May. 26, 2015 5:07 AM
May. 26, 2015 5:52 AM
(May. 26, 2015 5:07 AM)The Boss Wrote: [ -> ]It's in my bag Scott. Worst is I considered throwing it out lol
omgggg noooo. That grip colour is pretty rare now! Thanks for holding on to it.
May. 26, 2015 8:33 AM
I finally got back to NYC. Thanks to all who expressed concern. I'll post later about the event after I get some sleep
May. 26, 2015 8:16 PM
(May. 26, 2015 8:33 AM)Cye Kinomiya Wrote: [ -> ]I finally got back to NYC. Thanks to all who expressed concern. I'll post later about the event after I get some sleep
Glad to hear it! Did you guys end up taking a bus?
May. 26, 2015 10:18 PM
(May. 23, 2015 11:57 PM)Kai-V Wrote: [ -> ]The big winner is ...Ya it was great to be in your team and if we ever do a team format in Montreal it would be fun to be in the same team again hah!
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Team DayBreakers (Kei, JesseObre and The Boss) !
Surprisingly, Team GT did not even qualify for the finals, and it was Team Osu! and Team Yeti, both mostly Toronto-based, that were part of the finals. If I remember, Team Osu! technically came in second place, but nothing is awarded for that in the Team format from what I remember. We did Block Round Robin.
My personal record was 1-1, winning 3-0 against Leone19 but also losing 0-3 to someone in Team Osu!, hah. Not bad though. I was part of team "Anything" with DJ Alpha and Cye Kinomiya.
Team format really grew on me after today's tournament. My original plan for a team format was strictly tag teams, so pairs of Bladers, therefore seeing it turn out as teams of three was not as cool in my mind and I found some of the rules so-so, but everything was great in the end. Experiencing it makes all the difference, hah.
We really hope that not many people showed up at 5:00 PM because of Anime North's huge mistake in the program schedule. Apparently Beyblade was in their top three of questions people asked at the front desk, but we were not swarmed at all by a huge crowd of new members ...
Zankye was there too and apparently they are going to do a livestream tomorrow in which they will show footage of today's event, so make sure to watch out for his Sunday livestream on his YouTube channel !
May. 26, 2015 10:22 PM
@[DJ ALPHA] could be interesting but may be a little predictable for the team formation hah! I have an idea of what team could be hah.
May. 27, 2015 4:02 AM
Man, on our way back to Montréal, I think we had a premonition for last year's challenge ...
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One of my tires ...
The car ride ended up almost double what it should have taken, hah. Still, nothing at all like what Cye Kinomiya had to endure; I was seriously thinking all the time about whether there was anywhere I could have driven you that would have made your return easier and cheaper, but I could not figure anything out.
I just found this to be a weird coincidence, hah.
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One of my tires ...
Spoiler (Click to View)
The car ride ended up almost double what it should have taken, hah. Still, nothing at all like what Cye Kinomiya had to endure; I was seriously thinking all the time about whether there was anywhere I could have driven you that would have made your return easier and cheaper, but I could not figure anything out.
I just found this to be a weird coincidence, hah.
May. 27, 2015 5:06 AM
Just posted a massive weekend report for everything that happened this past weekend in the Organizers' Circle. Please check it out! If you can't comment on it there, feel free to post responses here.
May. 27, 2015 5:55 AM
(May. 26, 2015 8:33 AM)Cye Kinomiya Wrote: [ -> ]I finally got back to NYC. Thanks to all who expressed concern. I'll post later about the event after I get some sleep
Glad you made it safely back.
May. 27, 2015 6:26 AM
Tournament Results: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1...sp=sharing
Also posted in the MFB/Team/HMS BeyBattle Revolution Weekend Report.
Also posted in the MFB/Team/HMS BeyBattle Revolution Weekend Report.
May. 27, 2015 11:09 PM
(May. 26, 2015 8:16 PM)Kei Wrote: [ -> ](May. 26, 2015 8:33 AM)Cye Kinomiya Wrote: [ -> ]I finally got back to NYC. Thanks to all who expressed concern. I'll post later about the event after I get some sleep
Glad to hear it! Did you guys end up taking a bus?
Thanks. We were on that bus for 14 hours!
(May. 27, 2015 4:02 AM)Kai-V Wrote: [ -> ]The car ride ended up almost double what it should have taken, hah. Still, nothing at all like what Cye Kinomiya had to endure; I was seriously thinking all the time about whether there was anywhere I could have driven you that would have made your return easier and cheaper, but I could not figure anything out.
