Tourney report part 1

Format: Double Elimination (which is basically, going home after losing 2 rounds)

Each players prepare FIVE decks, and a round versus another player would consist of 3 MATCHES, the winner of 2 matches remains in winners' bracket, the other is kicked out of the tourney, or at least kicked down to losers' bracket

16 participants

So, I play 2 Dragons, 2 Mermails and 1 Dragunity (yes, Dragunity)

Round 1:

Match 1: Mermail vs. Spellbook
Game one: He opened Judgment Secrets whatever. I tried to OTK with Megalo and Diva, he flipped Book of Moon. GG
Game two: I open Gaios, Undine, Pike. He summon that blue magician, eats Gaios, then simply Judgment Secrets for some more. I tried to OTK with some Deep Sea Diva tricks, he flipped Book of Moon again. GG

XX

Obviously Mermails die to Spellbook. But dying to a staple spell card sucked.
And apparently he had only 1 deck (all 5 of his decks were Spellbook), fml

Match 2: Dragon vs. Spellbook
Game one: I got destroyed, because Spellbooks suck and I started with 2 Chalices and irrelevant cards
Game two: I started with Dracossack, generated 2 tokens. He asked for LADD, I reveal Psi Blocker on Secrets. He Judgment and played bad spell cards to get a blue guy to the field and 2 Spellbooks to hand. I OTK'd him next turn after Psi-Blocking Book of Moon (I really feared it lol), and he revealed a set Secrets. wew
Game three: Neither of us had a good hand. But Dragon's bad hand is better than Spellbook's bad hand, so I won with Gaia Dragon, Tidal, Tempest and Reactan beatdown by turn 4-5

XOO

Of all my decks, Dragons have the best Spellbook match-up. So we didn't change decks

Match 3: Dragon vs Spellbook
Game one: He started dead. I had full colors hand, and OTK'd with Dracossack, Tidal and a tribute summoned Blaster
Game two:  He Judgment for 2, ended with a blue guy, a Star Hall and a set s/t. My hand was 2 Tidal, Monster Reborn, 2 EEV and Forbidden Chalice. Seemed dead? I pitched 2 Tidals for Fusilier in graveyard, revived it with Reborn, attacked for damage, and set some EEV. He didn't die, but the other EEV was a good bluff for my key Forbidden Chalice, which I used on his blue guy for game (like 4-5 turns after the EEV). The finish move was Big Eye his Gachi Gachi, tribute both for Blaster, then Tempest + Dracossack + Blaster attacked for game

OO-

Round score: XOO

3 consecutive Spellbook matches emptied my mind, and I felt like shit after. Fortunately the last pair, winner of which played me, lasted for so long (like... 150 minutes) so I had some time to relax


Round 2:

Match 1: Dragunity vs. Six Samurai
Game one: I started with Stardust Dragon, Queen Dragun Djinn, Photon Strike Bounzer and REDMD. He drew his sixth card, and scooped
Game two: He started with Shi En, Vanity's Emptiness and Macro Cosmos. I drew my sixth card, and scooped
Game three: I started with Hieratic Dragon King of Atum, REDMD and Shock Master calling spell. He set Macro Cosmos, Vanity's Emptiness, double Bottomless, Kageki and ended. He chained Cosmos and Emptiness when I declared traps with Shock Master, so I summon Debris Dragon and just attacked for 6200 damage (Shock Master attacked Kageki). He drew his seventh card, and scooped

OXO

His deck is kind of built for Dragons. He mained Dimensional Fissure, Vanity's Emptiness and Imperial Iron Wall. Luckily I won the roll... The whole match lasted for 5 turns, but still took 30 minutes due to our side-decking lol

Match 2: Dragons vs Six Samurai
Game one: At one point I had ridiculous advantage over him, but he had Kizan + Dimensional Fissure + Vanity's Emptiness + Compulsory Evacuation Device. I had double Rejuvenation, double Forbidden Chalice and a gazillion dragons. However I didn't realize I could have crashed Reactan into Kizan, so I scooped. Whether he Compul'd it or not, the Emptiness is still destroyed. I suck, I guess...
Game two: I started Dracossack 2 tokens. He cleared with Catastor + Kizan + Zanji, set Fissure, Cosmos and Emptiness. I MST'd the Cosmos, Psi-Block the Fissure, and did my stuff. He couldn't win, of course
Game three: I just destroyed him like any usual Dragon vs Samurai match

XOO

Round score: OO-

Round 3:

Match 1: Dragons vs Spellbook
He just did his stuff like a boss. I never had any chance to win. Quick 0-2

XX-

Match 2: Dragunity vs Spellbook
Game one: He won the roll, did stuff. I managed to established a field of Atum, REDMD, Shock Master on spell after Dux attacked to clear his Jowgen.  However, he just summon Priestess, then a second Jowgen, for game
Game two: I started with a better hand, which can even play through Effect Veiler. However, he had DOUBLE FUCKING EFFECT VEILERS

XX-

Round score: XX-

So, I lost and dropped to losers' bracket. It sucked to lose to that DECK, not that PLAYER

Next Sunday we'll play the remaining rounds. I just hope those Spellbook players won't have the same luck again...

Also, playing 5 Spellbook matches (11 duels) really, really sucks. Just like playing a tier 2 deck against a tier 0 deck all day :<

Until next... week

Peace