Well, this is my report for a tournament I attended on Saturday 28th of January. I had so little testing the night before and got little sleep on the Friday night/Saturday morning *sad face*.
I had been testing plants on the Wednesday and Thursday of that week and i was feeling less confident with the deck (I haven't played much in the last few months so I had a bit rusty) and I really wanted to play Dino-Rabbit.dek as it seemed really busted so I tried organising trades with people in the South to make sure I could get the cards in time for the event.
Friday night comes around, I meet Jordan Gill (Jaylikescookies) at around 7.30pm and we start debating what to play and our on our builds (mainly 'tech' choices). We start looking looking around websites and articles, we decide to use ARG articles and the decklists from the previous YCS in Brighton. I start to see a developing trend with the dino-rabbit decks and decide on a build with the help of Luke Lennard (props to him) giving me a huge amount of insight into the deck. Jordan on the other hand decided to try Frazier Smith's build of plants which he posted in his ARG article. He main decked doomcalibar knight over Thunder King, despite Thunder King being a very popular choice this format due to the amount Tour Guide's from the Underworld roaming around (in the end of the day this worked out very well).
So we 'go to sleep' for about two hours then just lay awake. We get up at 6.30am to get showered and dressed etc. We leave it a bit late to go round and get the train but we make it just on time. Jordan buys my ticket (a child one =}) for £15 and then proceed to the train. We both agree that we HAVE to get seats with a table so we can test and make edits to our decks. We have 3 tests games and then decide "f**k it" lets leave it and see how the day pans out, we don't think we'll win but we joke about splitting the prizes in the final.
So we arrive in Dublin Connolly Train station at just after 10am and meet our friend Billy Siggins and he gives us a lift to the venue. I meet the guys that I had organised trades with for the rabbit(s) and extra deck stuff. We sort the stuff out and I end up getting 3 rescue rabbits, 2 Laggia's, 2 Dolkka's and a Maxx 'C'. So we get deck sheets and fill them out then registration opens. All in all there are 64 players so 5 rounds of swiss then a top 8 cut.
Round one pairings are put up and I'm at table 17. My first opponent is Robert something and he is playing spellcasters. There's always going to be one scrub and I got him. He was really nice though and had only recently got back into the game so there wasn't much he could do. I win pretty easy overall but in Game 1 he almost beats me because I cannot draw a proper monster bar hand traps and he is beating me down with a Breaker and a Maiden of Macabee, then i draw Rescue Rabbit and herp derp him.
I'm 1-0
Round 2, I'm at table 2, I play Ashely something playing Removal stun (great match-up eh?) I play him like no-body's business in game one, by the end of it I have 5 cards in hand and a set MST. He has 1 card in hand (which is Lance due to my earlier trap dustshoot), but I am on 1400 so basically any monster in his deck kills me. He tops Breaker for game, that card is starting to annoy me. So my confidence gets knocked as its a hard match up for me, we delve into out side decks. Game 2 begins and I opt to go first, I open well and he can't gain enough momentum to make a come back. Game 3 I simply out-play him and save my big plays for the last push, it plays off and I win.
I'm 2-0
Round 3 and I'm at table one this game is recorded (I contacted the TO to try and get the video file to upload to my youtube channel). He is playing Chaos-Dino-Rabbit a very interesting deck. The real surprise is when he drops Dark armed Dragon on me Game 1 -.- I wasn't amused. I win Game 1 and we dip into our side deck. I side well against him, he goes first and sets up, I drop to 600 life points then some how make a come back and end up winning (Charlie Sheen reference). Nice guy, interesting deck.
I'm 3-0
This was the hardest game in swiss. Matthew Beattie playing Inzektor, the one and only decent Inzektor player in the room. He was from up North and I had never seen him before. He was a very difficult opponent because he had a play style that was very similar to mine. Game one he only got the dragonfly->Hornet->centipede->Hornet combo off once that game, he opened poor. Game 2 I set up with Laggia and set shadow mirror, he tries to MST it I negate and he tries to summon a dragonfly and activate its effect I flip shadow mirror and the game basically goes my way from there.