I couldn't think of anything either. I sat in the airport stressed for a while, haha. Thanks though. Thanks to Valentin too for checking up on us.
(May. 27, 2015 5:55 AM)Dark_Mousy Wrote: [ -> ](May. 26, 2015 8:33 AM)Cye Kinomiya Wrote: [ -> ]I finally got back to NYC. Thanks to all who expressed concern. I'll post later about the event after I get some sleep
Glad you made it safely back.
Thanks!
May. 28, 2015 1:59 AM
There was an error in the organizers thread wich said that the captain was cye... The actuall leader of team anything was me hah
May. 28, 2015 2:54 AM
(May. 28, 2015 1:59 AM)DJ ALPHA Wrote: [ -> ]There was an error in the organizers thread wich said that the captain was cye... The actuall leader of team anything was me hah
Ah sorry! You're right. I remember now. I'll fix that.
May. 28, 2015 3:52 AM
So since I'm not a tournament organizer, I have to post here. All of the tournaments were a lot of fun, even the HMS one where I had no idea what I was doing, haha. Basically my trend for the entire weekend was block strong, but finals weak. Maybe I just don't do well under pressure or something.
Overall, it was a pretty fun weekend. I'll admit I was looking forward to the solo event more than the team event but they all ended up being exciting. It's a shame that they'll probably be the last tournaments I attend unless I can get something going in Pennsylvania or Vermont (who knows, if I have spare time during college I might travel down to CT if the community's still around).
Friday (Click to View)
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Even though I got put in arguably the toughest block (Kei, geetster, and LMAO's block may have been worse) I got ridiculously lucky and managed to beat Jesse, Dark, and SS1 somehow. Probably the reason I won against SS1 was because his RB wasn't aggressive enough to KO Jade WD. Against OnTheDL (geetster's mom) I thought I would be too short to hit Earth 230 but apparently not. 18 was a new user who joined the tournament late (18 was the number Kei assigned him) so I didn't get his username. Despite the Beyblade he was using he managed to KO me, but I still won. By some miracle I went 5-0 in my block which I'm pretty sure no one in the room was expecting.
JesseObre and I moved on to the finals, along with geetster99, LMAO, The Sponge, and 1234Beyblade. In my first battle against 1234Beyblade I had the matchup right but couldn't get the launch down. I hadn't warmed up enough with Metal Flat so I couldn't find the balance between Self-KOing while still launching hard enough to OS. According to Kei, geetster had been using the Burn Staller the whole time so I picked something that should counter it (Even if I messed up the initial hit I was hoping RF could run down MF before I ran out of speed). Maybe geetster was just having an off day or something, he won the NC qualifier using pretty much only that same Burn Staller. I had no clue what to do against The Sponge so I just went with the combo I was most familiar with. At first I thought I could win by OS but clearly that wasn't the case as the only win I got was a bad launch by him. I battled Jesse again after that and I'm pretty sure he almost beat me with my own RB (he asked to borrow it several times throughout the tournament). Fortunately Omega was able to throw its weight around better than Lightning. I had noticed that LMAO and The Sponge had been sharing a lot of their combos so I figured Libra 230RS was up again. I used LLD and set it to the 145 height, thinking I could exploit the but after I failed to KO it twice in a row I tried to go for the Tornado Stall. Ironically enough those were the two times I KOed it because LRF is so much harder to Tornado Stall with in tournaments than it is in practice or testing. I would basically skip the Tornado Ridge, bounce off the wall, and KO Libra. The final match was pretty intense and I wish someone had recorded it. LMAO wall saved like 3 times and it all came down to a last second Stamina battle that he won. He then held up his Beyblade to Kei's face and said "Scott... ban it," haha.
The side events were pretty cool, I remember Thunder Dome telling me that MF did really well in the Tornado Stadium, so I tried Quetz MF and Libra MF. Neither of them worked, but I managed to get a 2-win streak with Libra 230D before the third winner. I used Pegasis 100MB for the Beyblade race after finding out that RF didn't work that well, but just ended up knocking my opponent down the ramp most of the time. B:D was definitely the way to go for the tower, seeing as I won with Flame B:D and picked up a Galaxy Pegasus.
Even though I got put in arguably the toughest block (Kei, geetster, and LMAO's block may have been worse) I got ridiculously lucky and managed to beat Jesse, Dark, and SS1 somehow. Probably the reason I won against SS1 was because his RB wasn't aggressive enough to KO Jade WD. Against OnTheDL (geetster's mom) I thought I would be too short to hit Earth 230 but apparently not. 18 was a new user who joined the tournament late (18 was the number Kei assigned him) so I didn't get his username. Despite the Beyblade he was using he managed to KO me, but I still won. By some miracle I went 5-0 in my block which I'm pretty sure no one in the room was expecting.
