I’m sick of conspiracies so now I’ll just offer you straight out innocent numbers:

I hadn’t seen any analysis of the sets found at the 2015 Bushiroad World Championship and thought I’d provide for one, so let’s go!

Now that 2016’s Springfest has begun and with it the big event season for Bushiroad’s games, I thought it would be interesting to check some data of 2015’s BWC.

First of all, let’s check a spiffy timeline with 2015 World Championship’s event dates and set release dates.

And these were the sets played by the top players in each event:

(blue for qualifiers, green for direct entry into final, red for continentals and purple for final).

Unfortunately I couldn’t get my hands on most played sets for every event as that would yield some interesting metrics beyond just top 3 spots. So let’s work with what we have.

From checking set releases and top results, not many sets had an advantage from being released mid-season with the exception of Madoka Magica, released in September 4th and having several Rebellion cards appearing in decks after that. Fate stayed out of the top results as well as Log Horizon. Kancolle saw several cards from KC2 added after its release which only affected Continentals.

This is probably an issue Bushiroad should look to in the future as sets should be released having event dates in mind or only being valid in big events a week after release. If anyone’s trying to prepare against other decks for big events having a set released in one day and having a qualifier the same weekend can ruin this preparation, of course this could go both ways as the players using a new set can have no time to train with their decks.

This is, of course, assuming players haven’t prepared with the japanese counterparts given that those generally come out first.

Anyway, going back to our numbers, here’s what sets made top 3 in these events:

A staggering 37% of decks on top 3 were Attack On Titan decks followed by Kancolle, SAO and Madoka.

It’s worth remembering that we’re talking about sets here and not decks (so this doesn’t turn into a beast of an article), AOT had at least 2 archetypes being played, Titans and Corps, and even then Corps had different deck types.

Kancolle was mainly revolving around the usual build with Shimakaze, but there were other instances as well.

If you want to check out these builds you can do it here, or if you’re in the future: here under “Bushiroad World Championship 2015” 🙂

Another interesting tidbit:

So that’s the percentage of sets that got top spot in comparison to the same set reaching top 3. So 2 Love Live! decks made top 3 and 2 of those actually were in the top spot. By the same reasoning 5 Nisekoi decks made into top 3 and 2 made top spot giving it 40% accomplishment percentage.

The “worse” set here was Madoka Magica entering 6 tops but only actually getting top spot in 1.

Of course those sets that made 100% because only 1 or 2 reached top 3 could be flukes but still interesting to see.

This is where I’d like to have most played sets in each of the events because then we could be able to check accomplishment percentages before top into top and visualize set trends along time (somewhat, as regional set trends obviously feed into regional events).

As of writing the USA / Georgia event already happened and results for top 3 are 1st Kancolle, 2nd Attack On Titan and 3rd Kill la Kill.

Remember that these numbers say nothing about a specific deck and/or player and that those are very important factors, this article is just intended to check some trends and have a place were these numbers are available.

So what do you think?

Will Attack On Titan also dominate tops at SpringFest 2016?

Will these sets even out with more players playing the game?

Will Madoka go for more top spots?

Is this the year Fate will show other series it’s a serious contender as well?

Are you going to any SpringFest event? What are you planning to play with?

Go ahead and talk about it in the comments.

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