Tournament Report

So I haven't done one of these in a while... That's probably because I'm not so interested in competitive Yu-Gi-Oh anymore and I've been playing dumb/fun decks and testing my Frogs out until I found a build I was happy with. Anyway, here's how I've done the past few tournaments:

Sunday (3/6/11): Fun 4 All
Deck Used: Frog Monarchs
Final Record: 3-3 (Made top 4 and lost)

Monday (3/7/11): Our House Games
Deck Used: Frog Monarchs
Final Record: 1-2 (Ouch lol)

Sunday (3/13/11): Fun 4 All
Deck Used: Frog Monarchs
Final Record: 3-2 (Made top 8 and lost first round)

Since I've missed doing these for a while, I'm only going to get into detailed stuff for this past Sunday's tournament.

Round 1 vs. Gravekeepers

The guy I played this round must have been new to the game, because he was playing very poorly and didn't know his head from a hole in the ground when it came to what my cards and my deck were doing. I've never seen him there before, but it's pretty safe to say that after dropping Light and Darkness Dragon twice in both games that I came out on top this round.

2-0 Victory

Round 2 vs. Chaos Plants


Round 2 I played against Jon Waters, who is a regular there and pretty cool, with his Chaos Plants. Game 1 resulted in an easy win for me after he paid 4,000 LP to Solemn Judgment my Jinzo and had no real follow up, so I just pounded on him with Monarch summons.

Game 2 gave me probably one of my best/most memorable moments from the tournament. I had left a Genex Undine and Formula Synchron on the field so that I could chain Formula's effect to synchro if he tried anything funny. He sacked his facedown Plaguespreader Zombie for Caius and targeted my Formula, so I chained and synchroed up to Magical Android. He top decked for Plague and synchroed into Stardust, attacking over my Magical Android for 100 LP. On my next turn I made another Formula Synchron with Treeborn and Fishborg Blaster, played Monster Reborn to bring my Jinzo back from the grave, then normal summoned Genex Controller and synchroed into Locomotion R-Genex, which allowed me to steal his face-up Stardust permanently, which I then used to synchro into Shooting Star Dragon. He scooped as soon as he saw what I was doing and gave me props for making such a pro play. haha

2-0 Victory

Round 3 vs. Anti-Meta


This was a long duel against my friend Jake Thompson. I shuttered him game 1, and it looked like I had things in game 2 as well, but I misplayed and summoned Light and Darkness Dragon when I didn't have any Monarchs in my Graveyard to bring back with its effect and he continued to summon 1900 beaters and pound on me when I had no Monarchs to summon. Game 3 I drew a god-awful hand with no way to put Treeborn in the graveyard and the game didn't last very long. haha

1-2 Loss

Round 4 vs. Ice Barriers


Round 4 I played against a guy named Adam Freeman, who is a judge, and his Ice Barriers. Going into the match I told him that I had absolutely no clue what any of the cards did, but it turned out not to matter because the games ended so quickly that I never really got to see what the deck is supposed to do. Game 1 I just continually Monarch'd him until I had game, and in game 2 I got off a devastating Malevolent Catastrophe, which destroyed three of his backrow, including a Chain Disappearance that was waiting for my Treeborn Frog. I summoned a Caius to remove his creature next turn and he got all pissed off and scooped.

2-0 Victory

Round 5 (Top 8) vs. Gladiator Beasts


Well, go figure, first round of top 8 I WOULD get my absolute worst match up... haha I don't really need to go into specifics with this one. I drew bad hands both games and though I managed to set up Treeborn, he always had a way to Retiari it.

2-0 Loss

Tournament Record to Date: 7-7

Tournament Report: 2/28/11

Well, I played in my last tournament of the September 2010 format yesterday, and I did really well! I decided to test out my new deck for March 2011 (Formula Monarchs!), which, ironically enough, is legal for both formats, and I was definitely convinced that this is my new deck!

