The World Championship 2013 - Dragon Rulers win

Las Vegas, the place for gamblers in this world. And if you gambled right, then you would have bet that Dragon Rulers would win this year's World Championship... in Vegas.

As long predicted, the world representatives either used Prophecies or Dragon Rulers.

From all world's representatives, only 8 were selected to enter the top-8. There were 6 Dragon Ruler players and 2 Prophecy players (surprisingly).

The last rounds

The final rounds were the most exciting ones. David Keener (US - Prophecy) Vs Shin En Huang (Taiwan - Dragon Rulers) played the finals and before them was the battle for the third place between Weerapun Suebyoubol (Thailand - Dragon Rulers) Vs Hiromi Kudou (Japan - Dragon Rulers).

Some video's for the last duels:

• Semi-final between Kudou & Huang https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxcYtP30tMo
• Dragon Duel final: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cg4QZCfj_s
• Battle for third place: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JTz_Zoit8k
• Final: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZpcmfBnf_M

Also: Pay attention to DSummon (Duelingdays blogger) being the interpretor for Shin En Huang.

And the winner is...

Shin En Huang, from Taiwan won the World Championship with Dragon Rulers! A well-deserved congratulations to you!

Also, a big round of applause for David Keener for being the only duelist that brought Prophecies to the second place in the world! Wow, first a second place in the North American nationals and now the second place in Worlds; good job, man!

Edit: DSummon posted up the decklist of the champion in the facebook group Yugioh Edtion Singapore (YES). So so this is it!

And to the complainers: Yes, Huang lucksacked with Card Destruction, but who cares? Having luck is a part of the game, right? So let the guy go. He didn't cheat (unlike some previous winners).

And while we're talking about luck, it took guts for the guys that summoned Number 7: Lucky Stripe AND roll a 7 with two dice! If you do roll it, you end up with the awesome Graceful Charity effect, but otherwise that's a risky move. Probably the Vegas-atmosphere that caused people to gamble like that, right? :-P

Europeans in the World Championship?

We can be quick about them. Only 1 (Soldan - Italy) lost in the top-8. Both the Greek (Bountaloudis) and German (Gruner) just missed top-8. That's it.

Now on to something more fun...

Voice actor duels remain hilarious

The voice actors of Yugi (Dan Green) and Mai (Erica Schroeder) were hosting the entire World Championship (which was cool) and finished it off with a duel of their own.

I watched it over the live stream, but for those unable to attend, Vexacus uploaded the duel to youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rLCzGx_cKU.

Funniest moment was definitely when Yugi activated Multiply.

Doodelalalaaa

Afterword

That's it for now. I'm now going to watch the finals in detail (was during the night for me, so I couldn't watch).

This week or the next, the new F&L list should come out (first leeks should be the end of this week), so keep your eyes open on the changes!

And at the end of this world, it's YCS Brussels! So that's a lot to look forward to!

Until next time, V out.

Banlist Requests Analysis day 1 - Banging my head against the wall

Yeah, you heard it right.

As I said in previous post, I'm trying to do something big with all the banlist predictions out there. I'm trying to make a list of the people. The wish of all the players out there. I thought I would be able to do so, as I've seen several lists on my linked blogs and I had to say most of them were either good or up for debate.

I've screened most of the blogs today and gathered every list I saw. Then I watched the predictions from the Alter Reality Games and then I started banging my head against the wall.

The lists of Billy Brake & Vexacus4666 are the easier ones to digest. Even the first one (of Paul) I can get... somehow. But the lists of Joe Giorlando & his copy-cat Patrick Hoban are just flailing wildly at every tier deck there is.

Joe explains that this list is his "ideal" list, not what he thinks Konami's going to do (As if Konami would ever hit that many cards). But when he starts explaining, he's going the wrong way.

• First he gives off an explanation why every good card in the current top decks should either be forbidden, limited or semi-limited. (so far I get it, this is his ideal list).
• He then explains why cards like Deep see Diva & Genex Undine are on his limited list, because of the upcoming structure deck & the Water Support in Abyss Rising.(I get that these two cards can make crazy combo's with the new water support, but it feels like overkill to me).
• And then he puts Tribe-infecting Virus at 3, because he says (and I quote) "This card really isn’t very good".
• And to top it off, His copy-cat (Patrick Hoban) goes along with him in his own article and says (I quote again): "the reality is Tribe Infecting Virus sucks"

Why returning Tribe-infecting Virus to the game is a BAD idea

Tribe-Infecting Virus	Atlantean Dragon Riders (TCG name pending)
This card allows you to destroy monsters of 1 type, at the cost of 1 card in your hand.	When this card is sent to the grave to activate the effect of a WATER monster, add 1 Sea Serpent (except this one) from your deck to your hand.

1. Normal Summon Tribe-Infecting Virus
2. Discard Atlantean Dragon Riders to activate the effect of Virus. Declare the type of monsters you want to get rid of (machines/insects/dragons).
3. Your opponent's monsters of the selected type are destroyed
4. You can search ANY Sea Serpent of ANY level (except Dragon Riders) from your deck to your hand as a bonus.
5. Congractulations! You just got yourself a costless mass destruction!
6. If your opponent has more face-up monsters and you have another Dragon Riders, you can repeat the previous steps, as Virus' effect doesn't have that "once per turn" part.

Frustrations

Yeah, putting Diva and Undine at 1, but returning this bad boy to 3 is not going to help balancing the game... That's just filling one pit by making another pit.

I just find it very frustrating that a paid writer with some credentials (I guess) clearly knows what's coming, makes an ideal banlist that would make the game fair and then just stupidly puts a forbidden card (that combo's with one of those upcoming cards) back at three, just because he thinks it's bad. If you're going to say controversial things, at least do some research to back up what you're trying to prove...

Let's just say that those two articles put a cross over me enjoying the creation of a banlist of the people today.

Let's hope I can read some better lists tomorrow.

V out.