YCS Barcelona

Apparently the European Konami staffs did their jobs very well, so everything is on the European Konami TCG Coverage, so I don't have much to do in this analysis.

Top 32 Deck Breakdown:

Wind-Ups covered almost half of the top 32, which was pretty predictable considering it's the deck with the most consistency, speed and power combined in one. Mermails followed, but scored only 6 spots in the top cut.

However, the thing I noticed the most was the absence of Machine-based deck like Karakuri, Geargia, Gadget (or any mixed variants of them), Chaos Dragon and Dark Worlds. In Europe where YCSs are held 1 or 2 times a year (and YCS Sheffield was not a constructed event), players seemed not to risk their 2 days at the event and tended to play top tier decks (I'm not sure if Inzektor is a top tier deck, but it's reasonable since it just won the last YCS in the US). Of course there's only some spots for rogue pick, and Chain Burn took that only 1 slot this time.

The top 8 consisted of 1 Mermail, 2 Rabbits, 1 Agent and 4 Wind Ups! (Shock Master too strong), and no Inzektors. Sadly (or fortunately), 3 of those Wind Ups were kicked away after the top 8, leaving the four last duelists with four different decks: Mermails, Rabbit, Agent and Wind-Ups. Jack Bruun's Macro Rabbit defeated Stephan Sluis's Wind-Ups in the semi final and moved on to face Federico Zoppini's Mermails in the final.

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And this happened again! Against a field of Evolzars and Macro Cosmos, Mermails are no different from Inzektors. The final can be reported like this:

Duel 1: Jack Bruun started the game and flipped Macro Cosmos asap. After a long grind game with Deep Sea Divas and Atlantean Marksmans got Torrential'd 2 times, Bruun took it with Wind-Up Zenmaines after a clutch Solemn Warning on Zoppini's Gorz

Duel 2: Federico passed the first turn. Jack opened with Laggia, Cosmos and 2 other traps. However, Dark Hole, Heavy Storm, Abyssmegalo sealed the game on Federico's second turn

Duel 3: Jack Bruun started the game and opened with Laggia, Cosmos and 4 other traps. GG

Anyway he deserved it IMO as he is a good player who made it to the final once (losing terribly to Peter Gross's Chaos Dragon in Toulouse)

Speaking of Peter Gross, he took Inzektor to the top 16 before losing to Jack Bruun. Revenge!

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So one old hated deck won again. First was Wind-Ups, then HERO, then Samurais, then Inzektor, then Dino Rabbits. LOL it's not what Konami's supposed to do.

That's what we call a meta call. But this is still ironic as hell as Madolches (what are they?), Prophecy (the spellcaster with weird artwork stolen from MTG?) and Mermails were supposed to make some impacts.

And Mermails failed in the final again. Whatever you say, I'm pleased because I hate Mermails. If you are one of the mere frequent visitors on my blog you know it. (Or you can just scroll down this post...)

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I'm done. Your turn!