JesseObre and I moved on to the finals, along with geetster99, LMAO, The Sponge, and 1234Beyblade. In my first battle against 1234Beyblade I had the matchup right but couldn't get the launch down. I hadn't warmed up enough with Metal Flat so I couldn't find the balance between Self-KOing while still launching hard enough to OS. According to Kei, geetster had been using the Burn Staller the whole time so I picked something that should counter it (Even if I messed up the initial hit I was hoping RF could run down MF before I ran out of speed). Maybe geetster was just having an off day or something, he won the NC qualifier using pretty much only that same Burn Staller. I had no clue what to do against The Sponge so I just went with the combo I was most familiar with. At first I thought I could win by OS but clearly that wasn't the case as the only win I got was a bad launch by him. I battled Jesse again after that and I'm pretty sure he almost beat me with my own RB (he asked to borrow it several times throughout the tournament). Fortunately Omega was able to throw its weight around better than Lightning. I had noticed that LMAO and The Sponge had been sharing a lot of their combos so I figured Libra 230RS was up again. I used LLD and set it to the 145 height, thinking I could exploit the but after I failed to KO it twice in a row I tried to go for the Tornado Stall. Ironically enough those were the two times I KOed it because LRF is so much harder to Tornado Stall with in tournaments than it is in practice or testing. I would basically skip the Tornado Ridge, bounce off the wall, and KO Libra. The final match was pretty intense and I wish someone had recorded it. LMAO wall saved like 3 times and it all came down to a last second Stamina battle that he won. He then held up his Beyblade to Kei's face and said "Scott... ban it," haha.
The side events were pretty cool, I remember Thunder Dome telling me that MF did really well in the Tornado Stadium, so I tried Quetz MF and Libra MF. Neither of them worked, but I managed to get a 2-win streak with Libra 230D before the third winner. I used Pegasis 100MB for the Beyblade race after finding out that RF didn't work that well, but just ended up knocking my opponent down the ramp most of the time. B:D was definitely the way to go for the tower, seeing as I won with Flame B:D and picked up a Galaxy Pegasus.
Saturday (Click to View)
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I was definitely the weak link on Team Yeti; Suntailhawk carried so hard. Our gameplan was literally to play Rock Paper Scissors Shoe to determine our team order, and it kind of worked.
Although I lost to Classik, I did manage to go 2-3 and help us win the Team Battle. My one win of the day was definitely my most important contribution to the team as I somehow managed to upset geetster 3-0 (got a lucky matchup twice in a row) and I'm pretty sure that was what put Yeti in the finals over GT. Against Team Osu I let the whole team down though, losing 0-3 against Libra Stamina using Omega in what was supposed to be a revenge match against 1234Beyblade. That put Yeti and Osu in a tiebreaker; they chose me after my bad performance against 1234Beyblade and we chose Mitsu, thinking he wouldn't have the guts to use Attack again after losing with it to OnTheDL's Earth AD145/W145WD. Suntailhawk let me use his Duo Cygnus 230MB, since apparently it beat most of the Stamina and Defense combos you see in Limited. Mitsu ended up using Dark Knight LTAC and while I thought I'd be tall enough to avoid it (also plastic on metal contact to minimize damage) he proved me wrong and sniped the carp out of me 3 times in a row. Despite what everyone else was telling me, Mitsu absolutely does not suck with Attack, haha. Either that or he's just really good at reading people's hand position/launch angle. We got totally flattened by Team Day Breakers though, I'm pretty sure both of my teammates lost 0-3, while I went 2-3. My battle against The Boss was basically a toned-down version of my battle against LMAO: I started to make a comeback when I tried Tornado Stalling, and the last round ended in a close OS (but not as close as the LMAO one, and not with as many wall saves).
I actually don't remember any of the side events from Saturday. Maybe I left too early to get lunch. Oh well.
I was definitely the weak link on Team Yeti; Suntailhawk carried so hard. Our gameplan was literally to play Rock Paper Scissors Shoe to determine our team order, and it kind of worked.
