Sep. 19, 2022 12:16 AM
The following are words I have to say about "TEAMPALOOZA: Battle Blader's Unite!", a ranked tournament using Team Burst Standard 3v3 format after the release and partial availability of the Wind Knight BU Layer.
I recommend the following music for reading the report. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QizrZAZhZY . Look, I play a lot of videogames. Folks, my memory is bad, so if I end up repeating tournament report music, just let me know and I'll pick a new track.
- That's not how apostrophes work. Unless you're talking about a Unite driver and a person named Battle Blader.
- We had 7 teams of 3 people, totalling 21 people. It turns out that 7 teams makes group round robin, with one group of 4 teams and one group of 3. So two of the teams only got to play two matches today, four teams played 3, and one team played 5. Uh... 7 is the least ideal amount of teams for Group Round Robin. I honestly think we would've been better with 6, we'd have a Single Group Round Robin.
- We started around 12:25. It went until 3:30. Although we only had 7 teams, a two group round robin of 2-3 matches for each team, and there were only 9 total first round matches and 1 finals match, it took a VERY long time. Matches involved a lot of opposite spin. There were a lot of OS ties. Crisis also has a habit of having one team do a lot of the judging and saving all their matches for the end. This isn't always efficient. There were too many times during the tournament where only one match was going on.
- I just came back from a 5 day vacation two nights ago, so, I'm tired and sore. Moreso after the tournament.
- The weather was... fine, it's indoors in's gaming loft. This time he had the regular lights on, so, I could see good! He now has 3 AC units and 2 dang good fans active. People were Actually Cold. Well, anyone in shorts. Everyone else was fine.
- Everyone who showed up more or less knew what they were doing! That's always cool. made this one invite-only, so that scared away anyone who could not properly read how to register. Low amount of teams, which is a downside.
- We had a bunch of different people judging, no issues there. Crisis was trying to have judges be from the opposite group.
- I was on team "Now Sonic Can be Super Sonic" with LJ-Blader (captain) and MamaBey2122. We had an okay day. Unfortunately, we were in a group with only two other teams.
- We randomized our blader order each time. Strategy can be countered with strategy. There's nothing you can do against luck. Let's just go for it, the heck with it.
- This was 3v3 team format. That means everyone prepared a deck of 3 beyblades. Dynamite Belial2+F Illegal Bearing'-0, Vanish Bahamut Giga Metal Drift-10, and for the last bey, I didn't mess with Xiphoid or Guilty this time, I stuck with a semi-useful Roar Longinus Over Zone'+Z-4. My team had similar choices, except both of them were running a Xiphoid combo.
- There were a lot of the same layers all over the place. Roar was kind of rare, Vanish and Dynamite are still everywhere. Guilty and Xiphoid were actually present in most matches! I saw a World, I saw a Rage. And for those people lucky enough to have theirs shipped in time, there was Wind. Oh my... Wind. It definitely affected my music choice this time.
- Let's talk about Wind: It's good. It's good stamina. It's halfway decent smash attack! It's very wide and thick. It's okay in same spin and opposite spin. It doesn't scrape too much it seems. It's weird and unpredictable and it can both win and lose to Dynamie and Vanish. We're going to see a LOT of this layer going forward. Dynamite and Vanish have been present all over standard for a year and a half; Wind is joining them. There were a lot of ties to judge, but most of those were Dynamite or Vanish, not as many with Wind.
- No one in my team had received their ordered random boosters for Wind yet. So... that didn't do us any favors.
- A lot of my battle wins were opposite spin, as usual. A lot. I'm very cursed. But I had some same spins too. Even won some of them.
- The two opponents I faced in the tournament were and . I beat SPN, but not RED. They're both good, but RED got me. The circumstances of that match were dire, my team was down 4 points. The only way I could tie it up was by going 2-0 and then bursting him. That's when I replaced my Roar with Xiphoid. Unfortunately, it scraped a lot (I used Xanthus, bad call on my part, and had the point at the wrong spot!!!) and didn't win. I was 1-1 going into the Xiphoid match, and I think he got me 3-1 or 3-2.
- As the team in the 3 team group with 1-1 instead of 2-0, we didn't get to go to the finals. No worries. We helped judge.
