From: To: Subject: Magnet_Beatdown_Sports_Cards_Coral_Springs_FL Date: Saturday, April 05, 2003 7:20 PM Magnet Beatdown Coral Springs, FL 4/5/03 2:00 p.m AMRC5@aol.com First Prize- 8 packs of your choice 2nd place- 6 packs of your choice 3rd place- 4 packs of your choice 4th place- 2 packs of your choice Entry fee: 6 bucks approxomatly: 45 people Well you might remember me from my last tournament report back on march 15. ever since my humiliating defeat to Magnum (who by the way won first place my last tournament report, if anyone cared) I have taken a 3-week absense to regain my composure, and to heal my once-large ego. Anywho i managed to tame the cosmos with a whisper this time and really show people why i should be the store champion....if only. on to the deck: Tribute Monsters Jinzo Beast of Talwar Summoned Skull (2) Barrel Dragon Regular Monsters Bazoo the soul eater Beta the magnet warrior (3) Alpha the magnet warrior Gamma the magnet warrior Gearfried the iron knight (2) La Jinn (2) Gemini Elf Kycoo the ghost destroyer (2) magician of faith Magics Scapegoat Raigeki Dark Hole Monster Reborn Change of Heart soul exchange (2) Snatch Steal Mage Power United we stand Limiter removal heavy storm pot of greed Traps Mirror Force 7 tools of the bandit (2) Magic Jammer (2) Michizure trap hole (3) Waboku (3) I added a few new faces into my deck. if you are one of the 5 people in america who hasnt gotten the new starter decks. do so. the foils are really good. especially scapegoat, which is why i added this puppy to my deck. along with a bazoo and gemini elf which i was lucky enough to pull from the 5 packs i bought the afternoon before. i saw a few people i know. including Magnum. what the hell was he doing here? the last time we dueled was in Ft. Lauderdale. a new dueling arena openeded closer to springs, i guess he lives around here too. he recognized me and asked where i was. i told him i was sick. he also said he read my report on pojo. I guess hes a reader. (and who wouldnt be? Pojo RULES!). we talked a little more. and he said if he ever saw the K-Force 1 posse the next time he is in california, he wants to rip them to shreds. in a duel and in other ways. especially that Bendit Keif. (perhaps old enemies? i dont know, i didnt bother to ask why he disliked them). after a few minutes the duels started. First round: Magnet beatdown vs. Charles (Fisherman deck) This guy was really cool. his deck was very interesting as well (3 giant red seasnakes. no small feat). my opening hand was gamma the magnet warrior, raigeki, soul exchange, bazoo the soul eater, and jinzo. i drew waboku. i set wabkou and soul exchange and gamma on the defense. he played 7 colored fish and attked. his attacked didnt work since gamma has 1800 def. i treibubted for jinzo and attacked directly. after a few turns i had the kid on the ropes a few times. it was me 5200- him - 3100. i still had jinzo on the field. (he had 1 torrential tribute, and a few mask of darknesses) i drew scapegoat and i had a gemini elf and snatch steal. i put gemini in def. he played snatch steal and took my jinzo and attacked my face down card. on my turn i drew United we stand. summoned scapegoat, snatch stole my jinzo back. put UWS on jinzo and attacked directly for 6400. game-set-match 2nd time it i got out scapegoat and gemini early enough to slape a mage power and UWS on gemini. 3 magic cards. 5 monsters. plus 1900 gemini elf = 7400 Directly.....SICK! game-set-match on the other side of the brackets. Magnum tore some guy up with his new addition to his deck repoirtuar. a fairy deck he calls "Shining". He is a weird guy, but nonetheless, if he wins the tournament he will be the store champ.next round Magnet Beatdown vs. Gee (Suicide beatdown) this guy had it all. dark elfs. jirai gumos. time wizards. the works. needless to say, NONE of his coin flips for jirai worked and his time wizard failed him too. 2nd round. pretty much the same. my lp was 1400 and his was 2600. he had 2 jirais out and i only had 2 scapegoats left. his flips were workin for him....not this time. he flipped wrong. killed of my scapegoat. hes now at 1300 lps. he flips wrong again on his 2nd jirai gumo. hes now down to 650. and he attacks....silly me. did i forget to mention i had mirror force waiting for his 4-eyed goofy ass? guess not. cuz when i hit it on him he started to sweat more than R.Kelly at an 8th grade dance. on my turn i layed down alpha the magnet warrior on his totally empty field. Can you say game-set-match? 