For fun,4 man tournament with friends for cards...report! Playing:Gladiator Beast

Hey people! What's up?! I'm here to give you guys a small fun tournament report! Sometimes me and my friends will put up cards and play for them in swiss style tournaments. Now the tournament only really consists of me and 3 of my friends. So essentially it becomes a 3 round tournament.... WHICH I KNOW ITS REALLY BAD but hey...I went to a local an hour away from me with my cousin before and the tournament was only 3 rounds as well...so....IT HAPPENS! So anyways for this tournament my one friend who joined decided to just scoop all his rounds cause last minute he got too lazy to play. So amongst us the decks that were played were: Gladiator Beast(me), Gadgets with Tin Goldfish, and Malefic Stun with the virus cards. I decided to play Gladiator Beast because it is a deck that I am most familiar with! I've been playing Glads since 2009. Every time I tell my friend I was playing them on a certain day, he would just shrug it off and tell me they're irrelevant. So I wanted to make them relevant.

So Round 1 Begins

Round 1 VS The friend that scoops
He scooped that round so I auto won. I wanted to play it out but he just got lazy. Oh well
1-0

Round 2 VS Gadgets with Tin Goldfish
Game 1:I was jsut overwhelmed pretty quickly and could not get over a cowboy in the end. I ended up losing to a cowboy...so mad...
Game 2: I feel the pressure is on so I begin to throw cards at him. A lot of my super secret tech cards... I end up over powering him with spirit reaper and a gladiator beast that just wont go away...
Game 3:He opens up all monsters. Eventually it looks like he's getting a feel for the game and it looks like he might actually do stuff;  But in fact, I kinda allow him to walk into things. I couldn't get over a cyber dragon for the longest time. He ruined my field of equeste + another monster. I later come back with a reborn play and a book of moon and eventually I take the game.
2-0

Round 3 VS Malefic Virus
Game 1:This is actually the worst match-up for him. Not because Gladiator Beasts are OP but because he himself cannot beat Gladiator Beasts to save his life. Game 1 I just control it with massive backrow and a constant loop of Gladiator Beast tagging.
Game 2:He flips over skill drain and what not. It actually is the longest grind game of history. We take about 20-30 minutes on game 2. Eventually he over powers me.
Game 3: I hold it down with fossily dyna. Yes, Fossil DYNA. I heard it's a good card...but its just probably a rumor. So I boarded in 2 and he just got poked by it like 6 times. In the end he cant get over it and I win.
3-0

So In conclusion Gladiator Beasts won this tournament.Granted it was a 4 man tourney and it was only 3 rounds and 1 man scooped all his rounds but hey it's okay... SO WHAT DO I WIN IN THE END?!

Well from our gadget player, he has to give me 3 of his super penguin soldiers....(lol i know but hey I wanna make something very troll like with that...ahaha)
AND FROM OUR MALEFIC STUN PLAYER.... I get his 2 Obelisk(the playable version). Our running joke thats actually a fact is whenever we make a deck we have to ask ourselves, Do we have an out to Obelisk? ahaha that guys too OP. So sad frogs is the only deck that actually makes real use of Obelisk.

Anyways this was just a fun tournament. If I had lost I would've lost 3 Grapha's. That's a no no. My girlfriend got me those. So I'm glad I won. Maybe for our next tournament I'll try Glads again. I like the deck. It's still good. I think..ahaha Like they haven't changed in the past how many years. Our only real hit on the list was Bestiari to 1. Also if you include rescue cat....then that was another hit. Other than that Gladiator Beasts have remained with the same power. It just takes a really skilled player or maybe even a super creative build in order to win.When Elemental Dragons comes out though or even judgment for Prophecy... I don't know how they shall fair. But for now they're fun and I had fun with this tournament. It's good to do stuff like this. If you're new to the tournament scene, definitely try some practice tournaments with friends to get more comfortable.  It's nice practice and a nice time with friends. Alright that's it.

Gladiator Beast all day long!

I'm out!

OSHAWA REGIONAL REPORT! April 13th 2013

Hello!! For the first time ever I am bringing you guys a....REGIONAL REPORT! :O !!!! So for a while now I have been practicing with many different decks for this upcoming regional. The regional I attended was at Oshawa. The night before me and my friends had about 3 hours of sleep. We ended up joking around a lot and testing as well last night. My friend put me up against different decks and I found that out of the abundant duels we had last night, I only lost once. I was pretty set on what exactly I was playing at this point. In the end I decided to play Dino Fist. I decided to play Dino Fiist because of its potential more options than the regular fire fist deck. Also laggia + backrow = gg. If you lost with that opening hand,you don't deserve to win.

