Approximately 190 people participated in this tournament (160 stayed till the final round).
Here's a complete list of my deck (in its final form):
The decks main idea is to do damage the opponent even if his/her monsters are in defence mode, using
the effect of Enraged Battle Ox. The best situation is an opponent that used Scapegoat or Stray Lambs
thinking that they will protect him/her. I was missing some "staples" like Raigeki, Call of the Haunted, Mirror Force and Imperial Order but the deck was fully functionable anyway.
I didn't do that well at the end but the point ih Yu-Gi-Oh is having fun and meeting new friends! It's a game after all.
The tournament was organised by Kaissa, Upperdecks official partner in Greece. They were running a 5-round Swiss system and then the first 16 would battle using the Elimination system. Unfortunately US cards weren't allowed... The winner would get AST boosters and Special Movie boosters. There was also a booster give-away draw for the ones that didn't make it to the 16.
My friends Dinos, Spyros and I took the train to Athens at about 8:00 am. We arrived in Athens at about 9:15 and took the Metro to station Ambelokipi which was close to President Hotel where the tournament was. Just as we entered the tournament hall, I met some people from the #yugi-gr (on GRnet) chatroom and just as I was about to ask if anyone wanted a Gemini Elf (IOC Limited) for a Ring of Destruction someone yelled "Does anyone want a Ring of Destruction for Gemini Elf?", so we traded and the day started beautifully. Then we headed to the counter and registered; my friend Spyros was a bit anxious, it was his second day of playing the game anyway. Then I bought a Morphing Jar #2 for Spyros' deck because the one he played was US and gave Dinos two Gorillas. Later I met my friend John who was playing MtG this day (prize was a ticket to Colombus) and he let me use his Confiscation which would work well with my D.D. Designator. At about 10:30 we learnt who our opponent would be, so I wished good luck to my friends and walked to my table. (Unfortunately I forgot to write down my opponents' name, so sorry guys)
He must have been pretty new to the game because his deck wasn't something you could call "solid". He was running some Mad Dog of Darkness, Enraged Battle Ox and strangely enough White Dragon Paladin along with Blue Eyes White Dragon ofcourse. In the first match I didn't have good draws and then he got 2 BEWD on the field and won in a few rounds. In the second match I was able to give some good blows with my Gorillas and luckily got Enraged Battle Ox when he had defence position monsters. The third match was much longer than the others. There was some noise when I used my custom Sheep Tokens with people asking where I got them and such but I was in a tough position with my opponent having another BEWD on the field. Next round I draw ring of destruction and I set a monster. Some rounds later (I was somewhere around 1900 and my opponent at 4800) I use United We stand on his BEWD and use Ring of Destruction on it and it's a draw; well a draw is better than losing. So the result was 1-1-DRAW (even the judge didn't believe it).
Unfortunately both Spyros and Dinos had lost; there was too many Chaos decks going around as expected. Also Spyros got himself a Swords Of Revealing Light from his opponent who apparently knew me from IRC.
I didn't really remember that much but he was really good even not running a Chaos Deck. I only remember using Delinquent Duo on his and selecting his Sinister Serpent, oh well anyway, he won and he deserved it. So the result was 0-2.
Spyros and Dinos lost to their opponents too, however while waiting for next rounds' results I traded a BEWD (SDK) for a Premature Burial (SKE) and an MST (SYE), whilst my friend John sold a Flame Swordsman for 20 Euroes. I gave the Premature Burial to Dinos to help him strenghten his deck and the MST to Spyros. I also met Nick from IRC and traded him a Cyndaquil with Pokerus and Liechi berry in Pokemon Sapphire.
Well, she was new to the game and was using some mixture of the starter decks so that wasn't a big deal for my deck. Putting monsters in defence position didn't helped her at all since my Enraged Battle Ox was dominating. I tried slowing down my play and explaining her the card she didn't know. So the result was 2-0.
