TORONTO BEYBLADE BURST TOURNAMENT REPORT
December 17, 2017 at A&C Games in Toronto, Ontario, Canada • BURST FORMAT
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On December 17th, 2017 we were back at A&C Games for the sixth time exactly one year since since our first event there in 2016! Finding an indoor venue like A&C Games has been such a huge boon to our community here in Toronto. We used to host maybe one tournament outdoors in December (like this one), and that would be about it until March. Now, we can continue hosting events and bringing everyone together all throughout the year!
Going into this event a few weeks after the emergence of Destroy in the metagame as a force at WELCOME TO A&C GAMES V where I used it to win the event, I predicted that this event would be plagued by its presence. And it certainly was haha. I knew this would be the case not only because I was aware of how powerful it was, but because the remaining three Nightmare Longinus I had for sale had been sold, and because OldSchool™ also had a handful available for sale (as well as God Customize Sets). I had the advantage of surprise at the last event having been able to obtain and practice with the new parts before most other players besides 1234beyblade, but I understood that I wouldn’t have that going into this tournament.
As a result, my biggest priority was finding something which would not only defeat Drain Fafnir on Destroy, but have utility beyond that singular purpose. Right-spin Destroy combos can do the trick against dF.?.Ds, but in many ways they are a one-trick pony: they generally beat left-spin, but not much else. Right-spin Bearing was also an option, but it again is almost a one-trick pony in many respects given how vulnerable it is to being bursted. I eventually came to the realization that Lost Longinus might be a good option. I was reminded of L2 after seeing the It's Beyxercise Time! II winning combinations list. While I wasn’t particularly fond of the combos used in that tournament, I did think it could still be useful on Destroy. After testing L2.5B.Ds a little bit on the morning of the tournament, I discovered that my hunch was correct and that it was able to not only KO (or Burst, but it’s less likely) dF on Atomic and Destroy, but OS right-spin combos on things like Revolve and Atomic. This was good enough for me, so I decided I would use it. Even though I will always use the best combos available, it is important to me after discovering a powerful combo to try and evolve beyond it and stay ahead of the curve.
I was able to use it once in the preliminary stage to beat BAWB18’s tN.4M.X 3-2, I lost with it against OldSchool’s sO.4B.Ds–which was a shocking pick to run into haha–and then I gave it to JesseObre who was able to defeat kerpao’s sX on Destroy with is. In the finals, I won my entire match in the finals against SUGOI-KONICHEWA’s dF.2V.Ds and also his lS.6G.X with it. Two of the rounds against his lS were won at the very last moment; the second win in particular won me the match 6-4 and was the result of a weak launch that almost caused me to stop spinning before he hit me at the last second, bursting himself. I wish someone had been recording … it was incredible hahaha. Don’t think I’ve ever won a match which I was that close to losing before.
In the final battle against OldSchool I lost the first round after a instant KO at the beginning of the round … I admittedly got a little worried after that since I was down 2-0 even though it could have easily just been a fluke, so I switched to dF on Atomic and amazingly ended up being bursted by his dF.4B.Ds twice. I also heard that he was able to somehow burst 1234beyblade’s Deep Chaos with dF in a previous match … 1234beyblade jokingly kept calling him “RNG carried” after this, but really OldSchool has been doing so well lately and I think that sometimes you create your own luck once you become that good. Good things happen to good players consistently for a reason. Good things happen to bad players infrequently not because they created that luck with intention necessarily, but because of random chance.
In any case, losing that dF.4B.Ds vs. dF Atomic match-up itself was shocking, but in the first place I probably should have stuck with L2 and attempted to tie things up after that first round because nothing in his deck had a 100% win rate against my L2 combo. Even though going down 2-0 in a Deck Format battle is certainly winnable, it can be difficult to overcome a sense of panic sometimes, especially with a new combo you’re using for the first time that day. The doubt and pressure certainly mount at times like that, so it was a good learning experience for me.
Unsurprisingly, throughout the tournament not only was Destroy present, the amount of Nightmare Longinus in use was insane. I believe at least five or six people bought one that day in combination with the people who already had it, so it was just everywhere. For some reason, I kept seeing Drain Fafnir vs. Nightmare Longinus match-ups and could only shake my head and laugh at all the dF users since it’s such a bad match-up for them and they should have seen it coming! 1234beyblade and I knew that right-spin Stamina types like Deep Chaos actually shut down nL pretty well, so we were able to defeat it when we came up against one using that.
Overall, this tournament did leave a bit of worry amongst 1234beyblade and I afterwards because of how dominant Destroy was. It felt like Xtreme-based combos weren’t as viable as they should be because of it. You can certainly win with Xtreme-based combos against Destroy, but the Destroy-based combos are easier to use. We struggled to come up with ideas for what Attack types would consistently beat Destroy. In my mind, I think something like Merge or Impact-based Attack types which move faster than Xtreme could maybe do it, but the question then is: are they good enough against other types of combos?
More testing is needed, and that’s always a good thing. Looking forward to what 2018 brings for Beyblade Burst and the Toronto community!
Winning Combinations
1st: OldSchool™
Drain Fafnir 4 Bump Destroy
Shadow Orichalcum 4 Bump Destroy
Deep Chaos 7 Glaive Atomic
2nd: Kei
Drain Fafnir 7 Glaive Destroy
Drain Fafnir 7 Glaive Bearing
Lost Longinus 5 Bump Destroy
Deep Chaos 7 Revolve
3rd: 1234beyblade
Drain Fafnir 7 Glaive Destroy
Deep Chaos 7 Glaive Atomic
Deep Chaos 7 Glaive Destroy
Deep Chaos 7 Revolve (Deck Format Finals Only)
Sieg Xcalibur 5 Meteor Orbit (Deck Format Finals Only)
Photos
Deck Format Finals
Thanks for reading! If you have any questions about this event, please feel free to post below!
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