Mera: What's Your
name?
Carlo: Carlo Palazzo
Mera: Where are you from?
Carlo: New York City
Mera: How old are you?
Carlo: 15
Mera: Can you name your accomplishments in Yu-Gi-Oh?
Carlo: Numerous regional top eights in New York
City; the worlds hardest meta. I just won the Edison
Regionals on April 14th. I've also been to two
shonen jumps going 8-2 and 4-2 and drop respectivly.
Mera: What's with you and online Yu-Gi-Oh?
Carlo: I've been playing online Yu-Gi-Oh since April
05', on numerous websites and have a collective war
record of 152-46. I'm currently playing for
[>>]Antic.
Mera: What are your credentials in online Yu-Gi-Oh?
Carlo: I went 8-3 in the first TOC piloting my team
to the ToC finals. Of course I can't disregard my
team of Andrew Long, Chris Moosman, Anthony Bruno,
Dominique Dukes, Giel VanGellkom, and Brodie
Heinrechson.
Mera: Who are some of the people you test with
online?
carlo: I only test with the greats: Chris SoRelle,
Max Suffridge (not sufferage which for the record he
is against), Matt Peddle, Jae Kim, Eric Herdzik, and
Jordan Denk.
Mera: How do you compare the online metagame to the
in real life metagame?
carlo: In my opinion it is much more difficult to
excel in the online game than the in real life game.
Much better players play online then in real life.
There is much more of a chance to play an above
average player in a war than there is to play an
above average player in a regional.
Mera: I think you're wrong.
Carlo: That can also be, because you've never seen
the glory days of online dueling. Back in goat
format there used to be dynastys such as Alpha
Omegapioneered by Max Suffridge and the online
legend Six Shooter and Genisis pioneered by the
likes of Stephen Lusko and Jordan Denk not to
mention Team Ignition which contained some of the
best players of our time: Kyle Duncan, Dale Bellido,
Matt Peddle, Chris SoRelle, and the Online Legend
Elky.
Mera: That's great but I don't see Overdose or other
great players playing online, and I also feel that
online dueling takes away a lot. You basically have
every card in front of you, and you have a bad
shuffling system. You also can't see your opponent.
To some players, like me, reading and bluffing are
important and sometimes it will get you the game
win. It also can be done onlin but don't get me
wrong, but it's not like how it's done in real life.
In online Yu-Gi-Oh you're playing card by card plays
and nothing else. You're just playing one aspect of
the game and you have every card given to you. No
pressure under you as you do in a event in real
life. It's much harder to face a great player who
has done so much in the game in real life then it is
online. You're in the comfort of your own home and
actually being under pressure is huge also, because
I seen good players collapse and because of that the
players make mistakes. I have even done it a couple
times, but I learned from my mistakes. This online
program you are using is basically giving people who
don't like the tournament scene. the other aspects
of the game, and just letting them play in what you
call "war's" online which don't matter or amount to
anything in real life Yu-Gi-Oh.
Mera: Yes, a lot of great players play online, but I
feel they just use it to test decks; and practice
that one aspect of the game they play in.
Carlo: First off Anthony Alvarado and Kris Perovic
have both played online Yu-Gi-Oh before. Second of
all, virtually all of superfriendz have played
online before as well as Augusto Mota and Dwayne
Nunez from Comic Odysessey, Team Overdose, and Team
Superfriendz what great legit teams are out there.
Although you're correct about one aspect of the game
being thrown out the window due to yvd, yvd still
helps the player learn how to make sharper reads and
learn the technical aspect better, although you can
win without a good mental game, you can not win
without a good technical game. Two of the best mind
game players to ever play this game, Max Suffride
and Chris SoRelle, are both heavy online players.
Six Shooter, Rob LoZelle, an Australian fellow is
also exclusivly an online player and he also may be
one of the sharpest deck builders and players to
ever play this game.