3rd round. bye. w00t. 45 people. two 22-duelist brackets. = bye for big Roy! I think every round someone gets a by. 2-22 duelist brackets are bound to get several byes. 4th round. Magnet beatdown vs. rich bastard beatdown this guy had 3 geminis and 2 mech chasers. quite a site. first round he destroyed me with his 2 chasers on the field and limiter removal. me-0 him 1900. i got Summoned Skull out early by snatching his chaser and attacking his gemini elf. towards the end of the match (me-1000, him -4500). he premature burialed his chaser, then call of the haunted his gemini elf. THEN he tributed those two for barrel dragon! THEN he used his monster reborn to bring back chaser! i coudlnt believe it. i was in shock....or was i? I guess my drama classes are paying off. because i had him totally believing he was gonna win. he used limiter removal to juice up his BD and his MC. his dragon now at 5200, his chaser now at 3600. with a big grin he attacks. im like "dammit....tough break" hes like "yeah, good try though" im like "no no....tough break for u. kid!" i flip over waboku. as soon as he saw the waboku, his face turned sour. like he had a drink of pine-sol or saw Janet Reno naked. his turn was done. so were his machines. i attacked with my SS for the win. 3rd time. business just picked up. we were in a 1-1 stale mate. this is what it all came down to. who would go on to the semi finals? things were gettin a little shaky. i was at 3400 lp and he was trailing with 2900 lps. i had a narrow lead, but i knew if i wanted to beat this guy, i had to think quickly. he has 2 cards face down and a one in defense mode. i had kycoo, bazoo, waboku. (alot of "ooo" sounds in my hand, eh?)and raigeki on my field. i could raigeki him and attack with bazoo for 2500. but i didnt wanna risk it. i put down waboku and set kycoo in defense mode. his turn he sacrificed his face down card for summoned skull. he attacked and i flipped over waboku. if i wanted to finish him i needed to do it now. i raigekid his skull. flipped over Kycoo (trap hole) and then i put down bazoo. discarded 3 cards and attacked for 2500! he was now down to a sparse 400 lps. his turn he tribute to the doomed my bazoo and layed down the chaser to attack. on my next i drew Monster reborn! i reborned Summoned Skull and.....solemn judgment....DAMMIT!!! he is now down to 200 life points. he put down a monster in defense mode and attacked with chaser. me-1600 him-200. my turn i draw pot of greed. i use it and draw two cards. i put one of the cards face down and the other in defense mode. his turn he throws down a gemini elf. and equips and axe of despair to it. dammit.....i came so far.....he attacks my face down card....magician of faith!! i take back monster reborn from my grave and add it to my hand. but it was too late. he attacked with chaser.....but his attacked was sent back at him. because the other card i drew with pot of greed was mirror force! i flipped it and it was over for him. just to bust his chops. i monster reborned his own mechanical chaser to attack. with a sweat trickling down my eyebrow, i could safely say: Game-set-match it was down to Me, Brett, Christopher, and Magnum. its showtime now. whoever won this would be the Undisputed Store Champion. Semi-Final Matchup: Magnet Beatdown vs. Brett (beatdown) we exchanged heavy blows with eachother. in the end it was him prevaliing 2nd time. I massively murdered him. he was unable to draw a monster for about 4 turns. 3rd time. things got a tad out of hand. i had 1900 lps and he had 1200. i managed to sacrifice my Beta the magnet warrior for Jinzo. with he promptly tried to trap hole. can u smell where this is going? i told him he couldnt do that,and he started cussing like there was no tommorow. which led to the judge trying to calm him down and tell him the situation. after he did, i finally had my jinzo on the field. when the judge turned around, i gave the brat the middle finger, slapped down raigeki and wiped out the rest of his life points. game-set-match. On to the big one in the semi finals of bracket two. Mangum just got 2 flawless victories over christopher (for those of u who dont know what flawless victory is. it is when ur life points are untouched) so it was down to me and Magnum. time for my revenge and my first championship. time for magnum to prove that he was what he wanted to be. the best duelist in Florida. sounds a bit storybook-ish? believe me, i thought the same thing Final Matchup. Duel Monsters Championship Magnet Beatdown vs. Magnum Magnum did his intimidating stare and opened up his little briefcase like compartment which now held 8 deck boxes. 