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'You are Expected to be Clean' — Oregon Card Shop Suspends Yu-Gi-Oh Tournaments Due to Smelly Players (www.ign.com)
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[–] 22 points 4 months ago (14 children)

What's with TCG players and hygiene? I remember my MtG days when you couldn't attend a single tournament without at least two of your opponent smelling like spicy corpses.

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  • [–] -4 points 4 months ago* (13 children)

    What’s with TCG players and hygiene?

    It's mostly just men hitting puberty and developing glands and pores they didn't have before.

    You're going to find all the same smells in the locker room and the band van and the construction site. Anywhere you've got adolescent men congregating. Especially if there's bad ventilation and poor AC.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    You hit puberty anywhere between 11 and 14... I dont think thats the main crowd.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    You continue through puberty until you're around 17. And you don't stop smelling bad once it's over. 20 year olds who spent a few hours out in the sun will smell even worse.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    (mostly facetious) irrelevant! The last time a TCG tournament player spent a few hours in the sun, we were building decks out of clay tablets!

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Why can't they be... taught? To clean themselves?

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    They can. But they also have to be.

    Part of the cycle is new kids coming in, smelling bad, getting bullied for smelling bad, and changing their habits as a result. And then more new kids come in, and the pattern repeats. But you do need a baseline.

    I've been in gyms that smell absolutely foul. And the folks who have normalized the odor simply don't notice. If nobody says anything or otherwise makes an issue of it, the folks running the place don't change the policies or put in the legwork to clean the place up.

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