(Aug. 28, 2022  3:54 AM)DeceasedCrab Wrote: - Judges, it is important not to interrupt other matches going on unless you have a legitimate tournament need to do so. If you have to ask another judge to review footage, either go to them and wait until they're not busy, or call them over if they aren't busy. If you have to talk to a blader in another match, have an extremely good reason for doing so. If you have questions about parts they loaned for example, get up and go walk over to them and ask. Bladers, when you are in the middle of a match, DO NOT WALK AWAY FROM YOUR MATCH. There is never an acceptable non-emergency reason to do this. The format rules and organizers guide apparently do not strictly prohibit this, because those rules are not well written. Bladers, if someone suggests to you not to walk away from your beystadium while you are in the middle of a match, do not retort "So disqualify me!" That's... that's all kinds of not okay. No one wants to disqualify you, we all want the matches to happen fair and square.

(Aug. 28, 2022  5:09 AM)Mike.Nightwing Wrote:

(Aug. 28, 2022  3:54 AM)DeceasedCrab Wrote: - Judges, it is important not to interrupt other matches going on unless you have a legitimate tournament need to do so. If you have to ask another judge to review footage, either go to them and wait until they're not busy, or call them over if they aren't busy. If you have to talk to a blader in another match, have an extremely good reason for doing so. If you have questions about parts they loaned for example, get up and go walk over to them and ask. Bladers, when you are in the middle of a match, DO NOT WALK AWAY FROM YOUR MATCH. There is never an acceptable non-emergency reason to do this. The format rules and organizers guide apparently do not strictly prohibit this, because those rules are not well written. Bladers, if someone suggests to you not to walk away from your beystadium while you are in the middle of a match, do not retort "So disqualify me!" That's... that's all kinds of not okay. No one wants to disqualify you, we all want the matches to happen fair and square.

I recommend folks watch this video at the 1:22:25 mark to get a better understanding of the literal 30 secs of away time being referred to: https://youtu.be/SDZRzMex3is

I think it’s important for Mr. Crab to remember this is meant to be a fun time for all and sometimes your repeated suggestions can kill the vibe. For this interaction you must take a moment to look at the totality of circumstances that resulted in me walking away from the stadium for 30 seconds to address a concern. The blader, age 7-9, was borrowing HMS beyblades from me and there was a concern he had repeating parts. Neither the child, judge, nor opponent knew the answer so they asked me, the owner. I walked over, 10 feet or so, to help figure it out because if it was a repeat I would have to change it for him as he cannot reach my parts nor would he know what to do. Also, the judge nor opponent could help him with it. It wouldn’t matter if the other judge came to me with the concern because it would have still resulted in time away from my match from just looking at the parts or having to change it out. Sometimes, especially in these older / limited formats, folks have to make adjustments on the fly and it’ll eat up a few seconds of playtime… it is what it is.  

Your suggestion of not walking away from the stadium was heard and addressed by me with “one second”, which was followed by you, twice, with “you don’t walk away from your match” or something similar. I’m sure you understand that repeating yourself after being addressed doesn’t solve the issue but can be a tad annoying. Since you were neither the judge, organizer, nor opponent of my match you really had no place to speak on my step away since i was called upon by the organizer.

I like you a lot and you’ve helped me a lot so I say this with all love, you have to relax and be quite sometimes. This is a kid’s game and sometimes folks have to step away or need a second to get things situated. Today as you and I were looking over our decks my two year old said “hey daddy look” and you replied “now’s not the time” as if he was disturbing you. I ignored your remark, addressed him, and our match went on without a missed moment. You gotta just go with the flow man, it’s just a game. If you don’t walk away from every tournament happier than when you arrived you may need to take a break and rediscover what brings you joy. I play beyblade because it reminds me of when I was 10 playing with plastic gens on my friend's front porch, battling at the mall tournaments, trying to break alley tvs, or messing up my moms wok pot because that was a stadium used on the show. It’s all for fun, don’t forget that. 

Good night, I’ll see you in a few hours.

(Aug. 29, 2022  12:53 AM)Shindog Wrote:

(Aug. 28, 2022  5:09 AM)Mike.Nightwing Wrote: I recommend folks watch this video at the 1:22:25 mark to get a better understanding of the literal 30 secs of away time being referred to: https://youtu.be/SDZRzMex3is

I think it’s important for Mr. Crab to remember this is meant to be a fun time for all and sometimes your repeated suggestions can kill the vibe. For this interaction you must take a moment to look at the totality of circumstances that resulted in me walking away from the stadium for 30 seconds to address a concern. The blader, age 7-9, was borrowing HMS beyblades from me and there was a concern he had repeating parts. Neither the child, judge, nor opponent knew the answer so they asked me, the owner. I walked over, 10 feet or so, to help figure it out because if it was a repeat I would have to change it for him as he cannot reach my parts nor would he know what to do. Also, the judge nor opponent could help him with it. It wouldn’t matter if the other judge came to me with the concern because it would have still resulted in time away from my match from just looking at the parts or having to change it out. Sometimes, especially in these older / limited formats, folks have to make adjustments on the fly and it’ll eat up a few seconds of playtime… it is what it is.  

