Subject: Dark Delinquent,Adrian Mares,Comic Zone,Houston Tx.
Dark Delinquent, Adrian Mares,Comic Zone,Houston Tx.  10people(minimum).

Traps::
1 Solemn Judgement
2 Seven Tools Of The Bandit
1 Fairy's Hand Mirror
3 Trap Hole
2 Just Deserts
2 Waboku

Magics::
1 Pot Of Greed
1 Upstart Goblin
1 Megamorph
1 Delinquent Duo
1 Monster Reborn
2 Dan Kieto The Cure Master
2 Fissure
1 Change Of Heart
1 Snatch Steal
1 Tribute To The Doomed
1 Dark hole

Monsters::
2 Jirai Gumo
1 Dark Elf
2 Lajinn The Mystical Genie Of The Lamp
2 Summoned Skull
1 Cyber Jar
2 Mask Of Darkness
2 Weather Report
2 Magician Of Faith
2 Witch Of The Black Forest

Match 1 round 1 best of 3 single elimination. Me vs Alex.
Alex is a good player who uses Relinquished as a control monster and uses Heavy Storms as well as Giant Trunade to defend his monsters against traps .  I was kinda nervous going in to the first match so I figured if I hit hard and counter everything he throws at me and hope to win. He had a bad draw in the first match ,so it took about 6 turns for me to megamorph my Jirai Gumo and abuse the loss of half my life points to keep megamorph working for me,plus I had a Dark Elf which ensured no decent level 4's would get through to my life points. Simply put i attacked with Jirai Gumo and Dark Elf on turn 6 for the win. Game 2 of the match was neck and neck counters every single time i summoned a monster that would get at Alex's life points  he would have something,so I was thankful my Seven Tools Of The Bandit came up fast for me and remained the deciding factor in my attacks. Around turn 10 i was at 120 life points and he was at 200 life points he had Giant Trunade and Raigeki in his hand and messed up the order he played them,he played Raigeki first which was stuffed/denied/haulted by Solemn Judgement right then and there i knew since he had no monsters and i had a summoned skull at 5,000 with Megamorph,it was over. On my turn i attacked and won. Even if he had a mirror force I still had a Seven Tools of The Bandit waiting to deny him.

Round 2  Me vs Chris.
Chris was a novice player who built a fire based deck,and anyone who's played me knows that themed decks don't go far against my deck as far as overall damage goes. First match he tried to play UFO turtle,I had a trap hole in play and he had  a few Magic ruler equips in his M/T zone. I killed the turtle off ,went to my turn , played Jurai Gumo and stomped his monster he was able to summon with UFO Turtle. In my M/T zone were Waboku,Just Deserts,Seven Tools Of The Bandit,Solemn Judgement. He took his next turn unable to do anything,so on my turn i drew a fissure and waited for his next monster. His next turn he sets another UFO Turtle,i saw him try to grab 2 cards from the top of his deck and told him not to do that or I'd actually try to beat him rather than toy around,he got scared and I watched him draw 1 card per draw phase the rest of the 3 turns the game went on. On my turn,I see his UFO turtle in play and i figure I'll lure him into attacking,becasue i wanted a full field of as many level 4's as possible to finish the match. I set Cyber Jar and ended my turn,his turn comes he draws, and attacks with his UFO TURTLE ,now pumped up by a Black Pendant,Malevolent Nuzzlerx2 and i wound up with a Magician Of Faith ,Dark Elf,La Jinn  in play. he only got a level 4(don't remember it wasn't enough though). i take my turn and flip summon Magician of Faith to snag my Pot of Greed which I had used first turn and pulled Summoned Skull and Megamorph his life points went from 10,000 (from Upstart Goblin twice,because of Magician Of Faith) to 5600 so I attacked with La Jinn and Dark Elf. he was at 1,800 my life points remained pretty low at 5,000. He took his turn ,summoned another level 4 and he knew it was over,i drew just deserts on my turn ,smack smack, game set match.

Round 3 Me vs David.
Ok David is one of the better players probably the second best of the Elite which go to Comic Zone. I was nervous,and I figured going in If I made it to the semi-finals I've kept the novices from getting there and being tossed around all night long so I did my job. David pretty much played a beatdown deck and had more counters than me, so I lost due to the fact I was outmatched. I will say this in closing, tournaments aren't won on the cards in your deck it's how you play them. An example is that i played back in LOB with a Yugi Starter Deck inserted a Raigeki,and beat alot of "good" players with their SORL and other "staples". Bottom line i lost 2 of the 3 games in the match to david, but i got a tournament pack. didn't want to pull mechanical chaser,because he's not worth looking for to run 2 or even 3 in a deck then have him stuffed,gagged,beaten and eliminated by counters. All creatures are ownable ,excluding the God Cards, learn it and live with it.

Adrian Mares
ImperfectAng5840@aol.com