User blog:InvictusKris/I'M BACK!!! + Springfest Overview

HELLO PEOPLE OF THE WIKI!!!

It's me, InvictusKris, and I just got back home from my Springfest. So I figured the best thing was to recount what happened to me and the event while my memory is still fresh.

If you want to see what deck I used, main side and all, [http://buddyfight.wikia.com/wiki/User_blog:InvictusKris/Springfest_Weekend_%2B_Final_Deck:_Armorknights_Art,_Final_Demon_Slay! see this]

Initial Overview of the event
So the event itself was held at the Huddersfield venue, so some people here may have been there and you may guess who I am if you took interest in my matches.

We had about 45 people for Buddyfight overall, a huge step up from 31 last year. Yay.

So I went down, got my promo, talked to some guys and traded and sold a few things.

Rules applied
We played Swiss format, where you duel different people each round based on how you did, you gained points.

Wins = 3, Draws = 1(?), Loses = 0

Each round is consist of Best-of-3 battle, with an overall 40 minute time-limit.

Should this limit be breached, the match goes into "Turn 0, 1, 2, 3" mode.

Basically, including the turn you entered overtime in, after 3 turns have passed from it, whoever has the highest life wins that battle. Should both players have the same life, it's a draw.

Ok, we got the rules down so let's go onto my matches.

Description of the matches, Summary
Basically, I'll give you the result, what I and they did and any interesting facts. They're not going to be too descriptive but I'll give it my best or come back later when I'm not tired to fix them.

Result: 2 - 1 (Win)
My first match was my most dreaded. The player is actually someone I know from my local area around home, so I was terrified as I have not won against his SDW deck.

Battle 1 (Win):
Essentially, we traded blows back and forth. He managed to summon Aster a few times. I managed to kill it. I managed to Divine Crash his monsters, he managed to call Luminous Blue. In the end, we were out of resources and I simply managed to barely scrape enough damage to kill him.

Battle 2 (Loss):
He managed to set-up Aster pretty fast, though I thankfully managed to deal with it fast too. He then went into Luminous Blue twice in a row for 2 turns, slowing my offense and draining my resources quickly. In the end, it went down to him calling 2 1-Crit Dragonarms and using an Item to kill me.

Battle 3 (Win):
After a few turns trading blows and defending, we entered overtime and had to finish within "4" turns. The first were quite basic, me defending with Demon Slay Circle and Shredding Battle Wall, him with Standard SDW Shields. In the end, on the last turn (my go), I managed to call a Gao Formation of Dawn, Iblis and Ricdeau Axe for victory.

My worse match-up and I barely managed to succeed.

Battle 1 (Win):
Manged to simply overwhelm him with my aggressive plays and cut his life down fast. He managed to respond with Mach Braver a few times but it wasn't enough.

Battle 2 (Loss):
Came back with Kaizerion + Burn Nova Combo... What can I say?

Battle 3 (Loss):
He managed to simply gather enough resources for his Kaizerion fast and overwhelm in a few turns. *shrugs*

Result: 2 - 0 (Win)
Again, another one of my friends I face off against. He was using a Danger World Deck as well.

Battle 1 (Win):
Won in a few turns after setting up my Item and Iblis.

Battle 2 (Win):
Fast win too. He managed to deal a huge amount of early damage with some cheap 2-Crit Monsters but didn't change things in the end.

Battle 1 (Loss):
He basically used several of Slashark to boost Kaizerion's defence to a point it was too hard to effectively deal with as my Soul-Hate cards were in the Side.

Battle 2 (Win):
Sided in my Soul hate and crushed Kaizerion down to size by constantly keeping its soul in check.

Battle 3 (Win):
Same as before really.

Battle 1 (Loss):
Basically, he managed to World Ends me and after a few turns of holding out, he managed to deal the last 1 damage.

Battle 2 (Win):
He unfortunately played a few too many Lifelink Lords. The final turn, I managed to kill him with a combination of Death Asmodai and a few Divine Crashes to kill make certain I killed OG Miserea and kill him with Lifelink.

Battle 3 (Win):
My opponent basically bricked drawing only 4 monsters. So I overwhelmed him.

Battle 1 (Loss):
It's Shadow Shades... I hate them. Basically Joe Burn and Lyon Attacks and Gunrod Burn too.

Battle 2 (Win):
Sided in absolutely every one of my anti-Shadow Shade stuff (7 Cards total).

Managed to kill him with a combination of Burn from Negulbalz and Penetrate.

Battle 3 (Loss):
This is the piece de resistance of the testament to idiocy. Either i was stressed, forgetful, dumb or the universe decided to chew me out today.

There we were, me and my opponent trading blows. He called Joe, I call Iblis and take him down. He takes care of Iblis, I equip Ricdeau Axe!

He calls Joe once more and I call Death Asmodai to Center!

I have him on the ropes!!!

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The more astute of you would get the mistake by now

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AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Whether by stress, bad luck, anger, stupidness etc...

I called a monster to Center when I had Ricdeau Axe out.

Unfortunately for me, it was a few turns in so the result couldn't be taken back. I was given a technical loss and my opponent won overall.

The sad part? I would've won EASILY as my opponent couldn't get over Asmodai.

Thus I shall remember this as;

"The deck that could've made Top 8, had its user not be a Dum-Dum".

AHHH!!! SO PATHETIC!!!

Ah well. I'm still bitter but I know better for next time.

In the end, I got 12th place out of 45.

Top 3 Decks
3rd Place:

Magic - Shadow Shades

2nd Place:

SDW - Aster

User: Ryan (The overall best European Buddyfighter and 2nd place in the world)

1st Place:

Magic, Asmodai Hybrid

User: Simon(?)

I don't know what they by "Hybrid" specifically but that is what they called it.

"Controversial" Ending?
The following relates to the Final Top 8 Match to detirmine #1 and #2 between Simon and Ryan.

Before I get into this section, please take this into account before anything else.

1. I did not witness these accounts first hand

All I am delivering is from other people who saw the match. So there.

2. I am not knowledgeable in Buddyfight Torunaments and how things are done.

I don't know the procedures the Judges used here so I don't know how appropriate their actions or inappropriate they were. Take that in account.

Ok, let's get into this;

The matches went something like this;

The first battle resulted into a 30-min go between, which eventually ended in Ryan's victory.

The 2nd battle is where things got interesting.

During the 2nd battle, time had run out and the match was declared over. Simon was given the win, I believe, as he had the higher overall life total.

The 3rd battle was a Sudden Death "Turn 0, 1, 2, 3" match. This resulted in Ryan's loss as he had the lower life total by the end of Turn 3.

Supposedly, according to the sources, how it would typically resolve is that, at the end of time during the 2nd battle, the battle was declared a draw and Ryan would win as he has a full match victory under his belt. The spectators were surprised when the judges decided to give the win to Simon and hold the Sudden Death match as well.

That's all I know

Again. I don't know anything and I personally don't care.

Final Worlds:

Again, thanks to everyone for their help. Without you, I wouldn't have gotten as far as I did.

Sincerely, thank you from the bottom of my heart.