Barrel Dragon Beatdown
Ryan Smith
Toy's R Us
Flemington,New Jersey,America
July 26,2003

About 19 people participated.
1st Place- Promo Buster Blader and Thousand Eyes Restrict
2nd-Nothing
3rd-Nothing

Now my deck:

Normal Monsters:9
Summoned Skull
Amphibian Beast (No Jinzo)
La Jinn the Mystical Genie of the Lamp x2
7 Colored Fish x2
Harpie's Brother x3

Effect Monsters:11
Barrel Dragon
Hysteric Fairy x3
Gearfried the Iron Knight
Witch of the Black Forest
Cyber Jar
Man-Eater Bug x2
Magician of Faith x2

Magic:13
Raigeki
Dark Hole
Harpie's Feather Duster
Pot of Greed
Change of Heart
Fissure x2
Mystical Space Typhoon
United We Stand
Mage Power
Heavy Storm
Graceful Charity
Monster Reborn

Traps:7
Skull Lair x2 (Going to take out for Swords of Revealing Light)
Seven Tools of the Bandit
Magic Jammer
Michizure
Waboku
Magic Cylinder

Number of cards:40

I try to defeat my opponent with my La Jinns etc. I will also play Barrel
Dragon when I draw it.

I dueled before the tournament. One was with a really good duelist named
Will. He used Drop Off on my Raigeki :( He also played Imperial Order on my
Change of Heart :( Another was against my cousin and one against my brother.
There was also this kid who said his deck was one of the best. It wasn't all
that great.

My cousin and I both signed up and my brother didn't.

It was single elimination.

Well onto the tourney.

First round: Bye

I got a bye first round. I watched other duels. I also had to go to the
bathroom cause I was so nervous.

Second round:Me vs. a big guy with glasses.
The first coulple of turns he was playing high defense monsters. I destroyed
them with magic cards like Fissure. It was over pretty quickly.

Third round: Me vs. some kid names Paul
He took a quick lead with Hyabusa Knight equiped with Black Bendent. He
attacked me directly with. I was kind of getting creamed by his Knights. I
killed his first Hyabusa with Harpie's Brother. Then he played another
Hyabusa with Axe of Dispare. I was soon down to 2300. He was close to 8000
life points. I killed his Hyabusa with a Cyber Jar. After that I slowly
whittled down his life points by Change of Hearting his monster and
attacking him directly with my monster and his monster. He was down to 100
lifepoints. I was at 2300. Well after I Change of Hearted his monster and
ended my turn he added 500 lifepoints to his score because I left Change of
Heart on the field. I was like whatever. He got Summoned Skull out and
killed my monster. I only had one card in my hand and that was my own
Summoned Skull. I drew. I had Graceful Charity face-down. I activated it and
got Fissure, Raigeki, and Harpie's Brother. Discarded Summoned Skull and
Fissure. I played Raigeki and Harpie's Brother and won.

Semi-Finals: Me vs. Nick (My cousin)
I had played him the day before six times and we both won three times. He
was winning when he Change of Hearted my Witch of the Black Forest, equiped
his Goblin Attack Force with Axe of Despair. I change of Hearted GAF and
summoned Barrel Dragon with Mage Power. He played Monster Reborn on my
Witch. He didn't know I would get the effect when it died. Sacraficed it and
played Summoned Skull with Mage Power. He didn't realize I had Mage Power on
the field. I killed his monster with a magic card summoned 7 Colored Fish
and attacked directly with both of them and won.

Now it was time for the Finals. I was pretty nervous. He had and
Exodia/F-I-N-A-L/ Beatdown deck.
This duel was over pretty fast. He had dark Elf on the Field. I could get to
his lifepoints and he got F-I-N-A-L.

Well second isn't that bad.

Now for the Props and Slops:

Props:
My mom for driving my brother and me
Coming in second
Beating my cousin
Not many Noob's
Having Fun

Slops:
Losing in the finals
Not coming in first
My brother for not entering

Ryan Smith
e-mail adress-MDESAPIO@ATT.NET

Peace Out