Thursday, 10 October 2019

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

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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

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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.

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