Cardfight!! Vanguard - OCG Tournament Results (Jan 25-26/2020)

Oh my lord we have a Premium tournament.

 More and More Cups VGCS (36 Participants, Premium):

1st) PM

2nd) GP

3rd) BT

4th) GB

Clan Distribution:

BT - 8

PM - 5

SP - 4

Nuba, GP - 3

Kagero, AqF, GN, MC - 2

Mura, DI, LJ, OTT, GB - 1

1st

2nd 

3rd 

4th 

Shikoku VGCS (Standard - 11 teams)

1st) BT (Riv)/GE (Himiko)/GP

2nd) AqF/SP/BT (Lists Witheld)

3rd) NK (Vanquisher)/AqF (Revonn)/MK (Hyuga/Zanbaku)

4th) AqF (Revonn)/KG (DOTE)/SP (Mordred)

Clan Distribution:

9 BT

4 NK

4 AQ

3 SP

2: TK, PM, GS

1: GP, MC, KG, GN, DI, NG, NN

1st

3rd

4th

Izumi Dot VGCS

1st) SP (Mordred)/AqF (Revonn)/BT (Riv)

2nd) NB (Witheld)/BT (Riv)/GP (Ezel)

3rd) Lists Witheld

4th) Unknown

1st

2nd

4th Aokawa VGCS (48 Participants):

1st) BT (Pacifica)

2nd) Kagero 

3rd) BT (Riviere)

4th) BT (Riviere)

Clan Distribution:

Bermuda Triangle - 19

Narukami - 7

Aqua Force - 4

Shadow Paladin, Gold Paladin - 3

Nova Grappler - 2

Royal Paladin, Genesis, Kagero, Nubatama, Murakumo, Tachikaze, Dimension Police, Megacolony, Granblue, Oracle Think Tank - 1

1st

2nd 

3rd 

4th 

Korean VGCS - Standard** 80 Participants

**This event had a special rule where Grade 2 Caro couldn't be used in a Riviere Deck.

1st) DI

Top 4

NK - 2

AqF - 1

DI - 1

1st

Hamamatsu 193 VGCS - VMC Qualifier (59 Participants):

1st) Naru (Vanquisher)

2nd) BT (Riviere)

3rd) Naru (Vanquisher)

4th) Naru (Vanquisher)

Clan Distribution:

BT - 30 (Riviere - 25, Riviere Coral - 3, Pacifica - 2)

Narukami - 10

AqF - 6

Tachikaze, SP - 2

Mura, SB, GP, RP, DP, LJ, GN, GB, NG - 1

1st

2nd

3rd 

4th 

Miyazaki VGCS (40 Participants):

1st) Murakumo

Clan Distribution:

BT - 17

Naru - 6 

AqF, SP - 3 

Nuba, Genesis - 2 

GC, GN, NG, PM, Mura, MC, RP - 1

1st

Images/Results provided by TeamAbsolution Discord

Oh you know I like seeing these Narukami tops.  It's all Vanquisher too.  The deck just works so well with its ability to multi attack with good power, remove threats and generate resources.  Vanquisher's turn 4 is scary and if it wins the dieroll and opens playable (riding Vanq and having a hand binder + a target) you have a reasonable chance of knocking out even Riviere provided they don't open the nuts on you.  It shows too as NK is the 2nd most played deck in nearly every Standard tournament so far (and apparently it's conversion rate is comparable or better than Riv's).  Small mention is the tournament that decided to ban G2 Caro from being played in Riviere and the deck proceeds to do nothing.  It's almost as if Caro should be hit on the next banlist like alot of people have been saying.  Meanwhile Aqua Force continues to play Revonn in favour of Malestrom and Shadows as expected do not care at all about Claret Sword outside of "I'ma meme lolcals!"

Cardfight!! Vanguard - OCG Tournament Results (Jan 18-19/2020)

Just a quick note.  There will be no Worlds stuff in this post.  That'll be in the next one once decklists and placings are known.  That said onto post EB12 format!

20th 193 VGCS (Standard - 24 Teams):

1st) AqF (Revonn)/Tachikaze/BT (Riviere)

2nd) Narukami (Vanquisher)/GP/BT (Riviere)

3rd) BT (Riviere)/Narukami (Vanquisher)/AqF (Revonn)

4th) BT (Riviere)/Tachikaze/Narukami (Vanquisher)

Clan Distribution:

Bermuda Triangle - 21

Narukami - 13

Aqua Force - 9

Murakumo - 7

Shadow Paladin - 6

Tachikaze - 5

Gold Paladin, Royal Paladin, Angel Feather, Genesis, Kagero, Spike Brothers, Nova Grappler, Dimension Police - 1

1st

2nd

3rd

4th

Dmon VGCS Jan 19th

2 Deck, Ban 1 - Participation 40**

Steam VOD Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVfYGccBPMk

The rules of this format is you bring two decks and each player chooses which one their opponent can't use.  In every case someone brought X deck + Riviere, Riviere was banned.

1st: Pale Moon + Bermuda Triangle (Riv)

2nd: Bermuda (Riv) + Narukami (Vanq/GBD)

3rd: Narukami (Vanq/GBD) + Nova Grappler (Godhand/BD)

4th: Bermuda (Riv) + Murakumo

1st

2nd

3rd

4th

Images/Results provided by the TeamAbsolution Discord

You guys know I'm happy to see Vanquisher doing well.  I figured it'd be good against alot of the decks in the field with a questionable Riviere matchup going 2nd (but then again what deck can compete with Riv after losing the dieroll?) and the results are showing just that.  Mind you these are based off teams and a special Two Deck tournament.  I'm sure if it was Bo1 Singles we'd see more Riviere than Vanquisher topping.  Revonn also seems to have ousted Malestrom as the de facto Aqua deck and thank god for that.  Seeing the king of degeneracy Glory Malestrom getting yeeted will allow alot of us to sleep easier I'm sure.  Claret is to nobody's surprise awful.

Cardfight!! Vanguard - OCG Tournament Results (Jan 11-12/2020)

You now have "Sin from Genesis" stuck in your head.

1st Phase VGCS in Gifu - VMC Qualifier (43 Players):

1st) BT (Riviere)

2nd) ???

3rd) ???

4th) ???

Clan Distribution: 

Bermuda Triangle - 26

Tachikaze - 4

Nova Grappler - 3

Dark Irregulars - 2

Narukami, Link Joker, Spike Brothers, Nubatama, Shadow Paladin, Genesis, Oracle Think Tank, Gold Paladin - 1

1st

Hama Ali VGCS - VMC Qualifier (Unknown number of participants - but likely around 30):

1st) Tachikaze 

2nd) Bermuda Triangle (Riviere)

3rd) Great Nature 

4th) Aqua Force

1st

2nd 

3rd 

4th 

Images/Results courtesy of the TeamAbsolution Discord

Huh.  Tachis won one.  Mind you that deck when it highrolls (or Opens Exodia as players like to say) going first you literally cannot lose with it and that's probably how he beat Riviere because lolbestofone.  That'd also explain why Aquas are in here as Glory steals games.  No clue how Great Nature got in though.

Anyway so ends EB11 format if we can really call it an end.  EB12 isn't going to change up the dynamic aside from Vanquisher replacing Gauntlet Buster when the odd NK deck does top but at the end of the day we are still being ruled by our fish overlords.