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Before I begin, Im simply stating what I observed. If I offended you any way, well get over it. hah

Well I know its several months after, but I figure this does need a report. Im going to do this a bit different. Im also going to mention some stuff that happened before, during and After the tournament. This is how im used to doing tournament reports on other sites like pojo.com etc.

Thursday

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I arrived at Toronto Airport around Noon. I get to my hotel around 2:30pm. Around 5pm I meet up with Kei & Blitz. Pretty nice guys. We practice some. I get to try a Zero G stadium for the first time. On my way back to the hotel I get lost but I do find a McDonalds. Only complaint about them was no free refills and no sweet tea.

Friday/Roll Call 2

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I meet up with Blitz around noon. We get our tickets for AN. We get to where we will be Roll Call. I meet a few of the Canadian Bladers. They were nicer then most American bladers. This event had around 20 bladers or so. Right before Roll Call started my team mate from NC Ziro showed up right at the last minute. This event was very well organized. It got done in under 2 hours. Biggest fear of the event was the fact I didn't have a Friday pass or a volunteer pass. And ironically enough when they came to check for badges the only person they checked (and only person who had a badge) was Blitz.

Overall Roll Call was a very good event. It went by quick well organized 10/10

Beyblade Crusade 2 Anime North 2012

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Ziro & I got were one of the first ones there. I was the first to bring a BB10. There was about 5-6 people already waiting. around 30 minutes later everyone starts coming in. Seemed like registration started a little bit later then planned. After everyone was finally registered they started announcing pairings. This is where it started getting a little bit confusing. Some people didn't know where they were going. (Referring to the bladers.) One thing I did notice was that Kei was writing everything with Pen & Paper. I was wondering why he wasn't using a spread sheet or Challonge. After my first match I win rather easily. 45 minutes after that I asked Kai-v/kei when my next match was. I was some how put in the loser bracket by accident. Once they corrected the problem I had 4-5 matches in a row. During this time I also faced off against Blitz. He is definitely a good blader. After those matches were done I asked when my next match was. I was told I would be playing for 1st/2nd. I was like "awesome." So I had about an hour or so before I had my last match. Did a little bit of judging, tweeting, eating, & Facebook. Apparently we had to be out of the room by 6pm so a guitar hero tournament could happen. We ended up leaving about 5:50pm. So we cut close with time. I got my prizes, said by to everyone and went back to the hotel.

Sunday

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Got kicked out of Anime North.

Pros

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Canada
the variety of bladers
Kei
Kai-V
Arupaeo
Blitz

Cons

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Crusade started off a little bit shaky for me.
Confusion prior to AN about the Beyblade Pass
Not being able to use Challonge
Not getting any Syrup or seeing any moose's while in Toronto

And if i missed anything ill add it later. And yes I realize this tournament was a while back. But i think it was kinda needed. So enjoy?

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One thing I did notice was that Kei was writing everything with Pen & Paper. I was wondering why he wasn't using a spread sheet or Challonge.

I had done a couple double elimination tournments in the past by hand (including one with 58 participants) with no problems, so that's why I went with pen and paper for BEYBLADE CRUSADE 2. It's what I know best. The issue, however, turned out to be the number of participants; I failed to realize that there would be an uneven amount of pairings after two rounds had been completed, and nine Bladers were left in the Winners Bracket. This of course threw the entire tournament off, which is what caused the delays throughout the day. Arupaeo helped me to come up with a fair way to continue the tournament, which was to split the top nine from each bracket into three mini round robins, take the winners from those, then play a final three-person round robin to determine the winner of that bracket. That's why you had so many matches towards the end; you won your first round robin, then the second one, to advance to the finals.

Apparently we had to be out of the room by 6pm so a guitar hero tournament could happen. We ended up leaving about 5:50pm. So we cut close with time.

I didn't really appreciate how much these guys were rushing us! We still had possession of the room, and though one of the organizers approached me earlier in the day to ask if we could finish a bit early so that they could set up and I said we should be finished a bit early anyways, that didn't really give them the right to force their way in while we were still finishing up.

Sunday

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Got kicked out of Anime North.

Lol, why?

Pros

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Canada
the variety of bladers
Kei
Kai-V
Arupaeo
Blitz

You forgot Blader Sexy (Oatmeal).

Confusion prior to AN about the Beyblade Pass

This was definitely a con ... last year we were given confirmation of the Beyblade Pass way in advance.

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Ziro & I got kicked out for sneaking in. Paying $40USD to get in just didn't seem worth it to me. And I didn't put Blader Sexy up there for the simple fact he was so awesome words couldn't describe how awesome he truly is.

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