Although I lost to Classik, I did manage to go 2-3 and help us win the Team Battle. My one win of the day was definitely my most important contribution to the team as I somehow managed to upset geetster 3-0 (got a lucky matchup twice in a row) and I'm pretty sure that was what put Yeti in the finals over GT. Against Team Osu I let the whole team down though, losing 0-3 against Libra Stamina using Omega in what was supposed to be a revenge match against 1234Beyblade. That put Yeti and Osu in a tiebreaker; they chose me after my bad performance against 1234Beyblade and we chose Mitsu, thinking he wouldn't have the guts to use Attack again after losing with it to OnTheDL's Earth AD145/W145WD. Suntailhawk let me use his Duo Cygnus 230MB, since apparently it beat most of the Stamina and Defense combos you see in Limited. Mitsu ended up using Dark Knight LTAC and while I thought I'd be tall enough to avoid it (also plastic on metal contact to minimize damage) he proved me wrong and sniped the carp out of me 3 times in a row. Despite what everyone else was telling me, Mitsu absolutely does not suck with Attack, haha. Either that or he's just really good at reading people's hand position/launch angle. We got totally flattened by Team Day Breakers though, I'm pretty sure both of my teammates lost 0-3, while I went 2-3. My battle against The Boss was basically a toned-down version of my battle against LMAO: I started to make a comeback when I tried Tornado Stalling, and the last round ended in a close OS (but not as close as the LMAO one, and not with as many wall saves).
I actually don't remember any of the side events from Saturday. Maybe I left too early to get lunch. Oh well.
Sunday (Click to View)
I didn't put the HMS tournament into my excel spreadsheet so I don't have a picture, but I can give all the information here. HMS isn't really my thing compared to Plastics, but I ended up going 3-2 and getting 3rd in my block. I was using Circle Upper, Circle Wide, and Bearing Core so most of my wins were lucky recoil KOs or lucky wall saves. Wall saves was how I beat StormScorpio1 who was using the same combo as me, but with Metal Flat instead of Bearing Core. Against Kei I went 2-3 using lucky wall saves and weak launching (he was using Jijariya Blade, Circle Heavy, and GFCUV) and I think I might have had a chance at beating him if I hadn't said that I was weak launching when the score was 1-1. Next up was Leone7, who I'm pretty sure was using a stock Advance Aerazer. We were in the Tornado Balance Stadium so it was harder for him to land a KO, especially since Metal Semi Flat lacks the power of Grip Flat Core/GCFUV. The next two battles against Master Builder Brandon and Dark_Mousy were mirror matches, Brandon was in the BB-10 and Dark in the Tornado Balance. I tried to Sliding Shoot against Brandon for the Upper Attack, and got lucky enough to win. Dark and I got into the spin direction mind-game and tied like 5 times in between one of us choosing right and getting the close OS. In the final match I think I was using Left Spin and he was using Right, and he got a clean KO off of recoil.
The tournament took a lot longer than anticipated, so I had to leave before the side events happened since my flight took off at 3:00. I was especially disappointed that I missed the Plastics tournament that Dark and Dsiks hosted afterwards, after seeing the sick custom dish that Dsiks made and the fact that I had a good chance at winning.
The tournament took a lot longer than anticipated, so I had to leave before the side events happened since my flight took off at 3:00. I was especially disappointed that I missed the Plastics tournament that Dark and Dsiks hosted afterwards, after seeing the sick custom dish that Dsiks made and the fact that I had a good chance at winning.
Overall, it was a pretty fun weekend. I'll admit I was looking forward to the solo event more than the team event but they all ended up being exciting. It's a shame that they'll probably be the last tournaments I attend unless I can get something going in Pennsylvania or Vermont (who knows, if I have spare time during college I might travel down to CT if the community's still around).
May. 28, 2015 5:36 AM
Again to try to bring the discussion away from the Organizers' Circle and into the more public forum :
This event was very interesting, honestly. I was not even supposed to play since Kei wanted me to organise the matches and the overall tournament structure, but I could not imagine simply watching and sitting all day through a Limited format event. After my trip to Japan, I have a mentality to try to do the most out of occasions in front of me. Plus, I had brought my Beyblades and had not participated in the Friday tournament. The organisation of the event ended up being totally fine without me constantly onto it, delegating result recording to judges in the Blocks and, as Kei mentioned, there was no trouble at all finding a good judge in the team that was not playing, out of the three in each Block.
I had no team at all though coming into the tournament, so I ended up with fellow Montréal Blader DJ ALPHA and Cye Kinomiya, who also had no team yet. We had no idea for the team name though, so when Kei asked him to come up with anything, Cye Kinomiya said : "Team Anything", hah. Thankfully we can change that name later ... Since I wanted to remain a free agent in case we ever held a team format tournament in Montréal, I declined the suggestion of being the captain of the team, and that was probably Cye Kinomiya's reason as well.
