What the fck? It’s June 3rd already, and I’m just getting to writing this blog post? Shame on me.

Last weekend I attended not one, but TWO local tournaments (if you can call them both “local”). The first was my usual weekly at Desu-Nation on Friday, and the second was my first ever trip to “All Ways Gaming” in Chatsworth, where my buddy Pete works (him working there was the main motivation for me even going there to begin with). This second tournament was much less local than Desu, as my trip to Desu takes like 7 minutes, while this shop was 35-40 minutes away.

On Friday I played my friend Kenny’s Nisekoi deck (japanese) and on Saturday I played Sinon Waifu, and both times I took 1st place (LOL). To be more accurate, both tournaments I split first place with another player since we were the only two undefeated players going into the last round. And both times, that other player was another friend of mine, Josh O. So basically Josh and I rekt everyone this weekend xD

Now unfortunately I don’t have a list of all the decks that were being played at either event, but I remember (sort of) who my matches were against at both tournaments, and will try to go into detail on all of my matches at both tournaments.

First let’s start with the tournament at Desu-Nation on Friday (May 29).

Top 4 consisted of myself (Nisekoi, specifically Blue/Red/Green), Josh (Madoka Rebellion G/R), Girlfriend Beta (red), and Symphogear (Red/Blue).

There were 22 players in this tournament. Pls don’t ask me to try to remember them all pls LOL it’s been too many days since then.

– Round 1 vs. Fate (B/R)

My first round was against a player that, for the longest time, I could never seem to beat. The games would always be really close tho but the perfect cancels would come out at the last moment aaaand boom I’m dead. RIP.

Today ended up being different though. My opponent was playing a Master-oriented build of Fate, with cards like the 1/0 Kotomine that gains 500 for every other master, and 0/0 Illya from the new UBW set which can look for a Master in the top 4 cards of the deck. He did play some Servants though, specifically the 2/1 global Caster and 3/2 Double-strike Caster, both from UBW. He actually almost finished me off with the Double Strike (which would’ve made me feel bad cuz I always call that card crap LOL) but I got a perfect last-card cancel and then came back to win next turn.

KARMA IS SWEET

– Round 2 vs. Terraformars (JOHJ – G/B)

OKAY So this game was pretty freakin crazy from start to finish. It went back and forth in the early stages of the game, but then I hit him to Level 2. He played 2 of the 2/2 blue RR bug in the backrow, and then the 1/2 event to summon 3 more bugs. Everything on his field was pretty massive, at 9k apiece. However, through using Chibi Chitoge’s effect to give 1k to center, along with some climaxes and other abilities like Yukata Kosaki, I was able to clear some of his board.

Once we both hit Level 3, the game really started to heat up. He played his clock shooter and started pushing hard. I played my Marika and got off the burn and restand, but he only took a total of 3 damage that turn due to being insanely compressed. Going back to my opponent, he was at 3/5 and decided to clock to 3/6; not sure what exactly he was looking for but at that point all he needed to do was hit for damage. I was at 3/4. He hits me for 2 and I cancel, then for 2 again and I take it. Then he hits me for 2 and I cancel one last time. He was at 3/6 with 1 card left in deck, so the game was as good as over.

– Round 3 vs. Black Rock Shooter (G/B/Y)

My third round was more on the average side. Both of us just kinda… hit each other; nothing too special happened that I can remember. I do remember though that on the last turn of the game, I was able to boost up my 3/2 Marika to a rather high number with help from 2x Yukata Kosakis, and then go for the double strike for game. Outside of that, it wasn’t anything worth yelling throughout the shop in excitement about (I do that sometimes.)

– Round 4 vs. Nisekoi (Y – Chitoge)

My fourth round was against the same Nisekoi played I had faced last week in the first round of the tournament. Since I was playing Nisekoi instead of SAO this time, my overall power levels at Level 1 were not as good (Sinon waifu can sit around 7.5k while this build of Nisekoi sits at around 6k). Because of this, his high power 1/0 Chitoges were able to get over my board.

With my clock encores, I was able to maintain hand size to prepare for my 3/2 Marika Double Strike, and oh man did it pay off. The last turn of the game, I played 3/2 Marika, 3/2 Green Kosaki, and slapped down a Goldbar Climax. Kosaki’s Climax combo gave me JUST enough cards in my hand to double strike with Marika, and I ended up dealing a massive 13 damage in just that one turn for game, with a refresh damage on top of all that. Unfortunate for my opponent, but nonetheless a victory for me.