Your suggestion of not walking away from the stadium was heard and addressed by me with “one second”, which was followed by you, twice, with “you don’t walk away from your match” or something similar. I’m sure you understand that repeating yourself after being addressed doesn’t solve the issue but can be a tad annoying. Since you were neither the judge, organizer, nor opponent of my match you really had no place to speak on my step away since i was called upon by the organizer.

I like you a lot and you’ve helped me a lot so I say this with all love, you have to relax and be quite sometimes. This is a kid’s game and sometimes folks have to step away or need a second to get things situated. Today as you and I were looking over our decks my two year old said “hey daddy look” and you replied “now’s not the time” as if he was disturbing you. I ignored your remark, addressed him, and our match went on without a missed moment. You gotta just go with the flow man, it’s just a game. If you don’t walk away from every tournament happier than when you arrived you may need to take a break and rediscover what brings you joy. I play beyblade because it reminds me of when I was 10 playing with plastic gens on my friend's front porch, battling at the mall tournaments, trying to break alley tvs, or messing up my moms wok pot because that was a stadium used on the show. It’s all for fun, don’t forget that. 

Good night, I’ll see you in a few hours.

Thank you for being the ambassador to the game that you are.  A fun guy, a nice guy, and from what I can see a good father.  Thank you for always handling matters with poise.

(Aug. 29, 2022  4:35 AM)DeceasedCrab Wrote: The following are words I have to say about the two day 2 tournaments, ranked P3C1 MFB and ZeroG.

I recommend the following music for reading the report. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLfNpWNumMo . Apparently nobody has picked up on the pattern yet. That's fine I suppose.

- The Supreme One ran a meme event between the two tournaments today. A "Limited 2.0" joke format tournament. The concept is very simple, the banlist is Very Large. Most effective wheels, tracks, and tips are banned. Everything remaining is Not Great. It was decided to run it Double Elimination, to spare everyone. It was... silly.

- Today still had a lot of participants. MFB had 23, and ZeroG had 17. There were nearby birthdays for two bladers, so there was pizza, and cake, and ice cream. Hooray! I wore a party hat.

- We realized in horror that one of the TVs from yesterday was displaying active shots with low delay of matches that were currently ongoing, including beyblade selection. I really worry that the potential for bladers with view of the TVs could potentially spy on their opponents choices. I think either more delay or switching those TVs to other media would be a good idea.

- I spent a long time today trying to season my CS with legitimate use. My CS is mostly in new condition, making it bad for stamina. I've seen good CS tips, and those are downright pointy and also very good. So between tournaments and after tournaments I spent a long time launching a synchrome on 230CS in beystadiums to try and wear it down. I refuse to grind it down by hand or with Mugen stadiums. One day I will have a good CS.

- An interesting thing no one really picked up on today is that this is the first tournament day where we didn't have newer bladers show up at all. Only experienced bladers. A rarity. It was nice to not have to answer questions or loan parts or explain that their beys weren't for the formats being run.

Day 2 MFB
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- Weekend traffic not bad.

- We had 23 registrants, 5 round swiss. We didn't get started until around 11:15.

- I have some fairly strong parts for this format. I've done well in it before. I was sticking with some old classics, Kraken Gargoyle BD145RDF, Leviathan Dragoon B, and Duo Horologium SA165MB. These did reasonably well. My losses were against RED NINJA 0829 and ItsSwift, Surprising No One. Dang they're good at this. Red Ninja had seen some of my matches so I changed up what I was using, it didn't help. And Swift had Duo on B I think. Actually, I think everyone I lost to had Duo on B. Low attack and low stamina are two good fixes for that, but I wasn't using that. Tactical error.

- One of the key factors I learned today is that you cannot really weak launch opposite spin when an entirely metal bey is involved, because, shape depending, if it is too round, you may have trouble spin stealing. You sometimes have to launch hard. When Dragoon or Basalt or Duo or other round shapes are involved, you must give it extra oomph.

- Not everyone had top of the line parts, but did well anyway. I saw some successful Diablos and other parts.

- The tournament finished up around 2:15. 3 hours, not terrible. P3C1 tends not to take too long.

