Cardfight!! Vanguard - OCG Tournament Results (Jan 12-13/2019)

I wish I had something witty to say before getting into this, but I've got nothing.  Oh wait nevermind.  I do need to point out that the first results I've got here need to be taken with a grain of salt;

3rd Oita Vanguard Championship (Standard - 22 People): 

1st) Neo Nectar 

2nd) Gold Paladin 

3rd) Murakumo

4th) Genesis 

Clan Distribution: 

Oracle Think Tank - 2 

Murakumo - 1 

Royal Paladin - 5 

Gold Paladin - 1 

Pale Moon - 2 

Neo Nectar - 2 

Great Nature - 1 

Gear Chronicle - 1 

Genesis - 1 

Nubatama - 1 

Megacolony - 1 

Angel Feather - 2

Narukami - 1

1st Place

2nd Place

3rd Place

4th Place

This tournament was Best of 1 in Singles and Best of 3 in top cut.  Even still it's a 20 man tournament which isn't that impressive of a thing to top.  Also jesus christ what is that Genesis list.  

2nd Mie VGCS (Standard - 36 Teams): 

1st) GP/Narukami/AF

2nd) AF/OTT/NN

3rd) AF/RP/GC

4th) OTT/AF/Narukami

Clan Distribution: 

Angel Feather - 22

Oracle Think Tank - 19 (Imperial 17, Magus 1, Witch 1)

Royal Paladin - 17

Narukami - 10

Neo Nectar - 8

Gold Paladin - 8

Great Nature - 8

Gear Chronicle - 4

Genesis - 1

Kagero - 2

Murakumo - 2

Dimension Police - 3

Nubatama - 2

Dark Irregular - 1

Pale Moon - 1

1st Place

2nd Place

3rd Place

4th Place

Chitose VGCS (Standard - 16 Teams): 

1st) GN/Narukami/OTT

2nd) OTT/GN/RP

3rd) OTT/RP/AF

4th) GP/Genesis/Narukami

Clan Distribution:

OTT - 9 

RP - 7 

AF - 7 

Narukami - 6 

GN - 6 

GP - 3 

Genesis - 3 

NN - 2 

Murakumo - 2

DP - 2 

Nubatama - 1

Kagero - 1

1st Place

2nd Place

3rd Place

4th Place

Credit to the TeamAbsolution Discord for providing decklists and results.

A thought I've had for a while now that's finally come to fruition based on how that singles tournament looked that we may be putting a bit too much stock in what the OCG does?  It's not like the old days where they were 4 sets ahead of us which lead to for example DOTX Format being solved by the time we got the cards and admittedly the western player base has become much better over the years.  I'd say our good players are on par or in the case of Ajolt better than Japan's best players which falls in line with pretty much every other TCG out there.  In YGO/Pokemon our players are legitimately better than Japan's given that our play environments are considerably more high level compared to the more casual/local like of the OCG.  At this point I'd say when we look at these results it's more of to get an idea of what is popular and doing well but ultimately taking these decks and innovating them to a higher level like what we did with Ange in premium or coming up with our own deck in OTT Gyze.

With that all said pretty much your standard fare with these team results.  Murakumo's losing steam but they get good shit next weekend so it's a moot point.  Narukami and GN seem to be the go to Accel decks since Gold Paladin despite appearing in two tournaments this past weekend is still too much of a highroll deck to consistently perform imo.  Neo Nectar is showing that it still has life while OTT and Angel Feather are still duking it out for BDIF while RP has maintained it's "Best Force Clan" title that I'm curious to see if Set 4 Shadow Paladin can take.