Deck: Barrel Dragon Beatdown
Name: Tommy "G" N.
Location: Big Leagues Cards, Renton, Washington
Placed: 1st
participants: 31
Date: August 24, 2002


Hi all. This is my second tournament, and I'll have to say the results weren't bad at all. The entrance fee was $2.00 and first prize is three metal raiders boosters and one LOB booster, second is two metal raiders boosters and one LOB, third is one metal raiders booster and one LOB booster, fourth place is one LOB or one metal raiders booster. Either way, it wasn't bad, because they sell boosters around $6.00 for an LOB. I expected the competition to be really good and at the most, I'd take fourth place, but I can't complain with the results... It was also good when I bought five boosters before the tournament and got a swords of revealing lights (just what I needed too!). Next week, I will be playing in an official tournament.
Well, here's my deck.

Barrel Dragon Beatdown:
Monsters:
x1 Blue-eyes White Dragon
x1Barrel Dragon
x3 Summoned Skull
x3 La Jinn
x3 7 Colored Fish
x1 Bistro Butcher
x1 Jirai-Gumo
x2 Wall of Illusion
x3 Giant Soldier Of Stone
x1 Aqua Madoor
x2 Man Eater Bug
x2 Witch of the Black Forest
x2 Magician of Faith

Magics:
x2 Swords of Revealing Light
x1 Card Destruction
x1 Heavy Storm
x1 Raigeki
x1Change of Heart
x1 Pot of Greed
x1 Dark Hole
x1 Monster Reborn
x1 Stim-Pack
x1 Tribute to The Doomed
x1 Fissure

Traps:
x1 Mirror Force
x1 Seven Tools of the Bandit
x1 Magic Jammer
3x Trap Hole
1x Waboku

I had about four or five duels. It was double elimination, so if you lose, you go to the constellation bracket where you play against other people that lost, and the winner of that bracket goes to face the winner of the winners bracket.
Round one: Me VS. Ricky
Deck: Yugi/Kaiba starter deck.
This wasn't real hard of a duel, considering he was a beginner with only the starters. He started off with a mystical elf in defense mode, and tried to equip castle walls on it while on his turn and I had to correct him. I quickly destroyed it and took him down without any damage. The second duel wasn't much either, he sent out a Neo and I had no monsters on the field at the time, so attacked me for 1700 damage. That was all I took in the whole match. In the end I won.

Round two: Me VS. Andrew
Deck: Yugi/Kaiba Starter deck/harpie ladies.
This ended up much like the last one. In my first duel, I saw him breaking so many rules, but I couldn't correct him until this duel. I didn't get a lot of time, because he lost quickly. Afterall, he did try to send out a harpie ladies sister, judge-man, and launcher spider without tributes.  Nothing much to say until the next game.

Round three: Me VS Austin
Deck:  ???
This is when it began to get good. Although he was good, he didn't have too many good cards, and I felt guilty taking advantage of that. After a while of shuffling around, I got my summoned skull out on the field equipped with stim pack. I thought I had him pinned down then for sure, but he played reverse trap and that was enough for one of his judge-man to take it. After a while, I basically won the first duel. Then came the second duel where I couldn't defend myself, and lost. The last one was quick with me getting mirror force on him, which turned the game to cake from there.

Round Four: Me VS Vinh
Deck: F/S Beatdown
I actually know this guy from my neighborhood. He's a bit younger than myself, but a pretty big threat to a lot of duelists there. every time we dueled at home, he never beat me, but at the tournament, he dueled like I've never seen. The first game went as expected, with me winning. I don't remember a lot of details, but I lost the next one to my surprise, and won the third.

Round Five (semifinals for the winner): Me VS Devin
Deck: Strategic/balanced.
It couldn't go down any better than this. This match was what we were waiting for. We dueled each other many times and we shifted wins/losses from each other before, but that week, I had the better deck. I think the problem is because he doesn't know his deck, considering he changed it just the day before. It was a shield & sword deck, now back to his oldschool strategic placed power style deck. He knew the style of his deck well, but not the cards in it since they are new. Very dramatic indeed. To be honest, we didn't even expect to play each other, because his last opponent was about to be Mark. Mark was supposed to win with his awesome deck, but he had to play against this woman named Amber. She didn't seem like much, but somehow won with her best card, swords of revealing light. In the end, he played against Amber and won easily. Sadly, I don't remember too much of the details, but here's what I remember. We played back and fourth in the first duel, with me topping him in the end. In the second game, I got the greatest hand I ever was given and won entering me to the top of the winners bracket and allow me to wait for the winner of the constellation bracket to face me.

After a while of waiting, I was given an opponent.  Devin won his way back to the top to play against me in the finals meaning he had to try twice as hard as me. So it was the winners bracket against the winner of the constellation bracket. I was wrong saying the last match with me against him was what we waited for, because this is it.

Round Six (finals): Me VS Devin (again)
I barely remember the game, but I won the first duel. The second duel ended with him having 1600 lifepoints left with one monster on the field and no m/t. I had a man-eater bug face down and drew a giant soldier of stone. I know I could've flipped the man-eater to kill his face down monster, then attack with both for 1750 to win, but I mad a mistake that made me lose. I laid the giant soldier of stone in defense mode! On his next turn, he drew raigeki, and destroyed my monsters. the game went downhill for me there, and I lost the next two duels. Luckily for me, I was undefeated until then, and the game had me move to the constellation bracket, where I had a second chance to defeat him.

Round Seven (real finals): Me VS Devin (...AGAIN!)
This is it. So in this game, I won the first duel after his bathroom trip :).The second duel, we knew who was going to win. I was about to flip magician of faith to bring back raigeki and take over the game, but he horn of heavened it. He knew I was going to win anyway, because the one time he did defeat me, was because I made a mistake. He did the noble thing, and fought to the end giving me quite a game to remember. He had no monsters on the field and one m/t. I was reluctant to attack with all four or five of my monsters, because of the m/t that could be mirror force. So I didn't flip two or three of them and attack with jirai gumo (my lifepoints were down anyway) and bistro butcher, which was enough to beat him and win the tournament.

Standings:
First: Me
Second: Devin
Third: Jeff
Fourth: Uhh.. forgot.

The good:
Getting an exodia piece and heavy storm from the prize.
Getting first place.
Getting the one card I needed right before the tournament!
I didn't face many tough duelists.
The low entrance cost.

The bad:
Vinh for bragging about how he beat me in one out of three duels.
I didn't play the many tough duelists.
My little brother for having to face an old guy on his first duel.
My little brother's deck.
My little brother for stealing cards from the lost and found.
My little brother for trying to take cards from my deck when I said it's illegal twice.
That cocky kid with the blonde hair. He lost to Kyle's then weak deck first round.

The ugly:
My little brother.


If you have anything to say to me (Tommy N.), e-mail me on AOL at sicklemia@aol.com
That's all I have to say right now.