Cardfight!! Vanguard - OCG Tournament Results (May 18-19/2019)

Alright.  EB07, Premium Collection and Gift 2 are out and the banlist is a meme.  What's gonna happen?  Let's find out;

Dragon Star Cup - VMC Qualifier (256 People): 

1st) BT 

2nd) NG 

3rd) KG 

4th) Tachi 

Top 16 was:

5 BT 

3 NG 

3 GP 

3 KG 

1 LJ 

1 Tachi

Clan Distribution:

Bermuda Triangle - 30%

Kagero - 22.9%

Link Joker - 10.8%

Nova Grappler - 9.6%

Gold Paladin - 7.1%

Royal Paladin - 2.9%

Oracle Think Tank, Angel Feather, Shadow Paladin - 2.1%

Murakumo, Great Nature - 1.3%

Others - 7.9%

NOTE: Imaginary Gift 2 was legal for this event.

1st Place

2nd Place

2nd Place player has a blog entry about this.

Akiba Games - GP Akiba Qualifier (Premium - 16 people): 

Winner: Royal Paladin (Blasters)

1st Place

Torecano - GP Akiba Qualifier (Premium - 32 People): 

Winner: Dark Irregulars (Gastille NLK)

1st Place

PoPsUP  VGCS(Premium - 72 Players)

 TOP 4

1st Luard

2nd Victor

3rd Victor

4th Ichitom

1st Place (5-1 in Swiss)

2nd Place (6-0)

3rd Place (5-1)

4th Place (5-1)

Card World Akiba - GP Akiba Qualifier (32 Players):

Winner - Neo Nectar (Standard+)

1st Place

Grand Panda - GP Akiba Qualifier (24 Players):

Winner: OTT (MagusWater)

1st Place

Shout outs to Nova Grappler getting that top in what was a pretty big tournament all things considered.  I'm not surprised given that they've had back to back support and just enough Beast Deity cards to make a decent deck.  I'd say they're definitely one of if not the best Accel Deck of the format given how Accel 2 gives them the draw power needed to see their pieces and the EB07 cards allow them to hit for numbers.  That being said we're still in a meta where the top 2 decks are Force and Novas don't like that so I'm also not surprised it was only a matter of time until BT/Kagero finally took the NG player down.  Meanwhile there's suddenly Premium stuff and more than you usually see!  I think there's a Premium circuit going on?  Regardless this is definitely more interesting to look at given that we're seeing the likes of Blasters, Gastille NLK and bloody Neo Nectar sitting with the grownups (BT, SP, GP, OTT) and to nobody's surprise Victor is performing strongly as well.  I'm not sure about using Magical Performer or Starlight Hedgehog over Ninjaad though.