Cardfight!! Vanguard - OCG Tournament Results (Oct 19-27/2019)

Got a bit to go through today.

7th Oita VGCS - VMC Qualifier (64 People):

1st) Nova Grappler (Godhand)

2nd) Pale Moon

3rd) Tachikaze 

4th) Shadow Paladin

1st

2nd

3rd

4th

Aobado VGCS (64 Players):

1st) Tachikaze 

Clan Distribution:

Pale Moon - 11

Murakumo, Tachikaze - 9

Shadow Paladin - 7

Nova Grappler, Narukami - 6

Genesis, Nubatama - 4

Dark Irregulars - 3

Link Joker, Spike Brothers, Royal Paladin, Aqua Force, Gold Paladin - 1

1st

2nd Oletan VGCS - VMC Qualifier (55 players):

1st) Pale Moon

2nd) Bermuda Triangle

Top 4) Aqua Force 

Top 4) Tachikaze

1st

2nd

3rd

4th

18th 193 VGCS (Standard - 24 Teams):

1st) Tachikaze/Murakumo/Pale Moon

2nd) Nubatama/Tachikaze/Murakumo

3rd) Murakumo/Pale Moon/Tachikaze

4th) Murakumo/Shadow Paladin/Tachikaze

Clan Distribution:

Pale Moon, Murakumo - 13 

Tachikaze - 10 

Shadow Paladin - 6 

Nova Grappler - 5 

Royal Paladin, Genesis, Narukami, Dimension Police, Link Joker - 3 

Nubatama, Aqua Force, Spike Brothers, Megacolony - 2 

Kagero, Dark Irregulars - 1

1st

2nd

3rd

 

 

4th

Credit to the TeamAbsolution Discord for images/results

Well would you look at that.  Godhand got a top on his own.  We also have the rare Protect deck appearing (in teams) and its Nubas.  Genesis and Angel Feather are still confirmed missing from relevancy.

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

Well set 7 is here and the question is how did the featured clans fare in the format that is Accel Saga?  I think you know the answer to that.

WGP Thailand Japanese (Premium - Unknown Number of Participants):

1st place) Neo Nectar

5th Vanguard G-Pro Cup (29 Participants):

1st) Pale Moon

2nd) Nova Grappler (Beast Deity)

3rd) Murakumo

4th) Shadow Paladin

1st

2nd

3rd

4th

Thailand WGP Standard

1st Murakumo

2nd Pale Moon

3rd Murakumo

4th Spike Brothers

2nd

2nd Sakura VGCS (30 Participants):

1st) Dark Irregulars 

2nd) Narukami (no lists - wants to keep it hidden)

3rd) Pale Moon

4th) Pale Moon 

Clan Distribution:

Nova Grappler - 6

Murakumo - 5

Gold Paladin, Nubatama, Tachikaze - 3

Shadow Paladin, Pale Moon - 2

Genesis, Kagero, Link Joker, Aqua Force, Dark Irregulars, Spike Brothers - 1

1st

3rd

4th 

HachiLab VGCS (64 Participants):

1st) Shadow Paladin

2nd) Nova Grappler (Godhand + Beast Deity)

3rd) Aqua Force 

4th) Murakumo 

Clan Distribution:

Pale Moon - 13

Murakumo - 11

Tachikaze - 9

Genesis - 6

Shadow Paladin, Narukami, Nova Grappler - 5

Nubatama, Link Joker - 2

Gold Paladin, Angel Feather, Kagero, Dark Irregulars, Spike Brothers, Aqua Force - 1

1st

2nd

3rd

4th

Credit to the TeamAbsolution Discord for images/results.

I'm not surprised by this.  Angels and Nubas are outgunned in the format, Godhand is a highroll deck like Aqua Force and Genesis are too much of a glass cannon.  Otherwise it's more of the same really.

Cardfight!! Vanguard - OCG Tournament Results (Sept. 29-Oct. 6/2019)

There's finally enough tournament data to warrant doing this.

