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"Chaos Advanced" (Michigan Regional Tourney 2-20-05), Brandon Fritzler, Pandemon

Michigan Yu-Gi-Oh! Regional Tournament
Sunday, February 20, 2005
“Chaos Advanced” (Michigan Regional Tourney 2-20-05), Brandon Fritzler, Pandemonium Games, Garden City MI(about 160 participants)

Deck List (41 Cards)
Monsters(22)
X1 Black Luster Soldier- Envoy of the Beginning
X1 Chaos Sorcerer
X3 Mystic Tomato
X1Thunder Nyan Nyan
X2 Marauding Captain
X1 Blade Knight
X1 Breaker the Magical Warrior
X1 Fiber Jar
X1 Cyber Jar
X3 D.D. Warrior Lady
X1 Tribe-Infecting Virus
X1 Don Zaloog
X1 Jinzo
X1 Magician of Faith
X1 Kycoo the Ghost Destroyer
X1 Reflect Bounder
X1 Magical Scientist
Spells(12)
X1 Pot of Greed
X1 Change of Heart
X1 Giant Trunade
X1 Snatch Steal
X1 Swords of Revealing Light
X1 Heavy Storm
X1 Mystical Space Typhoon
X1 Nobleman of Crossout
X1 Premature Burial
X2 Smashing Ground
X1 Book of Moon
Traps(7)
X2 Waboku
X1 Ring of Destruction
X1 Call of the Haunted
X1 Magic Drain
X2 Raigeki Break

Fusion Deck(6)
X2 Thousand Eyes Restrict
X2 Dark Balter the Terrible
X2 Ryu Senshi

Side Deck(15)
X3 Goblin Attack Force
X1 Magic Drain
X1 Book of Moon
X1 Airknight Parshath
X1 Nobleman of Crossout
X2 Thunder Nyan Nyan
X1 Kycoo The Ghost Destroyer
X1 Dust Tornado
X1 Exiled Force
X1 Don Zaloog
X2 Reinforcement of the Army

Well, we live in Otsego, Michigan.  It is a small town north of Kalamazoo, and south of Grand Rapids.  To get to Pandemonium Games, it took us 2.5 hours, not to mention that when we got there we accidentally past the place by five miles and had to go back to find it.  We got there and entered and they started at about 10:15 AM.  We got a list of where we have to sit for round 1 and we got there.  But, then they screwed up with the numbers and seating, so everyone got a free Rise of Destiny booster.  I pulled a stupid Serial Spell, and the two people on my left both pulled The Creator.  They then told us that where we were sitting was not our first match and they posted round 1 matches.  This tournament was an eight round Swiss, then single elimination of the top eight.  Here’s my first matchup:
Round 1 (0-0)
Some guy named Chris, with a Chaos deck very similar to mine.
Match One:
 Me: 8000, 5600, 4200, 2800, 2500, 700, 0
 Him: 8000, 5600, 5500
Match Two:
 Me: 8000, 7800, 7600, 7300, 6800, 6700, 2500, 100, 0
 Him: 8000, 5100, 3700, 1900, 1100
He pretty much psyched me out by CONSTANTLY shuffling his hand around!  It got so annoying.  I thought shuffling around your hand was illegal for tournament play, but O.K., I used that technique for the rest of the day.
Round 2 (0-1)
Another kid named Chris, but this one had a Dark Magician deck.  Next to us there was a guy with a Last Turn deck.  And during our duel he threw a fit when the judge overruled his Jowgen/Last Turn combo.  I guess that combo doesn’t work anymore, because Jowgen had an errata.  I believe that it’s effect now also negates all cards that special summon monsters, and that is just what Last Turn does.  I do not know if these judges were correct or not, so check it out yourself.  But, if you are going to a regional tournament I recommend not playing that kind of deck. You’re just asking to start something if you do that.  Anyways, back to the report.

Match One:
 Me: 8000, 6600
 Him: 8000, 6300, 3400, 2000, 0
Match Two:
 Me: 8000
 Him: 8000, 6300, 4100, 0
This kid was decent, but he didn’t play his cards right.  He had a Dark Paladin out on me, and I attempted to Change of Heart it.  He negated it with the discard of one card.  Then, he had no more hand, and I activated Smashing Ground, he could’ve paid 1000 and survive, but he didn’t.
Round 3 (1-1)
I thought this round would be easy, this kid was like 7 or 8 years old, and he had a zombie deck.  Here’s round 3:

Match One:
 Me: 8000, 7200, 4800, 0
 Him: 8000, 6000
Match Two:
 Me: 8000, 6500, 4600
 Him: 8000, 4000, 1600, 0
Match Three:
 Me: 8000, 7200, 5200, 2900, 0
 Him: 8000, 4500, 3300, 1650
OOOOOOH NOOOOOO!!!!  I know this is come back to bite me in the rear whenever somebody brings up this tournament.  My friends almost died of laughter when they found out about it.  One of them actually hit the floor.  The little kid used a Return From a Different Dimension on me, AFTER I used Kycoo the Ghost Destroyer to remove his 2 Despair from the Dark, Dark Magician of Chaos, Patrician of Darkness, Jinzo, and Vampire Lord.  So, if you are going to regionals, I recommend side decking one of those little trap cards I’ve come to hate with a passion, Return from a Different Dimension, Chaos’ worst enemy.
Round 4 (1-2)
This time, another kid, but with an equip Beatdown deck.  This match doesn’t need much description.