We did super well in our first team matchup. I proposed that we should make me go first in the lineup against the other team's members since I would probably lose, so that would give DJ ALPHA and Cye Kinomiya an idea of whether they absolutely had to win, or how many rounds they had to win at least. Thankfully, in my first battle I gave our team a huge advantage by winning 3-0. It ended up being exactly the opposite for our second and last team matchup though, hah. We all performed horribly against Team Osu!.
I really wish I had seen what had happened in Team GT's Block for them not to advance. Apparently it was mostly bad luck, but I was rather shocked to see them eliminated so easily, with their mean BeyRank of eleven. I have the impression, somehow, that it would have been easier to keep up with what took place in other Blocks if it had not been a team format ... Probably because then you do not have to care about how teammates perform.
Overall, I think the only point to improve for the future is something I already told Kei about : I have no voice myself for shouting, but I found that results were not announced often enough and clearly enough. That made people seem very disinterested, like they probably simply guessed that their team was eliminated because they know how to calculate, but nothing was made official, top threes were not always announced, etc. That made people occupy themselves in other ways, nobody clapped for the winners, there was no real gathering around the main stadium in the finals, etc. I remember much better years in that respect, and that does not require us having sixty participants at all.
There were none planned for Saturday, that is why, hah.
This event was very interesting, honestly. I was not even supposed to play since Kei wanted me to organise the matches and the overall tournament structure, but I could not imagine simply watching and sitting all day through a Limited format event. After my trip to Japan, I have a mentality to try to do the most out of occasions in front of me. Plus, I had brought my Beyblades and had not participated in the Friday tournament. The organisation of the event ended up being totally fine without me constantly onto it, delegating result recording to judges in the Blocks and, as Kei mentioned, there was no trouble at all finding a good judge in the team that was not playing, out of the three in each Block.
I had no team at all though coming into the tournament, so I ended up with fellow Montréal Blader DJ ALPHA and Cye Kinomiya, who also had no team yet. We had no idea for the team name though, so when Kei asked him to come up with anything, Cye Kinomiya said : "Team Anything", hah. Thankfully we can change that name later ... Since I wanted to remain a free agent in case we ever held a team format tournament in Montréal, I declined the suggestion of being the captain of the team, and that was probably Cye Kinomiya's reason as well.
We did super well in our first team matchup. I proposed that we should make me go first in the lineup against the other team's members since I would probably lose, so that would give DJ ALPHA and Cye Kinomiya an idea of whether they absolutely had to win, or how many rounds they had to win at least. Thankfully, in my first battle I gave our team a huge advantage by winning 3-0. It ended up being exactly the opposite for our second and last team matchup though, hah. We all performed horribly against Team Osu!.
I really wish I had seen what had happened in Team GT's Block for them not to advance. Apparently it was mostly bad luck, but I was rather shocked to see them eliminated so easily, with their mean BeyRank of eleven. I have the impression, somehow, that it would have been easier to keep up with what took place in other Blocks if it had not been a team format ... Probably because then you do not have to care about how teammates perform.
Overall, I think the only point to improve for the future is something I already told Kei about : I have no voice myself for shouting, but I found that results were not announced often enough and clearly enough. That made people seem very disinterested, like they probably simply guessed that their team was eliminated because they know how to calculate, but nothing was made official, top threes were not always announced, etc. That made people occupy themselves in other ways, nobody clapped for the winners, there was no real gathering around the main stadium in the finals, etc. I remember much better years in that respect, and that does not require us having sixty participants at all.
(May. 28, 2015 3:52 AM)Wombat Wrote: [ -> ]I actually don't remember any of the side events from Saturday. Maybe I left too early to get lunch. Oh well.
There were none planned for Saturday, that is why, hah.
May. 30, 2015 7:04 PM
It’s awesome that you record the details of all of your opponents combos in such detail, @[Wombat]. I don’t know of anyone else who does that, which is surprising considering the competitive value such data has. I’ve always wanted to do it, but I often don’t have the time or energy to do so between my own battles, judging, organizing, and shooting photos/video.
That Bakushun Leone 90RSF combo was really interesting. I’m sure it has decent Defense, but do you often also try to use it offensively? Does it work? Libra 230RS was a kind of tough match up though, as I saw while judging it. Though, even in that case, the “ramps” of Bakushin certainly made an impact in the one round you did win.
LMAO and The Sponge always share combos; they’re brothers lol.
