South West Championship Qualifier 2

[admin]

So here we are with the second qualifier for the South West Championship at Mad for Miniatures. A good turnout of 46 players for this event. With 8 places up for grabs the stage was set! Who would make the final. I decided to run 7 rounds of swiss, but as there was a MTG M11 Pre-release happening I decided to ask Mat and Hender if they would take main control of the YuGi why I ran the MTG tournament! The YuGi Rounds swung by quickly and before i knew it i was calling out the final standing. As nathan and Gary had already qualified the places passed down twice too Willow Walsh and MIchael Bierton (congrats to you both for qualifying)

Top 8

1st Ryan Pang - Infernity
2nd Michael Clarricoats - Cat Control
3rd Nathan Pang - Infernity
4th Steve Mitchell - Blackwing
5th - 8th
    Mike Pooley - L/S
    Josh Poet Pearce - GBs
    Gary Allen - Gadget Stun
    Adam Stock - Gravekeepers

It was a fierce top 8 with Ryan Pang being the eventual winner against Mike Clarricoats in the final!

Congrats to anyone who qualified and for those of you that didnt you can try again in a few weeks so keep playing and turing up to the best yugi tournaments around! Cheers

Pics of the day

[mikey]

1st round
Cat vs blackwing
1 duel
The blackwing player starts off by swarming me getting me down to about 1700
some how managed to pull it back by topping into a rekidling and doing some mad syncro ftw
2nd duel
i stayed on 8000 and beat him down in 3 turns to 0.
1-0

2nd round
cat vs another blackwing woo
1 duel
drawing into a hand of bottomless and dp and a firedog it was my game
duel 2
can't rember i just lost.
duel 3
beating him down he tops into a dad and then when finally kill it he tops into a blizzard and goes brionic woo
i lost.
1-1

3rd round
cat vs monach
duel 1
with me drawing big creatures and firedogs it was another game to me
duel 2
After a bit of lifepoint damage mike managed to drop a light and darkness dragon on me i manage to weaken it to 1800 and run it over with yet again fire dog that was pretty much game after that.
2-1

4th round
cat vs ...blackwings
duel 1
firedog again causes real trouble for dom with its big attack and syching into collosal and the rekindling in to stardust gameover.
duel 2
cat and starlight won me this he summons bora so i bottomless he chains incurus i chain starlight get stardust he chains delta crow for some reason and next turn i drop cat good game.
3-1
5th round

cat vs something
can't rember i won thought
4-1

6th round

cat vs glad
duel 1
i had been waiting for a duel like this all day he goes first my turn i mange to go first turn stardust attack he uses dp i book my stardust set 2 backrow starlight and bottomless he contacts gyzarus targets stardust and starlight i changed starlight my game from then.
duel 2
again thought ruler and stardust ftw
5-1

7th round

cat vs infenity(nathan)
Duel 1
nathan gets a bad hand and i beat him down to 0
Duel 2
nathan otks me nuf said
duel 3
nathan solemes and takes him down to 4000 but the hunger kicks in and nathan folds XD
6-1

top 8

cat vs another glad
duel 1
i swarm and he loses
duel 2
he out plays me i lose
duel 3
he trys to bluff starlight i don't buy it heavy and i beaty him down to 0

top 4

cat vs blackwing(steve)
in both games i had all the ansers inclueding a crow which i searched off sangan ready for a vayu.

top 2

cat vs infernity(ryan)
took it to 3rd game and infernity did what they do best otk

well i had a great day not only qualifing but top 2
great torny vin cheers everyone that dueled me.   
     

[Azrael]

I was planning on entering this with a new deck I'd been building for a couple of weeks now, but since I still lacked a few major cards for it, I went with my Monarch deck again.

Match 1: Gareth Curl (Gladiator Beasts)
Both games gave me issues, as throughout them I was unable to really gain any momentum. I was able to inflict a little damage in game two and mess with him using Kaiser Glider, but that was about all I could do.
0-2

Match 2: Aaron Fisher (Lightsworn)
Game one was tricky, and left me under a lot of pressure. Clashing repeatedly, I finally took control at the end with Vanity's Fiend and My Body as a Shield. Game two I hot Vanity out much faster and impaired him severely. He was still hard to get at properly, but I was in control through more of it and finally shut down his movements.
2-0

Match 3: Michael Clarricoats (Chaos Cat)
Game one I managed to summon out Light and Darkness Dragon, but despite that I just could not get going really. After I was forced to blow my Decree, I ran out of options fast. Game two I summoned Stratos and then forgot to set Enemy Controller, so Firedog then caught me off guard. I took out the resulting Stardust with Kaiser Glider, but then he summoned Gale and Glider's effect placed it back in his hand for future use. From there, I was pretty much done.
0-2

Match 4: Tim Cox (Six Samurai)
Game one was truly painful to watch, as throughout it he failed to draw a monster. I went with Light and Darkness Dragon and took the game with that. Game two went ok for me until he went into Thought Ruler Archfiend, which at the time I had no answers for. Game three, I took a couple of impacts, then gained control with Vanity's Fiend and finally beat him down with a Spell Striker.
2-1

Match 5: Kim Evrett (Infernity)
Game one, she was nervous of my set card so she delayed swarming for a turn. This turned out to be a mistake, as I then summoned out Vanity's Fiend and proceeded to beat her down to 100 life points. Thinking I had it won, I went for a self-removal with Caius the Shadow Monarch, and walked into Torrential. She then swarmed me, although Enemy Controller lowered the damage somewhat. By that time though, the Cyber Dragon in my hand was enough to win really. Game two, her hand was stuffed up with monsters, and she just could not get going at all, as her hand stuffed up with Necromancers. I took it fairly easily.
2-0

Match 6: Charlie Mann (Jinzo Returner)
In the first game, I immediately went into Chimeratech Fortress Dragon to stop him drawing with Card Trooper. He hit back, and after an interchange of blows, I finally took the game by shutting him down with Vanity's Fiend. Game two, I immediately went into Dimensional Fissure and Royal Decree, and he ran out of options. I tried to take him out quickly, but my hand lagged, and I had to wait until I got out a seconf tribute monster to do any decent damage.
2-0

Match 2: Lucas Beeler (Gladiator Beasts)
Game one was incredibly close. I got out Prime Material Dragon and messed with him using that, until he went for a suicide with Gyzarous. I took a few heavy impacts, gained control with Vanity, and then he accidentally folded when I played Soul Exchange, forgetting I couldn't attack. Game two I went in to Light and Darkness Dragon faster then I'd have liked too. It went well, and I beat him down to 500 life points, but then he took control and shut me down with Mask of Restrict. I tried to disable it by tricking him with Decree, but it didn't work and I got trashed. Game three Prime Material Dragon, then Vanity's Fiend put me in control, and I ended the game by breaking through with Spell Striker.
2-1

5-2

Didn't top 8. However, I did qualify thanks to two spots getting handed down, which was nice, although it probably makes me the weakest out of those that have qualified so far.
Doesn't matter to me really though. T'was enjoyable.