Alright, I didn't have to work this Saterday, so I was able to enter the tournament! I came to the tournament about an hour and a half before the actual starting time. I find my friend from school Zack and we do some pactice duels to prepare for the tournament. We were also testing the [Magical Scientist] card we both put in our decks that day. I had gotten some easy Fusion Monsters for it, and we were ready to rock. Zack is not in my league, but he is very good, nonetheless. After I had a few duels with him, I was pretty much ready for the tournament.

Mike (the judge, and a really kool one at that) started the tournament by announcing that instead of bracket-style, the tournament would follow a swiss-style. Wow, so much confusion for something rather simple... I think I was the only one, besides Mike, in the room who knew what swiss-style tournaments were. As Mike was pairing people up, I rechecked my deck:

Jinzo
Kycoo the Ghost Destroyer
Breaker the Magical Warrior
Tibe Infecting Virus
D.D. Warrior Lady
Magical Scientist
Mystic Tomato
Don Zaloog
Spirit Reaper
Witch of the Black Forest
Sangan
Yata-Garasu
Magician of Faith
Sinister Serpent
Fiber Jar

Raigeki
Dark Hole
Harpie's Feather Duster
Heavy Storm
Pot of Greed
Graceful Charity
Change of Heart
Snatch Steal
Monster Reborn
Premature Burial
Mystical Space Typhoon x3
Mirage of Nightmare
Painful Choice
Delinquent Duo
Confiscation
Forceful Sentry
Scapegoat

Omg... this pairing should have NEVER happened. Candice was a complete newb who had just bought a tin and the Sacred Cards game and threw all the cards together... however, there were only two rare cards in his deck... Also, him being much younger than me (I'm only 16, he was probably 10), I let him go first. BAM! Perfectly Great Ultimate Moth stares me in the face from the start. I ignore the fact that he wasn't allowed to summon the monster, and go about my turn. Dark Hole, and it all goes down from there. I tried to play a 'teaching game' like I do with people when playing Go (an old Chinese game, check the Hikaru no Go manga for details), but it was very difficult. Well, he learned better, and decided to just play a complete teaching game for the second duel.

Heh heh heh, I love decks like this... not only is it really hard to focus around one combo or the other, but any exodia is at the mercy of mine. Not to mention this kid was playing with an unsleeved 150+ card deck... I didn't even have a struggle with this guy, easy win.

Hmm... I don't remember this guy's name, but I know him from seeing him a lot at previous tournies. I *thought* he was good, so I went all out on him... he struggled a bit, but it was no real challenge again...

LOL, I'm really bad with names.. but this guy was no amatuer, a very good duelist with a very good deck. I was able to get an early advantage with a Delinquent Duo and Spirit Reaper to defend. As it came down to both of us not having any mosters of cards in hand, he sets a monster, and I know its a Fiber Jar... I didn't want him to get any kind of advantage, but what choice did I have? Draw... hmm... Magical Scientist? I know! Thousand-Eyes Restrict... but looking at my other fusions, i noticed that Dark Baltar the Terrible was a much better card to bring out. I hit his Fiber, and attacked with MS, he draws... nothing, I draw, Yata, game. Second game was really fast...

One thing I might add... good thing that I am an honest person, or else i would have had 6800 LP instead of 2700 LP like i had on my calculator... This guy didn't punch in everything in his calculator and still had me with a lot of LP, but using MS and Imperial DOES take your LP away, if you didn't know, lol

Ah, Mike just wanted to be a jerk and gave me an extra opponent... he was pretty strong, but playing a Dark Paladin Deck, with beatdown monsters. He threw out a lot of 1900 monsters at me, and I had to defend for a while... I wanted to bring out my MS, but it was no point. Then the idiot plays Jinzo. BWAHAHAHA, time for some fun. I attack all his monsters and deal some overflow damage. This duel was really close, something like 900-0. Second duel was easy... he drew Dark Magician... Dark Magician... Buster Bladder... Bister Bladder.. by that time the duel was over... hahahaha, so close too. I kinda feel sorry for him.

Hmm... a very interesting Dark Magician deck that relies a lot on the SURPRIZINGLY annoying Apprentice Magician. I dueled Sunny earlier adbout 11 times, he beat me 4 and I 7, but we really didn't keep track of score, so its unofficial. Sunny didn't scare me at all, having a dopey personality, but his annoying deck did. Every time i killed a monster, another would take its place... Mystic Tomato, Apprentice Magician... argh, they are so annoying. I tried to suck up the Tomato and prevent him from getting monsters, but it didn't matter, DMG, United We Stand, ouch, hit me hard, I lost.

Second and third were easy, I kept him at bay but destroying his monsters in his hand, have field control, and keeping Imperial Order out... hahahaha, and he kept on using Magic Cards.

A truely strong opponent. However, he had one weakness that I'd like to point out to everyone... INJECTION FAIRY LILY ISN'T GOOD ANYMORE!!! The effect should say something like, both players take 2000 LP and you get to keep your monster on the field, the other dies.... Basically Lily is a 1400 ATK monster with an ability similar to spirit reaper. I hit Lily with DD Warrior Lady, MS, and other weak mosters... hey, i'll let you bring both of us closer to defeat, makes my life easier. :)

yea yea... kind of boring today, I didn't have much fun. for placing in 1st I only got $10 store credit... can you say RIP OFF?! Well, it's nothing against Mike, its all against the store owners... who are complete [insert obscene word here]s...