I recorded it the battle between you and LMAO, I believe! I know I have a clip where LMAO tells me we should ban RS again.
And maybe you didn’t do so well at Team BeyBattle Revolution, but I can say with certainty that you were a tough opponent that several people were worried about facing throughout the weekend. It’s always tough to play against someone who is confident with and uses Attack so frequently. Fortunately we were able to counter that with Libra 230RS this weekend, but that could have easily backfired if you had chosen to break your pattern of Attack (that said, you were even pretty close on multiple instances to beating Libra 230RS with Attack, which is impressive).
It was great to see another new person–especially someone who is so knowledgable and competitive–join us at AN this year. It was great meeting you and I hope you can make it again next year!
Yeah, fortunately the tournament ended up being far easier to organize than I had anticipated. I thought that judge availability would have been a much larger problem, but it turned out perfectly with one qualified judge available on each team.
I don't have an incredible voice either, but I think I did a good job of gathering everyone and announcing the important information as it was necessary (rules at the start, individual matches, finals announcement for each tournament, and end of tournaments) for the most part. Not sure if you missed any of that. I should have announced the winners on Saturday and Sunday explicitly, though. Not sure why I didn't. Although from my perspective, on Friday anybody who was in the room at the end was watching the final battle (and subsequently saw the result where 1234beyblade excitedly, repeatedly, and loudly announced that he was 1st Place and I said that LMAO was 2nd and JesseObre was 3rd. I just re-watched the video I have from the final battle and there was indeed a gathering around the stadium for that. Not sure if you were hiding beside me for that though, since I don't see you anywhere in the video haha). Same thing for Saturday; there was definitely a gathering around the stadium in the finals for Team BeyBattle Revolution. That said, it certainly would have helped if Arupaeo or Elliot were present!
That Bakushun Leone 90RSF combo was really interesting. I’m sure it has decent Defense, but do you often also try to use it offensively? Does it work? Libra 230RS was a kind of tough match up though, as I saw while judging it. Though, even in that case, the “ramps” of Bakushin certainly made an impact in the one round you did win.
LMAO and The Sponge always share combos; they’re brothers lol.
I recorded it the battle between you and LMAO, I believe! I know I have a clip where LMAO tells me we should ban RS again.
And maybe you didn’t do so well at Team BeyBattle Revolution, but I can say with certainty that you were a tough opponent that several people were worried about facing throughout the weekend. It’s always tough to play against someone who is confident with and uses Attack so frequently. Fortunately we were able to counter that with Libra 230RS this weekend, but that could have easily backfired if you had chosen to break your pattern of Attack (that said, you were even pretty close on multiple instances to beating Libra 230RS with Attack, which is impressive).
It was great to see another new person–especially someone who is so knowledgable and competitive–join us at AN this year. It was great meeting you and I hope you can make it again next year!
(May. 28, 2015 5:36 AM)Kai-V Wrote: [ -> ]This event was very interesting, honestly. I was not even supposed to play since Kei wanted me to organise the matches and the overall tournament structure, but I could not imagine simply watching and sitting all day through a Limited format event. After my trip to Japan, I have a mentality to try to do the most out of occasions in front of me. Plus, I had brought my Beyblades and had not participated in the Friday tournament. The organisation of the event ended up being totally fine without me constantly onto it, delegating result recording to judges in the Blocks and, as Kei mentioned, there was no trouble at all finding a good judge in the team that was not playing, out of the three in each Block.
Yeah, fortunately the tournament ended up being far easier to organize than I had anticipated. I thought that judge availability would have been a much larger problem, but it turned out perfectly with one qualified judge available on each team.
(May. 28, 2015 5:36 AM)Kai-V Wrote: [ -> ]Overall, I think the only point to improve for the future is something I already told Kei about : I have no voice myself for shouting, but I found that results were not announced often enough and clearly enough. That made people seem very disinterested, like they probably simply guessed that their team was eliminated because they know how to calculate, but nothing was made official, top threes were not always announced, etc. That made people occupy themselves in other ways, nobody clapped for the winners, there was no real gathering around the main stadium in the finals, etc. I remember much better years in that respect, and that does not require us having sixty participants at all.