Asagi VGCS (Japan, Premium - 28 Participants)

Winner: Jamyocongo

2nd Jamyocongo

3rd Trois Coral

4th Gredora 

Representation:

4 Nubatama

3 Kagero, Megacolony, Dimension Police, Link Joker

2 Bermuda Triangle, Shadow Paladin,

1 Aqua Force, Granblue, Great Nature, Royal Paladin, Neo Nectar, Nova Grappler, Gold Paladin, Narukami, Tachikaze

1st

2nd

3rd

4th

CS Singapore English (Premium - 91 Participants):

1st) GP (Ezel)

2nd) GP (Ezel)

3rd) GP (Ezel)

4th) Kagero 

Top 8:

Gold Paladin - 4

Neo Nectar - 1

Dark Irregulars - 1

Kagero - 1

Great Nature - 1

1st

2nd

3rd

4th

WGP Singapore Japanese (Premium - 106 participants):

1st) Gold Paladin

2nd) Kagero

3rd) Dark Irregulars

4th) Nova Grapplers

Top 8:

Gold Paladin - 2

Kagero - 2

Dark Irregulars - 1

Great Nature - 1

Nova Grappler - 1

Shadow Paladin - 1

WGP Singapore Japanese (Standard - 358 Participants):

1st) Murakumo 

2nd) Murakumo 

3rd) Murakumo 

4th) Murakumo 

Top 16 was: 

Murakumo - 8

Narukami - 2

Shadow Paladin - 2

Bermuda Triangle - 1

Kagero - 1

Tachikaze - 1

Link Joker - 1

Abruge VGCS (Standard - 27 Teams): 

1st) Narukami/Murakumo/Pale Moon

2nd) Pale Moon/Genesis/Tachikaze

3rd) Murakumo/Pale Moon/Tachikaze

4th) Dark Irregulars/Shadow Paladin/Oracle Think Tank 

Clan Distribution: 

Murakumo - 15

Pale Moon, Shadow Paladin - 11

Tachikaze - 7

Narukami - 6

Royal Paladin, Megacolony - 5

Kagero - 4

Oracle Think Tank, Dark Irregulars - 3

Gold Paladin, Genesis - 2

Nova Grappler, Dimension Police, Link Joker, Aqua Force, Neo Nectar - 1

1st

2nd

3rd

4th

Credit to the TeamAbsolution/Proof Discord for images/results

One tournament on one weekend and like 4 the other.  Well then.  Anyway this marks the end of the Raging Tactics format and how did it go?  Well;

-Tachikaze performed the best.  This is no surprise given how good Accel has been for a while.  High powered attacks with board restanding will get you places.

-Spikes and Megacolony got what, a single top each?  Spikes is unsurprising as they're more popular in the west and the bugs are just bad.

-Murakumo is the BDIF post banlist and is more Watch List worthy than Dimensional Police are.  Any time we see all of a top 4 cut be one single deck is concerning.  Pale Moon are a good 2nd as they can avoid having their board wiped and Shadow Paladin is the best Force Clan now that BT are dead in Standard while Narukami are the 4th best Accel deck it seems. 

-Premium at least in the east turned out differently than I expected.  I'll admit to buying into the "DI is gonna be tier 0 and fuck us all" hype but the deck is not even close to crushing it over there.  Gold Paladin are because guess what?  Beaumans and Wonder Ezel (OG) are kind of degenerate.  Nubatama has seemed to have decided that Rinne isn't worth keeping over Jammy and we've now got the return of Taco Lord which I never thought I'd say with a straight face.  But hey ripping the opponent down to 4 before stride is REALLY good.

That's the format in a nutshell.  What will Set 7 bring to the table?  On paper I don't know if it'll do much outside of Nova Grappler.  If the Godhand deck is able to pop off it can easily deal about 2-4 damage but the clap back will be very real when dealing with decks like Kumo and Pales.  Nubatama may do something and the other two clans I'm skeptical about.  Angel Feather didn't get nearly as good of a buff needed to compete and Genesis really needed some more cards to cycle Valk.  As it is that deck basically has to hope to hit Valk in the first couple turns and sack the opponent before they can establish.  After that I think the deck will struggle if the game goes past Turn 4.  I'll accept being proven wrong however as I think the whole G5 thing is neat.