Mera: Yes, some player's of overdose played, but not
all of them. Some player's of the best team's have
played, but not all of them. Online does help you
play you're card's better in real life. Like i said
it's real purpuse is just to help you're one aspect
of the game more sharp. You're just improving you're
card playing skill. You can learn ruling's and learn
playing all these deck's. i have used it many time's
ro test agianst all these deck's i dont have time to
build or go to people's houses and play test with
them before events. it is very good at times, and i
use it for practicing purposes. i think the people
who use it are good player's and all, but it is just
more pressure offline than there is online. There is
so many aspect of the game left out online, the fact
going to event's and getting tired, being around so
many people, having to think so much without a
simple screen telling you all the information, how
many card's in a player's deck and hand, seeing
everything you need to win the game online. Which
makes it so easy for you to play card by card
knowing so much knowledge. When the field and
everything in real life is much more difficult,
having to ask turn by turn card's in hand, and
checking thing's every turn.
Carlo: The online scene are completly different
though. The online scene are more underground; many
innovative deck builders play online and many of the
best decks in the world are unleashed online.
Everybody thinks that Shane Scurry innovated "Chaos
Return", although he may have innovated it, Chris
SoRelle ran it in October 05' format.
Mera: They may be good player's and deck builder's,
but they don't go out there and play the decks. They
may play well online but when they go offline a lot
of players are not that good. I seen a lot of
accomplished players play in yvd who have SJC T8's
but the people who are taking decks, going outy, and
playing them in real life with all the aspects of
the game, and taking the deck to a top finish like
Shane Scurry is the way to go. If the deck builders
had build it before Shane Scurry, than we should of
seen them take it to the event and play it.
Carlo: Not everybody has the money, time, or
accomodations to travel to SJCs and National
Championships.
Mera: That's just an excuse, and I have used it
before many times. The fact is if you don't go and
don't test your skills you should not have anything
to say. If you don't go to events then you feel that
you won't finish at the top and get a prize. If they
thought that their deck were good enough they should
of took it to the SJCs and regionals. You're right
ton that not everyone has the money to go everywhere
or the time like some people have, but in the end
it's the person who didn't go are at fault. This
game does have some skill in it, but it also has a
lot of luck contained in it, which makes player's
like my self pick my event's wisely, my money
spending wisely, and try to see if it's worth it in
the end, which was for the two SJCs I have attended.
Carlo: Well online players consider the internet our
own personal metagame.
Mera: Fair enough, and I respect everyone who does
play online as I do offline. It is almost a
different metagame, which makes it hard for someone
to show up to an event who has played in a online
metagame, to come and play in a offline metagame. It
may not differ by much but if it does it can disract
a player from laying correctly. All I see yvd for is
having fun, testing decks, and practicing at the
comfort of your home.
Carlo: Before Shonen Jump Atlanta, I hadn't played
in two months with the last event resulting in a 7-2
effort at the regional April 1st. I wound up missing
the t8 bcause of tie breakers, and playing on Yvd
doesn't have that much of a toll on your
in-real-life game.
Mera: Ok, so it doesn't have a toll on you're in
real life game; but what do you accomplish in the
end of it?
Carlo: Pride, glory, and having your team win.
Mera: Have you done better online than offline?
Carlo: Not at all, although the fact that I've
played online much more than I have in real life
must be taken into consideration.
Mera: Well, I hear you're very good online, but you
manage to not do very good offline? Explain?
Carlo: I've never done "bad" offline, I just happen
to be one of the many players that fall under the
"x-2 curse."
Mera: Yeah well I have got many 9th place finishes
and don't talk to me about being unlucky; but you
have to admit you're not as good offline as you are
online.
Carlo: I 100% admit it; online is my niche. I focus
alot better from my desk than I do from a noisy
table.
Mera: Well, I made some of my points, but I did not
mean to offend you or any other online player.
Carlos: You haven't Mr. Mera.
Mera: Alright, that's good. Any last thing you want
to say before we end this?
Carlos: I would like to shout out to my boy's Bruno,
Team Alpha Omega, Team Antic (espeically SyKoTiC),
Team Hungerforce, Team Overdose, and Ramon Ciriano.
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