From: "stephen askew" To: Date: Saturday, March 29, 2003 8:32 PM MY TORUNAMENT REPORT Saturday march 29 2003 Number of participants-27 Entry fee 10$ Deck-Old school beat down Cabanna road Windsor Ontario What’s up. My names Stephen and as you can see I run a beat down deck it has 44 cards in it they are- Monsters La jinn x2 7 colored fish x2 Harpies brother x2 Gearfried x1 Koycoo the ghost destroyer x1 Gemini Elf x1 GAF x2 MEBx2 MOF x2 Cyber Jar Bazoo the soul eater x1 Hayabusa Knight x1 4 Starred lady bug of doom x1 WOTBF x1 Wall of illusen x1 Jinzo x1 Magic SORL Heavy Storm x2 PB Fissure x1 Snatch Steal Change of Heart POG MST x1 Dark hole Raigeki Monster reborn Nobleman of crossout x1 Graceful charity x1 Axe of despair x1 Traps Trap hole x2 Call of the haunted Imperial order Skull lair x1 Ceasfire SIDEDECK Fissure x1 Delinquent duo Soul release x2 Forceful sentry Card destruction Solemn wishes x1 Grave robbers retribution x1 Magic jammer x1 Robbin goblin x1 Magic drain x1 MOF x1 Banish of Light x1 Harpies Brother x1 Hayabusa Knight Well that just about sums up my deck now how bout we take a look at what happened in this tourament. Oh and by the way the prizes are as follows 1st- 43$ store credit 2nd- 30$ store credit 3rd- 20$ store credit 4th- 15$ store credit Also for entering you get a LON pack since they ran out of tournament packs. But you only get it when you lose(or win). Ok so I went to game city settled down then everyone drew numbers. I drew and got 25. which meant I had to first a kid named draill. Who usually came in first, second or third in tourneys and ran clowns. So I began talking aobut how I was going to lose and hoped to draw back. But I said what the hey tried to settle down waited a bit till a spot on the table came open and we played. Me vs Darill >From the start I had an awesome hand. With something like jinzo trap hole 2 harpy bros and a axe. I went second so he set down a monster and ended his turn. Now I don’t remember how it went down but some where along the way I played jinzo negated his gravity bind and attacked with my jinzo and a gearfired for the win. But he definitely put up an awesome fight and I barely managed to take the win. After this duel I was syked. I watched as he made some changes to his deck. He came back in seeming to have a glint of revenge in his eyes. This time I had a really bad hand with something like 4 monsters and a POG. He played a MOP and it was a duel with me attacking with things like my man-eater bug and 4 starred ladybug of doom. When ever he tried to play one of his clowns in attack mode I would have a trap hole or mirror force waiting for him or even a skull lair. Then I got lucky he never drew a monster and I attacked strait all that time with a man eater a 4 starred lady bug of doom. Oh yeah a little earlier on he’d given up on MOP and got gravity bind. Then finally he was down to 1850. But my monsters couldn’t kill him in one hit and I was afraid he may draw something like raigeki. So I drew and WHAT LUCK got hayabusa knight and attacked twice for the win. Darill dueled great. If it weren’t for a few unlucky things that came his way the duel might have turned out completely different. Luckily it didn’t YES. Even with being really nervous I dueled great. I watched as my friends zachy (exodia deck) and mark (clown control) moved on to the next round versing kids with cards like petit dragon in their decks(lucky). OK next round we draw to find out what ladder were on. This time I’m thinking I gotta get lucky this time and get one of the newbs that are left. I got a low number (5) and was on my friend zachys ladder but mark was on another one. Oh yes and about getting lucky and getting to vs. a newb this time NO SUCH LUCK. Me vs. Bernard (store owner) OK so I was scared this time he ran a sort of dragon beat down deck. I actually had bet him in a tournament before with my hand destruction /beat down and he was running beat down. So we do rock paper scissors he wins chooses to go second. I set down a card and a trap and end my turn. This duel was a tough one. It continually went back and forth. At one point in times he had a gemini elf and la gin on the field but I changed of hearted his face down card and it was a penguin soldier. Flipped sent la gin back to my hand (he mr it) and Gemini to his. Sent back down the la gin equipped it with an exe and attacked. He was then down to about 400 lp. He set a monster and ended. I then decided to heavey