I don't have an incredible voice either, but I think I did a good job of gathering everyone and announcing the important information as it was necessary (rules at the start, individual matches, finals announcement for each tournament, and end of tournaments) for the most part. Not sure if you missed any of that. I should have announced the winners on Saturday and Sunday explicitly, though. Not sure why I didn't. Although from my perspective, on Friday anybody who was in the room at the end was watching the final battle (and subsequently saw the result where 1234beyblade excitedly, repeatedly, and loudly announced that he was 1st Place and I said that LMAO was 2nd and JesseObre was 3rd. I just re-watched the video I have from the final battle and there was indeed a gathering around the stadium for that. Not sure if you were hiding beside me for that though, since I don't see you anywhere in the video haha). Same thing for Saturday; there was definitely a gathering around the stadium in the finals for Team BeyBattle Revolution. That said, it certainly would have helped if Arupaeo or Elliot were present!
May. 30, 2015 7:36 PM
Wombat Wrote:Despite what everyone else was telling me, Mitsu absolutely does not suck with Attack, haha.
UMMM WELL EXCUSE ME
Admittedly though, I'm definitely not the best with attack, haha. In our match, Wombat, even if I were to launch lightly, I'd still probably be capable of late-game KO's. I personally love Dark Knight LTAC. They're capable of that and even success against like all attack let alongside against Omega.
Great meeting you man! Definitely try and come back next year!
May. 30, 2015 7:50 PM
Click here to view photos from last weekend!
Just got around to posting some of the photos I took (with my crappy cameras ...) on the WBO Facebook.
hahaha *cough* jesse *cough*
Just got around to posting some of the photos I took (with my crappy cameras ...) on the WBO Facebook.
(May. 30, 2015 7:36 PM)Mitsu Wrote: [ -> ]Wombat Wrote:Despite what everyone else was telling me, Mitsu absolutely does not suck with Attack, haha.
UMMM WELL EXCUSE ME
hahaha *cough* jesse *cough*
May. 31, 2015 9:31 PM
Just posted all of the design work I did for the AN2015 events this year. Check out the project page on my website!: http://bit.ly/tbrwbo
edit: Forgot to include the side event cards. Just added those in.
edit: Forgot to include the side event cards. Just added those in.
Jun. 02, 2015 2:25 AM
Here's a little report as to how my battles went. :)
Team BeyBattle Revolution - 5/23/15
Round 1) Mitsu vs The Sponge: MF Meteo L-Drago B:D vs Meteo L-Drago TR145EWD (2-3)
Even despite the B:D I was using was really good, this match ultimately came down to who had the better launch.
Round 2) Mitsu vs Cye Kinomiya: MF-H Omega Horuseus 90RF vs Lightning LTAC (3-1)
This was a pretty good option. Team Anything went for a mixture of stamina (Libra and Jade B:D were the combos, if I remember correctly) while Cye was holding around a Lightning combo with him, which he went for in the end (Team Anything probably seeing our use of Libra TH170D).
Round 3) Mitsu vs The Sponge: MSF-H Dark Knight Girago 90RF vs MF-M Scythe Hades CH120EWD (3-0)
This is what helped Team Osu into the finals. I didn't really realize it then, but this was actually a really good decision knowing what LMAO and The Sponge go for as brothers.
Round 4) Mitsu vs OnTheDL: MF-H Omega Horuseus CH120R2F vs MF-L Duo Cancer 230MB (2-3)
This match still aggravates me even now because this could have easily went the other way around. OnTheDL went from losing 0-2 that match, to 3-2 or as I refer to it as a Jesse clutch, seeing as Jesse always manages to come back from almost losing a match. Not to mention- I'll also be losing quite a bit of points from this match, as if I didn't lose enough the night before, lol.
Round 5) Mitsu vs Wombat: MSF-H Dark Knight Girago 90RF vs MF-L Duo Cygnus 230MB (3-1)
If you were to watch 5 minutes and 10 seconds in Zankye's third TBR video, you'd be able to see how hard the KO's I made off of Wombat were. A little later on in Pyrus10000 and JesseObre's match, the thing literally destroyed Lightning, haha. I don't think this me using this was really thought out (like, Wombat could have also pulled a Bakushin 90RSF on me) but hey, we still ended up victorious!
Round 6) Mitsu vs Kei: MSF-H Dark Knight Girago 90RF vs MF Libra 230RS (1-3)
On my part, this wasn't such a good choice. Kei saw that I used a lot of attack, so defense was the option. No surprise overall, though one more win could have gave us a tournament win.
Round 7) Mitsu vs JesseObre: MSF-H Dark Knight Girago 90RF vs MF Libra W145EWD (0-3)
Another bad choice of mine. We were actually about to go for Libra TH170D which could have easily got us the win.