Spyros had lost to some primary school kid with not a good deck at all (well ok, it he just knew the game for 2 days) but Dinos' opponent didn't show up so he got an easy win (lucky him) I also got to trade an Amphibian Beast for a Curse of Darkness (it's gonna be a cool card to play after-ban). And I traded a Jurai Gumo for a Nobleman of Crossout (SKE) with the same kid I traded my BEWD before.
I remember getting an awfull draw that wouldn't help me at all. He was playing Paladin of White Dragon, Relinquished and Black Luster Soldier (the ritual). He was able to bring BLS out quick and I had no card to protect myself for 3 round so I lost. Later he got out Relinquished, absorbed by Enraged Battle OX but I used Magic Cylinder and then Ring of Destruction on him but that helped very little. The missing staples would have surely got me a win there and I got really dissapointed because he didn't worth winning; I am sure he lost next round.
However, right when I finished someone asked me if I would battle for fun and I said yes, so finally a GOOD chaos deck (which I realised later). He was playing Tomatoes so Dinos said he'd probably be playing Exodia but I told him he was playing Chaos and he said yes. He put a Magician of Faith and Sangan out of play to summon BLS. Next turn I used HFD and he traied chaining CotH but he had used Sangan instead of Tomato to get BLS out, so no search for him. Not much more to say but I lost since the first 20 cards I drew had only 2 monsters. Next match I used my side-deck because I wanted to expericne how worthy it could be against a Chaos Deck. I put in CEDevice, 2x Soul Release, Card Destruction and Elephant Statue of Blessing (in case he used his CED). I set Cylinder, Scapegoat and CEDevice down and set cyber jat and ended. He attacked cyber jar and got BLS along with some other cards. I got Delinquent and used it next round but didn't get his BLS. He played Painful and selected a handload of Dark monster plus Sinister Serpent, whatever I chose was the same so I gave him Sinister. He summoned BLS and I turned CEDevice, he then summoned it again and I played Ring of Destruction. He ended and I draw Monster Reborn, I reborn BLS but he uses Waboku (um I am not sure about this but I think that's what he used). He also played his Ring later when I used MST on it but I finally lost. I congratulated him and wished him luck since he already had 4 wins; I hope he made it to at least the 8. Dinos won his opponent but Spyros lost.
He was playing some Mad Dog of Darkness, and a Gorilla or two as well as 2 Dark Magicians of Chaos which he didn't bring out at all. I remember using Delinquent Duo on him and discarding Sinister Serpent... Anyway, he got the first match after a 3 turn delay (thanks to my Wabokus), using a Prematured Mad Dog, another Mad Dog and a Gorilla (I wanted to face Chaos Decks but al I got was Beatdowns...). I was pretty nervous next round but I managed to take the match using United We Stand and Snatch Stealing his Mad Dog. The third round wasn't easy either but he played Stray Lambs and this was the best case for my Enraged Battle Ox. I revived a Gorilla and set another and attacked for game. Confiscation and D.D.Designator worked well here getting rid of his Jinzo too. Also offered me 40 Euroes for my BLS but after the bans he will be way too powerful and will worth more anyway.
Dinos had won too getting 9 points in total against someone using Spinx Teleia (without Pyramid ofcourse) and Spyros won too! I had 7 points and Spyros had 3. Good tournament achievement for someone with an expericne of 6 duels and a budget deck (made with my spare cards). Also met my friend Rimias from IRC (nickname) who later came in the 3rd place; good work dude! Then the results came out and Dinos was hopping to be in the finals but I told him other people had done better and I was right. Then they had the draw and Dinos got a Special Movie booster (it surely was his lucky day) and we left... Later he gave me Spinx Teleia for the Premature Burial I gave him and for a Double Coston to use with his beloved Dark Magician. He also gave me Inferno Tempest for a Robbin Zombie.
It was a well organised tournament on contrast to some previous ones and the judjes were good too (I knew many of them too ^_^ ).
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