Match One:
 Me: 8000, 7700, 6900
 Him: 8000, 4200, 0
Match Two:
 Me: 8000, 5250, 3750, 1750
 Him: 8000, 7700, 4900, 1800, 0
He forgot to attack me countless times with a Luster Dragon.  This match was a little too easy.
Round 5 (2-2)
This guy was running another deck similar to mine, but I had a Chaos Sorcerer, he didn’t.

Match One:
 Me: 8000, 7900, 6500, 6400, 5700, 4200, 4000, 3700, 2300, 1900, 0
 Him: 8000, 6600, 4000, 2100
Match Two:
 Me: 8000, 6000, 4000
 Him: 8000, 5600, 2900, 0
Match Three:
 Me: 8000, 6700, 5900, 2100, 0
 Him: 8000, 6700, 4300, 2700, 1900, 1700
This guy was pretty good, but after the match he was REALLY annoying.  He would not stop asking me, “So, what do you think of my deck?”, over and over again.  He was too prideful, he lost every match afterwards, Hashanah, now that’s funny.  During this round, my friend Evan Jones, had some difficulties with his opponent.  The guy called the judge over about 5-6 times.  One time, the guy called the judge over because Evan placed his Painful Choice on top of his discarded cards for its effect.  That guy was an idiot.
Round 6 (2-3)
My next opponent was huge, in height!  He was about 6’5”, and he was running a Blue Eyes/Chaos deck.  Here’s the match:

Match One:
 Me: 8000, 6500
 Him: 8000, 3700, 2200, 0
Match Two:
 Me: 8000, 7700, 3400, 600, 500
 Him: 8000, 4700, 5700, 2400, 3400, 2000, 0
He then proceeded to challenge me to another duel after our match, and he mutilated me, he was pretty good, he just didn’t get what he needed during the real duel.
Round 7 (3-3)
A kid from our local shop in Kalamazoo, named Travis, was so unlucky that day he had to face three of us (from our area) right in a row.  Now he had to face me, and he wasn’t too happy about that.  He was running a burn deck.  Here’s the match:

Match One:
 Me: 8000, 7500
 Him: 8000, 8500, 6100, 2900, 0
Match Two:
 Me: 8000, 7500, 5800, 5500, 0
 Him: 8000, 7900, 6200, 5000, 5500, 5400, 4200, 4100
Match Three:
 Me: 8000, 7600
 Him: 8000, 4500, 5500, 1400, 2100, 0
Not much to say about this duel except that I also have developed an aversion to those little annoying Kisetei.
Round 8 (4-3)
This guy was running a water-Beatdown deck.  Here’s the match:

Match One:
 Me: 8000, 5000, 1600
 Him: 8000, 4800, 4700, 3000, 0
Match Two:
 Me: 8000, 6400, 4300, 2300, 1500, 900, 0
 Him: 8000, 6600, 4350, 4250
Match Three:
 Me: 8000, 6600, 2000, 0
 Him: 8000, 6600
And that’s it! My final win-loss record at the 2-20-05 Michigan regional Yu-gi-oh tournament is 4-4.  My final ranking out of one-hundred-sixty-some-people is 83rd.  The regional champion from the previous tournament was present.  He made it to the top eight.  I left before the finals because of the bad weather.

Props: To me getting 83rd out of 160-something people, and to Evan Jones for getting 49th, To Steve Waits for getting 78th, To Ricky Haagsma for getting 96th, To Michael Haagsma for getting 88th, and of course, congrats to whomever won that.
Craps: To me losing to a 7 year old and for that idiot that Evan almost had a fight with.  That guy just didn’t know when to shut up.  He just kept saying, “Yeah, you depend on your Cyber Jar too much!”.  Oh, and he went off on some little kid by saying, “You don’t even know how to play Yu-Gi-Oh, you don’t have a side deck!”.  That guy was so rude to little kids.  Not to mention he called Evan a noob,  and Evan has been playing since the day this great game was released here in the U.S., as have I.  And, yes I know noobs are also people that don’t know how to play their cards well, even if they have a good deck.  And, Evan beat the guy, so what does that make him?  To get beat by a noob is worse than being a noob, that’s all I have to say.  C-ya!

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