The Most Controversial Match at the World Championships

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[obiwancannoli]

More people are going to lie awake at midnight having nightmares about accidentally lifting the switch after this match

[naniiiuwu]

"So how did you lose that game?"
"I lifted the Switch off the dock"

[Mr.Sax.]

That Golisopod was going to reach the ranking that only Eggy and Pachirisu achieved.

[JustAGuy]

It is a rough situation, but I do agree with the judges' call. Only thing I'd say is that Nintendo/TPC should really standardize the set-ups across all regions so that something like this doesn't happen again.

[Patterrz]

i'd never touch a switch again if this happened to me jesus, that's so unfortunate

[craig]

Imagine just wanting to get a little more comfortable and then you straight up lose

[lesouth]

I was watching this, it really seemed like he didn't know it would do that,
I feel bad, I love how he took one of my favorite bad Pokemon to worlds

[jjohnsonnccc]

I’ll give an unpopular opinion:
I see a lot of “he knew the rules” comments. Of course he did. He wasn’t maliciously trying to end the match prematurely. The hardware acted differently than what he was used to using. If you can’t see that being a reasonable mistake, that would be like getting into a car where the gas and brake pedals were switched, but no one deciding to warn you until after you turn on your car and drive straight through your garage door. I think a no-point draw would have been a better call. Tatsuya would have been happy because it’s better than forfeiting a point, and his opponent would have been happy because he was already likely to lose the match anyway.

[TNI_]

If only there was a way to recreate the gamestate exactly so that you could just continue from before the disconnect

[JokersQuartet]

I think the real take away is that the rest of the world really should have the same docks as Japan. Doesn't make sense for them to be different

[TheMathmath]

There's never really any winners in those cases. The guy that lost is salty because he probably had the w and the guy who won feels bad because he "didn't deserve it" if that makes sense

[_lizards]

It was something that should have been stated more clearly and he probably feels horrible about the tiny slip up

[spiderdude]

The difference between how JP switch docks work, and NA switch docks work likely meant he had no idea picking the switch up would have caused a disconnect. Because in his native Japan, it wouldn’t have. I think he accidentally disqualified himself due to not knowing it worked differently

[JS-myjw]

Imagine being literal seconds away from winning the match and progressing in a tournament, and losing two back-to-back games to get eliminated because *you* lifted the switch and caused a disconnect.

That's definitely one of the regrets that keeps 'em up at night. If you just waited those few seconds until the match was over before adjusting for comfort...

[Mrwatson]

it would be nice if a turn based game could return back to where it was before the discussion

[raresuwako]

Imagine getting up from a chair and your switch just rockets into orbit after it tells you that you were disconnected

[Kaltar_]

Tatsuya should've been told not to do that or something because if it's known that it's normal in japan atleast warn the guy

[SoggyWafflesXp]

“Why am I better than the other person when it doesn’t even fucking matter.”
-Shofu

[aclonymous]

so if you take the switch out of a Japanese dock, it doesn't disconnect it? why is that not how it works everywhere else?

[MyxT]

personally I would love to see a future where there's a possibility to reconnect and a disconnect doesnt immediately cancel