Date: Saturday 29th November. No Of Participants: Approx 300 duelists+Parents and family of duelists. Email me for a duel or just to chat : duely_p@hotmail.com [i use msn messenger] Hi im cozmik and i took part in teh cardshows tournament on the 29th of november 2003. Thsi was my 1st tournament so i was gonna put in a lot of effort to bring my deck to a competitive standard. The preparations Started over a onth before the tournament. After i pre-booked witrh my friend from school me and mosty other people i knew were just hunting for the cards they needed for their decks. I was going to use a deck i came across in early october. Control. I like the gameplay and strategy so i set myself for hunting down those cards. Being the first person in my area to use yata i knew of him very well [i had 2 when lod came out] and so i could easily make a deck around him. My deck was near to completion but the last week was horrid as Magicians force had just been released and people were just going mad to find the staples. I had luckily Pulled a TIV and Breaker, and these really helped me out in my duels. I had also panicked as i gave up on my spear dragons to find some solid 1900 atackers. I managed to find 2 luster dragons which i traded at school. My deck was going well although i wanted my deck to have no flaws and one flaw was that luster dragon had 1600 defense. That meant teh only way i could bring him out was just by drawing him. I hunted around for the best possible substitute, gemini elf but teh people who had elf would never trade it. By wednesday i had to have completed my deck as the tournament would be in 4 days! My deck was: <6* Jinzo <4* Luster Dragon x2 Breaker The magical warrior TIV Magician Of Faith Sangan Witch Of The Black Forest Mystic tomato x3 Yata Garasu Sinister serpent Fiber jar Spell Raigeki Dark Hole Mystical Space Typhoon x3 Pot Of Greed Change Of Heart Snatch Steal Monster Reborn Premature Burial Graceful Charirty Harpie's Feather Duster Mirage of nightmare Painful choice Delinquent duo Confiscation The forceful sentry Heavy Storm Nobleman of cross out Trap Ring Of Destruction Mirror Force Imperial order Call Of The Haunted Drop Off x3 Side Deck Magic cylinder Torrential Tribute x3 Ceasfire Chain Destruction Royal Command BBTD Solelm Wishes Exchange Exiled force Twin headed behemoth Book of moon x2 Airknight parshath Well By saturday i was prepared.I had my trades ready, an imperial order, bpt jinzo diffusiowave motion marauding captain spell canceller and some supers. I reached teh hotel by train and as i came in i saw teh whole place was flooded with people. i instinctively looked around for things that i needed, don zaloof and gemini elf. I finally found one person. He had 2 gemini's. i gave him an offer for 2 lusters and a jinzo for his 2 elf. he happily took the offer and i was left with a great smile stretched acros my face.i then looked aroun. most people were hush-hush about their deck, but since i was in teh 11-14 category i looked at some older duelists decks. i had a few duels as a warm up with people i met and also got 2 don zaloogs by trdaing my xy-dragon cannon and marauding captain.we were given id cards and we approached teh entrance to the duelling area. i showed my id, they scaned my barcode and took me to a table. i sat down along with 8 other duelists. this was a different firt round. we were only allowed one duel against each person and there was no point of having a side-deck. so i put in most of my side deck apart from a few cards so went up to 50 cards.the table scoreshoot was wher you had to write your end lifepoints and number of victories. i was facing a short fat kid. being mysefl i was sure that i would win and was just gonna get it over and done with. i could tell he wasnt a proffesional as he didnt even use card protectors. i set my sangan face down and 1 m/t card. he then summoned his harpies bro. i activated one of my 3 torrential tributes. i used sangan's effect to pull out my yata. he set 2 carsd and ended. i then drew. i plyed heavy storm taking out his trap hole and waboku. he actiavetd waboku and we carried on. there was o point wasting my summon for yata as he would still draw so i summoned my gemini elf and set a m/t. He dre-DROP OFF...well he didnt draw. i took out his REBDand he set monster and ended. i drew. he had 2 cards in his hand. i played teh forceful sentry and saw his summoned skull and spirit reaper. i chose to send reaper back to teh deck. i then summone dyata nd had gemini destroy his face down...wall of illusion. my gemini returned back to my hand, but luckily i destroyed teh wall to lock him. at first he didnt understand what a lock was and teh his friend [or was it just another person just watching our duel....?] told him t give up as he had no way of winning. similar duels carried on [cant remeber that well].one of my old frends was on my table too.i was speaking to him when he told me taht teh life points are added up and tehy affect if you qualigy to teh next round. i panicked as i had used confiscation and dd a lot and usually came ourt of each duel with around 4000 lps. i faced a boy who hjad a tp1-e001 mechanical chaser !! he was good but he didnt get his chaser out and i wasnt all too scared of it either. i had to prolong teh duel without him giving up as i had my solelm wishes out and wanted to gain heavy lps. i took the chance as if he drew a card liek dark hole i could be beaten. luckily i got to 9000 lps before locking him again and taking teh duel. We ahd a break wher i had some luch and was jsut looking around at peoples collections. i slightly modifiewd my deck as i just goyt 2 don zaloogs so i had to change it a bit but in teh end i was okay. we came back to our tables and i faced my frind. he wasl also using control. we chose who goes first by rock paper scissors. he won and had a simlar control but had a lot more 1900 attacker then i did. he used graceful chrity/reborn to bring out lilly and luster dragon. i drew and took his lilly with change of heart, took out luster and set a monster and ended.he then playedpremature burial on luster, brought out anotehr luster and used nobleman of crossot on my f/d tomato. he then attacked for teh game. pretty quick victory and i was kinda sad, but due to this i went mad on my next opponent totally shattering his hand and field. we tehn ended. as i had 7 players instead of 8 on my table i got a automatic default piont so i was on 7/8 duels. we just had to wait for about half a hour for teh people to find teh top 16 players in each category based on wins, and if teh wins were teh same then lifepoints. i read the sheet and smiled as i qualified therough to teh next round. this was the knockout stages. i gather with my friend as they all helped me structutre my deck/side-deck and i went into teh duelling area again. i met my opponent. we shook hand and i rolled teh higher number so began. i set a monster and some m/t and ended. he got his removal out and it was a see-sided duel wher both of us were just waiting to draw teh right cards. in teh end he baet me down with his jinzo and gaf i had to side-deck and put in 2 books and a torrential, but within 4 turns he had locked me with only hfd in my hand. i recieved 2 packs as a consolation from lon...MAGIC CYLINDER AND jam breeding machine....maybe this wasnt such a loss after all. i met teh person who beat m elater and he recieved 4 consolation packs. but al he had was rares...so i actually beat him :-) i had lots of friendlies and got somegood trades before i went, but next time with my new earth-warrior deck i Will derfeat him and all others!! _________________________________________________________________ Find a cheaper internet access deal - choose one to suit you. http://www.msn.co.uk/internetaccess