- was at times running a deck with both Rage and Guilty. Hilarious. I mean, if he can make it work, then go for it.
- 1st place was "The Beyblade Experience", with "#Other-Systems" in second. Overall, there were a LOT of really powerful teams out there today, a lot of DB and BU layers running around, too many close calls, and some fierce challenges all around.
- I had fun at today's tournament and we did okay, but only having 2 matches is kind of vexing. We DID travel a goodly distance to be here. I wish with 7 teams they'd let you do Single Group Round Robin.
Now go make sure you have a Wind layer.
I recommend the following music for reading the report. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QizrZAZhZY . Look, I play a lot of videogames. Folks, my memory is bad, so if I end up repeating tournament report music, just let me know and I'll pick a new track.
- That's not how apostrophes work. Unless you're talking about a Unite driver and a person named Battle Blader.
- We had 7 teams of 3 people, totalling 21 people. It turns out that 7 teams makes group round robin, with one group of 4 teams and one group of 3. So two of the teams only got to play two matches today, four teams played 3, and one team played 5. Uh... 7 is the least ideal amount of teams for Group Round Robin. I honestly think we would've been better with 6, we'd have a Single Group Round Robin.
- We started around 12:25. It went until 3:30. Although we only had 7 teams, a two group round robin of 2-3 matches for each team, and there were only 9 total first round matches and 1 finals match, it took a VERY long time. Matches involved a lot of opposite spin. There were a lot of OS ties. Crisis also has a habit of having one team do a lot of the judging and saving all their matches for the end. This isn't always efficient. There were too many times during the tournament where only one match was going on.
- I just came back from a 5 day vacation two nights ago, so, I'm tired and sore. Moreso after the tournament.
- The weather was... fine, it's indoors in
- Everyone who showed up more or less knew what they were doing! That's always cool.
- We had a bunch of different people judging, no issues there. Crisis was trying to have judges be from the opposite group.
- I was on team "Now Sonic Can be Super Sonic" with LJ-Blader (captain) and MamaBey2122. We had an okay day. Unfortunately, we were in a group with only two other teams.
- We randomized our blader order each time. Strategy can be countered with strategy. There's nothing you can do against luck. Let's just go for it, the heck with it.
- This was 3v3 team format. That means everyone prepared a deck of 3 beyblades. Dynamite Belial2+F Illegal Bearing'-0, Vanish Bahamut Giga Metal Drift-10, and for the last bey, I didn't mess with Xiphoid or Guilty this time, I stuck with a semi-useful Roar Longinus Over Zone'+Z-4. My team had similar choices, except both of them were running a Xiphoid combo.
- There were a lot of the same layers all over the place. Roar was kind of rare, Vanish and Dynamite are still everywhere. Guilty and Xiphoid were actually present in most matches! I saw a World, I saw a Rage. And for those people lucky enough to have theirs shipped in time, there was Wind. Oh my... Wind. It definitely affected my music choice this time.
- Let's talk about Wind: It's good. It's good stamina. It's halfway decent smash attack! It's very wide and thick. It's okay in same spin and opposite spin. It doesn't scrape too much it seems. It's weird and unpredictable and it can both win and lose to Dynamie and Vanish. We're going to see a LOT of this layer going forward. Dynamite and Vanish have been present all over standard for a year and a half; Wind is joining them. There were a lot of ties to judge, but most of those were Dynamite or Vanish, not as many with Wind.
- No one in my team had received their ordered random boosters for Wind yet. So... that didn't do us any favors.
- A lot of my battle wins were opposite spin, as usual. A lot. I'm very cursed. But I had some same spins too. Even won some of them.
- The two opponents I faced in the tournament were
- As the team in the 3 team group with 1-1 instead of 2-0, we didn't get to go to the finals. No worries. We helped judge.
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- 1st place was "The Beyblade Experience", with "#Other-Systems" in second. Overall, there were a LOT of really powerful teams out there today, a lot of DB and BU layers running around, too many close calls, and some fierce challenges all around.
- I had fun at today's tournament and we did okay, but only having 2 matches is kind of vexing. We DID travel a goodly distance to be here. I wish with 7 teams they'd let you do Single Group Round Robin.
Now go make sure you have a Wind layer.