We only had a free play tournament, so no COSSY points or prizes were available, but it was still a good opportunity for me to test my deck out against a variety of things. Surprisingly, the Gravekeeper match isn't absolutely terrible for me! LOL

Anyway, here's how I did, with my final tournament record for this format:

Monday: Our House Games

Deck Used: Formula Monarchs

Final Record: 3-0

Final Tournament Record for September 2010 format: 144-80-1 (draw)

Not too shabby! I'm proud of that! :)

Tournament Report

I realize these are way too close together, but that's because the last one was posted so late... lol

ANYWAY, we had a "free-entry" tournament today at locals, since none of us really wanted to pony up the cash to do a prize-supported tournament. It still counted towards our COSSY points for Konami or whatever, so that was cool.

I still haven't been able to settle on a build I'm completely happy with yet, and I almost feel like it's pointless to try now that the end of the format is so close and the ban list may or may not wreck Blackwings (yet again lol). If anything they'll probably hit Pot of Duality, which won't affect my build at all, but I'm concerned that they could go after Shura, Black Whirlwind, Icarus Attack or any combo of the three as well. Losing Whirlwind wouldn't really matter, and I think the card is fair at one, so I doubt that will happen. Losing Icarus and/or Shura, however, would almost certainly kill the deck off for good. Only time will tell what happens!

Nevertheless, I did really well and definitely accomplished my goal of boosting my win-loss ratio before the end of the format!

Monday: Our House Games

Deck Used: Blackwings

Final Record: 4-0 (1st place)

Tournament Record to Date: 141-80-1 (draw)

Tournament Report

I realize this post is almost a week late, but I wanted to go ahead and make it anyway to keep my Tournament Record up to date.

Anyhow, I only got to play at Our House last week, but I still did really well. I keep monkeying around with my Blackwing build. This time around I tried a build I had made that was more or less customized to decimate Six Samurai. Obviously, since there were no Six Samurai decks there, it didn't do as well as it should have. But it was worth testing, at least to see how Thunder King performs in the main deck. (Which, btw, results are kind of meh -- Thunder King isn't as good as it used to be.)

Monday: Our House Games

Deck Used: Blackwings

Final Record: 3-1 (Took 3rd)

Tournament Record to Date: 137-80-1 (draw)

Tournament Report

I'm back from my temporary little hiatus. My tournament participation will probably be spotty at best from here on out, but I told you all I wasn't quitting!

I destroyed at my locals tonight. My new Blackwing build is really working for me, even without Pot of Duality. I actually didn't miss the card at all today. Solemn Warning, however, was absolutely amazing and I was definitely happy with my decision to bump it up to 2 and drop Bottomless from the main deck. I didn't miss Bottomless at all either!

I split for first, only losing once all day today. Not bad for my first time playing in a couple of weeks, with a brand new, completely untested build! lol

Sunday: Fun4All
Deck Used: Blackwings
Final Record: 5-1 (Split 1st)

Monday: Our House Games

Deck Used: Blackwings

Final Record: 3-0 (1st)

Tournament Record to Date: 134-79-1 (draw)

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Sunday: Fun4All

Deck Used: Blackwings

Final Record: 4-2 (Made top 4)

Monday: Our House Games

Deck Used: Blackwings

Final Record: 5-0 (first)

I pulled a Super Rare Sirocco AND a Super Rare Debris Dragon out of my Turbo Packs on Sunday too! Profit! I'm selling both of them if anyone is interested -- $40 for Sirocco, $30 for Debris Dragon. E-mail me at roans.pro.ygo@gmail.com if you want to try and work something out!

Tournament Record to Date: 126-78-1 (draw)

Tournament Report

Hey guys, I've sort of started to lose interest in competing lately, so I haven't been playing in tournaments very much, hence the lack of tournament activity posts here on the blog, but I'm not quitting or anything! I'm just "taking a break", if you will. I'm sure you all know how it is -- when you play in three to four tournaments a week for months straight, you can get a little burnt out! haha

Anyway, here's how I did Monday:

Monday: Our House Games

Deck Used: Blackwings

Final Record: 2-1 (Took third in a single-elimination tournament)

Tournament Record to Date: 117-76-1 (draw)

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Sunday: Fun4All

Deck Used: Blackwings
Final Record: 4-1

Sunday was kind of garbage... I got the dreaded "undefeated curse", where you go undefeated all the way through swiss (literally undefeated -- I didn't lose a single duel) and then lose in the first round of top 8.

