Put Your Camera Down - 7/6/2018
Toronto, Ontario, Canada - Burst Format
1st: @[1234beyblade]
Twin Nemesis 0 Bump Bearing
Hell Salamander (Level Chip) 0 Bump Atomic
Hell Salamander (Level Chip) 0 Bump Bearing
Deep Chaos 5 Eternal (Deck Format Finals Only)
Winning Valkyrie 7 Meteor βite (Deck Format Finals Only)
Winning Valkyrie 7 Meteor Jolt (Deck Format Finals Only)
2nd: Kei
Archer Hercules (Level Chip) 7 Eternal
Hell Salamander (Level Chip) 0 Bump Bearing
Winning Valkyrie 5 Star Bearing (Deck Format Finals Only)
3rd: @[Cam77]
Hell Salamander 0 Bump Bearing
Archer Hercules 7 Eternal
Archer Hercules (Level Chip) 7 Eternal
Hell Salamander (Level Chip) 0 Bump Atomic
Hell Salamander 0 Bump Atomic
Our first ever Friday night event, held due to Cam77 moving to the United States this weekend! Was glad to see him place in the top three.
This was also the first ever WBO event with Level Chips legalized. They certainly played a factor as you can see in the list above, but for me it's still hard to define precisely how much of an effect they have. Need to do more testing ...
Archer Hercules and Eternal were big players throughout the event. Early on a lot of people who had just got aH were using Frames on it with Eternal, which is actually worse due to Eternal's shorter height. aH.7.Et has created a difficult choice for players now: do you go with that and risk losing to hS Bearing, do you go with hS Atomic and beat hS Bearing but risk losing to aH Eternal? That being said, I haven't had a chance to test aH much, so it could be more complex than that. For instance, I wasn't familiar with what the best Attack type against aH would be during this event.
The Deep Chaos on 1234beyblade's list was I think only because he didn't have aH and borrowed the Eternal ... he won at least one round with it against a hS Atomic combo, but then lost to a aH vs. dC Eternal match up.
In my match against Cam77 during the first round of the finals I was able to win a couple initial rounds in an aH.7.Et near mirror match–including one via KO–but then proceeded to lose two or three in a row despite having a Level Chip on my aH. This indicated pretty obviously to me that the other parts you are using have a larger effect on your Beyblade than the Level Chip necessarily does. The 7 I had switched to during the finals (because it felt tighter with my aH/Et) was actually less balanced, which probably contributed to me beginning to lose by OS. Luckily, I made the decision to switch to wV.5S.Br while the score was 3-2 for me in an effort to have a couple chances to KO him for the win and was able to do that on the first try.
In the other first round finals match 1234beyblade was able to get an awesome KO with wV.7M.β against OldSchool™'s aH on Eternal. 1234beyblade had been testing with this combo for a while now, so it was cool to see it finally make its way to the winning combos list. If you can launch it powerfully enough the movement of βite is pretty intense and it gets a lot of rebounds off the stadium walls.
In my final match against 1234beyblade, I won the first round with hS.0B.At versus his aH Atomic and then we proceeded to finish the battle entirely with my hS.0B.At versus his wV.7M.Jl. It turned into a prediction game as we both tried to guess if I was going to weak launch or hard launch, or if he was going to bank or straight launch. My string got stuck on the stadium in the first round of this and I knocked him out, but we couldn't count the round, then we traded blows and he ultimately won 6-3! He's now won three tournaments in a row!