No stress! Thank you for posting! I really don’t mean to offer information that you already knew, for the sake of respect and brevity as well. I’m sorry about that, that was not an attempt at “pointing out the obvious” at all.
You might be interested to scroll this thread at the same time:
Basically; PSA will never admit to changing their grading standards. They are “timeless” and meant to be as “objective” as they can possibly be.
If the promos do get pulled with damage, I’d hazard a guess that that damage happened when the promos themselves were lifted from the box as they’re usually sandwiched pretty well in there, IIRC (the video shows it for anyone else who wants to see, pull the deck box out first haha). If they were pulled with a crimp - I would say that could be the ultimate indicator to grade them, but that also doesn’t seem to happen on Japanese product nearly as much as it does with International. Otherwise - Japanese XY promos like these are usually pretty nice out of the box to be as brief as possible (as I am sure you again know for certain).
I have not personally heard, but E4 would likely be one of the - if not the first - places where that news is disseminated should you not be subscribed to their newsletter, etc. There is some additional news coverage on the TCG scene right now but games journalism isn’t always a priority, outside of what normally gets reported and has always been. If that makes sense at all.