Dexerto quotes iCaterpie: “I dedicated 25 years of my life to this game… I can’t stop crying.”
Dexerto says Pokémon TCG veteran iCaterpie has allegedly been banned for life after publicly accusing a judge of unfair treatment. It quotes iCaterpie saying they dedicated 25 years of their life to the game and “can’t stop crying.”
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Alessandro “iCaterpie” Cremascoli, a longtime competitive Pokémon TCG player, said on Oct. 16 that he had received a permanent ban. Cremascoli said he had been preparing to travel to a tournament in Nice and had not been notified directly about the reported sanction.
In the same post, Cremascoli linked the reported ban to a complaint he made after the latest World Championships. He said he deleted that post six hours later. His account does not include a disciplinary notice, and the precise scope and official reason for the reported ban have not been independently confirmed.
Dexerto reports that Cremascoli is a two-time Italian national champion who has competed for decades. The outlet also notes that his public statement did not include documentation explaining the reported ban.
Card game creator JenTCG said the deleted complaint named a specific judge and accused that person of unfair treatment. JenTCG presented the complaint as a possible explanation for the sanction, while acknowledging that additional context could be missing.
Cremascoli described the news as devastating. “I dedicated 25 years of my life to this game,” he wrote, adding that he had spent that time teaching players and building the community in Italy. Neither The Pokémon Company International nor a tournament organizer had publicly confirmed the reported ban in the evidence available for this report.
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@jen_tcgimportant context for the Cremascoli ban is that he complained about a specific judge (calling them out by name on Twitter) and said that they were treating him unfairly whether you think that is banworthy or not is up to your discretion but that seems to me to be the reason
@iCaterpieTpci finally got me. I dedicated 25 years of my life to this game. Teaching the game around the Italy, raising players and building community all for nothing. But Apparently I'm everything that is bad in this game. The worst part, I was ready to travel for Nice because they didn't even have the dignity to notify my perma ban. I was a target for some people working for Tpci for the past 10 years. It happened again during the last World championship and I complain about that with a tweet that I deleted 6 hours later. For that I got a perma ban. I'm devastated. Pokemon is literally my life. I can't stop crying. Good luck to everyone in Nice, I will make a goodbye post in the future.@jen_tcgimportant context for the Cremascoli ban is that he complained about a specific judge (calling them out by name on Twitter) and said that they were treating him unfairly whether you think that is banworthy or not is up to your discretion but that seems to me to be the reason@iCaterpieTpci finally got me. I dedicated 25 years of my life to this game. Teaching the game around the Italy, raising players and building community all for nothing. But Apparently I'm everything that is bad in this game. The worst part, I was ready to travel for Nice because they didn't even have the dignity to notify my perma ban. I was a target for some people working for Tpci for the past 10 years. It happened again during the last World championship and I complain about that with a tweet that I deleted 6 hours later. For that I got a perma ban. I'm devastated. Pokemon is literally my life. I can't stop crying. Good luck to everyone in Nice, I will make a goodbye post in the future.@jen_tcgimportant context for the Cremascoli ban is that he complained about a specific judge (calling them out by name on Twitter) and said that they were treating him unfairly whether you think that is banworthy or not is up to your discretion but that seems to me to be the reason@iCaterpieTpci finally got me. I dedicated 25 years of my life to this game. Teaching the game around the Italy, raising players and building community all for nothing. But Apparently I'm everything that is bad in this game. The worst part, I was ready to travel for Nice because they didn't even have the dignity to notify my perma ban. I was a target for some people working for Tpci for the past 10 years. It happened again during the last World championship and I complain about that with a tweet that I deleted 6 hours later. For that I got a perma ban. I'm devastated. Pokemon is literally my life. I can't stop crying. Good luck to everyone in Nice, I will make a goodbye post in the future.@jen_tcgimportant context for the Cremascoli ban is that he complained about a specific judge (calling them out by name on Twitter) and said that they were treating him unfairly whether you think that is banworthy or not is up to your discretion but that seems to me to be the reason@iCaterpieTpci finally got me. I dedicated 25 years of my life to this game. Teaching the game around the Italy, raising players and building community all for nothing. But Apparently I'm everything that is bad in this game. The worst part, I was ready to travel for Nice because they didn't even have the dignity to notify my perma ban. I was a target for some people working for Tpci for the past 10 years. It happened again during the last World championship and I complain about that with a tweet that I deleted 6 hours later. For that I got a perma ban. I'm devastated. Pokemon is literally my life. I can't stop crying. Good luck to everyone in Nice, I will make a goodbye post in the future.