- I went 3-2, and made it to the finals. My opponent was Friedpasta. Once again I made a tactical error, not bringing an attack type to deck format. I never learn. Although I have a low track stamina combo, I didn't bring that either. He had Duo on B, and it was giving me a lot of trouble. Tactically, I was sunk, but I made him work for those points. My Dragoon managed to win some outspins (lots of video review) and there were a few knockouts. We made it all the way to 4-4. In my last launch, I screwed up and mostly missed the beystadium, self-KOing. I didn't throw it, I just messed up. Ah well, easy come, easy go. I'm just glad I put up a better fight this time, normally Friedpasta beats me too easily.

MFB is a lot of fun, honestly. There are a lot of different things that work in it.

Day 2 ZeroG
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- We had 17 registrants, barely 5 round swiss. We started at exactly 4:00, which was nice. We didn't finish until around 7, the finals took a very long time. There were a lot of close matches.

- Special mention here to @"Mr. pokee", who was running Twisted on B. As I said before, Dragoon needs a little extra oomph to spin steal sometimes, and not every B works the same. He was able to beat a couple of people with a Twisted that just didn't offer much opportunity to spin steal.

- There are often large gaps in my knowledge. For example, I did not know how to properly perform a sway attack, using SA165 or GF or CF or GCF or combinations of those. Now, I know. I gave Angry Face and OnTheDL some horrified looks for their choices of using Giga Flat, which to me seemed an insane choice. However, if you want to sway, you really can't argue with that, you have to be heavy and make a LOT of surface contact. This gap in my knowledge would cost me later.

- I went 3-2 in this tournament too, using mostly the same stuff as the previous. Instead of running BD145RDF I ran an old favorite combo, Phantom Cancer E230TB. That honestly didn't do too well today, lots of other people are catching up to the elevator shenanigans, and I wasn't able to sway the stadiums much with it as in the past.

- We had some questions and concerns about "what counts as a knock-out" in ZeroG, and it turns out the answer is "once the bey exits the entire space of the beystadium and has no hope of returning". So we had a round 1 match where the beystadium swayed onto the ground (cardboard), a bey went into the pocket, touching the cardboard and the stadium walls, moved around there a bit, until the other bey knocked it back into play and then the beystadium swayed the other way. Wacky!

- After the first stage of this one, we realized that ranked ZeroG tournaments are a tremendous source of depression and dread for more experienced bladers. We're talking dozens or hundreds of rank points wiped out in a single tournament. ZeroG is CHAOS, and it cannot be predicted all that well. Strategize all you want, but you are in a wavy bowl. I want to play more ZeroG here in Maryland, and I will suggest that we do it unranked so that people will dread it less and have fun more.

- ZeroG matches are just more fun to watch in general. The surprise knockouts mean so much more and make things way more exciting. The finals are actually really good to watch, except when you get comepletely shut out by a Duo B combo again.

- So I made it to the finals, but then Swift happened. My Bahamut Ifrit T170WD combo was just a bad idea. I didn't understand how useless stationary or high stamina attack is in this format. Answer, a lot. Things would go different now, but I was unable to defeat him. He might've swept me the entire 6 days! Dang Swift, let me rest in peace already.

- Our infrastructure for ZeroG is wearing out. Those beystadiums are all starting to look a little run down. I might have to go out of my way and get another one, even if it costs, if I want this format to continue.

- OnTheDL won this tournament. She beat Swift, and we were cheering like crazy, and then she beat Friedpasta, and we were cheering like crazy. To me, one of the best things in the world is when one of the parents wins the tournament. That's just great.

I do love me some ZeroG.

They had some real difficulty determining who wins the top 3 overall trophies, because they did not carefully keep track of who earned what for placing where as they went, and did not prepare the system ahead of time. It took them around an hour to figure it out and by then I had stomach problems and had to go home.

Personally, my main takeaway from this weekend is I don't like P3C1 format, it relies too much on strategy and guessing and stress rather than blading. I prefer 3v3. Similarly, I don't like the way WBO Deck Format works. And these tournaments were both of those. I much prefer team tournaments, where the first round and the finals operate the same way, or Mike.Nightwing's 5v5 format. What's the point of getting to the midway point of a tournament, congratulating the finalists on doing so well, and then making them participate in an entirely different (and subjectively not as good) tournament format? That's Silly. I see why we had it back when 1v1 was the only format, but we have 3v3 now. I want to see tournaments with 3v3 first stage and 3v3 finals. We'll make it unranked if we gotta.

As stated before, in the future I'm only doing one tournament a weekend, and up to 3 tournaments a month. I do not have the energy required to do these massive multi-tournaments, with 6 main tournaments and 3-4 extra events. That's just too much. I'm too tired. I realize that for out of towners who travel a great distance, having multiple tournaments is better for them. However, this is a bit of a strain for people who aren't traveling. I reaaaally didn't want to miss any of these 6 tournaments, we run these formats so rarely. But in truth I should've bailed on most of it for my personal health. I'm glad I didn't, it was a lot of fun, but from now on, Crab cannot hurt himself for the love of the game.