So at around 7:30 we were picked up at my friends house and the 4 of us headed to the venue. It was the longest car ride of my life. We actually live pretty far from the venue so we sat in a car for about 40-45 minutes. Eventually we arrived at the venue. I wrote out my list and stood in a line for about 20 minutes or so to get registered. I received my 5 packs upon registering.... TELLING YOU RIGHT NOW... I CANNOT OPEN PACKS GREAT AT ALL...I basically pulled ok/bad commons then bad rares then my only holo was that fool of prophecy card...ugh....eventually the player meeting begins. The guy sitting beside me during player meeting had lost his deck. That sucks. Everyone around him was trying to help him but no luck. Don't know what happened after that. Then round 1 had begun...

Round 1: Dino Fist(YAY MIRROR MATCH >.>)
LOST THE DIE ROLL 0-1
game 1:he goes first by summoning a bear and setting 2. I go rabbit and go laggia and just beat him from there.
Game 2:he goes tenki ,set 2. I go rabbit again and win from there
1-0

Round 2:Mono Mermail
LOST THE DIE ROLL 0-2
game 1:He makes the biggest explosive 1st turn and I cant come back from it
game 2:I just try my hardest to push with what I have. I eventually make a dweller and protect it with my life to win.
game 3:he sets 3 and summons pike dropping dragoon and goes plus and ends.I summon a monster and activate 2 dimensional fissure and set bottomless and set mirror force. I feel as if I have this. On my end phase he activates mst and twister on both my dimensional fissure and activates a sphere. then next turn he pushes but pops my mirror force and beats me down. I lose.
1-1

Round 3:Honestly don't know what to call this(xyz turbo)
LOST THE DIE ROLL 0-3
Game 1:I saw tour guide.. I saw marauding captain...I beat him with 1st turn laggia and backrow.
Game 2: He goes first turn shock master and one of the materials made it a 3300 shock master. I open up rabbit,warning,solemn judgment,mirror force,bottomless. I go dolkka and set 4 and pass. he attacks and loses the shock master and I win from there.
2-1

Round 4:Hieratics
LOST THE DIE ROLL 0-4
Game 1: He goes cardcar D,set 1 and pass.I open up 5 monsters that are not rabbit and 1 tenki. next turn he otk's me.
Game 2: I go rabbit and hold it down with laggia + backrow. I rock his world.
Game 3: He does the exact same thing and I get otk'd
2-2

Round 5: Fire Fist Glads
LOST THE DIE ROLL 0-5
Game 1:I beat him down with rabbit into laggia and backrow and later on i go tenki get gorilla and pop his backrow and win.
Game 2:He throws out some tech i never thought of in glads...it scared me a lot actually and it worked..garuntee no one has played glads like this guy.
Game 3:I summon zenmaines and set bottomless,set heavy. he summons,i bottomless then he sets 4 and passes. I activate heavy and proceed to win.
3-2

Round 6:Fire Fist
LOST THE DIE ROLL 0-6
Game 1:I couldnt get over backrows...
Game 2:He cant get over my rabbit into laggia and win.
Game 3: Back to back heavy by me and him and him having the far superior upper hand is so ugh... i quit... i got raped game 3..
3-3

Round 7:Mermail Fire Fist
LOST THE DIE ROLL:0-7
Game 1: I don't really recall what happened..I just won.
Game 2: Same with game 2.
4-3(we talked after and he gave me some interesting ideas for a deck by letting me look at his. we had a long discussion and we boucned ideas off each other. twas nice)

Round 8:Heroes
LOST THE DIE ROLL:0-8
Game 1:I win with going rabbit and backrow
Game 2:I cant get over his alius' and backrow then miracle fusion
Game 3:I win with 1st turn rabbit and backrow
5-3

Round 9:dont know.
My opponent never showed up and I got the match win.
6-3

So the whole regional was 9 rounds. 286 people I believe attended. It was top 32 gets their invite AND!!! I...made it to the 41st spot.sadly.

A huge portion of my losses were simply because I didnt go first at all.But I enjoyed my time. Evene after discussing with people who were watching me play.. I never misplayed..I just got yugioh'd.

Anyways thats my regional report. have fun yall