How to be better - Fridginators ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: "Azza Fridginators" Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 21:23:32 +1000 Hi. Last month i went to the regionals. I never went before and had my wallet stolen the previous day so i was a bit shaky. Anyways i entered, found some friends and eventually felt better. I thought it was exciting. I played a tyical Warrior Chaos Control. I was good but not as learned as i am now. I won my first 4 matches 2-0. I started feeling a lot more cocky. In the 5th round i faced another person who was running chaos. I lost the match. I cant remember too well what happened but i was a bit too cocky. I won my next round and then on the final (7th) round i faced the eventual winner, Alex Antonious. In my 2nd game i had a perfect situation, snatch stolen jinzo, kycoo and bls. I attacked only to have scapegoat sprung on me. Then he just obliterated me. Again i got too cocky. But this is what really hurts, by the 5th round guy; "5th round, I vs a kid he was quite small, but in this game size didn’t matter, he had all the cards a Chaos deck could have, he was running Chaos/warrior control, he must’ve thought of me as a newbie since I was using common cards from the new structure decks ( I used them so I can put my foiled cards in my folder *grins* ), so as he thought I was a newbie he continuously tells me what each of his card does, so I just played along with him and make him under estimate me, he summoned marauding captain along with Don zaloog. Then he gave me a direct attack, as he removed my monster with nobleman of cross out. This head start made him become very big headed, which I soon let him know what was up my sleeve(not literally), I played this game with out BLS and won the game. As all I did was at attack him with D.D. Warrior Lady, what eve he had was just going to run into my Book of moons and Sakuretsu armours which he did, 4 times*laughes*." Now that really quite hurt. Not because he was being mean but because i was being so stupid. Let this be a lesson: never be over confident. I only saw that via a friend 5 minutes ago. But i can see that he had respect for me, but i disregarded his skill. I was unsportsmanlike. Now this probably sounds like a bucket of !@#$ but honestly if i had entered the match gracefully he would have regarded me as "a young player who ran a good deck and good themes who was a good player" instead of "a good young player who got too cocky for his own good." Never think it will happen to you would it? Being laughed at on a tourney report. Certainly changes my perspective. So behave honourabily (i cant spell). If you enter and leave a match gracefully your opponent will like you and have a good impression of you, even if they lose. Do NOT do what i did. Never under estimate anyone. Give people respect like they give you and dont disregard it! shiny_golden_boy@hotmail.com what is this like the 5th article this month? azza / fridginators ph33r th3 fr1dg35