2 more from 3 weeks ago. "Choose" was Magnums statement. "alright.....the red one" was my response. the red one was titled "Rebellion". Lets get it on! I started with a heavy storm, gemini elf, bazoo the soul eater, and 2 waboku's i drew raigeki. so far so good. i i put gemini elf in defense along with a waboku. he played 2 cards face down and one in defense. i heavystormed his cards, raigekid his face down card and attacked with my flipped gemini elf. there was about 30 people watchin us now. duelists who satuck around and the judges as well. aloing with card buyers. it was pretty exciting as they yelled out "OOOOOOOHH" when i got the opening hit. me-8000. him-6100. "good job" he said "But watch this" he snatch stole my gemini, sacrificed it for beast of talwar, then used monster reborn on my gemini elf. THEN he used united we stand on the beast of talwar. he attacked me for 5900 direct damage life points. OUCH!! (along with a big OOOHHHH!! from the poeple watching us) me-2100 him-6100. my move. i drew pot of greed and get 1000 lp since he snatch stole my elf. me-3100. i drew Summoned skull and scapegoat.....good. his hand was empty. and the only m/t he had was his stupid united we stand. i layed down scapegoat and summoned bazoo the soul eater. i took out my raigeki, waboku, and heavystorm from play and brought bazoos attack power to 2500. killing off my gemini elf. and his beast of talwar loses 800 attack points. his beast is now at 3200 only. .....only. his next turn he plays a card face down and he attacks bazoo. me- 1400. him-6100. my turn i activate scapegoat. his turn he drew a dark hole and then summoned goblin attack force for the win. 2nd time things were going down hill for me. i was at 1000 lp. and he was at 10000. (i snatch stole 1 of his monsters for 2 turns. the field was completely clear thanks to his torrenital tribute and him also unable to draw a monster on the next turn, but he had one card face down. my turn i layed down magician of faith and then used monster reborn on my barrel dragon and attacked him for 2600....i wish. he waboku'd. his turn he layed a card in defense mode. my turn i drew Mage Power. i flipped over MOF and got back my scapegoat. then i played 3 cards face down along with the MP. put it on my barrel dragon for an extra 2000 attack points! barrel dragon was now at 4600.i tryed BD's effect. no good. i killed off his monster. his turn he threw out mechanical chaser and attacked my MOF. had his attack gone thru, he would have won. luckily i had a waboku waiting. i used it. and as part of main phase 2. he put down another card in m/t zone. i drew limiter removal. hmm.. since my BD was now at 4100. i also had Bazoo the soul eater in my hand....it was daring.....who knows wut his face down card was? all i know is i had to take a chance.....i put down bazoo, took out three cards from play to boost him up to 2500. then i used limiter removal on Barrel Dragon. since the card was in my M/t zone he gets the 500 point boost. so barrel dragon was now at 9200!!! i used barrel dragons effect......i really needed it to come through....does it?.....NO!!...nonetheless my bazoo attacks his chaser along with barrel dragon for a combined 9850! one kid screamed out "HOLY SHIT!" magnum was pretty shocked too. but magnum still had 150 lps!!....i coudl tbelieve it.....wait......my magician of faith! i didnt put it in defense mode when i flipped it! it was in attack mode!!!! i attacked with magician of faith for the win. call me the comeback kid! me-1 Magnum-1 Final Round.....this is what it all came down to......this round was SUPER long. Near the end it was me on top. me-2350 him-500 i had widdled him down to 200 life points!! i couldnt believe it. this round was probably 25 minutes long. we both thought long and hard about our moves. i had a card face down. he attacked with Summoned skull and a beast of talwar both in the 4000 + range thanks to his axes. UWS and mage power...but no.... i wouldnt let it happen. i flipped over mirror force.....and Magnum knew he was done....i did....everyone did. i sacrificed my man-eater bug for my only monster in my hand....Beast of Talwar.....i did it....it was such a long day...but i did it. i attacked him directly......for him only to show off a grin so evil it wasnt even funny.....he flipped over the card that made everyone give out a big "DAAAAAMMMN!" of suprise, and that made my heart sink to around my left testicle.....Magic Cylindar........With that. Magnum became Champion.....it was a hard fought battle. i said "congrats" to magnum. he pulled me over for a big high five and a quick manly hug. it was out of respect. we had the duel of our lives, no doubt. but thats how it goes...... i pulled crap in my packs. but thats ok....i left with my pride.....anmd someday ill become champion. u can count on it AMRC5@aol.com