I'm 4-0
I'm Undefeated going into the last round and I get paired down -.- seriously. Meaning I HAVE to win this game in order to keep my O-P high enough to top the event. I play against GK and the guy was just no tthat good, the only notable move was me flipping sangan and attacking with Zenmaines trying to force my starlight road although i ended up MST'ing his mirror force and my sangan got dim prision'ed =(. Anyways, I win that game and so I'm 5-0, at this point I am thinking "great the 5-0 curse" this is when I go undefeated in Swiss I always end up losing my top 8 match straight away. So i'm not happy at this point.
Top 8 begins I play against my good Friend Jamie Lundy (Know fro being a lucksack in this game). He is playing Dark World turbo and beat me in 3 turns in game 1. I think the curse is with me and so I start losing confidence. But, I wreck him game 2 and so game 3 begins, we dip into our side decks both games. He goes first, this game is very close and the best part of my day happens here. He reckless greed's and so can't draw. I have dim fissure face up and nothing else, I draw another one.. Shit. He attacks with bronn and passes, I draw starlight road -.- I get attacked again and he passes. I draw smash and use it. He can now draw and draws Snoww summons it and attacks dropping me 1100. I need a tour guide/ rabbit. I draw Guide, he has 3 back rows and so I dont think the summon will be successfully. It IS! it all goes my way and so my rabbit gets me two sabersarus. He flips bottomless, but i have starlight and from, there he knows he is going to lose, i have a laggia stardust and leviair, he has used his answers ans scoops, it was a great game from a great friend.
So I move on to top 4 and I play against Jordan Gill, We knew each other's deck inside out and so we throw down. I win the die roll and opt to go first. Game 1 is a joke, I win fairly quickly. Game two I draw too many vanilla monsters and lose. Game 3 we are in time, He has tengu in play and nothing else. I summon sabersarus and drop Maxx C to the grave yard and attack to net a draw. I mind control and makeNumber 39: Utopia and set 2. He sets a monster and a back row. I attack into spirit reaper -.- the game stalls out and I win by the 200 life points, we stand up and hug the game out like men Great great game I love the guy.
The Finals Me vs Matthew Morrissey playing Dino-Rabbit.
We decide to split and not play the finals at the venue because we have to get bus/train home. We get a box and a half of product each and I pull Orient dragon from my Gen Force Boosters =) which i traded earlier. We opt not to take the 3DS and just take the packs instead. I say my good byes and head off to get my lift to the train station.
The decklist
Monsters-23
3 Tour Guide from the Underworld
1 Sangan
1 Tour Bus from the Underworld
3 Rescue Rabbit
3 Kabaluz
3 Sabersauras
3 Maxx C
3 Jurrac Guaiba
1 Effect veiler
1 Gorz
1 Grand Mole
Spells- 12
2 Forbidden Lance
2 Mystical Space Typhoon
2 Smashing Ground
1 Book of Moon (Super ;) haha
1 Dark Hole
1 Heavy Storm
1 Pot of Avarice
1 Monster Reborn
1 Mind Control <---MVC
Traps
1 Solemn Judgement
2 Solemn Warning
1 Trap Dustshoot
1 Mirror Force
1 Compulsory Evacuation Device
1 Fiendish Chain
1 Number 39: Utopia
3 Evolzar Laggia
2 Evolzar Dolkka
1 Steelswarm Roach
1 Number 17: Leviathan Dragon
2 Leviair the Sea Dragon
1 Wind-Up Zenmaines
1 Trishula, Dragon of the Ice Barrier
1 Stardust Dragon
1 Ally of Justice Catastor
1 Chimeratech Fortress Dragon
Overall it was a great day, i picked up the dinno rabbit pieces From Mo Teko and Kevin Wong and get a super book of Moon for 40 Euro =D
I hope you enjoy the read and I do wish to blog more if I get a good response to this post
Peace out people
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AJ
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