This is a good usecase for how ambigious the term is. English Victory Cups are arguably Mini Trophies. You explicitly had to place 1st, 2nd or 3rd place to receive, even if the Battle Roads in USA were very small tournaments. The cards literally have a 1st Place / 2nd Place / 3rd Place stamp on them. Meanwhile, while the Master’s Scroll is much rarer and was far harder to obtain, you did not explicitly need to win any tournament to rack up enough participation points.
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page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/s1000130917
Dang is this snap pika real?
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I dont think so, with this seller having 0 feedback it is really hard believing it is real. But I really do want to believe haha 
And yes of course, that does not immediately tell you it is a scam. I would not risk it, but I also do not have the money. So take that with a grain of salt
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So the listing is 90% sure fake, but the actual picture might be legit.
EDIT: Make that 100% fake. Some Japanese friends of @qwachansey asked for more pictures and the comment got removed:
But again, the card in the picture could be legit.
Greetz,
Quuador
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Has there been a picture of a legit snap pikachu yet? I seem to remember a video of a binder from someone who had all the biggest cards
EDIT: Other then the presumed extra copy in the pokemon center
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Bit hard to see but the rosette pattern on the Pikachu matches up with the pattern on the Articuno scan from Mandarake.
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It looked good to me, this is gonna be a fun auction. I bet theres a chance someone bids
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Seller just doubled the price on snap pika lol.
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Sealed Espeon and Umbreon gold star listed by seller with 3 feedback 
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This is a scam listing. See in the description it says “Umbreon/Espeon Play OR Leafeon VMAX”
You will see these every now and then, they are “lucky bags” where you supposedly have a chance at “winning” big cards. The seller will usually put up the same number of listings as they have “lucky bags” and say that they will randomly send you one of the bags if you win the auction.
Spoiler alert, they never have the big cards and you will always be scammed.
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Ah I see. It did seem very fishy. How common are these types of scams?
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I see a couple of them every day when I search. As long as you’re aware of the signs (very desirable cards with limited pictures listed by low feedback sellers) and the usual description (olipa, oripa, high accuracy in title, randomly enclosed) you can spot them pretty easily.
Always need to be very careful buying on Yahoo as especially new/inexperienced people can get scammed easily by something like this.
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There has been conversation around scam issues in this thread around here: www.elitefourum.com/t/the-giant-japanese-market-thread/31400/205
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@fourthstartcg thanks for the heads up!
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They do the espeon and Umbreon like every month. It’s always a stolen blurry pic from google. They don’t have the cards
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I see the lillie lucky bag scam every single day.
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The early JP Sun and Moon girl card price seems bonkers for set cards, or am I missing something about their rarity?
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In Japan waifu>everything else. I think it’s just a culture difference more than anything.
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lol it gets really creepy sometimes. “Teammates” from XY5 is another card that shot up in price DRAMATICALLY just bc its a card featuring cute girls. I have one from when I opened it up when the sets released but I had no idea about the price spike
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