3rd TriCrit VGCS (Standard - 38 Teams):
1st) NN/OTT (7-0)/AF (5-2)
2nd) SP (5-2)/Spikes (3-4)/NN (5-2)
3rd) AF/NN (6-1)/Murakumo
4th) Spikes/AF/NN
Clan Distribution:
Royal Paladin - 8
Kagero - 10
Oracle Think Tank - 9
Nova Grappler - 1
Shadow Paladin - 6
Spike Brother - 4
Murakumo - 9
Dimension Police - 2
Angel Feather - 20
Neo Nectar - 26
Gold Paladin - 9
Tachikaze - 3
Megacolony - 2
Dark Irregulars - 1
Pale Moon - 3
1st Place
2nd Place
3rd Place
4th Place
Nakajima VGCS (Standard - 19 teams):
1st) AF (7-0)/NN (7-0)/Murakumo (5-2)
2nd) Spikes (3-4)/GP (5-2)/AF (5-2)
3rd) NN/Spikes/AF (7-0)
4th) AF/NN/Murakumo
Clan Distribution:
Royal Paladin - 1
Granblue - 1
Nova Grappler - 2
Oracle Think Tank - 3
Tachikaze - 3
Kagero - 4
Spike Brother - 4
Shadow Paladin - 5
Gold Paladin - 6
Murakumo - 6
Angel Feather - 11
Neo Nectar - 11
1st Place
2nd Place
3rd Place
4th Place
Credit to TeamAbsolution's Discord for the photos/data
It's unforunate that all we're seeing here are team tournaments as it makes it really difficult to ascertain just how good Neo Nectar and Angel Feather actually are outside of a format as...irregular as this one. Now admittedly we're seeing very favourable records from both of these decks so theres a reasonable chance that they'll see some success in Singles play when a Standard Single Player event happens but I do have to wonder how well these will perform in a tournament where you'll probably have to consistently play against OTT, SP and Murakumo/RP as well as mirrors.
In any case what's clear to me is that above anything else is that Sunlight Garden's Guide is putting in a ton of work for Neo Nectar and the price of it has jumped accordingly;
80 Dollar playset of Cecilla? Check. 120 dollar playset of SGG? Wait what?
Did I mention that it's a promo card that the west is probably not going to get for the release of EB03? I won't go so far as to say that Neo Nectar is unplayable without SGG but there is a noticeable difference in how efficiently the deck plays with and without it. If I may be a bit bold I'd go so far as to say that without access to SGG Neo Nectar will likely fall below Angel Feather in the rankings and be the 2nd best performing deck of EB03 over here.
On an addition side note holy shit a Gold Paladin deck appeared! Now granted this is teams so meme decks can be carried by better players piloting better dec-wait what, the Gold Paladin player helped carry Spikes in this tournament!? What is this life I'm living?
Oh he isn't playing Ezel and instead is focused on Pellnore. Okay now that makes sense. Ezel's honestly an awful boss card for the deck and aside from getting the superior ride off going first and opening REALLY well (so highrolling then) he contributes little to nothing to your overall end goal and burns up way too many resources just for his gimmick.
That said the fact that GP was able to get a top in teams with a winning record already puts it above Aqua Force. I do find it hilarious that both clans have the two worst VRs in the game and the superior builds of them don't run them. I'm also scared because GP, AqF and Narukami were the second incarnation of "the big three" in the Asia Circuit arc and aside from all three being Accel two of these clans have shit VRs. Oh dear.
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