– Round 5 vs. no one

Josh and I decided to split here, and went to take a break.

ALL WAYS GAMING (May 30th, 2015)

16 Players

I played Sinon Waifu in this tournament. You can find the decklist on my youtube channel at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TY6l4vztGks.

– Round 1 vs. SAO (B/Y)

My first round was against a Sinon-Asuna based SAO deck. From just the mulligan alone, I could tell that my opponent spent hella money on his deck (who am I kidding, I spent like 500+ on my Sinon deck so who am I to judge). However, the plays that he made were very questionable. My opening play was a 0/0 Sinon 2500 with a Sinon brainstorm in the backrow. Solid turn 1 play, giving me a 4500 Hand Encore on my opponent’s turn. My opponent’s reply was a runner Kirito, 2 Lisbeth suiciders, and a 1k1s climax. This play was very poor, as he was simply pushing me to Level 1 first while simultaneously losing a TON of cards. He lost his Climax which he didn’t use for Power purposes to overpower my cards, instead just using it for raw damage. His runner and suiciders were killed on the following turn by my Level 1s. His runner had nowhere safe to run without dying and his lv0 suiciders were no match for Level 1 characters. At one point, my opponent had to pass a turn completely, apparently he had 4 climaxes in his hand (to which I ask, why didn’t he run Silica suiciders instead of Lisbeths so he could hand filter?) and the following turn only played a Clock Encore Sinon and a Book climax. I immediately capitalized on his mistake at Level 0 and from Turn 2 onward I held the Hand, Field, and Damage advantage, solidly securing a win while I was still at Level 2.

– Round 2 vs. Project Diva f (Y/G – Soundless Voice)

I was rather fortunate this game, with a very precise series of events bringing me a win in the end. The build I played against today was not the build with Pants triggers like the one used by Mike Cheng in his Springfest victory, but rather a build using Goldbar combo with Hatsune Miku Conflict to maintain a high-power board with Level 2 characters, in case Soundless Voice fails to come out. In the early turns, 3 of his 1/0 Rins were sent to clock (thank goodness) and at level 1, all of his brainstormers were also sent to clock, locking out his advantage engines. He had 1 copy of the 1/0 Rin though, as well as searching for a 1/1 Len straight from the deck with the School Miku, and he had the climax, so he had 2 Soundless Voice Lens on the board with their 10500 power.

What swung the game into my favor was being pushed to Level 2 first. In the very early stages of the game, I searched my deck for a 2/1 Anti-backup Sinon, which I immediately slapped onto the board. Through a combination of various abilities, climax combo, and 2k1s climax, I was able to beat one of the Lens by reaching 12500 power. On my opponent’s following turn, I used a backup to tie with the other Len, but I had Hand Encore, while he didn’t have any means of keeping his Len on the board.

Later on in the same game, my opponent had been throwing low level characters at my field, while I got a 3/2 Sinon onto the board, and neither my Climax Combo nor the attack got cancelled, giving me the win.

– Round 3 vs. CODY!!! (Fate UBW – Yellow Shirou/Saber build)

O HEY IT’S CODY. So I’ve played against this deck more than enough times in the past to know how it works. Cody started the game before turn 1 by mulliganing the wrong climax out of his hand (LOL) but it was okay in the end, as he drew into another Shirou climax and got his Climax Combo off. In the mid-stages of the game, it seemed like he kept drawing into and triggering his other climaxes, so he would play them while I would keep cancelling (and occasionally get burned for 1 by Shot Trigger). At one point I actually used a Sinon backup and milled 3 climaxes. OOPS LOL but I brainstormed my way into the deck to refresh those climaxes back in. I eventually got a lead in damage because he had very few climaxes left in his deck, and he wasn’t able to deal enough damage back to me. I finished the game off with 3/2 Sinon dealing a ton of damage in a row.

– Round 4 vs. no one

Again, Josh and I split. Two tournaments, two guys, two wins AYYYYYY

And so ended a very eventful weekend of Weiss Schwarz. At All Ways Gaming they didn’t have any Japanese cards on sale, so I ended up just using my credit on sleeves (all $28 of it QQ) Well, now I have extra oversleeves in case I need them 😀

Special shoutouts to some people:

Thanks to Kenny for letting me using his Nisekoi on Friday (I paid him half of an entry fee as thanks :^) LOL)

Thanks to Pete for not only hosting the tournament at All Ways on Saturday, but for sponsoring me to play in it as well 😀 I hope to do as well as I did when I come back in a couple weeks with Kenny.