Posting for @[JesseObre], who hosted:
BEYBALDE TOURNAMENT - 08/27/2017
Toronto, Ontario, Canada - Burst Format
1st: Kei
Galaxy Zeus 2 Meteor Atomic
Maximum Garuda (Metal God Chip) 4 Glaive Atomic
Drain Fafnir (Metal God Chip) 4 Glaive Atomic
Guardian Kerbeus 4 Glaive Revolve
Legend Spriggan 7 Meteor Impact (Deck Format Finals Only)
Maximum Garuda 4 Glaive Orbit (Deck Format Finals Only)
Galaxy Zeus 7 Meteor Orbit (Deck Format Finals Only)
Drain Fafnir (Metal God Chip) 2 Cross Atomic (Deck Format Finals Only)
2nd: @[1234beyblade]
Legend Spriggan 7 Glaive Xtreme
Alter Chronos 7 Glaive Atomic
Alter Chronos 7 Glaive Revolve
Drain Fafnir 7 Glaive Atomic
Guardian Kerbeus Heavy Revolve (Deck Format Finals Only)
Drain Fafnir 4 Meteor Atomic (Deck Format Finals Only)
3rd: @[Newtype]
Legend Spriggan 7 Cross Xtreme
Alter Chronos 7 Meteor Orbit
Legend Spriggan 7 Meteor Xtreme (Deck Format Finals Only)
Guardian Kerbeus Heavy Revolve (Deck Format Finals Only)
Drain Fafnir 2 Cross Orbit (Deck Format Finals Only)
Really great tournament today. The balance in the metagame that I spoke about in my previous post is becoming even more evident now, and it's been a lot of fun. It honestly might be the best it's been since the short period between when Odin was originally banned and before Dark Deathscyther was released. People were very afraid of Drain Fafnir when it was released, and have freaked out about Maximum Garuda, but being where we are now, to me it's clear that TAKARA-TOMY has done a good job of creating a new metagame that is fair and balanced to all types (with perhaps pure defense being the least viable because Legend Spriggan tears through almost everything, but that's OK given that lS is an Attack type and takes a certain level of skill to use; it's certainly better than having the high-stamina high-defense D2 which was extremely difficult to deal with in a consistent manner for almost all Attack types).
For any wondering: my usage of gZ today was as a counter to gK on Revolve (it seems to be able to Burst or destabilize/OS it pretty consistently), and lS on Impact was kind of a joke 1234beyblade made yesterday when we were testing, but the incredible speed of Impact when tornado stalling allows it to outrun the popular Xtreme variant pretty well. Because lS also has such a strong match-up against gK (and many other Beyblades), you can get away with using Impact against them too as well I found in the little testing I did.
In any case, I'm not too sold on the defensive ability of gZ and was admittedly lucky to win a match-up against lS when pyrus10000 used it in our block, but it's proficiency against gK, being able to have a chance against stuff like dF on Atomic (JesseObre beat my dF Atomic in one round of our finals match-up with his gZ Atomic), and also seemingly better stamina than aC in the testing I did made it an attractive choice for today.