Overall Record: 3-4
I had a blast at Anime North, whether it was hanging out with a few of you after the tournaments, watching @[JesseObre] ask for photos with random girls, or taking part in the side events which were crazy fun!
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Team BeyBattle Revolution - 5/23/15
Round 1) Mitsu vs The Sponge: MF Meteo L-Drago B:D vs Meteo L-Drago TR145EWD (2-3)
Even despite the B:D I was using was really good, this match ultimately came down to who had the better launch.
Round 2) Mitsu vs Cye Kinomiya: MF-H Omega Horuseus 90RF vs Lightning LTAC (3-1)
This was a pretty good option. Team Anything went for a mixture of stamina (Libra and Jade B:D were the combos, if I remember correctly) while Cye was holding around a Lightning combo with him, which he went for in the end (Team Anything probably seeing our use of Libra TH170D).
Round 3) Mitsu vs The Sponge: MSF-H Dark Knight Girago 90RF vs MF-M Scythe Hades CH120EWD (3-0)
This is what helped Team Osu into the finals. I didn't really realize it then, but this was actually a really good decision knowing what LMAO and The Sponge go for as brothers.
Round 4) Mitsu vs OnTheDL: MF-H Omega Horuseus CH120R2F vs MF-L Duo Cancer 230MB (2-3)
This match still aggravates me even now because this could have easily went the other way around. OnTheDL went from losing 0-2 that match, to 3-2 or as I refer to it as a Jesse clutch, seeing as Jesse always manages to come back from almost losing a match. Not to mention- I'll also be losing quite a bit of points from this match, as if I didn't lose enough the night before, lol.
Round 5) Mitsu vs Wombat: MSF-H Dark Knight Girago 90RF vs MF-L Duo Cygnus 230MB (3-1)
If you were to watch 5 minutes and 10 seconds in Zankye's third TBR video, you'd be able to see how hard the KO's I made off of Wombat were. A little later on in Pyrus10000 and JesseObre's match, the thing literally destroyed Lightning, haha. I don't think this me using this was really thought out (like, Wombat could have also pulled a Bakushin 90RSF on me) but hey, we still ended up victorious!
Round 6) Mitsu vs Kei: MSF-H Dark Knight Girago 90RF vs MF Libra 230RS (1-3)
On my part, this wasn't such a good choice. Kei saw that I used a lot of attack, so defense was the option. No surprise overall, though one more win could have gave us a tournament win.
Round 7) Mitsu vs JesseObre: MSF-H Dark Knight Girago 90RF vs MF Libra W145EWD (0-3)
Another bad choice of mine. We were actually about to go for Libra TH170D which could have easily got us the win.
Overall Record: 3-4
I had a blast at Anime North, whether it was hanging out with a few of you after the tournaments, watching @[JesseObre] ask for photos with random girls, or taking part in the side events which were crazy fun!
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Jun. 03, 2015 2:41 AM
(May. 30, 2015 7:50 PM)Kei Wrote: [ -> ]Click here to view photos from last weekend!
Just got around to posting some of the photos I took (with my crappy cameras ...) on the WBO Facebook.
(May. 30, 2015 7:36 PM)Mitsu Wrote: [ -> ]Wombat Wrote:Despite what everyone else was telling me, Mitsu absolutely does not suck with Attack, haha.
UMMM WELL EXCUSE ME
hahaha *cough* jesse *cough*
lol why am i coughed in this hahha
Jun. 07, 2015 7:29 PM
Even though the BeyBattle Stations didn't really work out in the end, would we still be getting our choice of Stone Face Booster? 
Jun. 07, 2015 7:50 PM
(Jun. 07, 2015 7:29 PM)Mitsu Wrote: [ -> ]Even though the BeyBattle Stations didn't really work out in the end, would we still be getting our choice of Stone Face Booster?
I think the only person who would be eligible is @[JesseObre] since he actually handed out dozens of flyers haha.
Jun. 07, 2015 7:52 PM
But .. but I was your human billboard. 
You're right though. If anyone gets it, it's him, lol.
You're right though. If anyone gets it, it's him, lol.
Jun. 07, 2015 8:57 PM
(Jun. 07, 2015 7:50 PM)Kei Wrote: [ -> ](Jun. 07, 2015 7:29 PM)Mitsu Wrote: [ -> ]Even though the BeyBattle Stations didn't really work out in the end, would we still be getting our choice of Stone Face Booster?
I think the only person who would be eligible is @[JesseObre] since he actually handed out dozens of flyers haha.
He gave one to me when I was walking from the lobby towards TBR.. And he never recognized me ;~;