storm to get rid of his face down card but was force to destroy my axe but what was really bad was the face down card was Flute of summoning dragon. So I layed down another1800 attacker. I attacked then he destroyed my other 1800 attacker with a man eater bug. Then I ended my turn and suddenly realized I could’ve won by dark holing everything and attacking with my mane eater bug. O well. Next turn he got nothing and hr lost any way, Next duel was tough he changed up his deck and we began. At one point in time he pulled out his bazoo and jinzo. I managed to get rid of them both but could still not hold it because he cost me so many cards. In the end he managed to take the win. In this duel I tried to play a bit more defense. This duel really went back and forth but finally I managed to take the win. My friends mark and zachy also advanced mark versing the store owners son and zachy versing some newb. I was into the final eight. This next duel I found out I was versing a kid who I don’t think ever one a tournament. He ran some sort of stall deck as far as I could tell. But I still had to look out and with my starting hand I sure did. All I could draw was monsters which is weird since I have 22 22 ratio in monsters to magic and trap. But worst of all he managed to pull out 2 ground collapses on me. So with a hand full of monsters it was no surprise to me when he took the win. The next 2 duels I dominated never giving up and took the wins. I was into the semifinals. My friend zachy got eliminated in a tight 2-1 match against another exodia deck. My friend mark versed some kid. So me and mark were in the finals but we were on different ladders so we wouldn’t vs each other unless we both made finals. Me vs Exodia Deck kid who beat my friend zachy I made some quick changes from my side deck. Putting in some anti exodia cards. I was happy when this duel came and I found out 4th place got 15$ so I definitely got something. First duel I pulverized him with my beat down never letting up on the attack. Surprisingly even with all my attacks he never managed to get exodia so I took the win. Next duel I had an awesome combo. Getting card destruction and soul release on the same hand. Then I saw my chance. I think he fired his witch at me with cannon soldier he showed s person (or judge) that it was an ok card. So I took my chance. When my turn came I placed my soul release face down and activated card destruction. What luck as I watched a sold piece of exodia (along with other cards) go to the graveyard. But that was all I needed. I acticated my soul release that I had set face down and did not remove all his cards. Just 2 in case he had miracle dig. I took out a piece of exodia and for some reason a spear cretin which seemed like a good idea at the time. Anyways I was surprised at how long he managed to stay in for with no longer having exodia. But in the end I won. Out of the corner of my eye I watched as my friend mark battled hard to defeat Joes beat down deck but lost. So in the end it came down to me vs. Joe. I was afraid going in to this duel since Joe came in 44th place over all in Canada and the store trophy. Oh and by the way this was only my 4th tournament. First duel I think he thought he could easily beat me considering in the past 2 tournaments I entered he had eliminated me. (Once in first round and once in 3rd.) Surprisingly I just settled down knowing would get 30$ no matter what winning the first round. Then in the second round I was up. And he made one very stupid mistake he heavy stormed when he had one card face down and a haybusa with an axe and I had one card face down. I could tell he was mad about this but called an attack any ways running smack into my wall of illusion. He ended his turn and let me go. He had nothing on the field and just a haybusa knight in hand with only 1700 life points remaining. So I shifted my wall of illusion into attack mode slapped down a haybusa knight and attacked twice with hayabusa and with wall of illusion for the WIN. One more thing mark took 3rd place beating exodia deck kid. PROS Me winning 43$ store credit and choosing to get 2 bazoos one first ed and one not for 35$ and a penguin soldier for 8$. ME WINNING IN A TOURAMENT CONS Joe Choosing to get 5 packs and pulling yet another Gemini elf. Luck bum(JK) My LON pack I got being garbage. You think what I wrote is interesting? Got any questions forme? Well email me at VirtualScorpion@hotmail.com later people.