I was upset, but I got over it! I still did really well. :)

Tournament Record to Date: 115-75-1 (draw)

Tournament Report

I managed to get a couple of locals in this weekend, and I was really happy with how I did. The new build of my Blackwings has been testing really well. Adding in Mind Control was probably one of the best decisions I could have made, as it very literally won me a game on Sunday when I Mind Controlled my friend and team mate's face down Karakuri Ninja, flipping it to send his Consecrated Light to the graveyard and then attack for game with Sirocco and Shura. Talk about epic!

Anyway, here's my record for the weekend:

Sunday: Fun4All

Deck Used: Blackwings

Final Record: 4-2 (took 3rd)

Monday: Our House Games

Deck Used: Blackwings

Final Record: 3-0 (took 1st!)

Tournament Record to Date: 111-74-1 (draw)

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Wednesday: Wonderworld
Deck Used: Blackwings
Final Record: 1-2 (scrubbbb lol)

Sunday: Fun4All
Deck Used: Blackwings
Final Record: 4-2 (took 2nd)

Tournament Record to Date: 104-72-1 (draw)

Weekend Tournament Report

This weekend was kind of all over the place. On Sunday we went to a new place in Garden City called RIW Hobbies, and it was actually pretty cool. Anyway, here's how I did:

Friday - Pandemonium
Deck Used: Lightsworn
Final Record: 4-2-Draw (I got a draw in my third round; so garbage, but I still made top 8 out of over 40 people, as the pic above proves! lol)

Sunday - RIW
Deck Used: Lightsworn
Final Record: 3-1 (split for 1st)

Monday - Our House Games
Deck Used: Lightsworn
Final Record: 2-1 (didn't make top :( )

Tournament Record to Date: 70-48-1 (draw)

Weekend Tournament Report

I had a really good weekend this weekend. I was racking up the wins with Lightsworn! Or, more accurately, Hamstersworn. haha I decided to try a Hamstersworn build with 3 Celestia and 3 Wulf and it's been working really well. Here's my records for the weekend:


Friday - Pandemonium
Deck Used: Lightsworn
Final Record: 3-2 (dropped after my second loss because I knew I couldn't make top)

Sunday - Fun4All
Deck Used: Lightsworn
Final Record: 4-1 (split for 1st)

Monday - Our House Games
Deck Used: Lightsworn
Final Record: 3-1 (took 3rd)

Tournament Record to Date: 61-44

Weekend Tournament Report

Friday - Pandemonium
Deck Used: Blackwings
Final Record: 4-2

Sunday - Fun4All
Deck Used: N/A
Final Record N/A

Monday - Our House Games
Deck used: Infernity
Final Record: 4-1

Tournament Record to Date: 36-27

Yet Another Weekend Update!

Hey everyone. I'm gonna cut right to the point -- I'm really not feeling well and also don't feel like writing up a huge blow-by-blow report of what happened during my matches this weekend, so I'm just going to give a really brief overview of each tournament:

Friday - Pandemonium
Deck Used: Lightsworn
Final Record: 3-3

Sunday - Fun4All
Deck Used: Blackwings
Final Record 2-2

Monday - Our House Games
Deck used: Blackwings
Final Record: 4-1

Not a bad weekend overall I suppose, but I definitely could have done better. I've been playing around with Blackwings a lot lately, and the deck has really grown on me. I've been debating whether or not it's worth dropping the $200+ to get the Pot of Duality that the deck needs, but until I get them I've been playing Gold Sarcophagus instead. It's working rather well. Removing Black Whirlwind, Dark Hole or Monster Reborn plays such terrible mind games with my opponents. Also I have to say that Delta Crow - Anti Reverse is one of my new favorite cards, right alongside Icarus Attack.

Tournament Record to Date: 28-24

Weekend Tournament Report

Another weekend has come and gone, and that brings us to another tournament update!

So, last Monday I took a pure Lightsworn deck to my locals and finished 3rd with a 3-2 record overall. Unfortunately there weren't many people there, so 3rd place wasn't awarded any prize, but that's OK I guess. In the first round I played against my friend Nick, who has been playing Hopeless Dragon for literally as long as I've known him. In game one I demolished him, ending with a field of double Judgment Dragon and a Lyla. In game two I SHOULD have gotten an OTK off, but due to a miscalculation he survived by 200 LP and ended up making a ridiculous Dark Hole comeback play that sealed him the game. Game 3 I opened up with trash and he steam rolled me.

