FX deck next name : Redline – By Bandit Keif

Cow Palace, Tristar Tournament

San Francisco, CA                   February 16nd, 2003

 

3 Dark Elf

3 Magician of Faith

3 Numinous Healer

1 Call of the Haunted

1 Swords of Light

3 Wall of Illusion

3 Mystical Elf

3 Waboku

3 Shield and Sword

1 Monster Reborn

3 Princess Tsurugi

1 Black Forest Witch

1 Change of Heart

1 Mirror Force

1 Raigeki

3 Maha Vailo

1 Royal Palace Infiltraitor

3 Demon’s Kiss

1 Shadow of Eyes

1 Dark Hole

 

$10 dollars door admission (one day), $7 dollars parking (per day), 2 required days attendance, “free” tournament

6 rounds, triple elimination, 120 people in the tournament.

Prizes: 1st: $500 2nd: $250  3rd: $150 4th : $100

 

Day 1:

               We get to the Cow Palace and walk in. The people in my car, Kevo Kaiba, Pinay Mai, Mokuba, and me (Bandit Keif) were surrounded by like millions of dollars worth of sports memorabilia. We pay no attention to the overpriced pieces of history and walk straight to the tournament. As we enter the dueling grounds we hear the chatter of 120 + kids / teens talking, dueling, signing up.

               Within the crowd we soon see familiar faces from Collectors Corner, top duelists from Oakland besides us, Edward and Andy Chan, David Cao (and his brother John), and Alex Wong. At least now in this group of 120 people from around the Bay Area, we had a group of people to look out for each other and root each other on. I was expecting another top duelist to come but he flaked so badly he should have been on some dandruff commercial, where were you at Serf!?!

               Knowing 7% of the populace there wasn’t bad at all, the thought of jumping jerks and sore winners came up many, many times. Especially by John, Kevin, and Andy (who really was about to get in a fight). Today the people who ran the tournament promised that only 32 people of the 120 will make it to tomorrow’s invitation only tournament, and I knew our whole group of 8 talented duelists had the skills to make it.

 

Let the Duels Begin! :

               My record for Day one was 4 wins, 2 loss, 0 draws. I start off strong in the beginning of the tournament boosting my record to 2-0, then round 3 came along and I end up versus another person who’s record was 2-0. His name I think was Alex Thompson, white kid, puffy cheeks, long hair, chewed up calculator. Maybe he starts eating his calculator when he’s nervous… I don’t know, he looks like he would though. He ran a good Serf style deck and was able to beat me with it. All I remember was that I kept on hitting hella walls. Serf could have learned a lot from this deck, to upgrade his own disruptor, oh well, I think his burn could have made if far… If he had shown up!

               2-1 now and I go on to round 4 and verse this San Jose guy, the best at his store, Frank Escobar, I knew he was the best at his store because his friends called him “my liege” and they told me he was the best at his store. I duel this San Jose style beatdown and lose quickly, his friends say he had “the winning look” on his face. He probably won just because that kid before me threw off my rhythm.

               2-2 now and I sweep the next two people bringing me to 4-2 (their names didn’t stick in my head because they didn’t beat me) I have a little hit list that just stays in my head, and the Oakland hot headed Viet and Chinese to back it up. Like I said the mention of jumping sore winners came up many, many times. Good thing it didn’t happen though. Because at the end of the day we all end up either 4-2 or 4-1-1 and end up invited to tomorrows tournament, wouldn’t want any of us lose our chance at $500 because of that.

 

That evening I came up with a beat that fit the occasion:

               Oakland, WE got crazy game,

               we got the best duelists that win all the same!

 

               Frisco, they don’t know how to play,

               Get beat by us like everyday!

 

               San Jose got crazy loot,

               But when its time to play it’s us to shoot!

 

               (That’s pretty much the summary of the two days if you don’t want to read the rest)           

 

Day 2:

            The dueling grounds were significantly less crowded than day 1, because the promoters of the tournament, without telling anyone decided to change the invite to top 64 instead of top 32 like at 10:30 Sunday morning, I’m guessing some group of retards from maybe Union City or somewhere else far came back that day without invite and their parents just had to speak up for the sore losers.

            Round 1 – I whop on a clown deck no problem, ( I don’t know his name because he isn’t on my hit list ). He tries to walk away without signing the slip that declares me the winner so I get the group ( who was standing round me at the time ) to get that mo – fo! My sister Pinay Mai, David Cao, Alex Wong got eliminated this round by the top 32.

            Round 2 versus Eugine from San Jose, cool guy, Kevo Kaiba has his e-mail address. He was so cool with us that when we had a chance to steal his deck (he left it behind on a table and some other strangers were about to take it, we snatch it for ourselves and give it back to him). He had a San Jose beatdown, whose dynamics are very, very different from our Oakland beatdowns. I guess we weren’t prepared for them. I still have to recollect from the group what it comprised of. Me, Andy and Edward Chan were eliminated this round, trying to get to the top 16.

            Top 8 to top 4 Kevo Kaiba, name sake of the K Force 1 made it far. All the way to 3rd. I’m trusting that he will talk about it in his report so read it there!

 

 

-         Bandit Keif (Sunday February 16, 2003)

-         Evangel008@hotmail.com

 

 

Post Game shouts:

Anyone reading this! I’m the guy with “Bandit Keif” on the back of his cards. You know we are the original K Force 1 themed card covers! So now that the Bay Area has seen the best, just remember, “imitation is one of the most sincere forms of flattery.”

Alexis for his asthma attack due to being surrounded by Sea food all weekend. And for his low and I mean low GPA. These 2 factors kept him out of dueling for a while.

Shout to all the other expert players – Collectors Corner and World of Books players, after what we had to duel against and to fail at top 16, I really think I have the edge, watch out, I know I just got a hell of a lot more powerful. (It’s like we just got taken to a whole other level by San Jose duelists).

 

K Force One:

Kaiba   - Kevin             Penguin Knight - Marcus

Joey     - Alan                           Yugi                             - Ching

Mai      - Geraldine                   Mokuba                       - Chris

???       - Andy Chan                Bandif Keif                   - Jeff

??? = must chose quickly!         Blue Eyes                     - David Cao