Cardfight!! Vanguard OCG Tournament Results - (Sept 1-2/2018)

My apologies for the lack of content last weekend but it turns out nothing happened in Japan then.  No VGCS or the like.  North America admittedly did have the BWS in Chicago for both formats but Bushiroad puts up the results of their top cuts on the official site so I'm not going to cover those AND it's also from a now defunct format as EB02 has been released.  I'll give you guys the TL:DR though and say that OTT won both formats and took up nearly half of the top 8 cut of Standard and 3 out of the Top 4 slots.  Kagero was the only non OTT in Top 4.

With that said let's take a look at what happened this weekend;


Grand Prix Akiba Qualifier (Premium - 32 players): 

1st place) Dark Irregulars

BWC NJ/NY (Standard - 450ish people) 
Split into 2 Blocks. 

Block A: 
1) OTT
2) OTT
3) Kagero
4) Aquas

Block B: 
1) Tachi
2) OTT
3) OTT
4) Spikes


Decklists for these were not provided but like Chicago we can expect them to be on the official website sooner or later.

1st Vanguard Oka Lab CS (Standard - 33 players):
1st Place) Oracle Think Tank
2nd Place) Murakumo
3rd Place) Shadow Paladin
4th Place) Kagero

Clan Distribution:
6 Shadow Paladin
4 Royal Paladin
4 Oracle Think Tank
4 Kagero
4 Aqua Force
3 Pale Moon
2 Murakumo
2 Dark Irregulars
2 Dimension Police
1 Nova Grappler
1 Spike Brothers

1st Place (OTT)

2nd Place (Murakumo)

3rd Place (Shadow Paladin)

4th Place (Kagero)

2nd Cosmo VGCS (Standard Teams - 30 Teams)
1st Place) Oracle Think Tank (5-2), Dark Irregulars, Kagero (7-0)
2nd Place) Dimension Police (5-2), Dark Irregulars, Pale Moon
3rd Place) Shadow Paladin, Oracle Think Tank, Kagero (4-3)
4th Place) Dark Irregulars, Granblue, Kagero

Clan Distribution:
19 Kagero
16 Oracle Think Tank
13 Shadow Paladin
10 Royal Paladin
9 Dimension Police
5 Dark Irregulars
4 Granblue
3 Tachikaze
3 Spike Brothers
3 Pale Moon
2 Murakumo
2 Megacolony
1 Nova Grappler

1st Place OTT (5-2), Kagero (7-0)

2nd Place DP (5-2)

3rd Place Kagero (4-3)

4th Place

Grand Prix Akiba Qualifier (Premium - 16 players): 

1st Place Megacolony

Grand Prix Akiba Qualifier (Premium - 16 players): 

1st Place Shadow Paladin

Grand Prix Akiba Qualifier (Premium - 16 players): 

1st Place Nociel Gyze

Credit to TeamAbsolutionVanguard's Discord for providing the images.

In spite of a new set release including the all mighty Shadow Paladin deck and a Murakumo deck designed to counter Ride oriented decks like OTT...OTT is still going strong and remains the deck to beat.  It's almost as if Shadow Paladin has a bad OTT match up!  Disappointing to see Pale Moon end up as "just another Accel deck" and DI seems to be doing better than I thought...except the one tournament was Teams and none of the DI records got posted.  TL:DR of this is that OTT is still the deck to beat and it's looking like we're gonna have to place our hopes in Gold Paladin or Narukami to be the one to slay the beast.