Round 2 I had a cakewalk match against a Psychic player, who I easily 2-0'd. Round 3 I got paired up against my good friend Pat, who is playing a Relinquished/Djinn control deck. He had agreed to let me have the win ahead of time because he was 2-0 while I was 1-1 so that we would both make top, but we played it out anyway and I ended up destroying him 2-0 with two consecutive Celestia plays. Lightsworn is a bad match up for his deck anyway, which I suspect is why he was just going to let me have the win. haha

I lost in the first round of top 4 to my friend Bob who's playing Quickdraw. Game 1 I stomped all over him, but in Games 2 and 3 he sided in Soul Releases and just completely shut me down. I couldn't recover both games and ended up losing. In the second round of top 4 I got paired up against Pat again, and he scooped to me after I opened with a Charge putting 3 different LS's in grave, then Foolish Burial-ing another to drop double Judgment Dragon on my first turn. He didn't want to play the rest of the match out and just let me have it. haha

Friday Pat and I went to Pandemonium again, but unfortunately we showed up late and weren't able to enter without taking a round 1 match loss, and neither of us wanted to do that.

Sunday afternoon we went to another locals in Ypsilanti at a place called Fun4All. I played GBs and started off strong with a 2-0 record only to lose my next 2 games and not make top.

Yesterday I changed up my Lightsworn to be more of a controlling Twilight build and I piloted it to a 3-2, second place finish. The only thing I lost to was a Gravekeeper anti-meta deck. Basically, I HATE Necrovalley lol Overall though I'm pretty happy with how I've been doing. All of my practice is starting to pay off.

My friends and I are planning on going to YCS Philadelphia next month. I'm not sure what I'm going to play, or if I'm even going to go at all because I'm not confident enough in myself just yet, but I will definitely be writing up a huge report if I do go.

Tournament Record to Date: 19-18

Sorry for the lack of updates!

Pandemonium

Hey everyone!

I've been sort of neglecting this blog, and while I realize very few people are reading it anyway, I apologize for the lack of information!

Last Friday I went to a place in Garden City, Michigan called Pandemonium. I've only been there once before, but Pandemonium is without a doubt the premiere place to be for competitive Yu-Gi-Oh play in my area. A large percentage of the people who play regularly there have topped or even won Shonen Jumps/YCS's. To put it simply, the competition there is intense and at the highest level possible outside of a YCS or a regional.

I wasn't expecting to do very well given the fact that I had only played there once before and given that I'm sort of rusty, but I started off doing really well. I played Infernity and swept my first two matches to go 2-0 into the 3rd round. I was seated at the top table right next to my friend (and somewhat of a YGO mentor), Pat Bodette, and I got matched up against Sean Montague, who some of you will know as this year's USA WCQ winner. It was a close game, but in the end his GBs got me 2-1.

I won my next round making me 3-1, but scrubbed in the final two rounds bringing my record to 3-3. Overall though I was very happy with not only my own performance, but with the deck's performance as well. I had made a few changes to the spell and trap lineup and I found the deck running MUCH more smoothly.

On Sunday I took my hung over self and my Infernity to our local tournament at Fun4All in Ypsilanti, only this time after a tip from Brandon Miotke I decided to replace the Dark Grepher graveyard engine with 3 Ryko and a Charge of the Light Brigade. To put it simply, I was AMAZED at how much this sped up the deck and also helped me in clearing out large threats on the field. The only problem is that sometimes milling important cards (Dark Hole, Monster Reborn, Infernity Launcher, etc.) really sucks, so I'm not sure if I'm going to stick with the build, but it ended up taking me to a 3-2 record where I lost out on my chance to make top 8 simply because there were a HUGE number of 3-2's and my tie breakers just didn't make the cut. It was a little disappointing, but I got over it.

On Monday I piloted a Lightsworn deck to a 2-1, third place finish here at our locals in Monroe. However, given the fact that there were only 6 people playing, it wasn't much of an indicator of how well my deck was built and playing.

I've been tossing around a few deck ideas in my head, some of which I may execute on and write about here. But I have decided that in order to keep myself from getting burnt out on the game or any one deck in particular that I'm going to regularly rotate decks at every locals every week. I figure that should also help make these entries a little more interesting to read.

