Deck Name: Lightning Beatdown
Duelist Name: Devan Bedient
Tournament Location: Collector's Lane
Ending Rank: 1st (there were 3 people who came in 1st)
participants: 16
Date: August 21, 2002

Lightning Beatdown

Monsters:22
2x summoned skull
2x la jinn
2x man eater bug
2x magician of faith
1x time wizard
2x mask of darkness
2x wall of illusion
1x stone soldier
3x 7 colored fish
1x mystical elf
2x witch of the black forest
2x jurai gumo

magic:9
1x heavy storm
1x change of heart
2x fissure
1x dark hole
2x tribute to the doomed
1x monster reborn
1x pot of greed

traps:12
3x trap hole
1x horn of heaven
2x seven tools of the bandit
1x mirror force
1x robbin' goblin
1x just desserts
1x waboku
2x magic jammer

total:43

This tournament was just a demo. A fair amount of
newbs showed up, but there were some pretty good
duelists too.

Match 1 Devan vs Fab
Duel 1
Devan(me)8000-5500-2750
Fab:8000-6200-3700-1200-0
What can I say about Fab. He was a great guy. Fairly
new to the game, but had some really great strategies
for his deck. His deck was more or less a direct
damage/beatdown deck. This duel took a fair amount of
time to finish. We just kept handing each other trap
holes and such. Until I finally dark holed the field
and brought out a La Jinn and attacked for the first
piece of damage. I summoned Jirai Gumo and lost the
coin toss and he played waboku. He then change of
hearted my La Jinn and brought out his summoned skull
and attacked for direct damage. I then did the same
thing to him and brought out my summoned skull and
that won the rest of the game for me.

Duel 2
Devan(me)8000-6100-5300-3650
Fab8000-7300-4450-0
This duel went by more quickly. We exchanged blows for
a while until I flipped a MoF and brought back a TttD.
He then brought out a summoned skull from his
graveyard and attacked my MoF. I then TttD his
summoned skull and brought out my own and attacked his
La jinn for 700 points of damage. He went downhill
from there. He played a monster face down and I played
MEB face down. I destroyed his monster with SS. he
played another monster then I flipped MEB destroying
his monster and leaving his field open for a direct
attack. He couldn't play another monster down. So I
finished the match.

Me:2-0

Match 2 Me vs Daniel
Duel 1
Devan 8000-7000-6200
Daniel 8000-7500-6400-5300-5800-2000-0
this kid had a 107 card deck. This took no effort to
beat him. he had hardly any tribute cards and cards
like petit dragon and such. I went slow on him because
he was younger than most of the others. Just to boost
his confidence. So I won't even go into details here.

Duel 2
Devan 8000-1800
Daniel 8000-7500-6400-2800-2300-0
Same as before.

Match 3 Devan vs Doug
Devan 8000-7800-5300
Doug 8000-3700-0
This was the match I was waiting for. Although I would
have prefered it for the champion spot of the whole
tournament. But theres not much I can do about that.
Doug is one of my friends that I brought along with
me. Him and I were the top duelists there. This was
one of the most intense duels I've ever had. This was
the first tournament we had with this many people
watching. Everybody that wasn't still playing for
their spots at the top were watching us. We were both
playing at the top of our forms. not letting anyone
get away with any mistakes. We weren't able to do
anything until after the first 8 turns. then LP were
beginning to get lost. I lost the initial 200 LP for
attacking with La Jinn on his mystical elf.
He finally kept a monster on the field to bring out
his SS, He used fissure and attacked me directly. Then
I CoH his SS and played a 7 colored fish and attacked
him directly. Then I used TttD on his SS and he was
screwed for the rest of the duel.

Duel 2
Devan 8000-7000-6700-4200-2400-1400
Doug 8000-5500-3700-1900-0
This duel was the luckiest one I have ever played. I
started off the damage by bringing out a SS and
attacked. he used waboku, but I used 7 tools. Then he
used Sould Exchange of my SS and brought out his. I
then layed Jirai Gumo down in attack mode. He
destroyed that with SS and layed another monster face
down. I couldn't do anything my next turn, so he
attacked with SS directly. I then TttD (getting rid of
my Time Wizard) his SS and ended my turn. He layed a
La Jinn down and attacked directly again. finally I
brought 7 colored fish. he tried to Trap hole it, but
I played 7 tools bringing me down to 1400 LP while he
was still up at 5500 LP. I then reborned Time Wizard
and took it for its first spin since I got it 2 weeks
ago. and would you believe it. I won the coin toss. I
cleared his monsters with that and attacked with 7
colored fish. he could do anything again so i attacked
with 7 colored fish again and I played a MEB face
down. He played another monster face down and ended
his turn. I then flipped MEB and attacked with
everybody that I had on the field. I won this
tournament with the most wins at 6-0 while all the
others were at like 4-2 or so. But this was just a
demo tournament and no prizes were given out. So there
were 3 1st placers who won their championship spots.

Props:
-To everybody that came out
-To my friend Doug for a heck of a match
-To this one kid for trading me a 1st edition Sanga of
Thunder for his Raigeki. (I have no idea if this was a
fair trade because I have never traded before.)
-To the store owners for holding tournament

Slops:
-to this one guy that would not accept my ruling on
his ring of magnetism (I was the senior expert there
next to Doug. The store owners knew that and asked my
opinion on it and I gave it. The guy was a 20+ year
old and saying things like "Dude, I think your wrong."
When I say things in reply like "Dude, I know your
wrong and I know I'm right. I have been in this
situation before and made these mistakes. I know.")
Bah! newbs
-To this one guy who ended up getting ripped off by
another kid for the barrel dragon I was looking for.
While I was offering more than it was worth. (sanga,
suijin, magic jammer, and a tribute to the doomed. All
of which he didn't have) but oh well


All in all. It was a great tournament.

If you would like to get a hold of me to ask questions
or to give advice. e-mail me at: magical987654321@yahoo.com

__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
HotJobs - Search Thousands of New Jobs
http://www.hotjobs.com