecutive terms it's only 200 damage in total you've got 210 and what you'll see is the rest of the deck list that I've created they contain cards that actually heal these Pokemon you know make them take less damage do a whole bunch of support around them so that's one of the great things about this deck is that it is specifically designed to take down loss box it's very weak against everything else well not everything else there's one other deck that it also stands a little bit of a chance by and that is the second most popular deck and this is God of War here you can see 30th of May somebody won with it on their road to Japan you can see everyone's very excited about this World Cup in in Japan so recently got played and you can see it's winning not winning as many times as lost box there are some fifths some thirds some fourths but I mean fourth out of 343 people and I think it was kind of like on one of the same tournaments that one of the guys won but God of War also it if it can be vulnerable to this deck especially when we start adding in some special tool cards and the tool cards we're putting in a box of disaster and panic mask purely to try and frustrate the God of War one so box of disasters you attach it to a poly on v and it means that whenever it does get taken out you do eight damage to your opponent Pokemon and we know with God of War that while strengthening their Pokemon up with lots of energy the drawback is that they have to place all these damage counters which means as soon as you wipe out my Pokemon you're also taking yourself out and you know kind of leveling the Pokemon fields when it comes to the prizes and we coming in with the next turn to attack we've now got momentum so box of disasters is not good for God of War also panic mask can be attached which says prevent all damage the Pokemon this card is attached to from your opponent's Pokemon that 40 HP or less so let's say you're in polyons gets taken out you're struggling to find another one you can put Clefie in with the panic mask and unless they can find out a way to try and heal their Pokemon they won't be able to attack and that mischievous lock is going to like I say prevent quite a few of of the attacks that that refinement is going to be doing so what you can do is just stall the game a little bit more now like I say we do have a little bit of an actuarial calculator which I'll share off the Japan on YouTube but I did use it to run through this deck so that we have a 60% chance of drawing at least one Pokemon turn one I mean as actually as you know there's a hyper geometric distribution that I'm taking in series you know we've got a drawer of seven on a deck of 60 that's our population you know you can do all the permutations combinations in your head if you want to check the maths um but what happens is if you don't if you don't get a Pokemon in your first turn or when you when you take your your hand of seven you have to draw a gain which is fine but your opponent gets an extra card that's all we wanted to add in those keys as well just to try and frustrate the game a little bit more while not giving them a chance to have their strategy now if you go first you have an 85% chance of being able to attach energy on your first turn that's the amount of energy we've put in this this deck and look that's because supporters can't be played by persons who go first on their first turn but if you go second you have a 90% chance of being able to attach energy on your first turn which is a great thing to do so maybe yeah consider going going second uh because also you can take as much time as you want especially if you freeze out the abilities of the lost box why because i've included some supporter cards that'll help you go and fetch some energy now like i say i would say around 30% of your opponents are going to be lost box and god of war lost box is what this deck is the most effective about because it's you know um it shuts down a lot of those abilities lost box is winning and it is quite cheap to build so a lot of people are using it but it is sometimes slow and complicated to to play with and that what makes god of war also quite popular because it's also winning it's a lot more simple than the lost box but it can sometimes be tricky to find those those cards especially the zycans from celebrations i've likely just managed to store nine nine of them so you'll see in the next slide that i've created quite a few god of war decks for us to all play with but please note that job this isn't the deck that i would recommend to anyone who's played pokemon for a long time because it will get hurt very much by some of the the opponents um the other pokemon uh decks will yeah well you will you won't be in a strong position against on the other decks like i say lost box is your best chance of winning god of war like i say it's not as powerful against loss god of war is against lost box but it should put up a little bit of a fight given those tools that we've attached to it but let's look at my decks and then we're going to end off this video gosh it's been over 30 minutes so let's get straight to it so my decks i use a meridian ex decks what i use i just kind of like it but i do have lost box decks i've got two of these four advanced players i've also got two god of war decks again these are great for advanced players i also have a few fun decks this is for mid tier players who just want to come in enjoy the game not taking it too seriously but still want to be kind of competitive i can always explain the exact strategies behind these kind of decks but i'm not even going to pronounce or you know i'm not going to pronounce that name um and then i've got an experimental meridian deck and then like i say if it's your first time playing i've got this impoleon v deck and one or two other experimental ones which i'll keep as a surprise so that when we're in the tournament no one sees them coming but they're also they're very very weird relies on a few basic pokemon and some special special abilities so yeah if you want to get involved if you want to play on the 10th of june in johannesburg on the 17th of june in cape town you don't have a deck you don't know pokemon but you want to get involved contact me on my email um i think it's it's a great game for actuaries because of all the odds and probabilities out there come to the tournament check it out like i say you are more than welcome to borrow my decks for the game and job you can join join the yamper squad yamper's my little favorite pokemon so join join the group i mean y'all you can send me an email and i we can chat about and see if you want to either join the whatsapp group for just actuaries doing social things in cape town or if you only want to be on the pokemon group and discuss more pokemon things and pokemon meetups but until then i hope to see you guys at the tournament send me an email and i'm gonna wrap up this video sorry you're doing so long but yeah hope you keep well cheers