YCS Bochum (from heaven to hell) with pictures

Postato originariamente da DarkBanisher

   NOTA: Scusate il titolo in inglese ma faro il report in inglese perche' ho promesso di mandare il link a persone che ho incontrato a Bochum ... e poi perche' vi fa bene allenarvi con la lingua "universale" 

We start our journey from Parma on Friday Sept. 24th around 10:45AM. We are going to drive up to Bergamo airport. We get onto A1 and after 10 minutes of drive we hit a huge traffic jam due to roadworks which is blocking the fastest way to Bergamo (highway Cremona-Brescia). We get delayed by ~ 30mins and we finally end up in Bergamo at ~ 1PM (our flight departs at 2PM).

We had a very quiet and nice flight and after we land at Weeze airport we take the bus to Essen (~ 1hour) and then the train to Bochum. We get to the Hotel Excelsior at around 6:30PM (too late for pre-registration) and we are ~3mins walking from the Convention Center.

We have a nice pizza at Momo's (just in from of the convention center) and we go back to the Hotel to finish up the deck and playtest a little.

The next morning we have an early breakfast (~ 7AM) and we meet Steve the founder of Team Generation 42. He's a very nice guy from Bern so we have a quick chat before leaving for the registration.

The line is huge but thank's to Steve we sneak in at the very beginning of a line such that we get in quite early. We pay 20Euros and I pulled crap from my packs. I sneak around a little and we immediately meet ...The Archlords !!!.

Surprises are not over and, around the corner, we immediately meet the extraordinary ...Stardust Dragon!!!. He very nice indeed and he lets me and Mario to take pictures together .

In the mean time we hit some pro players ( form left to right: Milani, Lenti, Memoli, Vairo) and some other unlucky pro player (E-Horus: scrap is not crap !!!). While waiting for the official start people is already in action.

We walk around the room and we meet some other italian pro players (from left to right: Merlini, Longo and Mancini) and a very popular character from H&G: say hello to 

Zigmund !!!

Finally around noon the tournament (with 1297 players) is about to start.

Turn 1 against Lucas (Turbo vayu).

The guy is very nice and he is explaining me his deck has got second place at the last German nationals. He starts with a very bad hand and I take the first game very quickly. The second game he kills me with D.D. Crows while the third game I foresee D.D. Crow and I hold my double frogs untils I have game in may hand.

1 - 0

Before second turn I meet the famous Irish Duelist !!! (aka PJ Tiernej). Take some time to visit his great blog.

Turn 2 against Lucas (X-Sabers).

Another nice guy from Czech Republic but his deck is not as explosive as the standard X-saber build and I dominate both games.

2 - 0

The Konami staff is now announcing the side events for the conquer of the Giant cards !!!

Turn 3 against XXXX (Zombie Dark).

The guy is originally from Italy but lives in Germany. He is very nice as well and we chat a bit before getting into action. The first game he solemn warn me three times but I still hold thank to my faders and I win with Caius. The second game he crows me twice and Caius me twice for the game. The third one is very tense as we go into time: he is afraid of my crow and let me Cius him for game.

3 - 0

I'm very excited indeed !!!

Turn 4 against XXX (Hand control X-saber).

Here there is no game at all: after turn 2 he empties my hand (which was marvellous: Fader + Dark Dust Spirit + Dark Hole with Frog in the graveyard).

Before we start the second game I made the first big mistake of the day: I do not side in my crows and my second veiler. After second turn my hand is empty again ... GG.

3 - 1

I'm quite pissed at myself but I'm plannign to redeem myself in the next round.

Turn 5 against XXX (Infenity).

A nice guy from Belgium. First game is mine than to my veiler. Second game he explodes after few turns. The third game starts into time. This is the key 4 turns that decided my YCS. I'm quite confident as I can let him go first so I have 2 turns to make some damage.

He starts with Archfiend in ATK mode and 5 sets. On my turn I special summon Swap by dumping treeborn, I activate his effect and he chain Barrier. I pass wiht nothing on the field (I have Fader and Gorz in my hand so I feel pretty confident). He sets, attacks and I drop Fader ... he chains another Barrier. Then after damage I drop Gorz ! He passes with 2 set and I have Enemy in hand. I'm concerned about Torrential and I do not activate Treeborn effect in stand-by but I just tribute the token to take Archfiend ... and he chains his third barrier !!! WTF !!!

I lose and I'm extremely hungry.

3 - 2

I think it's over and I keep losing all the other games (I play without siding at all as I'm very depressed).

To be continued ...

Turn 7 Opponent

Steve (Team Generation 42)

Modificato da DarkMagician75 - 30 Settembre 2010 alle 10:51