Spain Pokémon VG Player was Banned from participating in any tournament for live
Guillermo Kasty travel from Spain to the US to compete in the Pokémon North American International Championships this weekend but 5 hours before the competition began he received a noticed that he was banned from any Pokémon Tournament
On Twitter / X Kasty posted a video explaining an issue that involved a Pokémon Professor/ Judge that may have cause his ban
According to him, it all goes back to the Stockholm Regional in which, after suffering five disconnections and thus consummating a defeat, due to frustration he walked a little away from his table and lightly hit a metal container.
This action led to a reprimand from the judges to which the Kasty apologized and with this and a 'warning' the matter had been closed. However, as he comments, it was going to be one of the most important Tournament Center organizers in Europe who blew up the situation.
All of this was amplified in the Liverpool tournament, in which Kasty had to face another player who aggressively insulted and threatened him and ended up lying saying that he had hit him, something that meant an unfair elimination for the Getafe player, imposed by this already mentioned organizer. The organizer didn’t even ask the witnesses what had occurred before making that decision which resulted in Kasty being expelled and a 3 month ban
In a Japanese Championship, Kasty encountered the Judge and had a brief conversation where the Judge said: “I don't care about your opinion of what happened in Liverpool, what I did correct and there was no problem”. after Kasty lost a game the Judge went close to see if there Kasty had hit or broken anything even looking at boxes round the area trying to find something to sanction him but was unsuccessful.
After not finding anything the Judge started insulting Kasty mentioning that he is below him in Pokémon as well as saying: I don't like you and I don't like seeing you in my tournaments.
Kasty responded “if you think that am a danger to other players for the way I am, then you are a danger to players by making decisions due to personal issues you shouldn’t be Judging in the Tournament. We (competitors) wasted time and money to play just for you not to like someone and decide to sanction them”. The judge let furious, talking bad about Kasty and annoying him during the competition
This was going to be Kasty last year of participating in Tournament since he had personal things he wanted to do in his life
Source:
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https://x.com/_kastytp_/status/1799105198184612346?s=46&t=zQj7U0qugC7oe78CYR7CEQ
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https://amp.marca.com/videojuegos/esports/2024/06/07/66634351268e3e2f408b460d.html