Monday, 1 July 2013

WCQ Malaysia Championship Tourney Report

WCQ Malaysia Championship had been organized on 29th and 30th of June. It was the first time WCQ Malaysia undergo swiss + single elimination for two days. On Saturday, around 90+ participants joined to fight for the remaining 34 seat for day 2. There will be 64 players for day 2 and 30 of them had been reserved by the seeded players. Therefore, the remaining 34 seats will be the target of day 1 participants.

Participants need 30 duelist points in order to join for day 1. Personally, I think this had increase the competitiveness of the game and decrease of rogue deck in play as 30 duelist points is not easy to earn (this will make the player take serious when choosing the deck to compete.)  However, those seeded players exempted to hand in the duelist points to join the tournament.

Now, lets start Day 1.
Day 1: Format (7-round Swiss)
Participants: 90+ ( 15+ are Singapore's player)
Deck used: Prophecy

this is deck i used in day 2 (day 1 CED-1, maxx C-1; starhall +1, veiler +1)

Round 1: Quasar deck
Game 1: He get 1st and managed to spam his field with synchro (I oni get 1 veiler and cant stop his combos). I decided to surrender directly after his turn as I will be OTK-ed next turn. This also preventing him to know the deck I used.)
Game 2: I Judgement 1st turn, followed by batel, secret, master, tower and a set fate. SS Jowgen at Endphase(EP). Totally lockdown his deck.
Game 3: Both of us draw bad and dragged for few turns. He started combo 1st but I maxx C and veiler him. I recover with judgement, secret , high priestess and jowgen again.
Result: XOO

Round 2: E-dragon
Game 1: Same technique with round 1; but this time is kycoo + jowgen 1st turn.
Game 2: He managed to EEV (virus me). I cant withstand even I managed to ss 2 high priestess with 2 tower.
Game 3: Cresent 1st turn and get judgement. GOD BLESS ME. Managed to control field with batel, jowgen, set wisdom, CED and tower.
Results: OXO

Round 3: Anti-Meta Gladiator
Game 1: Prophecy faster than Gladiator
Game 2: He manage to first turn NO16 with Hero alive, Tenki and Monster reborn (He milled a monster to grave with Plasma). I managed to tank few turns but hp is just too low to recover.
Game 3: I open with double starhall. Keep dragging the game and keep fate his monster. At mid game, I summon veiler with atk 2.6 K with just 2 starhall and I star recover from that moment after his huge push.
Results: OXO

Round 4: E-dragon
Game 1: He get 1st and use burner effect. I maxx-c-ed then he stopped his step. He set 2 and end. I use judgement combo and managed to summon jowgen at EP with a set wisdom and fate. He passed his turn. I get Kycoo and atked. Next turn, he top deck darkhole + book of moon. 1 wisdom is just nt enough =.=
Game 2: I go 1st and open with mind drain, no monster, no secret, no cresent. I just set 2 and passed my turn. I open mind drain during SP. He stunned a while then summon a reactan to hit me. I draw and its a veiler. I set veiler and open tower. He summoned another baby dragon and destroy my veiler. Then he xyz both baby to Diamond Wolf and destroy my mind drain. The summon 2 dragon and make a Draggosack.
I draw a jowgen. I summoned Jowgen atk use its effect for twice. (His hand left 2) I set up my field with jowgen, fate and tower. However, He top-deck again with LAST DAY OF WITCH. Then he ended me that turn.
Results: XX

Round 5: Mermail - Tidal
Game 1: Prophecy + jowgen lock again.
Game 2: He otk-ed me even I gt 2 veiler and 1 Maxx-C.
Game 3: Set-up my field well but he heavy storm my soul drain. I cant recover from that.
Results: OXX

Round 6: Mermail + imperial wall
Game 1: He open with imperial wall 1st turn. I locked a while but manage to slowly recover with double kycoo and double starhall with more than 10+ counters. CED is just too good this time.
Game 2: He open well and and I open with not so good hand. He OTK-ed me the next turn
Game 3: Time's almost up. (45 minutes for each round) Left 5 minutes. I continue my stuff and managed to recover from his OTK. But SUDDEN DEATH been announced ( We are given 4 more turns, (each player 2 turns) the player with more hp will be the winner.) He get 2 token on field and a mermail monster but no hand. I get a kycoo and 2 spellbook, but his hp is 6k+ but mine are 4k. He keep defend himself within this few turns. I managed to clear all his field at turn 4 but his hp is still higher than me. GG-ed.
Results: OXX

Round 7: Vanity Constellor
Game 1: He get 1st and summon that rank 4 xyz. I manged to over him with power + master on kycoo
Game 2: He droll and lock bird + vanity. However I gt kycoo with double starhall and start control the game.
Results: OO

So, the final result is 4-3 which I felt not satisfied to lose to 2 mermail players. However, I still managed to get into top 64 tomorrow with the ranking of 34... GOD BLESS ME AGAIN!!!
There are 6 of my friends joinned this tournament in DAY 1 and only 3 of us managed to go for DAY 2.
We directly go back for dinner and start our discussion and training until 3AM!!!

I think that's all for now and I will update DAY 2 tourney report and WCQ Malaysia analysis within this few days. Thank you for your time and everyone that had borrow me deck, giving me advises, training with me and support me along this tournament. Thanks again and Good Luck everyone.




Tuesday, 4 June 2013

World Championship Qualifier Seed Tourney (2nd June 2013)

Hello, everyone. It had been a month dint update my blog. This time going to share about the experience in the seed qualifier last Sunday. I am joining this tournament with one of my friends. We had discuss and prepare some strategies before the tournament. There are 18 participants and I only manage to get top 6.

