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Four Guelph boys heading to Pokemon World Championship

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Four Guelph boys are heading to Boston for the Pokemon World Championship this month. From left: Michael Long, 13, Peter Brennan, 7, and Raymond Long, 10. Absent from photo is Alex Ly, 10. Raymond is the Canadian junior Pokemon champion. - Joanne Shuttleworth,Mercury staff GUELPH — If you don’t play the game it may be hard to understand the hold Pokemon has over children and adults alike. But the Pokemon World Championship, to be held in Boston, Mass. later this month is the destination of four Guelph boys, who only recently started playing the game. Ten-year-old Raymond Long is the Canadian junior champion of the Pokemon trading card game and while he had trouble articulating why he loves the game so much, there’s no question that loving the game has helped him to improve, he said. He made short work of his competition during a session observed outside the Dragon comic book store in Old Quebec Street mall. “I don’t know, I just like it,” he said. “I like the cards, I like what they lo

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