Cardfight!! Vanguard - OCG Tournament Results (Sept. 21-22/2019)

Last tournament of the "format" seeing as the Genesis Trial Deck is coming out this week.  Will it do anything?  Oh lord no.  But I do like to maintain consistency so report this one tournament I will.

17th 193 VGCS (22 Teams - Standard):

1st) Murakumo/Tachikaze/Pale Moon

2nd) Shadow Paladin/Aqua Force/Murakumo 

3rd) Murakumo/Narukami/Shadow Paladin 

4th) Pale Moon/Murakumo/Shadow Paladin 

Clan Distribution (66 Decks):

Murakumo - 14

Shadow Paladin - 13

Pale Moon - 10

Tachikaze - 8

Dimension Police - 4

Narukami - 3

Spike Brothers, Dark Irregulars, Aqua Force, Bermuda Triangle, Megacolony - 2

Royal Paladin, Oracle Think Tank, Gold Paladin, Kagero - 1

1st

2nd

3rd

4th

Credit to the TeamAbsolution Discord for images/results.

Oh neat, a deck other than Kumo/Tachi/Pale/Shadows is in here.  Can't say much on the Aqua list but the Narukami one looks solid.

Cardfight!! Vanguard - OCG Tournament Results (Sept. 14-15/2019)

When I said that there's only 2 Tachikaze players in a room, I actually meant 2 times 7 players.  Totally.

Hamamatsu VGCS (Standard - 33 Teams): 

1st) Murakumo/Tachikaze/Pale Moon

2nd) Murakumo/Pale Moon/Shadow Paladin

3rd) Pale Moon/Shadow Paladin/Murakumo

4th) Shadow Paladin/Tachikaze/Murakumo

Clan Distribution (99 Decks):

Murakumo - 22

Pale Moon, Shadow Paladin - 17

Tachikaze - 14

Megacolony, Dimension Police, Spike Brothers - 5

Narukami - 4

Gold Paladin - 3

Aqua Force, Dark Irregulars - 2

Royal Paladin, Bermuda Triangle, Oracle Think Tank - 1

1st

2nd

3rd

4th

NVGCS (Standard - 24 Teams): 

1st) Shadow Paladin/Gold Paladin/Spike Brothers

2nd) Shadow Paladin/Murakumo/Pale Moon

3rd) Tachikaze/Murakumo/Shadow Paladin

4th) Tachikaze/Murakumo/Pale Moon

Clan Distribution (71 decks):

Shadow Paladin - 13

Pale Moon - 10

Murakumo - 8

Narukami - 7

Spike Brothers - 6

Dimension Police - 5

Royal Paladin - 4

Tachikaze, Kagero, Dark Irregulars, Link Joker - 3

Gold Paladin - 2

Oracle Think Tank, Aqua Force, Nova Grappler, Megacolony - 1

1st

2nd

3rd

4th

Images/Results Provided by the TeamAbsolution Discord

At least as far as teams are concerned we in an Accel Meta baby!  It's literally just Accel decks and Shadow Paladins.  Jesus remember when Bushiroad put DP on the watch list?  What a meme.

Cardfight!! Vanguard - OCG Tournament Results (Sept. 7-8/2019)

Did Tachikaze live up to our expectations?

Niigata Grand Prix 2019 - Last Chance Qualifier (82 Participants):

1st) Gold Paladin

2nd) Narukami 

3rd) Pale Moon 

4th) Shadow Paladin

Clan Distribution: 

Pale Moon - 14

Shadow Paladin - 11

Royal Paladin - 8

Murakumo - 7

Narukami - 6

Tachikaze, Kagero - 5

Megacolony - 4

Link Joker, Dimension Police, Nova Grappler, Gold Paladin - 3

Aqua Force, Bermuda Triangle, Granblue, Dark Irregulars, Spike Brothers - 2

1st

2nd

4th

VMC Cup Autumn 2019 (59 People - you had to win a VMC Qualifier to attend): 

1st) Murakumo

2nd) Shadow Paladin 

3rd) Megacolony 

4th) Pale Moon 

Tachikaze, Murakumo - 17%

Pale Moon - 14%

Dimension Police, Shadow Paladin - 11%

Narukami - 9%

Spike Brothers, Aqua Force - 5%

Others - 12%

You can watch part of the event here.  It features a top 4 SP vs PM match and the finals.

1st

3rd

Credit to the TeamAbolution and LivingProof Discords for images/results

...Turns out no.  Tachikaze did not live up to the hype.  Ironically enough Megacolony was the only Raging Tactics deck to do something despite how a good bulk of us shat on the deck.  Mind you this is week 1 so these results need to be taken with a grain of salt.

Cardfight!! Vanguard - OCG Tournament Results (Aug 31-Sept. 1/2019)

Is this the first time I've had to write two different months in the title?  I think so.  Also weekend of the format and first under the new banlist otherwise I wouldn't cover just the one event as per my guidelines.

2nd Battledome VGCS (Standard - 36 Teams):

1st) Pale Moon/Narukami/Murakumo

2nd) Narukami/Pale Moon/Murakumo

3rd) Pale Moon/Murakumo/Dimension Police

4th) Dimension Police/Murakumo/Pale Moon

Clan Distribution (106 Decks): 

Pale Moon - 26

Murakumo - 21

Dimension Police - 18

Shadow Paladin - 14

Narukami, Link Joker, Dark Irregulars - 5

Bermuda Triangle - 4 

Oracle Think Tank - 3 

Angel Feather - 2 

Royal Paladin, Genesis, Nubatama - 1

1st

2nd

3rd

4th

Credit to the TeamAbsolution/LivingProof discords for images/results

That's the format folks!  Short but interesting all things considered.  Shadows had the most hype going into it but started off sluggish while Pale Moon came in strong and hasn't let up.  Murakumo is in the position of being good now that people have figured out a way to play the deck (spoiler alert; weasels suck) while DI is...there.  Really good in Premium however.  Shadows and Pale Moon being in the format is a good thing for anyone still playing Narukami as binding Blaster Darks hurts Mordred and Pale Moon naturally leave their boards empty if you play the Silver Thorn deck naturally.  Dimension Police are still as obnoxiously strong as they were last format if they highroll and Novas I think are starting to see a bit of a decline in play which doesn't surprise me as I think Pale Moon is arguably the better Accel deck.  BT also continued to see play albeit in lesser numbers before then banlist came in and now they might see no play entirely.  We've also got a new set on the horizon and honestly I think Tachikaze is the only one of the three clans in that set worth keeping an eye on.  Spikes perform better in the west because that's where LivingProof is and Megacolony's new cards are hot ass.  That clan is now legitimately the worst one in the game now.