Format: Swiss then top 4.
Deck used: Turbo DW

First Game: Dragon ruler OXO
1st game: I manage to OTK him before he set up well. (card destruction is too good)
2nd game: He 1st turn Big Eye and Virus declare all my spell.
3rd game: I manage to slow him down with 1st turn Gozen and manage to OTK him after he destroying my Gozen.

Second Game: Spellbook OXO
1st game: Manage to card destruction him and continue with gozen and skill drain.
2nd game: He side in 3 cursed seal of the forbidden spell to stop my dragged down and dealing. (Cursed seal of forbidden spell: great side deck for spellbook to against DW and FireFist or spellbook Mirror Match)
3rd game: I manage to 1st turn Grapha and Virus. He left 1 cards and cant recover from it.


Third game: FireFist (My friend) XX
A free win for him so that he can go to the top 4. However we still play for fun after that. Death draw 2 gozen match...

Forth game: Verz XOX
1st game: He 1st turn open with ophion and macro cosmo.
2nd game: I side in triple MST and ryko. manage to tribute summon grapha and gain advantage even he open double cosmo.
3rd game: This is a hard game. We all left little hp but he draw a monster before I get mine.

Unable to get top 4 as I lose 2 game. Luckily my friend manage to top 4 and face spellbook (the guy fight with me in round 2). They had a match for more than 60 mins but unfortunately my friend lose to double jowgen with double starhall in game 3.


Deck list:


I default using double Gozen, double skill drain and a Virus to fight against the two tier 0 (Spellbook and dragon ruler) and this strategy works well. Gozen match really slow double dragon deck and allow me to survive some turn and gain advantages from that.

This is the second last seed tourney for this year 2013 World championship in my country. This coming Sunday will be the last seed tourney and I think I will try for last time and using another strategy. Beside, I also build a deck combining Hieratic and Dragon ruler. Tested for few games. Hope to share with you guys next time. Thank you for your time. That's all for this time. Bye.

Wednesday, 1 May 2013

2013 Asian Championship Analysis


Asian Championship in Thailand had officially comes to an end. Congrats to Korea Player, Choi Jun-Hyeong  for winning and also Sam from my homeland getting 2nd with Evilswarm 

So below are the list of deck that piloted by the  players:

3 Elemental Dragon (E.D) , 4 Prophecy and a solo Evilswarm (Verz)


Champion
Choi Jun Hyeong (South Korea) (E.D)
1st runner-up
Kee Kian Sim "Sam" (Malaysia) (Evilswarm)
2nd runner-up
Edsel Gozon (Philippines) (Prophecy)

Preliminary Non-qualified players
Yang Zhe Fei (Taiwan) (Prophecy)
Somsira Vanprapa (Thaian) (Prophecy)
Kenneth Koh (Singapore) (E.D)
Law Ming Fung (Hong Kong) (Prophecy)
Soh Jun Yuan (Singapore) (E.D)

So now lets see the deck list from Jun-Hyeong.


Player: Choi Jun-Hyeong (South Korea)
Deck: Elemental Dragon
Rank: Asia Championship 2013 Champion
Main Deck: 40
3 Blaster, Elemental Dragon of Calderas
3 Tidal, Elemental Dragon of Cascades
3 Tempest, Elemental Dragon of Cyclones
3 Redox, Elemental Dragon of Crags
2 Reactan, Elemental Dragon of Earth
2 Stream, Elemental Dragon of Water
2 Burner, Elemental Dragon of Fire
1 Lightning, Elemental Dragon of Wind
2 Maxx “C”
3 Effect Veiler
1 Heavy Storm
1 Book of Moon
1 Card Destruction
2 Seven Star Sword
3 Super Rejuvenation
3 Gold Sarcophagus
1 Raigeki Break
2 Breakthrough Skill
2 Eradicator Epidemic Virus
Extra Deck: 15
1 Armory Arm
1 Ancient Sacred Wyvern
1 Black Rose Dragon
1 Stardust Radiance Dragon
1 Scrap Dragon
1 Crimson Blader
1 Red Dragon Archfiend
1 Gaia Dragon, the Thunder Charger
1 Mermail Abyssgaios
3 Number 11: Big Eye
3 Mecha Phantom Beast Dragossack
Side Deck: 15
1 Swift Scarecrow
1 Maxx “C”
1 Neo-Spacian Grand Mole
1 Tsukuyomi
2 Electric Virus
3 Droll & Lock Bird
1 Dark Hole
3 Mystical Space Typhoon
1 Return from the Different Dimension
1 Eradicator Epidemic Virus
The first impression I saw this deck is the 3 effect veiler and 2 breakthrough skill in the main deck. OMG, stopping opponent effects for 7 times... It is disgusting... Apart from that, Eradicator virus in the main deck also stop prophecy well. 3 Maxx c in the main deck also good against most of the meta in Asia currently. It can enhance draw power and stop opponent for combos at the same time. Another card that I think is good is card destruction. When combining card destruction and super rejuvenation + all the small dragons effect, holly shit... max hand!!! I played test for around 20 games with this deck in YGOPro and Duelingnetwork and noticed that it is stable, consistent and get 18/20. (Lost to an evilswarm and a fireking deck that default with 3 imperial iron wall)
E-Dragon had took the Asia Championship, so will this deck continue to dominate in World Championship this year? Hopefully prophecy, eveilswarm and firefist can stop the dragon. That;s all for this time. Thank you for your time.