On that subject, I promise that not everything I write here will be a tournament report like this. I do plan on writing some useful, informative content for the blog, I just haven't been struck with any particularly good ideas or how to execute on them. But rest assured that I am thinking about it!

Anyway, until next time guys, I'll leave you with this:



Tournament Record to Date: 11-12

First Local's Report from the new September 2010 Format!

The new ban list took effect this week, and last night I attended my first local tournament of the format. I put together a Blackwing deck packing a lot of draw power and anti-meta tech hoping to be a sort of "rogue" deck to take people by surprise, but unfortunately I wasn't the only one with the idea! There were at least 3 other Blackwing decks there. Here's my deck list:

Monsters: (20)

3 BW - Sirocco
3 BW- Shura
3 BW - Bora
3 BW - Blizzard
3 BW - Kalut
1 BW - Gale
1 BW - Vayu
1 Cyber Dragon
1 Thunder King Rai-Oh
1 Dark Armed Dragon

Magic: (11)

2 Cards for Black Feathers
1 Pot of Duality
1 Black Whirlwind
1 Allure of Darkness
2 MST
2 Book of Moon
1 Monster Reborn
1 Dark Hole

Traps: (10)

3 Icarus Attack
1 Solemn Judgment
2 Skill Drain
1 Royal Oppression
2 Bottomless Trap Hole


Round 1: Unlucky for me, I got paired up in a mirror match first round. As I'm sure we all know, mirror matches in general are terrible, but Blackwing mirror matches are especially awful. The kid I played against (literally a kid, he couldn't have been older than 11), was actually really pro. He was running a Burden of the Mighty/Solidarity build, and just steam rolled me game one once Solidarity hit the field. Game 2 I went for aggressive pushes to bring out Armor Master as fast as possible and won the game through sheer aggression. Game 3 I opened with a terrible hand and just couldn't recover from his field presence. He won the match 2-1.

Round 2: In Round 2 I got paired up against my good friend and teammate Ray Hampton. He was running an interesting Guardian Eatos/Gemini City hybrid, with main decked Dimensional Fissures. He won the dice roll and opened game one with a D-Fissure and Eatos on the field, and I just couldn't get over it without being able to use my Kalut's. I played defensively for a while and eventually cleared his monsters with an Icarus Attack play, but had no follow up and got my face kicked in. Game 2 Ray opened with a Consecrated Light, and at his end phase I activated a Skill Drain. He was completely shocked. "You were supposed to side those out against me! I hate you for being so pro Ry-Ry!" hahaha I knew he would side in Consecrated Lights and left the Skill Drains in specifically for that. Needless to say I pounded on his Consecrated with a Bora/Shura combo and easily won the game. Game 3 I once more opened with a terrible hand and conceded after a few turns. Ray took the match 2-1.

Round 3: I got paired up against another kid in round 3, who was running a terribly modified version of the original Dinosaur structure deck. Without going into detail, I crushed him 2-0.

Round 4: In the final round before top 8 (which at this point I had already accepted I wasn't going to make it in), I got paired up against a guy named Emmanuel, who I was informed was playing a Darkworld/Fabled hybrid. He won the dice roll and, strangely, decided to let me go first. All it took was an end phase Skill Drain to clinch the first game for me. Game 2, however, took almost an hour. It was really intense. I had both Skill Drain and Oppression active on the field, with a Bora in play. He had a few cards in his back row and a face up Jujitsu Master, which was worthless thanks to Skill Drain. Eventually he wore me down enough in life points via Oppression and made a big play with a sack for Caius, sealing the game. Game 3 was over in just a few turns. I opened (ONCE AGAIN) with a terrible hand consisting only of magic and traps, and after he brough Goldd and Siilva to the field I conceded, knowing I had no chance. Regardless, it was a really great, challenging match. He won 2-1.

So, obviously I didn't do so hot in the first tournament of the format! I had a full Infernity deck that I should have played, but I had enough confidence in the Blackwings to try them out. Needless to say I won't be doing that again! There's another tournament tomorrow, in which I'm going to play Infernity. Look for a report some time tomorrow night!

Final Record: 1-3